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I have issued a list of demands to the developers at Turbine. They must give my character exclusive access to a new “I fart in your general direction” emote, deliver me 100 bottles of black dye, rename Bree to Lulzytown, and let me use Gandalf as a ride-able mount. If they fail to meet these demands by midnight tonight, I will destroy the shire auction house.
Okay, actually this prompt is asking me if I want to throw away a piece of paper titled “The Auction House”, but they don’t need to know that. Don’t mess this up for me and I’ll let you have one of the bottles of dye.
Spider-Man
A game I love. It has a solid main story and a couple of really obnoxious, cringy, incoherent side-plots in it. What happened here?
Raytracing
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?
Artless in Alderaan
People were so worried about the boring gameplay of The Old Republic they overlooked just how boring and amateur the art is.
DM of the Rings
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Could Have Been Great
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
don’t worry, your secret is safe with THE INTERNET.
I laughed.
Kekeke :D
Thats pretty great! Do they have a “Screenshot of the Day” or something along that line?
Dammit Shamus, I just got up. It’s to early to asphyxiate due to laughing so hard. Just the image of Gandalf being whipped to make him run faster is going to stick with me for awhile.
It’s possible he might like it- have you thought of that?
I did NOT need that visual at ANY time of day. *shudder*
Why would he need to go faster? A wizard is never late…
Plus he has Shadowfax, which would make travel time through the game take a fraction as long.
Hehe…just the mental image of Lulzy riding Gandalf, riding Shadowfax is funny to me… I am childish.
I demand that Shadowfax then be allowed to use Wormtongue as a rideable mount.
Yes, I do want to see Lulzy riding Gandalf riding Shadowfax riding Wormtongue.
And possibly, a Cave Troll.
When your mind starts considering the other definition of the word “riding”, that image of yours becomes so very wrong. SO very wrong indeed.
Thanks for that. I haven’t had a good brain scrubbing a while. Time to make an appointment.
Klay F, that’s hillarious. The rest of you put me in dire need of brain bleach, thanks so much.
OMG. My wife and I both LOL’d at that one. I seem to remember playing a similar game, but not sure. You could destroy The One Ring in that way too.
White horses ARE called grey.
Reading your spoilered explanation, it’s still pretty funny how it got left in there.
I wasn’t fooled. The building is clearly called The Shire Auction HALL.
Clever, I didn’t notice this at all. Oh well, hilarity ensued none the less.
I saw the same thing — doesnt make it any less hilarious, though. :)
Congratulations on becoming a supervillain, Shamus! After all, you already have a horde of loyal internet minions ready to unleashed on anyone daring to plagiarize you. So what's next? Building a death ray? We could test either on France or Italy ;).
I could go with sharks with friggen lazer beams on their heads.
No, it’s traditional to demonstrate death rays on the UN building. Only destroy valuable cheese and wine exporters like France if your demands aren’t met.
Not a supervillain. Supervillains don’t actually succeed. Whereas here success is as easy as clicking a button.
“The Enemy cannot push a button… if you disable his hand…. MEDIC!!!!”
MMORPGS would be a lot more interesting if they actually simulated a world where the trolls and greifers were all terrorists who could hold fictional places hostage for all of a few days or so. Garry’s Mod sort of does this already.
For a certain definition of interesting, since the places would be held hostage 24/7 – the previous troll would no sooner leave (or be forced out) than a new troll would arrive.
Giving griefers MORE power is really, really low on the priority list for MMORPG developers.
I know, but there would also be police and military forces running around with special admin powers, to keep things balanced.
Any luck so far? Because so far, the only thing your LP needs is a Gandalf that you can ride like a pony. Also, it’d give the lore nuts an aneurysm, and that’s always fun times.
Cause they don’t have ENOUGH reasons to lose their shit?
A friend of mine was like that, but besides de aneurysm she would beat the crap out of you. So let´s hope there´s no one like that once Shamus gets his Gandalf mount. I wonder if they would complain if hobbits could get a Treebeard mount, though…
Mmm, Treebeard mount. With extra saddle bag space for pipeweed and Hobbit breakfasts!
I don’t know if I really want to ask this ;), but what exactly is the purpose of all that black dye?
He sees a white door and he wants to paint it black?
Funny, and the second online game I’ve seen where you can vanity name objects.
Black Dye is the only color in LOTRO that is fairly expensive, especially for a lower-level character.
Black Dye is ALMOST ALWAYS the most expensive dye. Ultima Online, Pitch Black Dye Tubs were frequently stolen, their owners targeted for “ganking”, and so on. GuildWars, they sell for easily 15 times the usual color of dye (the only one coming close to it is White, and that’s in cycles).
The only exception was EverQuest dyes, where the big seller was “any color you want with the 0-255 slider mixing”. Because for some reason they were given a huge base chance to fail :)
I don’t care what you do to the auction house, just please… give me back my son!!!
Where’s the bomb Shamus? WHERE?!?!?!
This picture looks like it should belong at The Daily WTF. Thank you for the LOL Shamus! :-)
All this talk of Gandalf-whipping and nobody linked to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcMVMeXPQ4
Warning – way, way, way unsafe for work. Also, lame and amateurish.
But still funny.
So for us iPod users – what is underneath the mysterious red blocks covering what I presume to be humorous text?
Snook:
> this prompt is asking me if I want to throw away a piece of paper titled “The Auction House”, but they don't need to know that. Don't mess this up for me and I'll let you have one of the bottles of dye.