2 acounts + some macros or bots
he said he is gold farmer thats like pretty basic things for them to gather that stuff o.o
(aside of hacking acounts for that)
Plot twist: he learns he strangely enjoys being talked down to by an anachronism spouting woman dressed as Carmen San Diego. I predict the next tissues will be dedicated to her.
Unfortunately, his downfall is that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. His entire argument is predicated from the notion that anonymity will in any way shield him.
It’s the whole reason for the door buzzer scene. He views himself as something greater than he is. Whatever Shanna’s failings may be, she has a much clearer perspective of how little rules matter anymore.
Only if he goes mobile, which I doubt he’s going to do. Shanna realizes what’s after her. This guy would probably be dead before he could release the story.
Oh yeah, this guy has a pretty high chance of dying. I just really liked the way he shot down what Shanna said. I just really don’t like her. To me, she seems to talk down to people, thinking she’s a person with all the answers, when they don’t…I just don’t like those kind of people, mainly because I live with one.
Yes please very much so! Kill him until he is dead, and then kill him again for being a pretentious little fracker who thinks they invented the computer and the cyber world
I’d like to point out that Shanna insulted him first by implying that he would sit on a story to protect his entertainment. I think a little bit of snark is justified.
I used to really hate the whole “video game violence causes violence thing” but all of a sudden you’ve gotten people who’ve up and dropped everything to go fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq literally saying it’s amazing because it’s just like Call of Duty. It’s not looking so backwards anymore.
People have dropped everything to go fight holy wars for centuries. They just have different reference frames to describe their experiences now, not to mention a lot more people to describe them to. (When you’re an illiterate peasant on his first crusade, aren’t the only guys to talk to about it other peasants on their first crusade sitting right next to you?)
When a specific medium’s effectiveness at causing a behavior is notably higher than another’s, medium ceases to be irrelevant.
Note that this is a declaration of “medium is not necessarily irrelevant,” not of “I have research declaring that video games as a medium are awesome at turning Today’s Youth ™ into Rampaging Murderfiends (also tm).”
I don’t know. I used to think that people were falsey blaming video games and movies for a perceived increase of violence in our society. But now days I’m not so sure. It very well may be the case that things are the same as they ever were. And that if it wasn’t movies and video games, it would be something else. But violence does beget violonce. And I wonder at times if violent entertainment may help to stroke the fires a bit.
I do not believe video game violence CAUSES violence, but I believe like any other stimuli, it reinforces violent behavior in the individual. That’s also helped by video games allowing you to act violently in an exposed environment while retaining a level of anonymity.
Not to mention getting kids to play a simulacrum of what brawls and wars is older than dirt.
When I was a kid, it was common to get gifted with realistic-looking (sometimes 100% metal and wood) toy guns and go out of the way to using them in any way you wanted (“it was the fat kid’s fault for not getting enough cover and getting shot by a BB/too slow to not notice someone edged on him and getting his bacon face pistol-whipped silly”) so when we could buy/earn our own gun we would be familiar with it and how jerkass you/people would be with it.
Now civilian gun use is illegal, and the whole “toy guns are evil/medieval toys are evil/tabletop is evil/Counter Strike is evil” was played to exhaustion, but you get to shoot people the same if you go to army (since it’s obligatory, you’ll learn how to murder people with extreme prejudice anyway if you managed to reach 18 without any kind of crippling injury, and many people happily oblige even if they are more interested about hats in shooting games).
Jerks will be jerks anyway, like that one guy who would bring a BB gun to a game of tag or the kid who watched a documentary about spartans and learned about their cool-but-now-illegal-due-to-broken-teeth shield bash. Those excuses will only serve their lawyers once they do the only thing they know (which is making other people’s life miserable).
Yeah, those ISIS members play a lot of CoD too I heard. Well really they like playing the terrorists in CS more since they can’t afford the latest PCs obviously.
More like “playing terrorists because they can’t even afford the M1 rifle” (well, the AKA-47 is way better anyway).
And just in case Ross backtracks this comment, I live in Brazil. I miss my old cannon keyring (if you provided a cap, it could actually shoot a BB round).
My thought, exactly. Now if there’s a blow-up doll on a couch around there somewhere, I’d say that Xan’s chances of catching sword poisoning have gone up 3000%.
Best! My man! Stop frittering away your time on that dog-faced cultist alt, and come back and join the Alliance, dude. We all miss you. No hellspawn succubine girlfriend is worth whatever she’s promising you in that damned cult.
