World of Warcraft Comes to South Park 109
lmd writes "The first episode of South Park Season 10 is this Wednesday, October 4, at 10:00 PM Eastern/Pacific Time on Comedy Central. It will be called "Make Love, Not Warcraft". A sneak peek in Quicktime and DivX is available." Flash version of the blurb courtesy of Kotaku.
Still up, for now (Score:1, Offtopic)
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How "OMG /.'d" may help moderators (Score:2)
To me, notices of article unavailability serve as a way for moderators to tell when an article (an object referenced by the blurb) was unavailable so that they can determine, for a given comment, whether it is appropriate to expect the comment's author to have read the article first.
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Zero lag! (Score:2)
Well, I'll say one thing for them. They put enough bandwidth behind the site that the video downloaded without any delays. Go ahead, watch the Quicktime version.
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10/1 is standard notation in many parts of the world as the tenth of january, which is months away. Just because neither of us lives in Europe does not make me dense enough to not grasp a simple concept like this.
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How dare you confuse an Aussie with a European!
And anyway, all my comment gave away was that I wasn't a Yank. Where else does 10/4 mean October?
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Japan, for one, though they mark which is the month so there's never any ambiguity. Also anywhere that uses the ISO date system, though admittedly that generally involves specifying the year first. The middle-endian US system is easily the silliest and least logical of them all.
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Rob
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Congratulations, you've reinvented ISO time except they use yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss. It even comes with an add-on to specify time zone and week numbers. Now, the biggest issue with this is short-hand, because size != importance. If I say I'm running a 2.6 kernel, I might acutally run 2.6.16-k7-4 (the last being a debian fix number) and it feels natural to leave out the ending. I find dd.mm.yyyy shortened to dd.mm to feel more natural than yyyy-mm-dd sho
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If movies like Smokey and the Bandit have taught me nothing else, it's that 10/4 actually means "okay."
-Eric
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Ironically, this is true for me! I'm raiding Naxxramas when this episode first airs. It's too bad Comedy Central isn't known for excessively re-running the crap out of a show, otherwise I might get a chance to see it again! Oh, wait, nevermind... :P
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Guest pass key (Score:1)
If you have not been addicted to it like the rest of us, the first fix is 20 bucks and the next expansion is 40 or so [amazon.com].
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Checking places like Circuit City [circuitcity.com], Best Buy [bestbuy.com], EB Games [ebgames.com], GoGamer [gogamer.com], Amazon.com [amazon.com], etc... they are all selling the game for ~ $19.99
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Sorry, I'll buy it for $20 at Walmart when I'm in town this afternoon.
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Oh, btw, they want you to pay $40 for the expansion, too!
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The initial price of the game is supposed to cover the initial development of the game, before it launched.
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Neat math... (Score:1)
Assuming a worker is employed @ 15$/hr
and There are 2 GM/s / realm (1 horde / 1 alliance(just guessing))
At 24/7 coverage
(24 hrs
Still a drop in the bucket though. Bandwidth costs are probably much higher. I think that their monthly input from subscriptions is only about 10% more than their monthly costs. (A 10
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If they're expecting people to fork out $15.99, then the game should be free, or the retail version should cost little more than the 30 days you get with it. If they've dropped the retail price to $19.99, that would meet that requirement, but they should give away th
Similar Theme (Score:4, Funny)
Or, very similar to the Futurama episode where Fry discovers why men are not to date robots through the cheesy 1950s-ish sex-ed film? (humans will fail to reproduce and die as a species)
That's the most I can gather from the title
Direct Link? (Score:5, Informative)
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WoW this hits close to home, eh? (Score:1)
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Re:WoW this hits close to home, eh? (Score:5, Informative)
I thought it was more or less a joke when his wife started hitting on me directly infront of him saying he wouldn't notice anything outside his game. Then one day, she actualy started playing wiht me in a way that I knew she wasn't kidding and she definatly wanted some attention in certain areas.
I guess what really astounded me was when on the most recent visit (his wife's kid's from another marriage had his 19th birthday) , with about 14 other people in the computer room (den) he wips his pecker out and starts urinating into a two liter pepsi bottle he recently drank. Looking around, we determined he is too involved to throw them out too. He has droped to working around 2 days a week now but that seems to be enough to pay the bills.
