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Throwing things away unread is key to internet literacy.
To be able to focus on anything, you must immediately ignore 99+% of the content out there. If you are reading this, you are not currently reading about knitting, extreme kayaking, the history of Cambodia, upcoming metal shows in Berlin, the proper care of camels as pets, or homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck (actual Wikipedia topic). Once you narrow your interest to MMOs, you have dozens of games (in English), and once you have one game, there are still dozens of sites.
I cannot take it personally if you pass on Kill Ten Rats. There are literally millions of other blogs you do not read either.
: Zubon
The song that has been stuck in my head for a couple weeks is Maps from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is going to be another of my tortured analogies relating a song to gaming, and not just because the song is in Rock Band.
Let’s note first that the song is very repetitive. Continue reading Maps
Lori Drew convicted. Possible dismissal or appeal to come. Previous discussion.
William Roper: Arrest that man!
Sir Thomas More: On what law?
Margaret More: Father, that man’s bad.
Sir Thomas More: There’s no law against that.
William Roper: There is: God’s law.
Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!
– Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons
: Zubon
From a dear friend at Mystic Worlds:
I do not envy Mythic right now in trying to fix Warhammer Online. Mark Jacobs issued a statement to the community to shed some light on upcoming improvements, mostly related to encouraging Open RVR (oRVR). It appears to have been met with mixed reactions. A portion of players who wanted a game dominated by oRVR, want it NOW. They don’t want to wait the potential months it’s going to take to execute the full vision.
That’s me. And not just open RvR either: I want everything fixed, and I want it now. No, that’s not true, I am perfectly happy to wait months. I want it before I will pay. Mark Jacobs issued a page of promises the last time monthly fees were due. I expect he will issue another in time for the next subscription fees. I have a dozen companies that will happily take my money in exchange for the promise that they will fix things Real Soon Now. Call me when you get around to that.
: Zubon
Read the full post for other good thoughts. That’s just my point.
Cara at Wizards & Wenches has this lovely bladed hammer. Next up: sword-chucks.
: Zubon
I expected to hear more about Wrath of the Lich King. Maybe I am reading an odd assortment of blogs lately, but it seemed like a huge weekend of “First level 80s! Congrats! Losers! Meta-whining! Northrend and Death Knight first impressions,” followed by very light WoW blogging. Hypotheses:
- I am reading an odd assortment of blogs lately.
- CoW is still going strong, so I am hearing mostly Heavy Metal stuff. Alternately, some CoW bloggers are ending after the first paid month, so I am seeing that instead.
- Everyone posted everything during beta. Nothing left to say during live (also why the last raid was done in less than 3 days).
- Everyone is really enjoying it and playing.
- Everyone is killing boars in the Outlands, and so bored with nothing new to say.
- Everyone is already finished with the grind/bored and not playing.
- There are bears. Bears ate people.
: Zubon
Yes I know: many people, many explanations, not “everyone.” Assume the qualifiers.
xkcd has been having a good week.
: Zubon
I assert that some posts are internet-related discussion. This is an online gaming blog, where sometimes we break that in half and discuss the internet or gaming, but not always internet gaming. Until Ethic drops the hammer on me. I have a couple more in the vein saved up.
“We just really wanted to shatter the cupcake-pizza dichotomy. It’s just existed for too long.”
– Asa Wilder, on the origin of the “cupzza.” Hat tip to The Blog of Diminishing Returns via Marginal Revolution.
Marginal Revolution also links to the second place:
“If reports are true and Barack Obama is really going to tap widely respected CBO Director Peter Orszag to head up the Office of Management and Budget … then I believe that would make him the highest-ranking blogger in the history of the United States of America.”
The Onion AV Club has a strong competitor with this plot summary:
Up-and-coming pickle-factory executive Mr. Tamura is sweating out a deal to package kimchi for a South Korean company when he gets some terrible news: his girlfriend has been murdered, and he’s the prime suspect. For Tamura, who’s obsessed with fitting in, this accusation is disastrous. Still, he does have a tendency to fly into blind rages. Also, he’s a giant koala.
: Zubon
A friend has been encouraging me to try WoW. I think he just wants a zebra. I was considering it until I realized what a ghost town the lower levels would be with the expansion pack coming out. Packing invitations for friends in the expansion box seemed silly even before this stuff.
Maybe in a few months, after the initial burst of leveling and raiding, but I see WoW catering to returning accounts from now through Boxing Day. There is not a place for new players. Well, there is, but it is a vast, lonely field at the end of a long queue.
: Zubon
I mentioned last week that the suicide was not going to be admissable evidence in the Lori Drew “violation of ToS is a federal hacking crime” trial. The judge changed his mind. Reason Magazine reports this under the headline “Lori Drew is Doomed.”
And if so, being suspended or banned from your MMO of choice can be treated as a federal criminal offense. 3 day ban with 200 hours community service? Did you know that the Google ToS says that you should print or save a copy of the ToS before searching? There might be an amnesty period.
I am off this story until there is something more like a verdict to report.
: Zubon