Onefinemess

The blog formerly known as Onefinemess.

For the Horde!? Additional participants in UMoB

| April 2, 2011

What’s the best way to be productive?  PEER PRESSURE!  OK, maybe not, but it helps.  I’ve invited bloggers from the horde to join in my little made up event.  It’s going to be weird not going it solo for the 3rd time. Weird = good. Of course, anyone else who wants “in” (whatever that is) [...]

“Versatile Blogger” awardmemechainletter

| July 3, 2010

Justwritecat hit me with the Versatile Blogger award a while back and yes, I have seriously put off blogging for a week or so because I hadn’t written this post yet.  Not like you care. Now, the weird thing I that I can’t find the origin of this thing.  Naturally, google is polluted from all [...]

MMOs, D&D & socialization

| May 4, 2010

I think it’s interesting that MMOs have their roots in RPGs – perhaps the most solitary form of video game there is (not counting some of those Japanese dating sims….).  Sure, I used to watch a friend play the SNES Final Fantasy games for hours (I don’t think I ever had an SNES), and that [...]

queries & unofficial (and unmentioned) month of blogging

| April 23, 2010

Last April, I think I did a post (or several!) for every day of April, as an “unofficial month of blogging“.  Wow.  Where did I get the time?  We had a 2yr old and a 1 month old!  I wasn’t even going to try and compete with that this year, but I’m trying to do [...]

Rest in peace, UBM

| March 31, 2010

David Mills, aka the blogger known as Undercover Black Man, passed yesterday of a brain aneurysm. I’ve been following his blog for a couple years.  He was not that old.   To just die, out of nowhere?  So tragic.  I don’t have anything eloquent to say.  My heart goes out to his friends and family. Here [...]

odd spam

| March 23, 2010

Do you go through your spam folder (assuming you have a blog, and your spamfilter saves things so you can survey them in your madness)? I do, occasionally.  Spammers are getting strange.  I feel like they’ve started copying random comments from other blogs?  Check this one out: That rss feature on your blog here is [...]

In other news, good game + no DRM > piracy

| May 1, 2009

Duh. Stardock makes quality games these days.  If I had more money & time I might even buy some of them.  Sins of a Solar Empire certainly looks like an awesome time sink. The game in question though, Demigod, doesn’t look like my cup of tea.  Too much focus on multiplayer, not enough unit types, [...]

Erfworld has me confused lately

| April 20, 2009

Starting here. I don’t get it.  Where did he go?  Why did the guy vulcan his ass?  And then why was the dirtamancer acting completely different after they left…and where did they leave??? Soooo head burning. Was it the place in between disbandings? Probably my favorite strip on the net…and I was cool with all [...]

weird spam comments #1

| April 19, 2009

So, here’s one from today, with the link happily redacted: Yooo.. I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have you ever heard of [some bullshit link]. They seems to promise free ringtones PS. Dont be an ass, this is NOT spam ;) Cheeky isn’t it? I wish I had the [...]

Laughing at Ann Coulter

| April 3, 2009

Really, people should know by now to avoid internet on April 1. Or, at the very least, not to get all wound up about ANYTHING you see posted on that day until some time has passed. I guess it’s hard to think around that big mouth. Ann Coulter clowns herself. Here’s a roundup of a [...]