The Sims Online (TSO) was my first experience with what would become a multi-million-dollar industry: MMOs, or Massively Multiplayer Online games. Gaming in TSO was much different than modern gaming because the principles of the game were very basic: helping a cartoon person with basic need and goal fulfilment while chatting with other players in […]
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July 15, 2015 was a blockbuster day for HarperCollins Publishers. That’s when the most pre-ordered book in their history, Go Set a Watchman, was released to the public. Some have called the novel’s release a “phony literary event” that is an “obvious money grab” which exploited Harper Lee, one of America’s most beloved authors, and
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Promised a friend I’d help him move last week, Showed up early thinking to beat the heat. Stepped through the door and wedged myself inside, Saw two cats; the little black ran to hide. Staring from the hiding place, green eyes just say no But the big gray puffball rubs my leg hello Never been
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I’m in no way a girly girl. In fact, I can’t stand pink, glitter, or unicorns. But one thing I love that is rather girly is high tea at the Broadmoor Hotel and at Miramont Castle. Although both places expect impeccable manners, decorum, and etiquette, being a girly girl is, thankfully, not required. High tea
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Cripple Creek is usually known as a gold camp or gambling city, but in the winter it is also becoming known locally for the Ice Festival it hosts during the second and third weekends in February. Visitors to the city can enjoy the gambling and hotels as they would during other times of the year,
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I just listened to a wonderful Newberry-Award-winning book called Paperboy. The story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1959. Told from the point of view of a stuttering adolescent who struggles to communicate with others, this boy takes over his best friend’s paper route which forces him to talk in situations he usually avoids. A
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