World of Minecraft
Last Friday, I woke up at 5am, which was unfortunate. Whilst I didn’t leap up and think “Aha, an extra hour to face the day and relish its challanges”, I did eventually reach...
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Skipping User Account Control (UAC) in Win7/Vista without disabling it
UAC is actually quite good for security in Windows, as it means that anything that could steal your dog and run away with your favourite pillow/boyfriend/girlfriend has to get your permission first. However,...
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Cryptic Studios have finally announced their rumoured Neverwinter Nights game, and though it doesn’t appear to be an MMO (Odd not only because that was the rumour, but because Cryptic’s game history is...
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Going Rogue, the new expansion to City of Heroes (My MMO-Crack of choice) went live yesterday. At 20:30 yesterday UK time on the US servers, for the first time since CoV launched, the...
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This week, I installed World of Warcraft. Possibly not my greatest idea ever, because I need extra bonus timesinks like I need a punctured skull, but having ditched Champions Online and not making...
Read More →Life Imitates Roleplay
Easter weekend, as I said, I was at a LARP Event. At that event, there was a central plot point of a volcano that could erupt at any moment, causing chaos and confusion....
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I am back from Maelstrom. The weather was horrid. The fact that the longest event of the year – four days, Friday to Monday, rather than the Friday to Sunday of most events...
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As an appendix to the previous post on the subject: Rock Paper Shotgun: Ubisoft’s servers have been down/overloaded for around the last ten hours, making it impossible for people in some parts of...
Read More →Lord of the Rings: Worst PuG ever
From the Lord of the Rings Online dev tracker: Vastin says: Tsk. You know, Aragorn brought a 5-man team into his solo Weathertop instance and just ended up having to carry the whole...
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This is a flowchart to explain why people pirate movies. Ubisoft, who publish games, have implemented a new DRM solution in reaction to the reported fact that too high a percentage of PC...
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