Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

In the old days, we had to walk to the pizza joint uphill both ways because we didn’t have money for the bus and our beater was unresponsive (yet again) and we had to pay for the pizza with change because that’s all our on-campus jobs paid. Loose change.

And no way could we use the monthly allowance from our parents for pizza because that was already spent on the EQ subscription and other stuff that we bought just for show like books and essentials like weed, which, in hindsight, was probably just oregano because it didn’t really do anything when we toked, although my breath was surprisingly fresh.

And fergitabout delivery because that was for rich people, like the grad assistants, and the delivery dude would just briefcase it anyhow and the only thing worse than a briefcase job was some noob guild asshat that would aggro the portal area and bring that shit to the wall when we’re trying to do the naked CR from the first two breakin attempts.

Then we had to run back from the pizza joint because we told the guild “afk fas” which indicates that it won’t be a 30-minute afk and maybe our final piece of Planar armor would drop and that would suck hardc0re if we weren’t there to /random for that shit, and for sure! our pretend online GFs and/or BFs (not that there’s anything wrong with that) would leave us for a fully-planar dude that was starting his own Planes-capable guild. Asshole.

And we liked it!

The apocalypse has arrived.

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Pre-Played Keycodes

From the melting pot called Slashdot (I’m too cool to write it as “/.”, I mean, how pretentious is that?), comes a tale of woe from egburr:

I just purchased a used retail box of World of Warcraft. After reading the EULA in the manual and the Terms of Use, I expected to be up and playing quickly. I soon ran into a problem. I haven’t even installed the software yet, since the first thing I have to do is go online and create a user account and then subscribe to play. Simple enough? I thought so too, until I tried entering the Authentication Key found on the CD case. This produced an error that my key had already been used. Note that it says ‘already been used,’ not ‘currently in use.’

This must be egburr’s first MMOG. Everybody knows you can’t reuse a MMOG key code, GOSH! Flipping idiot. Sometimes the keycode in a brand new box has been used already too, by the store dudes, which means you, the buyer, are SOL.

I don’t know if locking up keycodes like that is legal or not. I just know that’s the way it’s done.

As an aside, you better hold onto that keycode like Grim Death because if you get divorced some day, you’ll need that code to keep your virtual wealth. It’s really never too early to hide assets.