It's only a game

and to tante even only a browser game but I just won 100 million ISKs !!!!

wooot!!

Killerspiele im Unterausschuss "Neue Medien" des Bundestages

Der Titel bei Golem ist recht schlecht gewählt:

Killerspiele: Aktueller Jugendschutz einfach und genial?

Der Artikel nur mäßig interessant, da nur die "üblichen" Argumente vorgeführt werden und das wird langsam wirklich alt.

Interessant ist nur der letzte Absatz:

Christoph Waitz (FDP) fasste die Diskussion letztendlich folgendermaßen zusammen: Was wir derzeit machen, ist eher ein "Herumdoktern am Symptom, das Problem ist die soziale Verwahrlosung unserer Gesellschaft und dort müssen wir ansetzen." (ji)

Das Pferd ist zwar schon tausendmal begraben und getreten worden, aber das ist eigentlich auch alles was man dazu sagen brauch.

Nun bleibt zu hoffen - ohje und das in Verbindung mit Politik - das irgendjemand auch noch entsprechend handelt. Dann wird es erst interessant.

Heute neu!

Visitenkarten ;).

Die Polizei, dein Freund und Helfer ...

Also da haben sie mich wohl erwischt.

Falls ihr euch erinnern könnt, hatte ich so den Verdacht doch ein klein Wenig schneller gewesen zu sein als die Polizei erlaubt und hab' mich dabei auch noch glatt erwischen lassen.

Ein etwas unscharftes Foto aber es scheint zu reichen. Damit bin ich etwas Knete los und auch den Führerschein für 4 Wochen aka 1 Monat. Da ich zur Zeit kein Auto haben und das Motorrad nach auf seinen neuen Sattelbezug wartet, werde ich das wohl noch Überleben.

Und da die Polizei nicht nur Räuber und Gendarm mit mir spielt war sie anscheinend diesmal sogar richtig fleissig.

In OL sind mir in zwei Jahren zwei Fahrräder geklaut worden. Beide bei mir "vor der Haustür" abgestellt, beide abgeschlossen, beide gute 550€ Wert. Eine gute Versicherung sei dank habe ich jedesmal den kompletten Wert ersetz bekommmen.

Nun fahr ich also das dritte Rad, ebenfalls wieder 550€ Wert knapp ein Jahr lang und wer pingt mich da heute über sein wiedergewonnenes ICQ Netz an, die Tante.

Die Polizei hat angerufen und anscheined hat sie mein Fahrrad wiedergefunden und ich soll zur Identifizierung nach Oldenburg kommen.

Tja, so eben geht das zwar nicht aber da hat die Polizei mal für ihr Geld gearbeitet. Interessant wird nun der Zustand des Fahrrades. Ich hab schon einmal ein gestohlenes Fahrrad von der Polizei wieder bekommen wo bis auf die Räder aber nix mehr dran war.

Witzig ... ;)

I did it ...

Some already got to know that I bought it, but I didn't opened it.

Now it happened, I opened up the box and started my WoW account ... .

So why did I do that, especially since, as tante righteously says, WoW threw all MMOPs centuries back almost into the stone age of online games.

There is no social interaction, there is no real crafting and player driven economy, it's a class based systems, the skill and talent systems is very rudimentary, most part of the game is a pure level grind and if you reach the max level you grind for items. In fact, WoW is just Diablo I/II on speed and kokain.

So why did I do it. It was meeting Ogi in Lund and Dressari who caught me on MSN saying hello both finally tipping the scale. Ogi in getting me to buy the game in the first place and Dressari in not delaying it anymore.

Talking to Ogi we were just shortly passing through the time we all were playing Star Wars Galaxy and about how great we all felt home in our little guild called the "Rebels Red Circle" and to my surprise a lot of them were playing WoW now. We all loved to "play" the game or better, we all loved to play it together. The game sure had it's ups and downs but it was the open endness of the game style that allowed us to create a real digital community - far more real than second live can offer.

So I bought the game but didn't opened the box.

It was dressari on MSN saying the important words or better typing them that where the initial reason to buy the game. Despite I hated what Blizzard did to the development of MMORPGs and online games, despite the lack of spaceships, guns, social interaction and all that neat stuff that went down the drain in SWG due to try to be like WoW.

Dressari: I like to go where my friends are

There I was, preaching how bad it was what WoW did, how WoW is just an endless grind to keep people p(l)aying, how devestating it was to SWG and all the stuff, while they were playing together and having fun because they were playing together.

Yes, I'm still in Eve Online and I found a very good cooperation there was well. I meet some cool people and the game is from a player driven perspective everything you could wish for an MMORPG - apart from the part that it is not an RPG. It lacks the most important feature an RPG is offering: an Avatar.

Without it, it is, as tante uses to say just a browser type game with an 2GB resource eating graphic engine.

I still like it alot but with all it features it doesn't distract from the fact that I want to play with the old REB bunch together.

So I opened up my WoW account ... .

p.s.
With a slightly reduced frame rate, yes I'm that geeky, I'm now running Eve and WoW at the same time on the same machine, each on one of those nice 20" BenQ TFTs

IBM about MMOGs

Massively
multiplayer online games, Part 1: A performance-based approach to sizing
infrastructure

Some hard-won objective advice for
structuring your next online game project

Haven't read it yet, since I'm still at work

Drumming ...

My poor drum set is in the basement, but I'll have to make just a little bit more room and I might be able to build it up in my appartment.

I realy need some practice again especially looking at ppl like Dino Campanella .

Thanks to tante for the links!

My first few kills ...

http://killboard.eve-uni.com/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=820

I didn't laid the final blow but I was part of the team. It really took a while. When I logged in, there was a gang partoling the Jita - Korsiki - Urlen route and I joined them up in a small rifter. We had intel on some wartargets but most of them were avoiding a fight, when a second patrol formed up in Korsiki. We managed to lock several war targets in one systems camping both gates, when one of our scouts managed to lure them into a fight at a station.

"Jump into system and engage!" - and so we did :).

For the record:
This is a fight during the partol:
http://killboard.eve-uni.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=494

And this are the two kills we locked in Osmon
http://killboard.eve-uni.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=498
http://killboard.eve-uni.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=497

In the first encounter we lost a rifter and in the second we lost a battleship and a cruiser among some frigates - compared to the Commandship and the battlecruiser it was a serious win for us , since the two ships value is far more than what we lost.

E-Peen ... ;)

Size does matter at http://www.the-gay-bar.com .

Anybody remember this:

http://awhisperinmyghost.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-baby-is-mine-now.html ?

Well, I bought a second one :D.
I had planned to buy it a little bit later to save up some more cash, but with the opportunity to get rid of my old CRT when I visit my partent during eastern I ordered it last week and it arrived yesterday.
Very nice =).
Now if my 7600GT just would be able to push the horizontal spawn across the two screens ... . It seems that are a little bit to many pixels to push so I'm "just" using it as Dual Screenview lol. Still now I'm thinking of getting another 7600GT to see if they could push it in SLI mode (just have to find the same card again) ... .

The long term plan is to buy a third 22'' one (somewhen in 2008) and then buy a capable graphic card which can support all three and then do this:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/gaming/eve.php

Yeah ... my E-Peen is bigger than your E-Peen ;) and all that for a screensaver browser game like tante would say.

Karate vs. Kendo and Judo

I was looking for something different but stumbled upon this:



It doesn't have to reflect the reality, it's just intersting to watch :)