Monthly Archives: September 2005

Uber New Hax

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Changing the layout and few admin-type things here and there. This is the sort of fun that can be had while pharming the phatness in The Endgame for hours. And hours. And hours.

Buff, fight, kill, rezz the idiots that can’t CONTAIN themselves when fighting a badass monster, discuss loot for 15 minutes (alt-tab to mess around with blog layout), rebuff (alt-tab), fight, kill, rezz the idiots, alt-tab time again!

Anyways, this new template is so easy to install, config, bla bla, (full credits in footer), even an idiot can work with it. And indeed, an idiot just did work with it. It’s a beta release — I’m cutting edge that way, I’m all about the betas — so a few things will be busted while I shake out the loose screws.

And since my guild’s raid timer for World of Warcraft’s big boy zones reset today and tomorrow, I’ll have plenty of time for screw shaking.

Eh, it’s better than cussing everyone out. Again.

I Evolve

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Never let it be said that I can’t evolve!

Before, when I would get a tell from a game stranger filled with gibberish, I’d respond, somewhat impatiently, with a “wtf?”

Just because I don’t understand doesn’t mean it’s gibberish! It could be a foreign language, eloquently written even!

Witness:

Tada! Evolution!

I can be sensitive to other cultures, even gibberish.

Something Old, Something New

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Game scamming is almost as old as the medium itself. And when I say “almost”, I mean the first scam was probably pulled off only a few hours after the First Game Ever went live.

Similarly, every single game enhancement, advancement and new feature has been shortly followed by its related scam … think back to the first time you could link items in chat so others could see the stats (scam), game email (scam), offline vendors and sales (scam) … virtually every time you interact with another human in an online game, there are either dozens of safeguards built into the interaction to protect you from your own dumb ass or there’s a scam waiting to happen.

You already know all of that, though.

As new safeguards are implemented to protect our dumb asses, the scammers get more aggressive and, sometimes, more clever. I love that about them. To be honest, I mostly protect my own dumb ass by interacting with as few humans online as possible, but that’s another issue.

Anyhow, World of Warcraft has this COD system built into the game email. I’m sure it was only a matter of hours before the game phishers started trolling for hapless victims using this feature, which, by the way, is very handy between guildmates, trusted game friends and even your own alternate characters.

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