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Scott Jennings

Nation States And The Social Ganker

This post was prompted by a thread on f13, which asked “is there any difference between open PvP and gang warfare?” It’s an interesting topic. Let’s look at it first from a purely game-specific level. Ultima Online was pretty much full-on gang warfare, and I suspect the memory

Talking Is Hard And Stuff

So I haven’t been posting on here as much recently, and much of what I’ve put up has been fairly content free. I feel vaguely guilty about it, and idly wonder if I should start posting pictures of my cat just to make the cycle complete. The truth

Edwards Campaign Goes After Critical Linux/Furry Vote

John Edwards campaign invades Second Life, sort of. Wonkette’s take is too ribaldly funny for words. As are the comments, such as I hate the Internet. Yes, yes, this is something every party can agree on.

Guess That’ll Show Me

So I got an email from someone in Second Life saying “Hey, come listen to me DJ!” I had just finished up work for the day, so said to myself, Hey, why not. Pixellated bad celtic music sounds about right for me right now. This ban screen is even funnier

Today’s Barely Understood News From Asia

Apparently Ragnarok has been shut down in Vietnam for, as best as I can understand, violating commerce laws. On February 5, the HCM City Department of Post and Telecommunications instructed VinaGame to stop its Ragnarok services because it failed to apply limits to the sales and exchanges of game products.

Eve Blows Up

Joe Blancato, formerly of Waterthread and now all respectable and stuff for The Escapist, posts a detailed writeup connecting the dots with the Eve Online/Band of Brothers hoofrah… …including the confession of the developer responsible. Regrettably, my actions inevitably led to a shadow of suspicion being cast on a

Doug Lowenstein Kicks All Y’all’s Asses

I have very little comment on this save rude noises of encouragement! “How many people are on the Video Game Voters Network?” he asked the crowd, which responded with very very few raised hands. “That’s pathetic!” he yelled. “You go to a website, click a few keystrokes and that’