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Now you shall witness the power of this armed and fully operational Pope!
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Hey! I think my lvl 80 Shaman has those shoulders! Epics FTW!
Thank you for not saying you-know-what.
Never would. I much prefer to have the intial funny/asshole/controversial start than just to limit myself to a position in line.
dont hate me for asking, but, what server…
When I do play, which hasn’t been much recently, I am on Wyrmrest Accord. I can haz RP?
RP?
A guy from a RP server asked me ones: -”I can haz Raid now?”
Yeah. Can’t have both is seems. Got to leave da Rps for the tabletop. In game I gots to get meh lootz. And screw those people tip toeing through Orgrimmar.
Most RP servers don’t care much about RP anymore… it’s more of an underground movement now, where people meet in taverns to plot intrigues, while the majority of the player base farms Trial of the Crusader.
And–don’t forget–talks about what losers the RPers are whenever reminded of our existence. We’re all a bunch of 35-year-old virgins living in our mother’s basements who can’t get a woman, and those of us who are, for instance, actually 27-year-olds living in apartments with their husbands are obviously lying.
Actually that would be wrong. My mother is actually living in MY basement (Until such time when she can return to her own home.)
Lol…Spirestone, myself. PvP.
I never have time to play anymore either. *sigh*
You liar! You aren’t playing no Wow! Horde or Alliance? It may be DK time!
Horde. Undead rogue, and fairly lowly (said I didn’t have time to play, you know?); I think I’m at 48 now but it’s been a week or so since I logged on so….I could be off by a level or so. Fun times, though!
Good deal! For the Horde!
48 eh? Even if I made a DK I would be 58 basically starting out. Maybe I should just leave him in lurking getting rested xo until you move up some.
Btw, I logged in last night just to Trick or Treat. Just saying. I need to get a dang toothpick!
I agree. Wageslaving at a desk will take it out of you. Thank the maker i have a remote controlled media server and an air desk and a recliner for when i get home. Now if I could only just get caught up on homework.
My account has been lapsed for a few months but i’m on Mal’Ganis. A bunch of in town friends transfered with the guild to Scilla for better raiding.
It bores me now. Especially since its football season.
I have 30 of them…souldbound though..sry
Mok’ Nathal here
(ignoring the fact VNV hates corporations and yet plays a pay for play game. ????)
WoW is old school. Champions Online FTW.
EVERQUEST 2!!!
-logs on his ogre zerker-
Real nerds play MTG.
Back in the day i used to play. Circa 99-2000. Not in a while. That game is expensive!
Back in the day, you played ZORK online at the local BBS.
not sure what either of those are
BBS=Bulletin Board System. (dial up into a local system, some of which were linked, but most were not.)
ZORK. Come on man. THE original PC nerd game.
old school table top D&D for the WIN!
Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language. All four were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group.
Zork can run on modern Z-machine interpreters, as well as the older models it was made for originally.
“Zork” was originally MIT hacker jargon for an unfinished program. The implementors named the completed game Dungeon, but by that time the name Zork had already stuck. Zork has also been adapted to a widely panned book series.
Three of the original Zork programmers joined with others to found Infocom in 1979. That company adapted the PDP-10 Zork into Zork I-III, a trilogy of games for most popular small computers of the era, including the Apple II, the Commodore 64, the Atari 8-bit family, the TRS-80, CP/M systems and the IBM PC. Zork I was published on 5¼” and 8″ floppy disks. Joel Berez and Marc Blank developed a specialized virtual machine to run Zork I, called the Z-machine. The first “Z-machine Interpreter Program” ZIP for a small computer was written by Scott Cutler for the TRS-80. The trilogy was written in ZIL, which stands for “Zork Implementation Language”, a language similar to LISP. Personal Software published what would become the first part of the trilogy under the name Zork when it was first released in 1980, but Infocom later handled the distribution of that game and their subsequent games. Part of the reason for splitting Zork into three different games was that, unlike the PDP systems the original ran on, micros did not have enough memory and disk storage to handle the entirety of the original game. In the process, more content was added to Zork to make each game stand on its own.
