The hordes of Pokemon Go players crowding on places look like a merry
bunch of zombies to me. With smart phones. A bit frightening and also
a bit heart warming.

Met a bunch of folks playing Pokemon Go in NYC this past weekend. Friendly people. It's fun to have some camraderie with complete strangers.

Oh my.

If you search for local businesses on Yelp, they now indicate for every business (such as a restaurant or whatever) whether there is a Pokestop nearby.

It's *that* big.

Gads.

Well, I'll give you that.


I asked a random stranger in a grocery store if aisle 5 was a pokemon stop, despite not really playing the game. Because I'm peculiar that way.

A video showed up in my YouTube feed whose title was something about Kinect being the "dark ages" of XBox. The video was crap; it ended up being just ten minutes of Kinect being announced and pushed at trade shows. But it does seem that Kinect is old news and Microsoft isn't exactly leading with it anymore.
And now Nintendo is moving away from the full-motion style gameplay of the Wii as well.

So was it just a fad? Have they figured out that most gamers just want to sit on the couch with a joystick?

There has been quite a lot of push on virtual reality in gaming lately. But there's also the HoloLens... augmented reality.

I suspect augmented reality might be more in line with where things are going to go in gaming, eventually, but that damned HoloLens is far too heavy to wear comfortably.

Just reading the backlog here, and i came across IG's comments about tabletop games. Never really thought about it, but it does seem a good idea for bars and cafes. I was in a bar in a Polish city a few years back, and it was a gamers bar. They had playstations and Wiis installed in the walls, and on the tabletops, aswell as countless other games - way cool! But the only place i have ever seen an attempt at having tabletop games for customers to play. I'm sure your right - and hope someone sees a gap in the market[3[3~[3~[3~


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Apparently, there's been some brew-ha-ha concerning City of Heros/Villains.

NCSoft decided to shut down the servers for this MMO, since it didn't align with their current focus. There's a fairly dedicated fan base, though, that wants to continue playing it.

Secretly, some members of this fanbase reverse engineered the server code, and ran their own private server with about a hundred or so friends playing together.

Things kinda went nuts, though, when the secret got out. The folks who created the server don't want any trouble from NCSoft, so they're skittish about the whole thing. But, apparently, their in communication with NCSoft to try and make their efforts blessed by the company, so they can continue to run a server without the threat of legal action looming over them.

Frankly, if they pull it off, and manage to get everything going without the threat of losing it all, I might consider installing City of Heros/Villains and recreating one of my favorite characters of all time: Evil Abe Lincoln.

Evil Abe Lincoln was a villain I created for City of Villains who could raise zombies and the like to fight for him. The game has customization features so impressive, I could make him look like a zombified Abe Lincoln. The theme I went for involved enslaving people by killing them and raising their corpse from the dead to serve him. You can even customize catch phrases to use during battles, so I think one of mine was 'Forescore *this*!'

Do you have a spell called "Enslavement Proclamation" to raise the zombies?

Oh, wouldn't that be nice?

Also, does Zombie Abraham Lincoln have a negative buff when in a theatre?

aahz: That would certainly have been a good debuff to have, yes, but I don't think the game was that sophisticated. Still, it was amazing how far I could go to customize that character. I could even name the zombies I raised, so I gave them names from Lincoln's life (although I can't recall all of them).

I forget why I stopped playing. Might have been technical, or I might have been bored.

Around here we're still playing a version of Mario Kart that's two versions old. Yes we have the latest, but ours has been heavily modded and has over 200 tracks, some of them custom, some of them ported from other versions of the game.

IGlet has figured out how to swap music tracks and is having the time of his life moving everything around.

Next ... perhaps we'll figure out how to build our own. muahahahaha

Heh. Surprisingly, "MyMiniCity" is still out there. I've been pinging it every day recently and for some reason it's giving me some chuckles.

Everyone please go to http://igopolis.myminicity.com to help out :)

Ah, man, it'd be nice to play that again.

Dunno where to get the client, and hook into a server.