| Minefold = Selloutica

Well, it's not like everyone's Minecraft playing has been tearing up the joint so this announcement won't really matter, but Minefold is moving to a subscription model much like every other hosted MC server out there.  Boo.  I quite liked paying my own way for a shared server and not needing to worry about collecting money from anyone or hosting the damn thing in my living room.

All that will be gone as of April 20th, so, suck.  It was fun while it lasted.

They are offering 20% discounts on the current payment method before April 20th  - given I have been playing forever on my $15, I think I might buy another 100 hours for like $12 and be done with the whole thing.

Of course, I would recommend everyone else do the same, but Minecraft is a tough sell 'round these parts.

Holy shot? Sheesh.

Oh, did you guys see this Kickstarter? Dwarven Forge!

I got some new hardware myself and have also been playing games! Playing Witcher 2 which is pretty good. Looking forward to Bioshock Infinite. Also, HOLY SHOT a new Thief game comes out next year! whoooooooooooo

Aeryk if you can swing it, get someone to play the Portal 2 co-op campaign with you too. It's good stuff as well.

Didn't even realize that I Am Alive finally came out. That game has been in development since 2003!!! I'll have to look for it on sale.

I really liked LA. Noir but its one of those games you'll never want to replay. That's another one that had a ridiculously long development I think.

I got Arkan City for the Xbox a long time ago and played a little bit of
It. Didn't seem as charming as the first but I might have also been less interested in games when I tried it.

iOS recommendation station: Nimblebit Quest! It's free. They took that ancient Dos game Snake and used that basic principle to make an action rpg. It's addictive! Came out last night.

| Ye Olde Gaymes

My power supply quit on me so I finally summoned the courage to pick up a new 1 TB HDD, 2 more gigs of ram (now I have 4!!!), and install a donated video card that was a lil' better than the piece of junk I previously had installed.  My previous HDD was 150GB, so you can image how limited I was on space.  Because of that space issue, I only ever really installed like one AAA title from Steam at a time.  I kept picking up older titles on the cheap during sales and whatnot, but never got to play them!  No that I have a 'screaming' new system (relative), I installed a grip of games and tested them out!

Dead Island -  Ho hum.

Portal 2 - Fun and hilarious!  Very, very well done and deserves all the accolades and praise it has received.

Batman: Arkham City - Unplayed on new system, old system really chunked on it so uninstalled, TBD

Saints Row The Third - Ridiculous game, in a good way.  Intentionally ridiculous and just reveling in it.  Amusing, high action sandbox GTA styled game.  Better than GTA ever was.

I am Alive - Feh.  Don't hate it, don't love it.  I already uninstalled it to 'save space' if that's any indication.

LA Noire - Unplayed, TBD

That's all, folks.

I was going to suggest  I, II, III, and IV but appartently that is used by Lean On Me and Here, There and Everywhere (beetles).   I wonder if rap follows the same general principles?   We're such creatures of repitition.

| 3:47 AM - Eating Jello with a Plastic Knife

That's a funny vid Jael. We need to come up with the worst combination of chords and make hits using them!

lyrical gangsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

"It's raining."
"Men. Hallelujah!"

This morning the wife offered to put coffee in my travel mug while I was playing with the kid. Super nice! So later in the car I pop that bad boy open and take a swig. BLEAH! She'd put in salt instead of sugar. Not a taste sensation. It was an accident, but honestly I was kind of hoping it was intentional... you would have to admire that level of dick move.

| Just like MJ and McCartney Said

"That gosh darn wing is mine"

It's my place of Zen.  I sometimes find solace in creating new and different patterns for digging out layer upon layer upon layer of dirt and rock.

WARM LEATHERETTE

Speaking of The Girl is Mine, as is our way, Leslie and I often find lyrics in everyday language and when one of us says a trigger word during conversation, the other one will then sing the lyric.  In all honestly, that person is usually me, and it has GOT to be annoying after awhile.  Ryan also used to suffer from this affliction, and at one point said words to the effect of "does everything have to be a goddamn song?!?! Yes."

