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And not forgetting that you can buy no shortage of mice, or keyboards that are fully programmable to do everything you want.

Except those are questionable at best and have produced bans in the past.

Why back in my day we used pencil and PAPER to move our characters around. And we rolled DICE to see if our characters could hit a monster. It's all you young whippersnappers and your compewters that screwed up the game with your bots that rolled the dice for you that are to blame for the short attention spans you all have.

(For those that can't see past the humor: Computer Games->DND as Bots/Macros->Computer Games, i.e. Blizzard is inherently being hypocritical)

Blizzard has always been a royal hineypain. You can even get banned for using keyboard macros.

I just play on the free servers.

Play Anarchy Online: Free, better crafting, you can fly at level ~20 out of 220, you don't have to play tetris nearly so often as either HGL or WoW.

Some people have apparently gotten banned for using a programmable keyboard.

This would be unattended game play and therefore would get you banned.
http://infernix.net/wowban/

While browsing some game reviews I found a link to this. When I read it, I found it pretty shocking, basically the guy was banned because he was pressing a macro on his keyboard with his fingers while watching TV.

I have no idea if this is true but at that time I was pretty sad for the guy. On the other hand, he lost the WoW addiction. :)

The most funny part is that he could have avoided the ban if he didn't say he was watching TV while pressing the keys of his G15 ...

Well, *apparently* you can get banned from WoW and no amount of esplainin' helped.
...(at least the last time I read what was there they maintained that they were getting kicked off for running under wine...it's too long-a-read to see if that's changed.)

You could always get one of them programmable keyboards from say, Logitech, and then go set up everything so that your battles are fought almost automatically while you watch movies and press a button. Of course, you'd then run into the same problem that other fella had in doing exactly the same thing: you'd get banned for unattended gameplay.

http://infernix.net/wowban/ is the fella-in-question's site about his case.

you might want to talk to this guy...
http://infernix.net/wowban/

The 480x204 version i grabbed from Morpheus starts with the golden ring and a lot of fire. It's nothing more than a quicktime movie.

The fullscreen version starts with a storyteller while viewing a horse and wagon walking on a bridge. It's 2:51 long and has a nice progress bar (some Quicktime feature I think).

I think the 480x204 version is some other (older?) trailer, but one thing is for sure:

The FULLSCREEN version and the 480x204 version on my mirror http://lotr.infernix.net/ are DIFFERENT!

And I like the fullscreen one a whole lot better, so you better get 'em both :)

Regards,

infernix

---> Note to moderators: please mod this up as high as my first post. Thanks :)

I mirrored the Large version (480x204), it's 18MB. If I find the fullscreen version I'll put it up there too. Grab it here:

http://lotr.infernix.net/

Note: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

I repeat: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

It's our (yet) unused new uplink and I'd like to stress-test it.

Thanks ;)

infernix