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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.

Be Prepared

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Are you looking for a midnight release party to attend next week Monday/Tuesday for The Burning Crusade? Ok, maybe you have a nerd friend who wants to go to a par-TAY for TBC and he asked you to find a loc. Whoever the hell is the nerd in question, Gamestop and EBGames can be your one-stop shop for TBC at midnight. Your nerd friend should still call ahead and reserve a copy!!

Apparently, some locations will have optional events “… such as costume contests, card game tournaments, screen-shot character judging …”, but you and I both know that no hardcore, must-have-at-midnight, WoW player is going to have time for that crap. The hardcores are going to grab their box, throw money, “keep the change!” and run home.

Reminds me of the one time I didn’t preorder one of the EverQuest expansions; I think it was the Legends of Ykesha. During the day at work I started having second thoughts, “how could I be so STUPID to not preorder??” so I stopped off at EBGames during my lunch. Four of us in the store looking for the same thing … me in a suit, this rather gothy-looking couple and a sweat-pants dude. Worker told us that store had no extra copies, but the store on the other side of town had two extra copies, he had just spoken to the guy over there.

While he’s saying all that, I’m backing towards the door, getting my cell phone ready. (True story — I didn’t have all afternoon to hunt down this box, I had 60 minutes.) As soon as the worker gets to the “… first come, first served” part, I’m out the door. En route, I talked to the worker-dude at Store #2 — he won’t budge on the FCFS. (bastard!) If some other heavily-pierced EQ couple walks into Store #2 while I’m stuck in traffic, I’m shit outta it.

Like a demon possessed, I’m one with the road. “How could I be so STUPID??” Sure, Ykesha was a minor expansion, but what was I thinking? I’m gonna sit in Planes of Power while everyone is pulling in un-nerfed loot hand over fist in the new areas? As it is, I wouldn’t be logging in until the evening — best-case scenario, I’d have two or three hours before they hotfixed the loot tables and I thought I could wait to get the expansion on the weekend? Stupid. Stupid.

I arrived at the mall, walked (I didn’t run, fercrissakes) to Store #2, approached the register and inquired politely, any EQ Ykesha for sale? Ya, he’s got some Ykesha. About a dozen unreserved copies. Did I want one?

That lil mo….fu….

So when I say you need to make these arrangements early, I speak from experience. You don’t want to be making calls all Tuesday morning, desperately seeking TBC. You don’t want some lil bastard at the mall EBGames yanking your chain. Learn from my mistakes, make arrangements NOW.

Class dismissed.