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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...