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A Return to Star Wars Galaxies: Part Five

Star Wars Galaxies

A Return to Star Wars Galaxies: Part Five

First and foremost, I want to talk a bit about bots, or at least what I call bots, which is to say avatars set in place and unmanned to perform a service.  We never saw this ‘back in the day’, although you’d occasionally catch a crafter AFK running a free-mining macro.  In the EMU it is commonplace to find what I’ll affectionately call ‘poor, half-naked, bastards’ or PHNBs all over the landscape. I can’t help but wonder, with all the buildings and time since launch, why these PHNBs are necessary, and yet they never seem to diminish. ‘I once met...

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A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Four

Star Wars Galaxies

A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Four

So people sometimes ask me why I still play SWG.  It is a dead game after all, at least through SOE, and there are Facebook games with better graphics these days, but to me it was never about the game itself.  I’m a writer, you see, and I don’t ever view games like a sane person.  To me, every step my avatar takes is a story that plays out in my minds-eye, and I create all the detail I need to keep things alive and interesting.  I guess that is why I chose to be a crafter, as I wasn’t...

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A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Three

Star Wars Galaxies

A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Three

Do you ever wonder how many people have done the quests in SWG?  I once played a Bounty Hunter in NGE and did the criminal series that took me from Tatooine to Naboo and finally Corellia where I think I got to be a pilot.  This was in 08’.  It took me probably a week to play through that series, but eventually the coolness cooled and I dropped out. ‘I once had to find and retrieve a razor cat cub for Brantlee Spondoon at the Coronet Capital, but as hot as she was, that was unfortunately the only pussy I...

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When Jim Holloway had a girl...

Jim Holloway

When Jim Holloway had a girl...

Yep, TSR alum Jim Holloway had a girl too.  No Jim would argue that point, saying he had lots and lots of girls, practically every one he's ever done being attributed to some girl from his past.  A girlfriend here, a mail carrier, a girl he shot images of from the upper windows of the old TSR building as she walked bikini-clad to the Lake Geneva beach.  Still, I see a lot of the same girl in his 80s stuff, that sometimes flaxen, sometimes dark-haired and always round-faced beauty that broke my damn heart every time I had to see...

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A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Two

Star Wars Galaxies

A Return to Star Wars Galaxies Part Two

I wonder sometimes why, with all the entertainment that we now have at our fingertips, we come back to Star Wars Galaxies.  I guess in my mind it is a story, every moment I spend in the game, even the grind, I can imagine as an alternate reality in which I’m part of a bigger epic.  At least that is what I tell myself when the hours slip away. ‘I remember friends that seem like I knew them an entire lifetime, and yet when I focus, I realize that it was only a matter of weeks or months that they...

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