Zork is set in a sprawling underground labyrinth which occupies a portion of the “Great Underground Empire”. The player is a nameless adventurer whose goal is to find the treasures hidden in the caves and return alive with them, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master. The dungeons are stocked with many novel creatures, objects and locations, among them grues, zorkmids, and Flood Control Dam #3—all of which are referenced by subsequent Infocom text adventures.
Zork and its relatives are works of interactive fiction. Zork distinguished itself in its genre as an especially rich game, in terms of both the quality of the storytelling and the sophistication of its text parser, which was not limited to simple verb-noun commands (“hit grue”), but some prepositions and conjunctions (“hit the grue with the Elvish sword”).
Actually the original Zork took place in the Great Underground Empire (built by one of the last Flathead Rulers), there were other Zork based games such as Wishbringer, Enchanter, Spellbringer and others, all of which took part (in the most part) on the surface. There were 3 major games which were created in the Zork Universe when Activision took over control of Infocom (when Infocom went bust) which were partially FMV games. They were (If I can remember the first one right, it had some early work from soon to be famous (albeit not for too long
) actors – Jason Hervey was one I can remember as he played Fred Savage’s older brother in the Wonder Years) – Return to Zork, Zork Nemesis, and Zork Grand Inquisitor (Starring Dirk Benedict and Erick Avari.) The 3 later Zork games were 360 degree movement, (and as far as I can remember) sort of point and click type adventure games. I thought they were brilliant, but others were not so accepting of the new games.
That was cut and paste.
OMG, I’ve never played ZORK and I know what it is.
On an environmentally destructive computer, assembled by essentially slave labor, sold by a megacorporation…played over a telecommunications network monopolized by several megacorporations…etc…
but the elf i play is a druid type, so that evens things out
Elves are the worst — that Keebler SOB alone raises the temperature by a degree every year, with his asbestos-laden, dirty-coal-burning cookie factory.
And where’s Al Gore when you need him to tell the elves how they are destroying the environment..
wait, i play a massive ogre from the evil city. screw those hippie elves and the half naked queen.
MY OVERLORD IS VOICED BY CHRISTOPHER FRIGGEN LEE!!!
Wait, is that “Christopher F. Lee”? Like Joe Estevez, brother of Martin Sheen?
(scene: troll convention)
bitter troll: dude bitter troll just got tickets to see christopher lee!
slightly less bitter troll: awesome!
(after four hours in line)
bitter troll: christopher ***F*** lee? wtf! bitter troll smash!
(bitter troll eats christopher f. lee’s head, mails his heart to his brother)
count dracula dooku wins over night elf weenies
OMG, MST3K has taught me that if a movie’s got Joe Estevez in it, you’re gonna end up with PTSD afterwards.
Ah!! I used to play Everquest II, I used to play a Dark Elf. I got bored with Everquest II though and went back to playing Everquest. (Although I’ve stopped that now and am now playing Warhammer Online, although I used to also play The Matrix Online, which was thanks to SOE keeping their hands off, one of the best Online games out there (compare that to SWG, which had SOE swarming all over it, and thus SOE made a right pig’s ear of the whole thing!!)
Elves run BSD — no PowerPoint. Gore was stymied. (But he did stop in the factory store on the way out.)
bitter troll would play troll, but those things just gross in EQ2.
ogres much cooler. elves come up to bitter trolls ogres crotch
“(But he did stop in the factory store on the way out.)”
I’m sure the elves are wondering when he’s going to leave. He’s eating up all their profits!
what did al gore buy in the shop?
carbon foot prints?
Only if they were baked twice and covered in milk chocolate.
nom nom nom
Can I try the fudge wafer carbon footprints? Hey, are those peanut butter???
To properly make a carbon footprint, you have to wear carbon-soled shoes. Fact.
Have you SEEN Al Gore lately? They’ve obviously bought him off with loads of free cookies.
hey, i play on a mac – it’s made in america, bub. and at least some of it’s recylced.
those silicon motherboards are still bad, but shh! (it is energy star though….)
oh and undead ftw! don’t forget this week’s the first of the headless horseman stuff, gotta get that hallowed title!
