Archive for May, 2009
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Touts are outside Camden's Electric Ballroom selling 'tickets for the Cold War!', which doesn't sound terribly appealing so I scurry inside. This is a great venue, relatively small yet surprisingly open for its size and offering good views of the stage. The only disappointment is the sturdy metal ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
With sell orders running low and no new manufacturing jobs running I take a break from building up my standings with Core Complexion, Inc. to replenish my stocks. This isn't a random series of events though, as I have been training in scrapmetal processing recently. This should let ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Larísa over at the Pink Pigtail Inn is concerned about the marginalisation experienced by gamers when discussing weekend activities, pointing out that any description of a successful weekend in World of Warcraft would cause non-gamers' eyes to glaze over in stark contrast to similar weekend stories by people with 'regular' ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
The new Star Trek film doesn't follow from the previous release or let the cast and crew from a later series explore space in widescreen format, but instead harks back to the original television series. As we are to witness the first flight of the starship Enterprise it is ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
As far as I am aware, Holy Fuck have only one album release and as it clocks in at a little over thirty five minutes I travel to the venue hoping I'll enjoy the songs I won't recognise to fill up what must be at least a one-hour set. ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Tucked behind the achivements pane in World of Warcraft is the potentially interesting statistics pane, showing plenty of detail about your character's exploits during her time in Azeroth. There is information about the total amount of damage dealt and received, the biggest single hits dealt and recieved, along with ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I have started my training in scrapmetal processing, to melt down mission loot for profit, but a little tweak was needed in my plan to complete the training of its prerequisite skills. Left alone, the skill training was due to finish early in the morning, at a time that ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I may have spent forty million ISK on the research project management skill training book recently but I also made back thirty eight million ISK from the market. When I log in I find that I sold a batch of cruise missiles and two batches of heavy missiles, along ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
One of my annoyances in MMORPGs is a lack of personal responsibility that comes from a sense of anonymity and few, if any, consequences from anti-social behaviour. There are occasions that can elicit rebuke from a GM but, in general, it is possible to act like an oaf and ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
With penguins on icebergs greeting travellers by sea Northrend is clearly a cold continent. Although there are some regions of relative warmth, where hot springs break the surface or mountains provide shelter from prevailing weather conditions, others are covered by permafrost and ice. Lake Wintergrasp is such a ...
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