My Steam library is relatively small by gamer standards, especially given the twelve years that I’ve had it. But it still has sixty-three games in it: way more than I can keep track of in my head. Anke asked me about how I managed to amass this many, and now I want to categorize them.

Games I got for Multiplayer and Actually Played: 29

ARK: ( Read more... )

Playing SWOTR has been pretty fun.  Using Origin's website to buy and use the game?  Not so much.  Setting up my initial account and purchasing the game took about 8 rounds of "You missed a spot!  And oh, we randomly* blanked out some spots you didn't miss, see if you can guess which ones!  Guess wrong and there's another round!" Which was not as ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this in my giant post yesterday, so it gets its own post. Another thing I like about SWTOR:

The clothing is androgynous.  All of it.

Everything the women wear looks exactly the same on the men, and vice versa.  If it looks like a shirt + vest on a man, it looks like a shirt + vest of the same cut on a woman.  If it looks like a ( Read more... )

About 12 years ago, I was an EverQuest fanatic. EverQuest was one of the first generation of its kind: a big-budget, graphics-intensive, Massively Multiplayer, Online, and (theoretically) Role-playing Game.  Its precursors were the text-based Multi-Use Dungeons, which had been around since the 80s with much the same mechanics but no graphics to ( Read more... )

I travelled to New Hampshire this weekend to visit my parents and my brother, his wife, and their kids at their summer home by the lake. Last time I was here, it was August, which is probably a better time to do it. This weekend it's been too cold to swim, though the weather was pleasant enough for a nice walk this afternoon with my father ( Read more... )

I don't remember now if I've done this before or not. Terrycloth was talking about playing EQ2, which reminded me of all my EQ war stories. These are not just gaming stories, no. These are "When I was a kid, we walked uphill for ten miles in the snow to get to school, and WE LIKED IT" stories.

Then koogrr encouraged me to reminisce, so blame him.
( Tales from a Bygone Era )

I think I'll write about my weekend. I hardly ever write about how I've spent my time, it seems.
( Want to read about my humdrum ordinary life? )

I could go back to work but I’m not quite up for that yet. If I went back to work now I could…not leave early because I promised Glinda I’d get Horrible Nightmare Project #4 to a significant milestone today ( Read more... )