Are you sure? My Macs and iPhones were all made in China — as far as I know, it may all be engineered onshore, but I think all the manufacturing is overseas.
And Dhoti, who is a big proponent of third world countires and keeping people as unequal as possible, relishes the fact that it was made in China. If he could, he would starve the children of Inda himself, just so he could feel more powerful than they are. And he will rush out and vote on politicians that will make laws telling you what to believe, like creationism or what marriage means. He would go out of his way to make sure the textbooks minorities use would be at least 20 years old to keep white supremacy alive. Anything he can do to supress you keeps his belief in being rich one day alive. Be careful, he will minipulate you any way he can and would sel his own grandmother for profit. Because he is willing to die for capitalism.
LOL!
Did I miss something?
Nope — just the usual VNV craziness.
Doh! I did look more into it Dhoti and you’re right – the design is made in CA along with some of the innards, but the assembly and majority of the manufacturing is done primarily in Taiwan and China through Quanta and Compal. (sniffle) That’s a bummer.
And while I am using your described computer, I am not paying for cable, just internet. I am not watching commercials. I am not watching sports, reality tv, or soaps. I am not going out and drinking and driving. I am not sleeping around. I am not cumsuming more than 14 bucks a months. Hell… if anything, playing a video game designed by dreamers for dreamers is in a small way, just one more way to fight back. You are right about the computer though. I will feel much better when the factories and network are all publically owned.
“I am not cumsuming more than 14 bucks a months.”
Wait, you’re not WHAT?!
those poor deer!
I hate corporations but i still use crest toothpaste, watch comedy central, comcast cable, drive a ford, and read books published by mcmillian. Can’t excatly get away from them can we? I think you made my point for me.
Oh yeah, and Champions, just like its Heroes… basically sucks. So there is at least that.
You seem to be confusing “difficult” with “impossible”. It would require time, energy, and above all, true conviction, all of which I’m pretty sure you sorely lack.
Better to rant incoherently on the Internet to convince yourself you’re not really one of those wage slaves you look down on, rather than do your part to change the world, isn’t it?
Actually, I don’t think VNV has ever claimed NOT to be a wageslave.
I am -so- a wage slave. Just like the rest of us….
I didn’t think so, but the way he looks down his nose at them, he clearly thinks he’s better than them in some way, like his “knowing better” absolves him or something. I figure he’s just a self-loather.
Have you even seen how many free mmo’s there are? not to mention it’s a game. not exactly a priority.
Neither is debating online with other people about the merits of a picture of the Pope. And yet here you are.
yeah but I’ve never claimed otherwise and gave myself a hypocritical appearance.
I’ll grant you that one. Plus you scored brownie points for making plans to do the Thriller dance at the bottom of the page.
you can’t watch thriller and not dance
Very true. I have a hard time just listening to it and not dancing.
That’s the real reason they don’t play it on the radio. To dangerous for drivers.
Yeah. I have been playing MMOs for a while now. They just don’t cut the mustard like WoW does. Its targeting and camera movement are supreme. And no, its not a priority.
so you’re just funding the things you hate. You’re part of your own problem. A lot of money went into the development of warcraft. But do you really think it takes that much to run? You’re 14.99 a month is lining the pockets of the corrupt CEOs of blizzard. The people you hate so much.
Sad but true. In this climate, the only thing I can to is pick and chose which things I hate and associate myself with.
aw see I liked the fact you held to your convictions. Now it’s ruined. Now it seems you just want change as long as it wouldn’t effect the things you enjoy. Sorry but people that pick and choose annoy the heck out of me. I’ve grown sick of watching overly religious nut jobs pick and choose bible passages. If you truly believe in your cause then live by it as much as you can.
not saying you’re overly religious just that they annoy me.
