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SaySwap: The Waiting Game
Subtitle: An Object Lesson On How Supply Can Choke On Demand. It’s time to talk a little about SaySwap, if for no other reason than not enough others are. Oh, there are a few pieces out there. I’ve found bits of PR action and the occasional write-up about the potential of an online game trading…
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Video Card Hell And Super Mario Heaven
Spent most of yesterday in Mario Heaven. Why? Well, I’ve been experiencing some flakiness with my video card, particularly whilest playing City Of Heroes, so my PC gaming activities have shifted in focus. Oddly enough, the video card — a two-year old Nvidia GeForce FX5900 XT — performs just fine not only during normal day-to-day…
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Nintendo Power
Double DS Lites Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. We planned. We saved. We purchased. And it took some doing. Our local Circuit City was fresh out of the little gems. So was Best Buy. We were resigned to making our acquisition through Amazon when Nikki had the brilliant idea of checking availability elsewhere. Our store didn’t…
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Leaving Azeroth
My World of Warcraft account will remain active until August 8, but after that … I’m done. Later, I’ll have more to say about my brief return to World of Warcraft, the community therein, the potential that remains, and my not-bitter-at-all (really) reasons for leaving.
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No Fee Villainy
Forgive me, but I must geek out for just a moment. Why? Because there is just not enough “awe” in “awesome” to describe this announcement. If you’re already running around in virtual tights as a do-gooder, there will be no additional monthly cost to live a second life on the dark side. Sweet!
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Idiots
(As of 07/23/2005, this post can be found over at JIVE.) It’s a tale of two sets of idiots, really. The premier idiot of the first flock of idiots — let’s call him King Idiot — is the chucklehead game developer at Rockstar who actually coded the now-infamous Hot Coffee minigame into the core content…
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Steaming Mad Alice
With all of this recent talk about the cinematic fate of American McGee’s dark little Alice, I feel it is my responsibility to remind everyone of the original. In the game, Alice hasn’t seen Wonderland in ten years. Most of this lost time has been spent in a recuperative asylum. You see, sometime after returning…
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Word
Will it turn me into a gangsta? I doubt it. (Homies.)
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Level 50
(Warning: The absolute geekery of this post might be too much for many to bear. Proceed warily.) City of Heroes. I’ve written about this game a few times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), but if you weren’t paying attention, the idea is remarkably simple. There’s this city and it is full of heroes. You’re one…