Scott Jennings

Dr. TwisTer is certainly posting lots of UO2 info. The community consensus seems to be that it’s all faked (and badly faked at that). I haven’t been able to get comment from Origin on whether or not the material in fact is legit. Rumor has it when you

You think TwisTer’s got scoops? Hah! Here’s the latest on why Sierra cancelled Middle Earth. Apparently they had problems with some of these rules… The ugly truth is that the design team had some radical ideas that were not in line with management’s vision of the game.

Well, this morning Dr. Twister posted what appears to be UO2’s map. Dunno where he’s getting his info, but he’s getting a lot of it. He’s now saying he’s going to be posting something every day until beta. Hm.

Finally got the chance to listen to Fear’s interview of Gordon the Tyrant. Definitely recommended – Tyrant addresses 3rd party programs (he uses UOA), macroing, bandwidth, PvP/PK and many other hot-button issues. Dammit, this is all getting way too friendly. First the announcement of the skills patch, now

…skill management is FINALLY going to be implemented in the next patch. The system , as detailed, is simple, reasonable, and seems like it will work pretty well. Kudos to the coder boys and girls.

I know, I know. I shouldn’t be giving him so much attention. Then again, I watch Jerry Springer once in a while too. Seriously — I’ll print the whole mail below, and then summarize, with a minimum of giggling, exactly why this is so sad. === “I can’t let