Stealing HMS Victory

Part 3
in which our great adventure comes to a close.When last we left our decrepid crew, we had just pawned our first knob. Well, this part takes place maybe half a day later. We'd dealt with a bunch of powerful NPC ships and picked up a bunch of xp and treasure. Then we spent maybe five hours becalmed. Fortunately, MC:TAC ( Read more... )

Stealing HMS Victory

Part 2
in which we pawn some knobs.

We'd been sailing for about six hours when we came encountered our first possible foe. But would things really go as we had planned?

08:51:JeffVader: A sail ( Read more... )

Stealing HMS Victory

Part 1
in which we steal HMS Victory.

01:13:Sentry: Who goes there ( Read more... )

I'm concluding my review of Master and Commander: The Acheron's Call, a new, historically accurate MMORPG set in the Neapolitan Wars. In the first half, I talked about the really cool parts of the game. In this post, I cover some of the weaknesses. I have no doubt that some of them, nee nearly all of them, will be fixed in time. However, in ( Read more... )

I've been playing a new MMORPG for the last few months, and it's just out of beta. Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you Master and Commander: The Acheron's Call, which is sort of based on the movie Master and Commander.You can play a sailor in the Royal Navy, a privateer, or a pirate. You can get into trouble on shore or form a crew, get a ship ( Read more... )

I've been having a little trouble with my plans for monkey piracy. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA threatened to sue me for piracy, but oddly enough the Monkey/Primate Association of America didn't. These suits failed because they couldn't find a single judge who was willing to handle a lawsuit against a cute kitty cat ( Read more... )

I signed up for Technorati last night. I've been hearing about it for a while now, but I had no idea what that was. If you know me at all, you'll know I don't like not knowing stuff. My initial suspicion was that "Technorati" was a compound formed from "techno," a kind of music that the kids are into these days, and "rati," the plural of the Latin ( Read more... )

I got into an online argument with a fanatical opponent of free software and copyleft, and I completely ripped him a new one. My arguments were far more cogerent than anything he could muster, and it was just a bloodbath. I sent the transcript to Boing Boing, since they used to be interested in this kind of thing. I was totally prepared to be ( Read more... )

I've got a new plan to make me rich and full at the same time. I'm going to pirate monkeys. All I need are a MonkeyCopy MR drive, an MW+ drive, and a copy of the MonkeyBurn 2.0 software. Oh, yeah. I'll also need a box of blank monkeys. I'll also need one original monkey, but that can be a loaner. I've heard that MonkeyBurn is easy to use. The ( Read more... )

I'm very full of food at the moment. I didn't really want to be this full when I started, but there was a lot in my bowl, and I thought, "Miss Kitty, how would you feel if some poor starving cat who doesn't read your journal managed to get inside and eat some of your food, just so it could have the energy to crawl another few feet? You'd never ( Read more... )