Stable Release
You may now join me in crying tears of joy.
Monthly Archive for February, 2007
He would have made a mint at RHIT Homecoming
The NYT has finally noticed what the Pikafoop clan figured out at Homecoming 2006: it is TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME to play with flying R/C toys. (Article contains descriptions of some toys — including some we tried, like my favorite Picco Z — as well as some technical details about how and why these toys are making a market.) Via Slashdot RSS Feed
Or maybe he’s just not tired enough…
…but this code should DEFINITELY return 5. (Let the insinuations that I invented xkcd seven years or so in the past begin… now.)
Social Interactions in my Myst? It’s more likely than you think.
In the interest of fairness, since this is a beta product, and in order to avoid writing too much about Myst while out of character, let me just say a very few things. Continue reading ‘Myst Online: Uru Live Beta’
Overall Vibe: Quite Positive
I finally decided to subscribe to GameTap after it was announced that they were redeveloping and launching Myst Online: Uru Live this February 15, and that the public beta program is already underway. I’ll get into more details about Myst Online later, but understand that it was indeed my tilting point for this service, and I think K shares my motivation in that regard. Others joined up at the same time for the episodic Sam & Max games — 3 so far. Still others, while being dragged into Myst Online for the first time, immediately noticed some of the videos that are also part of the service. There’s some original episodes, as well as some old favorite low-rent features like SeaLab 2021, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast and Megaman. (Samples of my favorite new-to-me features, “A Day in the Extra Life” and “C0MPu73R L4B” are available behind that link.)
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