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Improve Your Identity

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I ran across a Warcraft mod that I hadn’t heard of before: flagRSP, an addon for additional naming options for your characters (surnames, titles) and an enhanced friends list. The naming options are visible to anyone else running the same mod. I don’t really understand why surnames and titles are so popular in online gaming, I just know they are, and while I don’t like to run a lot of mods (bloat and all that), I would like my own title: Lord of the Idiots. Briefly, I toyed with the idea of making an alt Oneeye, King of the Blind, but LotI could apply to any of my current characters. (home page for flagRSP, home page for successor mod WARS, mod found in this WoW forum thread authored by newly ordained minister, Federov. It’s a long-ish story.)

Vansites at Vanfest

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The World of Warcraft forums were DEAD, no drama to be found in the obvious places, so I stopped by Vanguard to see what they’re up to lately. Maybe it’s time to put down my money (no) or there’s a “TODAY ONLY, FREE BETA ACCESS FOR EVERYONE” type thing (no). The news page is chock full o’ info about their recent Fanguard, however, the latest fan event for a game that isn’t released yet.

I think if you’re a fan of something that isn’t available, that right there is the very definition of fanboi — real similar to buying tickets for the midnight showing of the newest Harry Potter movie.

This project — and it’s just a project until it’s almost go-time as far as I’m concerned — has so much goodwill, even I am amazed. We’re talking more goodwill than pre-release World of Warcraft. Incredible.

Anyways, I saw that The Safehouse has a vansite writeup of the vanfest which includes photos (score!). Crimony, after checking their front page, I think it’s safe to say that they’re fully committed to this Vanguard project: 15 of 20 front page items are vancentric.

That is going to be a shame when the goodwill runs low and people start to turn against the game, as we always do.

I’m keeping my expectations and my goodwill low. Pleasantly surprised is so much better than abysmally disappointed.

World of Warcraft Bot

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Follow the misadventures, the triumphs and the account bannings of the World of Warcraft Bot. The bot is about to begin Round 3, after 2 unfortunate bannings, and you can watch the fun on a live game cam (down as of this writing while they make adjustments to mask the bot’s identity and server). From the intro: “Confessions and exploitations of a World of Warcraft Botter. I show how it’s done, how much gold you can make and how you can powerlevel your own characters.” This is kind of like watching some dude on the freeway in a high-speed chase — will he crash? will he escape? will he /rude the news copters?