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So, after the huge kerfluffle that was the warrior protest (now with pictures!), there was movement and visible thought from a dev instead of a CSR. (I am working on making a reasonable archived version of this so we’re not dependant on Blizz’s forums, the epitome of reliability.)

Cosmik points out that some people still have issues with the “upcoming changes,” who highlight the inconvenient fact that it isn’t just a single ability of Paladins that makes them br0ken.

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… ‘cos otherwise you are SOL, boyo.

Somehow, I imagine the following letter is not what they are looking for.

Bliz, y u sux so much? My AH not goin good, lossing items and shit. pls give back my items, or i be quitting. kthxby, B.Net kiddie

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So here’s the situation. You go to the store and pick up what you think is a nice wholesome movie that you remember from yesteryear. (And by yesteryear, I mean incredibly ancient 1957 vintage) You bring the movie home, pop it in the player, and settle back, only to discover that it is Italian porn. So what do you do? You watch it of course.

“It was a pretty raunchy, explicit film, it certainly pulled no punches. My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn’t believe what we were seeing.

“The film became progressively more graphic, there was no plot to it, it was just sex.”

Emphasis added. The kicker is that they went to the news hounds instead of returning the movie, and the supermarket spokesman had to ask for it back… Gotta love the title though: “Tettore che Passione”, or Breasts of Passion. Being an unsophisiticated rube, I’d tend to think that it said “Tittys” instead of “Breasts,” but enough of me trying to get Google hits based on boobies.

Thanks to Misha for this one.

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I found this tragic story through forum stalkinglurking on Naye’s other home. It was in one of the signatures…

A genius, a tyrant, a womanizer or just a washed-up drunk? It’s time to expose Grover- the monster behind the myth.

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Have mercy on me.

I just signed up for a day and time to defend my thesis.

2 March 2005, 1300.

32 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes.

Maybe I should finish…

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Via all kinds of people, here is the latest personality quiz to play with.

My results:

Wackiness: 64/100
Rationality: 44/100
Constructiveness: 52/100
Leadership: 50/100

You are a WEDF-Wacky Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you a Menace to Society.

Well, whether you’re actually a menace depends on how you choose to channel your energies. You chew your fingers and have an addictive personality. Properly guided, you can be enormously productive-otherwise you run amok, stir up trouble, and generally have a hell of a good time.

To your friends, you are a source of relentless entertainment. You often get into trouble, but you almost always find a way out. You are strangely popular and feed off others’ energy. You live hard, seize the day, and although your more sober friends would like to see you settled down, you generally have fewer regrets and better memories than they do. Your tenet is that, at the end of the day, one regrets only what one didn’t try. You are right.

You could benefit from outside help in balancing your highs and lows. Or perhaps cutting back on the caffeine.

Of the 82297 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 4.9 % are this type.

Fear me, for I am armed. And wacky.

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Nothing else to say about this… (Blatantly stolen from Foton)

If it’s a joke, I’d think there would be some response, but nothing besides the outside comments so far.

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Courtesy of Ubiq, we have these little gems to enjoy. As he said, the catapult ones are the best. Especially the second one.

Edit: and following the link trail leads the Iraq war as a DAoC raid. Priceless.

Edit the edit: those in the know have informed me that it is DAoC, not DOAC. Stupid newb.

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Full disclosure: I graduated the same year, was in the same squadron for two years, and several of the same classes. He’s not the guy I would have pegged as having those license plates. (Now, Otter’s Barry is another matter…)

Now, onto the pictures of shame.

The email traffic included phrases such as “Academy guy who took it a little too far…” and “Uneccessary (sic).”

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Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade sent in a couple of questions to the Blizzard folks, and the neighborhood crack dealers had a set of answers for them. For some reason the guys were surprised…

I mentioned last week that we sent a fairly terse set of questions over to Blizzard. They’re a lot more direct than developers are used to receiving. The crazy thing is, the answers we got back were a lot more direct than the interviews out there usually receive. Funny, that.

Funny that, a site that reaches thousands of readers and has had such a massive hardon for the game revokes their “Game of the Year” award, getting such good responses. (And this is not to criticise Penny-Arcade, the addiction of this author is well documented. I am just pointing out that I’m not surprised they got these answers when the trolls on the forums don’t get shit.) What would be a better forum to address some of the issues that Blizzard is having?

A couple of things though. Blizzard addresses the prior planning that they did do, which was blown out of the water in regards to levels of subsrciptions over a given period of time. With the addition of servers, this is only partially addressed. I would be extremely curious as to the database seats/licenses and whether or not they are being increased. Simply having the new server hardware does nothing when they end up being connected to the same database as everything else.

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