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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:10:25 -0400

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How to make most WoW players care about esport WoW and follow it

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:08:05 -0400

Personally i have no interests in watching the esport tournies. I really dont enjoy Arena videos because most of it is pillar humping, and judging from WoW movies comments i'm not the only one. Theres just no reason to really follow these teams, who are good or not, let alone sitting at home watching some stream for me and i assume most WoW players. The only thing that entertains me is the drama right now as Esports stands. And honestly nothing can possibly beat the drama from the last event, so this facet of esports has already hit a ceiling, a peak, that likely wont be repeated w/ nearly as great drama again. The clutch timing of that pic with a long backstory leading up to it will likely never be repeated again

So i asked myself what can possibly be done that will get the masses of WoW players involved, caring, and watching everything esport WoW? And then came the answer so clearly almost as though it had been in front of our faces the whole time but we just couldnt see it. That answer was....betting. Whether it be through the AH, or some new NPC, players should be able to place bets on teams and collect based on odds. If we could bet sums of our gold on these events, on a team, and it be streamlined into the game for the weeks leading up to a big tournament, dont you think that would create a interest in Arena that nothing else could come close to?

When every player has a divested interest in the outcome of these esport teams, and can be rewarded based on the performance of the teams they like, the player interest in Esport WoW would skyrocket. It would be a sure thing. It is called ARENA afterall, and just like in classic times of ARENA events, much of it was based on wagering on the fighters. So it fits in with the lore, and the whole idea of what ARENA means.

It also adds another facet to WoW. While the soccer moms may be against any form of gambling in a game there has been gambling in many forms in past games. Asherons Call had gambling, and a plethora of other games have different minigames that involve gambling. So its not like this should be shunned as a negative influence to gamers, since gambling has been a part of games for a long time now. Random variables of luck are what MMORPG's seem to be all about.

But honestly can you come up with an idea that is better than this in making ARENA as a E-Sport popular amongst WoW players? That would want to follow it, watch the streams, and actually care who wins? while cheering for them on the edge of their seat? when you have 1000G on the line hell yes youre going to care. or even bet the underdog who somehow blew through the tourney and made it to the finals at 8-1 odds where you put 500G down?

Thoughts?

African Americans vs Everyone Else

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:34 -0400

Everyday i read the news i run across all kinds of things that make me wonder why that is. Why America tolerates certain things that arent equal across the board. One of the most common things i run across almost every day is the emphasis on African Americans in every facet. Its odd to me how African Americans can be so exclusive within their race with so many programs, schools, and groups. You never read much, if not at all, about asian groups, middle eastern groups, and even any white groups. It seems white groups in any capacity are more or less portrayed negatively as racist, because they are exclusive to the most common race. And yet its acceptable, almost encouraged in our society to have exclusive African American groups. Why is this?

African Americans do have poverty issues. They have educational issues that are supposedly directly tied to poverty. And many make the case that they need these groups, schools, and programs exclusive to them because of the handicap in life they've been given from their ancestors being slaves. However it seems to me that every time i read an article trying to be positive in this respect, they are always making it out like African American youth dont make their own decisions. That they are forced into selling drugs, gang banging, and making nothing of them self because they have no other options.

I try and apply that to myself, or even the average suburban kid. I grew up in a middle class family. I went to school with African Americans that grew up in the projects. The only difference between us was that i had a car at 16. I had more expensive gear. But as far as education and everything else in terms of making something of ourselves through the public school system? We had equal opportunity in every respect. I had no advantage over them whatsoever in the classrooms or getting into college. If anything they had/have more advantages than me due to being African American, especially in terms of scholarships.

I also have African American friends who have done very well for themself. Oddly enough they were more middle class African Americans generally, but the one difference i've noticed thats consistent in terms of child success in school are the parents. The African American parents of the successful black friends i knew were very disciplining to their kids. They taught their kids values, pushed them in their schoolwork, and it wasnt a situation of just letting their kid do whatever they want, at any hour at any time. This was the case for many of the unsuccessful African American kids who made nothing of themself in hindsight. Their parents let them do whatever they wanted. Some didnt even act like parents but almost an equal to their kid in some situations. Some just didnt care and were more into their own lives. All in all it just seemed a lot of them were bad parents, but they'd never admit that. You do not want a black lady with an attitude screaming bloody murder that you had the nerve to call her a bad parent, even if they are :P Most of society would be afraid to be this up front to mostly a woman of African American race than any other race/gender you can think of. And they are probably the least rationale of race/gender that would never admit any fault of their own.

To me it seems almost like society is so politically correct in America today, and beat down by the guilt trips of slavery, that they irrationally allow all of this reverse racism as partly compensation for the guilt trips of slavery, and partly because of the statistical under-achievements for African Americans as a race in America.

Its amazing just how much emphasis on African Americans there is out there in every facet of news. I mean you'll read a news article, then read an editorial that is based on an African American perspective of that same news article. Very rarely will you see this for any other race, other than hispanics, but very rarely compared to the frequency you see it for African Americans. You'll see tons of stories about inner city black youth being portrayed as though they dont make their own decisions in life, and portrayed like society has forced them down the path of slinging drugs, committing crimes, and being in gangs. I swear every day there is some article written along these lines that feel sorry for those who dont make much of themself only if their black. Is this okay? Is this acceptable?

I wonder if the root of the apologetic attitude most of America has and accepts, is rooted in the extreme political correctness of our society, which seems to be getting worse and worse. Or that there is legitimacy to what seems like accepted reverse racism sympathizing for African Americans throughout our society. To me it just seems most of America wont point the finger at the parents due to the backlash of accusing them for poor parenting, rather than sympathize and accept most of America are guilty for holding African Americans down due to the carryovers of racism from the days of slavery.

For the record this is what inspired this blog this morning:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/25/bia.urban.prep/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

But look at that article. Look at all the links for African American based programs, news, groups, etc.....and look all over every other major news site, they are all consistently very similar. You almost never see anything asian, middle eastern, definitely not white unless its about racists or depicting them that way. You have more than a few university's/colleges that cater to African Americans, but none that are exclusive to other races in the same manner, even if some universities have a high concentration of whites, they arent depicted as focusing on a race, like the Moorhouse's(sp?) or Howard University's. The NAACP almost exclusively seems to get involved in African American plights, but i guess 'colored people' = black? I can remember once a long long time ago where they backed someone of a different ethnicity, and i'm still trying to remember wtf that was. All the African American celebrity donations to only African American groups, but wouldnt that be portrayed as 'racist' if famous white people did the same type of things?

