I'm just going to post this out in the open.

[schild]

Dr. Twister just signed up.

Carry on.

[schild]

Fuck I'm bored today.

Someone do something exciting.

I'm ordering a bunch of stuff from China and making a spam thread in the MMOG forum. What are you doing?

[Joe]

Paging anyone who was stalked by Dr.Twister in the past to dis thread.

[Viin]

I'm making waffles.

[Rendakor]

Crafting in eq2, which is mindnumbing boring when you're just grinding.

Also, whats a Dr. Twister?

[Viin]

It's a Dr Pepper with Sprint and Orange soda.

[Mrbloodworth]

Fuck I'm bored today.

Someone do something exciting.

I'm ordering a bunch of stuff from China and making a spam thread in the MMOG forum. What are you doing?

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=11558.0

Other than that, working, and trying not to kill a teammate.

[kaid]

http://www.figureprints.com/ here you go something kinda random but mmo related.

[schild]

Ok, that's totally f'ing gay.

[SnakeCharmer]

I can't believe noone has said it.

Or, really, I'm just that lame.

Did someone say twitch?

Other than that, playing Ass C.

[schild]

I can't believe noone has said it.

Or, really, I'm just that lame.

Did someone say twitch?

Bingo.

[Miasma]

I'm trying to figure out wether or not I like this show.  Someone has described them as coming close to The Kids in the Hall and while I think they're funny I don't think they're quite there yet.

[schild]

Yea, I really don't like that show. Also, the name sucks.

[Azaroth]

Paging anyone who was stalked by Dr.Twister in the past to dis thread.

Dr. Twister has always been a pretty decent fellow toward me. There have certainly been no stalking incidents.

I think you're just too sexy for your hat, Joe.

In short, update your blog before I stalk you.

[Nebu]

I'm busy avoiding doing any real work.  Thanks for aiding the cause.

[Murgos]

Looking up da hax0rz at Dr. Twister is what led me to LtM initially.  You can all thank him for my presence here.

[Nebu]

From the Online Gaming Wiki

Dr. Twister used to document MMORPG bugs and exploits, for the purposes of holding companies accountable for their sub-par products. Was considered a generally strange person. His sites had a rather high 1337 h4x0r n00b vs. actual exploit ratio, especially towards the end, when his hosting imploded.

It smacks of truth.

[Sauced]

Woah

[Nija]

http://www.geocities.com/reebokpumps/home.html

[Signe]

Joe!  Thank God you're here! 

[palmer_eldritch]

By the way, someone calling themselves Dr Twister has just started editing Wikipedia. The only change they have made so far is a minor change to the Lum the Mad article. I'm sure this means nothing. Incidentally, did any of you rob my house outside Moonglow?

[bhodi]

I just slipped a runestone under your front step..

I, too found LTM through the twist. And the joyness of robbing dupers' houses.

[Surlyboi]

Since this thread is a big pile of no sense, whatsoever, I'll post This here, rather than starting another thread.

[Lum]

By the way, someone calling themselves Dr Twister has just started editing Wikipedia. The only change they have made so far is a minor change to the Lum the Mad article. I'm sure this means nothing. Incidentally, did any of you rob my house outside Moonglow?

That "minor change" is linking to his own, non-existent Wikipage (leaving the comment about his snaking lumthemad.com untouched). Maybe he wants someone to copy the OLGWiki entry over. He asked me to add him on LinkedIn as well. I did because I'm JUST THAT NICE.  I don't think his chances of getting a job at NCsoft are that good, though, considering I work on the same floor as ex-GM Ironwill and ex-GM Gabriel is up the hall. And they remember. OH THEY REMEMBER.

Mr. Orange, if some of you remember his wholly unintentionally dadaist stream of commentary on eq.drtwister.com, surfaced briefly in my blog comments as well, but I eventually had to IP block him as a nuisance.

[Sutro]

You know, I thought it was so strange that the Dr. Twister tags starting popping up on Broken Toys' front page yesterday.

