I guess with no hope for the game, it’s probably time to say good-bye to Paperlane as well. I’ll leave the content up for posterity but unless I hear some kind of to-do about it, will be removing the comment and entry editing functionality within the next week.

Hope to see everyone somewhere warm and cozy!

Love,
Sel.

Aaaugh! put this in a comment, but I thought it would be better memorialized as its own entry:

Yogi says goodbye

*clears throat*
*adjusts his I {heart} Stencilton Embroidered T-Shirt*
*raises his Pint of Butternut Beer for a toast*
 
Stop all the Doodads, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the Ptarmigan from squawking with a juicy Genome,
Silence the Harpsicords and with muffled Saxamaphone
Roll up the server, let the mourners come.
 
Use Rapidiconer and Feather pens with hanging head
Scribbling on Notes the message It Is Dead,
Put Hula Hoops round the necks of Electric Sheep,
Leave the Devs, Alice and Dos Pesos in a heap.
 
It was our North, our South, our East and West,
Our working week and our Sunday rest,
Our noon, our midnight, our talk, our song;
We thought the Funk would drop for ever: We were wrong.
 
The Fireflies are not wanted now; Jar up every one:
Hedgehammer the moon and Nebulate the sun;
Pour away the Absinthe and sweep up the Sparkle Powder:
For nothing now can ever come to matter.
 
*chugs his beer and passes out under the disposable swedish furniture*
 
(with apologies to W.H.Auden)

I’m so sad, everyone! Where will we all go now?

*sigh*

So, GNE is dead. Long live Paper Lane!

Who hosts this anyway?

So, in a recent comment on the dog-in-the-mangr Photoswop app, Dr Beurrechamp opines that the Grand Jeu will not be afoot until the year 2005.
Since I will be in all likelihood making my abode on the moon at that point in a self-supporting pod, I can only wish you all well in your playings.

sighs sadly and mooches off into the garden to tut-tut over the molehills …

I hope you guys had a great holiday season, and I’m looking forward to finding out the dev’s happy news coming up this month.

In the meantime, let’s feel morally superior to the Sims Online, since AFAIK Stencilton lacks both Goreans and child prostitutes… :)

If you haven’t been back to the GNE lately, it’s time to go right now!!! Items are back! Karma is back! Mood is back! xp is back! Wonderful fuzzy feeling after eating a butterfly is back!
See the changelog and Stewart’s post.

What kind of social software are you? (possible results)

4 Personality Types of MUD players. (found indirectly via Aaugh!’s link below). Which type are you? Which type do you think the GNE attracts?

The New Yorker on Ultima Online
This is a rather old story (May 2001), but slow people like me may still find it interesting.

Anyone else having trouble logging into the site? My site cookie works fine, but I can’t type my email/password on a clean machine and log in successfully…

If anyone read my earlier post ignore it.

I have swallowed what little pride i have left and will hopefully return soon.

See you later…

Another grisly Everquest-related death :(

Curses, I’ve been humming to myself all morning. Damn my obsessive brain!