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World of Warcraft Comes to South Park

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the omg-they-rezzed-kenny dept.

lmd writes "The first episode of South Park Season 10 is this Wednesday, October 4, at 10:00 PM Eastern/Pacific Time on Comedy Central. It will be called "Make Love, Not Warcraft". A sneak peek in Quicktime and DivX is available." Flash version of the blurb courtesy of Kotaku.

109 comments

  1. Still up, for now by dtfinch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Normally, posting a direct link to a large movie file would result in immediate slashdotting. Maybe I was just beat the rush.

  2. Zero lag! by Animats · · Score: 1

    Well, I'll say one thing for them. They put enough bandwidth behind the site that the video downloaded without any delays. Go ahead, watch the Quicktime version.

  3. Noooooo.... by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    The airtime of the episode conflicts with the schedule of our raid... too bad :)

    1. Re:Noooooo.... by dohzer · · Score: 2, Funny

      You've scheduled a raid for 10/4? That's months away!

    2. Re:Noooooo.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Today is 10/1... How is 10/4 months away?

      *confused*

    3. Re:Noooooo.... by LuckyPossum · · Score: 1

      Damned your-oh-pee-ans! With ass backwards datin' system!

    4. Re:Noooooo.... by dohzer · · Score: 2, Informative

      How dare you confuse an Aussie with a European!

      And anyway, all my comment gave away was that I wasn't a Yank. Where else does 10/4 mean October?

    5. Re:Noooooo.... by farnsaw · · Score: 1

      Too bad for which? Warcraft or South Park?

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    6. Re:Noooooo.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
      The airtime of the episode conflicts with the schedule of our raid... too bad :)

      Ironically, this is true for me! I'm raiding Naxxramas when this episode first airs. It's too bad Comedy Central isn't known for excessively re-running the crap out of a show, otherwise I might get a chance to see it again! Oh, wait, nevermind... :P

      Hey, if any of you bored slashdoters with WoW accounts want to run around with an epic geared rogue on Whisperwind for a bit, drop me a tell. Check out my uberleet gear!

      And before the stereotypical comments come in about WoW raiders having no life I feel I must point out that yes, that's entirely true! Haha, well, more true for the hard-core pvpers grinding rank. Raiding actually only takes a few hours a night, which, while sounding like a lot, isn't really much different than watching TV a few hours a night like the average American. And considering the quaity of most TV shows and how annoying commercials are becoming, I think WoW is a lot more entertaining.

    7. Re:Noooooo.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      And anyway, all my comment gave away was that I wasn't a Yank. Where else does 10/4 mean October?

      Japan, for one, though they mark which is the month so there's never any ambiguity. Also anywhere that uses the ISO date system, though admittedly that generally involves specifying the year first. The middle-endian US system is easily the silliest and least logical of them all.

    8. Re:Noooooo.... by lord+sibn · · Score: 1

      Put your crayons away and take a look at the calendar.

      10/1 is standard notation in many parts of the world as the tenth of january, which is months away. Just because neither of us lives in Europe does not make me dense enough to not grasp a simple concept like this.

    9. Re:Noooooo.... by Pluvius · · Score: 1

      There's actually a very simple logic behind it; you go from the smallest numbers to the largest. There are 12 months, between 28 and 31 days each month, and as many years as you can count. It also goes along with saying (for example) "January 1, 1980" which is easier than saying "The 1st of January, 1980."

      Rob

    10. Re:Noooooo.... by Tekgno · · Score: 1

      That may very well be the case, but it doesn't seem too useful. For a large measure of time, we break it up into years, each year breaks up into months, etc. and so forth. It makes more sense to keep these all in order. By your logic if we were to display a time, we would place tenths of a second before the hour but I digress. Fact of the matter is that nobody seems to use a sensible date format that remains compatible with how we are used to reading the time (HH:MM). I propose everybody uses the following YYYY-mm-dd_HH:MM:SS. Drop sections from either end if they are unneeded and everybody is happy, every portion is in order and you guys get to keep month-day.

    11. Re:Noooooo.... by Kjella · · Score: 1

      I propose everybody uses the following YYYY-mm-dd_HH:MM:SS.

