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They can’t stop playing video games

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CNN.com – They can’t stop playing video games — “Many of South Korea’s 17 million gamers — some 35 percent of the population, principally males in their teens and twenties — are obsessive. At the 1,000 won-per-hour ($1) Internet cafes popular among young South Koreans, they’ll sit eyes glued to monitors for hours on end. Sometimes play will extend for days.” My favorite quote, from a 4-hour a day player: “The energy you consume (while playing) is immense.” Bullshit.

Geeks Say the Darndest Things

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From the Board of Wisdom’s Best Geek Quotes (there’s almost 100 total), I pilfered a few gaming quotes:

#4 (fourth best as voted by users to date) by an anonymous Slashdotter:

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you

#5 by unknown author:

My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they’re like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I’ll trade this but not my Charizard.

#19 as seen on a tshirt:

1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d (Seems to me that would make a nice message board sig.)

#52 as seen on a different tshirt:

I see fragged people

And speaking of Edgar Allen Poe, and we were just yesterday, #28 by an unknown author:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pron surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious site of ‘hot xxx galore’.
While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
“Tis not possible!”, I muttered, “give me back my free hardcore!”
Quoth the server, 404.

Rare Game Stratigese

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In other Warcraft news you can’t use from message boards, a level 30 gnome mage shares some rare Blackwing Lair strategies involving rogues, some shit and a little shinola. (Think: JeffK of Something Awful fame.) I think he’s faking, but the persona is well done. Tshirts and hoodies available for purchase. (See Leeroy? That’s how you ride the money train.) Finally, from the WoW & Cheese boards, “If there were an NPC server …” a screenshot of Razorgore’s chat log. For non-WoWzers, Razorgore the Untamed is a boss mob in Blackwing Lair, one of the big boy playgrounds. (Links found by Kristen, shanghaied blog reporter.)