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Slashdot Launches User Achievements
In a concerted effort to compete with more popular MMOs like World of Warcraft, we've decided to add an Achievement system to Slashdot. We've retroactively granted around 900,000 achievements to our logged in users. You can view them from your user page, or you can see my list if you're curious what a REAL achiever looks like. Many achievements have been sprinkled throughout the system and are awaiting discovery by dedicated Slashdot users, but a starter list of achievements is in the FAQ. I'll toss you one freebie: you can register your wow main for points if you're that kind of person.
Now go forth and achieve!
Since slashdot is about 14 hours late with the april fools, will we expect this for another 24 hours, well into April 2nd?
A good april fools is less obvious
Sure you wanna carry that burden with you for the rest of your life, ALL CAPS achievement that is. :)
o_O
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If there is, it would be impossible to get it :(
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
This isn't the worst idea I've ever come across but I can't help feeling it's walking down the idle route. I like achievements in games I'm not really sure they fit into a news discussion site. Still there's a good chance they won't be around tomorrow anyway.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
If only I'd remember to log in everytime my consecutive days would be through the roof
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I'm guessing "The Maker" is starting a comment thread, rather than just replying to a comment.
Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.
Rounding errors, gets them every time...
Gah! What a day to get mod points, nothing serious to spend them on. :(
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Especially the 'read slashdot for [x] consecutive days' part. This is an encroachment of my privacy
So just do like everyone else, and don't log in unless you want to post. Then it won't know when "you" have visited unless you actually write something.
And if you do write something (not as AC), you've violated your own privacy, no not much right to whine there.
That is the best game ever. Achievement Unlocked!
I have "The Tagger", even though I have never tagged a story. It's just a really bad joke.
I mean, like, when is the last time you heard about a website melting down because it was WoWed?
No no, you have it backward...
People melt down websites mentioned on the FP of Slashdot.
WoW melts down the people sadly addicted to it.
Slashdot just wants to combine the best of both worlds.
Oh, come on... This is the least obnoxious Slashdot April Fool's so far. Do you want them to go back to the entire day being fake stories? Or OMGPonies!!!?
Am I the only person who is completely past the entire concept of April Fool's day? Seriously. It's not funny, it's just dumb. It's like when my 4-year-old nephew squirts milk out of his nose. Yes, hilarious. If you're FOUR.
Just another "DOJ fascist authoritarian totalitarian bootlicker" -- Zeio
Indeed.
And with each expansion they will exponentially decrease the difficulty to achieve things until a 2-year-old facerolling the keyboard could... oh. We weren't serious?
Quite.
Oh, come on... This is the least obnoxious Slashdot April Fool's so far. Do you want them to go back to the entire day being fake stories? Or OMGPonies!!!?
OMGPonies!!!?
Sweet!! A new /. meme. Haven't had one of those in a while
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
I believe it's referred to as karma whoring here.
No, he's right. There's an achievement for having a 1-digit uid, along with 2-5 digits, and it's impossible to have both a 1-digit uid and a 5-digit uid.
idle is that way --->
To be politically correct they should introduce /. Trophies for all the 360 haters out there [:
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I'm going to guess whatever script he ran to scrub the database for achievements had some errors, and is improperly awarding them.
Which also means some people are missing achievements they should have.
Which says to me the whole thing is a big joke and will be gone tomorrow.
I've just lost the game :(
Did you get that thing I sent ya?
Only if they patented "Method of keeping people addicted to online entertainment".
I just lost The Game as well. The Game is very difficult.
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When the fuck did this turn into failblog?