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Breakfast Topic: Should there be honor in PvP?
WOW Insider
Mar 25th 2008 9:55AM I suck at PVP, and am okay with the fact that I'm going to be killed often. I don't mind it. I try hard, and have had some surprising successes. Getting killed teaches me what works and what doesn't. However, getting corpse-camped, /spitted, rude gestures, dancing ... that's just obnoxious. And its the thing that makes me want to hang up my mouse more than any repeated failures on my part. Why make the game unfun for your fellow players?
Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News
Massively
Feb 17th 2008 2:46PM Ooh, SLURL for that cool Trek-looking area, please?
Insider Trader: The rhyme and reason of crafting
WOW Insider
Feb 15th 2008 3:42PM My alts both stick to the gathering professions, but my main is well on her way to leveling up leatherworking. While it would be nice to have some gear for her before endgame, its kind of fun equipping my alts. I've really enjoyed crafting, and wish there was a bit more depth to it. When I hit 40 on my main (this weekend, fingers crossed), I plan on tooling about on my mount, collecting some cooking patterns I've missed.
The Daily Grind: Would you ever play a noncombatant?
Massively
Feb 15th 2008 9:26AM I could see myself as playing some kind of merchant trader. Of course in most of these MMO worlds, that would entail hiring lots of combatant-types to keep you alive. But really, aren't these stock-trading competitions or browser games like Jennifer Government: Nation States a kind of non-combat MMO?
NCsoft's first console game to be announced this year
Massively
Feb 12th 2008 1:34PM The thought of porting GW to the PS3 makes me weep. I *love* GW, but I've left it for WoW. WoW is uglier, has a looser story line, but the social aspects of WoW kick GW into a cocked hat. I'd very much fear that bringing in the console crowd with their general lack of keyboards would further degrade the social aspect.
Signs you are not smart enough...
Massively
Feb 12th 2008 12:58PM Alright, I'm back to take my lumps. I sincerely apologize for the tone of my original posts. This is a particular beef of mine. I very much feel that mischaracterizing that gaffe was the beginning of a trend that has brought us to "John McCain has a black baby" and Swiftboating. These are the most disgusting new features in political "discussion", and they're now being exported around the world.
Secondly, it drives me nuts that so many tech blogs insert swipes at progressive figures that have nothing to do with the post. I've actually written Yahoo Pipes filters to remove authors from group blogs since so many of their postings took that route.
As to being a troll, I'm demonstrably NOT, since I've contributed positively in the past to this and other Weblogs Inc blogs. Furthermore I did respond to something in the post.
Now I don't apologize for everything, Eli, since the tone of your reply was less than professional, but I do apologize.
Anyway, whatever: I just didn't want to descend into total d-baggery. I could use some blasted sunshine.
Signs you are not smart enough...
Massively
Feb 12th 2008 10:55AM You're damn straight they're all corrupt. However it has to do with politics when you use an old Republican misquote.
... wait ... you want ME to bring something fresh? Sunshine, that joke dates back to 1999.
Signs you are not smart enough...
Massively
Feb 11th 2008 8:32PM Signs you are not smart enough to post for Massively: you trot out that tired and thoroughly discredited Republican smear that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet.
The Daily Grind: On leveling guides
Massively
Feb 4th 2008 9:37AM I came to WoW from Guild Wars, where quest objectives are highlighted on the world map, and you get an arrow to them in the mini map. I liked that play style, so I don't shy away from Lightheaded + Cartographer. I try to clear quests myself, but if they live in my log too long, I'll get the details from lightheaded, and bang out anything that went green real quick.
Its a game. Its supposed to be fun. If its no fun to be stuck, use whatever legit tools you can to unstick yourself.
The Daily Grind: Optioning IP
Massively
Dec 18th 2007 10:10AM Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age would make for a great MMORPG. Enough different specialties and societal differences to make for a very diverse set of characters. Charles Stross' Singularity Sky would be cool, too, but there's a lot of time-dilation stuff that might be difficult to implement.
And, though it will get me marked as a cheesey space opera fan, I'd like to play in David Weber's Honor Harrington universe.