Mainstream America just seems wrong in so many ways completely based on political correctness that seems to allow inequities of reverse racism vs compensatory fault.

G4 TV Female Makeovers? Boobjobs? GG!!!111

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:42 -0400

I was flicking around TV this weekend at some odd hour. One of the last things i'll eventually flick to is channel 52(?) here, which is G4 TV. Occasionally they'll have some decent game previews and stuff(hey Warhammer), not to mention i always wonder about how they seem to make the most with the least. They're budget has to be like $200/week, since they seem to fill alot of air time up with somewhat witty host/hostess dialogue, which isnt bad sometimes tbh. I had watched the show before on occasion and had seen the female hosts a few times on prior occasions. It had been a while tho, and this time i was almost shocked. Did G4 tv give every female on the show a makeover and boobjobs?

Let me first say that girl that has been there forever is really f'in hot now. She dyed her hair kind of dirty blond now. She used to be a brunette, and a little frankenstein looking....but DAMN this transformation is pretty spectacular!! I mean she is like a 9 now IMO....thats like a bump of 3 pts~. She seemed to always have big boobs but she used to wear kind of wacked gear, and still does, but i think they changed her gear a little to accentuate her boobs. Regardless, the package is looking really good now, if not amazing. I think i'm in love with her and she plays WoW so someone spill which server she plays on and with who thanks...nudez would be a huge plus

Theres also this Australian girl now, i think shes Australian at least. Maybe i never had caught her before but i cant remember seeing her in the past. She DEFINITELY has a boob job, i mean shes kind of small but has like D cups and almost perfectly round boobs. Too round. She almost looks like a porn star. And this chikk dresses in like leotard type outfits like shes some music video sluut.

Then theres that mexican girl thats been there a long time. Shes always wearing lowcut outfits showing off her boobs. She's got a little bit of an exotic look to her, and shes hosting alot. I used to think she was the hottest girl on the show, until the makeover on the tall girl that i first talked about who went blond. But this girl is pretty hot too, and she always kind of dresses like a sluut. Which is pretty cool with me when you have a budget less than Gameriots, and it doesnt cost anything to have your hostess's showing as much boobage as possible.

There are some random other girls that are pretty hot too but they arent regulars of that show i think, and just occasionally do news bits and crap.
I have to give G4 TV some props. Whoever produces this show really makes the most out of the least. There really is something said for hot chikks w/ big boobz feeding me my gaming news, even if 1/2 their reviews are on pretty garbage games. Money being poured into makeovers and boobjobs instead of the other aspects of the show is money well spent. The generational, somewhat witty banter w/ pretty much all decent to hot chikks looking better and better every time i see them goes a long way.

Only if Gameriot hired hot chikks in bikini's to write blogs and provided for their boobjobz this site could take the next step in entertainment like G4....Hafu w/ C cups finally?....provided by Gameriot? and a makeover? the wonders it could do for esports, and attracting generations of young gaming males...mebbe even Glickz might not act like 1/2 a ****** when his only opportunity for poon is literally face down on his lap? mebbe...just mebbe....

Remember just a couple years back when Morgan Webb was the object of every nerd's desire? Pined after by every teenager and adult with prescription sunglasses, she was featured in FHM. Oh, it was as if the Heavens opened and God had answered our prayers!

But then came a new queen. Like every great empire, Morgan Webb's slowly declined as Olivia Munn came on board. Although Olivia Munn clearly did not have the inner nerd that Morgan Webb had, Olivia had a candid sexuality and flirtatiousness that could not be denied.

And then came my favorite G4 personality, Layla Kayleigh. In my opinion she is the most beautiful of the bunch and she has the personality to become a star. Now let's ogle her pictures.

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thx briyan for pics link.

Can young females get any dumber?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:26:21 -0400

Okay, i've always felt there werent more naive people in this world than young girls. Many tend to want to be older than they are, act more mature than their age, date older guys, pretend they are smarter than everyone else when they really know nothing of importance, and just very egocentric in how they think. Yes i'm generalizing but i'd swear by this being common with young girls up to teenage ages. Let me stipulate that and say when they get older than that i think they kind of fall into who they've always strived to be, and have experienced enough to not be as naive.

There are also many pitfalls they can fall into, that can make being a father a nightmare. I've always thought one of those pitfalls and the worst nightmare for a father is early teen pregnancy. Every female i've known that got pregnant in high school amounted to just becoming a sloppy stay at home mom w/ mebbe a GED. Living off their parents, where their parents were practically the ones raising the kid. Granted its only a few girls, but i swear its one of the worst things IMO that could possibly happen from a father perspective. Only thing worse is if she was a ho and brought different guys home all the time, or became a pornstar. Nothing against pornstars btw, just not my kid ;p

Anyways this is always how i felt, and still feel. If i had a daughter i'd be ridiculously over-protective...just sooo many things that i feel they could be vulnerable to, while a boy i'd literally let loose on the world. And if youre a guy, you know how almost every guy thinks when it comes to females. Its only young females naive enough to think boys are just being nice to be 'nice' or their friend to be just 'friends'. Regardless of how politically correct fakers will pretend their equally worried about a son and a daughter, and i'm some sexist, which i am btw, but i dont think it takes being sexist as a father to be more worried about your daughter than your son. Its just common sense if youre a guy and been around other guys alot. Most females are extremely naive. I really dont see too many young females separate themself from that generalization either, if anything they tend to prove me right, and reinforce it.

So i'm reading my daily news, and what do i stumble across? Something SO ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS and RETARDED along these lines it felt surreal, that i was reading some joke news. No way it can get this bad, no way can young impressionable females be so dumb. I mean i already had pretty low expectations, but DAMN THIS IS UN****'N BELIEVABLE....i havent read more retarded news EVER. So without further ado, i present you with young dumb girls, and just how bad it can get:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html

Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High

As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.

The question of what to do next has divided this fiercely Catholic enclave. Even with national data showing a 3% rise in teen pregnancies in 2006—the first increase in 15 years—Gloucester isn't sure it wants to provide easier access to birth control. In any case, many residents worry that the problem goes much deeper. The past decade has been difficult for this mostly white, mostly blue-collar city (pop. 30,000). In Gloucester, perched on scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless."

The girls who made the pregnancy pact—some of whom, according to Sullivan, reacted to the news that they were expecting with high fives and plans for baby showers—declined to be interviewed. So did their parents. But Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8, thinks she knows why these girls wanted to get pregnant. Ireland, 18, gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland says. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

The high school has done perhaps too good a job of embracing young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center.

