I love my dog, and I am going to go hide now.

Gwill! Malcynn! Look at what you've done. You've terrifyed poor Meg here who just wanted a nice relaxing birthday...

This is probably one of the more bizarre tributes ever created in the United States.

Towel Day:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Towel Day: A Tribute to Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams will be missed by his fans worldwide. So that all his fans everywhere can pay tribute to this genius, I propose that two weeks after his passing (25 May 2001) be marked as "Towel Day". All Douglas Adams fans are encouraged to carry a towel with them for the day.

So long Douglas, and thanks for all the fish!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/25/how-combat-works-in-the-elder-scrolls-online/

Your skill bar in The Elder Scrolls Online has six slots, so Nick explained what you can put in each one. With great enthusiasm.

“Your first two slots are derived from your weapon. If I pick up a bow they’re bow attacks and if I pick up a sword then they’re sword attacks. Anyone can do that and anyone can be good at it. That’s sort of a touchstone of Elder Scrolls games, and we wanted to make sure we included that in here.

“Your first two slots are derived from your weapon. If I pick up a bow they’re bow attacks and if I pick up a sword then they’re sword attacks. If I continue to use that weapon over a period of time, I will get better with it, which will give me a wider variety of things that I can potentially do with my weapon attacks. So I can gain mastery of it by virtue of having it equipped, but I can still pick up any weapon in the game and be good with it. And that’s true of anyone.

“On top of that, if I continue to use that weapon over a period of time I will get better with it which will give me a wider variety of things that I can potentially do with my weapon attacks. So I can gain mastery of it by virtue of having it equipped, but I can still pick up any weapon in the game and be good with it and that’s true of anyone. I think that’s an essential part of it.

“Your next three slots are derived from your class. You will have over the course of your progression many abilities and spells that you will get, more than three. But you want to pick the three that you think will support your weapon loadout in an interesting way.

“And your sixth ability is your ultimate. It’s also a class ability and I will have more than one available to me through my overall progression but I can only ever put one on my bar because it’s really powerful. And you’re going to want to pick the one that supports that overall.

Sounds really similar to how Guild Wars 2 is doing their skills in the fact that they are tied to the weapon and then you pick what utility skills you bring along. Should be interesting to see how this all plays out in the end.

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=28542

http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=42269

Basically they restructured the costs of declaring war so the larger a corp is the more expensive it ends up being. I honestly don't know the full details because, well, it's never bothered me to learn how the War Dec mechanics work at the moment since I just started playing the game.

As for how the new mechanics from Inferno will affect the game in the long, that's to be seen.

Remind me what's so cool about inferno. I haven't played in a couple patches.


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- Revamped war-dec system
- Revamped missile effects
- Revamped inventory
- Start of the restructuring/balancing of ships

Basically CCP getting back to the roots of EVE Online and attempting to make it the best sci fi starship sandbox on the market.

I have a set of names I use for my MMO characters.

For Guild Wars 2, I tried to match the meaning of the name to a profession.

And honestly, one of my character names works perfectly: Valdis. It's Scandinavian and means "goddess of the dead". I'm using that name for my Sylvari Necromancer.

Gwill, Meghaya... you two are ridiculous. What started out as a simple thread about thongs and wishing Meg a late happy birthday you two have turned into discussing height and stacks of gnomes...