Recent content by sirandal

This is the first time I've ever used the phrase "epic fail", but I believe this might be the very first time I've ever seen it merited.

I totally agree that any other MMO measured by WoW is considered a "failure" and I think that the majority of consumers now feel like that too. It's sad, but true; and it's really screwing with the PC MMO game market.

Tera looks exactly like Lineage. Given that it's being developed by Koreans (I live in Korea and have Korean friends) and that it is very likely pretty much the same as Lineage or AION, then it'll never work worldwide (Lineage and AION have what used to be really incredible numbers for an MMO...

BAM! :)

Nyghteyes I saw that article in the guardian or somewhere I think. I had to shake my head.

I did that exact thing during that scene. I'm sure my face was red with how embarrassed I was right after. haha People probably thought I was on drugs.

I'm sure everyone who has seen the movie realizes that the truly awesomeness of "Avatar" is not the movie itself, but what it represents as a promise about future movies (technology-wise.) But, yes, the story is Dances With Wolves / Pocahantas / DUNE / Return of the Jedi. haha

you got one too?

Am I the only one in the world who likes Macs and PCs both?

I really loved Warhammer, but I disagree that the graphics are superior. The modeling and the textures are superior, but the animation is so clunky and robot-like, it really is off-putting.

It doesn't surprise me that it's ready. It's been available in South Korea for some time now. I watched my wife's cousin playing it once. Seems too Asian for my (game) tastes (a la Lineage.) Ironically, I love Asian food!

China's Ministry of Culture defines 'virtual currency' as "prepaid cards of cyber-games," though a report in China Daily claims that 'in-game gear' is excluded. I'm baffled by the inclusion of this sentence at the end. It *seems* to say that this has nothing to do with gold farming whatsoever...

I think that's partly it, and also it's sorta like English using a lot of Latin words (and other languages.) As far as Korea is concerned, they used Chinese characters exclusively for written language until they developed their own alphabet about 700 years ago.

That is a Chinese character (which Japanese use, like Korea.) Hikari sounds a lot better though than the Mandarin pronunciation (Gwang.)

I used to say that if we had a boy I'd name him Magnus Robot-Fighter, and if we had a girl I'd name her Aethelgifu (that's the Saxon version of Emily.) However, we recently had our first baby girl, and we named her Grace instead (although her Korean name is Yeon-ah, which means "Lotus Child.")