Web Game Pricing

There are two major web-based games I play. One is Kingdom of Loathing, the other is Forumwarz. Both are free-to-play, however Forumwarz has recently changed its scheme in order to force itself to turn profitable. I wanted to examine this in a little more depth.
KoL has always run purely off donations. They produce one new [...]

Television Round-up

I completely forgot about the premiere of Heroes last night. I mean, I was in rehearsal, so it didn’t make much difference, but still. I was pretty angry when I suddenly remembered. Also, surprisingly, Chuck premiered last night too. I could’ve sworn it was supposed to start up next week, but…surprise! I guess. Anyways, here [...]

What’s wrong with liking Pixar?

This post made me sad. It describes me all too well, but it’s not me. THEY DON’T KNOW ME. So what that I have an unhealthy obsession with Pixar? They make good movies. There’s nothing wrong with that. Plus I have NEVER gone to the movies alone, though I do admit I would if I [...]

Spread the Pirate Love

I am amazed at how a silly little idea like TLAPD could become a global phenomenon. The fact that I could sign in to Facebook and change my language to Pirate today was just amazing. How did something like this happen? I mean, the first clear sign of it becoming recognized was Dave Barry’s coverage [...]

Classes are stressful, Eli Stone is not

I have never been so stressed out with classes before in my entire educational career. This is ridiculous. We are barely two weeks into school, and I’ve already got papers, tests, homework. It’s just crazy. I don’t deal with school stress well, so I’ve been putting off all the work I have to do by [...]

Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Just a reminder, tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Don’t forget to YAR at random passerbys!

Why “Of Tolls and Rolls”?

I figure I should explain my new Blog title choice. If my close friends at FLS are reading this, they should understand it. But if you don’t get it, you should probably go watch “Robin Hood: Men In Tights”. Firstly because it’s an awesome movie, but secondly so you can keep up with the references [...]

New Website!

I’ve decided to switch over to WordPress. It’s prettier, and I don’t like the stupid URL I had made for this website too long ago. So I made an even stupider URL, and you should switch over to this site:
http://oftollsandrolls.wordpress.com
I’ve moved all the posts over there, and I won’t be updating Blogger any longer. It’s [...]

Pulling the rug out from under you

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, developers of Stargate Worlds, fired their Community Manager this week. Their claim (which I believe) is that they wanted a CM who was local to the company. Now, I can completely understand that preference. Working in Seattle this summer allowed me to be so much more helpful than I could have been [...]

Fringe

JJ Abrams’s new show finally premiered this week. I wasn’t caught up in all the hype about it, because as much as I love Lost, I think it’s gotten way weird lately. I love it because I was in it from the beginning, back before it was crazy super weird. Fringe starts off with the [...]