. I once wrote a very complete article on Metz, France, one of the largest cities in France, and it got deleted for being "obscure" and because "Wikipedia can't have an article on every no name city nobody has every heard of"

I'm afraid I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one, Anonymous Coward. The Metz article was first created in June 2002 (content: "Metz is an industrial city in northern France. It is represented in la Ligue Nationale, the French premier football division by F.C. Metz."), and has never been deleted at any time.

Not to mention that every part of this particular jellyfish contains toxins. Every touching the top of the jellyfish will result in temporary numbness.

So, it's no good for food, but it sounds like it could be great for getting high!

The fact that MMORPGs are descended from MUDs which are descended from pen & paper RPGs does not mean that MMORPGs are not a new gaming style. It just means that they are a new gaming style which has a chain of ancestry back to other gaming styles which were themselves new at one time (despite having ancestry of their own).

I'm tempted to just say "who cares 4th edition sucked" since I don't personally like it

I'm personally reserving judgement on the 4th edition for the moment, since I haven't actually played or DM'ed a session, I've only read the books after torrenting PDFs of them via The Pirate Bay.

I hardly ever program in my spare time these days, and I still think I'm pretty damn good at my (programming) job, and eminently employable.

But that's because I'm older now, settled down in a long term relationship, with hobbies that don't involve my computer, a cat, etc. I certainly programmed a lot in my spare time when I was younger (back in the Amiga demoscene days), and I'd be worried about a programmer (like the original blogger) who not only does not program as a hobby, but quite proudly asserts that he never has done.

What I discovered was that the majority of the reviews were negative on practically everything I looked at.

Probably an accurate reflection of the low, low quality of most consumer products, then.

I believe the other favoured epithet was "litigious motherfuckers". A title which the British Chiropractic Association have clearly earned through this affair.

I find it likely that we are the quiet majority, actually.

If the quiet majority thought the first flick was bad and the later ones even worse, how do you explain the fact that each installment was more successful than the last, up to Return of the King being the second highest grossing movie in history? Purely on the grounds that it was "over-hyped, and a lot of people just got swept up in it"? If only it were so easy to gross nearly three billion dollars!

Face it, the trilogy was an immense artistic, critical and commercial success - you just didn't like it. That's just opinion, it doesn't make you wrong. Claiming that the quiet majority also didn't like it, however, does make you wrong.

Basically, this whole article is an excuse to drive page hits to this guy's blog

Luckily most of us don't actually click through to the article, then.

When it comes to "Wheel of Time", you can divide the audience into two groups: people who don't like the series, and people who used to like the series but don't any more. That second group, however, has a large subgroup of people who don't like the series anymore, but who feel they have invested so much of their life reading it that they need to grind through in the hope of reaching a conclusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost_dilemma may be instructive.

I have heard from some reliable sources that Facebook and Twitter's backend applications are poorly written.

Given the quality of Facebook's developer API (it's horrible), I'd be amazed if the back-end of the actual site wasn't poorly written.

I use Astraweb as its currently the best unlimited monthly payment going

If you want to actually use Usenet for conversation, Astraweb's NON-unlimited plan is the way to go. 25 GB costs $10 and will probably last you the rest of your life. I know I haven't made much of a dent in the 25 GB I bought years ago.

Making it a really good game on a platform that doesn't have a keyboard and mouse or an excess of processing power is an honest development effort.

I guess it would be, since Doom wasn't even a really good game on a platform that did have a keyboard and mouse and an excess of processing power. Most overrated title in the history of gaming, a far greater example of "style over substance" than any more modern pixelshader-fests.

I still think either anyone must have the right to edit, or that whole Wikipedia experiment has failed.

Wikipedia is a project to produce a free online encyclopedia. It is not an experiment in anarchism, democracy, free speech or anything else. You might like to read What Wikipedia is not, and hopefully come to realize that the whole Wikipedia experiment fails only if it fails to produce a free online encyclopedia.

running 2 instances of the same game at the same time will be very difficult if not impossible for many games. Most will check to see if multiple license keys are in use at the same time with online play, and to my knowledge, installing 2 copies of the same game on the same computer using different keys is not something that will work either since that is a use that was never designed into the games

Bear in mind that the games mentioned by the questioner are MMORPGs, which generally are friendly towards running more than one instance on one PC. You need two subscriptions, of course.