I used to go hunting and fishing with him all the time. Now, I get a phone call while I'm in the field describing how exciting the last raid was or how someone was fucking with a member of thier clan and he showed them a thing or two. I though about turning the phone off but sometimes I need to be on call incase I have to work. He was given a fishing boat in like new condition by his dad who just didn't have anywere to store it. It got sold to someone else for around $2000 because he couldn't break away from the game long enough to tow it 20 minutes to his house (would have taken about 1 hour total to. go get it).
WoW is pretty much consuming his life.
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I'm sorry, but after reading that part I have to call BS. Did not a single person say anything? Any normal person would have gone batshit over this. Why did you not confront him about his problem then and there?
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Well, Maybe because we were drunk and stoned at the time. But more likley because we do it in the tree stands when hunting (and it is deer season here) and it didn't seem all that bad untill we though "WoW, there a bathroom less then 200 feet away.
BTW, this was recently and everyone did have a "wohh minute". We made jokes about it all though the night but I never really conected the why he did it with WOW until later. Some one probably has sai
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If your his friend, than you need to take him aside and say
WTF? OMG YOU SUXXORz
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Was his wife hot?
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She isn't ugly though wich is a plus.
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Similar story, but Everquest back in the day. Dude started ignoring everyone and eventually started asking me, as a friend, to take the Mrs. out on Friday nights so he could raid. Then it was Saturdays too, and We
Not the first episode (Score:5, Informative)
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It's really annoying, and I wish I knew why they did it.
More importantly, I wish I knew why the UK doesn't get most American series for years after they're first shown. More and more people are downloading them from the USA now, so surely the viewing figures in the UK are dropping. Are the British broadcasters so blind that they haven't noticed
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And the whole behindness thing is probably for contractual reasons--both the contract with the US channel(if it even exists--BSG doesn't have it because it's owned by the same company as the ch
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If you want to see the kind of stuff we get on sky then look here: http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/tvlistings [sky.com] , but yes, the sci-fi is mostly american.
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I'm very glad they stop half-way through the series. It gives them more time to come up with ideas, hopefully reducing the number of shitty "crab people" episodes. US TV is too often run line an assembly line, but really good comedy doesn't work on demand like that.
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Omg They killed... (Score:1)
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WoW Players: Name that Zone (Score:3, Interesting)
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Yeah it's by Dalaran in Hillsbrad / Alterac Mountains. I used to pvp in the zone all the time (before world pvp died to Civilians.)
A matter of taste (Score:1)
RDX = latest fad, limited release (pay? lol) and doesn't work with group buttons, etc. etc. Meh.
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Old news. (Score:3, Funny)
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It also appears to require Windows. Sorry, it's just not possible for any game in the world to be good enough to make me want to involve Windows in my life.
Good of you to decide for us whether we're "real" players, though. I'm sure we're all very grateful for your clarification.
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What I had actually meant to point out is that Darkfall, the game the previous poster was hawking, appears to require Windows.
I meant this as opposed to WoW. Which, yes, I happily play on a mac quite often.
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It's very pretty, but it's no more complicated than bridge or cribbage. In fact, that's insulting to bridge and cribbage. It's a bit more akin to a giant, endless game of slapjack.
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It's just a mindless game and I have a stack of much better games to play. I play other RPGs (Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia etc) because they have story, puzzles and an interesting world. WoW replaces all that with mob hunting using a fairly dull combat system. In a way I think it's sad that so many people are paying so much money to feed an addiction to "th
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It seems recently that folks are starting to put Warcraft in the same "unfashionable" category as Madden, sequels, and the PS3. For the first year of it's life, WoW was the hottest thing since sliced bread. Now it's being called an uncreative treadmill with a poor combat system.
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It's the same thing that happens with all MMORPGs when they are first released. There is the whole ahh.. new and shiny factor for the games where they can be seen as doing no wrong. I was excited by WoW when it was first coming out until the open beta preview. This exposed the null combat system and all of the bugs everyone lived with for the first few months of the game. This was the primary reason I didn't the game when it fir
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It looks like you left right before it got good.
The first 20-25 levels are boring as hell, as there's not much to do other than fetch quests and farming. But once you get into instanced dungeons, the game picks up and becomes great fun, although there's certainly still a good deal of grinding to do. The five-man dungeons in WoW are an absolute blast, and there's always something new to see until right around the time you hit the level cap.
The endgame is terrible--40-man raids are horrible in oh-so-many
screw you guys... (Score:1, Funny)
Hilarious! (Score:1)
*mom appears with a bedpan*
You can guess what happens next.
And the cutaways to the evil PKer nerd made me scream with laughter.
Does anyone know if there was some cooperation with Blizzard on this episode?