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World of Warcraft Comes to South Park
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.
The airtime of the episode conflicts with the schedule of our raid... too bad :)
Maybe it'll be along the same lines as this ad for Warcraft?
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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
My work here is dung.
What is this Kotaku nonsense? Here's the direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHQ4E_VhaU
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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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.
Checking places like Circuit City, Best Buy, EB Games, GoGamer, Amazon.com, etc... they are all selling the game for ~ $19.99
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?)
Come on guys, April was ages ago - the clip clearly states "10-4-06 Comedy Central" at the end ;)
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.
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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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.
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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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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.
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$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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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.
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.