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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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![]() Hmm, luckily-unluckily, as far as online gaming goes, I currently became fully occupied by SWTOR, which has exceeded my expectations (and which has the slight advantage against LOTRO that its way of visualising a world I already know from elsewhere does not disturb me in any way ), so I don't see my activity as very... big at the moment.
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Child of the West
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn
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Yule festival, I was afraid I had missed it. My fondest memories in online gaming are there.
I don't know anyone's names on silverlode, but mine is Versarrasine and I could use a friend or two.
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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I wonder if we can get an all-Wight theater production?
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Flame Imperishable
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Right here
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Yule has begun.
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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I didn't say it is disturbing, or in any case, I don't find it disturbing per se - it has many very beautiful places (or most of them, actually) - but the main problem with me is that I am strongly against any attempts to visualise Middle-Earth in the first place in any other way than in paintings. LOTRO is fine, but it just "breaks the spell": it isn't really Middle-Earth however hard I try. Once again, that isn't bad. I think the game is great and I think they could have hardly done better than that. The "breaking the spell" effect is inherent to it: it is something that has to be there, it comes naturally. It is just that there is the threshold you can never cross. PJ didn't, those folks don't either.
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