Monthly Archives: February 2001

Obnoxious ICQ Advertisements

February 7, 2001 – 12:30 pm

So this morning my copy of ICQ 2000a started displaying ad banners on the bottom of every single outgoing message box. Before, it displayed only ad-banners on the file-send dialog boxes and other obscure forms, but it’s just obnoxious on the bottom of the send message dialog.
So I decided to switch..
I set up a jabber [...]

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Horizons – All That and a Bag of Chips?

February 7, 2001 – 7:30 am

I’m liking the idea of this game more and more since they announced they were switching it to a orc/blognir based slaughter game.  Long live the Horde!
Okay uh, I hate some of the models (like the orc one), but it looks better than Dark Age of Camelot (ni!?) at least.
The Horizons Message board, [...]

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Neverwinter Nights – The Next MMORPG?

February 7, 2001 – 7:15 am

Neverwinter Nights is BioWare’s upcoming RPG title based on the D20 Dungeons & Dragons system. 
So yeah, Baldur’s Gate was fun and all that, but why the hooplah?  Mainly because the slant of Neverwinter Nights is not just some exciting rampage through a Forgotten Realms city – BioWare intends to bring the thrill of table-top [...]

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