      Congratulations, you've reinvented ISO time except they use yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss. It even comes with an add-on to specify time zone and week numbers. Now, the biggest issue with this is short-hand, because size != importance. If I say I'm running a 2.6 kernel, I might acutally run 2.6.16-k7-4 (the last being a debian fix number) and it feels natural to leave out the ending. I find dd.mm.yyyy shortened to dd.mm to feel more natural than yyyy-mm-dd shortened to mm-dd. But if I am writing out the full date, then ISO is the most logical. I use it a bit on the computer just to have things sort right (typical example: "Travel expenses 2006-06-06 to 2006-06-09.xls") but overall that's the only place I see it outside computer tables.

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    12. Re:Noooooo.... by dohzer · · Score: 1

      I guess when someone wins lotto or something they'll say "You've won nine thousand, six hundread, one million, five hundread thousand and ten dollars".

    13. Re:Noooooo.... by JadoJodo · · Score: 1

      I think the logic behind our dating system (MM-DD-YYYY) is that most people already know what year it is, therefore, we have the year at the end. As for the month and day, it seems to me that it would be better with the day first, due to the fact that I most likely know what month it is. But, I imagine I might be confused for a while as to what system we were using were the USA to switch.

    14. Re:Noooooo.... by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Where else does 10/4 mean October?

      If movies like Smokey and the Bandit have taught me nothing else, it's that 10/4 actually means "okay."

      -Eric

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  4. Guest pass key by linzeal · · Score: 1
    6rtv9r-pm6z-h2xgpc-pnz2-jrhvhk

    If you have not been addicted to it like the rest of us, the first fix is 20 bucks and the next expansion is 40 or so.

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    1. Re:Guest pass key by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      Where are you getting the 20 buck fix from?

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    2. Re:Guest pass key by linzeal · · Score: 1

      Last time I got one was at Walmart.

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    3. Re:Guest pass key by phalse+phace · · Score: 4, Informative
      I believe Blizzard are going to drop / has dropped the price for W.o.W. to $19.99.

      Checking places like Circuit City, Best Buy, EB Games, GoGamer, Amazon.com, etc... they are all selling the game for ~ $19.99

    4. Re:Guest pass key by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Last time I got one was at Walmart.

      You have that guy hanging out in front of your walmart too? That's why I stopped shopping there.

    5. Re:Guest pass key by wwphx · · Score: 1

      I bought the $2 14-day trial from Hastings last week. It expired last night. Silly me, I thought all I had to do was activate the monthly billing and I'd be back online. But NOOOO! They want me to either buy the full game or, to save me inconvenience, pay $39.99 and get it online.

      Sorry, I'll buy it for $20 at Walmart when I'm in town this afternoon.

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    6. Re:Guest pass key by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      And it still disgusts me that they have the balls to charge for the game itself. If they want me to pay $15/mo to play their game, it had damn sure better be free to download. They MORE than recoup their costs. Bloody leeches.

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    7. Re:Guest pass key by geminidomino · · Score: 1

      Hey, they might have balls, but those balls are solid fucking GOLD man!

      Oh, btw, they want you to pay $40 for the expansion, too!

    8. Re:Guest pass key by Rayonic · · Score: 2, Insightful

      $15/month covers the massive ongoing costs of customer support (in-game and out), game updates, server hardware/maintenance, bandwidth, and other misc costs. This isn't Half-Life where people run their own little servers and the company just provides a matchmaking service.

      The initial price of the game is supposed to cover the initial development of the game, before it launched.

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    9. Re:Guest pass key by heinousjay · · Score: 1

      Blast them making money off the honest sweat and cheeto dust droppings of the playing man.

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    10. Re:Guest pass key by DrXym · · Score: 1
      Most MMPORGs drop their price to zero after a while. EQ plus a bunch of expansions was on the front cover of a PC magazine recently. Probably desperation has something to do with these moves, but I don't understand why they don't do it anyway.

      If they're expecting people to fork out $15.99, then the game should be free, or the retail version should cost little more than the 30 days you get with it. If they've dropped the retail price to $19.99, that would meet that requirement, but they should give away the client for free through other channels with no extra gameplay, or just a few day's worth.

