As you might guess, I love devilish pranks with naming filters. BoingBoing completed an investigation of MSN Spaces’ naming filters, MSN’s new blogging service, with some hilarious results. One of my fondest EQ memories is when duel results would be broadcast in the public channels. Was it just zonewide or serverwide? My memory fogs on that point. My all-time favorites: “Thelag has defeated Yourconnection in a duel to the death!” and “Nerfs has defeated Yourfun in a duel to the death!”
Monthly Archives: December 2004
The Dead EQ Scrolls
I was straightening out my home office this week and I unearthed a pile of my old MMOG notebooks. What’s that? You don’t know what a MMOG notebook is?
OMG, noob.
There’s a lot of information in online gaming that I’ve had to sift through and, in the old days, we didn’t have your fancy shmancy quest logs and your hoity toity User Interface Quest Cheat Sheets and all that nonsense. We played MMOGs like manly men and took notes.
Yes, you can feel free to make fun of me at this point. My god, I needed therapy and no one noticed this?!?!?!
Wired
I used to like Wired mag alot … back when they had a spine. They could do worse for themselves, I suppose; it’s not as if they’ve become tech’s version of FoxNooz.
I did pharm some ok links: Wired’s shiny, happy Warcraft review and an article discussing open-source online gaming (o ya, that would work), which included a link to a gaming blog I hadn’t seen before, written by some guy that got kicked out of Sims Online.
Anyone that gets kicked out of Sims Online has my immediate endorsement, free of charge.