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As of now, the col­lec­tive voice of the WoW gamers have claimed a vic­tory against Blizzard-Activision’s noto­ri­ous RealID plot.  Although I do not play the game and con­se­quently I could care less about the whole thing, such attempt made by an MMO indus­try leader shall remain in infamy for­ever as a dark antithe­sis of MMO genre itself.

I have found a com­ment by Jane, on Mas­sively, over the issue that echos pretty much my stance.  Read it here.

Never can I under­stand the men­tal­ity of pun­ish­ing rule-abiding posters by expos­ing their real-life iden­tity just to reduce the amount of spam and trolling on a large gam­ing forum.  That aside, I am more alarmed at the fact that Bliz­zard, respon­si­ble for run­ning the most pop­u­lated MMORPG on the planet, is mak­ing a delib­er­ate action like this.  I was afraid that if Bliz­zard could get away with pulling bull­crap like this, other online game pub­lish­ers would have funny ideas of stag­ing a fad that is rad­i­cally oppos­ing to a more gen­eral trend of recent years, which is the ris­ing aware­ness on restrict­ing the flow of per­sonal infor­ma­tion over the Internet.

Things turns out to be bet­ter.  Game­First stood up and gave Bliz­zard a well-deserved slap in the face back.  Then, of course, Blizzard’s bail.  Although look­ing at the non­cha­lent tone of Blizzard’s announce­ment, with­out words of apol­ogy but actu­ally stated the retrac­tion is “as of now”, I have to agree with Jane doubt­ing whether the dragon will stay dead. 

Rumors say Bliz­zard wants to some­how link their Battle.Net user­names with Face­book.  As of now, the valid­ity of the rumor is not a con­cern of mine.  But I think peo­ple should be reminded that MMORPG is fun­da­men­tally dif­fer­ent from Face­book: the two enti­ties are pro­jected onto the two oppo­site of the Real/Virtual spec­trum.  Face­book serves its func­tion by bridg­ing and expand­ing real-life con­nec­tions with other peo­ple.  Indi­vid­u­als on Face­book inter­act sim­i­lar to any real-life sit­u­a­tions because every­thing ties back to one’s name and the net­work one belongs to.  On the other hand, play­ing MMORPG, note the bolded let­ters, is about cre­at­ing a char­ac­ter which the player role-plays in a pro­grammed envi­ron­ment where the true vari­ables are play­ers themselves.  In game, a player is not judged by his/her sta­tus in real-life soci­ety but purely by their ways and actions in game.

My reli­gious belief aside, numer­ous argu­ments have been made against RealID on how poten­tially dan­ger­ous it can be when vir­tual vendetta is car­ried over to real-life.  Although RealID doesn’t seem to be vio­lat­ing laws in most gov­ern­ments, I do wish to have the Big Brother keep an eye on any com­pany that decides to release their cus­tomers’ real names in mass.  I’d also like to sug­gest peo­ple who don’t feel vio­lated by RealID to name their char­ac­ter and forum user­name to their real names, while those who wish to remain a sen­si­ble level of anonymity will remain unaffected.

If I have a Face­book page, you’ll never see it posted on this blog :p

Few months went by and I didn’t even notice it.  Some­how I didn’t feel like write any­thing on this blog; some­thing was clog­ging my desire to make walls of text for log­ging pur­poses.  The offi­cial excuse is how the work­load from classes I took bor­dered a whole new level, still, I did accom­plish some suff, such as:

• Saw a bunch of South Park dou­jin on pixiv, checked out the show, and got hooked.
• Started play­ing EVE Online, and now ready to bid the game farewell.
• Been slay­ing too many zom­bies in Left 4 Dead 2, now I feel bad.

As of now, an intern­ship at an office set­ting con­sumes most of my time dur­ing the day.  Time to do some more gar­den­ing around here~

“There is no doubt­ing it. Redire’s power level is over 9000. ”

It’s one of the “n won­ders of Mabinogi Main­stream quests”.  Here is an ana­lyt­i­cal report, writ­ten by kitaek27 and is backed with facts and sta­tis­tics, on how and why Redire is one of the leetest NPC in Mabinogi.  Be warned, though, as it is obvi­ous that the topic con­tains Gen­er­a­tion 2 and 3 spoiler ~

But Fer­ghus is still »» all.

Come to think about it, Umineko is the first thing I can relate to Halloween.

And of course, it must have Maria in it, since she’s such a Hal­loween maniac.

If Maria goes trick-or-treating, Rosa, being the respon­si­ble mon­ther, should be watch­ing her daughter.

But Mr. Bat­tler, aren’t you a bit TOO OLD to go on trick-or-treating?

Bat­tler: “I’m actu­ally on a date with Aunt Rosa.”

Rosa: “No you are not.”

/facepalm.  This is why I hate sum­mer classes.  I’ll never have enough time to fin­ish all these episodes along with Umineko Ep5 ;d

con­tinue reading…

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Since this is still an ongo­ing inci­dent and looks like it will last as long as I live in this incred­i­bly bad dorm, I feel I already put too much effort worry about the ser­vice which I sup­pos­edly to enjoy, not frus­trate over with.  So, after the Spring Break our entire building’s Inter­net speed is like being infected by AIDS (use your imag­i­na­tion), and it took our ISP, eLeisure two weeks to iden­tify the prob­lem, and another two week ATTEMPT to fix it.

I have to crown them the title of Most Inef­fec­tive and Most Incom­pe­tent peo­ple I’ve ever talked to.

Even talk­ing to them makes me feel that, it is ME who is being messed up, not them!  I guess y’all can learn from my expe­ri­ence: when you are con­sid­er­ing mov­ing into a place where they offer you “free high-speed Inter­net con­nec­tion,” do con­sult some cur­rent res­i­dents on the issue whether the ISP is wor­thy or not.