Car Wars Hits the Real World

As a teenage geek gamer, my favorite game was Car Wars. Now Steve Jackson points out that there are real world cars built with the same drive system as the game cars. Now we are finally getting into the future I signed up for! Can rocket launchers behind the headlights be far behind?
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City of Heroes

On a complete impulse buy, earlier today I picked up the install DVD for City of Heroes at Big Lots. At least one person on Twitter thought it was odd that I would be involved in such a thing when I’ve gone on record as being underwhelmed by things like Second Life. My problems with [...]

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Chris Ferguson on Running Bad

Chris Ferguson is far and away my favorite poker professional. He has a post on the Full Tilt website about how to handle it when you run bad. I think this is all good advice. I’ve found his bankroll management tips to be the single best advice for the meta-game. It’s possible to avoid situations [...]

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Board Game Geek Gift Guide

I’m not really much of a gamer of any stripe. I have a tendency to buy games like Netrunner and INWO and then never actually play them. I used to listen to and enjoy the Board Game Geek Geek Speak podcast even though I had almost never played any of the games they talked about. [...]

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You Suck At Poker

I had a comment left on here that I really had a hard time telling if it was a spam blog or not. I dug around the site and decided not, and while doing that found an article I liked. It is the negatively titled but nonetheless accurate 7 Reasons Why You Suck at Poker. [...]

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R/C Jousting Knights

I got an email from Think Geek about these Radio Controlled Jousting Knights and for a second, I had that “I’ve got to have this” feeling. I don’t need them, but the concept is just so funny and cool that I wanted them. However, Think Geek got too clever for their own good.
They have [...]

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0 to $10,0000

Over on Full Tilt Poker, my man Chris Ferguson is in the middle of an interesting experiment. He is trying to turn an initial $0 stake into $10,000. He writes up his progress here, which includes some very good rules for bankroll management. Ferguson is my favorite of all pro players which makes sense because [...]

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Subgenius Colony in NationStates

In the Mac Geek Gab, Dave and John have been pushing people to join NationStates and then joining their “Geeks Unite” region. I decided to do that, but to make it interesting I decided to create a nation devoted to Subgeniusness. When a decision comes up, I decided according to Subgenius thinking. If there is [...]

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More on Second Life

A few more opinions on Second Life. After my first post, PJ had some comments on it. In a similar vein, Eric Rice weighs in prompted by Chris Pirillo’s post. Chris’ experience is about the same as mine.
The countervailing opinion of the boosters seems to be that those of us who are bored and perplexed [...]

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Second Life Less Interesting than the First

It seems like everyone and his uncle is always on about Second Life, so I downloaded it maybe 2 months ago. In the time since, I’ve used it maybe 60 minutes total. My sessions always go kind of like this: fire it up, try to figure out where I am and what I’m doing. That [...]

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Gamer Hassled by the Man

Greg Costikyan reports on a kid who, during a search on the Waterway Ferry from New Jersey to New York had a had a White Wolf book confiscated because it was “inappropriate.” Costikyan is outraged, pointing out that the role of these searches are to find things like bombs and guns, not decide whether passenger’s [...]

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Steve Jackson Gets It

As a teenager, I was a big fan of Steve Jackson Games. I loved Car Wars and Illuminati. Later, when I began browsing the web in 1994 via lynx on a shell account, their webpage was one of my favorite destinations. As an adult, I got into their Illuminati: New World Order card game (which [...]

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X-Arcade Dual Controller

Here’s a review of a good looking joystick, useable with MAME and others. If I buy another joystick to use with MAME, it will have two joysticks such that I can use it for Robotron (my favorite arcade game of all time). I’ve played it in manners other than two joysticks, like two sets of [...]

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Paranoia XP

I saw this morning in my aggregator that a new version of the classic game Paranoia is in the works. The press release is funny, written in the same style as the game itself, starting from the opening line:
The Computer says that failure to feature this announcement prominently is treason. Treason is punishable by summary [...]

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Joe Walsh Speaks

I have this bootleg of Joe Walsh playing “Rocky Mountain Way” and explaining how he wrote it and anecdotes about it and his life. I downloaded it from somewhere, but it sounds like some kind of songwriter conference or something. He has a great quote in it:
A funny thing in the music business is that [...]

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Movement on the Secret Project

After being frozen in infrastructure changes for months, I actually made forward progress on my project last night. Even more amazingly, I did this between trick-or-treaters. Because I have changed almost every aspect of this since beginning, it took a fair amount of fighting just to achieve parity with where I was in May. I [...]

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Pat Robertson: Terrorist

Via the Daily Kos, I found this article about Pat Robertson suggesting that the State Department should be blown up. I agree with the outrage in the commentary, wondering why “a vehement complaint” gets lodged when Robertson makes terrorist threats on his television show yet FBI and Secret Service make in-person visits for interviews [...]

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Music sales fall again

This post from from the Shifted Librarian juxtaposes two interesting statements, one from Wired News:
Since the week ending June 29, traffic to Kazaa has fallen 41 percent to about 3.9 million unique visitors from 6.5 million in the week ending September 21.

with one from MSNBC:
The battle-weary music industry surveyed the wreckage of another dismal six [...]

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Legal ROMs

Here’s a company that is selling legally licensed MAME ROMs, an outfit called StarROMS. Thus far, it looks like only Atari is on board, but I would expect others to come around. It’s a no-lose proposition for the game companies. They make no money when you download their ROMs from some overseas FTP site, so [...]

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Wanted: One True Dork

Somewhere out there, there will be one very happy and very dorky person. Steve Jackson Games is looking to hire someone to develop a GURPS utility for them. You must have role played with GURPS to be considered. Good god almighty, there is a company that has a requirement for being a game dork before [...]

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