Lord of the Rings Online… Ok, it’s not super new or anything and I was in the beta where I had less than a stellar impression of the game, but a guild mate has been playing the free trial over the Thanksgiving holiday and says it’s much better than it was in beta and thinks it could hold our guild’s interest until Warhammer is released – unlike Hellgate. Don’t get me wrong, Hellgate is a blast, but it just doesn’t have the staying power that a “real MMO” has. It’s … Continue reading
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I just finished coding a web-jukebox for myself. It turned out quite well. A few months ago I began encoding my CD library into MP3 files with the thought that “one day” I’d become a DJ for EVE Radio. Well my gaming ADHD kicked in and I don’t play EVE (for now). But I’ve got over 5,000 MP3 files on my webserver so I didn’t want them going to waste – esp. over the holidays when I’m visiting my family, etc. SO… Over the past couple days I’ve been writing … Continue reading
Ok, so I have this thing about making musical compilations. Besides my “Requiem for a Gay Man,” one of my favorites is a 2-Disc set I made called “Love & Anger; Annie Lennox.” I’d love to see this done commercially – she’s got some great stuff out there that I didn’t have space to include. It could probably be expanded to a 4-disc set at least. Oh well, here’s what I came up with – Enjoy! I’ll try to include YouTube links, but some of these are not going to … Continue reading
Over the course of the last couple of years I’ve been pulling together music from my collection to create a “Requiem for a Gay Man.” I’m not really sure why I started this project, I think I was getting nostalgic and sentimental about some of the folks I’ve known and lost over the years. Knowing I myself didn’t want to have a “traditional christian” style funeral – esp. since I’m an atheist and about as non-traditional as you can get when it comes to religious stuff, I wanted something uniquely … Continue reading
Another perennial topic that seems to pop up around the MMO world is whether folks exclusively play their own gender or if they’ve played the opposite gender. I’m not too sure why this is such a “hot-topic,” but it does rear its head fairly frequently. “Back in the Day,” you didn’t have a choice – if you wanted to play a big-time caster/nuker in D2 – you played a sorceress – period. Again in D2, if you wanted to be an archer/ranger type you played an Amazon – period. The … Continue reading