    11. Re:Guest pass key by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
      Customer support?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Have you ever tried calling their customer support? I guarantee that there are not massive costs for it. Bandwidth and server stuff I could understand, but not customer support. Or game updates. There are very few of those, and the biggest ones they repackage and sell as an expansion.

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    12. Re:Guest pass key by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Game Masters count as customer service. There's always at least one watching the server you're on. All those Community Managers on the web site/forums count too.

    13. Re:Guest pass key by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      And what do they pay those GMs? $15/hr? To staff one 24/7, they would need the fees of 168 subscribers. A drop in the bucket. Nice try.

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    14. Re:Guest pass key by neural+cooker · · Score: 1

      Not to mention covering the massive ongoing costs of their profit.

  5. Similar Theme by eldavojohn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it'll be along the same lines as this ad for Warcraft?

    Or, very similar to the Futurama episode where Fry discovers why men are not to date robots through the cheesy 1950s-ish sex-ed film? (humans will fail to reproduce and die as a species)

    That's the most I can gather from the title ...

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    1. Re:Similar Theme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or, very similar to the Futurama episode where Fry discovers why men are not to date robots through the cheesy 1950s-ish sex-ed film?

      You mean the infamous RIAA propaganda episode that should have disqualified Futurama from any consideration as a good TV show, much less some kind of geek icon.

  6. Direct Link? by v783650 · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is this Kotaku nonsense? Here's the direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHQ4E_VhaU

  7. Argh by 1310nm · · Score: 1

    Great, one more WoW-related video someone at work will try to make me watch because it's "funnay" (to people who play WoW, I guess). Then again, it is South Park...

  8. WoW this hits close to home, eh? by mrfett · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to see this. It's been a while since I've felt any of Cartman's jokes were aimed at me... The trailer on Comedy Central has them all in front of computers weighing about 2 bills a piece. Is weight gain common for WoWers? When I play, I tend not to eat much...

    1. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by goodbadorugly · · Score: 2, Informative

      I can attest to just drinking more soda's and eating chips etc. while doing intense WoW sessions, it stems from not wanting to get up all the time to forage through the refrigerator, which is where an easy meal (read: unhealthy) comes into play. I've since stopped playing and corrected my diet, but the weight I put on is very noticeable. Im just lucky I still have a decent metabolism or else my body might have gone to all hell. The horror story of playing WoW (in the wrong way, I realize some people can control themselves) doesn't stop there though. Developing sores from sitting too long and losing all semblance of a non-online social life is par for the course for a lot of players, many of whom I met on raids and talked to in my guild.

      Just don't get me started on those times I refused my bodies urgings for me to piss during raids. If i ever go back to WoW it'll involve a lot more breaks during and after play sessions.

    2. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Informative

      I don't play WoW but a friend of mine does. It is as bad or worse then you state. While he hasn't gained much weight, I was disapointed when he would invite me (or anyone else) over and after 3 minutes of bullshiting, he would goto the computer and conduct the rest of the evening with paltalk in the background and going on raids. Sometimes you would need to repeat yourself because the game got in the way.

      I thought it was more or less a joke when his wife started hitting on me directly infront of him saying he wouldn't notice anything outside his game. Then one day, she actualy started playing wiht me in a way that I knew she wasn't kidding and she definatly wanted some attention in certain areas.

      I guess what really astounded me was when on the most recent visit (his wife's kid's from another marriage had his 19th birthday) , with about 14 other people in the computer room (den) he wips his pecker out and starts urinating into a two liter pepsi bottle he recently drank. Looking around, we determined he is too involved to throw them out too. He has droped to working around 2 days a week now but that seems to be enough to pay the bills.

      I used to go hunting and fishing with him all the time. Now, I get a phone call while I'm in the field describing how exciting the last raid was or how someone was fucking with a member of thier clan and he showed them a thing or two. I though about turning the phone off but sometimes I need to be on call incase I have to work. He was given a fishing boat in like new condition by his dad who just didn't have anywere to store it. It got sold to someone else for around $2000 because he couldn't break away from the game long enough to tow it 20 minutes to his house (would have taken about 1 hour total to. go get it).

