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Winter Song
This song and video are so beautiful. The song is by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, and both it and the animation are amazing.
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The art of the rogue
I've been playing Mass Effect, which is by the same people who did Jade Empire, and despite many differences, it shows: the dialogs and levelling system are similar; so is the combination of a large long main quest plus a tasty but limited number of side quests (as opposed to Oblivion where the main quest is dwarfed by other possibilities). And it ( Read more... ) -
Stabbed to Death in Office Frolic
There's a headline you wouldn't want on your obituary.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/inkeraserstabbing_nytimes1.pdf
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How to railroad your players and make them like it
I asked kata_kita what her favorite Echo RP sessions were. (See http://community.livejournal.com/echo_guild/9225.html for a list.) She said: the asteroid; Arnem station; the flood; the life support failure.
My list would be similar: the first encounter with Nawi; the asteroid; the disaster sessions in general.
So, what lessons can we draw...?
1. Everybody ( Read more... ) -
How to run an RP sim
I've been playing a couple of months in Naraka. I had a low opinion of 24/7 RP sims based on Lumindor, but Naraka works surprisingly well. Not perfectly-- a recent storyline seemed to railroad a bunch of people and drove many of them away.
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A positive Linden Labs development for once!
No more ad farms!
This wasn't the most burning issue facing SL, but it's definitely a quality-of-second-life issue. I look forward to the ugly forest of prims south of my lot going away.
(This just after they announced yet another dumb feature-- an extension of voice chat-- that made it seem like LL doesn't understand its own product.)
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Beaker's Ode to Joy
This doesn't exactly need more exposure, since it's already had 1.8 million views... but I loved it. It's actually rather pretty, at first, till it ends in typical Muppet disaster. I don't know if this is official Muppetry or a really good imitation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A
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Portal
I finally got a copy of Portal, and I just finished it. Is it as amazing as I've heard it was? Yes, it was.
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