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Splitting Time.   -- Primis     1-31-02,  8:10PM With the launch of Digerat.com I'll be posting news and articles in two places now.  Keep in mind, Digerat is *not*  "my site".  I'm going to essentially keep this site the same, Digerat is going to catch the technical and truly hardcore posts and news that I tend to come up with but not post here.  Prìomh, thusly, will continue to be the catch-all for anything qualify under the banner of Nifty-tude<tm>. Digerat should also shortly be featuring some not-so-technical things like a "Movie of the Week" feature, along with other reviews of games, hardware, gadgets, and such.  Finally, expect guides, tweaks, the occasional download, and other not-so-linear stuff like the odd rant. Digerat also has the added bonus of a Comments system which so very haven't felt like messing with on this site, so feel free to speak up on it about any post you might see.  And no, no way am I adding Comments onto this site.  Just...    no...   ;-) Best of IRC v3.0 Goes Live and Public.   -- Primis     1-29-02,  10:30PM After a brief time with no update, the Best of IRC is back with a large update and currently boasts Version 3.0. BoIRC v3.0 (.TXT) BoIRC currently boasts 237K of raw text.  That's... a lot. Have fun, kiddies... So Old... So Very Old... (State of the Site Address 2002).   -- Primis     1-27-02,  2:45PM I realize that back in September we missed the boat on this... then again last September wasn't a normal month for anyone. Back on September 25th, 1999, what was to become Prìomh.com was launched.  It had no name, it had no direction, and even less content.  Over two years later, it has a name, still has no direction, and little to no content.  ;-) At the time it meant the death of "3R" (this upset some people), which had been kicking around online, across oceans, and showing up in all sorts of strange places since Fall of 1996 and still ranks as my most-demented work yet.  I still have no idea why Europeans took to "3R" so well, and I'm not sure I ever want to know... At any rate, this site has lasted longer than I thought it would.  It's hard to find/create content and update regularly on a site like this.  It's also not easy to maintain, as there is no scripting involved, it's all done manually.  And thus far I've managed to keep it going.  Sure it'll go weeks, months sometimes without being touched, but I always come back to it. I'm realizing something -- sites don't last this long.  They really don't.  Those that do are oftentimes static and almost never updated. The point?   For those of you that weren't aware, I was seriously considering giving the axe to Prìomh in the last couple of months.  I wasn't sure it was accomplishing anything by existing, and that was irritating me.   The hits the site generally gets are minimal and it has no real place it seems.  It sometimes feels like a waste of time.  But then I looked around and realized -- it's still here. It's still here.  In that regard it has totally kicked the tail of a lot of other sites.  And so I'm not going to kill it.  For the time being I'm keeping the site and sticking to it.  I still have no clue what place it has in life, but it's still here and that's good enough for me for now. Lego Inspirations For One and All (I Am Not Worthy).   -- Primis     1-27-02,  2:15PM A while back (a year and a half maybe?) you'll remember we threw up a link to a site done by a group of people who were creating elaborate models and space fleets using Legos.  Well I'm here to tell you today that someone else has made The Leap<tm>. The Foundry features models that blow my mind and will blow yours.   Sure they're all Mecha of some form or another but... yeesh.... who knew you could do that?  These are truly incredible models, so go have fun checking out their Showcase.  I'm not sure which is more terrifying, the models or the diorama they created to look like a Mecha factory.  Amazing. We've seen the Lego Matrix.   The Lego Monty Python and the Holy Grail made you laugh.  And now we have the Lego Lord of the Rings.  This would dismay, if not for how neat some of the things in it are, specifically the Nazgul and some of the settings like Moria and the Ford of Bruinen scene. And then finally we have.... well....  ummm, some guys who obviously need help but at least found a creative outlet for all that strangeness.  LegoDeath.com is exactly what you think it is.  Please don't make me explain any more... Console Gaming 101.   -- Primis     1-21-01,  8:35PM Recently my roommate acquired an X-Box.   Recently as in "day-of-release", which by now was several months ago, but anyhow...   So I've become exposed to the console world of gaming once again.   This meant NFL Fever, Halo, Gotham Racing, and lots and lots of Dead or Alive 3. Now... most of my circle of friends are all more PC Gamers than console gamers.   We're more apt to sit down for a 4-hour session of Dark Age of Camelot than sit in front of a TV playing some console "kiddie game".  However... a gamer is a gamer, and we're all console vets of some sort or another.  College does that to a person. I, in my opinion, slipped into "vet" console status when a friend and I binged on Twisted Metal II on the Playstation for 13 hours straight one day, and solidified by the countless hours sunk into Super Smash Bros. and Goldeneye on Nintendo 64.  I've been with consoles since back in the Atari 2600 days, mind you -- but multiplayer console gaming is a whole different animal. More... Manticores Are People Too !!... Or..... Not....   -- Primis     1-20-02,  11:55PM Archon was a game on the C64 that my brother-in-law and I wasted many, many hours dueling each other.  Chess meets arcade-combat -- I mean, how could you not love the game? Alas... version since have all sucked.  Controls in Archon Ultra were horrible and the graphics nearly as bad.  And I began to miss Archon, and the warm, comforting feeling of knowing a Golem was always out there trying to smash me... Well, some dedicated Brits have set out to remake the game.  Dubbed Archon: Evolution, the game looks to be progressing nicely.  It's true to the original, and I was delighted to see that they aren't abandoning the 2D interface of the original -- just touching up some of the graphics for the characters.  Also, collision detection is supposed to be perfect, which was always a worry in the version I played.  Keep an eye on this one -- I'm not the only one pining for Archon with Netplay, and they're promising it... "Brought to You By...".   -- Primis     1-20-02,  8:30PM One of my favorite mindless conversations that always comes up is something that was spawned a while back by a couple friends and I during a completely-unrelated conversation (isn't that always the way?). We came to the inevitable conclusion that life needs soundtracks. Yes, that's right. As Zib said, "I'd buy 'Music From and Inspired by The Rik Kyser Show'. More... Hydora and Tophet Campaigns Official. -- Primis          1-17-02,  7:20PM Amazon.com currently has both the Roughnecks:STC  Hydora (2) and the Tophet (3) campaigns up for preorder on DVD.  It looks like we'll finally get "Sole Survivor" on DVD after all then.  I've preordered mine already. If you're interested, hop on over to roughneckchronicles.com and check out their page with links to all the Roughnecks DVD's available thus far.   Sony has also promised the Klendathu and Earth arcs to round out the series.  I eagerly await them... *drool*. "Still Not Dead!...". -- Primis          1-17-02,  2:45PM The site is not dead -- I've taken an impromptu absence from doing it in order to refresh myself and do get some new ideas.  While the ideas for this site still hold true, the fact of the matter is that it can get cumbersome and tiresome to have to try and come up with new ideas and interesting news and links. And let's face it -- the internet is getting less- and less-interesting every day because where creativity once reigned, things like greed, "professionalism", and the like have shoved it out of the way. There are several other side projects that have been taking up time and probably will continue to do so, but I've been still producing material and writing articles throughout the dead period.  And I'll admit it, I got pretty addicted to a certain online RPG for a time (*sob*).  But in the next week or two I expect to resurrect Prìomh with all-new material, if all goes according to plan. Stay tuned.  Thanks. DISCLAIMER:  All materials above and contained herein are the property of the owner and individual contributors, and may not be reproduced without permission of the afformentioned. Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.  The SportSlam Online™ is copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.  Neither Yahoo! nor Geocities hold any rights whatsoever to the contained material. 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