      WoW is pretty much consuming his life.

    3. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Insightful
      I guess what really astounded me was when on the most recent visit (his wife's kid's from another marriage had his 19th birthday) , with about 14 other people in the computer room (den) he wips his pecker out and starts urinating into a two liter pepsi bottle he recently drank.

      I'm sorry, but after reading that part I have to call BS. Did not a single person say anything? Any normal person would have gone batshit over this. Why did you not confront him about his problem then and there?

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    4. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by sumdumass · · Score: 2, Informative
      Why did you not confront him about his problem then and there?
      Well, Maybe because we were drunk and stoned at the time. But more likley because we do it in the tree stands when hunting (and it is deer season here) and it didn't seem all that bad untill we though "WoW, there a bathroom less then 200 feet away.

      BTW, this was recently and everyone did have a "wohh minute". We made jokes about it all though the night but I never really conected the why he did it with WOW until later. Some one probably has said something but I'm not sure. Besides, it his life to live, not mine. Who am i to tell him how to live it.
    5. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Hakubi_Washu · · Score: 1

      Well, it does sound like you're fibbing to us, but in case you're not: Take his wife (a good sympathy fuck coupled with an hour or two of crying/telling-it-all might help her to straighten herself out and leave the looser), unless you're bound by being married to a monogamous person yourself or have moral issues with it (In those cases you might want to try the good-friend-approach, but it is way less effective). Tell him he's pathetic (that need not be in person, a note attached to his monitor while he's asleep should suffice, the wife is certainly willing to do that for you, but make sure it's obvious whom it's from). Change your phone-number, so he can't call you anymore. Decide: If you want to give him another chance, then leave your new number on a post-it attached to his fishing gear. Otherwise add a line about being ready to sue him for stalking if need be to the "pathetic" note and make sure you actually do.

    6. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      You didn't answer the biggest question we all had:

      Was his wife hot?

    7. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Chibi-Hikaru · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Who am i to tell him how to live it.
      You're his friend.
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    8. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If she has a 19 year old son, then probably not.

    9. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Depending on your definition of things, I'll note that Anna Nicole Smith had a son that age.

    10. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Result - Assertion Supported: Moms of 19 year olds are not hot.

    11. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by hab136 · · Score: 1
      I thought it was more or less a joke when his wife started hitting on me directly infront of him saying he wouldn't notice anything outside his game. Then one day, she actualy started playing wiht me in a way that I knew she wasn't kidding and she definatly wanted some attention in certain areas.

      Similar story, but Everquest back in the day. Dude started ignoring everyone and eventually started asking me, as a friend, to take the Mrs. out on Friday nights so he could raid. Then it was Saturdays too, and Wednesdays.. I never saw him any more, just his wife. She eventually left him. She and I dated for about a year after they split, good (if crazy) times.

      Too bad, dude was a cool guy before.

      Now I play WoW, but only raid on Monday and Thursday.. I try to keep most of the week for real life. :)

      Cue "The Dangers of World of Warcraft".. http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/20 06/6/16/2036495.html
    12. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by sumdumass · · Score: 1

      Nah, she isn't really that hot but neither am I.
      She isn't ugly though wich is a plus.

    13. Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 1

      yeah, um..

      If your his friend, than you need to take him aside and say

      WTF? OMG YOU SUXXORz

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  9. Not the first episode by also-rr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Season 10 already has 7 epsiodes. It's just they stop each season half way through to let the animator's wrists recover - this is the first episode after the break.

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    1. Re:Not the first episode by goodenoughnickname · · Score: 2, Funny
      It's just they stop each season half way through to let the animator's wrists recover...
      I knew perverts worked on that show!!!
    2. Re:Not the first episode by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 1

      It's not just animated shows that stop half-way through a series, stargate, battlestar galactica (can you tell what kind of tv I like yet?) and many others do it too.

      It's really annoying, and I wish I knew why they did it.

