Monthly Archives: October 2004

Beta Account “Award”

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From the World of Warcraft beta page (which I can’t link directly because the brainiacs at Blizzard don’t know how to create proper permalinks):

In September, Blizzard held a stress test beta for World of Warcraft to help tune the game’s network infrastructure. Over 100,000 participants signed up for the stress test beta and connected to our servers to help us analyze performance under heavy loads. In conjunction with that, we ran a small contest as a means of allowing a large selection of dedicated stress testers to continue on into the closed beta test. The 720 players listed represent the winning stress testers. These characters achieved the highest level of experience for their race and class, per faction, on the server on which they were created. Congratulations!

… why do gaming companies consider a beta account (read: an opportunity to work for them without pay) a reward? a contest prize? I guess it would be a reward for me if I considered, say … a stay at a labor camp a vacation.

Online Gaming Ad Network Launches

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Wynken de Word writes “‘In a move that could open a new vista of possibilities for advertisers, New York-based Massive Inc. today announces the launch of the first ad-serving network for video games. The company said it has so far signed game publishers UbiSoft, Atari, Universal and Konami as partners in its system, which enables marketing messages to be projected into the digital fabric of their online games.’ AdAge.com has the article (reg req.).” If you don’t feel like registering for AdAge, just read the press release or see the company website.
…excerpt from: Slashdot … will subscription fees be cheaper then? Or is this just an RIAA-like “We’re greedy bastards” type thing?

WoW, Drama, Redux

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Any guild/person/player character/entity that is willing to call this megalomaniac a “homo” (albeit a rather tired insult), is ok by me.

This dandy’s website is a GOLDMINE of comedy material. I speak the truth. Witness.

Cats

I’m not a huge cat fan. I like rabbits the most, SOME dogs such as Huskys, and cats CAN be ok. I don’t know how nasty Cat food smells, or litter boxes. I don’t like Cat hair everywhere. I’ve had maybe 5-6 cats. All of them ended up dying somehow (Foton: suicide?) usually getting ran over by a car or running away. The last cat I had was maybe mid to late 1980s.

and, this …

“Question” from FAQ: I have a page similar to yours about everything and nothing. Will you link to it?
Answer to “Question” from FAQ: No. There is only one true Everything and Nothing page, mine. As far as I’m concerned the others do not exist. That’s great you enjoy doing a page like mine, (Foton: needs no punchline) but that doesn’t mean I want any part of it.

I actually think he’s serious. No, really.

This site was primarily created for the Kali Compton membership. After that United States visitors. After that, Canadian visitors. People are welcome to visit this site from all over the world provided they are respectful to the United States and our leaders.

And that which I cannot prove is attributable to said megalo … (quoted here):

LOL – Lots of Laugh or Laughing Out Loud. This abbreviation indicates something is really funny. Unfortunately although very common, that term became uncool a long long long time ago. Other alternatives that you can use instead are “hehehehe” or “hahahaha” which aren’t the best but are more hip. ROFL should also be avoided to appear cool.

Ya. hahaha is so hip. I hate the lollerskaters as much as the next guy, but typing is so September 10th. TeamSpeak is where it’s at.

And I’ll stop there. Because I might need this little mine later for some material.

No, really.