Perhaps you’ve noticed that I’ve been playing a lot of MMO’s lately. I didn’t really get into them until they became solo-friendly, which is a strange way of going about things. Or, at least it might seem weird. But I think that playing an MMO by yourself can make a lot of sense.
Sent out some geeky Christmas treats to some friends. Didn’t want to post these images until they’d arrived.
First, some cookies:
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But the real fun is the Sushi:
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The insides are white chocolate and coconut. (But a few were made with white chocolate and rice crispies. We experimented a lot.) The orange bits are dried mango. The seaweed is some kind of fruit by the foot, covered in dark chocolate with a little green dye.
These were fun to make, and probably a more suitable gift than mailing out raw fish.
This will be a three-part joke… series… thing.
It was exceedingly hard to get this to look passable. Most of the bottles in the Source engine are hilariously oversized, and Judith is a little small, so every object I placed in her hands ended up looking like an oversized toy.
Eggnog is a very polarizing drink. People either loooove it or they compare it to vomit if you mention the stuff. It must be very hard to be an eggnog-enjoyer.
It’s a free weekend in Lord of the Rings Online. Thursday Dec 17 through Monday Dec 21 you can play for free. You don’t have time because it’s the holidays, but it’s the thought that counts, right?
I’ve already used all my character slots on the Silverlode server, but I’m still in the “settling in” phase of MMO playing where I’m leveling lots of characters at once. Just getting a sample of each race, class, and crafting profession is a major undertaking. The only character worth noting is “Rubytuesday”, my Hobbit Hunter. (That is, I’m a Hobbit who is a hunter, not a person who hunts Hobbits, although now that I think of it that would be pretty hilarious. Unsporting, but hilarious.)
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I’m curious what other Tolkien lore-fans out there think of the writing and I’d love to read your thoughts on it. My own take:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “LOTRO: Welcome Back Weekend”
BioWare, sometimes it’s like we don’t know each other anymore.
Against my better judgment I am once again working for Socrates. Shockingly, my current job doesn’t have me rushing to the site of a catastrophe to deal with the least pressing problem. The usual Socrates job goes something like, “Viper agents have stormed a local nursing home and are converting the residents into mildly senile cybernetic shock troopers. Please hurry there and make sure none of the Viper assault vehicles are double-parked.”
But this one has me going to an area of the city and getting rid of the Viper forces I find. As always, Viper does a lot more loitering than terrorizing, but at least they’re striving to be some sort of respectable threat in this city. That’s gotta count for something.
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Continue reading ⟩⟩ “A Star is Born:
Let’s Play Champions Online Pt. 13″
Also, Fraps crashed on me or something. I was smacking my screenshot button all through the endgame, and I have not a single image to show for it. Figures.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Dragon Age: Twitter Review Pt. 6”
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2013.
Scenes from Half-Life 2:Episode 2, showing Gordon Freeman being a jerk.
Here are 6 reasons why I forbid political discussions on this site. #4 will amaze you. Or not.
I really thought one thing, but then something else. There's a bunch more to it, but you'll have to read the article.
Did you anticipate the big plot twist of Batman: Arkham City? Here's all the ways the game hid that secret from you while also rubbing your nose in it.
What did web browsers look like 20 years ago, and what kind of crazy features did they have?
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
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