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Scott Jennings

Bring Me The Heads Of Twelve Corrupt Mistresses

Incorruptible Warrior, the truly bizarre anti-graft game from the land of some truly bizarre MMOs, has gone offline. This translation of a Chinese newspaper article has some details of the game: When you kill a corrupt official, you gain experience points. For example, killing the notorious eunuch official Wei Zhongxian

AGDC: Notes From Fighting The Last War

Everyone likes World Of Warcraft. Or drinking heavily. In his talks, Raph Koster bemoaned more than once how Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime’s keynote address was to a full house, while Sulka Haro and Min Kim (of Habbo Hotel and Kart Rider fame, respectively) gave audiences to less packed audiences,

Two Random Disconnected Things

Linden Lab has put up their “SL Grid” platform documentation site, which Prokofy Neva wonders if this is a first step towards outsourcing servers. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to stuff my cat in a carrier and take her to the vet to get her ears operated

Things To Do In Austin When You’re Dead

If you’re coming to town for AGDC (I’ll be there – not speaking this year, but prowling the halls looking for victims, er, recruits) and don’t know what to do when blowing off the “Here’s What I Did And Why You Should Pay My Company Money” lecture,

“This is so gonna rule.”

From my new favorite webcomic ever.

The Game Within The Game Within The Game

Shacknews gets a typically weird interview with The Mitanni, the Markus Wolf of Eve’s Goonswarm. It also serves as a good overview of Eve’s chaotic metagame to the outside observer. Though The Mittani may miss out on the fun of participating in a fleet action, quietly shuffling pieces

The Internet: Occasionally Useful!

For example, if you need a ‘new’ name for your guild. I like “Bat Reason”, myself.