Come sit on Santa's lap...

[Laehval tTemarr 0]

Christmas!

Rapidly approaching.

Is your shopping done yet?

 

'Tis the season to be greedy and get away with it. Ha ha!

 

 

Sooooooo... what do you want for Christmas?

 

Sit on Santa's lap like you used to do as a kid and actually tell him what you want this time, instead of crying for your mommy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me? I'm hoping for some new patterns for my Lite-Brite. :P

[Guest Sarvek]

::looks at Laeh::

 

 

... au are very, very deranged.

 

Thus said... I'm looking forward to finishing out my ENT DVD set, for one thing, then hopefully some crafting materials I want.

[Nicolas Lepage 0]

Ah Christmas...the time of year when you just can't get away from your family. :P

 

Seriously, I'm looking forward to spending a whole week at my mum's just eating and lying on the sofa watching all those bad movies they show on TV around Christmas.

 

As for presents, I hope I'll get tickets for a concert I've wanted to go to ever since I was 9 years old.

Edited December 3, 2006 by Nicolas Lepage

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Hello santa!

 

I want...

 

A new computer. Something that will live for a while and not be outdated in a month.

 

Or a tailored suit. Something that just says "I'm the man". In navy or black. Not one of these lightweight, somewhat tacky things you see in a lot of clubs. If you've seen the end to casino royale you know what I'm talking about. Pure class.

 

And why is your lap poking me santa?

[knlwtchr 0]

And why is your lap poking me santa?

 

Now, be nice. Santa already gave me what I wanted: an engagement. I know. Too sappy.

 

BTW: My hubby to be says, "Those are santas candy canes (Images)." You men, I swear! =0]

[will_marx 0]

All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth...

 

And plane tickets to the Philippines to be with my sweetie.

[Captain Huff 0]

DVD's AND ELECTRONICS!

 

I want Babylon-5! I want ENT! I want the TOS and TNG movies! I want a new camera!

[Cdr Zareh 0]

But Huff, you've been so very *bad* this year. ::dives::

[Captain Huff 0]

So very true! (But didn't Santa enjoy it? ;)

[STSF Precip 0]

Well Santa,

 

I want NBC to allow Battlestar Galactica to finish up on Ron Moore's terms not on NBC's operational cost hack job.

 

I really need a replacement Car can you help me out with that?

 

Ah..an ISS NX-O1 Enterprise Ship.

 

A new Ipod or something that I can listen to music with?

 

Did I mention BSG ending when It's supposed to ..its my favorite show!

 

-Precip

[STSF Seiben 0]

::loves his iPod:: I'd like a new PSP, those are cool.

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Santa:

 

Myself and a couple of the elves were talking, and we agreed that waiting in line, or getting mugged, all for a new gaming system was not the way to go. So, I went out (with the elves' blessing), dodged the risk early, and got an early 360 present. In addition, everything set up fine for me.

 

Honestly? Don't need anything else! So satisfied. Three words - Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Wow. I am in RP heaven. Kitty Warrior, woo! Not that I'm biased or anything....no.

 

I am finished about 95% of my shopping as well!

 

Happy Holidays all!

Edited December 4, 2006 by Kansas_Jones

[Travis Kroells 0]

I dont have any holiday wishes, seeing as how my lovely neighbors decided to set up a wireless network for their house, basically allowing me to steal their internet, and hence forth return while I search for permenant liveage.

[will_marx 0]

I dont have any holiday wishes, seeing as how my lovely neighbors decided to set up a wireless network for their house, basically allowing me to steal their internet, and hence forth return while I search for permenant liveage.

 

First off, Travis, welcome back. At least for as long as you have free Internet.

 

Secondly, I can think of a Holiday (take your pick: Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Agnostica) wish: A place of permanent residence.

[Travis Kroells 0]

Agnostica...I like it, hence forth it shall be my new holiday.

 

Hopefully permenant liveage will come in the form of the only crappy apartment I can afford two towns over. During that time, I might be temporarily gone as I set up new internet if the neighbors there dont have internet I can "borrow"

 

If anyone wants they can send me a six pack of Guiness as a house warming gift.

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I dont have any holiday wishes, seeing as how my lovely neighbors decided to set up a wireless network for their house, basically allowing me to steal their internet, and hence forth return while I search for permenant liveage.

 

 

Heh, well its their own fault really. Its easy to make a wireless network secure from scrubbers like us by simply putting a password in.

 

My student house made sure its the first damn thing we did! In the dodgy area we live in, there are muggings, robberies and hydroponic rooms, I doubt bandwidth stealing is considered rude! :lol:

 

There may be a nun living across the road but I'm pretty sure she's up to something too... :P

[Travis Kroells 0]

There may be a nun living across the road but I'm pretty sure she's up to something too... :P

 

Nuns are always up to something. Jesus'll do that to ya...

