Rent opens on Wednesday.
You guys know how much of a musical geek I am.
Totally want to see it.
Who wants to go with?
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Works in progress…
One of the things I truly enjoy about web comics is getting the chance to watch an artist develop their skill over time. How many of us read Peanuts for years and then look back at the early stuff and can hardly recognize the characters? Comics evolve, and with the web you have the opportunity to find a lot of artists as they start and watch that evolution take place.
Take Questionable content, for example. I found this comic a while ago, and have been reading it pretty regularly since. I didn’t catch it on day one, but I did go back and read all of the comics when I had the chance.
This is the first comic, from 2003.
On a side note…I think he’s really captured something in the way he draws his women, and I think they’re totally hot.
I own it.
MMO Talk
So a lot of talk has been bantered about recently in the MMO commmunity about the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons Online. I think it goes without saying that Dungeons and Dragons is near and dear to my heart. It was the first Pen and Paper RPG that I ever played, and I started when I was like 10. There have been a lot of changes to the game since then, and I haven’t played on a regular basis for years, but I still get a bit nostalgic whenever I think of it.
Now I love WoW, but there are quite a few aspects of the game that do not appeal to me at all. PVP, for one. The focus on huge raids at end game is another. The new expansion, due out sometime next year, primarily focuses on those two aspects. Outland, the new zone, is a PVP zone – regardless of what kind of server you play on. Most of the new instances (including the instances designed for smaller groups) are in this zone.
The following items are from the D&D Online FAQ.
Will I be able to solo in this game?
Solo content will be available in our game, especially at the lower levels. However, the majority of the content in DDO focuses on party-based adventures. D&D has always been about playing with a group of friends, and this will be reflected by DDO.
What will the max party size be?
The maximum party size hasn’t been determined yet, but it will most likely be six characters.
Will there be Player vs. Player (PvP) Combat?
Not at release. Cooperative gameplay has always been the main focus of Dungeons & Dragons, and it is the main focus of DDO as well.
Small groups of adventurers. No PVP.
Yeah.
I have a prediction – If they don’t screw up DDO I will most likely be jumping ship when it is released, unless they make some major changes to the WoW expansion. I’m sure that I’ll carry both for a while, but supporting two MMO’s when I’m only playing one really isn’t what I consider to be a fiscally responsible choice. That’s why I left City of Heroes.
Perhaps a non-pixelated update later…
Edited because it’s in the same vein…
Apparently, The Matrix Online is getting a new combat system. Our big complaint about MxO was the combat. It was horrid.
Hrm.
mmm…cake
I am currently having chocolate cake for breakfast.
And with that, the birthday debauchery ends.
Divine.
I just got back from a surprise birthday dinner. netgoth let me choose a restaurant, so I picked the Maraconi Grill. The food was superb, the service was excellent, I had an operatic serenade of Happy Birthday in Italian, and I got to spend the evening with the most wonderful woman in the world.
In short, it’s one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had.
And the evening isn’t over yet. 🙂
Seriously, though. The dining experience in and of itself was so great that I’m going to write a letter to the company to thank them. I know Macarnoi Grill is a chain, but if the location here in St. Petersburg is any indicator of the rest of the locations I’d highly recommend it to any of my friends.
And on a completely unrelated note to the evening, but a highly relevant one in stuff I’ve been dealing with for the last few days, I bring you a quote from today’s Something Positive.
Everyone hurts someone they care about. It’s just part of being human…One day you’ll do something that’ll hurt me, but you know what? I’ll hurt you as well. No one means to do it. It just happens. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
– R.K. Milholland, “Something Positive”
Life changing statements.
“My sister says you play Dungeons and Dragons. We should be friends.”
“Want to go to a fourth of July party?”
“Why didn’t you pull out?”
“eh, just break down and get a domain like the rest of us.”
“You should check out this bulletin board.”
“Nice leash.”
“What quest u guys working on?”
“Son. I’m sick.”
“It doesn’t look good, Mike.”
“The size of your sons head is proportional to yours, Mr. McGreevy. You have big heads. You also make beautiful babies. Go make some more.”
“I saw a job online today that I think you’d be perfect for.”
“I’m directing a show. It’s a rock musical, and I need you to come audition for it.”
“I’m giving you one of my access codes. You really need a live journal.”
“She didn’t make it.”
“No, he’s not coming back. He left. With Mary.”
“I’ll see you and your fucking kids in court!”
“Why don’t you take your son and get the fuck out of this house?!”
“Did you mean it when you said Kimmie could move in with you?”
“If that’s really what you two want to do, go do it. Now.”
“We’ve fallen in love with each other.”
“Have you seen the news? We’re under attack. They’ve bombed the World Trade Center!”
Perhaps more later as I think of them.
Got any of your own?
New technologies!
So this morning I decided to take the plunge to Digital Phone service. Here’s the deal. I’m currently paying $31.95 a month for standard cable, and about $80 a month for my phone service (I have a package deal that includes unlimited long distance and all the bells and whistles). My new cable bill is going to be $91.90 (without my broadband service, which is not currently eligible for a pacakage deal because I have business class) and will not only include all that I currently have, but will also add a DVR and Digital Cable.
Now I just have to decide if we’re going to put the DVR with access to the extra channels in the living room or the bedroom. I’m leaning towards the bedroom, personally.
Ask me why….
It’s a Pet Shop Boys kind of day, my friends.
bounce bounce bounce