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Norrathian Pizza Delivery
Eletido writes "SOE's newest massively online role-playing game has now incorporated the ability to buy Pizza Hut pizza from the in-game command prompt. From the site: 'You're in luck - pizza is just a few key strokes away! While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com.' Never has gaming been made so easy." Commentary available from Grimwell.com.
just type
Next year they'll introduce "/exercise" and "/weight_watchers".
Trolling is a art,
Everquest and Pizza Hut: Because you're not fat enough.
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...a case of "the dead being fed intravenously to the living," but an important milestone along the way. ;-)
I've never played an MMOG, but this convenience is a great idea for Pizza Hut. Every person I know who plays MMOGs has a big stack of pizza boxes somewhere in their apartment... well, if they don't live with their parents.
-- Jinsaku
... when are they going to have "/girlfriend"?!? Please god, make it soon!
I live in central London (one of the highest density places in the world) and am unable, to buy Pizza Hut pizza because (all the areas on the website claim to but telephone operators deny it) they fail to deliver to my area. Friends in other areas on London also experience the same problem: more areas seem undeliverable than deliverable.
Nothing like advertising on London regional channels when you rarely deliver there for a waste of money. Everquest, well I don't care, now a Pizza Hut clan on Counterstrike, well they'd be the terrorists with bellied which ran slowely and couldn't think straight from constipation.
An upcoming SCI-FI MMORPG from the BBC will allow you to buy "a hundred tacos for a hundred dollars," which "should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who Marathon."_
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When I first saw this... I thought to myself this was the coolest feature I've ever seen introduced in the land of Norrath (EQ1 player almost 5 years.. moved on to WoW)... but then I just saw all it does is open a web browser up in front of the game... not so cool anymore. Would have been nicer as an "in-game" window.
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
If you're really dedicated, try stuff like Ensure. It's not bad tasting, and you can have it exclusively for as long as you want. Oh, but add fiber.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
No papa johns?
Come on, the pizza hut around me doesn't even deliver.
And I don't play everquest.
I just want someone to write a quick Dashboard app for various pizza places, with built in calculator, and let me order with CC# for those days I don't have any cash on me.
when you type /good pizza ?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
So typing /pizza will get you some food.
/exit will get you a life.
I hear that typing
They did this so they will not be sued.
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Remember the gamer that died after playing 20 straight hours: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078
They plan on EverQuest II being so addictive that you will forget to eat.
So what is the context of your anonymous quote? I don't need the dead, but I wouldn't mind just intravenous feeding. I already have Ensure quite a bit, which is just drinking it instead of injecting.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
Or just buy the Ensure with fiber built-in.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
In related news, thousands of adventurers die as their clerics go AFK to pay the delivery guy.
There should be a little hut on every island etc, where players can go in, and purchase pizza by typing their CC numbers to the lady there. Working at pizzahut would be easier that way.
Not to mention the pizza can get cheaper on advanced stages, with the game company's help, giving much more incentive to kids to play
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
There needs to be a similar command "/babyfood" because it's not like babies eat pizza and if you're the type who'll order pizza with an in-game command you're sure as hell not the type that properly feeds the kids.
Direct away from face when opening.
Open the damned browser yourself and go to your favorite pizza place's site.
Pizza Hut
Papa John's
Domino's
If I didn't list your favorite, I apologize. You can probably find them by clicking HERE
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Second, it's not nearly as sophisticated as it could be. It could log your street address and credit card, and has some feature to specify what you want so you enter it all into the command line. Like /pizza large .5 pepperoni 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.
Instead, what they have now takes even more keystrokes. /pizza is six keystrokes. alt-tab to browser + favorites button for pizza hut is two keystrkes and one mouse click. Maybe one more click if you don't have a browser open already.
This is my freaking idea, so if someone institutes it, its on Slashdot, and its copywrighted. Ok that settled. Have quests for in game items that translate to real life rewards. I just killed the ultimate monster, and I now I won a trip to disney world! Kill 100 orcs and get a personal pan pizza. Win coupons for the grocery store by baking. Etc etc.
God spoke to me.
thx
But starting over is a bitch and you don't get to choose your starting city.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
I can't wait until EQ3, when the pizza guy will walk it over to your computer desk and put it in your mouth.
What is this doing in the WoW section? How does it relate to WoW? (it's a joke, please don't take it too seriously)
Elf: IT'S DELIVERY!
Dwarf: IT'S DELISSIO!
Wait, it just takes you to the pizza hut ordering page? lame. Soe should already have your name, address, and CC# on file, it should just automatically place an order for Pepperoni Thin Crust.
/porn (pops up a browser with your favourite porn) /caffine (sends a fresh hit of caffine into your bloodstream through your IV)
This seemed appropriate for the discussion :
CLI Pizza
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Say Hungry Howies or something? I feel sorry for people who don't know about Hungry Howies... Great prices and the best pizza money can buy.
My favorite flavor is chocolate. It doesn't really taste like real cholocate. I used to drink Vanilla, but I got sick of it. I hated strawberry.
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If you're wondering why I drink this is because I don't eat a lot since I can't chew due and don't get enough nutrients due to my physical disabilites.
