Barry’s Inner Monologue Makes a Video

Posted on | July 12, 2011 | 2 Comments

How Vlarg REALLY feels…

-Torgo

Star Wars Galaxies is Shutting Down and it’s Sony’s Fault

Posted on | June 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Star Wars Galaxies is shutting down. Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts are sunsetting the long-suffering game on December 15th, 2011. There are more details, but you can find them all over the net. I just want to point a few things we should learn from its existence before it vanishes into the ether as another of a long line of “remember that one janky MMO?” geek conversations.
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The Education of Master Torgo

Posted on | June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

Listening to the podcasts over the past few months you may have heard me joke about my “educating” mastertorgo on Robert E. Howard and Conan. As a long time Conan fan and Howard purist, I hoped to give at least one fantasy fan a better understanding of one of fantasy’s founding fathers. Howard and Conan have gotten a bad rap, and there is a dedicated group that works to do something about that.

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In My Day

Posted on | May 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Growing up one of my favorite movies was Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood. Cool archery, great fencing, that movie brought my family’s house to a stop whenever it showed up on tv. I also read Greek and Roman mythology like a mad fiend. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bernard Evslin’s The Trojan War and Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths gave me tons of tales of magic and heroics. So it was only natural that when I came across The Lord of the Rings and Conan I would be swept up in some truly awesome shit.

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