Demise of two...

Yesterday I was saddened by the news, what news you ask? The death of Peter Falk, who watched growing up on various movies and shows such as Princess Bride and Columbo.

I can still hear Peter Falk telling Fred Savage who portrayed as his grandson in the movie Princess Bride about this book that he is going to read to him.

The Grandson: A book?
Grandpa: That's right. When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I'm gonna read it to you.
The Grandson: Has it got any sports in it?
Grandpa: Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...
The Grandson: Doesn't sound too bad. I'll try to stay awake.
Grandpa: Oh, well, thank you very much, very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming.

From that moment on I was hooked on Princess Bride and I even went out and bought the book a short while later after seeing the movie. Peter Falk will be missed ...As you wish....and thank you for your years of entertaining us.

The other news that made me sad but was not unexpected was the future death of a game called Star Wars Galaxies which is an MMORPG. In the beginning, I was an active player of SWG and was also juggling between it and Final Fantasy XI. I was torn on which one to play so I played both for quite sometime. Off and on for several years I would take a break from the game and come back and play for extended period of time until one day...which ruined the game for me and thousands of other players.

The "New Game Enhancement" which basically was the cancer of the game and is just now finally killing off an old friend. I know it sounds sad and pathetic that I would be upset over a game but I met a lot of good people and had fun times with them but after "NGE" hit...they slowly faded away. Which made me my barely come back except maybe once or twice a year if that, just to see if there had been truly any improvements.

To this day, I often wonder where my friends are and how they are doing and for one I am thankful that I did get to play SWG because I went on a journey...in a galaxy far away from here and made friends. Dec. 15, 2011 will be a sad day but hopefully our paths will cross again in the new mmorpg.. Star Wars: The Old Republic and if you are curious about it, send me a message and maybe we can create our own new adventures together.

SWG, thank you for the memories and friendships.