But by May, after nurse practitioner Kim Daly had administered some 150 pregnancy tests at Gloucester High's student clinic, she and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, a local pediatrician, began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest on May 30.

Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future.

—with reporting by Kimberley McLeod/New York

Does it really get any worse than this? :P

If there were no such thing as religion to believe in what would the world be like?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:56:08 -0400

Would there be more suicides?

Religions generally condemn people for taking their own life;

Would there be more crimes?

Whats to stop immoral acts?....what can change a criminals soul to be righteous?;

Would sex be mainstreamed?

Isnt decency derived from religion?;

Would gays run rampant?

Afterall, the basis of being anti gay comes from the Bible for most people on the right. There would be no excuse to hold that movement to mainstream acceptance back, right?;

Would there be less wars?

Most of the wars being fought around the world today are of a religious nature or related to one.;

Would the happiness of the average human being go down?

No promise of nirvana/afterlife, and just the acceptance/resignation youre going to be buried in the dirt and decompose;

Would there be a missing piece to the human puzzle?

Spirituality? Is that an important fascet of life?

Whats the point of talent tree choices when you dont really have choices?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:43:07 -0400

I'll never understand Blizzard's means of balancing WoW. So we are currently playing our classes under a philosophy of being pigeon-holed into certain talent specs based on specific venues. This is relatively consistent across the board for every class. What is the point of having 3 different talent tree's then with so many possibilities? To create the illusion of diversity? Because thats all it is, when almost everyone in a raid environment of a particular class is spec'd the same way, or have very few differences from one player of that class to another in the same environment. Everyone in a Arena environment is spec'd the same way. Where is the diversity? what is the point of 3 talent tree's if in most given venues there is an intended choice by the designers to go 1 way?

Why do they pigeonhole? obviously because its easier to balance a venue assuming everyone of a particular class will be that one class spec. It seems to be especially true and intended for Arena specifically, because Blizzard is attempting to focus on Arena due to esports viability. This is the dumbing down for esports i always talk about. 'Competetive gaming' should be renamed 'dumbed down' gaming...takeout the RNG, takeout the diversity, and you get bare bones gameplay where supposedly 'skill' succumbs ;p

It all comes back around to whats the point of 3 talent trees given this? Why not 1 for every class, without this facade of all these choices and diversity in our classes? Rarely in any given environment do you find many players of the same class spec'd radically differently. I mean when you look at your talent tree's specific to what you want to do, honestly, how many choices do you truly have? It just seems 'they', as in Blizzard 'they', are an oxymoron with the manner they balance talent trees encouraging/pigeonholing everyone into 1 choice, or 2-3 at best, in what ideally could be endless possibilities, and complete diversity in a perfect scenario, which i dont even expect but at least try.

Balance is never expected to be perfect, just come relatively close. If you can maintain as much diversity as possible within a relatively close balance where variety's of specs are commonplace between the same classes in a particular venue it would go a long way in adding longevity to class play in WoW. The problem is when you bring a very serious mentality into this based on competition based on ease of balancing, which contradicts the whole idea of having options/talent tree's. Its sad that in WoW there is very little variation of class specs in a given venue, and they purposely pigeonhole which defeats the whole 3 talent trees idea. It just seems most players just accept this as normal but never think about how it defeats it own purpose. Of how we dont truly have diversity in what the plethora of choices w/ 3 tree's should ideally provide. Maybe its impractical to a degree depending on how concerned you are about perfect balance, but i'll take class diversity w/ relatively close balance over pigeon-hole spec'ing and perfect balance any day of the week.

The new wotlk trend seems to be focused on synergy, which is going to complicate things even more, along w/ more pigeon-holing for min/maxing synergy i presume between any 2, 3, or 5 classes/specific specs. Balancing cant be as hard as Blizzard pretends, and some people sympathetic to blizzard excuse. I truly feel its theyre approach that makes it the most difficult because they always seem to go the route of the most assanine, ass backwards way of balancing. Lets not forget this whole game was balanced around 5v5 Arena when Arena first hit, for every PvP situation. Now its supposedly 3v3 because 5v5 wasnt spectator friendly and a huge spam fest. Its just unbelievable what these Dev's are willing to sacrifice for esports viability thats impractical to the rest of their game, let alone the pigeon-hole'ing that completely contradicts 3 talent tree diversity ;p

Loyalty vs Truth: Where is the line drawn?

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:21:52 -0400

How loyal are you to your friends? Your employer? the people you work with everyday?

How much do you care about what you do? Are you so much the 'company man' that you will be loyal to that company even if it requires exxageration/embellishment? deceit? If it was a great job that paid well, would you quit on general principles of your beliefs?

This has been all i've been thinking about as i've been reading the developing news of a book published by Bush's old press secretary Scott Mclellan. He criticizes Bush, moreso the people around him. He was generally well liked, got along with most of the Administration it seems, and even Bush had some very flattering remarks for Mclellan duriing his time there. From reading the reactions they're all very surprised from top to bottom of what Mr. Mclellan wrote.

Now the counter attacks have started. Its par for the course. Discredit the guy who blows the whistle. Its very predictable this was coming. For example read this comment from a ex colleague of Mclellan's:

Former White House counselor Dan Bartlett lashed out at Scott McClellan in a telephone interview Wednesday, saying the allegations that the media was soft on the White House are "total crap," adding that advisers of President Bush are "bewildered and puzzled" by the allegations in McClellan's new book.

"It's almost like we're witnessing an out-of-body experience," Bartlett said of McClellan. "We're hearing from a completely different person we didn't have any insight into."

Bartlett added that intimates of the President feel McClellan has violated his trust. "Part of the role of being a trusted adviser is to honor that trust," said Bartlett. "It's not your place now to go out" and criticize the President like this.

"What did he really believe when he was serving as press secretary?" Bartlett asked.

Anyone else see something wrong with this? I mean in overall ideal?....the whole idea that your job and loyalties are more important than the faults of a government administration? That whole 'loyalty to the President' has been used constantly throughout Bush's terms. From the whole Scooter Libby outing Valerie Plame all the way down to 'patriotism' used as a means to portray people against the war in a unpatriotic way. Even with many military soldiers who tend to think we all must respect our President and never speak ill of him despite what he does because hes our 'President'? :P

I've always had a major problem with this line of thinking. I mean loyalty is certainly important, speaks for the type of person you want behind you as a boss. However in some cases such as this, there is something seriously wrong with people of that position using loyalty as a reason not to criticize the most important 'job' in our country. If the President surrounds himself with yes men who are loyal, where are the checks and balances? Even worse is them using the argument of loyalty to hide criticisms of how they perform their jobs, and thats the biggest issue i have with how this is going to play itself out. I'm sure more people loyal to Bush will come out and denounce Mclellan in the near future, or even attack his character.

