Saturday, August 26th, turned out to be my three-year anniversary for subscribing to Anarchy Online. Yes, I freely admit that it’s not that much. Nor is it three years of consecutive playing time – I’ve taken several extended breaks from the game. But it’s still an achievement. It’s even more interesting to think that three years prior I didn’t even know what an MMO was, much less any other acronym that I know freely throw around these days.
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Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
.Hey – this grass isn’t really green…
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.
I Finally Bought Civilization IV
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
Plug it!
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.
Study: Researchers State The Obvious
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…
WoW Board Game
Has anyone out there played the World of Warcraft board game? It comes with more than a dozen types of cards, four pages of tokens to punch out, reference sheets for classes and monsters, a big stack of miniatures, and an instruction book of about 25 pages. It is designed for 6 players, with variants for smaller groups. Minimum table space needed is about two standard card tables; the board itself takes up one.
After fumbling through trying to set up a first game this weekend, our consensus seemed to be that we could just play WoW. I have played some pretty complex board games and war games, but is it worth learning it all for the WoW board game? If you don’t play WoW?
: Zubon
Comment on Comments
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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
Insert 25 Cents to Continue
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
Upgrades
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
Dating For Gamers Part 2: Conning
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.