      More importantly, I wish I knew why the UK doesn't get most American series for years after they're first shown. More and more people are downloading them from the USA now, so surely the viewing figures in the UK are dropping. Are the British broadcasters so blind that they haven't noticed, or is it the American channels that are causing us to be behind?

    3. Re:Not the first episode by x2A · · Score: 4, Funny

      If only they recorded the shows rather than airing them live...

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    4. Re:Not the first episode by WilliamSChips · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think the mid-season hiatus are because of production schedules. BSG isn't getting a hiatus this year but Stargate's hiatus has been doubled from 3 months to 6 months in the US. (For once, you Brits are getting Stargate before us, or at least the Canadians are and I think Sky isn't putting a break in there either)
      And the whole behindness thing is probably for contractual reasons--both the contract with the US channel(if it even exists--BSG doesn't have it because it's owned by the same company as the channel but Stargate is MGM and not NBC/Universal so it does have a US contract) and the time it takes to get a UK contract.
      And since you seem to be from the UK, is it true that Sky offers almost exclusively American fiction: Stargate, BSG, (your version of) Fox News, etc.?

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    5. Re:Not the first episode by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 1

      As far as I can figure out this friday's episode on sky one is the start of season 9, so either they're doing a big recap in the hiatus or they really are that far behind the usa. The sci-fi channel aren't showing it at all, so if they normally do then we're having the hiatus like everyone else, but iirc they're normally behind too.

      If you want to see the kind of stuff we get on sky then look here: http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/tvlistings , but yes, the sci-fi is mostly american.

    6. Re:Not the first episode by WilliamSChips · · Score: 1

      I think season 10 is starting in England in October, at least that's what I heard from the Brits on Gateworld. I don't know whether Sky will have the hiatus but I know SPACE in Canada won't from a Canadian on Gateworld.

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    7. Re:Not the first episode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Yeah, the delay is stupid - especially when we can get The Daily Show and Letterman really quickly. The problem is that they don't realise that South Park is sometimes current-affairs based satire that needs to be seen quickly.

      I'm very glad they stop half-way through the series. It gives them more time to come up with ideas, hopefully reducing the number of shitty "crab people" episodes. US TV is too often run line an assembly line, but really good comedy doesn't work on demand like that.

    8. Re:Not the first episode by BenjyD · · Score: 1

      IIRC from the days when I was a subscriber, Sky One is almost entirely American content, with a very little, poor quality, British stuff squeezed in between - it's owned by Rupert "Fox Channel" Murdoch. It's the same with a lot of 'British' TV: More4 even shows The Daily Show for some bizarre reason.

    9. Re:Not the first episode by HAKdragon · · Score: 1

      ..except for the fact that all of the animations are done on computer. Everything is done in house and usually takes only a few days to make an episode.

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    10. Re:Not the first episode by johnsmith_12345 · · Score: 1

      Dont forget Sweeps. These shows are not the higest rated stuff on tv. So they dont have to compete(with the higher rated stuff), they air stuff during the slow parts of the year.

    11. Re:Not the first episode by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 1

      As I'm not American, what the hell is "sweeps" anyway? I first heard it in that wonderful movie "Bruce Almighty" (he's a reporter don't you know, and he "goes live during sweeps"), and I still have no idea what it is except that for some reason it makes people watch more tv.

    12. Re:Not the first episode by jkmullins · · Score: 1

      Sweeps is essentially a week or two that most networks pull out all the stops and try to get new viewers. They conincide with the distribution of the Nielsen rating diaries to smaller television markets that are not normally counted in the daily ratings. Higher viewership in those periods mean the networks can demand higher ad rates, so the marketing for the shows is taken to the extreme.

  10. Omg They killed... by Acidictadpole · · Score: 1

    OMG They killed the Twin Emps!!! You Bastards?!

    1. Re:Omg They killed... by ectal · · Score: 1

      More like... "Oh my God, you killed a Chinese gold farmer! You... bastard?"

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  11. Re:shut up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You forgot to mention that they clog the tubes.

  12. WoW Players: Name that Zone by Accipitradea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What zone are they in? It looks kinda like Hillsbrad, near the internment camp, but I don't recognize the structure. Anyone with better WoW geography than me able to post a screenshot of themselves standing in front of that building? Or did Blizzard give them a private server with unique geography? (TBC zone perhaps?)

