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Scott Jennings

Kind Of Puts The Crowds At Brit Bank In Perspective

As seen on Terra Nova and Pacific Epoch, if you’re an MMO provider in China, for the love of Mao, don’t ever put up anything in your game that even looks remotely like a Japanese flag. Evolution of a flash mob, in three easy steps! Players created protest

Wikipedia: Requiring Proof On All Things

From this Wikipedia entry (don’t ask, IRC is an odd place): Since the testicles are very sensitive to impact, this can be extremely painful. [citation needed] All right then. You first.

In His House In Moscow Dead Putin Lies Dreaming

Be careful when you ask the people what they want to know… For reasons Reuters calls “not clear,” 8,600 Russians want to know if Putin plans to employ “giant, humanoid war robots” and 7,300 people want him to be questioned about the Cthulhu, a cosmic cephalopod invented by

Finally, A Real Benchmark of Quality

While watching SciFi network (or more accurately, while it’s on in the background…) Me: “Are you watching porn?” Her: “No.” Me: “I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen acting that bad outside of porn.” Edit: Just in case you’re not clear on the horror, Variety actually posted

History: People Unclear On The Concept

From Gamespot: Crown of Glory is a turn-based strategy game that takes place 200 years after the start of the Napoleanic Wars. …which would be around 2005.\’c2\~

Ultima 3: Exodus 20:1-17: In which Moses comes down from the mountain and sees the users cavorting amongst level-based systems

Only Raph gets away with this stuff. Why? Honor thy ancestors, for they solved most of thy design problems. Oh, OK then. They’re all pretty dead on, by the way. Even if he violated more than a few in his career. THAT’S HOW YOU LEARN!

Going Home Ag’n

The new EQ1 (yes, EQ1) servers “The Combine” and “The Sleeper” went up last Wednesday. They’re using a new “classic” ruleset where content from expansions must be unlocked by someone on the server. To open the planes, you have to down Nagafen and Vox, to open Kunark you have