Never Sleep With Your Sister….and other lessons I have learned. The first lesson at hand is one I learned recently – never sleep with your sister – nothing good will come of it.   Just as nothing good will come of trying to help a sibling (me) who feels so claustrophobic that she feels trapped in...

It was not a nasty dirty wet hole filled with ends of worms and a bad smell.  Nor was it a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it.   It was a wormhole and that meant danger. livin la vida…agujero de gusano Even though it is most often thought of in Eve Online as “living...

Welcome to Show 128! This time out we spend the first half of the show talking about all the news of the day (subjects listed below)…all the news that tickles our fancy and we have pretty ticklish fancies.  In the second half of the show we welcome guest Mord Fiddle from Fiddler’s Edge.  Last week...

When I left CCP had just laid off 20% of their staff world-wide. Their relationship with players had become as strained as Boy George opening for an Anita Bryant concert – and the corporation I once belonged to decided the solution to a year-long war dec was simply “waiting it out” (it didn’t work). I...

(With apologies to Van Morrison)   It’s a marvelous nights for some mining, With the stars all around in my eyes A fabulous night to mine asteroids ‘Neath the cover of Caldari Skies All the ore in the hold that is falling  And the coffee that’s sipped sweet and slow And Saturday night is still...

Welcome to the Show 127! You can listen to the show here or on Itunes. You can listen to the interviews with all of the candidates on the Crossing Zebra’s website here. This is the Eve Online CSM8 (counsel of stellar management) election special. The elections are taking place right now! Time for you who...

There is an old adage that says you never know what you have until it’s gone.  But sometimes a product is so good, so incredibly useful, that you DO know what you have before it’s gone.  We have been using gmail since there was a gmail in 2004.  Before that we paid for an email...

  You can listen to it here on Virginworlds.com, or here, or on Itunes O.K. it’s been out a day or two but we have spent the time since digging out of a good old fashioned midwestern blizzards.  Snow in the midwest are like teachers in university…there is alot of PHD’s…Pile it higher and Deeper as...

Welcome to Show 124! This time out we welcome Slunker from 2Lazy2bOtaku back to the show.  Slunker, Fran and I talk about the following subject (below). You can listen to the show  on www.virginworlds.com here or on Itunes. Welcome to Show 124! This time out Slunker from 2 Lazy 2 be Otaku, Fran and I...

Teenager:  Hey you. Ya you. Maya:  Yes? Teenager: You’re a vault hunter aren’t you? Maya: Well yes I am. Why? Teenager: I used to be a vault hunter like you, until I took a bullet to the knee. (long pause) Maya: …um…. Teenager:  Isn’t this Skyrim? Maya:  No this is Borderlands 2 and you are...

Welcome to Show 123, This time out we spend time with the gents from MMO Radio: Chris Coke and Adam “Ferrel” Trzonkkowski. The subject this time is something which has been in the news a great deal lately – violence in videogames. Do they cause violence? Is there any evidence that says that they do?...

Crunch time… Just about every industry has it and even we have ours.  It has been so busy the last few months I have had to call home and ask Fran if I am there - because I don’t know if I am coming or going.  It is starting to let up a bit, and finally...

  “How about them bears…” The phrase became a long running joke in my family.  It started with my grandfather many years ago.  Granddad had a hate-on for the Chicago Bears. I don’t know why, nobody seemed to know, and if Grandpa did he never told anyone.  Be that as it may he dearly loved...

Alright. I admit it.  All of our regular listeners know.  I have autophobia – no, that doesn’t mean I am afraid of ’57 Chevy’s. It means I am afraid of being alone.  So I have had regular nightmares about it off an on since the event that caused it. These usually involve the loss of...

No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 121 is live. You can listen to it on www.virginworlds.com, Itunes or here. Welcome to Show 121, It’s been so busy lately the only way to see above the paperwork is with a periscope.  We finally took enough time out to do another podcast.  Here are the topics for this...

Now that show 120 is out…we did mention that didn’t we? No?   Well then. Ahem.   No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 120 is out and you can listen to it on www.virginworlds.com, on Libsyn , and on Itunes .  It’s been quite busy here lately. In fact we have needed a periscope most days just...

Webmaster:  We have had several regular features on our show over the years were listeners and guests got into heated discussions about issues.  Even when people live in the same household, or co-host the same show, they don’t always see eye to eye.  So its time to get serious with a bit of “she said,...

No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 111 is live. You can listen to it here  and on Itunes.   We start out the first half of the show with some news…   Freefall from the edge of space -  Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner) recently broke world records by freefalling from the edge of space…128,000 feet!. ...

I grew up in an era of .35 cents per gallon gasoline, 500 horsepower engines, and custom cars made by Big Daddy Don Gartlits.  I had a Cadillac Calais with a 473 cubic inch engine that was  so powerful it could drag a house a quarter mile (O.K. that last one might be a bit of...

The highest free fall ever. To the above is the amazing sight of a human being poised on the step of a capsule suspended from a balloon, ready to jump to the earth below from the edge of space.  There is little doubt the picture will become an Icon for the accomplishments of a single...

Welcome to show 118! This week we are joined by Chris Dodson from the 2Lazy2B Otaku show and Saylah from Mystic Worlds.  It’s been awhile since we have had a “burnt undies” session and it’s high time we did. Saylah and Chris are here to oblige us with a very large axe to grind about...

There is nothing like that new mmo feel.  New vistas to explore, new adventures to be had.  I remember the first time I set foot in World of Warcraft (WoW).  What brought me there from the land that Lord British built (Ultima Online) were the gates of Ironforge. Back then the level cap was 60...

Over the weekend Fran and I went to see Karl Urban’s new movie “Dredd 3d”, a remake of the 1995 Sylvester Stalone movie “Judge Dredd”. When the movie went into production Karl Urban was quoted as saying we would like his version of Judge Dredd.  After watching the movie I can only assume his comment...

Welcome to Show 117! No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 117 is live! You can listen to it here or here or itunes Our guest this week is Tipa from West Karna.  Tipa, Fran and Julie sit down to discuss emergent gameplay and why Funcom took a slide.   EA goes on the block while the getting...

“We saw, early on, that when people came in and played the game like they played other MMOs, it was harder for them to enjoy the game or get into the game as fast. But once they broke down those barriers of ‘this isn’t that other game, this is something new’ then they started to...