    1. Re:WoW Players: Name that Zone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pretty sure that is the internment camp... at least how I remember it from a few quests long ago

    2. Re:WoW Players: Name that Zone by sahrss · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://www.sahrs.net/wow/tm.jpeg

      Yeah it's by Dalaran in Hillsbrad / Alterac Mountains. I used to pvp in the zone all the time (before world pvp died to Civilians.)

    3. Re:WoW Players: Name that Zone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wish I could mod you as +5 "Sad."

    4. Re:WoW Players: Name that Zone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is much to be said for simplicity. Sure, if I wanted to spend all my free time putting stickers on my car - er, making my interface all frilly, I could do that. But I'd rather pvp and melt the faces of people busy toying with their UI. I use several *very* functional mods.

      RDX is an interesting but incomplete, unfunctional fad. Next you should suggest I switch to Hurd.

      My resolution matches my LCD. It also allows me to have full quality graphics at a great FPS while recording video.

      Native UI scaling looks like crap and doesn't improve usability.

      One nice thing about games is that there are fewer trolls, because although it is anonymous, even characters do have reputations do maintain.

      See you...dead...in BGs :)

  13. Re:shut up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No kidding. The internet is not like a truck, where you can just dump more stuff on.

  14. Old news. by nickos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on guys, April was ages ago - the clip clearly states "10-4-06 Comedy Central" at the end ;)

    1. Re:Old news. by biocute · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it is not 2010 yet.

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    2. Re:Old news. by Chainsaw · · Score: 1

      It's obviously scheduled for 6:th of April 2010.

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  15. A matter of taste by Rog7 · · Score: 1

    All just a matter of taste, but you go right ahead and insult people for using the setup that works for them.

    RDX = latest fad, limited release (pay? lol) and doesn't work with group buttons, etc. etc. Meh.

    1. Re:A matter of taste by C0rinthian · · Score: 1

      I looked into RDX, then realized my guild would have to pay for it, and I would have to code it. Sorry, if I'm paying money, I expect the development to be done for me.

  16. WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Hubbell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With the MMORPG genre. Raids, Battlegrounds, No Open PVP, No looting in PVP, Level/Class based, Timer based, the list goes on.
    Darkfall is the game to wait for if you are a real MMORPG player.

    1. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Usekh · · Score: 0

      Thank you. You just pointed out most of the reasons why WoW is the most popular game outside those gankers who want to stroke their e-peens whilst killing newbies and looting their corpses.

      Why WoW has 6.5 million subscribers.

    2. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Onan · · Score: 1


      It also appears to require Windows. Sorry, it's just not possible for any game in the world to be good enough to make me want to involve Windows in my life.

      Good of you to decide for us whether we're "real" players, though. I'm sure we're all very grateful for your clarification.

    3. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by zippthorne · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It is the lowest level of mmorpg: dice-based "combat" game. It lacks any tatical or strategic elements, which you'd think would be emphasized considering the "massively multiplayerness" of the whole thing.

      It's very pretty, but it's no more complicated than bridge or cribbage. In fact, that's insulting to bridge and cribbage. It's a bit more akin to a giant, endless game of slapjack.

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    4. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by BenjyD · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I have to agree. I played 30 hours of WoW (level 20 hunter, level 8 Warlock) after reading so much about it. It finally dawned on me that it wasn't going to get any more interesting and that 7 million people really do like playing a game where your time is split between watching your avatar on auto-run and mindlessly pressing the same sequence of buttons hour after hour. It is addictive in that there always appears to be something more exciting round the next corner, but as a game it's terrible.

    5. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Br00se · · Score: 3, Informative

      There is an OSX client also.

    6. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by eugman · · Score: 1

      Actually you can play it using wine and the warcraft patch for wine. Now you have no exscuse! muhaha.

    7. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. Especially on the "no looting in PvP" point; you could not pay me enough to play an MMORPG where other players are able to take my stuff after they've killed me. I really don't care if you think I'm not a real MMORPG player, WoW is the MMO that suits me.

