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I am EASILY Amused - Issue #2

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Time for another round up of “I am EASILY Amused” and this week I was.

Local Comic - Subconscious Comics
Cell Phones - Instinct vs iPhone
Over at Laughing Squid - This American Life Segment
As a minister of the Universal Life Church, I am not sure how to feel about this offering from SubGenius.
Read an example of self […]

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Tags: Cool · Culture · Gaming · Metaverse · Music · Random Thoughts · Santa Cruz · Sci Fi · Technology · Video

World of Warcraft - The Death Knight class

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Lots of information coming out from Blizzard on the upcoming Death Knight class that will be making its appearance with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, World of Warcraft. This class is the first “Hero Class” which have have been part of Warcraft lore since the real-time strategy game days.
Over at GameSpy, they […]

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Tags: Gaming · Geek · Metaverse

EDGE QUEST - Win US $10,000 and Cisco Router

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Note - As always, I am Cisco Systems developer in Second Life. This is NOT a paid advert.
For all of my gamer friends - chance to win $10,000 US and a Cisco Router (worth $35K) - Check out the game at least - It is silly - It is fun - and you can […]

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Tags: Gaming · Geek · Technology

MADD attacks ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

This hit the wires about 4 hours ago (9:00 pm / April 30) -
Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants Grand Theft Auto IV to be rated Adult versus Mature.  Oh good god….
“Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke,” MADD said in a statement released Tuesday. “Drunk driving is a choice, a […]

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Virtual World - Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of the “kids” I work with told me that he plays Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean online game. Not knowing much about it other than it was a corporate-giant-backed MMORPG and that it follows the movies and theme park attractions, I looked into it.
I found out that it was developed by Disney Online […]

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Tags: Gaming · Metaverse

China Gamers

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I try to keep up with China and their gamer trends.  Two tidbits today were found in the Wired Game Blog:

Will Sony begin releasing its PlayStation franchises on PC in a bid to move into the lucrative Chinese market
More than 1 million Chinese gamers logged onto World of Warcraft at one time

P.S. I […]

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A German group of World of Warcraft fans

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

And I thought I did strange things…..

A German group of World of Warcraft fans were recently featured on WoW’s European site for their work on a stunning recreation of the Paladin’s Tier 2 armor, aka the Judgement set.
The fans, a group of professional craftsmen known as BattleHeat, “spent several hundred hours” crafting the steel and […]

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Tags: Gaming

Bananaverse - The MiniCity - Update #2

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Happy to report that Bananaverse - The MiniCity is growing. But jobs are now needed which require hitting a second link
For Jobs - click http://bananaverse.myminicity.com/ind
For Population - continue to click http://bananaverse.myminicity.com/

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WoW - New Hero Class Revealed: Bard

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

It will be interesting to see the next chapter in WoW. Just saw this announcement on the new Hero Class that is coming out with Wrath in July 2008

New Hero Class Revealed: Bard
he deeds of every great hero inspire countless songs of triumph, virtue, and epic adventure. But although a hero’s glory endures in […]

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Meanwhile WoW is down

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Since I can not get into SL to do some work —- I thought about sneaking into W0W for some leveling (still a 60 Gnome Warrior), but alas the Metaverse gods have foiled me again. WoW down until 2pm (usually 11am PST on Tuesday).
I guess it is one of those days all over……. […]

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Tags: Gaming · Metaverse