But again, this is mainstream news we're ALL reading on the front of every major newspaper. Why is it even acceptable for most people that a 'loyalty' argument is even being made in this regard, when it clearly is being used to hide government faults? Lets see....loyalty to the President and his inner circle vs the altruistic good of our country? How is the position of loyalty to the President in this context acceptable whatsoever when it is basically saying "keep your f'in mouth shut".

It just reinforces the problem with the 'game' of politics that goes on at its highest levels amongst those that have been there the longest. Its a broken system due to 'loyalties' who cover up for each other, who always will back another politician of the same party no matter if its better for the country as a whole or not. Its just become a ****-hole of party loyalties and getting each others agendas done though political give and take, with the least consideration for whats good for America.

Its just something that seems wrong that most of America will completely overlook and maybe even support like he should've been 'loyal' instead of blowing a whistle. Or maybe i'm just crazy....

Let me also add that a while back a General or 2 went through something similar, i cant remember specifically who it was. I just remember him retiring and criticizing the Bush Administration, and the masses of Republican party supporters came back at him saying "why didnt he say that when he was still General?" as if he was a pansy to retire first then say it. This is the type of response/expectation i honestly dont understand but seems to work with the masses. I mean how many of you can criticize your superiors in your current place of employment? Let alone get away with it, while working with them everyday from that point on? And i believe that was when Rumsfeld was running things which made it even more impractical of an expectation.

And yet it worked. Its like most of America bought into that line of thought to ruin his credibility, and never questioned the whole impractical expectation of criticizing your superiors, which i dont think many of us ever have done, while being able to keep our jobs. I swear the masses are stupid sheep ;p

Where has TehJerk been?

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:46:41 -0400

I'm sure everyone has been asking this question for the last few days. WTF has tehjerk been? along with...why am i able to make a comment without feeling like a miserable arena whoore?

Well i'm back *****es!!!!11

In case youre wondering where TehJerk has been, i visited several parts of Europe and i showed them what toothpaste was, and how to use a brush to clean their yellow teeth. They thanked me w/ a goat and a few virgin chickens they promised they didnt have sex with, the chickens i meant, not the goat....

i visited one of those nude beaches, took off my shirt, busted out the 3pack w/ my trusty seee thru speedos revealing my bulging penis, and those euro ho's were like tehjerk you are sooo hot...and i'd be like yeh, if only you all didnt have cameltoe and shaved your goddamn armpits!!

i had a visit to china and i love asian chikks, oh hey hafu!!! you miss me dont you?!!1

but i kept thinking of poor ***tion sitting @ home in front of his computer for hours upon hours arena'ing, sweating like its rl life and death, with a hole in the middle of his chair and a bucket at the bottom collecting poop, piss all over his dog that liked to sit at his feet,...while his poor one eye'd, one leg'd 75 yr old momz limp'd in to dump it twice a day. deadbeat dad that ran off w/ a male in a anime convention costume, and who could blame poor ***tion for his worth as a person being based on arena ratings? faction, if you need someone to turn to the door to tehjerks office is always oopen!!k?!!

So here i am reading about Arena QQ, moving on, hating WoW, blah, blah blah from the same ones that its completely catered to. it makes me think can you be anymore ungrateful douches? you all should be forced to stay in this ****-hole while everyone against arena centric WoW gets to leave to AoC/Warhammer.

hmmm thats pretty much all i can think up right now. Man its like each day that goes by there seems less and less motivation to arena at all in this repetetive season after same season cycle, this game is terrible right now, no 'life' to it. at least you arena whoores got that part right.



                                                                                  Sincerely,



                                                                                    Tehjerk

Todays Albert Einstein? Interesting stuff even if its like reading chinese

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:12:34 -0400

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/09/physics.nima/index.html

(CNN) -- Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.

Nima Arkani-Hamed, a leading theoretical physicist, thinks the universe has at least 11 dimensions.

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Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm Arkani-Hamed's predictions about undiscovered properties of nature.

Arkani-Hamed is only in his mid-30s, but he has already distinguished himself as one of the leading thinkers in the field of particle physics.

His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test later this year at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, which, when completed, will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

The accelerator, estimated to cost between $5 billion and $10 billion, could provide answers to questions physicists have had for decades. Thousands of scientists from around the world are collaborating on the project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.

If the results confirm any of Arkani-Hamed's predictions, they would be the first extension of our notions of spacetime since Albert Einstein.

"We're essentially guaranteed that there's going to be something surprising," Arkani-Hamed said of the Large Hadron Collider, which will operate inside a 17-mile circular tunnel.

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Regarded as a "gem," Arkani-Hamed is "opening our minds and creating a new world of ideas that challenge deep-grained preconceptions about spacetime," said Chris Tully, professor of physics at Princeton University, who is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

"From the point of view of the big experiments at the LHC, there is no amount of money or craftsmanship that would produce the kind of insight that comes from sharing LHC data with a true visionary like Nima Arkani-Hamed," Tully said.

Formerly a professor at Harvard, Arkani-Hamed currently sits on the faculty at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where Einstein served from 1933 until his death in 1955.

"He was lured from Harvard to the IAS -- I'm sure that's considered quite a coup," said Daniel Marlow, a physics professor at Princeton who is also collaborating on the CMS experiment.

Arkani-Hamed has had a hand in explaining how the world can operate according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes the universe on a very large scale, and at the same time follow quantum mechanics, laws that describe the universe on a scale smaller than the eye can see.

Some of the key mysteries that stem from these clashing theories include why gravity is so weak, relative to the other fundamental physical forces such as electromagnetism, and why the universe is so large. These issues come up because on an inconceivably small scale, the particles that make up our world seem to behave completely differently than one might imagine.

For example, if you are driving a car, your GPS tells you where you are, and your speedometer tells you how fast you are moving. But on the scale of particles like electrons, it is impossible to know both position and speed at once -- the very act of trying to find out requires incredible amounts of energy.

If it takes so much energy just to try to pin down a particle, then, in theory, all particles should have temporary energy changes around them called "quantum fluctuations." This energy translates into mass, since Einstein famously said that mass and energy are interchangeable through the equation E=mc².

