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Game Time, The Sequel

November 9th, 2004 5 comments

I finally got my copy of Everquest II just a little while ago. I ran into ole Russ at the store. I’m not surprised that he’s going to be playing the game as well. I think his group is going to be playing on the roleplaying-preferred server. It looks like I may be making multiple characters, which probably isn’t a bad thing. I’ve heard that Pacman might be interested in trying out Everquest. We must encourage him to pick up the habit.

I also got my copy of Halo 2 this morning. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.

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Game Time

November 8th, 2004 15 comments

The manager of the GameStop here in Starkville told me that I could pick up my copy of Everquest II around 3:00 today. I probably won’t get a chance to go pick it up until around 5:30, and I’ll be playing most of the night (assuming that I can play today). I wish Sony would have released the name of the game servers. I think I’ll just pick the 4th one down the list and start playing on it.

GameStop is also going to start selling Halo 2 at 12:01 tonight. I hate to say it, but I think Halo may just have to wait a little bit. No longer than a couple of days, of course.

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The Incredibles

November 6th, 2004 No comments

I saw The Incredibles last night. It’s a VERY good movie. Loads of fun. But that’s to be expected from Pixar. Go see this movie ASAP!

This weekend was supposed to be the debut of the Star Wars Episode 3 trailer, but it wasn’t played before The Incredibles. I’m sure I’ll be able to find it online somewhere.

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More Fantasy News

November 5th, 2004 2 comments

It’s been over 4 years since George R.R. Martin released the latest book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. It looks like we may have to wait a little longer, partially because of President Bush. This message was posted on his website Wednesday.

I write this the day after the presidential election.

A FEAST FOR CROWS is still not finished. Yes, I have written some more pages since the June update. No, the book is not yet done. My August and September schedule was full of conventions, travel, and speaking appearances, which cut deeply into my writing time during those months. Yes, I could have made more progress on the book if I had stayed at home chained to the desk, but I make these commitments years in advance and I take them very seriously.

Also, some of the writing that I have done since June has actually been rewriting. My goal, as I have said repeatedly in these updates, has always been to produce a book that is a good as it can be, so when I suddenly realize that one of my story threads can be made much more powerful and dramatic with some restructuring, I restructure… even if that means going back, tearing up finished chapters, and reworking them from start to finish.

That’s done, anyway. A FEAST FOR CROWS will be much better for it, and now I am back at work on new chapters once again… although not today, and maybe not tomorrow, or next week. I am pretty good with words, usually, but no words can express how miserable, angry, and depressed I am feeling this morning over the results of yesterday’s election. The exit polling makes it clear: this was a victory for bigotry and fear, a mandate bought with lies. I know from past experience that it is going to take me some time to shake off this depression.

Losing myself in the world of Westeros would probably be the best medicine for what ails me just now, I know full well. There is solace in work, and books — my own books, and those of others — have always been a refuge for me during dark times in my life. Today, however, the {fictional} travails of my {fictional} Seven Kingdoms seem pretty unimportant compared to the very real woes that the United States is facing, a future of war and isolation abroad, and division and repression at home.
Winter is coming to Westeros, but it has already come to America.

—George R.R. Martin, November 3, 2004

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Typo?

November 5th, 2004 No comments

I was doing some reading on one of my favorite series of books, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, and found some cool information. Debt of Bones, a prequel to the series, was released in standalone paperback on Nov 2. On the copyright page, the author is listed as Robert Jordan, who is the author of The Wheel of Time series. Both authors use the same publishing company, Tor Fantasy. Since The Sword of Truth is similar to The Wheel of Time in many aspects, some people say that Goodkind copied The Wheel of Time and just changed the name and places. Maybe somebody at the publishing company was just trying to give credit where it’s due. I doubt it though. Anyway, on the same day as it was released, Tor recalled all copies of the book and is having them destroyed. If anybody got a copy, it’s probably a collectors item.

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Happy Election Day

November 2nd, 2004 3 comments

I cast my vote this morning. I went around 7:30 this morning and I was very excited. This is the first time I’ve been able to go into a booth to vote. I don’t know why that seemed so cool! I had always voted absentee in the past, but this year I had my registration changed so I could vote here in Starkville.

My voting place is less than a mile from me on the same street that I live on. The whole process probably took about 15 minutes, and a good bit of that was spent trying to get through traffic. I think I saw only about 5 or 6 people around my age there. I’m hoping that more younger people will get there as the day goes on.

I’m sure I’ll be glued to my TV tonight. I can’t wait until it’s over.

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