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I Was Young And I Needed The Money

The Escapist this week is running a great article by Richard Bartle entitled I Was Young And I Needed The Money. He doles out the sordid details of his experience developing a never-released sexy text MMOG. From the article: "All we required was some fiendish mind-control system to persuade people to play a text game when they really wanted to play EverQuest. So, that would be sex, then. I'd written a pitch for a sex MUD about five years earlier, but the funding fell through. Now was the time to dust it off! The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "

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  1. Anonymous Coward [ Create an Account ] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    suck my pines, 256 color whore!

  2. Beware: Semi-naked Hairy Man Picture by is+as+us+Infinite · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NON-NUDE HAIRY MAN WARNING

    Just thought you might like to be warned. Also, I wanted to try out my new web 2.1 tag. Please download the browser from http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html . (;

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    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. . . . . . . .
  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    zomg first post~!

  4. Horrible website design by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Grr...

    /me hits Ctrl-Shift-S, and the site becomes readable

    I win!