Game talk

So today, Abalieno/HRose announced that he’s done.

My biggest dream was to be part of things. Not because I thought of myself as the indispensable, unique genius, but just because I love those things and I wanted to be “there”. … But at the end I was here writing on a blog, it was the best possibility I had to get as close I could to what I loved (the ladder to see the stars)…

Real life is only a matter of opportunities, not dreams. The two rarely meet each other, and in general people put their dreams close to the opportunities.

So good luck to everyone who has that “privilege” of being there. I will always look at you with envy ;p

I, for one, think that he was there, and that he’s selling himself short.

Read More “The Cesspit’s Dead End”

I have now posted the slides to my AGC 2006 talk “The Age of the Dinosaurs.” I recommend that they be read in tandem with f13’s liveblog.

Another AGC write-up of a session, this one by Darniaq for the Jon Grande/Rich Vogel talk “Challenges Facing MMOGs.” Alas, it’s not a liveblog, but the tradeoff is that instead you get the details interspersed with Darniaq’s cogent commentary.

Which also means it’s on the front page of CNN.com.

Since everyone else is going to mention it, I might as well also point to the new Newsweek article on WoW.