Just so you aren’t fooled, it’s mostly update day for the website…not much else.
Frankly, with the traveling that we’ve been doing lately and all, I got hit with gastroenteritis, commonly known as the stomach flu. It only took a day to process, so go me. All I really felt like doing yesterday was sleeping and not eating, which is precisely what I did for the day. Today, my appetite returned and I’m functional, but still tired. It will probably be another day before I’m back to full functioning.
In addition to making back-end updates to the website, I thought it might be fun to look around at a couple things that I’m looking forward to in 2010 and see where they are, update-wise.
First thing I checked was Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hmmm, nothing much. Oh ho, looks like Tatooine is going to be one of the planets you can travel. Big surprise there. Here’s a couple of questions I have for the people who are making the game. If the setting takes place over three thousand years before Vader shows up, why is it that we still see some familiar names? The planet Alderaan mentions the House Organa. A single family house remains in power for over three millenia? Truly we are talking about a planet far, far away. And why is Tatooine such a galaxy hot spot if it is such a dump of a planet? I don’t get this. Even the description of Tatooine in the Holonet section of the website says “desert wasteland at the end of the galaxy”. I know they’ll likely jam something in there to make it more interesting, but seriously, Tatooine as a planet is not interesting. We know about as much as we want to know about the big ball of sand. Two suns. Whoo, let’s celebrate a binary system! Oh wait, that’s a pretty common system in the universe? *sigh* To cut them some slack though, they have put together some interesting backstory for the game in the timeline section of the Holonet. Just slightly animated but good voice over work. Okay, okay, Bioware! I’m hooked again. And I know I’m going to have to wait, seeing how you haven’t even announced closed beta testing.
Speaking of two stars, let’s check in on Star Trek Online (I know that was bad, forgive me). Not much new from what I can see. Probably pretty quiet being close to the holidays and closed beta going on and all. I did read something in the Ask Cryptic section about Klingons, Part II that caught my eye. It appears that we might be looking at a single server system. Now I don’t know if it will be more like the system that EVE Online or if this bit of information isn’t quite correct. It will be interesting to see though. The only update here is that if you are sure you are going to get the game and try it out, it may be advantageous to get the pre-order so you can pick up the goodies that will go with it.
My booklist has been updated as well, although right now it looks a bit sparse. Two reasons for this. First is that some of the books I am currently reading are re-reads including a great P.G. Wodehouse collection. If you haven’t read him, he’s one of my favorite authors. Secondly, the other books are on dog training. I might pop those up if anyone is interested, but they’ve really been dominating my free time.
Again, updates could be rather rare on the site as we move into Christmas/New Years proper. If I don’t get back before then, hope each of you has a happy holiday season.
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