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Blizzard Adds Tinfoil Hat to Solve Armory Complaints

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-be-uglier-than-spellstrike dept.

SlashRating© 70 slashdottit! tm A blue post on the WoW forums shows that blizzard's official stance on player aversion to the Armory will be addressed by adding a new item, the Tinfoil Hat. "While the Tinfoil Hat provides the wearer with added protection against mind control and other befuddlements, the hat's most interesting and truly unique property is that it completely removes the wearer's character profile from the Armory website and provides enhanced privacy for its wearer!"

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  1. I put on my robe and tinfoil wizard hat. by Spazntwich · · Score: 5, Funny

    And cast +5, Insightful.

    1. Re:I put on my robe and tinfoil wizard hat. by beckerist · · Score: 4, Funny

      and WHOOSH! that's the sound of no one getting the joke!

    2. Re:I put on my robe and tinfoil wizard hat. by repvik · · Score: 5, Funny

      Misfire! Misfire! Your spellcasting sucks, and you cast +5 funny instead.

    3. Re:I put on my robe and tinfoil wizard hat. by Rellik66 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Leeroy Jenkins! ! ! ! !

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  2. omg by Sobieski · · Score: 5, Funny

    major league baseball is watching you /dance!

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  3. I cast level 10... by Alaria+Phrozen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I put on my robe and tinfoil hat...?

    Man I am really looking to the new WoW sequal, WHoA!

    And if you go to their forums you'll see everyone is posting "blue" except the CMs which are all level 1 trolls :)

  4. Re:cripes by Alaria+Phrozen · · Score: 2, Informative

    You sir are the grinch of fun day. I have the perfect idea for an outfit that you could wear, and while IAMACD (I am not a Costume Designer) I'm sure your giant hemorrhoid will simply dazzle.

  5. Re:cripes by notque · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, all this April 1 faux-story crap is neither amusing nor interesting. What's the fucking point?

    The real question is how the hell so many of you have the time to complain about it. You know it's going to continue. You know when it will stop.

    Here's a change for April Fool's day, Go outside!

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  6. Re:cripes by repvik · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. It's much more fun when there's just a bunch of regular stories and one subtle april fools story. This isn't funny, reading slashdot today is useless instead of interesting.

  7. Re:Awww man... by 0racle · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wasn't (though no one is going to believe that), but personally I think such an item would be funny as hell. They added the Sword of a Thousand Truths after the South Park episode, so maybe all the conspiracy theorist Dark Elves have some hope.

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  8. Plausible by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Funny

    WoW does have real items such as "The Unstoppable Force" (a wicked-looking hammer/mace/scythe thing), and its companion, "The Stoppable Force" (a simple wooden mallet). It also has, I'm told, items which you can fish up which turn you into a ninja or a pirate.

    So, this Tinfoil Hat item would not be entirely out of character for them, either as an April 1 joke, or as an actual, real improvement to the game.

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    1. Re:Plausible by Spikeles · · Score: 2, Funny

      And don't forget the "Tenacious Defender" - "It has the power... to move you" http://www.thottbot.com/i24091

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  9. Re:This is... by wootest · · Score: 4, Funny

    One day every 365.2425 days. Somehow, I think you'll survive this time too without the high-quality, in-depth Slashdot reporting we all know and love.

  10. Rip off by saskboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are using inferior tin instead of aluminum. And one of the photos clearly demonstrates that it's a rip off of my Pet Foil Hat Technology.

    Judge for yourself.

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  11. This is funny, laugh by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Insightful
    http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilh at.xml

    Equip: Hides the wearer's profile from the Armory.

    Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth" with others.

    Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it?

    "On behalf of the International Gnomish Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're almost out of tinfoil."

    Requires Tin Bar (99), Fused Wiring (4), Troll Tears (8), Heavy Leather (4), Star Ruby I'd like one just for the joke value, but that's going to be too expensive to buy in the AH. Bummer.
  12. HERES A DIME by IamWhoIam · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I have been reading posts all damn day deriding the use of humorous stories, on our beloved slashdot; on this famous day of the fools. Granted some of them are less than hilarious, but just the same there is some humor in all of them. If those of you that are such sticks in the mud (thats a polite term for heads up your asses) that you can't take one day out of your over serious lives to enjoy a bit of humor you indeed have a sad life. Here is a cyber dime. Go buy your self a sense of humor

    Oh yeah I am out of mod points so those of you that have any left mod this as insightful.

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  13. Re:FAKE! by SL+Baur · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must be new here.