Among the many jobs I have worked at, one of them was in a factory. There is an old expression that stuck with me from those days – no matter how tired you are, come quitting time on Friday, everyone has energy. It’s Friday, welcome to the road to the weekend edition. The Road to…
Tag Archive: Aion Online
The Virtual Tourist
It has been one month since Aion Online has hit the shelves and about the same for Champions Online. This is right about the time where a gamers mind turns to “virtual tourism” – the end of the first free month. The following was in the recent release of the “October Community Address” from…
Because I said so . . .
Because I said so… There is no more presumptuous a pundit than a blogger who perceives themselves to be profound. That’s my story and I ‘m sticking to it… Why? After a brief trek around the “blogosphere” lately I have been left feeling as if I had a rubdown with coarse grade sandpaper – in…
The Easy Road or the Hard Road
The Easy Road or the Hard Road There is a moment, at the end of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the version with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka) where Willy Wonka turns to Charlie and says, “Do you know what happened to the little boy who suddenly got everything he ever wanted?” In…
Polishing the Polish
Polishing the polish by Julie Whitefeather There was a time when if anyone this side of the Pacific Rim had admitted to playing an “import” game they would have received a quizzical look normally reserved for people who extolled the virtues of Bill Clinton at the Republican National Convention. Back then, reactions to an enthusiastic…
Bring out your dead
What do Medieval Europe and Aion Online have in common? They are both beset by a plague spread by rats – only in the case of Aion Online the rats are called Gold Sellers. As we discussed earlier in our virtual pub (“Methinks thou dost protest too much”) gaming forums are full to the…