Archive for the 'Ranting and Raving' Category

LOTR MMORPG and Other Acronyms

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

He can smell it

On Sunday afternoon at PAX we stopped by the Turbine booth to take a look at the upcoming LOTR MMORPG.
First, I should […]

Ferry Blogging

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, this completely pointless post is being made from the middle of the Puget Sound aboard a Washington State Ferry equipped with free WiFi.
Unfortunately, the Mobilisa system seems to hate my one-year-old iBook’s wireless or something, because I get about half of the Mobilisa login page downloaded and then […]

We like PAX in Principle

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Let me stress that there are some very wonderful things about PAX. There is, for example, a sign in front of a closet that says, “Stoat check, No weasels allowed”. That is genuine endearing cleverness. There are some very talented Dance Dance Revolution players, and a few humorously costumed attendees. Also, […]

I Can Still Taste It

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

We went into this thing with eyes wide open. We had a notion of the density and intensity of the nerdiness we were preparing to immerse ourselves in. We thought we were prepared.
We thought wrong.
The dark and awesome power of Penny Arcade has stirred the breadth and depth of geekdom and drawn the entirety of […]

So this is Nerd-dom

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

As Jesse noted, we’re just about to roll-out to my very first video game related expo. Not the venerable E3, but a much younger and more nubile Penny-Arcade Expo.
When I look at the forums at penny-arcade about the expo, I have to keep reminding myself not to criticize a group that I am part […]