Poorly written mini review follows.....

Well as some of you know I bought APB - All Points Bulletin on Monday. The game is not strictly speaking an MMO in the true sense of the word as we would know it. In fact now I've written that, I realise I don't know WTF an MMO is supposed to be either! Anyway, APB is an online world set in a fictional city not massively different from the City of Heroes kind of look. Thats the first thought I had when I first went into the game. The game is based on the Unreal 3 engine so the characters are of course larger than they were in COH though.

I want this game!

After a download lasting 15 hours, I now have a working copy of LoTRo on my PC once again. It was great to log in this morning over breakfast and see old Glencoe my Dwarf hadn't aged in the intervening time I'd been gone. I even did a quest to kill a dozen Wargs.

The only problem is that my old kinship is no longer running. With no immediate friends in game I now find myself on an RP server with no real experience of RP and wanting to join a kinship, most of which would probably want me to speak in character at some point in time even if they are "RP Lite"

Took a peek at Sky News this morning and saw this

Link here

(sorry for the long link)

James Bonds Aston Martin goes under the hammer in October. Its still got all the kit, from bullet proof rear screen, tyre shredder wheels, machine gun lights, sat nav, ejector seat roof, car phone....all you need is around £4m.

I just watched this on youtube and thought it was great so wanted to share. Its quite amazing what you can make do with as a budding film maker; a bit of snow, a local airfield and landmarks and some merging with game footage.

I had a go with the free trial for Global Agenda this weekend. It took a while for Steam to download it but I was busy elsewhere so the time wasnt wasted.

I just knocked this up. I was thinking hard of something to fool you all with, but came up a complete 'Martin Blank', so decided to do a little rhyme.

The April Fool

On April Fools Day every year,
I awake in the morning filled with fear.
What dirty tricks are in store for me on this day?
Will people be upset with the ones that I play?

So I get out of bed checking clothes and the floor,
For marbles, toy spiders and things I abhor.
I pour out my cerial and get a mug of hot tea,
Checking the box for Lego bits and the odour of wee.

DDO
Okay as you know I was playing Dungeon & Dragons Online a few weeks ago, and yes I'll admit that I was foolish in thinking it was like any other MMO, because it isnt. I dont play a game to think too deeply about it - I do enough of that at work or on the loo - I play to have fun. If your fun is to mull over stats, points, and all things arcane which should have died the moment computers became able to calculate all this for you, then this is your game. However its not mine.

Runes of Magic

You're all worldly-wise people...well maybe not wise as such, but certainly from all parts of the world in any case...so I want you to impart your knowledge on pizza's. We've done fries, so now its time for that Italian bread thing with food on it.

Base
Personally I love the Italian base kind more than any other. The Italian base is the thin one & Im not keen on the deep pan ones, nor the cheese stuffed crust ones (tastes like draft excluder strips you put around windows).

THIS you have GOT to watch. Has had us all rolling on the floor laughing and I cant get the damn tune and lyrics out of my head.