Not exactly. Human nature begets violence. It has been doing it long before the net existed. I can testify to that for I was here before the net was created back in the 80’s.
Why do I find myself thinking he could be the real life analogue of Payet Best… maybe his tube signal went dead because he got magicked out or into a new body or thrown back in time… ?
I still think E-merl. The nail in the coffin was the, “gold farming.” In game E-merl’s explanation is that the gold is just going to pay off his wizard school debts. E-merl is a gold farmer.
Dinosaur media? Oh please … the printed newspaper have a reputation, tought-out articles, correct spelling and writing, and their very nature makes it mandatory to think before printing.
These so-called “new” media are barely an ersatz. The perfect embodiment of “talk, think after.”
Wait a minute… Xan… Phil and T, this is a version of the character from Sketchies, isn’t it?
(I miss Sketchies. :( Could you at least put the chapters you guys did finish back online? I’ll be your best friennnnnnd…)
You are correct… and this has not gone unnoticed. More to come.
That dude looks vaguely like Penk.
No, he is E-Gurl, without the cool beard
He could be both!
Makes sense as a Bard Tamer / Mage tend to be the big gold farmer skills.
He’s playing both sides!
How’d he play both sides at the same time during the assault on B’ial Vezk?
2 acounts + some macros or bots
he said he is gold farmer thats like pretty basic things for them to gather that stuff o.o
(aside of hacking acounts for that)
He looks like Penk…
Now I can’t imagine anything else but him putting on a Galactus helmet (or maybe Penk’s actual helm printed on 3D) before Wikileaking it.
Pff, phone. Shanna probably still watches cable too instead of using her TV simply as a large monitor.
Plot twist: he learns he strangely enjoys being talked down to by an anachronism spouting woman dressed as Carmen San Diego. I predict the next tissues will be dedicated to her.
I really don’t like Shanna for her whole video game bashing thing, but this guy is just freakin’ awesome. Logic for the win.
Unfortunately, his downfall is that he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. His entire argument is predicated from the notion that anonymity will in any way shield him.
It won’t.
It’s the whole reason for the door buzzer scene. He views himself as something greater than he is. Whatever Shanna’s failings may be, she has a much clearer perspective of how little rules matter anymore.
Only if he goes mobile, which I doubt he’s going to do. Shanna realizes what’s after her. This guy would probably be dead before he could release the story.
Hell, he might be dead now.
Oh yeah, this guy has a pretty high chance of dying. I just really liked the way he shot down what Shanna said. I just really don’t like her. To me, she seems to talk down to people, thinking she’s a person with all the answers, when they don’t…I just don’t like those kind of people, mainly because I live with one.
Yes please very much so! Kill him until he is dead, and then kill him again for being a pretentious little fracker who thinks they invented the computer and the cyber world
I’d like to point out that Shanna insulted him first by implying that he would sit on a story to protect his entertainment. I think a little bit of snark is justified.
This guy gets it.
Jesus fucking Christ.
I used to really hate the whole “video game violence causes violence thing” but all of a sudden you’ve gotten people who’ve up and dropped everything to go fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq literally saying it’s amazing because it’s just like Call of Duty. It’s not looking so backwards anymore.
People have dropped everything to go fight holy wars for centuries. They just have different reference frames to describe their experiences now, not to mention a lot more people to describe them to. (When you’re an illiterate peasant on his first crusade, aren’t the only guys to talk to about it other peasants on their first crusade sitting right next to you?)
No, people now are going to war because they think it’s a real life video game, not the same thing at all
Hero story is hero story. Medium is irrelevant.
When a specific medium’s effectiveness at causing a behavior is notably higher than another’s, medium ceases to be irrelevant.
Note that this is a declaration of “medium is not necessarily irrelevant,” not of “I have research declaring that video games as a medium are awesome at turning Today’s Youth ™ into Rampaging Murderfiends (also tm).”
I don’t know. I used to think that people were falsey blaming video games and movies for a perceived increase of violence in our society. But now days I’m not so sure. It very well may be the case that things are the same as they ever were. And that if it wasn’t movies and video games, it would be something else. But violence does beget violonce. And I wonder at times if violent entertainment may help to stroke the fires a bit.
I do not believe video game violence CAUSES violence, but I believe like any other stimuli, it reinforces violent behavior in the individual. That’s also helped by video games allowing you to act violently in an exposed environment while retaining a level of anonymity.
Not to mention getting kids to play a simulacrum of what brawls and wars is older than dirt.