"It makes it extremely mysterious that the electron, or indeed, everything else that we know and love and are made of, isn't incredibly more massive than it is," Arkani-Hamed said.

A theory that has emerged in recent decades that claims to bring some relief to physics mysteries like these is called superstring theory, or string theory for short. While previously, scientists believed that the smallest, most indivisible building blocks of our world were particles, string theory says that the world is made of extremely small vibrating loops called strings.

In order for these strings to properly constitute our universe, they must vibrate in 11 dimensions, scientists say. Everyone observes three spatial dimensions and one for time, but theoretical models suggest at least seven others that we do not see.

Arkani-Hamed proposed, along with physicists Savas Dimopoulos and Gia Dvali, that some of these dimensions are larger than previously thought -- specifically, as large as a millimeter. Physicists call this the ADD model, after the first initials of the authors' last names. We haven't seen these extra dimensions yet because gravity is the only force that can wander around them, Arkani-Hamed said.

String theory has come under attack because some say it can never be tested -- the strings are supposed to be smaller than any particle ever detected, after all. But Arkani-Hamed says the Large Hadron Collider could potentially lead to the direct observation of strings, or at least indirect evidence of their existence.

In fact, by slamming particles into one another, the Large Hadron Collider may detect particles slipping in and out of the dimensions that Arkani-Hamed has worked on describing.

Particle collisions should begin at the Large Hadron Collider in August or September, according to the US/LHC Web site. Evidence of theories such as the ADD model could be discovered by 2009, Marlow said.

Data reflecting Arkani-Hamed's work on large extra dimensions "would really provide the first confirmation in this very profound way we might think about nature," Marlow said.

Arkani-Hamed always had a great love of the natural world as a child. Though his parents are also physicists, he considers it his "act of teenage rebellion to become one too," as his mother wanted him to become a doctor.

He remembers being impressed around age 14 that Newton's laws could enable him to calculate such things as the minimum speed that a space shuttle had to attain to escape the Earth's gravitational field. He'd wondered whether scientists had reached the figure of 11 kilometers per second by trial and error, shooting things in the air until the right speed emerged, until he could calculate it himself.

"When I figured out how to do that for myself, I just thought it was just the coolest thing, that little old me, scratching away on my piece of paper, could figure this out," he said. "From about 13 or 14, I knew that this is what I wanted to do."

even if i cant make sense of it all, this stuff is way more interesting than wow, politics, blah, blah, blah....

nice to know there are still genius's in the world. who would have known?

looking forward to reading the followup after this LHC is complete...

What did 2.4 do to Restos? 'Progressive PTR', WTF happpened? Another Blizzard/Kalgan fail.

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:55 -0400

I could've sworn Blizzard had stuff like MS for Shamans(not that i liked this idea but at least it wouldve been something towards druids), way more nerfs to Druids, etc. on 'Progressive PTR' to put them in their place, and its a big joke what actually went live through all that extended period of testing. Prior to 2.4 Druids dominated small sided brackets, and pretty much ruin(ed) WSG singlehandedly. Almost everyone here agreed they were pretty out of control, especially the pre 2.4 comparisons made in terms of ease of play vs other healer classes in WoW.

What idiot thought shortening the distance on cyclone and a slight nerf to lifebloom would solve Resto dominance? The same morons that pretended it was just water drinking in Arena? Why is it the top DPS classes in the game have the hardest time killing Restos w/o zerg based countering? No other class has had the luxury of taking a zerg to kill them by and large, and when they do, they are nerfed to reasonability relatively fast. See SL/SL Locks.

Even Rogues in their current OP state have a very difficult time killing a Resto. They switch to bear form while hot'd, now youre fighting a Warrior that heals. I have to drop a 5pt expose armor just so i'm not tickling him, its ****iing stupid i cant down them before they kite out, even after sprints/SS/whatever between theyre hps/resil/naturalperfection/hots, but we're talking about Druids here, a f'in hybrid thats just as good, if not better, than the base classes they morph into that dont have the luxury of all-around abilities. Class balance vs design in WoW is just sad thx to retard Dev's. I mean i feel so OP'd on my Rogue its not even funny, thinking i can down anyone and i usually can, and yet the one class thats the exception are Resto's still :P

On my Mage its all but impossible to kill a decent Resto. No wonder Druids dominate the smaller brackets still while Mages are left in the cold, because theres still no DPS class that can regularly realistically counter them, like every class has. Geared rogues have the best chance but still, you'd think every class has a true weakness to another, but like i said earlier, its just amazing how Resto's or some variations thereof are by far the hardest class for me to kill w/ both of the top DPS classes in the game :P

But even on a level of healer vs healer design, who could ever possibly think that a instant cast time based healer class, who are the least prone to CC's, have the best movement, and can morph into armored tanks or catform rogue-like DPS at will would be balanced in relation to healers that generally have to cast in 1.5 second or greater windows that makes them much more prone to lockout. While having way more weaknesses to CC, damage in all forms, and nowhere near the all-around play of every class that Druids can morph into. I mean its like they can play at 80% Warrior-Rogue efficiency while still being the most ezmode, hardest to kill Healer in the game barnone.

WSG is still the same joke it was pre2.4. Still takes a zerg to kill them debuff or not. They still cyclone spam, nerfed distance or not, because even counterspelling their 1.5 sec cyclone cast, and dps'ing wont ever kill them once they switch to bear, and you just blew your more important CD. They can still outrun everyone despite some joke nerf on a set. Their HoT's still keep people alive while they are kiting and practically impossible to kill w/ max resil/natural perfection going/bearform mitigation w/o ff zerging. And i still dont see any of these Druids having these so called 'Mana Issues' like they QQ about so hard. Druids as a class have to have the most BS excuse emo players in the game. I mean i can chase a Druid and make him shift forever between CoC's, blastwaves, FB's, etc., and never see him run OOM. I mean literally sticking on his ass from one end of WSG to another and hes shifting, hot'ing, etc. the whole time and never runs OOM. You QQ'iing emos want to see real OOM issues? Try playing a Mage or even Hunter these days :P funny how Hunters got the harder nerf from 2.4 btw...they didnt have 1/100th the Arena Representation Druids did/do.

