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Blizzard Lowers a Boom

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Blizzard banned some accounts recently for using speed hacks. Quoting the relevant text because, Blizzard and permalink difficulties, et al, ad nauseum, op cit:

Those individuals who were caught using the speed hack have been banned from the game and have had their accounts closed. We must stress once again that we are opposed to hacking and cheating of any kind and are dedicated to maintaining a fair environment in our games. This will serve as a final warning to others who are considering using the speed hack. If you are caught using it, you will be banned without question from World of Warcraft and your account will be revoked.

Cmon man, if you’re going to hack, make it a good one.

MSN Spaces: Naming Filter

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As you might guess, I love devilish pranks with naming filters. BoingBoing completed an investigation of MSN Spaces’ naming filters, MSN’s new blogging service, with some hilarious results. One of my fondest EQ memories is when duel results would be broadcast in the public channels. Was it just zonewide or serverwide? My memory fogs on that point. My all-time favorites: “Thelag has defeated Yourconnection in a duel to the death!” and “Nerfs has defeated Yourfun in a duel to the death!”

The Dead EQ Scrolls

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I was straightening out my home office this week and I unearthed a pile of my old MMOG notebooks. What’s that? You don’t know what a MMOG notebook is?

OMG, noob.

There’s a lot of information in online gaming that I’ve had to sift through and, in the old days, we didn’t have your fancy shmancy quest logs and your hoity toity User Interface Quest Cheat Sheets and all that nonsense. We played MMOGs like manly men and took notes.

Yes, you can feel free to make fun of me at this point. My god, I needed therapy and no one noticed this?!?!?!

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