When I was a kid, it was common to get gifted with realistic-looking (sometimes 100% metal and wood) toy guns and go out of the way to using them in any way you wanted (“it was the fat kid’s fault for not getting enough cover and getting shot by a BB/too slow to not notice someone edged on him and getting his bacon face pistol-whipped silly”) so when we could buy/earn our own gun we would be familiar with it and how jerkass you/people would be with it.
Now civilian gun use is illegal, and the whole “toy guns are evil/medieval toys are evil/tabletop is evil/Counter Strike is evil” was played to exhaustion, but you get to shoot people the same if you go to army (since it’s obligatory, you’ll learn how to murder people with extreme prejudice anyway if you managed to reach 18 without any kind of crippling injury, and many people happily oblige even if they are more interested about hats in shooting games).
Jerks will be jerks anyway, like that one guy who would bring a BB gun to a game of tag or the kid who watched a documentary about spartans and learned about their cool-but-now-illegal-due-to-broken-teeth shield bash. Those excuses will only serve their lawyers once they do the only thing they know (which is making other people’s life miserable).
For purposes of context, what country do you live in?
Yeah, those ISIS members play a lot of CoD too I heard. Well really they like playing the terrorists in CS more since they can’t afford the latest PCs obviously.
More like “playing terrorists because they can’t even afford the M1 rifle” (well, the AKA-47 is way better anyway).
And just in case Ross backtracks this comment, I live in Brazil. I miss my old cannon keyring (if you provided a cap, it could actually shoot a BB round).
Yeah, we had some of those keyrings
And, as a kid, we didn’t have no fancy mass-produced gun, we made our own and played in the neighbours backyard (it was overgrown and had an old shed)
Can’t stop the signal, Mal.
My thought, exactly. Now if there’s a blow-up doll on a couch around there somewhere, I’d say that Xan’s chances of catching sword poisoning have gone up 3000%.
Well, there ARE the used tissues lying at his feet.
Which he could have just used to wipe away some sweat.
Seriously, it could be like an oven in there without proper ventilation.
Yeah right, and I am Best’s alt.
Best! My man! Stop frittering away your time on that dog-faced cultist alt, and come back and join the Alliance, dude. We all miss you. No hellspawn succubine girlfriend is worth whatever she’s promising you in that damned cult.
It will be very interesting to see what happens if this guy is real world Penk and dies for real
Good call; I bet it will happen just as the two sides come together to fight the chaos worm (or whatever)…
Called it on the last page!
“Violence begets Violence” and “video-game-bashing essays” ? whoa…shanna just lost alot of Points in my book. still a good character though.
Violence does beget violence, it always has
Not exactly. Human nature begets violence. It has been doing it long before the net existed. I can testify to that for I was here before the net was created back in the 80’s.
ACTUAL violence begets violence.
Umm, yeah, that’s what said
We’ve known since the beginning that Shanna’s job involves bashing an art form that she doesn’t like or participate in.
That nose! I’ve seen it before… HE’S BANDIT!
Thought you were talking about The Nose in the doorway :P
She’s gonna kill him with the phone, isn’t she
Well, if it’s possible to die from having a phone shoved up your nose (or other orifice)…
What, with his cell phone? Nah. You need a good old rotary for a proper skull fracture.
OTOH, he might have one since it doesn’t have an IP or GPS…
My bet is she is calling Watson to find out if her tail has reached him yet.
All the conjecture about who his character is based on his looks… wouldn’t it be funny if it was someone with no physical resemblance to him at all?
He’s actually playing a gnome.
It’s pretty obvious that he’s Rendar.
Who else could nerd out so hard?
I’m betting most of us are wrong, it’s still fun to guess.
It seems to me the problem is Shanna wants all the responsibility and recognition that goes with releasing this story.
WHO SHE GONNA CALL
Boast-gusters!
Why do I find myself thinking he could be the real life analogue of Payet Best… maybe his tube signal went dead because he got magicked out or into a new body or thrown back in time… ?
No no no, Best is William H. Macy
People, he’s Goblaurence! The same snarky attitude and the same baggy eyes.
But where is the tree smoke…
I still think E-merl. The nail in the coffin was the, “gold farming.” In game E-merl’s explanation is that the gold is just going to pay off his wizard school debts. E-merl is a gold farmer.
Dinosaur media? Oh please … the printed newspaper have a reputation, tought-out articles, correct spelling and writing, and their very nature makes it mandatory to think before printing.
These so-called “new” media are barely an ersatz. The perfect embodiment of “talk, think after.”