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Scott Jennings

“The first thing we do, let’s gank all the lawyers.”

Sources: Ren Reynolds at Terra Nova looks at Linden Labs buying back the “devauled property” of some Second Life residents. Julian Dibbell, in pole position for the “What the Hell Is Wrong With You” 2006 award, lets the IRS know MMOs exist. David Edery analyzes possible legal pitfalls awaiting MMOs.

The East Cons Red

First up: Jim Rossignol with a field report on Korean gaming (from Walkerings) Next: Nick Yee on historical precedents (from Raph Koster) Finally: My own commentary on both of these… soon, promise.

Top 10 new games of 2005

(at least in my humble opinion). Everyone else is doing this list, so I will too! (No MMOs included.) 10: F.E.A.R.: Best shooter of last year. Well done atmospherics and the AI was really well done (or at least it reponded well to my cheesy hide-behind-

It’s gone, Jim.

Well, it looks like about a year’s worth or so of randomly aimless mutterings and silly links has been lost to the Intarweb mist. Ah well, maybe this’ll motivate me to write more and fill in the void! (Edit: After reading Caya’s post I quickly snarfed up

Never before has this blog’s title been so apt.

Some New Year’s Resolutions I’n currently considering: 1) When presented with a shiny new blog upgrade? Don’t. 2) When upgrading said shiny new blog? Don’t try to do it over a laggy web connection. 3) When upgrading said shiny new blog over a laggy web connection?

Dude, play your own game.

Darniaq, whom I really should have added to my link list long ago, has a cry of pain up about developers not playing\’e2\’80\’a6 not only their own games, but any game. Richard Bartle, in his book stated much the same thing, only in his own experience. Having

The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!

Or rather, MY new book. It\’e2\’80\’99s sitting on my desk right now. I\’e2\’80\’99m pretty sure I\’e2\’80\’99m the first person in Fairfax to get it, because I stopped by Barnes and Noble on the way home and asked them if it had