Category: General

Ah, fresh back and all relaxed from a two-week vacation in Orlando I sat down on my last day of work vacation and logged into WoW. Well tried to. Because as my luck would have it, it was Tuesday, and that’s patch day. My luck never ceases to amaze me. Still later that night after the servers came up, then down, then up, then down (fast forward a few hours), and up, I logged in. You see, I’m now playing a Horde Priest, having taken my own personal semi-challenge about healers I posted previously. I’ve decided crow doesn’t taste nearly as good as advertised, even with BBQ sauce.

Continue reading Hey – this grass isn’t really green…

Optional things like MMOs, sleep, and standing up have gone out the window. My wife has not decided to leave me yet, which is promising. We will see how long that holds up. When you are spending more than a thousand years under continuous attacks from the Aztecs and Emperor Hirohito, you start worrying more about Louis XIV’s cavalry than, say, dinner.

I can quit any time I want. *twitch*

: Zubon

I finally got this ripped to something digital. The following link is to an mp3 of the piece of the Sound & Vision Radio E3 coverage where Robert (Nicodemus) & I spoke about games and plugged KTN. You even get to hear me snort! Woop! (I was out of breath and scrambling to come up with something after Robert stole my answer hehe).

All and all it went well.

Grab it here.

Study: Researchers Determine Sex May Cause Pregnancy!

Study: Researchers Believe Poking a Bear With A Sharp Stick May Result In Mauling!

Yes, those both sound a bit uhm, like a waste of time and money, no? Well, look at this little gem I saw the other day on GameDaily Biz:

New research conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has shown that massively multiplayer online games, such as Asheron’s Call (pictured) and Lineage, can expose gamers to alternate worldviews and promote sociability.

OMG, can it be true? I never noticed?! Ok, snarky sarcasm aside, is this just a case of some lazy researchers trying to win an award for stating the obvious, or did they actually miss the boat and get the wrong conclusion to their research? Read on…

Continue reading Study: Researchers State The Obvious

All comments are read and appreciated. They let us know what y’all find interesting. Please feel free to comment on any post, even fairly ancient ones. We get e-mail notification and have a list of all recent comments, so your words on a year-old post will still be welcomed like a newborn child.

Unfortunately, if your name is something like “All Herbal Viagra,” your comments may be caught by our spam filter. You’d be caught by my e-mail spam filter, too, so I don’t know how you get around that without picking a new name. Why would your parents name you something like that, anyway?

Thank you for reading, caring, and helping us kill rats. We love our community.

: Zubon

Alternate game revenue model: the game is free to play, but there is a small fee to create a new character or rez (or every third rez, whatever). This would not be a new model, since it was how we used to play games in the arcade before this wacky internet.

Thoughts?

: Zubon

I did some upgrades this morning. If all went well, you shouldn’t notice anything different. Let me know if things appear slow or if something doesn’t work right.

– Ethic

Welcome again to the single, introverted, heterosexual males. We are still committed to applying your gaming experience to the romantic sphere. Remember: with a name like Kill Ten Rats, how can the dating advice be bad?

In this issue of our occasional series, let us consider the relevance of level differences. For those of you shaky on game lingo, “con” is short for “consideration,” the system by which you determine if something is an easy (blue, green, grey) target or if you are about to suffer horrible pain. The only deception we will be discussing is self-deception.

Continue reading Dating For Gamers Part 2: Conning

If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you are a single, introverted, heterosexual male. As a public service, we are pleased to present some advice for gamers on Getting the Girl. You can get lots of dating advice out there, much of it conflicting, but you come to Kill Ten Rats because you know you can trust us. Also, we are tired of hearing you whine in /gu about how you cannot get a date.

In this occasional series, we will consider how your experience from games relates to the romantic sphere. None of these may apply to you, but how well have your romantic instincts served you so far? First, let us consider the importance of buffing and equipment.

Continue reading Dating For Gamers Part 1: Preparation

If you change everything that works in your game but ignore everything that has problems, is your game, on average, perfect?

: Zubon