The proper thing to type in the dialog is, in fact, "DIE DIE DIE I HATE YOU DIE DIE DIE"
So evil you’ll wonder why someone hasn’t already invented it:
CAPTCHAs that force you to type in ad slogans.
“Advertisers are looking for message comprehension,” Mr. Jacoby said. “And you know what they say, ‘If you write something down, you remember it.’”
Yes – this is, in fact, why we can’t have nice things.
Posted in Ayn Rand Died For Your Sins
Build 1.0: You see a comely lass in a short skirt and a low cut blouse emblazoned with the Evony logo that beckons to you brazenly. WHAT SHALL YOU DO, GOOD SIRRAH.
Build 2.0: You see Prokofy Neva. RESPOND! RESPOND NOW!
Build 3.0: Realize that you have achieved a masterwork of commentary on the human condition that “MBA Fanboys” can never comprehend. Have a Paul of Tarsus moment where you are struck with the beauty of your innovation creating a game with real moral choices that quote from the greats of philosophy and literature. Ignore prior art such as Bioshock and Civilization. File patent so that your genius is properly compensated.
Bonus points: make sure you have as many reference to whoring women in your patent application as humanly possible.
Also, include a message board thread. Patent reviewers love that.
Build 4.0: Write a book. Write a Gamasutra blog. Just freaking WRITE. A lot. Ignore all the hataz. Get a non-profit grant to fund your hyperlibertarian game design. Get a faculty position at Pepperdine.
Build 5.0: Smoke a bowl. Get a hot model to pimp your media empire. Ask her which philosopher she’d quote.
Congratulations! You’ve won the game. Or, as Trotsky would say, “insurrection is an art, and like all art, has its own laws.” (WORLD IS LOST)
Hat tips: mystery, Metafilter, SA/LF!
Posted in Academia, Ayn Rand Died For Your Sins, Patent Trolls, _
In today’s episode of “Hyperbole in Game Theory”, Gevlon the Goblin comes to a horrifying realization!
The success of the completely unfair, M&S [Gevlonese for "morons and idiots", aka everyone not Gevlon] catering, always-nerfed WoW over Starcraft, EVE, Darkfall is the ultimate proof that most people are just too stupid for a free-market system.
Well, there you have it. But wait, the explanation? It’s better.
Commenters use to write “you must give welfare to the real world poor or they revolt”. I found it silly and used to handle it with “make sure the cops have enough ammo”. I meant it literally. My guess was that the RL M&S who are too skilless to do any jobs, are a little minority, like 10%. Let the cops handle them, they won’t be missed.
Not anymore.
The problem is not that the useless M&S would starve. They wouldn’t be missed.
The problem is that in the current level of education and the cultural value of learning, the useful/useless boundary is simply too high. You cannot discard 20-30% of the population and you cannot let other 40-50% live in low wages. They won’t accept it and they are just too many to handle by cops.
Yes, there’s so many casuals in World of Warcraft that we just can’t shoot them all.
And God knows, I’ve wanted to.
Tune in next week for “Hyperbole in Game Theory”, when Blizzard’s nerfing Death Knight tanking is held responsible for the collapse of Latvia’s currency.
Posted in Ayn Rand Died For Your Sins, Design Theory, WoW