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[archangelbebop]

I don't think I've mentioned this before in my LJ, but I (along with about a 10th of the world's current population or something insane like that) play World of Warcraft

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[ebourland]

Hee!

I had to download the photo and enlarge and brighten it in Photoshop to see all six characters. I am guessing you are the chap with the purple horns, waving at the screen?

I've always been curious about / tempted by WOW. But I get sucked in easily to computer games and need to maintain a semblance of a life as a responsible adult.

[atlasimpure]

ONEOFUSONOFUSONEOFUS

[archangelbebop]

I'm actually the tiny chap with the goggles and mohawk (and not much else on) in the right foreground. It's hard to tell from the pose, but he's doing an Elvis pelvic thrust. The chap with the horns is a good buddy o' mine. In my defense, my other character is a good deal more dignified-looking.

I dunno. I've played for about a year now, and while it's occasionally awesome, a lot of the magic has worn off. The game still has a lot of "do x until y happens" repetitive stuff from the old days which is meant to keep people playing for a long time, and that just gets old after awhile. But the world itself and some of the stuff to do in it is pretty neat and immersive.

One I'm curious about right now is called A Tale in the Desert, which kind of took the mmo idea and went "I wonder what would happen if we made the rewards socially-based, rather than 'kill the monster and take it's loot'?" I've long been of the opinion that rewards and means to get themin a game influence the behavior of people in it, and while WoW is fun you come

[ebourland]

I have noticed that MMO games can bring out the worst in people.

There's nothing like fighting over dungeon treasure to distill a person to his essence.

I remember playing Diablo (the original game) with my buddy Eddie. Ed was a particularly rapacious dungeon explorer. He would kill the bad guys and gobble up the treasure. I was OK with that. Then for a while, I happened to be slightly closer to the treasure after we killed whatever monsters we faced. I was picking it up. This irked Ed. We finally killed a big monster and I was picking up the treasure. Ed chatted: Stop it! Give the treasure to ME!

Or something like that. He was serious and angry about the treasure in the online game Diablo.

Then, Ed was always kind of a prick.

A Tale in the Desert looks really cool.

[silver_tusk]

I nominate the one that looks most like Stubby.

[archangelbebop]

And acting like him.

[atlasimpure]

Naked, mohawk wearing pelvis thruster?

[archangelbebop]

Got it in one. That's the *only* way to celebrate a first Heigan kill properly.

[atlasimpure]

Dammit, I'm kind of looking forward to trying that fight.

[archangelbebop]

You work at Blizzard and I've killed more bosses than you? Man, you must play on a bum server. Or be one of those pvp insanos.

Or you just work during raidin' hours. We have a New Zealander in our guild with a really odd schedule.