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Another Warcraft P-P-P-Patch

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Late breaking Warcraft news, Patch 1.9.2 on 1/12/06, quoting Caydiem:

At midnight PST on January 12th (approximately four hours from now), we will be issuing a small client-side patch to address the issue of “stuttering” player movement. There will be no realm restarts involved, however it will require players to restart the game to download the patch. We have developed and released this correction as quickly as possible and apologize for the disruption of play this issue may have caused.

Good deal, cuz that shit was A-NNOY-ING.

Warcraft Politics

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When I’m redoing the Warcraft noob instances for the 40th time, on the 6th alt, of the 2nd account, I can’t help but consider the political implications of my task at hand. Take the Stockades of Stormwind, for example. The objective is to kill all the prisoners of war in the dungeon. ??? They’ve lost control in the prison and their solution is to massacre the whole lot?

Geneva Convention violations

After this conflict is over, I’m not taking the heat for The Stormwind Stockades Massacre. I was just following orders.

I’m trying a new approach with the professional farmers in Warcraft. We’ve already established that I have no skillz at all with the Asian languages; they have trouble with English. Perhaps one of the European languages could be a middle ground.

Lo Siento

Spanish was a no go.

I can always fall back on the universal language that all humans understand. (No, it’s not love.)

Guild Wars: Factions

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NCSoft announced the upcoming release of the first expansion for Guild Wars, ETA second quarter of 2006, Guild Wars: Factions. Players can try it out, free, January 20 through January 22 — access keys for those without GW accounts are available at their site. Two new professions are in the expansion: Assassin (I’m guessing that means rogue) and Ritualist (I have no idea what that is, maybe shaman?).