View From the Bushes

All of my co-workers are deep into the new game, Star Wars Galaxies. The most recent in a long line of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPGs for short. I think you pronounce it by starting with an "M" sound and then you pretend to vomit.

The problem with these games is that since you have to pay a monthly fee to play the game companies want to make sure that the game never ends and the only way to do that is to reward hours played rather than any cleverness on the part of the player. I'm ashamed to admit this, but I basically stole that argument from the Night Call column on GoneGold.com That is not to say that I didn't already know that MMORPGs are just busy work, I'm just to lazy to do my own composition.

I mentioned that I might talk about the Ennies today, and I suppose I should. None of my stuff was nominated, which is disappointing, because I really have worked my ass off, but all of the stuff that was nominated is pretty good. One of the problems is that my website as a whole doesn't neatly fit into any of the catagories which I think definitely hurt me. Okay now I'm just whining, so I'll cut it off here.