I remembered my plan for Jormungand, the Midgaard Serpent: the idea was that Jormungand was a part of the Midgaard terraforming process, a giant "shield" around the planet acting as a defense platform after terraforming, and also as a side effect obscuring the immense Yggdrasil from view of Midgaard. (I figured that even with a bunch of new-ish technology there was still a wish to provide for and protect good old "base model" Homo sapiens.)

Also, I wasn't surprised by Too Human making Odin a machine intelligence, but in my plan I believe it was Loki that was the machine intelligence rather than Odin, or perhaps it was both.

• 1 week ago

Here's an "official" blog update on the subject: http://blog.worldmaker.net/2008/sep/11/banshee-ma...

• 2 weeks ago

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, sometimes referred to as Indy4 (and in my opinion a better story than the actual fourth film, KOTCS), is this month's game in Mixnmojo's Secret History series and it was reading it this week that reminded me that Last Crusade was actually a good film adaptation to video game. (FOA "Talkie" was my first LucasArts adventure game, it was on a Macintosh double feature CD with Secret of Monkey Island in one of the labs in elementary school...)

LucasArts eventually produced Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, neither of which have I played but most call them "meh" and a few like/love them. They were basically Tomb Raider rip-offs with Indiana Jones. Last Crusade and Fate of Atlantis are the two adventure games and definitely classics, though.

• 2 weeks ago

Power back on at 2 this morning, still waiting on AT&T/BellSouth for the DSL to work.

• 2 weeks ago

Freezepop has been great live, both times I saw them. This time they
were in full force, though, with The Duke and a new (to me) drummer.
I'd recommend it if you do get the chance.

• 5 weeks ago