[editor’s note before starting – my blog theme (which I loved but hadn’t updated in years) embedded gambling posts beneath my posts. At first I thought I was hacked but turns out that someone took control of the theme itself and put it there “as a feature”. So, I quickly grabbed a different one just…
Tag: Nostalgia
Checking For a Pulse
871 days ago I wrote a post called “Not Dead.. Yet”. That was the last post on my blog. One that was typically, and lovingly, maintained for the most part over 12 years, before skipping the last two. And sure, I was never really gone – I still used my blogroll to poke in at…
On Community
I am away for the first two weeks of every August. I go back to my home town to teach at a hockey camp. We rent a cottage, generally have crappy wifi, and spend mornings and early afternoons at the rink and late afternoons and evenings on the lake. I grew up in beautiful Cottage…
You Have Become Better at Rat Killing (10)
Zubon over at Kill Ten Rats has made a his last post. He was the last regular poster over at the site that inspired me to start this blog. Yes, blogs come and go all the time (Writers Resting in Paradise is my nostalgic fuelled mission to keep their URLs alive and listed, if they…
Glory Dos Days
Aywren beat me to posting this but I had bookmarked the site a couple of days ago: there are 2300+ Classic MS-Dos games waiting for you to play in full emulated in web browser glory. Some defining gaming moments are available, I have been having a lot of fun just browsing the titles available (that…
The Pain and Suffering of EQ (Happy Birthday!)
Makes it memorable for us old MMOers. The dying breed. Consider this story from the EQ boards: Unrest was and might still be one of my very favorite places in the entire game. I had SO much fun there back in the day that even when I should have been far, far away I was…
Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really, Want)
I think MMO nostalgia makes us funny people. Just yesterday I was thinking about EQ and the amazing times had there with people I still consider ‘amazing’. Hell, I even went to my first ever guild message boards (circa 1999) after a 3 year hiatus to go say “hi” and see who was still kicking around…
Continuing My Excellence in Game Breaking News
So much to get excited about, I’m not sure where to begin. With that in mind I will begin here. Released in the late 80’s (1987?) Mike Tyson’s Punch Out was a game on the SNES that my friends and I played for hours on end. It was a classic. Ah the memories. The 2009…