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Getting Steamed Up

Mon, 28 August 2006
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One of the great things about having your own blog is the ability to air your grievances about certain entities to the whole world. Considering I've just spent the past half-hour smacking my head against the virtual brick wall that is the Steam support site I don't think I've ever been so glad to have a blog as I am now.

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The Art of Art

Wed, 23 August 2006
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Like a lot of you, I'm quite a big fan of Gametrailers. If you have not visited the site it is basically a repository for all the latest trailers to come out for upcoming games. On a whim I decided to check out the Everquest 2: Echoes of Fadwer trailer today. Despite the popularity of the original Everquest I've never been too interested in the sequel. Nonetheless an awareness of the relatively advanced graphics engine (for an MMO) powering the whole thing did make me curious about how the game looked. To say I was disappointed would be something of an understatement.

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Mo' MMO Money

Mon, 21 August 2006
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As alluded to in my past blog, I've recently returned to World of Warcraft. Yes, the bug has bitten me once again. This weekend though, I played things a little differently. Perhaps it was my recent EVE discussions, perhaps it was the fact I am rapidly approaching level 40 and had nowhere near enough cha-ching to purchase a mount or maybe I just wanted to do something a little different for a change. Whatever the reason, this weekend I decided to create a monopoly in the Horde Auction House.

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Terrorists ate my Toilet Paper

Thu, 17 August 2006
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Today I want to start off with a massive thank you to the fine folks of Maxim Online for doing their utmost to prove the misandrists (that is the female equivalent of a misogynist for you folks at home) of the world correct by presenting the males of our world as nothing more than upright devices for the verbal spouting of scatological content. In what must have been a very slow news week for Maxim (not enough film/rock stars had their breasts accidentally fall out of their top recently lads?) the team behind their online presence decided that it was time to look at video game's twelve greatest toilets. The idea has merit; the humble commode has long been a fixture of the video game oeuvre since Larry Laffer first drowned after an ill-advised toilet flush out the back of Lefty's. But c'mon folks do we really need language like "poop-pillows" or "squeezing off a long, snaking, black, shining, corny turd"? Now I appreciate a fart joke as much as the next guy (perhaps even more) but seriously.

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EVE of Destruction

Wed, 16 August 2006
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The life of a freelancer can be a tricky one at times, particularly when you're trying to juggle your writing duties with the other activities you engage in to maintain some form of shelter. Yes, for the past seven or so days other aspects of my life have, very rudely I might add, dictated no Bloggy for Cocksy. After much aggro on my part and a number of late nights fuelled by levels of caffeine high enough to make Jim Carey seem positively sedated by comparison, I managed to get things under control and now things are back to normal. Conveniently my first day 'back' coincided with the delivery of the final issue of my EON subscription. What is EON? Read on and learn young space traveller