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Well okay, it isn't really.
But it's the first thing I thought!
Sad, that's what I r. Sad.
Get points, levels and badges for doing things like spending time with your spouse, your kids, doing the laundry, God knows what else. O.o
This scary thing, and much other goodness at:
http://www.slideshare.net/dings/dont-play-games-with-me-promises-and-pitfalls...
"the three humans in my group are all very casual players. We were doing some Nightfall rushing to get my mesmer to DoA" You realise you contradicted yourself right there don't you? NF Rushing to get to an elite mission is hardly casual play. Yu Takami 15:49, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure "casual" implicates how often one plays, not what one plays or how well one plays it. Besides, elite missions are some of the only content in the game worth playing; "normal pve" is boring to me after the first time. -- Armond Warblade
03:13, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Incidentally, this is something I always had trouble explaining to a majority of raiders in WoW. ;)
Breatharian — This is more a non-diet as breatharians believe they can survive without eating at all, getting the nutrients and energy their bodies need from the air they breathe.
...humans are strange.
Very good article on the strangeness of humans, though!
NOMenclature.
*bounce*
(Sent this off to Spiderweb Software today. The first You-Rawk was to Ptah/Raph Koster on LegendMUD, roughly 15 years ago.)
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Hi!
I've been buying your games on and off for the past 15 years. Lately, seduced by shiny graphics of MMOs and a couple of other single player thingies, I've looked at your catalogue, remembered how great your games were (exile! avernum! woot!) and found myself simply unable to get past your particular degree of retro. =/ Despite knowing that I loved the games I bought from you.
Then I got your latest newsletter, which said hey look, we haz ipad game!
Ooo! I shall look! Ooo. It looks much nicer than those I remember, and there's an iPad version! *buys it at once*
I've only been playing it on and off for 2-3 days, but I gotta say, it's as good as all your other games so far, and I'm sure it will be at least as great once I've played it through one or more times.
Your raster art has improved HUGELY, that's a big plus for me. The pixel graphics are familiar, with improvements, but the raster ones in Avadon are... YAY! I like looking at them now! Faces have personality and everything looks lovingly crafted. Big kudos to the folk who did your new raster stuff.
I even had a guy on the subway look longingly at my ipad and shyly ask me what game it was. ;)
Anyways, sorry for the huge ramble. Just wanted to say that I'm so glad that you guys are still in business after over 15 years, and that you're doing well, and that most of all, you are still making games as great as the ones I remember. Guys like you keep the indy dream alive.
Rock on. =)
So there the nugget was, doing Trade Runs in Forsaken World, while a faintly bemused nugget-boy watched from behind his book. The nugget-boy, you see, is not a gamer.
Forsaken World Trade Runs in a PvE server are extended run-around-a-lot quests you do to get rep, which you can then exchange for tradeable gold.
They are an incredibly mindless MMO version of a TradeWars style planet-hopping trading game, and go something like this:
1) Get Trade Run quest from Merchant NPC
2) Buy stuff from Merchant NPC
3) Open map, click on map location of next merchant NPC, let computer autorun your toon
4) Read a book, go afk and make a sammich, watch a movie in the other window, or - in this particular nuggety case - fall over on your side like a beached whale, and stare rather blankly at nothing
5) Repeat until you've gotten the maximum amount of currency allowed in that run
6) Hand in to Merchant NPC
7) Do it all again
Showing incredible restraint, nugget-boy managed to wait until the third or fourth instance of nugget falling over on her side, and lying beside her laptop like a blankly staring beached whale before asking, 'Umm... what are you doing?'
Nugget: I'm waiting for it to autorun to the next trading post. By itself. I did mention a bot could play this game.
Nugget-boy: I... see...
Continuing with business, Nugget falls over a-la beached whale a couple more times, only this time, nug-toon is dismounted because she decided to ride into a silly body of water.
Now, as all we MMO players know, MMOunts are generally highly allergic to water. There is absolutely nothing surprising about a large sheep vanishing upon contact with a small body of water.
Except if you don't play MMOs.
"Hey," quoth nugget-boy, "Where did your sheep go?"
Nugget: Uhhh *thinks furiously about how to explain what, on a fresh look, seems like utter insanity*
Nugget: *DING!* It's allergic to water!
Nugget-boy: O.O But where did it GO?
Nugget: It uh - it hid in my bag!
At this point, hysterical giggles are starting to bubble up from beneath the batter, but the nugget bravely manages to suppress them.
Nugget-boy: Your sheep fits in your bag?
Nugget: Uh, yes. It's allergic to water so it jumps in my...heh bag... and once I'm on dry land I just... haha... take it out again because you know it really fits so well in my... heeheehahahHOHOHOHO!
By this point, I've infected Nugget-boy with teh giggles, and we're both laughing hysterically at the ludicrousness of the whole thing.
Maybe this is why MMO-wise at least, this is usually done in the company of other fellow MMO-folk, or alone.
Still... Nothing like a fresh pair of eyes to inspire a healthy dose of absurdigiggles, woot!
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I love how they're being so professional about it. XD
Yus yus I knows, eet r SRS BIZNEZZ but...
*giggles madly in corner*
