FSU, Miami was a good, ugly football game. What a great cap to the long weekend.

4 Sept 06

Happy Labor day to readers in the US and Canada. This is traditionally a day off. Don't expect too much. Tomorrow, I'm going to do a post game wrap up. I have some new advertising links to announce. I think some of you might be interested. Others of you will scoff, but if you haven't actually bought anything through the links, I have trouble caring about your scoffing. Knock yourself out.

We got hit again this holiday weekend with a comment spammer. I've cleaned up the mess. If any of you spot anything like that, please let me know. The earlier it's spotted, the easier it is to clean up.

I would like to note that we're almost two weeks since the launch of Sword of the Stars and despite all the glowing email I received saying how great the game is for storytelling, we haven't seen any new stories. Hopefully someone will correct that soon. Please don't think there's some kind of high bar you have to overcome to put your story here. The only way to get better writing game stories is to do it. You don't have to mimic what I did. You can just do a quick wrap up of your last game.

Speaking of Sword of the Stars, I'm working on my review. You might see me flitting around online jumping into open game slots. I'm curious to see how fun it is to jump in the middle. Please don't take offense if I leave either. I'm also curious to see what the AI does once set if I leave and come back.

Not everyone, and I'm including myself here, has time to sit down and play a full large scale game in one sitting. It can also be annoying trying to get everyone together at just the same time. It seems to me those features are quite important in scoring the game. As always, I'm looking for feedback. If you feel anything should be mentioned in the review, please let me know. I'll look into it.

Jason