>Okay, So Here’s My Thing;

I love Uru. I probably always will. All the games and all the fan-created puzzles, playing Online, Offline, KIrc, Alcugs, OOC, IC, Until, Drizzle – I loved it all. I can’t explain it. I noticed on one of the forums there’s a thread about your favorite Uru moments. It brought to mind one of mine: when I finally got Until Uru up and running and my little avatar going nuts in the city – I was on the bridge and I had my first encounter with Another. He was a young Italian kid – we barely understood each other but we understood this much at least – how excited we both were to be there, lag and all.

Through all of it, I’ve only ever just wanted to have fun. I’m looking forward to the evolution of this thing – whatever it turns into. Now I see the Guild of Comedy is going to return – and how cool is that?!? This business of open sourcing seems like it’ll solve a lot of problems – everyone will be able to play the game the way they want. I never did understand how anyone thought they had the right to tell anyone else how they could play a game. Especially one whose mandate was as simple as “be yourself” – or “you are you.”

Until the game returns, I’ve been working (very slowly and with the handicap of too little time and zero math skills) to model my own age, with the help of the tutorials over at the Guild of Writers. Even if it’s never playable, I still want to try – because trying keeps me inside the magic I felt so long ago when I first played ‘Myst.’

And in typical Slacker fashion, I’ll leave you with this non-sequitur:

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