    8. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All Blizzard software has been and will always be PC/MAC. Go check out any saftware you have from Blizzard. I have all three battel chests aand have then installed on my Mac and on my PC.

    9. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Swanktastic · · Score: 1

      I love how the elite nerd community feels the need to bash WoW now that it's become mainstream.

    10. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by SScorpio · · Score: 2, Funny

      Welcome to the world of Japanese RPGs and most MMORPGs. At least most of the Japanese RPGs will have a good story to go along with the repetitive button pressing. I'm sure I will get replies whining about how WoW has a story and everything, but the other issue with MMORPGs is that you have to deal with the armpit of humanity. Where in real life I can just stay away from McDonalds and the like and avoid these people all together, in the game they are sitting there spamming zones with their useless chatter. It also doesn't help that a large number of the people range from 10-15 and think they are the smartest person in the world and everyone needs and wants to hear their worthless bantering. Though I guess in MMORPGs you can kill their character without the consequences of real life, but that's barely makes up dealing with these people in the first place.

    11. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by BenjyD · · Score: 1

      Its mainstream status has nothing to do with it: WoW was the first MMORPG I played and my free month ran out yesterday, I'm hardly an MMORPG elitist.

      It's just a mindless game and I have a stack of much better games to play. I play other RPGs (Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia etc) because they have story, puzzles and an interesting world. WoW replaces all that with mob hunting using a fairly dull combat system. In a way I think it's sad that so many people are paying so much money to feed an addiction to "the next ding".

    12. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Swanktastic · · Score: 1

      Sorry... I didn't mean to diss you personally.

      It seems recently that folks are starting to put Warcraft in the same "unfashionable" category as Madden, sequels, and the PS3. For the first year of it's life, WoW was the hottest thing since sliced bread. Now it's being called an uncreative treadmill with a poor combat system.

    13. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by devnull17 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It looks like you left right before it got good.

      The first 20-25 levels are boring as hell, as there's not much to do other than fetch quests and farming. But once you get into instanced dungeons, the game picks up and becomes great fun, although there's certainly still a good deal of grinding to do. The five-man dungeons in WoW are an absolute blast, and there's always something new to see until right around the time you hit the level cap.

      The endgame is terrible--40-man raids are horrible in oh-so-many ways--you can't get 40 people together without some degree of bullshit, be it guild drama, inept players, scheduling problems or terrible leadership, and once you do, you're spending dozens of hours a week doing the same thing over and over again for the chance to get a few pieces of virtual armor with higher numbers on them--but I had loads of fun on the journey to level 60.

    14. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by SScorpio · · Score: 1

      It's the same thing that happens with all MMORPGs when they are first released. There is the whole ahh.. new and shiny factor for the games where they can be seen as doing no wrong. I was excited by WoW when it was first coming out until the open beta preview. This exposed the null combat system and all of the bugs everyone lived with for the first few months of the game. This was the primary reason I didn't the game when it first came out. Blizzard saw all the issues like the loot lag and such in the open beta, yet they did nothing first it in the release version. I was previously an addict of Final Fantasy XI which had a rigid, but very technical combat system and included a great overall story that was marred by the need to group with at least 5 other people of certain jobs (classes/professions) to be able to get the next chunk of story. My friends followed the whole shiny factor to WoW leaving me to fend for myself. This was when I really saw the light of what MMORPGs truely were. Thankfully I went to Guild Wars where the new chapters seem to be giving me a nice month or two of content to enjoy every six months. This works out to $100/yr retail and doesn't suck hours of my life. It also contains content for groups of people to PVP and partake in massive challenges if they desire. But I have found it's easy to just stop playing for a few weeks to let you handle your real life or play a different new game that you wanted to try.

    15. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by SScorpio · · Score: 1

      *Sigh* -- At least I finally took the time to change the default posting method.

      It's the same thing that happens with all MMORPGs when they are first released. There is the whole ahh.. new and shiny factor for the games where they can be seen as doing no wrong. I was excited by WoW when it was first coming out until the open beta preview. This exposed the null combat system and all of the bugs everyone lived with for the first few months of the game. This was the primary reason I didn't the game when it first came out. Blizzard saw all the issues like the loot lag and such in the open beta, yet they did nothing first it in the release version.

