Myr

I played for a bit. I haven't gone back in awhile, since I've been playing other things.

I finally got around to playing Arena in multiplayer last night. And got my ass handed to me many many many times. I also played Warzone... and did much better. Even got a chance to Req a Wraith and blast the hell out of a boss and get enough points for our team to win one.

Star Wars The Old Republic, the MMO that is a few years old and now free to play, is made by Bioware and is an outstanding Star Wars RPG. I've played nearly the whole thing single player surrounded by others doing the same. http://www.swtor.com/ It has 8 huge, fully voiced stories. (the game set the record for most recorded dialog ever.) I did pre-order Battlefront and I enjoyed the beta. I'll play it as well as the pile of other games that came out.

I've been enjoying Assassin's Creed Syndicate, when I get time to play it. it is SO much better than Unity. I still haven't even gotten half way through Unity yet. Unity is so gimped on combat and eagle vision, it's a real pain in the ass to even play. They seemed to have fixed both in Syndicate.

There is awful lot of FUD in here about Microsoft. (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). The privacy crap is way overblown by people that don't understand it and frankly make things up and it get's worse with each telling. If you use ANYTHING from Google, you're already much worse off than the 'express settings' from Microsoft and Windows 10. In fact, the number of privacy options in windows 10 is mind boggling. But they are there and you can choose to control your privacy however you'd like. Try that with Google sometime, eh? I was running the preview on my 7 year old laptop... no problems there. I've upgraded my other laptop, my daily use desktop, my mother's laptops. and I've only had one issue. And that issue wasn't MS, it was Dell. Now, for those of you that have switched to Windows 10 and are concerned about the Privacy settings, here is a pretty good guide from an honest broker: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/5337/windows-10-tip-understand-and-configure-privacy-settings That guide covers if you are in the upgrade process or after you've upgraded. So, if you're worried, take a deep breath and go through that guide Overall, I'm very happy with Windows 10. I love the notification center, Cortana (whom I'm always asking about the weather) and Edge is a damn good start of a browser. it's more than usable though.

Happy Birthday Cia!

Thanks. I'll look into that when I expand the story into novel length.

Thanks. I really appreciate the feedback

Thanks. I've thought about writing more on this story line.

Thanks

Happy Birthday James!

Brian, I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the review!

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This week I wanted to talk about the power of the Tag in the forum software. It has been a feature in the software for a long time now. Although we use them slightly differently in our Stories Archive, they function the same with our search system. What is a tag? It is a descriptive word that you can attach to a topic, blog, gallery image, ebook, story, etc. This word is that searchable. The system is set up so you can group like-tagged items together. For example, anything tagged "Renee Stevens" would show up if you click here: http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/tags/forums/Renee+Stevens/ What is a prefix tag? On the forums in particular, the tag section has a check box next to it that says 'use first tag as prefix'. What this does is put the first tag as a highlighted word preceding the Topic Title in the forum index. Why do we want to use prefix's? As part of our cleaning up of the forums, we are combining some forums and would like to use the prefixes as a way to still keep things sortable. For example, we already use common forums for our author groups. When we use tags, say 'myr' for any topics relating to my stories, it allows us to group like topics together when we click on the tag. So if you click the 'myr' tag, you'd get all the topics that have that tag. We could do the same with "humor" or "gamer" or "sports" for example. How do I use tags? Tags are pretty simple. If you want to use a prefix, then write that tag first and then hit comma. each time you hit comma, the word will solidify into a tag with a little 'x' next to it. If you're using the prefix, just tap the check box. If you'd like to add more tags, just write the tag and follow it with a comma. It's that easy. Hey, why isn't my new topic showing up in search? The search system is slightly delayed and updates about every 15 min. It will be after that that your topic should show up under the tag search. Why can I only select certain tags? Some areas of the site have the tag listed in order to control sorting. Stories Archive is a great example. You cannot type your own tag there, you must select from what is available. In some forums, we have prepopulated tags as well. This is done to make things easier. For example: domluka, dom luka mean the same thing, but would be two different tags in the system. I encourage everyone to start using tags. They are there to make your lives easier after all

I really enjoyed both series. Though I need to go back and play the Dragon Age 3 DLC. And my Mass Effect 3 run on Psychotic difficulty. lol and obviously, I took every gay option I could get in the games

Thanks Again everyone!

Thanks everyone

I'm all for public execution of such people. The day after a guilty verdict. Nothing works better as a deterrent than showing the fast results of when you're caught. and if you're stupid enough to do it anyway, then hopefully we execute the guilty prior to them breeding.

That was a very cute scene really. They didn't have this when I was a kid. lol.

Last Saturday morning, about ten minutes after arriving at my destination on campus my mother called my cell phone. I could barely make out what she was saying. The gist of it was that dad had a massive heart attack and collapsed in the driveway. She told me she was getting on the ambulance and hung up. It took me almost 15 minutes to trudge across campus through the snow to my car. I was going as quick as I could without falling on the ice. I drove to my house and grabbed my meds and some clothes. Before jumping back in my car, I called my uncle to get the hospital they took him to. I jumped back in the car and drove to the next city over. The normally 70 minute drive was nearly 2 hours. The Thruway was covered in snow and it was snowing the whole drive. I arrived at the hospital and when I checked in at the security desk, the guard basically said "Oh. Come with me." We went through a maze of hallways. As soon as I came around the corner my wailed "he's gone". I think that sound she made will hunt my nightmares for years. Dad went just like his father did. Grandpa died at work at age 51. He just dropped and was gone. Dad was 67 and a couple weeks and he he just dropped and was gone too. They tried in the ambulance to bring him back. But he was gone when he hit the driveway. The last time I talked to him was his birthday. My last words to him were "I love you dad." His last words to me were "I love you." So, though I wasn't there when he went, he knew how much I loved him and I knew how much he loved me. I'm an only child and this week has been hell on earth. For those of you that have siblings, you probably never give much thought to it, but at the end of the day when everyone goes home, there is only you and your mom. Mom had dad for 38 years. They still acted like teenagers when they went out. Nothing can fill that hole and trying to hold it together for mom has been the hardest thing I've ever done. I've got a lot of stuff to do ahead of me, but I wanted to write this to talk about dad. And because dad was a funny guy I want to leave this on something upbeat, because that's what he'd want. When I was 24, the first father's day after coming out, I played golf with my father/son golf tournament. While sitting in the golf cart waiting for all the people to play, my father kept pointing at the various sons and going "What about that one? His ass sticks out. do you like that one?" as we passed various guys, he kept doing this. finally he points to a kid,maybe 15, and says, "what about him?" "DAD!! Sure, when he's a few years older and not jailbait!" "Bah, if there's grass on the field, it's ready to mow." I smacked his arm. Did any of your dads point out guys to you after coming out? Bye Dad. I'll love you forever.

They say that the new year is a time of reflection. It has been a very long time since I just sat down to write and I did that last night. It felt good to do it. I decided to stop by my blog because I was cleaning up old stuff. With the big software upgrade, some of the old junk needs to go. I decided to keep this blog though because of it's long history. But since I was here, why not write something? One of my goals for this year was to be more visible on the site. You've seen some of that by my weekly Tech Tuesday posts. My hope going forward is to be more involved again this year. Remind myself again why I spend so much time here, even when you don't see me. We have so much to do this year. It's going to be busy. See you soon! Myr

LMAO! Isn't that the truth!

Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas!

I'm glad you liked it! I have thought about a small sequel from time to time. But there is a lot of other things ahead of it in the writing queue.