The Mind Of OverlordTomala

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:

Road Sign Fail

I promise not to litter the place up this week with pictures of ponies.

Except for this one.

Don’t expect anything sensible, serious, or worthwhile outta this corner – and thanks for the tea! For an evil overlord, you’re a mighty gracious hostess.

KBQ is this week’s co author! Welcome aboard KBQ you finally made it! For one week you get to walk on the holy ground that is my blog…

For next week I am leaving the position open to anyone who lives in Canada.

I know there have been a lot of discussions about “community” in the various URU/Myst/Cyan related forums, blogs, what have you. I’m going to bring it up again, but from, I hope, a different viewpoint.

See, I have a problem with my attitude about others in the community. Let me clarify right up front, I’m not just talking URU/Myst/Cyan etc. I’m talking about 99.9% of the on line communities out there, doesn’t matter if it’s MMO related or not. What’s my attitude problem? My problem is just this, that I expect everyone else to act towards me and anyone else in the community just as they would if we were face to face.

Yep, that means manners people. Little things like respect. Simple words like please and thank you go a long way in benefiting us in our every day lives. Why not in the virtual community too? The things I read, in game or in forums, just appall me.

You should be ashamed of yourself. If you wouldn’t act like that in front of your family any other time, what makes you think it’s appropriate behavior now? Just because it’s virtual and you’re anonymous? Think again. It’s really not that difficult to find out who a virtual persona really is. Honest. What’s to say that one day you decide to go to a “con” of some kind. Can be Mysterium, a comiccon, whatever. You proudly put your on line alias on your name tag. 5 minutes later you wake up with a broken jaw and some dude standing over you. What do you think just happened? Guess you weren’t so anonymous after all. (BTW that really did occur to someone I know.)

In the interest of keeping this short and not a lecture, I’ll just ask one thing from everyone in any virtual community: If you wouldn’t say it if you were standing in front of a group of your peers or parents, don’t post it on the internet. Respect for yourself and your fellows within the larger community pays off in the long run.

Please and thank you.

Due to ultra busyness in overlording. There will be no greeter or retired greeter as my co author this week.

However I would like to give you all a warning. Do not under any circumstances go to http://slackerslive.servegame.com/OpenSlackers/index.php It’s full of teh ebil free speech and other stuff that slackers like.

And if you do go to http://slackerslive.servegame.com/OpenSlackers/index.php you may see symptoms such as: vomiting, explosive diheria running from your mouth, truthiness, loss of fingernails, tooth enamel, teeth, disposable pantyliners, a hatred of lima beans, sweating, gaining a sense of humor, bitter outrage, and last but not least we cannot forget ebola.

Do not visit http://slackerslive.servegame.com/OpenSlackers/index.php

You have been warned. Oh, and before I go,,,

DO NOT JOIN http://slackerslive.servegame.com/OpenSlackers/index.php