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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.
omg n3wb..
/camp desktop
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Besides, lots of people play in order to escape the life they have. They actually have too much life for their tastes at the moment.
I once met a prostitute who just loved EQ just so she wouldn't have to think about her life. Met her in reality, though (and no, I was not a customer).
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
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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.
I think I ordered my first pizza online in 1999. Not because it offered any advantage over using the POTS - this was during the bubble so the general belief was that anything that could possibly be done online, should be done online.
Back then, they mostly used simple CGI-to-email scripts and it was a disaster because pizza places still mostly had dial-up connections and didn't check their email regularly. And even if they did, it wasn't nearly good enough (the whole point of ordering pizza is that you don't want to go out and grab food yourself -- you want food and you want it ASAP and not around noon the next day).
Within the last few years, most local pizza places (I don't order much from the big chains any more) transitioned either to IM-based or fax-based solutions. And they usually work pretty well. They're instantenous. But there's not really any advantage over picking up the phone, and ordering the old fashioned way.
And they don't seem to deliver to people who haven't ordered from them before. Apparently, there's a lot more online prank ordering going on compared to old-school over-the-phone prank ordering. I guess that has to do with the perceived anonymity the web offers.
Having said all that, I still use my local mom & pop pizza place's online ordering service every once in a while (it's a standard web-to-fax gateway form). Not because I'm too lazy to pick up the phone or because it's so much more convenient. But because it's a bit of nostalgia. And it really symbolizes the whole .com era -- sorta pointless but fun crap that you just had to try out for the heck of it.
I have found some distinct advantages to ordering pizza online.
My previous residence was on the edge of town and the nearest pizza place was several miles away. If I called and ordered, most of the employees were convinced that I was beyond their delivery area and wouldn't let me make delivery orders. If I ordered through the website, however, the order was routed to the same place and it would be delivered without question. On top of that they have *never* messed up an order sent in through the site, even with a dozen or so orders a month.
Taking the person on the phone out of the pizza ordering equation definitely improved the service they offered.
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And you can level up your pant size.
I wonder if that would even work out in the first place. Can you really just feed a human being by using the corpse of the another human being, then feed the another one when he dies, etc etc, without ever feeding one with real nutrients.
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
so will /piss
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I wonder if that would even work out in the first place. Can you really just feed a human being by using the corpse of the another human being, then feed the another one when he dies, etc etc, without ever feeding one with real nutrients.
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
No you couldn't.
Respiration, the stepwise oxidation of glucose to make ATP, is only about 30% efficient at best. The anabolic pathways that use ATP to build and maintain body tissues are also a great deal less than 100% efficent.
Overall 10% of energy/biomass used by an organism is retained as muscle/fat/other tissue.
Pick up the bread knife and carve your way into forensic history
Hey, I'm not saying that I want to use the service, but I think it'd be great for them to do it!
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