Geekery
Probe Droids
Japan has designed a new reconnaissance drone. Check out the video: Pretty cool huh? Now tell me if your mind went the same place mine did?
General
Name Change
I decided to change the name of one of my posts. It was title Star Wars Beta News because it was about the lifting of the journalist NDA on SWTOR. However, I was getting dozens of spam comments on it every day. My spammed comments went from 130 or so Read more…
Geekery
Star Trek for the Modern Era
I read a couple blog posts recently that talk about why there isn’t a new Star Trek on television now and why Star Trek might not work as a show today. I’ve talked about this a few times but these posts raise a few good points. #1: The Movie Guys Don’t Want To Read more…
Games
Knit me a SWTOR
There’s a nice piece on Massively about SWTOR crafting, or Crew Skills. There are not a ton of details, but it does clarify a few things. Primarily, it establishes that, contrary to what some podcasters thought, each Player only has access to 3 crew skills, instead of each Companion. It Read more…
Politics
It’s a Matter of Presentation
Thinking about some recent debates I’ve had, I was thinking how taxes are currently viewed as a negative. It’s all a matter of perspective but also one of presentation. It’s really hard to change someones perspective, but the presentation is a relatively simple matter. Right now, you go to a Read more…
Games
STO F2P Beta Thoughts
I’ve spend some time on Tribble, the STO F2P test server. I’ve read the Dev Tracker and their postings. Here’s some thoughts: Dilithium The reward economy really needed to be cleaned up. There were way to many systems (Merits, Emblems, Honor, Badges, etc). Merging everything into just Dilithium is a Read more…
General
Revenge of the Spammers
For a month or two now, since I installed an IP ban program, the number of spam posts have gone down significantly. The number of real comments was climbing well ahead of spam comments. Last night, they fought back. The ban program tracks attempts to access by banned IP’s. Yesterday, Read more…
Games
Nothing to do with Star Wars
Bioware appears to have lifted the NDA for journalists on SWTOR. As such mmorpg.com has a whole host of articles that have been released, covering all of the Republic classes. So here’s links to those articles with some thoughts at the end: Trooper Class Preview Smuggler Class Preview Jedi Knight Read more…
Games
Failure IS an Option
Tobold had an interesting post last week where he blessed us all with a curse, “May you win every game you play!” The central idea being that games are boring if you can’t lose and that this derives from video games origins in arcades, where losing meant starting over. Whenever Read more…
Politics
Okay, Ayn Rand isn’t a complete Asshole…just mostly
My post yesterday may have been a bit harsh. There are some elements in Atlas Shrugged that are worthwhile. To be fair, I’ll talk about those and then explain why her philosophy still leads assholery. One of the positive elements of Randian views is recognizing the value of hard work. I Read more…