A Gift For You, Mr. Thompson

April 30th, 2007 Posted in asides | Comments Off

I would love to have been a fly on the wall at that marketing meeting. “So we’re going to need a real slaughtered goat and some topless hostesses, and then—get this!—the guests are going to eat from the slaughtered goat’s stomach!” Would you be surprised if I told you it was Sony? I didn’t think so. [slightly NSFW]

I Hate The New Design Thread

April 30th, 2007 Posted in asides | Comments Off

Post what you hate about the new blog design here. (You can post what you like too, if anything.. )

Bad Launches Kill Games

April 30th, 2007 Posted in Game Industry, MMOs | Comments Off

QFT.

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Win Me

April 27th, 2007 Posted in asides | Comments Off

Yeah, see…all you have to do is 1) enter your guild into EA/Mythic’s Warhammer Guild Beta, 2) win, and 3) um…invite me into your guild. ahem. (Shameless?  Moi?)

How To Be A Bigger Idiot Than Jack Thompson

April 27th, 2007 Posted in asides | Comments Off

From Game Politics:

Anti-game attorney Jack Thompson said in a Sunday press release that a 14-year-old boy in Marin County, California had been arrested by local police for making a threat against the University of California Berkeley campus.

How did Thompson know?  Because the kid emailed JT with details.  No word on if Thompson paused to pet his fluffy white kitty and whisper “exsssscelent!” before calling police, but one would assume.

Your Friday YouTube

April 27th, 2007 Posted in Amber's Brain | Comments Off

Roffulmow

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WAR Is Coming! Er…Later…

April 26th, 2007 Posted in MMOs - Warhammer Online | Comments Off

Specifically Q1 2008.

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Nailed It

April 26th, 2007 Posted in asides | Comments Off

What congress doesn’t want you to know about global warming. (How did I find myself on a North-Central Texas Bird Watching site? Let’s just say I need help.)

Judge A Book

April 25th, 2007 Posted in Ook | Comments Off

Jake’s tanned, muscular arms encircled her in his powerful yet tender embrace. The thick scent of sweat, musk, and goat cheese enveloped them both in a veil of hot of passion. Jake nuzzled the deep cleft of his chiseled chin against the soft nape of her pearly white Saxon neck.

“I know we’re two different people from two different times.” he whispered. “And yet…I feel like I’ve known you all my life. We belong together, and the Time Police be damned! Come back with me Hildegarde. Come back to the 22nd century with me!”

Hildegarde’s azure eyes locked with his own steely grays, her hot Nordic breath ironically warm against his muscled cheek, and she swooned. ” Ĵå, ökeÿ-dökeÿ.”

— Excerpt from my forthcoming novel, Time Liberators 8: Leif Ericson Must Die!
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Postcards from Rivendell

April 24th, 2007 Posted in MMOs - LoTRO | Comments Off

Wish you were here.

(Image intensive [sfw])

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