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Dell WoW Laptops Auction

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Engadget is reporting that Dell announced a charity auction of two custom World of Warcraft XPS M1710 laptops to benefit the international humanitarian relief organization, World Harvest — which sounds a lot like The Human Fund, and indeed, if you google World Harvest, there are several different organizations so named. (I also learned from Engadget’s post that there is a nerd pecking order, and sadly, we gaming geeks aren’t as cool as gadget geeks, but they’re not above using our l337 slang like “pwn”.)

Most-ironic winning bidder would be one of the huge Warcraft gold sales sites. That would be win-win all around.

Ranged Capture of the Flag is Safer

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I haven’t seen this alleged World of Warcraft battleground exploit in action yet, cuz dammit, I never find these good exploits early enough to have any fun with them: “AV Flag Hacking Out of Control”. Since I haven’t seen it, I can’t confirm it works or exists, but basically players are allegedly capping the Aid Station (or Relief Hut) flag from a longer distance than is appropriate, or reasonable. Then some arguments broke out, which is really what’s fun about this thread.

AFK Gamer Goin’ Mobile

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AFK Gamer is now available through mobile browsers thanks to the mobile publishing tool, Winksite.

There’s no breaking news around here, I realize, but maybe some day you’ll be bored and need some reading material for the public restroom. There ya go, mobile.

Not just cellphones either … the blog is also properly formatted for browsing via DS-Lite, the Sony PSP and Nintendo’s Wii, although I really hope you’re not going to drag your Wii into a public restroom with you. (There’s probably a pun in there, but I’m going to leave that one on the table.)

Bloggers, Winksite has written a WordPress plugin, Ultimate Gamer’s Pack, that auto-magically detects when a DS-Lite, PSP or Wii are accessing your site and properly renders your site for the device. I haven’t tested AFK Gamer with the plugin because I don’t have any of those gadgets, but cellphone browsing worked great.

I flagged AFK Gamer as adult content because of my sometimes-adult language. (You kids shouldn’t be reading this site anyways, but fercrissakes, don’t be using a cellphone during class. I don’t want to get an angry email from your teacher.)

Full-content posts and comments available:

WINKsite

Noob tutorial: Click that icon, Send to phone, Enter Carrier and Mobile number, Pick up phone, Open text message, Go to URL within. Or, Pick up phone, Open web browser, Navigate to winksite.com, Select Direct Access and enter AFK Gamer’s Winksite ID: 18990. (Easier if you get this set up before you go to the restroom, however, searching for mobile sites through winksite.com by name or category is possible.)

If nothing else, I can keep my eye on the pharmaceuticals spammers during meetings. Totally worth it.