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City of Heroes - (2004 game) box

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
was cityofheroes.com

A superhero game.

It wasn’t very original and had awkward controls.



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Star Wars - The Old Republic image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.swtor.com/

Yet another MMO, but this one is set in the Star Wars universe. Because light sabres, yo.

Conclusion: Amateur night.

This would have been great in the late nineties. Right now, the voiceovers are fantastic but the quest interactive cutscenes are ugly. The choices are sometimes vague and unforgiving. There is spectacular effort with all the rendered videos, but that just took away from resources for the game itself.



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Software > VoIP, Instant messagers >

https://github.com/pi0/mangler [ 1 ] was www.mangler.org

The linux alternative to Ventrilo.

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Footnotes

^ 1 was www.mangler.org

Deluge logo

Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
https://deluge-torrent.org/

A BitTorrent client.

It can’t copy magnet links, so it’s best to not use it.



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TODO – check out alternatives

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7324
https://web.archive.org/web/20160708220953/http://www.wowace.com:80/addons/optionhouse/

OptionHouse is an AddOn to manage AddOns.  It’s a pretty simple concept.

Works, but no longer shows what addons are loaded

  • It’s called OptionHouse on curse, and the escape menu shows “Option House” (with a space)

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