It still baffles my mind to this day as to why Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest (though not so much) are the only MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) to cater successfully to different types of gamers. There is a continuous stream of newer, prettier MMO games being released yearly, yet they all offer the same crap in a different shell. They are one-dimensional, RPGs (minus the RP) that are meant as time-sinks to attract the loyal wave of MMO gamers who will swoop in, max out their levels and fly away to play something else. It’s a vicious cycle of the same thing in and out. The typical MMORPG assumes that every player is interested in being a hero. This is incorrect on many fronts, not everyone wants to be King Arthur, Conan the Barbarian or Legolas. Some players are quite fine being a simple blacksmith, a cobbler, an adventurer or a dancer. When… [Read more]

Okay normally I laugh at LARPs like everyone else, because lets face it, if you aren’t a LARP you are laughing at LARPs. What’s a LARP you may ask? Well it’s a Live Action Role Player or basically someone who loves sword and sorcery to the point where they assume the role of actor/player character with a bunch of other young white people. Yes in my observation of LARPs they tend to lack people of color, you can make your own assumptions on this. For me it’s just an observation, I’m sure there are a few but from what I have seen, I have yet to meet one. So yes, back on topic, I used to laugh my ass off at LARPs but not because they are LARPing I mean there is a thin line between role-playing on a table-top Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game and actually strapping on some armor and beating the shit… [Read more]

I keep the forums open at www.halloftheblackdragon.com/forums for one reason - It is my open bulletin board to the public, and it is a super, fast way for me to post news articles, women or whatever is on my testosterone flooded mind. However, as a whole, I think that site admins (like myself) have lost the love and wont to launch forums. The reason for this goes beyond not having enough traffic, not having the patience to weed out the spammers or not having enough people to moderate. The problem lies with the internet community as a whole. Now as human beings with religion, morality and parenting, we know how to behave and react to things socially. With the launch of the internet, we were given even more social opportunities with the ability to chat and discuss topics with folks who (had you no internet) you would have never met or shared an opinion with. This… [Read more]

Quoted from Jon on my.spill.com’s Street Fighter The Legend of Chun Li review… “FUCK movies based on video games 4 life!!! let’s face it: video games ROCK, movies based on video games BLOW damn YOU HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!” Sadly, his words echo the sentiment of nerds all over the internet… we’ve had enough. Well it goes without saying that blog after blog after blog that I visit all echo the same sentiment. Those who have seen Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li have had enough with Hollywood and Video Games. What the powers that be do not seem to grasp is that campy doesn’t work, realism doesn’t work and originality doesn’t work unless you have a writer and staff who have played the game and are passionate about it. Examples of passion overcoming budget can be seen with fan-made versions of Star Wars, video games and comic book movies on Youtube. Some of them are ugly (no budget) yes… [Read more]

So seriously who out there thinks this is cool? I mean thought, planning and execution was placed into this thing in order to generate profit. Profit mind you that a team obviously expected to obtain from Japanese gamers and I am guessing off-shore gamers as well. Without getting into cultural differences in respects to women, lets just consider rape. You know rape, the act of having someone violate and drive themself into an orifice without consent. If you cannot relate as a guy, just remember that dudes get raped too. I have never been raped but I don’t plan to nor do I want to… so you can imagine I don’t find it sexy in the least. I used to watch comical hentai that I felt was harmless since the sex was either used as a weapon or the rapists were basically plants, demons or animals. I would pop in La Blue Girl with my friends and watch Nin… [Read more]

Dear Hollywood, please step away from our video games and anime. It is quite obvious that you cannot transition animated stories into live action properly, regardless of the success that was The Dark Knight and Iron Man. What seems to have been an exploitation of the nerdy sub-culture has gone a bit too far now and I would like for you to back off. I was more than happy back when your depictions of us nerds were glasses wearing, bad postured, asexual losers rather than take our sub-culture seriously and try to resell things we love in a cheap live-action package. With movies on the horizon like Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (when did she become legendary?), Dragon Ball: Evolution (google this abortion and count the cries of disappointment), an M.Knight version of Avatar The Last Air Bender and a whole host of other potential stinkers scheduled for release, you must understand my annoyance. Let… [Read more]

Girls wear these I Heart Nerds shirts thinking it’s cute… but do you really heart nerds? The poisonous Internet tough guys on message boards would make you take that shirt off really fast (wait nice thought there) but I’m sure the nice guy at Best Buy who took time out of his World of Warcraft discussion with his co-worker to tell you why a PC is better than a Mac may make you put it back on. So what defines a nerd? I find myself wondering about this because as human beings we all are complex in our own little ways. When asked this question most definitions lead to the stereotypical nerd (see movie Revenge of The Nerds) which is a socially inept, awkward, outcast who isn’t necessarily intelligent but highly fanatical about a certain vice. To be perfectly honest with you, I have known many people who fit that mold, they seem nice enough… [Read more]

So before I start let me get the boring cliché remarks and thoughts that you people will spout out prior to even linking to the main article. The introverted nerdy ones of you will think to yourself “cool, I hope this gets sophisticated enough that I can have my own slavegirl modelled after Kristen Bell to play with.” The wannabe tough guy poser types will say “lol look the nerd had to make a girlfriend! I trip over ass everytime I leave my house, what’s his deal?” and a few of you standard model humans will say “WTF?”  Anyway, Japanese inventor Le Trung has created a young woman who does math and exhibits artificial intelligence. Along with math, Le also says she can be tweaked to have orgasms and respond to your nerdy thrusts the way a real woman might… more on that later. With the sophisticated knowledge needed to create a real femme bot… [Read more]