Dell WoW Laptops Auction

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

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.