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cevik
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Gets a blow job!Work it Scott: If the name Scott Jennings doesn't click with you, you've done yourself a disservice by not reading an intelligent and thoughtful denizen of the internet. Even if Jennings' name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps his old handle might. Known for many years as 'Lum the Mad', Mr. Jennings ran the most popular site about massively multiplayer titles to ever be rendered in html. Lum's talents with the written word and his understanding of gameplay eventually led to his being hired by Dark Age of Camelot developer Mythic Studios, an occupation he still fills today. The Lum the Mad site has spawned numerous descendant sites, where refugees from that locale gather to debate the games of today. Mr. Jennings himself writes regularly on his blog Broken Toys, which I recommend highly if you enjoy the occasional MMOG conversation.
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WayAbvPar
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Not too bad! I have skimmed through the book, and it does a great job of introducing concepts that all MMOGers should know. Nothing new for the crowd here, but for the mass market it is a nice tool to get them up and running. Next I want to see the "Spawning Rabid Communities for Dummies", Lum  |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Mesozoic
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'Ten MMG-Related Web Sites' detail some of the most informative sites about massive titles on the internet. It also lists some of the most 'informative', with sites CorpNews and F13 sure to give any new player a crash course in massive player society. Shit. |
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Yegolev
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'Ten MMG-Related Web Sites' detail some of the most informative sites about massive titles on the internet. It also lists some of the most 'informative', with sites CorpNews and F13 sure to give any new player a crash course in massive player society. Shit. Har! |
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Surlyboi
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We're boned...
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Azazel
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Quick! disable all new user accounts!
And put Lum into Purgatory!
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WayAbvPar
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The book has been out for like 2 months- haven't seen an influx of tards yet. If they have the sense to read the book, they will have the sense to not be fucksticks if/when they come here. Getting mentioned on/. on the other hand...
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Lt.Dan
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Quick! disable all new user accounts!
And put Lum into Purgatory!
Nah, change his name to 'thelumi' |
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HaemishM
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'Ten MMG-Related Web Sites' detail some of the most informative sites about massive titles on the internet. It also lists some of the most 'informative', with sites CorpNews and F13 sure to give any new player a crash course in massive player society. Shit. We got more retards from the Star Wars NGE article than Lum's book, probably because most of the retards would assume F13 means f13.com and will be too confused to look for us otherwise. Unless they Sprechen Sie Deustche. |
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cevik
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I've always wondered about the All Black People Eat Watermelons
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Bunk
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Whee Necro!
Amazon left a copy of the book on my doorstep yesterday ( that whole one click order thing is dangerous to my bank account ).
Had to pick it up, to actually see my little anecdote in print.
Though the book is rather DAoC-centric (for obvious reasons) I thought it was quite well done. I'd deffinately recomend it to anyone new to the whole genre thinking about starting, just for the sections on nettiquete and abreviation usage alone.
It touches more on the principles and play styles of the games more than it does the actual play mechanics, which I think was the right way to go. Games manuals are for figuring out WASD, this book covers more abstract things like group roles, templating, interacting with other players successfully, ninja looting, etc.
It doesn't have the sharp bite of Scott's older writings and you can tell he's reigned himself in for the mass market appeal, but it still has little bits of Lumish humor that make it worth reading.
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Flood
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So in a way, in a very minimal and shallow trolling way I am possibly associated with something notable on teh interweb. FUCK YEA.
But seriously. I do think it's a positive that someone tried to articulate some of the finer points of the internet (sub)culture to people who don't have/use computers on a regular basis. And if Lum made a buck in the process, good for him.
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