Kalgan/BlizzardDevs, just quit already. Let someone else come in and actually fix/balance this game. Its obvious you have some retard agendas going on, and making players wait a year for WOTLK to come for some semblance of balance in your game is pitiful. Oh i get it, its going to be ShadowKnights or whatever the fukk that new class is thats going to be their anti's. The funny thing is i wouldnt be surprised that new class just takes the mantle of stupidly overpowered, and we go round and round w/ this joke of musical chairs class balancing for a turn in the OP'd spotlight. You dev's fukking suck ass :P

Bring the flames *****es, im ready!!!!111

Re: School Shooters:

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:32:13 -0400

In a past blog there was an opinion of blame towards Universities, social workers, police, etc. for not preventing school shootings before they happened, saying there were 'signs' to prevent what occured. More than a few people argued the parents families have a right to sue because the school was responsible for not taking action, or allowing students to carry loaded handguns(lol). I argued there werent enough 'signs' to reasonably do anything vs the rights of an individual. Just think about the line where others are able to committ you based on a threat, incident, etc. you might have done once in your life, or maybe a few mistakes you've made when you were younger. I believe the position i took was its very easy to say someone should've done something in hindsight and place that blame/lawsuit, but its much more difficult to act on it prior and have them committed for the rest of their life as a possible threat.

From what i read the VT shooter made some threats towards a female, and had a few other minor incidents but nothing very obvious of him being psychotic, or a big threat to the public. And yet alot of people tend to blame the school or think they could've/should've prevented it in some way. Again hindsight is 20/20, and it just amazes me the expectation in this day and age of always after-the-fact blame for incidents nobody could have predicted before they occured. In many ways i feel the same way about 9/11, but you have sooooo many people looking to cast blame on somebody or something, throwout lawsuits, w/ this impractical expectation of preventing completely random incidents, tragic incidents, from occuring.

Now take a look at this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/11/boudreau.campus.rage/index.html

GREENCREEK, Idaho (CNN) -- It was just 2½ years ago when Elaine Sonnen found out that her 16-year-old son, Richard, had been planning a Columbine-style attack at his high school.

Richard Sonnen spent 16 months in mental health institutions after plotting to kill his high school classmates.

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It would be a fitting payback to his high school classmates who Richard says relentlessly bullied him.

"I always wanted to get back at them," Sonnen said of his classmates. "I always wanted to strangle them ...I was always mad. I was always angry and I would come home and cry to mom and dad."

Both Richard and Elaine Sonnen spoke to CNN at the 45-acre family farm.

Unlike the Columbine killers and recent school shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech -- Elaine Sonnen did see the warning signs in her son and was able to stop him.

Elaine and her husband, Tom, adopted Richard from a Bulgarian orphanage when he was just 4 ½ years old.

"I mean, we just loved him, and he was just a big sparkle of life," she said.

But only a few months after they brought him home - they began to see another side of their son. He was angry and unpredictable.

Elaine Sonnen says at age 6, Richard told her he wanted to kill her. She said he would shake with anger to the point that he'd scream at her - telling her he wanted to destroy her.

"People thought he was just the greatest kid in the world. Very polite, well-mannered, caring," remembers Elaine Sonnen. "At home, he could be anywhere from just a really helpful kid to a monster. A terrifying monster."

He even created his very own hit list of the classmates he planned to kill at Prairie High School in Cottonwood, Idaho.

"My plan was to set around bombs around the school ... I analyzed a lot of where everybody sat and where everybody did their thing," he said. "I had pinpoints of where I wanted to go, where I wanted to do it."

Harvard Medical School psychologist William Pollack, who consulted on a 2002 federal government study of school shootings, says they found most school shooters often had feelings of anger, sadness and isolation as well as homicidal and suicidal thoughts.

"We see a young man who obviously is telling us how depressed he was, how angry he was and how much he looked up to people who we know are very disturbed and very dangerous and how close he came to killing people," said Pollack who watched CNN's interview with Richard.

Elaine Sonnen found out about her son's plan during a conversation with him. She ordered him to write down the names of the eight students he wanted dead and then gave the list to his caseworker the very next day. Later, he added a teacher and his own mother and sister to the hit list.

She took immediate action and had her son committed to an Idaho mental institution. Over the next 16 months, he received treatment at several mental health facilities throughout Idaho.

"There, I opened up. I felt better. I moved on with myself," Richard said.

"They felt at that point ... they had done everything they could do for him," added Elaine Sonnen. "He was doing great. He could make it on his own. They had no question."

In January 2007, after almost a year and a half in mental institutions - Richard Sonnen started a new life at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He was taking a cocktail of three anti-psychotic drugs to help him function.

"[For] the first time in 12 years I was able to hold my son," said Elaine Sonnen. "So I knew he was on the road to be well."

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In Depth: Campus Rage

Everything seemed to be looking up, but in April of 2007, three days after the Virginia Tech massacre, Richard's mother received a call from police. They told her Richard had made about four different threats to do carry out shootings at Lewis Clark State College and Lewiston High School.

Police told her Richard planned to go home, get some guns, and go back to school to pull off a sniper attack from a clock tower on the college's campus, she told CNN.

Police took him into protective custody and searched his apartment for clues. But, in the end, he was released because, authorities say, they didn't have enough evidence to charge him with a crime.

Richard says the whole incident was a big misunderstanding. He said he was telling people about his high school plot and never threatened his college or local high school.

But his mother doesn't believe his version of the story at all.

"No. I believe he made those threats," she said. "I still believe it."

Richard, now 19, signed an order banning him from campus for one year. Today, he lives on his own in the state of Washington. He's still on medication but not seeing a psychiatrist. Since he's over the age of 18 - his mom can't force him to go.

Is Elaine Sonnen still afraid of her son?

"Yeah, at times, I'm very afraid," she said. "Because he still has a lot of anger towards me."

She says the signs are still there and she fears what could happen if he ever stops taking his medicine.

"He's not getting the help and the insight from a professional that could see the signs," she said. "Because as a person with a mental illness you have skewed thinking."

Even though Richard calls her the "greatest person in the world," Elaine Sonnen still protects the family by keeping an alarm on her son's bedroom door when he comes home to visit.

So why are Richard Sonnen and his mother, Elaine, speaking out now? In the wake of the Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech shootings, Richard wants young people experiencing the same symptoms he had to seek out help. His mother wants parents and authorities to listen for warning signs and to act fast and decisively.

This guy is a timebomb waiting to explode. His past history of documented behaviour is way worse than most of the known school shooters histories of psychotic behaviour. Its even coming from his mom. Yeah its great hes trying to help others, that his mother reported and got him institutionalized before anything tragic happened, but hes not even fully rehabilitated yet, and its very likely he wont ever be. But what can you do? What can you do as a enforcement agency? As a school/university?

