"Mud Flap"
I have officially not only added the no-robot meta tag to my weg pages but uploaded that infamous "robots.txt" file to refuse any and all robots what so ever. So take that. And now I've gone from 21 hits in one day to 9 hits to no hits. Thus proving just how popular my stupid blog is. And here I thought I should be worried. But at least the poor Google searchers won't get any false-positives when looking up whatever it is they were trying to find. Maybe once I'm listed in a the blog directories I signed up for and re-signed up for hits will improve. And maybe that robots.txt file was unnecessary.
Yesterday I managed to do a good job of wasting. Some how I got distracted on reviews for different online RPGs, which lead to links for MUDs, which lead to reading all the descriptions of all the MUDs, downloading special MUD clients and trying to learn how to play a MUD. If you don't know, a MUD is a "Multi-User Dunguen" (or Domain depending on who you ask). A good resource for MUDs is
MUD Connect. Unfortunately this site uses frames for some stupid reason so I can't link you directly to a particular page. MUDs are kind of a throwback to the days of character-based story games. Character as in ASCII text that is. No sound, music or graphics, just plain scrolling text. You make a character and go from there. You get a read out on what's in the room and what if any players are there with you. You can converse with the other players if you choose. To check your inventory you would 'i', to check equipment 'eq'. To pick something up or drop an item you would use "get item" or "drop item". Well you get the idea. It requires a lot of imagination obviously and a certain kind of mind to be able to deal with that sort of thing. And being a good reader helps also.
Now to be fair there are many similiar kinds of games now available via the Web. And it works exactly the same way only you're click a button in the browser to attack that rabbit or get that update on your skill level as opposed to typing in attack rabbit or reading level updates in plain text. But there is something strangely appealing about that sort of game to me. You can simply play these kinds of games with the telnet client that came with Windows (I'm sure one also comes with Mac and about a hundred different ones with Linux).
[March 5th at 11:30pm]
I started playing a MUD entitled
Aetolia. It has more than a hundred players using it, at least in the evenings, the tutorial to get you started is quite good and the other players seem really helpful and friendly. Basically this game is, in fact, a MMORPG not much different from EverQuest. EQ just added a graphical client on top of it. But basically EQ is in fact a text-based MUD. So with Aetolia I just don't get the graphical part and a lot more imagination is required. And Aetolia is free, of course.
In other news I have resumed contact with my friend over the new computer support business. I'm starting to wonder if this will ever get off the ground. Hopefully we'll have the domain name taken care of so we can start the web site and we'll finish the flyers etc. This just feels kind of wierd really. I mean I didn't hear from Steve for a whole week without explanation. I thought we had plans. How are we supposed to run this if I don't even know where he is? Just makes me nervous.
Besides that I still haven't done too much lately. I do recommend trying out a MUD by the way. Even if you don't think you'll like it, you may be surprised. I think I'll keep sort of track in this blog. Or start another blog! Or at the very least post the logs generated by my adventures. Who'd want to read such a thing I don't know.
I will close out tonight with a single link to the "
worst fan-fic ever". "YOU ARE SAYING IMPUDENCE TO ME! THAT IS IMPUDENCE". heh.
The "I'm Bosley" is from a Whose Line episode. It was a good particular skit...
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