Now hold on a second. When it all goes down Blizz goes to. No stone unturned no weapon saved. I am not promoting Blizz, and frankly, I am disappointed to have it as a hobby as well. I do truly believe in my cause and I do live by it as much as I can. But I am not going to drop my only form of stress relief to prove a point. I didn’t realize you wanted me to join your Champions guild that bad! geez!
I’m not in a super group. Just me and some friends play. But you are promoting blizzard. You support them and pay them. I’ll tell you what. I’ll believe you hold to your ideals if you can answer no to this question. Did you buy both expansions? If the answers yes, well that just disappoints me.
You are playing dirty pool. One has to buy both expansions to get the leet gearz. But if it makes you feel better my gf bought me WotLK and my mom got me the first wow. All I actually bought was BC.
That was a prime example of greed and one of the reasons I stopped playing WoW. (That and the fact even with new races it was the same thing. Go retrieve 7 raptor necklaces. That was worth the 50 bucks)At least when City of heroes released updates they were free since you paid to play anyways.
just wait. there are 2 more races in the next expansion. But at least they are upgrading 1-60 zones. But I really think WotLK was a for real upgrade. Graphically, and the way the quests actively changed the environment. But that being said, i probably won’t be playing by the time its released.
Just to play devil’s advocate here, Blizzard puts a lot of time, effort and money into their games. They’ve got to pay the wageslaves, you know! Not to mention keeping all the servers running, etc….why shouldn’t they make a profit? At least they’re doing a reasonably good job of entertaining us.
My first foray into MMO’s was Guild Wars. The attraction for me was the free to play aspect of it. I then tried WoW twice, and I just couldn’t get into it. Plus I don’t like the idea of pay to play.
For the sake of my sanity and my marriage, I’ve never ventured into the realm of MMO’s.
My lock does
LEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYY
JJEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNKKKINNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSS!
At least I have chicken.
Thank god the Northrend gear isn’t a bunch of red and purple clown suits like Outland.
Meanwhile, Pope Palpatine I references never get old. Thumbs up on this lol.
“In time you will call me Papa”
hey, looks like Robocop with his jetpack
Actually looks like he’s falling off a building, but really I’m bored of all these Pope ones…I’m not Catholic, but can’t we get some better material?
Procure for us pictures of protestant pubahs and we shall produce philanthropic pictographs for your pithy pleasure.
This perfectly pious Pope posed to plumit puts pictures on PK where protestant pulpits are painfully plebeian.
*poised?
sure!
Hey!! I’m Catholic and Pope Sidious references never get old (not to me anyway
) I’m mean come on, you’ve got Catholicism’s supreme leader (apart from of course god!!) and the guy is the spitting image of Palpatine. Of course there’ll be jokes a-go-go about his obvious link to the Dark Side. (From Father Ted – Ted: “Now Priests are NOT Facists. Facists wear black all day and tell you what to do and Priests wear black errr…. More Beer”)
RE
(whoops)
RELIGION FROM ABOVE
looks like he’s dive bombing something. My guess. He’s gonna snatch someones money like an eagle catching a fish.
Or a child..
Popeferatu?
Chupopecabra?
Chupa-thingy???
Pope foot?
Divine bombing?
eewww take it away its evil
-zipz back up- sorry
Isn’t the quote from the film “fully armed and operational” and not “armed and fully operational” ?
You are correct.
YAY! What do I win??
5 interwebs!
Correctness seconded
… the Death Pope will be in range in five minutes.
LOL!
He’s freakin’ SCARY AS HELL!
I die a little inside when I see him. I miss Pope Classic. New Pope is scary and somehow just not right. Can we bring back John Paul? I could handle Zombie Pope better than New Pope.
zombie pope would rock!
*giggle* I just got the image of Zombie Pope doing the Thriller dance in all the church regalia. And now I have an uncontrollable case of the giggles. I’m so going to hell now.
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it’s thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
You hear the door slam and realize there’s nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You’re out of time
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain’t no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There’s no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They’re open wide)
This is the end of your life
They’re out to get you, there’s demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I’ll save you from the terror on the screen
I’ll make you see
That this is thriller, thriller night
‘Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a
Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!
