Jellyfish Attack
No, even more seriously. (Day of the Atomic Sea Monsters, or what?)
Adam Jury sent me the link to this:
Jellyfish attack wipes out N. Ireland’s salmon farm
BELFAST (AFP) — Northern Ireland’s only salmon farm was completely wiped out by a freak jellyfish attack, the owners said Wednesday.
More than 100,000 fish worth more than one million pounds (2.1 million dollars, 1.4 million euros) were killed in the invasion at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, on the County Antrim north-east coast.
“…The sea was red with these jellyfish and there was nothing we could do about it, absolutely nothing.”
The seven-hour attack over Tuesday and Wednesday last week saw the jellyfish covering a sea area of up to 10 square miles (26 square kilometres) and 35 feet (11 metres) deep.
Somehow I don’t think Webkinz is quite ready for giant (cannibal sea) scorpions or attack jellyfish. Wonder if I can convince GRRM to let Green Ronin put them in the new SIF game. 
Posted in Current Events, Nature Attack on November 21, 2007 by Jesse
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Giant Cannibal Sea Scorpions
No, seriously.
Paleontologists dug up the fossilized claw of a giant sea scorpion. They reckon the thing may have been 8 feet (!) long. It’s called
Jaekelopterus rhenania, and is apparently 400 million years old.
I came across the article on Boing Boing, and delved into a few of the other articles. A few random, key quotes.
“Braddy said the sea scorpions also were cannibals that fought and ate one other, so it helped to be as big as they could be.
“The competition between this scorpion and its prey was probably like a nuclear standoff, an effort to have the biggest weapon,” he said. “Hundreds of millions of years ago, these sea scorpions had the upper hand over vertebrates — backboned animals like ourselves.”
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Late to the Party
(City of Heroes update)
Old news by now, but NCsoft’s buy-out of the City of Heroes IP from Cryptic is big news for the company, team, game and players (not necessarily in that order). Previous to this, NCsoft & Cryptic shared the property 50/50. Cryptic did the development work out in California, and NCsoft did a lot of Quality Assurance, Customer Service, PR, and Community* from Austin. There was a … let’s call it an embassy … of NCsoft Producers working out in Cali with the rest of the team, working on the project on a very high level.
So what does the purchase mean? Well, all of this is just my best guess of course (and full disclosure, I used to work for NCsoft on the CoH team, so consider my words shaded appropriately):
Posted in CoH, Games, General on November 20, 2007 by Jesse
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Castles
Short but sweet…
Ted Nasmith is doing some illustrations for an upcoming concordance-type book of Westeros. From what I hear, it should be really cool.
If there’s one thing I regret on the “A Game of Thrones RPG” it was not having significant images of the castles. We discussed it, but it was one of the ideas that had to be left by the wayside. I think this will end up being a great resource for fans of the series, and be a nice tool for GMs of either version of the game (I’m also excited by what I’ve heard of the upcoming Green Ronin version of SIF RPG).
Posted in Writing on November 19, 2007 by Jesse
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