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All the World's a Stage: Joining the right circle
One of the most common difficulties many roleplayers face is that of finding other people to roleplay with. To help overcome this challenge, All the World's a Stage presents a guide to finding roleplayers in three parts: "finding the right realm" for roleplaying, "joining the right circle" of roleplaying friends, and "wearing the right mask" to attract other roleplayers to you.So, here you are. You decided that you want to give roleplaying a try, so you picked an RP server and started leveling up. You even tried roleplaying with one person you met along the way, saying "Hail, traveler! Would you like to undertake this task with me?" Things were going along quite nicely for a few minutes until the other person said, "Dood, this quest suxxors, lol," and you realized that something had gone horribly, terribly wrong.A mystery baffles roleplayers everywhere: why is it that even on a space like an RP server, set aside for roleplaying, it can be so hard to find other people to roleplay with? Even if you have thoroughly researched the question of which server is the best place for roleplaying, still you will not be happy there until you find a circle of friends whose roleplaying you can appreciate, and who appreciate yours in return.
Apple and RIM in a fruity collaboration?
Here's another one from the grapevine: an analyst is predicting (read: guessing) that Apple may be partnering with RIM to create some sort of "AppleBerry". The analyst behind this rumor is none other than Peter Misek, who correctly predicted that Intel and RIM would form a partnership last year. Paul Miller over at TUAW's sibling Engadget squeezes the substance out of the rumor: "with the tight control both RIM and Apple keep on their hardware and software, we can't really imagine this as the happiest of unions." Judging by past hardware collaborations (the not-quite-rocking ROKR being the primary example), we have to agree with this sentiment.[Via Engadget]
