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I am a gamer. I don’t work for Microsoft.
I, like most other gamers, am sick of seeing endless rumours and speculation citing “anonymous sources” or “insiders” with no evidence, no proof, no guarantee that they’ve been fact-checked or can be relied on.
The games industry is the only one I can...
SPAM Filtering
I've converted my legacy Server 2003 home lab over to Server 2012 with Exchange 2010. The only holdout for consolidating to a single VM host is my Untangle box. This normally wouldn't be an issue, except my dear wife is extremely SPAM averse and nagged me incessantly requested that I maintain some sort of SPAM filtering on the mail server. I'd prefer to move to a M0n0wall or Smoothwall VM appliance for routing and firewall duties, but their SPAM filtering either non-existent, some thirdparty half maintained spaghetti code, or requires mastery of their base OS to install. A little searching turned up MXGuardDog SPAM Firewalll.
So far, it's been the best solution I've used to stop spam. I'll post again in a week or so once I see how well it's filtering.
Addicted or Enthralled? Confessions of a WoW Junkie
I’m a PC gamer through and through. I’ve never really gotten into the whole console gaming genre since I sold my Atari 2600 to buy my first computer when I was 8, a Sinclair. I still feel much more at home with a keyboard under my left hand and mouse under my right. For most PC gamers, there usually tends to be a slow progression of FPS to RPG to MMORPG. For me it was Half-Life to Unreal Tournament to Everquest, Everquest 2, D&D Online, LOTR Online, and ultimately, World of Warcraft. Along the way I even spent some time as a Guide for Everquest and Everquest 2. So, unlike some players, I already had a long pedigree of other MMO’s and when I washed up on the shores of Azeroth, I didn’t have the long learning curve that some have. I was already familiar with questing for progression, cooperative play, and class/race restrictions defining how you engage the environment. But that doesn’t explain why I became such a WoW junkie. It’s not the graphics, frankly EQ2’s are better. It’s not the races and classes, they’re rehashed from other games and mythology long past. It’s not the quests, they’re pretty much the same formulaic tropes that you see in other games as well. For me it was finding a great of group of other people to play with and the ability to drive my character forward to greater and greater power and prowess even after I achieved max level. More and more, as I think about this, I'm coming to realize that it's more about the people I game with now. My guildmates are becoming like extended family and I've never seen there faces. Perhaps it's the feeling of anonymity that comes from being addressed as your character's name, even in voice chat, that leads us to a more intimate discourse. Here's a varied group of people, from all walks of life not to mention time zones, that voluntarily come together almost every evening to do battle against the bosses, experience the same story lines, and sift through the same loot drops that we've all seen the night before and LOVE it. Maybe we're all just a little nuts. Or maybe we enjoy each others company. Or maybe, just maybe, we've created our own little community right there in Azeroth and that's what keeps us enthralled.
Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great—that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget. So, if you don’t have the time to...
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2012 : Best Graphics Cards For The Money, January Update
Logan Bonner is my Hero
Our D&D gaming group is currently playing through HS1: The Slaying Stone by Logan Bonner. This module is a new DM's wet dream as it has a ton of plot hook and plot variation suggestions as well as a wonderfully non-railroaded story line. When I first read through The Slaying Stone, the author's suggestions immediately started the creative juices flowing for plot and sub-plot as well as twists and turns that I could throw at the group as they investigate Gorizbaad. The possibilities seemed endless. I settled on the old trope of brother against brother. I planted the seed when Speelock revealed that she thought the Rat Man might know where the ninth stone was hidden. When the PC's finally reached the Shrine of Sehanine encounter, they discoverd a dishelveled looking Kiris Hoyt performing a ritual on himself. An Arcana check later they learned it was a purification ritual designed to remove a curse. He reluctantly spun a tale of deceit and treachery where his brother, Alkirk, had become bewitched by a powerful sorceress who was using the Kiris fortune to fund expeditions to gather powerful magical items for herself. When Hoyt had tried to drive a wedge into that relationship, she had cursed him. He'd ended up here alone since the city was overrun. The story apparently struck a sympathetic chord with the PC's because even when the Goblins attacked and Hoyt transformed into a ravening Half Rat/Half Man thing that pummeled anything near him, they still revived him after the fight. It will be interesting to see where this story will go and what the PC's will do. The adventure wouldn't be nearly so immersive if not for the DM friendly way Mr. Bonner wrote this module. You, sir, are my hero!
