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Scott Jennings

Amazingly, You Cannot Actually Make Millions From Tiny Classified Ads

Regarding the PE story I mentioned earlier, almost as earthshakingly, Terra Nova finally finds an RMT media story they didn’t like. This is the kind of story that we love here at Terra Nova, since it involves nifty issues about virtual worlds, the social fiction of money, and all

Kevin Smith pwns you.

If you’re not reading his blog, why not? Today he posted a thoughtful piece about everyone’s favorite service industry, and earlier this month he told the harrowing, true story of Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob) getting detoxed. Thanks to J. for the pointer. Not everyone needs to

If You Don’t Shop With IGE, You Support Terrorism!

Project Entropia announces that their Ponzi scheme sweat milking simulator now allows you to pull your money from the game via any ATM machine which does answer my question of if anyone has ever actually pulled money from the game. Raph Koster noted, with a stupefyingly Julian Dibbellesque level of

All Is Quiet, Yo

Everyone I know is getting ready for E3. I don’t have anything to show, but I’m going mainly to be social with friends and ex-coworkers. In WoW still doing MC runs (in one right now!) and drudging through Ony/BWL attunements. And yeah, I made juvenile jokes at

Korean government to weigh in on virtual item sales?

From the Koreagames.com weekly PDF newsletter comes this bit of news as part of a larger article on virtual item sales: As incidents relating to game item trading practice often make headlines, Rep. Jeong Seong Ho of the ruling Uri party made an interesting proposal that the online game

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Grind Part 2: OBEY THE GLOVES

Hey, I bet you want to read more about my World of Warcraft Adventures!! So this past week I finally dinged 60. See? After all this time, I’ve finally achieved something 94% of the planet achieved a year ago. Yay for Earth. So of course I was immediately taken

Oooh, Blizzard, I Hate You So Much! Fix Our Servers Or I’ll Update My Myspace AGAIN!

World of Warcraft has server issues, customers don’t really care that much In any case, with no shortage of massively multiplayer online games, such as “EverQuest,” “City of Heroes,” “Ultima Online” and others, on the market, some might wonder why angry WoW players don’t just walk away. But