Now I realize they were kind of like the air bubbles on the surface of the ocean, heralding the imminent arrival of Shitzilla.

[Kitsune]

By the way, someone calling themselves Dr Twister has just started editing Wikipedia. The only change they have made so far is a minor change to the Lum the Mad article. I'm sure this means nothing. Incidentally, did any of you rob my house outside Moonglow?

You don't rob a house, you burgle houses.  Robbery is the taking of someone's stuff through the threat of violence, burglary is the theft of unattended items by breaking into someone else's property.

[Azaroth]

By the way, someone calling themselves Dr Twister has just started editing Wikipedia. The only change they have made so far is a minor change to the Lum the Mad article. I'm sure this means nothing. Incidentally, did any of you rob my house outside Moonglow?

That "minor change" is linking to his own, non-existent Wikipage (leaving the comment about his snaking lumthemad.com untouched). Maybe he wants someone to copy the OLGWiki entry over. He asked me to add him on LinkedIn as well. I did because I'm JUST THAT NICE.  I don't think his chances of getting a job at NCsoft are that good, though, considering I work on the same floor as ex-GM Ironwill and ex-GM Gabriel is up the hall. And they remember. OH THEY REMEMBER.

Mr. Orange, if some of you remember his wholly unintentionally dadaist stream of commentary on eq.drtwister.com, surfaced briefly in my blog comments as well, but I eventually had to IP block him as a nuisance.

Being blacklisted in the MMO industry hasn't hurt my career though. I just started a new blog about cooking fries and shit, and I'll tell you, there are some serious discussions about the repercussions of canola vs. beef fat deep frying going on there.

One dude was all like "At Wendy's we microwave our fries" and I was like ROFL. That's just the kind of rapid submergement cuisine technician n00bs you get when you start a blog. They think anyone can do this shit.







Nah seriously Lum dude Dr. Twister and I are sorry.

[geldonyetich2]

Geldonyetich v1.0 always dreamed of having a wikipedia entry about him.  Apparently it was merged with one about bathroom mildew.

[stu]

[14:43] Lum_ He publicized the corrupt UO GM who was selling property he created on eBay, for example. That was very much something that needed to happen (the publicity, not the corruption) and in that sense he was actually good for the game he was covering, since OSI went to great lengths to clean up their own house in the aftermath.

I guess the guy wasn't all bad.

[BigBlack]

I mean, at this point we've all realized that Twister's approach was absolutely fucking correct, right?

The main reason it wasn't so obvious at the time was perspective -- people were still under the spell that what happened in any given MMO really mattered, or that ranting against the void would help.  I enjoyed Lum's work immensely (And Mu's, if we're kickin it old-skoo), but Twister probably did more to actually impact MMOs for the better than Lum's rants did.  Lum's efforts, in effect, made MMOers feel slightly better about getting anally raped, whereas Twister at least spread it around a bit.  Twister's approach is the one that gets results.

I'd still like to see a picture of Lum and Twister meeting with a handshake, MLK-meets-Malcolm-X style.  If only to erase the image of him meeting SirBruce.

Twister knew then what (I'd hope) we all know now:  The only way devs make stopping exploits a priority is if you hold their feet to the fire by abusing the hell out of them.

[Nebu]

Twister knew then what (I'd hope) we all know now:  The only way devs make stopping exploits a priority is if you hold their feet to the fire by abusing the hell out of them.

If only that was the motivation for most exploiters.  People abuse exploits to gain an advantage... they only want them fixed when enough people know about them that their advantage has been minimized.  People suck.

[Signe]

I can't stop saying "burgle".   

[Bunk]

By the way, someone calling themselves Dr Twister has just started editing Wikipedia. The only change they have made so far is a minor change to the Lum the Mad article. I'm sure this means nothing. Incidentally, did any of you rob my house outside Moonglow?

Possibly... was it parked near the shore?

[Samwise]

I can't stop saying "burgle".   

Try cancelling it out with something else.  Like this:

Sausage burglar.

Sausage burglar.

SAUSAGE BURGLAR.

[Oban]