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OSI Starts Selling Preleveled UO characters
NinjaPablo writes "OSI has started a new service, detailed here which allows you to pay $29.95 to get a decent character premade for you, and bypass the hours of working skills at lower levels. Most of the player community is in an uproar about the whole thing, since it basically means a newbie can pay a little extra and be as good as an average player right off the bat."
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
.. arguably three of the most frightening pieces of fiction ever assembled (if you don't include the Starr report.) Who among us has not seen Stanley Kubrick's scene from the movie adaptation of "The Shining" where Jack Nicholson chops down the bathroom door, sticks in his head, and says "Here's Johnny!"
.. and I invite the rest of the Slashdot community to join me.
There are those who would call King's work "trashy" and "common" and would instead point to authors like H.P. Lovecraft or Ray Bradbury as the 20th Century's pre-eminent authors of horror and sci-fi fiction. This is, in my estimation, not a fair comparison. Lovecraft's work has had 80 years to be read, re-read, digested, and reviewed by his fans (and his critics.) While much of Lovecraft's work was very good, some of it is (IMHO) not quite as good as his devotees would have you believe.
It is true that in 100 years, nobody will remember King tales such as "The Girl That Loved Tom Gordon" or "Dreamcatcher." But King has authored several genuinely horrifying works that have permanently altered Western culture. I refer you to "The Shining", "It", and "Carrie"
King was not Hemingway. But he was an author that had an indelible impact on our culture. I mourn for King, his children, and his widow Tabitha
That is an absolute load of CRAP. It's a freakin' game. I tried to play UO a few times, and every single time I stopped...
Why? Because it took TOO GODDAMN LONG to get anything done. If you wanted to actually go out and enjoy what the world had to offer, you had to spend a goddamn month of your time wasting away in your computer room just to get halfway there.
The fun part of the game is playing it, period. It doesn't matter what your style is, as long as you have fun playing it. If you play from the beginning and enjoy it, great. If you start somewhere in the middle and enjoy it, great. That's all that matters.
You whiny assholes who are complaining this ruins the "value" of your character? Give me a freaking break. It's a goddamn video game. Most of the games you have to agree NOT to sell your characters anyway, so the value is essentially 0 no matter how much time you put into it. You play the game. You have fun. That's all that matters.
This is a GREAT idea. For somebody like me who simply DOES NOT have the time to build a level 50 character in Everquest (I hate to say this, but I have a fucking job) and would like to actually SEE the world (I did enjoy playing it afterall) this is a GREAT option, far more cost effective than buying this shit on Ebay, and not only that it's happens under controlled circumstances so that EA can do what ever they need to keep the economy from going off balance.
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Do the world a favour and jump off a bridge, you fucking twit.
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