WORLD OF MOTHER FUCKIN WARCRAFT.....

[YABYUM]

anyone else playing this online game? my father in-law got me turned on a few weeks ago and i am hooked. it is without a doubt the most amazing game i have ever played. if i had found this years ago i would have missed out on lots of travels and women. perfect for a married man who hasnt seen the inside of a bar in over a year.

so do you play? know anyone who does? i have heard some seriously crazy stories about this game ruining marraiges, ending careers, causing sleep loss....etc.

to me it is just a good time, a fun experience to have for a few hors a week at the cost of 15 bucks a month.

[stilltrucking]

marksman45 had a RPG called Rustbelt, I would like to find that one and check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/dashg

a link to his myspace page but no link to the game. I like the music though.

he had a post about a Rustbelt story but no link to the game he designed.

http://www.myspace.com/dashg

What are they call MUDS?

People writing accademic papers on them at MIT computer department.

A recent example of postmodernist philosophy can be found in the work of MIT professor Sherry Turkle, in her book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Turkle studied the way people interact on so-called MUDs or role-playing games on the Internet, in which they play fictional characters in equally fictitious "worlds," created with words. In a typical MUD, text on the screen is used to describe environments, situations, characters and actions. Players at various computers, who are all logged into the same MUD, "act" in this virtual world by typing a description of what they are doing or by typing their side of the dialogue, which is then viewed by other players on their own screens and responded to.

http://www.transparencynow.com/turkle.htm

Sounds like it would be fun. I always wondered where mtmynd picked up the nick name "dungeon master" SooZen refered to him as that one time.

[YABYUM]

stilltruckin.....you have it wrong, but i love that you answered and showed me the existence of MUD's. World of mother fuckin warcraft is not words. no words at all have to be shared. word of mother fuckin warcraft is a world on a server that has 10 million people playing. i cant explain it beyond the fact that no words are required. it is a world where i kill and pillage under a fake identity for the HORDE.

[stilltrucking]

You are right I am wrong. I am about 15 years behind in the evolution of the game. I used to have a copy of the orignal game that came out in 1994.

[Marksman45]

It's crazy that everytime I check back here, it's just in time to see someone talkin' about me :) (or do y'all just talk about me all the time? hehe)

My game the Rustbelt is actually for sale at the moment, in book form, although the current version is not user-friendly for people not familiar with RPGs. However, it's not the WoW kind of RPG -- it's the original kind, that you play with a bunch of people around a table with some pens and paper and dice.
Check it out: http://www.angelfire.com/indie/btw/games/rustbelt.html

I used to play WoW a few years ago. It was pretty fun, but I didn't have enough time to play it enough to be properly effective -- you have to invest a lot of time building up contacts with other players, 'cause when you get into the higher-level stuff it becomes impossible to do things on your own.

[Marksman45]

I just remembered a thing. When I played WoW, my guy was that Hunter class, the one where you get to turn wild animals into pets. My favorite was a boar that I called Governor Bennington. I had macros set up so that I could press a key and my guy would say things like, "Governor Bennington! NOOOOO! *sob* He died to save me..."

That was a lot of fun.