When I first saw this game, I didn’t really think it was going to be anything special.  I’ve played tank and similar WWII strategy games before and was usually not impressed.  This one, however, is very different.  It’s also highly addictive. First, you are a tanker and his crew.  Your job is to use your equipment and crew to the best of their abilities and get as many kills during battle as possible.  But this is an MMO and you’re part of a team.  It’s your side against theirs, may the best tanks win! Since it’s against other actual people (not the computer), each battle is very different even if the map is the same and the general equipment being used is the same.  That makes it a lot of fun. You start out with light equipment that is ineffective and hard to get anywhere with.  The good news is that you are mostly pitted against other new players who are in the same boat.  This lets you learn to operate the basic controls (which aren’t too difficult, but take some level of patience to get good at).  Eventually, you’ll earn enough credits in the game (through kills, partial kills, and experience) to ...

a book by Larken Rose This book is a culmination of Larken Rose's work so far.  While The Iron Web, How To Be a Successful Tyrant, etc. are great books in their own right and well worth reading, The Most Dangerous Superstition is likely the best dismantling of the "government" and "leadership" - paradigms that nearly all humans blindly believe - that I've ever read. In fact, just reading the first chapter of this book should enlighten those who are on the cusp of understanding what life without government may be like (i.e. most libertarians).  Sadly, most are not anywhere near there and have a firm belief that we "need" someone to be "in charge". So long as humans continue to believe that government is the only answer and is even a requirement for ordered existence, then violence, oppression, injustice, genocide and so forth will continue to exist and be wrongly blamed on everything but this superstition. Larken has written something that is beyond any other book on the subject of governance (or non-governing) that I've ever read. If you want to enlighten yourself and others as to the core problem to nearly every human malady that happens on a large scale, then you need ...

Here are my top 10 picks for the best, non-traditional Celtic, Viking, Folk, etc. songs.  By non-traditional, I mean they are not in the traditional vein of that genre of music - in other words, while "Danny Boy" on pipes would be a top pick in Celtic music, it's a traditional song and delivery of the song, so it's not on this list.  Most of these bands are various forms of rock and metal in the genre.  I'll also explain the song itself in each of these picks so you can get an idea of why it's here. 1. March of Cambreadth - Heather Alexander - killer bagpipe tune with a woman's voice singing battle calls.  Definitely her best song before she changed. 2. Some Say the Devil is Dead - Cruachan - this is a kick ass pub tune that I've heard and sung many times, but this awesome Irish band put it to heavy guitar. 3. Het Bier Zal Weer Vloeien - Heidevolk - "The beer it is flowing", a great chanty from this excellent Viking Metal band. 4. The Fall of Gondolin - Cruachan - this is a song about the Elves of Tolkien sung in death metal style. 5. Mordred's Lullaby ...