Lock him away for the rest of his life for what he might do? Never allow him to educated himself for what he might do? Based on a very disturbing childhood, and some threats he supposedly made, ,that he argues werent threats? Even if his mom believes they were threats? Granted, the school did work out an agreement to stay away for 1 year, but what happens after that? Is he all of a sudden not a threat then? How long can you expect the school, law enforcement, social workers, etc. to keep this guys life tied up locked away in a institution, much less anyone who has a past history of some erratic dangerous behaviour. I mean most of you have to be able to see that fine line of having some issues vs locking them away for the rest of their lives away from society because of those issues. Let alone blaming everyone else for not doing something right now, keepiing him institutionalized forever, so he cant ever have the possibility of doing anything dangerous to the public around him.

I read this and was like this guy can explode at any minute, his history is worse than that of any of the school shooters i read up on, but this guy is walking free right now, and living in society. What can you do? What do you expect others to do? Do you expect every University to deny him from an education? So what happens if he ends up doing something tragic, are you going to go back to now and say "someone should've done something?"

I just thought this was a good example to show the after-the-fact blamers that certain incidents are completely unpredictable, that there is no 1 person to blame in most cases, that it is far from a black and white issue of blame like today's society tends to look for. And most importantly that fine line of having issues vs being committed is a very tough decision to make, especially when it concerns someone elses life, and just how long rehab can be forced for everyone who might be a possible danger. There are probably thousands of kids on some type of depressant medication, that have made some threats to some people, etc. And yet there are so many people in America that think its such a black and white issue of prevention, and tend to always look for someone to sue/blame that should've prevented it, when these are mostly unpredictable acts done by dime a dozen indviduals w/ issues.

Sorry the VT shooter didnt exhibit signs like this guy, and this guy is still walking around in public. While 1/2 of America blames VT or the social workers for not having the VT shooter committed for the rest of his life. America is such a joke in its hindsight 20/20 blame for everything, from 9/11 lawsuits to these lawsuits on these schools, for completely random unpredictable acts of violence/tragedy, and unreasonable expectations of knowing they were going to happen and blaming someone for not preventing it :P

So 2.4 WASNT supposed to be a big PvP balancing patch?

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:37:11 -0400

Charge/Nova-Intercept/Blink...Cheapshot Mage Openers...Class Nazi's of today

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:12:05 -0400
First of all, take a quick look at this thread, which inspired this recent blog. Mostly that rogue Shooster speaking like your typical class nazi on how to play....

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5784381914&sid=1

Its kind of funny for me to read that since i've played w/ a Mage main for a long time, and recently have been playing a rogue alot. There are Class Nazi's for every class, and its always puzzled me how they can so vehemently argue over such little **** like 'never blink on charge' like it matters so much, or from a Rogue standpoint 'never cheapshot a Mage' as a opener. The latter had more validity IMO before shadowstep, but nowadays its a perfectly viable strat to force blink burn while shadowstep puts you right back on him, and his only out at that point is iceblock, in which case wont even last long enough to reset blink, and hes still more or less a sitting duck w/ either a restealth/blind depending on how long he sits in the block. There are so many CD's yet to be played for a SS Rogue in this scenario where a Mage has just burned one of his major ones against a rogues biggest strength(stun).

The Mage version of 'never blink on charge, always save it for intercept' has always been somewhat of a joke to me. That was never ever the determining factor of that fight, and either way DR kicks in on the 2nd stun. But even then if you are playing in a BG or world where you cant keep track of every player around you in some zerg based PvP, its generally safer to just twitch blink everytime your charge/intercept stunned because it at least creates OOR of people trying to zerg you from ranged. Either way using a frost nova, then blink doesnt give you so much of an advantage in the fight that the Class Nazi's portray.   I tend to go the frost nova - blink route against Warriors, but thats just more or less what i'm accustomed to from way back when. I know i could easily get away with Blink(charge) - Nova(intercept) w/o a much of a difference at all in the fight, because the key of it is keeping the warriors snared and kited while maintaining DPS and not getting too close for his shouts/howl, and then the twitch blinks when intercept comes back up....the only real pain is against reallly good spell reflecting Warriors which arent worht the time if they are geared out. They are way worse of a kite than Pally's ever were :P

This has always bothered me though about the Class Nazi's. They pretend like you cant play it any different than they say, or that there are these unwritten rules everyone of that class must follow like a script or they are nub.   Its funny to read a Class Nazi giving what i think are preTBC Rogue rules, that dont apply as much today like in that thread like he knows everything. Dont get me wrong there are some rules to follow in a general sense, but theres always some wiggle room, as long as the meat and potatoes of your play is there. Like i said for Warriors, nova then blink or blink then nova makes little difference vs the twitch reaction of the MAge and ability to kite well in that fight. And yet people hold onto these scripted moves like they measure the player, when the results end up the same either way the Mage/Rogue plays it.

Thoughts?

PS i'm not talking about full CD dueling here at all, more PvP in a general sense.

WoW Gamer Mentality in a Nutshell, and the bottomline solution for most of Arenas issues

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:24:43 -0400
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=106731334&sid=1&pageNo=1

Pretty much describes 99% of WoW premades today, and at least 95% of WoW premades during the HWL climb days. In fact describes most players in WoW.

cmon lets cut the bull**** and be honest about why most of you ever premade...i emphasize most not all.

it also describes most players mentalities in most fascets of WoW. Shortest, fastest way to get the loot/rewards by any means possible.....buying ratings, win trading, team jumping, exploiting2win, etc.

Its not about how you win, just win right? stack the deck, form allstar teams of only the best players, prey on pugs, profit...

amirite or am i right?

WoW is anti-competetive due to rewards/loot. You want Arena a skill based E-Sport venue? take out the best welfare epics for doing it, and make it about proving yourselves vs the competition than a best of PvP rewards grind/climb. No rewards for Arena and lets see how many of you are really in it for the competetive factor :P

i'm betting Arena venues turn into a wasteland if that happened...one things for sure almost every player abuse issue thats arisen from Arena wouldnt have been an issue if there were no rewards to shortcut and artificially inflate ratings for...

Ask yourself why Kalgan/Blizz would never do this tho.....

despite their attempts to make it a true e-sport all about the competition so they portray :P

Easy solution to getting rid of class vs class QQ...

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:25 -0400
make leveling much easier so everyone has multiples of classes on their accounts to play. Create multiples of PvE, PvP dailies, at least 10 of each at the same half bubble'sh experience rate gain.

Maybe i'm saying something thats already known or blizzard is attempting in wotlk, but it seems like such a easy solution to alot of the class vs class QQ.

