Something in Star Trek Online made me smile last night.
The list of reasons to have a PS3 is slowly but surely racking up.
I'll buy one sooner or later.
I'll buy one sooner or later.
Maybe I now have comment approval on for all comments.
Maybe not, it's a little difficult to tell.
Maybe I need to switch to a less arcane CMS.
Maybe not, it's a little difficult to tell.
Maybe I need to switch to a less arcane CMS.
(The title is because a while ago I had another post called Multitasking. Something to do with singing. This isn't really a sequel.)
A quick comment about the intensity of activity in STO, compared to a couple of other games.
A quick comment about the intensity of activity in STO, compared to a couple of other games.
As I mentioned before, there have been some interesting articles on immersion on various sites lately, namely Wolfshead (who describe's how WoW's marketing and other decisions are eroding what immersion it originally had), evizaer of That's Terrible Idea (who felt that it didn't have any to begin with), and Tobold who thinks the whole thing is moot.
These last two I disagree with, and this is the post I've been meaning to write explaining why. It's not going to refute their positions blow by blow (mainly because there are so many blows); instead I'll just go on tour and ramble.
Like I usually do.
These last two I disagree with, and this is the post I've been meaning to write explaining why. It's not going to refute their positions blow by blow (mainly because there are so many blows); instead I'll just go on tour and ramble.
Like I usually do.
I've noticed that being confronted with the dialogue options in a CRPG, especially the Bioware ones, makes it easy to analyse options to work out what effect they're going to have on your karma/standings/whatever. You might be tempted to big up the glory, but the game helpfully draws your attention to the opportunity to instead worry about how the other characters are.
An ordered list of unordered thoughts about Dragon Age: Origins, now that I've played through all the backgrounds (and haven't started the game proper).
I've set a calendar event to pester me to post something each Tuesday and Thursday (although I'll probably let myself off if I've been posting properly in the meantime). I have more to say nowadays and somehow I still don't generally get around to it.
I'm also going to concentrate on it as a gaming 'blog (and other things vaguely related) and it's unlikely to see many more purely personal updates.
I'm probably not going to worry too much about a whole new theme, but I will at some point look into making the text closer to full width. There just aren't that many 800px displays any more. Unfortunately the theme is so Byzantine that it's not as simple as taking some width declarations out of the CSS, as I hoped; it'll take a while to get my head around it.
I'm also going to concentrate on it as a gaming 'blog (and other things vaguely related) and it's unlikely to see many more purely personal updates.
I'm probably not going to worry too much about a whole new theme, but I will at some point look into making the text closer to full width. There just aren't that many 800px displays any more. Unfortunately the theme is so Byzantine that it's not as simple as taking some width declarations out of the CSS, as I hoped; it'll take a while to get my head around it.
This was going to be a piece for the news/features site I've been considering trying to write for, but in the meantime it probably works better here. This place needs more posts anyway.
Depending on how deep you want to read, this post is either food for thought on the difficulty of games and the dangers of listening to the vocal minority, or it's a rambling tale about why I'm not playing Metaplace Inc's Facebook game, Island Life.
Depending on how deep you want to read, this post is either food for thought on the difficulty of games and the dangers of listening to the vocal minority, or it's a rambling tale about why I'm not playing Metaplace Inc's Facebook game, Island Life.
Wolfshead has a nice piece on how WoW used to care about immersion and no longer does. That's a Terrible Idea has a different view, and I disagree with it so strongly (or more to the point, so subtly) that it's going to take a little while to collect my thoughts on it.
Edit: Tobold has waded in now with what seems at first glance to be an even stronger position against there being any value in what he calls immersion. Again, I disagree with him on quite what immersion is and why it's important; that response post is looking more urgent now.
Edit: Tobold has waded in now with what seems at first glance to be an even stronger position against there being any value in what he calls immersion. Again, I disagree with him on quite what immersion is and why it's important; that response post is looking more urgent now.
The current Wii television commercial amuses me. It amuses me because the Wii has a BBC iPlayer app, and the XBox 360 doesn't.
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