Recent content by karakedi

I've been very satisfied with my laptop for gaming (mostly LotRO). I especially appreciate its portability. If you're looking for that kind of convenience, there seems to me to be no reason not to use a laptop for PC gaming. If cost and ease of upgrading are more important, then the laptop...

Very nice review of a true classic. When I saw the title at first I thought they had made a game from Ged's world and wondered what they had done to it. I'm relieved to see that this is a book review, and a well-thought and well-rounded one at that.

Rivendell, in Lord of the Rings Online. I find the history and character of Tolkien's elves fascinating, and Rivendell is the center of lore in Middle Earth, both of the world in general and of the elves in particular. It's a place for scholarship as well as for the other satisfactions of life...

I'm a DM on a Neverwinter Nights persistent world, and I play Lord of the Rings Online very actively.

Sometimes I wonder if it's stunted thinking in the first place. If the thinking is only basic, it won't have room for features of writing meant to reflect complexity of ideas. Precision of lexicon and elegance of sentence structure won't seem worth the effort it takes to master them. Good...

I wonder if it might be that you're playing windowed. I use a 2006 XP laptop that gets me very nice resolution at High, and though I'm not plagued with crashes, I do have annoyingly slow loading times. It's been suggested that if I were to play full screen, I'd be putting less pressure on my...

Possibly Middle Earth (LotRO), but as an elf, so the primitive state of medicine would not matter for me.

Thanks for a well written and comprehensive review. I've been playing LotRO since late alpha and have a lifetime subscription, which has more than repaid itself. I especially appreciate the maturity of the player community, the responsiveness of the Turbine staff, and the effort to accommodate...

The ads are visually attractive, anyway. Has anyone played this to the point where they can provide more information about it?

I wasn't aware that Summerhill was still in existence. As I remember from reading about them years ago, they were a child-centered school that attempted to individualize instruction, with attention to the feelings of the child at the same time. It sounded appealing at the time. Sorry, I can't...

I'm an agnostic, as I see no convincing evidence on either side of the question. When I was in the Philippines doing research some 40 years ago, I was asked my religion regularly. Filipinos are mostly Catholics (north of the Sulu Archipelago), but they are aware that many are Muslims (on said...

Lembas!

LotRO is my first real MMO, though I played in NWN persistent worlds, which are indeed online RPGs, but not massive by any means. I'm thoroughly enjoying LotRO. Of course it helps that I'm something of a Tolkien geek. :)

First it was Neverwinter Nights (Middle Earth persistent worlds), but now LotRO dominates my gaming time big time. I try to ensure that it doesn't eat up my life, though.

I'm sure glad I didn't know you then. :p You're a great kinmate in LotRO now, though--and a top-notch kinship leader, even if you sometimes play evil pranks. /continues to contemplate revenge