As things are, people quit or get turned off after lvling 1 character because of the amount of work/time/redundancy that goes into it, then either the redundancy of playing that class or nerfs to their class that gimps them.

How does it hurt the game if every player had multiples of classes to choose from? Theres also been recent QQ on General about a supposed shortage of tanks for PvE, well, this would solve that instead of Kalgan overcompensating Warrior representation to account for that.

So whats the downsides if they made leveling much much easier through multiples of dailies?

i can lvl 5 characters now purely off the single PvP daily but it would take forever based on 1/2 bubbles of experience. if i had at least 10 of them daily, i think that would be a reasonable buff to lvling toons, that would solve alot of WoW's issues/QQ.

Tribute to Old School UO. Will MMORPG's ever be this good again?

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:24:21 -0400

I remember being at Babbages looking at this box. I didn't know what a MMORPG was at the time. I saw decent graphics(at the time), red dragons, and a horde of treasure chest loot(on the back of the box). I had to try it!

I was amazed when I logged into UO for the first time. I had never experienced a full world where everyone running around was a player with so many things to do. There was lag, unbelievable lag by today's standards, lag that took 15 minutes at times to get from one end of your screen to the other. There were exploits galore in the early days, bugs that i'd say in some ways added to the gameplay. It was funny as hell using Earthquake scrolls and dropping everyone on your screen. Sure you could call this lame, or other variations of the bugs/exploits that were constant in the evolution of Ultima Online. However the best thing about this game in its early days was the radical change in gameplay after each patch. There were periods of no delay fireball spam, xbow/bow op'dness, precast, etc. and boy were they enjoyable. Some of the best video gaminig memories for me come from those days and i've played many many MMORPG"s since.  UO in its early days was just an open world with things to do and no rules put in place as buffers for this or that, where players created their own sense of play. These days of MMORPG"s we're all guided in everything by rules/buffers so there is less QQ about this or that from non PvP's, sadly UO eventually took this turn

I look at WoW and then i think of Ultima Online. It makes me realize how limited and one dimensional the PvP WoW is. In UO, there were so many aspects to the PvP. There were tradeskills that supported PvP directly which always created constant demand for tradeskill items. There was housing that essentially gave you an area that was your turf. There was open PK PvE with full lootiing that gave incentive to PK, and made farming mobs much more dangerous as it should be. Very lucrative tradeskills such as mining was also very dangerous, as it should've been. You could purchase multiple houses and play the real estate market. You could set some of those houses up with vendors. There were prime real estate spots. You could play chess/checkers if you want to just hangout at your house, keep, or castle with a buddy and not in the mood to PvE or PvP. There was factional fighting later on that occured in towns. There were rares and people who would pay top dollar for them. There was a website trading board that was ALWAYS active by the minute literally 24/7 and worked very well to sell/buy items you wanted when you were at work for when you got home. There were just so many things to do in UO it was amazing and each thing enhanced other aspects of the game. The whole world of UO was connected as well unlike most MMORPG's that have gone the instance route for everything.

I touched on some of the downsides to UO and there were many, server lag was probably its biggest issue. There were things other players had issues with for example housing overcrowding the landscape. Many PvE'ers or roleplayers in particular would complain about this, but what i LOVED as a PvP player was going to Chaos shrine where there were a glut of houses that almost formed a maze to PvP around. It created a unique venue to the rest of the world to PvP in with the LOS of housing and the narrow alleyways in between houses. Dungeon PvP was also very enjoyable, even if most of it occured right outside the entrances. I think what i loved most of all that no other mmorpg has been able to replicate was the sense of territory for PK's and PvP groups. I hung around Destard, my house was near there. There was a group of PK's when i was building my skills that would always PK me as a nub, since their houses were right outside of the dungeon and it was also theyre territory as well. Going from constantly being PK'd by these guys as a noob to PK'ing them with the same people i was nub'd up PvE'ing in Destard with was the greatest feeling. The coolest thing about PvP territory play was i remember one day the Banana Boys, a PK group, showing up around Destard, our turf, in all yellow outfits and we teamed up against them for some epic PvP battles. None of this was preplanned, it all just naturally happened.

There were duels, i remember Chaos Shrine being the hotspot in the early UO days where people would come and watch popular players like Ritalin or Perplexus(sp?) or some other person duel. There were jsut so many small groups of PK's that had their own alliances and enemies which created a very dangerously unique functioning world, even 3 way battles at times. Thinking back i really have to wonder if MMORPG's have gone backwards. No MMORPG to thsi day have created such a dynamic free world that OLD SCHOOL UO was. These days its sad, actually pitiful, that PvP is based on things such as Arena, /duel accept/decline, and BG's. Just so completely artificial and preplanned that it takes so much away from the buildup and motivation.

Old School UO died to me after 2-3 years and i blame the Dev's. There was a mass exodus after precast was removed, and later splitting of the lands. Roleplayers didnt know how to PvP, pretended they did(Orcs from Catskils LOLz), and called it an exploit because they'd get pwned.   OSI later adopted the same policy towards precast even though it had been in the game for more than a year and a staple of PvP, except they termed it a bug that was never intended. We(PvP's) argued on the CoB forums, at the time there was direct communication with the Dev's, problem was more than a few of the Dev's were roleplayers that had gone on to work for OSI. If you had visited the Tavern section of the CoB forums you would have seen this firsthand.

Sadly what was IMO the best PvP game ever created was nerfed into Carebear land. The roleplayers wanted their tea parties. They wanted to walk the lands greeting each other in the middle of the wilderness or a dungeon with their thee's and thou's without fear of dying. They wanted to be able to kill mobs without fear of PK's. In the end OSI gave them what they wanted and everything in the game was trivialized.

This is in memory of OLD SCHOOL UO, the greatest game ever made, which in the end was ruined by Dev's who were very bias based on their own play preferences, that thought they knew everything. Ironically I see WoW Dev's fitting the same mold.

PS I came back to UO about a year later and i was amazed at how it had changed for the worse. It seemed the game had gone completely PvE/Roleplayer based. It seemed most people cared about pretty'ing up their house than actually fightinig or playing the game. They took a very cookie cutter approach to classes so it was all about A beats B, B beats C, C beats D, D beats A, etc. which is skillless PvP whre skill choices determines the outcome of fights for the few who were still PvP'ing. The PvP community was pretty much dead. I also found it ironic how they reinstituted precast over a year after removing it despite most of us telling them it would ruin PvP if they took it out. Once they did there was a mass exodus of the PvP community on my server(Chesapeake).