Slate‘s Clive Thompson writes about the increasing time commitment required of online gamers as they progress up the gaming food chain, contrasting that with the latest of the genre, CoH and WoW. Good read, but how in the FUCK did it take him three hours to reach level 5 in Warcraft? With all due respect, even raw noobs wouldn’t take three hours unless they were afk for 90 minutes. Maybe he’s one of those roleplayers — they take 4fe to level.
There’s this NPC in Ironforge that wanders around all day muttering about pie, so I attempted to converse with him. What is this strange obsession he has with pie? Does he have a similar fascination with other tasty treats? On his rare days off (I think only Tuesday mornings during weekly maintenance), does he have pie then also or is pie the last thing he wants?
He was oddly uncommunicative about his other interests — probably one of those Type A gnome workaholics.
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“…and sometimes the Tauren milks YOU”
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