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- 20:00 Sweet Jesus can someone please tell Megan Fox to stop screwing up sexy! Eeegats, what an eegit! #
- 10:52 Smart engineer indeed. xkcd.com/670/ #
- 10:54 @radiantbaby Udipi cafe moved out of that plaza specifically because of the parking. #
- 17:02 Had the managerial equivalent of the "There really is no Santa Clause" conversation today. Somewhat sad. #
- 00:11 Successfully resisted urge to tweet all the way through R&R Hall of Fame concert. Will only say I feel like I just got out of church. #
- 00:13 @jazzmodeus Let me save you time, they don't let you return to the vault, you're the chile of Bane & you beat the joker. #
- 10:45 I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: time, night, morning - w33.us/190p #
- 10:50 @jazzmodeus Vadar is Lukes father!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! #
- 22:48 Watching HBOs Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert. U2, Mick and Fergie. Gimme Shelter and Stuck In the Moment were downright epic. #
- 12:20 I have some google wave invitations if anyone would like one. Just let me know what email to send it to. #
- 22:18 @jazzmodeus How's it going on Zork? #
- 22:42 Feeling very bad for my sweetie who is dealing with the 2nd flood this Fall at her place. #
- 11:25 Tickets to crazy town are expensive. Thus, I decline your invitation. #
- 17:54 Google Profiles are now openIDs. Squeee! ping.fm/6MXAy #
- 19:34 Find myself unable to play #DragonAge anylonger. For all the story it's just a zerg-fest of potion drinking. No tactics at all. #
- 20:00 @justben Pfft, it has better protection than my speedo. Oh wait! I think I may have found the problem. #
- 20:04 @justben I am kind of hoping this is something we can add in the winter break as a Pete project. It's been on my mind. #
- 20:04 @justben Well it doesn't have to be YOUR bed. #
- 20:06 @justben True, it's enough of a stretch for "deep end" learning and brief enough for us to review the code effectively. Just a thought. #
- 15:23 Managed to get some programming, planning, management AND documentation done today. Usually I can only get 2, today must be a 4 bit day. #
- 22:16 @justben You know if you play the "in bed" game with every verse of it, it's actually is quiet entertaining. #
- 00:14 Apparently in 2012 the world will be destroyed in slow motion, but we can avoid it by swerving left and right on the highway. #
- 12:02 SNL had a very funny and scathing opening skit about Obama last night. It is curiously absent from Hulu this morning. Hmmm #
- 12:04 Oops! I lied, it's on Hulu. It wasn't cataloged under clips. Funny stuff. ping.fm/9nXU8 #
- 16:19 Wondering what is in the water that is making everyone so whiny today. #
- 16:39 The Google OS is here! The Google OS is here! Oh my gawd! *thud* *silence* ping.fm/SaKnR #
- 10:47 Mendeley bills itself as a 'last.fm of research'. Not sure I see the benefits of this over Zotero. ping.fm/nQil0 #
- 10:56 Factory labs distills bulleted facts about topics from the web. Skynet has started to learn. facterylabs.com/ #
- 14:31 WTF?!?!? Wallstreet making record profits or just blowing bubbles faster than before? ping.fm/bWDWi #
- 19:17 Shuttle driver tonight seemed to think gas and break pedals operate in binary mode. Formal complaint email sent. #
- 19:23 Johnathan Coulton at Variety Playhouse again on Jan 16th. Going! ping.fm/J4YJL #
- 10:42 The bane of acadamia and business is that we move to protect workflows and business models rather than care for our charges and customers. #
The world feels small and definitely 'console rpg like' to me. I generally hate this trend in games and it adds to heavily to the spoon fed feel of a world.
The fighting in the game is the LEAST interesting part of it to me as most fights are just a zerg fest and moving from one "orcs in a field" section to the next.
There is a particular party mix you need to be successful in combat in the. This works counter to the NPC stories in that you can't really adventure with the NPCs you like, you have to go for party balance.
The NPC mages they give you are the suck. You do about the same if you create a fighter or thief class but will be far ahead of the game if you make the main character a mage. I find this disappointing.
My other real comment is that I seriously doubt the toolset for this will be as successful as the Neverwinter Nights toolset. The game shines on cut scenes and voice-acting and I don't see communities having that strength. We'll probably just see "orcs in a field with various landscape" modules from the community because that's all the game is without the cutscenes and acting. I think the gaming community is missing the point on customizable toolsets. If NWN is any gauge, what players want is a world creation kit to make their own MMO. The 'M' in this game being 'Moderatly' multiplayer instead of 'Massively'. Nobody is filling that space and I wonder if anyone ever will.
| Originally published at Flagon With The Dragon. |
- 15:26 Conversations that include a context to utter the phrase 'funky south Philly' are to be enjoyed. #
- 08:25 Another day of keeping the Academic world from getting Rick Roll'd. ping.fm/4wpcO #
- 11:12 40!... 40 years of Sesame Street! Mwah ha ha! #
- 14:24 This is why aliens should extinguish us at first contact. ping.fm/b63RY #
- 21:28 40 years later, Burt still doesn't ask and Ernie still doesn't tell. #
- 00:54 Thoroughly impressed with #DragonAge and remembering why single player RPGs could be so good. #
- 17:45 All my thoughts and hopes for healing for everyone effected at #FortHood my former duty station 87-90. #
- 20:02 Probably the last person to discover #Xfire. Great app. Need Friends now. www.xfire.com/ #
- 20:04 #FallenEarth patched yet again, wow they work fast and well. Wish I they would post about their software development methods. #
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