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Dumb Luck That

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A few of us in the e-thug guild came from the same EverQuest server and the same guild — eventually that is, after brief vacations in other virtual worlds. We are quite the melting pot of online gaming if you were to examine the myriad relationships and histories that brought us altogether into World of Warcraft. The current clique works and that’s all that matters at this point.

But the few of us, we came from EverQuest, same guild. And on our former EQ server, we had arch enemies, as was natural for anyone that played EQ for longer than six months — after about six months, more or less, we all had a list of players that had fucked us over repeatedly, and we, them, in turn.

It was a tight community … like a noose.

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Games as Portals

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The game is afoot.

Everybody’s making fun of /pizza. Leno’s using it in his monologue (a welcome change from his usual Ovaltine-esque bits); CNN is on board; the news has even spread across the big puddle to the UK’s Register (took a while for that).

Today’s Google news search — 105 hits.

It’s such a goddamn goofy idea. Not well implemented, and so damn goofy, but it’s only the beginning of Online Games as Portals.

Old game hags may remember EverQuest’s Instant Messenger: Offline players could message other EQIM users who were either in game or out — there was even a Trillian plugin for EQIM. I’m not sure if other online games offered such a thing, but every game I’ve played after that, players have asked if similar offline chatting was available.

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I won’t be doing THAT again for at least two days

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Uncle Foton is feeling a little weak today, although I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t sleep in my clothes last night. Every now and then, I kick the living shit out of me.

Meanwhile, if you’ve a thirst for MMOG news, the more professional blogs, (y’know, written by people that aren’t cheating shitbags like me), are talking about the server mergers on EverQuest-Classic. Found on Plaguelands, details about the mergers and which servers are being smooshed together. (EQ link) Thought I’d never live to see the day.

One site note, I added a link on the right to a linklog I’m using to store some of the non-gaming links I run across that are either useful to me (like WordPress crap) , are amusing, or waste copious amounts of time I’d otherwise spend being productive. There’s probably a more efficient way, but it’s time for my afternoon nap and when I say “nap”, I mean “staff meeting.”