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A bit behind in my publishing schedule
“Life finds a way”, said Dr Malcolm in Jurassic Park. Of course he was talking about dinosaur reproduction and I’m talking about writing hazards in my publishing schedule. I’m a bit behind on my final chapter for The Tale of Love, Art, and Fear. Some of this is schedule/life driven, hobby time has taken a […]
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Avast ye swab! It be talk like a pirate day!
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
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More bad news about games I love…
In the rule book for the Pirates of the Spanish Main RPG, by Pinnacle Entertainment Group there is a reference to future books that explore other time periods with rich ocean-going themes. Alas, my Typhoid Mary streak is still going strong. The Pirates of the Spanish Main RPG line is defunct. This is due to the […]
Weekend getaway
So I goofed off a little this weekend and spent some time at one of my favorite places. The Sea
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Tagged as: Atlantic Ocean, New Hampshire, Seacoast
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Cutthroats game in Playstation Home
I just found out about the pirate themed game in Playstation Home. I know it’s been around for a bit but I haven’t updated my Home software in a long time. The game is a team shoot-em-up with one person at the helm of a ship and up to six people manning the guns. Each […]
PotBS: Demo missions
The first thing new French players see in the Burning Seas is a party. The good times end almost immediately as pirates crash and shoot your captain. You dash outside to fight off more scoundrels. This is a really good way to teach players how to fight. Each opponent arrives and paitently waits for you […]
Pirates of the Burning Seas experience
In researching the PotBS game I read that the online installer was better (more up to date) than the off the shelf CD, so I opted to download the game; it’s 7 gigabytes and took me the better part of a day to get downloaded and installed. There are two servers left. According to wikipedia […]
Pirate MMOs
I learned that Pirates of the Burning Sea has gone to a freemium business model, so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been playing Pirates of the Caribbean On-line ever since the Mac version came out. I had to use my Bootcamp partition to play PotBS, there is no Mac version and the […]
