Ok so I've made myself pretty scarce. I don't know what my plans are at the moment - should I just take a full vacation from KoL - go cold turkey and all that? I already miss not being "in the loop," truth is I liked have my ears to the ground, keeping tabs on everyone. I think having a handle on community pulse is important...
Anyways. I did want to mention Sake Faction's An Adventurer is Me song, an original industrial mp3 that's pretty good if you're into that. Be sure to check the lyrics.
Elektra's started a great help site worth checking out: What's a Wang?
Lastly, you may have seen this on the forums but the Philanthropists clan are now known as Noblesse Oblige. My congrats to what will continue to be a great clan.
Oh and "woot," I should be able to get my hippy stone back in a day or two. :)
[posted by trog dor @ 5:53 PM]
Unrelated, but I noticed that while Jick's in Boston this week he's still gotten KoL stuff done - perhaps no World of Warcraft is a good thing? ;)
[posted by trog dor @ 5:19 PM]
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Wheres teh dramas?! You thrive off the soap operas in the Kingdom, admit it, you do. By popular demand, here's story of the final days of The Goddess's Knights.
In mid-November she's fired from Radio KOL for shirking responsibilities, ie, leaving two hours of dead air on RKOL. Then on the clan messageboard:
Date: Monday, November 15, 12:20PM
From: SexyGoddess (#124654)
I'm going to be taking a break from KoL. It does nothing but consume my time and make me very unhappy. I might be on once a day for like 10 minutes but thats about it. When I can I will stat boost- but don't contribute meat please, as I will not be glancing at donations any time soon. Sorry to those that already gave.
...
I'm taking a break because people are cold hearted assholes. Paticularly online people and KoL/Kol Radio people. Online people in general don't care about each others feelings.. hell, people in general give 2 shits about each other for the most part.
After a brief break, she came back on the 18th with renewed purpose - she wasn't disbanding, not turning over leadership, and now creating her own Shoutcast station.
December rolls around and Underground Radio KoL goes public to much weeping and gnashing of teeth. It gets the official "meh, whatever" from The Powers That Be but drives many an adventurer batty with their constant chat ads. It doesn't last long.
Beginning (in earnest) in mid-November, the natives got restless in clan TGK. One of their long-time members, realizing the limbo state the clan was in, branched off and formed The Ugly Ducklings on December 5th. J1mmy wrote, "I feel at the moment TGK has a cancer, a cancer that could have been cured but one that was not allowed treatment. As a result it has grown, grown to a stage where I don’t think the clan can survive much longer."
He was spot on: on December 6th The Goddess's Knights clan was deleted, leaving 1400+ members clanless. SexyGoddess tries to pawn off her account on eBay before disappearing into the spectral mists where she is today, munching down on pickles undoubtedly.
[posted by trog dor @ 11:10 PM]
People invariably forget underscores, but in Bete Noire's case she owns Bete as well - leading to some great PM's. Here's a random collection of quotes she put together to create the poem of the century:
Noire Part 1
Noire I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do this but thank you very much for that defense
noire look whats your problem?
noire y is the radio has lots of cussin
noire i wasnt asking 4 any
noire yes please
Noire ok ill calm myself ur the nice 1 neways
noire still new
Noire See ya later Babe i Am off to go adventuring or jut sitting listening to my friends band...
Noire he told me that his band...killed someone once. ??
Noire ok sorry bout that
[posted by trog dor @ 10:58 PM]
Saturday, December 04, 2004
I got a bit of the transcript from the Jick & Skullhead show - the portion on scammers.
It makes no sense to me. But "pick your battles" and all that...is this one I want to get into? I mean I agree with you, Jick, it does sound wishy-washy. Look at these three names:
Popsicle (#149450)
Skull (#66385)
SkIzZlZ (#129763)
These are repeat offenders, all of them scamming for at least four months. What is so difficult about disabling these folks? Sometimes I get very, very frustrated by hippies.
[posted by trog dor @ 4:33 AM]
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
My presence on this blog has been requested. I'm back, maybe. :)
Thought I'd start off by providing a bit of context for the Lounge debate that's perpetually raging on the forums. I calculated this tonight: some 125,750 accounts and around 205 in Lounge means 0.16% of all characters are Loungers.
Contrary to what's been said on the forums, most of the people in Lounge have done something out of the ordinary to merit their access. Only some know Jick/Skully personally, are old-school, etc. I keep writing and deleting so as not to sound like a complete dick. I'll just stop here. ;)
[posted by trog dor @ 9:22 PM]
The Kingdom of Loathing
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