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Showing posts with label WoW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WoW. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2013

Cartoons: the NSA online

With recent news of the NSA spying on World of Warcraft and Secondlife, you'd think online gamers would be more upset.  Maybe they're too intent on gaming.  Then there's rule no.1:  Nobody is who they say they are online.  Getting to know other players may reveal a real person, but continually fighting MOBs doesn't reveal much.  There's some humor to be found in the whole situation, too.
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image: cartoon by Drew Sheneman, "NSA Spying on Gamers"
Drew Sheneman, USNews
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image: meme by Pauly D, "dude!! the nsa pays you..?"
Pauly D, Memegenerator
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image: cartoon published at ActionTrip.com, "Operation Spycraft"
"Operation Spycraft," actiontrip.com
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By the way, a n00b is "A inexperienced and/or ignorant or unskilled person. Especially used in computer games."  And what about the result of gathering all this information?
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image: cartoon by Patrick Chappatte "Huge Data Collection By NSA"
Patrick Chappatte, "Huge Data Collection By NSA," Cagle
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While I was looking for these cartoons, I came across the NSA's site for kids.  In its Google listing it advertises, "How to make your own secret codes, games and activities from the National Security Agency for America's future codemakers and codebreakers." Looks like they're recruiting people early.

-- Marge

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Art of World of Warcraft

After starting, then abandoning, a post about all the products Google now offers that began to look like an advertisement for them; and then trying to figure out why my machine gets lost in the ozone when I leave it for 5-10 minutes (I think it's one of Microsoft's September updates), I've decided to find something more fun to post about today.

About two months ago I started playing World of Warcraft (be very, very careful -- it is indeed addictive).  Besides its intriguing quests and multitude of environments, it has some of the most beautiful artwork I've seen.  Take a look at this trailer for the new expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria:
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In WoW, as in many MMORGs (Massive Multi-player Online Roleplay Games), there are races, mobs (aka creatures), and non-player characters (NPCs) that advance the storyline.  The members of each race have a dance that can be initiated by the player.  The following video, uploaded by ShadowRoxas87, shows the origins of these dances. I'm guessing that this is the uploader's version of history, but it's amusing just the same.
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Here's another one of the dances from Patricia Rosa that was filmed in game:
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And here's a video I found that is just too funny.  It was uploaded by thesolekeep, and is an ad for Mountain Dew.
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OK, OK, back to work.

-- Marge