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Cat-astrophe!

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Written by Rob
Published: 08 December 2014
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Leave the catgirl alone, folks.Leave the catgirl alone, folks.

You know, I take off a few weeks for Thanksgiving (as well as being sick as a dog) and what do I come back to?  Terrorism at conventions.  Mayhem in the upper echelons of other conventions.  Panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham…  And now this.

NeoGAF, who were once lauded for Dudebro: My Shit Is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It’s Straight-Up Dawg Time are now picking on catgirls.

Really?  Have we sunk this far as a people?

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Roundtable: A Discussion on Private Servers

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Written by Rob
Published: 17 November 2014
  • videogames
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  • ragnarok online
  • private servers

The original Ragnarok Online, much troubled by private servers.The original Ragnarok Online, much troubled by private servers.

Server emulators (better known as private servers): it’s an issue that often plagues various games, and for various reasons.  The original Ragnarok Online, for example, had PSes abound by the dozens because of both the server software leak and a belief that Gravity wasn’t running their local versions (especially the US servers) very well.  Others, such as the recent Blade & Soul, have had PSes pop up after disgruntled gamers waited for years without a response for an English version before enterprising Russian hackers decided to come up with one.  In even more cases, some, such as the now-defunct Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe, are being resurrected by hackers long after Sega shut the servers down.

I’m not going to personally qualify the value of PSes, though I do believe in the value of keeping history alive, and PSes help to do that.  I was more interested about what others think.  So I asked a group of gamers on Steam, and this is what we came up with.  Some answers were edited for clarity and nothing further.

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Pour One Out

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Written by Rob
Published: 15 November 2014
  • anime
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  • anime web turnpike
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And another site heads into history.And another site heads into history.

"There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us"

- Queen

It’s said that nothing lasts forever, and Freddie Mercury once sang, “Who wants to live forever?”  Well, despite the fact that few things are destined to be eternal, there are some things that we wish were.  One of those things just left us, and even though its usefulness to the larger world of otaku culture, it still stings to see it go.

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast reports that after nearly twenty years, the famed Anime Web Turnpike has finally and sadly closed its doors.

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R2-Cheep2

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Written by Rob
Published: 14 November 2014
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Sometimes you have to have a bird that chirps like Artoo-Deetoo.

The Flock is strong with this one.

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