Mad William Flint

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• Giveaway: Altaro Oops!Backup is Time Machine for Windows (Download Squad)

  Jan 13th 2010 5:34PM Ooh, that'd be awesome! Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease

• Barnes & Noble 'Nook' e-reader with color touchscreen out Tuesday for $259, says WSJ (update: Best Buy connection?) (Engadget)

  Oct 20th 2009 1:51PM I dunno. I've got the 1st kindle and still love it. It's a little small but battery life is awesome. Love the thing. Will this has a cell modem in it? That's a feature I didn't realize was going to be that important.

• What you missed in The Matrix Online pt. 2 (Massively)

  Aug 3rd 2009 6:01PM You see little things in EQ2 sometimes. GMs will show up and hand out a couple interesting little quests. Nothing that advances the story line of course, and I don't think they're ever big scheduled things. But it's such a breath of fresh air to know that you don't quite know what's happening, which is a lot of the draw I guess.
  
  

• What you missed in The Matrix Online pt. 2 (Massively)

  Aug 3rd 2009 5:35PM
  Damn. If I'd known. whenever I logged in all I saw was cheesy mmo.
  
  Ah well, serves me right I s'pose.

• Redefining MMOs: Player developers! page 3 (Massively)

  Jul 23rd 2009 10:35AM People (players) will always want to use (play) your software (game) in ways you can't possibly have foreseen.
  
  Giving them some method of customizing the experience will increase popularity with the original player base (giving them more options) and the "tinkerers"
  
  Nice post o/
  

• Fallen Earth hosting Texas invasion in-game event (Massively)

  Jul 21st 2009 4:24PM Loving FE already. This is gonna be a scream. Can't wait.

• Anti-Aliased: The reason why you hate Second Life and a few ways to fix that pt. 2 (Massively)

  Jul 14th 2009 12:34PM See, for me it comes down to exactly one problem:
  
  framerate
  
  All that custom content, even on a slick gaming rig makes for an abysmal user experience. I just can't seem to get past the fact that everything's choppy and slow.

• DDO adds free-to-play with Eberron Unlimited [Updated] (Massively)

  Jun 18th 2009 2:34PM
  This'd get me to load DDO on my box for a casual hit now and again definitely.
  

• MMO racism: the No Elves! movement picks up steam (Massively)

  Jun 11th 2009 11:39AM This is pretty cheap.
  
  Anyone remember Talislanta? No? Guess I'm old.
  
  Their whole marketing hook was "...and no elves" in the 80s and 90s.
  
  Sure, these guys can do it and it's ok. But it's like thinking the music behind "ice ice baby" is original.

• The Digital Continuum: Business as unusual (Massively)

  May 11th 2009 12:05PM Yeah. Keep microtransactions on specific servers. Let people play the game without 'em if they want.