By Ryan McElroy
Take a look at this screenshot of what is, for some reason, my favorite game recently. If the server doesn’t crash or get shut down accidently, you can play it yourself.
I propose that we establish a time for everyone to get together and play the game at the same time. Its really a lot more fun with more people. What times are good for people? Maybe every Saturday night at midnight Pacific Standard Time? Let me know!
By Ryan McElroy
A large part of gratitude seems to come from the fact that we have it better than others. While this might be a topic worth exploring on its own, I say it now because, well, even with a President that is sending the budget skyward, some think is responsible for war crimes, and is either dumb or faking it, we still have it a lot better (warning: graphic) than a lot of people (no warning needed for this one).
Posted on Saturday 2004.12.18 at 11:26 pm in
technology
By Ryan McElroy
This is why I’m such a fan of Apple.
Posted on Saturday 2004.12.18 at 1:51 am in
technology
By Ryan McElroy
I’ve never been into the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) genre, but this is strill pretty impressive:
Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
Posted on Thursday 2004.12.16 at 11:52 pm in
people,
trc
By Ryan McElroy
A little context:
Erik is the guy who asked (or demanded rather) that I sign up for the [-=I.S=-] Clan Forums so it would be easier for him to send out notices of Clan practices and matches. Although I don’t like forums very much, I complied because it made his life easier, and it was really not very hard for me. Then, this…
I guess he’ll have to email me now…
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Posted on Thursday 2004.12.16 at 10:10 pm in
politics
By Ryan McElroy
Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President debated Rebecca Peters, head of the International Action Network on Small Arms recently on a pay-per-view event (with the First Ammendment so trampled on in this country, that was the only way to air the debate). Certainly the American Rifleman I have on my lap gives a one-sided account of the event, but it does have some pretty amazing quotes. I think I would like to see this debate sometime. Preferably not on Pay-Per-View.
An excerpt:
Though [LaPierre] made this point often, perhaps he said it best in this itteration:
“So what you have are good and bad confronting each other all over the world … the good people want to be protected and they have a right to own a firearm. And I believe every citizen of the world had that basic human right.”
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Only once did Peters acknowlege LaPierre’s theme about human qualities of good and evil, making an incredible remark, “There is not a clear distinction between the good guys and the bad guys in the world. And – that only happens in the movies.”
Wow. Yeah, Hilter wasn’t distinguishable from Churchill. Bush wasn’t distinguishable from Sadaam. A rapist isn’t distinguishable from his victim. It’s all so unclear. Please.
By Ryan McElroy
Web Designer and generally 1337 dude Dris has been working on the back end of a future MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) and because of the great flexibility of SilverFir.net’s setup, asked to have the work hosted here. Naturally, I said yes, and as a result I was treated, along with a number of my friends, to quite a treat today. We each entered our names, then used our arrow keys to move little circles around the screen. Ok, so maybe it doesn’t sound that exciting now, but once we have the game server running as a daemon, we’ll open it up for a public trial and you’ll see why I feel the urge to tell all my friends as soon as I start playing. And then we’ll see who’s laughing (probably it’ll be both of us… yes, its that much fun!)