(I’m gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’alls neighborhood
I’m gonna thrill ya tonight, ooh baby
I’m gonna thrill ya tonight, oh darlin’
Thriller night, baby, ooh!
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
O.o
Damn you, that’s going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day now.
Great now I need to watch the video and dance along.
*changes iPod to player thriller rather than don’t stop believing*
tis the season… right?
It is but I saw netflix was streaming a christmas story and am watching that. I’m as bad as the stores.
I refuse to watch/ listen to anything Christmas until after Thanksgiving. I just watched It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown last night. Brought back so many memories.
I can never find the halloween specials on tv anymore
ooh I wonder if I can find the garfield halloween special?
YES! I LOVE YOU YOUTUBE!!
They don’t show them much. Check Amazon, I think they have the Garfield one.
you’ll shoot your eye out!
that. is. revolting.
my local stores have christmas aisles all laid out already and i’m avoiding it like the plague. i’ll do black friday shopping… but NOT before then.
I know I’m shamed of myself. But at least I stopped watching it at the mentions of halloween specials. That and I’m going to halloweekends at cedar point saturday yay!
OMG, I haven’t been to Cedar Point in years! I miss my yankee family now.
This will be my first time in almost a decade. My very first time at halloweekends.
Halloweekends is kind of lame, don’t expect much you may be disappointed.
It’s probably alot better if you’re not native to the region though.
dude, i live 45 minutes from cedar point and haven’t been there in probably 7 or 8 years. it’s getting too expensive considering the lines you’ve got to stand in. when the line is 3 hours long, you can’t do more than 4 rides in the course of a day… i’m not paying $45 to only go on 4 rides, get heat exhaustion and sunburn. and i’m DEFINITELY not paying $100 to get the line jump pass thingie.
Sears has had at least some Christmas stuff out since July. It’s pathetic. And not surprisingly, nobody bought ANY of it.
This is a motivational theme song for the good ol boys down at the vatican to listen to once a month in enclave, while they dance with each other. (They don’t like women.) How did you get your hands on it? I’d be very careful if I was you. Some things Italian are not for good. The Mafia, Fiats and Popery. Who do you think heads the Mafia. Beware. Stop singing it.
This is where Japanese Anime gets all their Evil Clerics from.
Massive shoulder pads? Check.
Evil mastermind look? Check.
Now add some AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and you’re set.
KILL IT WITH FIRE !
popeman begins?
Why do I get feelings of doom whenever I see a photo of this creepy, tired old scrunchy, bizarrely-garbed geezer? Could it have anything to do with the 600-year reign of terror called the catholic Inquisition? I know. That’s not funny.
the inquisition….i wasnt expecting them!
First, if you don’t confess, your finger nails come out… with these pliers. Sign here.
It’s okay. They brought the comfy chair.
Don’t tell BT the comfy chair is suspended in mid air with ropes, so that it can be pulled around. It contains a errr, butt-invasory doevre guaranteed to evoke screams from the captive tied there, long into the day and night. (True story… go look it up.) This may appeal to BT. Maybe not. Not funny, either. Pope Bentdickd knows all about this chair, as the (former) Inquisition was his department before God smoked him to the throne.
He was a member of the Inquisition. Ah no wonder he looks like Palpatine then. It probably helped as he was electrocuting another Heretic – “No!! I won’t be turned to the Catholic Faith like you did my father”, “In that case you will DIE” **sounds of 3000V leaping out**
Ha! I like it! LOL
BT, you surprise me. The Pope invented the Inquisition. How do you suppose he got to look so creepy?
anything can be funny
Much as i hate that cartoon, right here, he looks like something out of a Dragonball episode
Actually here he looks even more like Palpatine than he usually does. I’ve never watched Dragonball so I couldn’t say about that, but here he’s definately looking more like Palpatine. All he needs is the black cloak and he’d be away.
Then again!! I suppose that’s all because of the shadow. You get the guy in the proper light and he looks near normal, but get him light incorrectly (and with a certain amount of shadow) and you’ve got Pope Palpatine (Sidious???)