Cool Grafix | Blog » Gaming http://www.coolgrafix.com/blog Look, feel, and so much more. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:59:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Brothers Barbarian Web Series Prepares for Conquest http://www.coolgrafix.com/blog/2011/07/18/the-brothers-barbarian-web-series-prepares-for-conquest/ http://www.coolgrafix.com/blog/2011/07/18/the-brothers-barbarian-web-series-prepares-for-conquest/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:51:37 +0000 Brad Kelley http://www.coolgrafix.com/blog/?p=269 My old friend Ken Whitman and crew (e.g. everyone he knows who agreed to be an extra, plus half the old-guard TSR talent) have put together a fun new web series called The Brother Barbarian. The trailer is now online and we’re all waiting anxiously for the release in August!

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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/06/alttext_0618

If cooks were like gamers…

Money quote:
Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus
“I’m so mad that there’s a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I’m never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.”

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But this caught my eye. =)

Romans Used 20-Sided Dice Two Millennia Before D&D
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/what-version-of.html

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iPhone Controls Robot Plane Squad
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/video-iphone-co.html

It’s a short article, Dan. =)

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agree with him.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/the-miscast-spe.html

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http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/dungeons-dragon.html

But what he likes so much about it seems to be what we’ve already  
found in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying… the simplicity.

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http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2008/06/dungeons_dragons_gabe_rolls_tw.html

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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1312254

“CCP’s latest major patch to the EVE-Online client, Trinity, comes with an optional DX9-enhanced graphics patch that dramatically improves the visual quality of the in-game graphics through remade models, textures, and HDR. It also has an unfortunate bug: the incredibly stupid choice of boot.ini as a game configuration file, coupled with an errant extra backslash in the installer configuration. The result is that anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows XP c:\boot.ini file with the  
EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot. Discussion in a couple of forums threads is becoming understandably heated.”

Yikes!

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-study-finds-stable-personalities-unaffected-by-violent-games.html

Duh. =)

Now… what defines stable? ;)

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http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/eve/index.php

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