Tag: yohoho puzzle pirates
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This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences
This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences (PCWorld) The year was 1995, and CompuServe's online service cost $4.95 per hour. Yet thousands of people logged into this virtual world daily.
WorldsAway was born 20 years ago, when Fujitsu Cultural Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, released this online experiment in multiplayer … -
The 17 Blog Posts That Weren't
It may come as a surprise to you that the stuff I write about on my blog - whether about technology, dreams, food, film, games, relationships, or my life in general - isn't actually always written off-the-cuff. To the contrary, sometimes a post is edited and re-edited over the course of weeks or months before …
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It’s All Fun And Games
Back to work after a great weekend. Troma Night was particularly successful this week - we watched a RiffTrax'd copy of Eragon ("Get your ragons online at e-ragon!"), which was suitably hilarious; the classic bit of self-deprecating sci-fi that is Barbarella ("Hmm... camp bad guy number 104... how will Barbarella get past this one? Oh; … -
Yo-Ho-Ho And A Bottle Of Caern ‘O’ Moor
My mum and my sisters came down for the weekend. I'd not quite gotten around to recovering from my illness these past few days, so I was probably at least slightly grotty company, but nonetheless we all had a good time.
We visited Little Amsterdam, Aberystwyth's first sex shop, shortly after they opened on … -
Easter Break
I'm sitting doing some work on a web site for one of our clients, and Reb (you know, the ex-girlfriend) sends me another text message:
you around for easter? xx
As it happens, I won't be. I could go visit my family for Easter, but this would result in two things happening:
My family … -
Ship sizes and Pillaging / Flag-o-poly
Nemo wrote:
Ursela is her own, walking, talking, swashbuckling example of the monopoly flag argument. I see the flag distribution happening along almost the same lines as the current crew situation.
Example:
A new player logs on. We'll call him Steve. Steve is quickly greeted by a member of the largest, most aggressively expansionist flag/crew. We'll call … -
Gender Balance
Rengor wrote:
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Also an interesting group are the developers, not the ringers, but all the other game developers playing this game, and there's quite a few of them. Im curious if they can say why they chose this game instead of Sims or Everquest etc?
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I'm a dev. (not a PP dev., of course), and …