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		<title>planetmule.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I find it hard to believe, I have heard that there are people out in the world who have never played one of the influential and ground-breaking multiplayer games of all time: Electronic Arts&#8217; M.U.L.E.
Really? What were you people thinking?
Still, it might not have been their fault per se, after all M.U.L.E. was released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2009/filler/38/</link>
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		<title>1001 Crazy Game Design Ideas: #6 End Game at the Beginning of the Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to remember which Everquest server this happened on. I believe it was Tholuxe-Paells.
On the very first day that the server came up, I had made a human character in Qeynos and was running around in Qeynos Hills happily bashing wolves and snakes and whatever I could get my level 5 sword on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2009/1001-ideas/19/</link>
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		<title>Just because I don&#8217;t want to lose this:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A link to someone as upset as I get over video game DRM:http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-mt4BpnfAN-o/how_anti_piracy_screws_over_people_who_buy_pc_games_flv/


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		<title>Update: Back to Everquest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks ago, some friends and myself decided to dust off our Everquest subscriptions from days gone by and try to take back Norrath from whoever it is that thinks they own it now. I must say that I am having a blast playing it again and I am finding it much easier to overlook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2008/uncategorized/35/</link>
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		<title>Sad times in Noob-land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently took a new job as a web developer and unfortunately this little page has made its way down to the bottom of the list of projects that I have to work on in my spare time. Part of the reason is because I don&#8217;t have much spare time to spare. As a corollary, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/filler/34/</link>
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		<title>Owning the game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing UFO:Afterlight a bit obsessively lately, if you call 8 hours a day for the past three days &#8220;obsessively.&#8221;
And although later I might post a review of sorts for the game, this isn&#8217;t it.
This is a gripe which applies to Afterlight and a philosophy which pervades games everywhere.
My complaint is that the game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/game-design-concepts/33/</link>
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		<title>All I really needed to know I learned in the Sims 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for while there (before I took my most recent hiatus from this little blog), I&#8217;m somewhat reluctant to admit, I had been playing the Sims 2 quite a bit. What I am even more reluctant to admit is that upon reflecting on how I play the Sims 2, I decided to make some changes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/filler/29/</link>
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		<title>Oh sure, I&#8217;d like one&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard yet, the Optimus Maximus keyboards may now be pre-ordered for delivery in December. The keyboards feature an individual LED on each key which may be programmed to display anything which will fit on their 48 x 48 pixel screens. The keyboards also feature a pre-order price tag of approximately $1564, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/uncategorized/32/</link>
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		<title>Un-installed Vanguard just now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess it was the recent announcement that Sony had acquired Vanguard developer Sigil Games that was the impetus behind the decision to finally erase the already dusty and unused Vanguard: Saga of Heroes from my hard drive.  Not that I needed to reclaim the space for anything, but just because I figure that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/uncategorized/31/</link>
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		<title>Lexicon page removed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who visit the site often, you may notice that a link to page called &#8220;Lexicon,&#8221; where I had defined exactly 6 game design terms, has been removed.
After surfing over to Nerfbat&#8217;s page, I noticed that he recently updated his own MMO Lexicon page, which is a wiki format page allowing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://permanoob.com/2007/uncategorized/30/</link>
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