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No, really. SoE is shutting down The Matrix. So I suppose they're accomplishing what Neo couldn't. The post on the official forums says:

In May 2004, I embarked upon a journey. I decided to take the red pill in a big way—I became the online community lead for The Matrix Online. Later that year, many of you joined me as you jacked in for the first time. It was a brand new world—a vision of online games that didn’t involve elves, spaceships, or dragons. We became part of the Matrix storyline; living our own adventures in the world painted by the movies.

Is this thing on? *tap tap* Zen got drunk and reviewed Runescape for us...so yeah. Enjoy.

For probably the 4th time now, I recommend Runescape to any old school UO players. I can't stress this enough. It's essentially UO+++ for free.... (Even the non-members free game is infinitely better than UO) but when you pay your $5.99 a month, (Yes $5.99), I assure you, you won't be bored for a long, LONG time. I'm about to close out my second month in this game and the amount of content, (And game mechanics) I haven't taken part in yet is still WAY more than any MMOG I've played previously. Every other MMOG since UO? I rarely MADE it to two months, but even if I did, the shine had flat out come off of it. This game takes Ultima Online and turn it from an idea to a thesis.

"I would post this on the front page, but I'm too drunk to rememeber my login."

Warhammer Online.

I went to Target a few weeks ago and bought a presale box for a dollar and some deodorant. Drove home. Entered a bunch of codes, created some accounts. EA just loves to make simple things complicated. Whatever. Few weeks go by, and get invited to a preview weekend thingy. So I fired up bittorrent, downloaded the client and waited. Friday came. Whee! Fired it up.

OK, Disclaimer time. Few things about me. First, I have zero patience. This happens when you are a 38 year old grandfather with another on the way that works a full time job. Yea, not exactly EA Mythic’s (is this their name now?) target market. Too bad. Second, I’m a PvP kinda guy. Shadowbane Beta and all that. Phear my street cred. Whatever. Also, I’m not a writer. My rl job is to tell people where they are screwing up on projects. This doesn’t require writing skillz. Finally, I’m drinking. Jim Beam on the rocks, Good stuff.

Finally moving from phpBB2 to phpBB3. Hold your horses, please...

1:54AM EDT: Holy crap, the posts exploded and it's 2005 again. I'm redoing the DB and it'll take overnight. I'll finish up in the morning.

In keeping with the policy of "Whatever you post on the forums we'll frontpage if we think it's good," Hades of LotD gives a state-of-the-suck on Age of Conan. Take it away, Hades!

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LotD is closing in on a full Tier 3 city, and we've held a battle keep since the first day they became available. I have a level 80 Tempest of Set, and a level 60 Necromancer at the present time. Overall I think AOC is a decent game, but I do think its going to take a big subscriber retention hit if it doesn't get some things fixed by the end of the 3 month mark.

Those with a long memory might remember me glancing at a game called DOFUS a few years ago. Small French developer, game very much like R.O.S.E., which occupied us for a significant span of time, yadda yadda.

Well, apparently DOFUS did so well that they've created a sequel, called Wakfu and they emailed me to let me know they're in closed beta for it.

Yeah, Wakfu. I know.

The full moon shines at our Daily Thread!

Topics for May 20, 2008

Corsair Memory attains Godhood, Launches SkyNet.

They clocked the crap out of it.

Microsoft picks up where the FCC was told to STFU

Microsoft unilaterally chooses to enable the now Illegal broadcast flag.

Samsung Makes 1080p TV owners' heads explode.

3840 x 2160 pixel resolution and a 120 Hz refresh rate on an 82 inch LCD

Will The GI Bill get a much needed revamp?

Will the US pony up and help the veterans who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan?

Hmmm?