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No meme is an island

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

By dint of considerable sacrifice of time and bandwidth, I now have three (3) games on my computer (not including Minesweeper and friends). Of these three, only two are playable at this time, as I have not run the AoC updater yet. And anyway, I’m not in a hurry to get back into AoC, because […]

It’s easier to fight for your principles than live by them

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

..unless you plan to fight for them online, and your RAID recently crashed. Three days after rebuilding my system, the only games installed are Neverwinter Nights and Minesweeper. I want to get Tabula Rasa back in there, but the download is 2.4 gigabytes, which takes about 240 minutes to download. This is complicated by the […]

Head cold blog

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I noticed the GuildCafe title bar today: “Bringing the world together through games.” Shouldn’t that be “in spite of games”? Because, well, most of the games we like to play have no way of communicating with each other, so we end up using third party applications and web sites in order to… oh heck what […]