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adarant
http://adarant.wordpress.com
n., an oftentimes irreverent and cynical declamation of some current issue, habit, or event from the mouth of Ada.
Recent Posts
F2P: How to Do it Right
The title to this post may be a little bold, and I admit up front, the thoughts below come from the perspective of a longtime “hardcore” P2P MMO player. That said, RL has made gaming life drift toward the casual side, and I’ve taken...
Obama and Gift Exchange
Is the gift exchange visible in interstate relations present also in everyday relationships? Can it be captured and quantified in an MMO?...
Joining PvP and PvE
noticed today some complaints by players about the way PvP and PvE are separated in most current MMORPGs. One (on massively.com) stated that a developer would work a miracle if they could blend the two instead. This got me thinking. The challenge in...
Too Soon, Academia
What about in a world where one could recreate certain aspects of Homeric culture and thus perhaps recreate the same incentives that drive Homeric characters? Are those incentives still present in human psychology and just inactive due to the lack of...
Bath and Romans and Pretty Music - The Antediluvian Photojournal vol. 4
There are a lot of photos from today so I’ve put them into a gallery. Click on those that look interesting to see the story caption and a larger view. Bath was just gorgeous. It’s one of those circular sort of hill towns that one sees in ...
Sex is like eating (potato chips)
For some people, sex is like eating. Those people can talk about it like they talk about what they had for dinner. That time Jenny’s brother walked in and the details of what he saw complete with hand motions are just another of the stories you...

