A pleasant Monday to all. Rain is predicted tonight. That's when the skies open and liquid falls, in case you've forgotten. Don't be alarmed. It's normal. Or at least it used to be.
NERD I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if an entire city of gamers had suddenly been exposed to sunlight. This will strike some as the equivalent of a colony of ants dying off for no reason, but it's a fascinating tale. This stuff matters to a lot of people.
It takes a low, lousy person to do something like this. Doesn't matter that it's virtual; this is a pastime enjoyed by millions, and to have your work ruined by some pimply sociopath who ruins other people's accomplishment for lulz - well, let's he the miscreants are located. If they're domestic, put them in jail for a few months. About the third day standing on the roadside in prison orange, picking up trash, a light might go off: Maybe there's an actual connection between the typing I do at home and things that happen elsewhere to other people. Wow. Let me take this thought a little further - the world of the internet is not confined solely to my screen. It is being experienced by other sentient beings with . . . hold on, it'll come to me, the word's on the tip of my tongue . . . with emotions! That's it. Hey, I'm really growing as a person here!
Worth a try.
TIMEWASTER Click on a square; wait. Click on another. Build a nice chiming loop. Figure out chords and timing. It's as easy as possible, and quite satisfying, unless you're easily bored and still in a state of raw fury because Ragnaros-EU was hit by a neutron bomb.
HISTORY I swear this surfaces every year. I'd think they were new except for the second picture, the Emir of Bukhara. But everything is always new to someone, so: here's Czarist Russia - in living color!
Curious about the Emir, I googled around, and here's another page that shows the same setting - with different colors. Huh. Perhaps they've futzed with the original. You can achieve the same effect by changing the hue in Photoshop, but that makes the doors red. Anyway, who was this guy, really?
