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A Look At the Warhammer Community
Gamasutra is running a story examining the development of the Warhammer Online community since its recent launch. The author explains how the gameplay and rules tend to affect social interaction. GamerDNA has a related piece looking at numbers for actual players involved with Warhammer's launch, and how it's affecting populations in other MMOs.
"Getting on the computer to play WAR apparently reminded the WAR fanatics that they had a computer, because overall, their gameplay went up as a whole. They logged in more often to titles like COD4, Oblivion, and even AOC. But the MMO bug bit hard, and logins to LOTRO and EVE more than doubled after the launch of WAR."
I have a ritual called 'terminator'. I crouch in the shower in the "naked terminator" pose. With eyes closed I crouch for a minute and visualize either Arnie or the guy from the 2nd movie. I then start to hum the T2 theme. Slowly I rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me get through my day. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It sorta ruins the fantasy.
...and not a single one of them has ever seen a vagina. Tentacle porn, err, I mean Anime doesn't count. Here's a tip for all you Urkels out there: shower and apply deodorant DAILY, shave, and get a haircut. You might think you're displaying your individuality by growing a 12-inch long full beard and never cutting your George-Costanza-with-a-ponytail rat's nest, but really all you're doing is reducing your already ridiculously low odds of mating to near zero.