Sunday, July 3, 2011
Erma Bombeck (1927 -1996)
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Angry Star Wars Nerd Is Angry
One nerd's response to the cute woman who incited his rage and the vast media/SOE conspiracy...
July 2, 1776
On July 2, South Carolina reversed its position and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and Robert Morris abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of independence. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of Caesar Rodney, who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again, since they were still not authorized to vote for independence, although they would be allowed to do so by the New York Provincial Congress a week later. The resolution of independence had been adopted with twelve affirmative votes and one abstention. With this, the colonies had officially severed political ties with Great Britain.
In a now-famous letter written to his wife on the following day, John Adams predicted that July 2 would become a great American holiday. Adams thought that the vote for independence would be commemorated; he did not foresee that Americans—including himself—would instead celebrate Independence Day on the date that the announcement of that act was finalized.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
John Adams (1735 - 1826)
“The Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. . . . It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires, and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
– John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
Friday, July 1, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Greatest Game I Ever Played
This is of course about Star Wars Galaxies, and the demise of what was literally the greatest game I ever played.
Here is the official post from the forum boards.
Here is an interview with John Smedley about it.
A great quote from Smedley about what he would have done differently:
Here's what I would have done differently. I would have made sure the ground and space games were launched all at once. I would have given the game another year to develop and really polish it quite a bit. I think we created one of the most unique and amazing games ever created in the MMO space. It is the sandbox game. Nothing else even comes close to what we did there. I would have really taken our time and polished combat right so we never had to do the NGE. At some point the only thing to do is acknowledge the mistakes you made. But we can also look and fix them in the future. Since then, the projects that the team has worked on -- like the Chronicles system -- it's pretty amazing. I want to make sure that we really learn from that stuff. And I think we have. We're actually starting to put some of that stuff into our other games.
Raph Koster had a few things to say about it.
And as for me, this is what I posted on my old posting grounds:
Thank You for being part of the journey, every developer, player, community servce rep, understanding spouse, EVERYONE who ever had anything to do with this amazing thing we had here.
Love you all and May the Force Be With You.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell
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