[Images 0]

Nuns are always up to something. Jesus'll do that to ya...

 

Yeah man, of course he's a bad influence. He comes from a messed up family! His dad got his mum knocked up while she was married and went back up North I heard. Typical broken home. He tried to get out of the street life one time when he started a sandwich shop but with only one type of bread available and only fish on the fillings menu it was doomed to fail.

[Laehval tTemarr 0]

I just found something that Santa can bring me for Christmas 2008!

(I just hope it actually gets created.)

 

 

 

From Wired News

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,722...ml?tw=rss.index

 

Firefly Reborn as Online Universe

 

By Mark Wallace

14:00 PM Dec, 07, 2006

 

 

Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.

 

Now that's shiny.

 

Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it's struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.

 

The "Browncoats," as Firefly's most devoted fans are known, have been campaigning to bring the show back almost since the moment it was canceled in late 2002. Now they'll get their wish, albeit in a new form.

 

"We see virtual worlds as an extraordinarily promising new entertainment medium," said Adam Kline, Fox Licensing's vice president of media enterprises in an e-mail. "We believe Multiverse can deliver an experience that will remain true to the original series, while enabling a whole new level of personal involvement for fans."

 

Canceled in the United States after only 11 episodes, Firefly has become the Star Trek of 21st-century sci-fi fandom: a show that seemed to remake the genre even as it stayed faithful to the conventions of "hard" science fiction, like engine room problems and menacing hordes lurking on the edge of known space.

 

What made the show special was the wry, often self-deprecating humor of its characters, from the captain with the checkered past to the unwittingly sexy engineer, the dull hunk of a mercenary with a girl's name, and the mysterious young woman passenger with special gifts.

 

The online version will move away from those central characters -- after all, there's only one Mal Reynolds. In an MMORPG, "everybody has to have their own story," says Multiverse co-founder and executive producer Corey Bridges.

 

"Television series can be really good properties to turn into MMOs, because when you make a TV series, not only do you need great characters, but you need to create a full, rich, compelling place," Bridges says. "If you're doing science fiction, you have to really think it out and create an incredibly rich environment that is compelling in its own right, and worth exploring and going back to week after week. That's what Joss Whedon did with Firefly."

 

The universe of Firefly and its spinoff film, Serenity, featured everything from Old West-style towns to futuristic urban environments, gritty spaceships and pastoral retreats -- freedom fighters, oppressive government agents, smugglers, outlaws, mercenaries, trader, townsfolk, futuristic geishas and a race of corrupted humans known as the Reavers.

 

Bringing those environments and character types to life as an online game will be a challenge: Multiverse is not a game developer, but rather a platform provider whose product is still in beta. Instead of making the game itself, the company will hire a development team that will craft the virtual galaxy using Multiverse tools.

 

"We want to find someone who wants to do something unique and fun and interesting, not just a re-skin of World of Warcraft or Star Wars Galaxies," Bridges says.

 

Because the underlying technology is already in place, "I feel confident that we'll see something the public can play sometime in 2008," he adds.

 

Founded by several early Netscape employees, Multiverse hopes to do for virtual worlds what Netscape did for web pages: provide a universal browser that lets users access any world built on the Multiverse platform using the same client software.

 

Already, some 7,000 development teams have registered for the Multiverse beta, according to Bridges, and more than 150 are making MMOs and non-game virtual worlds on a full-time basis. The tools are provided for free, with Multiverse taking a cut of revenue only if developers charge for their games, or for virtual items available within their worlds.

 

Landing Firefly on the Multiverse platform would seem to be a sure-fire promotional move. But satisfying the show's committed fans will not be easy. Online communities like FireflyFans.net, the show's premier fan site, have generated an endless stream of fan fiction, art, blogs, pod casts, meet-ups and even a fan-produced documentary, Done the Impossible, which briefly broke into the top 1,000 in DVD sales on Amazon.com.

 

The announcement comes just in time for this weekend's second annual gathering of Firefly fans at the Hilton hotel in Burbank, California. The "Flanvention" has already sold out, with 500 prepaid attendees signed up.

 

Bridges shrugs off the pressure; he just wants to make "something worthy of the show," he says. "This all springs from the genius that is Joss Whedon. It's rewarding beyond words to be able to hopefully be a footnote in the history of Firefly."

[Kansas_Jones 0]

I just found something that Santa can bring me for Christmas 2008!

(I just hope it actually gets created.)

 

::jaw drops:: COOL! Shiny! I will defintely keep that on the radar. Thanks for the heads up Laehval. Firefly has seriously grown on me over the past year, I still cant believe I *missed* it when it first aired. A sci fi western - how neat is that? If the MMORPG goes forward, there will be lotsa happy fans out there.

 

Actually, if both Firefly and the Star Trek Online are released as MMORPG's...I may just have to make a decision between the two, only choosing one. We'll see!

Edited December 11, 2006 by Kansas_Jones