      I was previously an addict of Final Fantasy XI which had a rigid, but very technical combat system and included a great overall story that was marred by the need to group with at least 5 other people of certain jobs (classes/professions) to be able to get the next chunk of story. My friends followed the whole shiny factor to WoW leaving me to fend for myself. This was when I really saw the light of what MMORPGs truely were.

      Thankfully I went to Guild Wars where the new chapters seem to be giving me a nice month or two of content to enjoy every six months. This works out to $100/yr retail and doesn't suck hours of my life. It also contains content for groups of people to PVP and partake in massive challenges if they desire. But I have found it's easy to just stop playing for a few weeks to let you handle your real life or play a different new game that you wanted to try.

    16. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Onan · · Score: 1

      (Replying to my own post to clarify my poor phrasing.)

      What I had actually meant to point out is that Darkfall, the game the previous poster was hawking, appears to require Windows.

      I meant this as opposed to WoW. Which, yes, I happily play on a mac quite often.

    17. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by MBGMorden · · Score: 1

      I think he was talking about Darkfall requiring Windows, not WoW. WoW works terribly under Wine (I've got it to work and it does run, but much slower than in Windows on the same system), but it has a very good OS X client available.

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    18. Re:WoW is the embodiment of all things wrong by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 1

      No strategy or tactics? You've obviously never been in a 40-man raid into new content areas where there are no "standard" strategies for dealing with the enemies therein. I'm not saying its a game of Chess or Go, but you do need the right people in the right places, doing the right things and watching out for wrong things in order to pull a lot of the end-game content off.

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  17. How "OMG /.'d" may help moderators by tepples · · Score: 1
    I wish self-righteous slashdotters like yourself would stop wasting time on "OMG ITS SLASHDOTTED ALREADY" or "LINKING TO A VIDEO RESULTS IN INSTANT SLASHDOTTING LOLOLOL". All they do is waste space.

    To me, notices of article unavailability serve as a way for moderators to tell when an article (an object referenced by the blurb) was unavailable so that they can determine, for a given comment, whether it is appropriate to expect the comment's author to have read the article first.

    1. Re:How "OMG /.'d" may help moderators by PygmySurfer · · Score: 1

      You sure expect a lot of the mods, don't you?

    2. Re:How "OMG /.'d" may help moderators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FTFA!

  18. Re:shut up by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    No wonder the crapper was backed up this morning!

  19. Re: I tend not to eat much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    High spirit ftw!

  20. screw you guys... by not+a+cylon · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm playin' Guild Wars. </Cartman>

  21. Neat math... by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 1

    You forgot that their are about 4 weeks in a month.

    Assuming a worker is employed @ 15$/hr
    and There are 2 GM/s / realm (1 horde / 1 alliance(just guessing))

    At 24/7 coverage
    (24 hrs /day )*(7days a week)* (4 weeks / month)= (roughly)672 subscribers * 2 GMs = 1344 subscribers just to pay their monthly support salaries / realm.

    Still a drop in the bucket though. Bandwidth costs are probably much higher. I think that their monthly input from subscriptions is only about 10% more than their monthly costs. (A 10% profit is pretty high though) You still have to realize that their is constant content creation, continuous bandwidth, server, and maintenence issues.

    Anyone know what the profit margin is? I don't think it's as huge as people make it out to be.
    Profitable enough to grow the business thats for shure!

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    1. Re:Neat math... by C0rinthian · · Score: 1

      Don't forget to take into account all the HR overhead for said GM. Providing benefits and such is expensive.

  22. link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    anyone have a link to the actual episode?

  23. Hilarious! by Octopus · · Score: 1

    "Mom!" "What is it dear?" "Bathroom!" "What?" "BATHROOM!"

    *mom appears with a bedpan*

    You can guess what happens next.

    And the cutaways to the evil PKer nerd made me scream with laughter.

    Does anyone know if there was some cooperation with Blizzard on this episode?