Bane is right. This game is killing me. It’s driving my blood pressure through the roof and making me all around angry and irritable. Why? Because the damn thing is BROKEN, that’s why! The servers are so sluggish and laggy as to be unplayable!!
But a glimmer of hope…there’s supposed to be a big patch tomorrow to address lag and such. We’ll see. For now, here’s my pro’s and cons of Shadowbane: Continue reading “Shadowbane”
The New York Times has an article about the come back of boardgaming (The PC Generation, Back to the Board (free registration possibly required) with the 30-something set. Call me an old softy, but any article that mentions The Compleat Strategist gets my thumbs up. I remember riding the LIRR from East Hampton to Penn Station (~3 hours) just to go to TCS to check out the latest wargames.
My personal nostalgia aside, it’s a pleasant read for board game fans (or wannabes).
David Rocci of isonews.com (here’s the original site and here’s a working copy) was convicting of 5 months in jail, 5 months home detention, 3 years probation and a $28,500 fine for selling mod chips for the XBox. He was found in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. (Read the full story here.)
It’s a sad day for freedom in the U.S. Essentially this fellow took a piece of circuit board, soldered on a few chips, and sold the resulting doohickey and now he’s in jail for it. Yes, I’m overly simplifying, but the fact is, he wasn’t arrested for copyright infringement or anything…just for making the device that allows end users to modify the hardware that they own. That’s just plain wrong.