I left work at
17:25 so I could get home in time to listen to The Gamesome Mac. Hit
traffic. You'd think with the new merging lanes there wouldn't be as
much problem at certain entrances. But apparently it was a wreck on the
side of the road. The lanes were not blocked at all. Damn freaking
rubberneckers. It's just amazing how little things can snarl up traffic.
Anyway, The Gamesome Mac had it's second broadcast of the new era.
David Finley reviewed Icewind Dale, an old Macintosh game (it runs on
Mac OS 8.6) which can also run on Mac OS X with a patch. Sean Smith
reviewed Halo. Once again Sean had a little rant, this time about the
juveniles that are all over the Halo online areas. Apparently it's
really hard to find mature players on the Internet.
Ian Lynch Smith, president of Freeverse Software was the guest.
Unfortunately his connection had a lot of static so it was at times a
bit hard to follow what he was saying. In any case he talked about Big
Bang Chess, Airburst Extreme, some new game that Freeverse is
developing, and answered questions from the AIM users.
Actually, there were about twice as many AIM people this week. I guess
about a dozen, not counting Sean or David. It's generally a friendly
crowd and we're bust quipping or talking about games while the show is
going on.
Two copies of Airburst Extreme were given away. I actually won the
first copy by answering the question "what recent game's name would be
inappropriate with Extreme added to it?" The answer being Tranquility,
a game where you really need to relax. The second giveaway is usually
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I've played
several of Freeverse's games. Big Bang Chess, Burning Monkey Puzzle
Lab, Deathground, and Wingnuts. All excellent games and Freeverse
makes lots more. It's a company that started out doing excellent
shareware and it's become fairly well known as one of the smaller Mac
game publishers. They make games with character and a beautiful virtual
spokesperson in Jen Carols.
I think next week it's someone from MacSoft, one of the big Mac game
publishers. That's the best part The Gamesome Mac, they have really
cool guests. Lots of Macintosh gaming personalities talking about their
games and just life in general. The Gamesome Mac is a low key radio
show and there are bigger and more professional ones out there. But I
think this one is the best.
Apparently people see me on AIM as Xopdnas, which is my user name. I
always thought that people would see my real name and my icon as I see
other people on iChat. But actually I don't see other people's info in
the chat room. I now realize that it's iChat's integration with Address
Book. That's where it's getting the personal info from people. Icons do
come from the other person. Maybe not in chat rooms?
I'm really getting kind of snippy on the Steve Jackson Game forums. I
guess I'm getting quite annoyed at all the complaining about GURPS 4E.
It's like people just get into a "I think it's a problem therefore it
must be a problem for everyone" sort of attitude. I gotta just not post
unless it's about facts or rules interpretations.
Didn't get much work done today because I forgot my power adapter.
Actually I did spend a lot of time working, but it was meetings and
talking and working on my NT machine. Not as much as I'd have liked to
do.
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