The 8 Billion Dollar ipod

I do not usually watch things like this but this time I made random exception and ...

BEST MMO IDEA EVER (I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST THO)

While back I was thinking how great it would be to play MMO that actually replica of Earth, but perhaps in Fallout-like setting, or Shadowrun. I prefer Shadowrun setting, as much as recent Shadowrun games butchered it, but Fallout setting would be far easier to manage.

Years went by, and as I am not game developer but a gamer, nothing came of that MMO idea. Until now.

Randomly today I  chanced upon these guys:
http://rerollgame.com/

If they make it, it will be like dream come true for anybody into this type of thing.

First part is set for release at some point mid next year (2015), and as Elder Scrolls Online just made me lose hope in gaming companies actually producing what they promise, I'll defer my judgement on this until I see what they wind up creating.

The IDEA of it tho, is where gaming companies should be aiming. Create worlds, not dozen crappy, empty zones. Populate those worlds with players, not with stupid AI. And then let me PK all those carebears and noobs in that world without repercussion, and let them try to do the same to me.

ESO going F2P or shutting off servers

Its a prediction.

And I'd like to say, before anything else, that anybody who purchased Elder Scrolls Online is financing regurgitated garbage that these wannabe developers are throwing out. You should be ashamed! Crap like ESO should be denied support, people who got to make decisions which resulted in failure and waste of resourced should be blacklisted and never be left in charge of anything again. By being complacent you are getting exactly what you deserve: garbage.

Anybody that knows me knows that finances are a non issue for me. I buy several games each month and whether game has cash shop or subscription, or both, if I like it, I'll support it.

But when I play MMO, it is not just about me and my own likes and dislikes. MMO's are also about community and population. You cannot do 60 man raid if there are only 40 people playing on your entire server at any one time.

That is why Warhammer Online failed. I actually got two free copies from two different friends who each preordered extra copy because they wanted me in their guilds. They were on different servers so I joined both as I was touched by the gestures. At first it was ok, but then I got to mid-range levels and most quests seemed to be designed for groups, but there were no groups. I tend not to play during primetime. Solidly populated MMO has people around 24/7, average one just has people during 4-6 busy hours. I guess if I was not there to play with friends I could have switched to different timezone servers, like Oceanic ones, where their primetime would be dead hours when I have free time. When population starts to dwindle, its a ripple effect, it does not get better without outside influence, such as promotion, new xpac, etc. Whoever was making final decisions for WAR was simply incompetent as far as promoting and running a MMO goes. So many people on WoW servers saw WAR as WoW Killer that WAR should have succeeded by default.

Kickstarter Hacked

Yeah, it happens to everybody sooner or later.

Quite frankly I am surprised that it has not happened sooner.

Image of email sent to me, and probably everybody else that gave money through Kickstarter below:

Who knew preaching campaign could look so fun!

I ran into this kinda randomly, but it was just so cute I felt I should post about it.

Basically, its some kind of atheist group on indiegogo collecting donations to put up cool looking, colorful, religious messages. Except, this is kind of stuff I'd like to see.

I'll use break on this one so if you want to see images beyond first one click more.

McDonalds and Tim Hortons do not want my money

Monday, 3am. Hectic week, mostly away from home for me so I slept from Sunday Afternoon til Monday 3am. I usually sleep 4-6 hours a night, but I was exhausted. I dont eat while I travel, so I did not eat some 8 hours prior to falling asleep. Woke up, noticed there is nothing really to eat. Nothing while my cook is away. She's due in 3 hours, but I am hungry now. I do not cook.

So, just like my primitive ancestors, I went hunting, Monday 3am, through foot of snow, wanting to use my money instead of a spear to catch me something to tide me over til cook is back on schedule and so I can be fed normally again.

I am officially "the worst person alive right now"

If you see type of comments I make online, and know me IRL, you know that I am same person on and off the internet. I speak my mind about things, loving every minute of freedom of speech my citizenship's entitle me to.

So, it is impossible for me to guess what exactly did I state that earned me title of "worst person alive right now", whether its my strong opposition to weakening economy of North America by freely allowing refugees and poor immigrants who end up on welfare immediately after arriving, or my distaste for stupid people, or my support of death penalty and harsher sentences for certain crimes, ... maybe its that I oppose use and legalization of drugs (yeah, I am uncool like that, I even oppose marijuana), or that I wanted death penalty as minimum sentence for drinking and driving. I guess I will never know.

I also just found out that as far as Adolf Hitler is concerned, I am Jewish. As I am not circumcised I guess I am either one of those secular Jews, or some other type of demographic. Its cool, Jews have great food and some rather exceptionally cute girls, if they do not care that I am atheist/agnostic depending on the day we can hang out.

I guess its good I did not bring up that I am worse than him in that conversation.

Thanks to Vedmak.

Messing with some templates today

Just letting anybody dropping by know, I am testing some stuff out over next few days so things might look different every time you check.

I have lot of experience with Wordpress, some with Joomla, but next to none with Blogger as platform, so things are not as obvious as i'd like them to be.

Anyway, there are only three articles here worth reading, they should be easy to find no matter what template I am in middle of trying out.