It’s late, I am bored, I can’t sleep and I have nothing to do.

Usually, that’s the best time to start editing the wiki as there is nothing distract me: no phone, no IM, no TV shows to watch, no books to read. Hours can disappear when you get “in the zone” and start editing like crazy with good music in the background. While it might come across as surprising to you, editing the wiki is lots of fun.

I was born to be a WikiGnone, I guess.

Sadly, the wiki is down so I’m stuck being bored and that sucks.

Just to tell how bored I am, I’m starting to consider editing the Compendium. That’s how bored I am.

I am so bored that I started to look at the Compendium to learn my way around the place, and maybe edit it. It’s designed differently from my wiki so I can’t just jump in and start editing like I usually do.

I miss my wiki.

It probably had one of the ugliest skin ever and be someone else’s brain child, but I still loved him!

Has anyone else noticed how often the same people that complains that “an easy button” has been added to the game because that “dumbs down” the game will also complain when an easy button has been removed from them by a nerf?

I have been fairly busy over the last three weeks and I have thus neglected my RSS feeds. As a result, I had over 1,000 items to read today.

I just got finished with reading about 200 Ghostcrawler posts and about 640 LOTRO developers posts. Damn those LOTRO guys are prolific! Now, only 118 webcomics, 56 game design blogs and 180 gamer blog left to read!

I just came across a quote that is so good that I just could not not reblog it:

“I think the big thing missing from these games is a sense of adventure. [...]

Looking at the inspiration for our games, we can see how far things have gone off the rails in our quest to provide the streamlined experience. Frodo and Sam didn’t go kill spirits in the Dead Marshes to level up before heading into Mordor. Luke didn’t broadcast on /lfg before heading into Jabba’s palace to try to save his friends. Batman doesn’t have to go ‘defeat’ 500 more criminals to be able to buy and learn to throw a Batarang. Yet, these are the expected behaviors in a typical MMO.”

Source: What is missing in our games? by Psychochild

I just learned that there is a Japanese company called Broccoli…

HTFU - Permaband

It’s pretty funny.

Now, the real question is, does Turbine have their own band? If so, are there any plans to share your stuff with the community? That’d be pretty cool, no?

If you suffer from it, you are probably not reading this because the title scared you.

From TV tropes:

Using the word “Hitler” at all on GameFAQs (most of the time) causes your post to be automatically flagged for moderation, as well as informing you that you have “absolutely no grasp of history“.

This should totally be added to the DDO forums as well.

While we know how awesome DDO’s combat really is, most gamers just roll eyes when they see another MMO claiming that they have “the most awesome combat”.

I figured that we would have to let’s persuade them that it indeed is the best combat out there, without the shadow of a doubt, and not some ordinary WoW-like combat like every other MMOs out there.

So, I got an idea: how about we make videos to show off?

Click here for details.

If you’re too lazy to click, then the basic idea is that we make a short montage showing off how awesome DDO’s combat system is, upload it to YouTube and post it as a response to Turbine’s official DDO:U Launch video.

Who’s in?

I just caught Memnir saying something very silly:

“I know a few folks have commented that I get a custom forum tag along those lines - and I thank them mightily for it. [...] A forum title would be nice - but I honestly don’t need one. Nor am I sure I’m deserving of one. I try to make people laugh… not sure how that contributes to the forum as a whole.”

To see someone as clever as Memnir say this just boggles my mind.

Trying to make people laugh is, if done respectfully, a behavior that should be greatly rewarded. It’s an invaluable contribution to the forums. It’s certainly on the same footing as thorough feedback.

Memnir, do you really not realize how valuable posters like you are?!

Internet forums tend be a very negative place, especially gaming forums. Most people find it easier to insult others and you then need heavy moderation to strengthen them up. As a result, many people will outright avoid them in order to escape that unneeded negativity. That’s a loss of feedback for Turbine and the loss of an incredible source of information for the player. No one wins.

By having posts where people are being silly, it makes the forums much more enjoyable to visit: I’ll go visit the forums to see what silliness the people there have came up with.

Not only that, but it humanizes us.

Since the forums are a place for us all to debate and argue, it’s natural for tensions to build up and, because there is no face to face contact, it’s easy to forget that the person on the other end is more than a bunch of pixels on the screen. We get to see a more complete profile of the poster than the confrontational aspect of debates would otherwise allow us to see.

Threads where we joke and laugh help us remind us that we’re all humans, and thus build mutual respect from one to another.

This is why Turbine it is beneficial when Turbine employees just jump in and joke with us. It makes the respect the community has for those individuals grow. This goes for moderators too, by the way.

Just because a poster is not posting srs stff, it does not mean that his contribution.

Quite the contrary, posters with a goal as noble as “just trying to make people laugh” should be encourage in doing so and those who are as good at it as Memnir is should be acknowledged by the community, and Turbine, for being great posters that have a positive influence on these forums.

Even if it’s just with a forum title, it’s important to acknowledge those who have a positive influence on the community.

The forums ain’t a place reserved for srs dscssns.