Yesterday Linden Lab released a new “First look Viewer” for “↑Second Life“ (SL) [they call the SL-client a “viewer”], a new test-client. With the ↑WindLight First Look Viewer: 1.16.0.62469 you can regularly log on to SL’s main grid, and …Continue reading →
You might perhaps have noticed that during the past weeks the overall number of entries here at xirdalium has substantially increased. Including this one, there now are 1058 posts all in all. This is due to my finally having imported …Continue reading →
Just as my ↵list of literary fiction I am currently reading or rererading [and have recently read or reread], this list of computer games I am playing, replaying, and have played is more or less just for myself in order …Continue reading →
Just three hours after my musing on AlanWAKEnet becoming the official fansite and the developers’ attitude towards the fanhood, ↑MikaRMD announced AlanWAKEnet to be the game’s official fansite: It also gives me a great pleasure that we can announce ↑www.alanwake.net …Continue reading →
The ↑Mana’o Project is “an experimental open access anthropology repository.” It is just some months old, but there already are items as far back as 1891, including some classics. Of course the frequency of items gets bigger and bigger as …Continue reading →
My job here at the university forces me to teach at least two courses every term. Here’s what I am going to publicly babble about during the upcoming summer-term (24 April to 29 July 2006): computergames With contemporary sociocultural anthropology’s …Continue reading →
1980s 1984 HOT B. 1984. Psychic city [computer game]. Tokyo: Hot B. 1985 STODART, ANDY AND IAN FOSTER. 1985. Blade runner [computer game]. London: CRL Group. 1986 ASCII CORPORATION. 1986. The screamer [computer game]. Tokyo: ASCII Corporation. 1987 HOT B. …Continue reading →
When I entered the last chapter of ↑Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal 2008) my account read 178 diamonds. The sneaky bastard I am, I felt so comfortable once I had the combination of silenced P9, Dragunov, dart rifle, and the …Continue reading →