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... can you pay for the pizza with in-game currency? If not, what's the freakin' point of the command if not to embed advertising? Will subscribers be getting a break on their monthly fees since the game is now ad-supported?
next we'll see /beer takes you to budweiser.com
and then, we can have marketing at our UNIX prompt!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
And you can level up your pant size.
dominos cli ordering
Hm okay, but there are no locations in New York. Will they deliver from, say, Pennsylvania? :-)
I wonder how much Pizza Hut payed for that feature. While it's something small, it has a fairly large advertising span.
Sorry, that crap that 'pizza'hut produces isn't worthy of being called pizza.
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Awful Link of the Day
Everquest II Pizza (thanks OMGWTFBBQ) - Great news for those of you too lazy to actually use a telephone while playing Everquest II; you can now order a pizza from inside the game. Blue faggot needs food badly.
While playing EverQuest II just type
Now if only they will add a "/feedandnurturechildren" command to Everquest we'll be all set!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
I tried this tonight.
What I got in 30 minutes was voice mail from Pizza Hut, telling me that they couldn't deliver my pizza because the delivery guy's car broke down. I know that cars are a real rarity in today's culture and that they couldn't have found another one to use no matter how hard they tried...
Interfaces don't help if the technology behind them (and the human management, in this case) are broken.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Mmmmmmmmmmm HUNGRY HOWIES! Now that i'd use!
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Honestly, Eunuch, that was uncalled for. I'm an atheist myself who's seen that various Christian sects can and have caused a lot of misery. However, I'm not about to lump all Christians and all Christian beliefs together. Besides that, civility will improve nearly any social environment, not to mention make others more willing to listen to your position.
Personally, I've had a lot of people insult me because I'm an atheist, and I'd rather not visit that upon others without really good cause, let alone others who have little or nothing to do with the original insults.
They could include a /toilet, or at least /newpairofpants. They dont happen to have a /. either do they?
Soap box, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box. Use in that order.
I can honestly say, after having played EQ since the original beta, that a far more useful "instant shortcut" would be much more simple: /p
The Chronic *WHAT* les of Narnia!
I wonder how I could incorporate this feature into my MPOG: http://mtrek.game-host.org/....
no.
Ditto. I get a lot of insults for being Christian as well. Everyone gets insults.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Coming soon, the pizza guy will lower and raise your chin to force chewing..!
1. will the pizza be nerfed in the next patch? i don't want to order one now and find that when it gets here, it's got less pepperoni and more cheese than before. and i swear this new patch has made my dew less fizzy. i can't find anything in the readme about this though. WHY AREN'T THEY TELLING US THE CHANGES!?!?!
2. does the 'get it in 15 minutes or it's free' clause count if it takes me 25 minutes to answer the door because i'm currently instancing with a group and want to make sure im not AFK when the blue item is dropped and i want to roll for it?
Maybe one of those dating agencies should offer a similar approach to organising dates?
:P
Or should there be a an agreed upon symbol that your avatar displays indicating ones status as available? ie - nude from the waist down
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All their User interfaces use XML...
/pizza open Pizza Hut web browser window is weak.
To make
With some simple programming, you could make a script that "/pizza,large,cheese,coke" would send to the pizza hut order page your address, credit card info, and the order for a large cheese pizza and a liter of coke-a-cola.
Never even have to open the stupid web browser.
Correct. This feature should work like this: /pizza medium thick sausage extra-cheese /pizza 2-liter diet coke
Otherwise... why not just pick up the phone while you play and save the trouble of switching window focus? Odds are, you're a broadband user if you're playing EQ2 and live in a town which Pizza Hut serves.
The big problem with this is, MMORPG's are a group activity for a small number of families, but that's not the case for most players.
Most of the time when I play World of Warcraft, it's when I'm home by myself. I should not eat a whole pizza by myself, but if I wanted to, I damn well couldn't afford to be too lazy to step away from the game for ten minutes and buy a frozen pizza from the local store! A whole pizza is hell of a lot of food, especially for somebody living a lazy indoor lifestyle of computer games and TV.
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"Mental disability" isn't necessarily an insult. If it's voluntary, despite the best efforts of people and nature to help, it can be. Christianity is belief in a lot of the right things - like compassion, disciplined respect - for the wrong reasons: superstition, fear, majoritism. All christians have the mental disability of believing in something that doesn't exist: an omnipotent, solitary god who is like a man, who was a man, who actually died, and came back from the dead. That delusion comes packaged with various other dysfunctions, which vary from christian to christian, with lots of clustered similarities - like schizophrenia. BTW, christianity is no different from other deistic religions - probably any religion - in its delusional nature. Calling a schizophrenic's illness by its name isn't necessarily an insult - it's often the only first step on the road to recovery. Recognizing religions as mental illnesses, which ought not be encouraged, is one step towards getting us all free of their cruel grip on our lives, on our entire sense of the reality which really matters.
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sci-fi movie like that is called Soylent Green. produced back in the days of black and white, it is simply a classic!
I was oom while playing WoW yesterday, so I drank some water, only to find it replaced by Coca-Cola (tm). What's going on here?!