It’s the first week of the month, which means that it’s time for another VGHVI Symposium! This month, we’re giving up on the pretense that we’re actually playing Lord of the Rings Online, and instead we’ll just be chatting. (Possibly with a game of Ascension going on in the background, who knows.)

We’re going to try again to do this as a Google+ Hangout – it was great seeing people’s faces (and cats!) a couple of weeks ago, though less great that audio didn’t work for some people. If the audio continues to be a problem, we’ll have to switch formats, but maybe it will work better this time? A bit of googling didn’t turn up any obvious matching reports. (Is the Windows client a native plugin or a Flash client? If the latter, you might need to tell Flash to allow that site to use your mic.) If anybody has any suggestions on that, please leave them in the comment thread.

We’ll meet Thursday at 9:30 EDT / 6:30 PDT. (And really, it’s still daylight savings time in November? Oy.) Here’s my Google+ Profile, if you’re not already in my circles.