Anyway, 'warm' became a trigger for me to sing Warm....Leatherette... recently.  I have in fact sung it so much, Wy has picked up on it and now HE is catching my triggers and singing 'WARM' in response.  Not so much the Leatherette part, but sure as hell the Warm part.

It amused me so I thought I would pass it on.

| Dig until it hurts

I have been digging a good bit here and there on my wing. Someone laid some serious time down on the other wing, but that has been stagnant for the past week or so. I tried to play some this week, but didn't get much traction because MC 1.5 caused my frame rate to drop precipitously (60-120fps pre / 8-11fps post). Even 'Nilla MC 16x was pulling 16fps max. I got a fix in the newest HD patcher. Seems good now at mid 90s for 128x Sphax.

eLzar, that hockey quote was a rad merging of two hockey and hardcore.

Damn! I logged in to the Minecraft server for the first time in a couple weeks and holy shit, someone's been busy. enr0n, is that all you?

Edit: best band name ever?

| Hockey Fan Quote

The Phoenix Coyotes have been shutout in 3 straight games, which means they have not scored a goal in three games.  A fan on their site posted the following which seemed funny to me:

"They haven't scored in so long it's like they've gone straight edge."

Tee-Hee.

Yo'z Shizzle, anytime you are back in the good ol, Sbay, bring down Eclipse so we can get a crack at it.  I don't think Rudy has a copy.  Now he's more into family games like Twister! The game mechanics sounds like a game that I'd probably like.  Strategy elements (most important) / customized ships (Reach for the stars?).  All elements of a weinner.

If Eclipse doesn't work, we can play Wowarcraft.  I'm quite possibly thinking about joining up for a month of Mist of Pandario for the hell of it.  Mostly because, I just bought a whole bunch of (antiquated) high end parts and built my own system, GTX 470 1gb, E8500 dual core, upgradable to Q94~'s, 6gb ddr2, Intel G45 chipset, all for under 180 bucks.  I haven't built a game system in years (edit: decades?), so this was fun. I also wanted a dedicated game system and see how cheap/good I can do it.  Actually, I started off just wanting to upgrade the cpu, but then realized, I needed a new mofo mobo because the old one didn't fit a full length GC, then needed a new power supply, memory, etc etc, until my "upgrade" actually turned into a whole new system save the chassis!  

I liked Eclipse! The mechanics are really interesting. You want to get out there and colonize as much space as you can because the more people you have out, the more you can research and build. On the other hand, the more actions you take during a turn, then the more upkeep it takes to maintain your empire. You are always trying to push yourself as much as you can without going overboard. The mechanics for researching and upgrading your ships are really cool. You get to customize each ship type's blueprint to a pretty high degree, so my little crap ships might be speedy, yours might be slower but heavily armored.

It is pretty quick. It took Matt and I about 2 hours to go through with rules, but everyone swears that after you've played a couple games it gets close to 30 min/player. I can see it because everything resolves pretty quickly.

The way Matt (and Keith, who'd played it before) felt was that it was too luck-dependent in that when you explore new hexes, sometimes you find awesome shit, sometimes you get crap, but I don't know if I agree. Admittedly I might just be too invested because it's my game, but I felt like even though Matt had a few great ship upgrades that he found through luck, that with better play I could've tied or won the game. I also think that having some luck dependency isn't as much of a big deal when you get the game time down.

Anyway, it was fun and I'd like to play again. Five-six might be a little painful with rules, but I think four would be totally doable.

Looks like you/Ja-el won't be making it up to Kubla this year (why, Ja-el!? I'll protect you from Rich) but I am gonna be down in LA several times this summer, so hopefully we can get together for a game day at least once.

OK, so a question for Aeryk, fArt or Ryan if anyone got through all that. Who came up with the name Torch the Toilet? I was assuming it was a Rich-ism, enr0n wasn't sure.