The new Day/Night

I made this in my spare time at school, the Macs there have Photoshop and I was bored to tears.



Here is the one I made a long time ago.



I definitly like the new one better don't know why, I just do.

Farewell World of Warcraft

This is the second time I’ve cancelled my WoW account, it is a great game, in fact it is the first MMO that I have played all the way to end game, but I feel like I’m just throwing perfectly good time down the crapper when I play. Last time I quit I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall the game, this time I had no trouble doing it. In fact I put the CD’s for the game at the bottom of a big box in my closet so I won’t get tempted.

I have to say that this is one of the best games I have ever played, and from level 1 to 59 it’s a blast, Once you reach level 60 you start the grind for items, which isn’t bad by itself but Blizzard seems to think that everyone who plays WoW just has loads of free time to spend in Azeroth. The instances are just too long. Back around levels 35-40 when I was spending time at Scarlet Monastery was great. The SM instance is great because its broken into pieces that you can do in a short time with a decent group. Later on in the game Instances like Scholomance or Black Rock Spire take hours to complete. This is where I felt the game fails. I found myself unable to participate in the end game because I can’t say ok I’m going to spend the next three to four hours at the computer uninterrupted, and even if my life didn’t have built in time constraints to my computer time due to school and family I wouldn’t want to spend that much time doing the same instances over and over.

I guess I would have to say that World of Warcraft is a game built for the casual gamer like myself from levels 1-59, however when you get to endgame its for hardcore gamers only. It is two vastly different games in one package, and while both games are fun, the later just takes too much time for someone like me to enjoy.

My gaming habits lately have been spent on short bursts of gaming, either playing my GCN or some of my older systems like the SNES, punctuated by bits of Warcraft III or Call of Duty. Last night I decided to re-install Neverwinter Nights again, I never really gave the game the attention it deserves. I don’t have the expansions and I don’t really care if I get them as there are plenty of player made modules available for the game. Although I don’t plan on getting any of them until I beat the game, which should take a while since I’m not interested in spending hours in front of the computer.

/3 or ig

I happened to stumble upon www.start.com/3 the other day in my wanderings, I am very impressed with this website, the ability to add my own rss feeds to a webpage is very handy, and no longer will I need a separate reader for my daily rss junk. However I’m sure it would be linked to my @msn account which I’m none to happy about.

Later I found out that google has their own version of /3 you can find it at www.google.com/ig it also does the same thing that start.com does, and it links up with my @gmail account. This really tickles my fancy ^.^ While I like the way /3 behaves more than the ig, ig has me because it links to my gmail account, if only I could take the interface from /3 and apply it to ig, then I would be the most powerful being in the universe, or at least the most powerful being sitting at my desk.

Anyway, check them both out, both are handy and the only real difference is looks and what email address you want to link to.

The Bobby Blackwolf Show

Way back in the day I used to watch an internet show on the Pseudo network called Gametime, starring Scot Rubin and Jim Downs, it was about video games and all things video gamish. After a while Pseudo went under and Game Time was lost, much later Scot started the unnamed show at allgames.com with The Dude and Gringo, it was great but then they moved on to work at G4-TV. I don't know the particulars but Scot left and re-created Allgames.com

Now In the spirit of the unnamed show one of the chatters from way back in the day has created the Bobby Blackwolf show, which is a live show with an interactive chat room so you can talk to the host durring the show and you can even Skype in to the show. If you can't listen to the show live you can pick it up on podcast. This show has me hooked on podcasts durring the long breaks between classes. Check it out, if your into games, and gaming news you will prolly enjoy the show.

Here is a link to the show, I think its great http://www.allgames.com/podcast/