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The Ultimate "Doll House" For WoW Players
BoyIHateMicrosoft! writes "A friend of mine sent me this link today about a group of MIT students who have created something called a WoWPod. It's like a playhouse for WoW players. It has everything from Refreshing Spring Water, to food (Like Crunchy Spider Surprise of course!) to a toilet and of course the appropriate gaming gear."
"How can you kill...That which has no life?"
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No Eliza Dushku in this one!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Dushku
The virtual character then jubilantly announces the status of the meal to both the gamer and the other individuals playing online: "Vorcon's meal is about to be done!" "Better eat the ribs while they're hot!" etc
Well, let's just hope the announcements are limited to the food being eaten and not other "facilities". Not that some 'tard announcing every little thing isn't annoying enough, actually.
And a crapper built in to the chair you sit in to for gaming? I sincerely hope who ever uses this mutes their mic first.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
It's definitely earned the name in one way: if you go into one, you won't have a life of your own for at least 5 years. And it may destroy your brain.
great, more places where they can go to... not get laid!
While this is a good idea, it is missing a critical component: privacy.
Without real privacy, this "dollhouse" is nothing more than a well-equipped cubicle. (How am I gonna pleasure myself to naked goat-chix and elf-babes without secrecy and security from prying eyes?)
PS: Must credit Homer Simpson for prior art.
I can see the fnords!
All I can say is... wow...
from 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
to 45 2F 6E 40 3C DF 10 71 4E 41 DF AA 25 7D 31 3F
I've seen this before... didn't these used to be called "outhouses"?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I can't tell if the hut itself is virtual or not.
Me thinks these MIT students have been chugging too much Mountain Dew while cramming for final exams. Unless this is actually for a class...
Subtext being that this WowPod is basically a diorama of slightly higher quality than that of a 5th grader but is deemed newsworthy by being contexted with World of Warcraft and having been done by MIT students.
Chicken fried butter sticks? Do
So it's cool if you make one of these things for World of Warcraft, but if you make one for fully enjoying your pornography viewing experience you all of a sudden become a 'perverted freak' and shunned.
I hate double standards.
They are just preparing for post-Singularity life.
Finally, no more calling for mom over the intercom for the "toilet!"
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I've always been afraid that if Blizzard can ever figure out how to get some labor out of WoW players, like 40 man raids simulate protein folding or something, they'd be unstoppable.
And the outhouse in the article is basically a very early alpha version of what you'll see of humanity at some point in the future... probably distant future. And then it'll basically be the matrix. And they'll prolly still have a monthly charge, and we'll pay it. =/
yay.
you insensitive clod!
That thing appears to be themed off something from what I'd see in the Barrens that belongs to the Horde. This won't work because it has furniture inside and no simple mats.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
No one living in their parents' basement should be without one.
. . . and a brilliant new gibberish metric: How big is your basement, in WoW Dollhouses?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
...to bring poopsocking to a whole new level.
Rob
I'm a WoW player - in fact, I'm a triple-boxing, addon-authoring, way-too-much-wow-playing WoW player, and I gotta say, this thing is lame.
Much prefer something practical.
The Digital Sorceress
What the hell happened to Crunchy Frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
I won't call it complete until they place a tombstone in honor of Mankrik's wife, dead all these years and still not buried.
Funtime Candy Wow! - my plan for eventually conquering Japan.
You know, the really lame stuff that has nothing to do with trade?
By the way, I just had Kehrbehr drop some glyphs for sale at the Horde AH in Mok'Nathal ... enjoy!
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Paramedics are going to be pulling corpses out of these things all over the world.
I was going to write a post about how playing World of Warcraft on a toilet may be indicative of a serious addiction, but then I saw that the CAPTCHA said "bowels" and I decided that pointing that out would make for a much funnier post.
Seriously, the only people I know who play WoW are the most useless wastes of humanity I've ever seen.
Why don't you waste-cases do the world a favor and commit mass suicide ?