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Ribbit King - Perfecting The Art Of Frog Golf?
Thanks to The Next Level for its hands-on preview of Bandai's PlayStation 2/GameCube title Ribbit King, a unique new game in which "you play frog golf, or 'frolf' for short. You put a frog on a catapult and smack it around a course littered with traps and point bonuses, and the person with the highest score at the end wins." The previewer notes that "even by my standards, this is an oddball", before concluding: "Ribbit King is due out in June from Bandai, and should retail for $20 on both PS2 and GameCube. Though the demo had a few issues here and there, I can definitely say that for sheer lunacy it looks to be a must-have game."
Fresh Pond Community College is proud to present A Guide to Trolling.
Warning: Offensive comments are not only allowed, but encouraged.
A Guide to Trolling
Required Courses
BT 100 Basic Trolling
BT 101 Crapfloods
BT 102 Annoying Exploits
BT 103 NetCop/Mod Evasive Maneuvers
Elective Courses
Take two electives:
BT 104 Racial Slurs
BT 105 Gay Sex
BT 106 Creative Writing
BT 107 OS Zealot Fundimentals
BT 108 Trolling and Current Events
BT 109 Creative Profanity
Required Courses:
BT 100
Basic Trolling
Students will learn the basics of Trolling and some key steps
toward creating a good troll. Includes learning about your
targets and looking for weaknesses. Stresses the use of real
names in subject fields and actual data obfuscated to apear like
you know WTF you're talking about. Computer lab course.
BT 101
Crapfloods
Learn about the many sources for Crapfloods, new and old, online
or in print. Includes the use of basic text programs and scripts
used to make one Crapflood fit all, from *BSD is dead to
the random anal hijinks of the Slashdot staff. Effective for
insanely stupid topics not worthy of a good Troll.
BT 102
Annoying Exploits
Make use of stupid bugs to piss everyone off, including fellow
Trolls. Some knowledge of Perl, C, Visual Basic, and Internet
Protocols recommended. Web and IP proxies also discussed, as
well as USENET and email servers. Computer lab course.
BT 103
NetCop/Moderator Evasive Maneuvers
So you've crafted the perfect Troll, but what good is it if
you're killfiled, IP banned or constantly modded down? What
if someone complains to your ISP after the 8,000th post brings
some douchebag's server to it's knees? Learn more about web
proxies, obscure web based email providers, cheap domain hosts,
and a multitude of different virtual haystacks to hide your
needle-butt in till the coast is clear. Computer lab course.
Advanced Courses:
BT 201
Celebrity Impersonation
Students will be required to do basic to moderate research on their subjects, including but not limited to: reading second- or third-hand news reports involving the subject, discovering the volatile points of their personalities and ascertaining the community's stereotypes and attitudes toward the subject. Final project entails convincing your favorite mailing list that the Open Source celebrity you're impersonating is gay.
Prerequisites: BT 100, BT 103, BT 106, BT 109
BT 202
Believable Misspellings
Building on knowlege gained in BT 100, students will learn one of the key skills required to give their posts credibility. By showing blatant disregard to punctuation, spelling and the humble apostrophe, students learn to impersonate their fellow posters. This imitation proves invaluable in gaining their prey's trust, but only if done correctly. This course will teach students to look ignorant of their own language enough to fit in, but without arousing suspicion.
Prerequisites:BT 100, BT 103
Strongly recommended if taking BT 201