#mild trolling

[tagnoob]

The Plus Problem

We sit in kind of an interesting inflection point with what one might think of as two of the core titles in the fantasy MMORPG genre, EverQuest and World of Warcraft. Both titles started to wear out some of their core player base with the relentless march of expansions presenting new, but often unfulfilling experiences that dragged the main thread of both games further and further from the…

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[nukes4every1]

super sexy crazy idea

what if, and hear me out on this, everything all at once and then nothing and then nothing forever

[tagnoob]

Kickstarter MMO Metaphor

There were too many of us, we had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane. Francis Ford Coppola, not at all describing Star Citizen There is, even as I write this, a Kickstarer campaign running for a video game based on the movie Apocalypse Now. I have no real opinion when it comes to the game itself.  It might be the best game ever or allow one unique…

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[dretanya]

Assault on Thunder Totem

Right as I finished the World Quest, one of the drogbar started fighting me. This god damn rock-bro was so commited to the brawl that he punched through the phase-time continuum and came into regular Thunder Totem. Obviously, as a scientist, I wanted to observe what would happen if I left him alone. Would he follow me forever since he doesn’t have a regular spawn point to return to? Would he return to his spawn point and disappear? Nah. After a while, he ignored me, and started punching some human paladin in the face. Got him down to about 10% before this guy started healing himself - but he wasn’t killing the drogbar, just running around healing, almost as if he couldn’t even see the drogbar that was killing him. In the end, some other person appeared and decimated the drogbar in like 0.2 seconds, but I’m curious to see if I can replicate this event.

[juggalojedi]

Here's the thing about Klingons.

Klingons put their face forward as a warrior people, honorable and duty-bound and totally fearless.  It's a myth they sell well enough that the rest of the galaxy doesn't dare question it where a Klingon might overhear.

But the truth is, the Klingon people are just as varied as the humans.  Sure, the society is a military society, but there are plenty of civilians.  There are Klingon farmers, Klingon grocers, Klingon bartenders, Klingon scientists.  Klingon computer programmers.  Klingon dance instructors.  Klingon accountants.  There are happy Klingons, depressed Klingons, noble Klingons, vile Klingons.  Smart Klingons, stupid Klingons, weak Klingons, cowardly Klingons.

The Klingon empire is a techno-feudal imperial oligarchy, headed by the Emperor as head of state and the Chancellor as head of government.  Policy in the empire is made by the heads of the great houses, who serve on the High Council.  Klingon starships are owned by the great houses -- taken as a whole, they form the military of the Empire, but the ships themselves are fielded and maintained by the houses, equivalent to the nobility of feudal times.

The Klingons have a great cultural body of myth revolving around their equivalent of knights, or vikings -- the warrior elite.  Since Klingons are sturdier than humans, it is only sensible that their various cultures have a hardier flavor than that of humans.  Klingons hold themselves to the warrior ideals in the same way that knights held to chivalry, or samurai held to bushido -- i.e. not all of them did, and most that tried didn't manage it very well.

Because of this, the Empire is not well-suited to peace -- peace, after all, doesn't give the Klingons anyone to die in battle against.  If the High Council doesn't keep the warriors pointed outward, they'll start fighting each other.

So the point of all of this?  Worf.  Worf was a Klingon raised by humans on Klingon stories.  Worf absorbed tales of Kahless and other Klingon heroes the way we might absorb the stories of King Arthur.  Worf's picture of Klingons is straight out of a storybook -- and Worf is our primary look into Klingon culture.

That's right -- most of what we know of Klingon culture, we learned from the Klingon equivalent of a weeaboo.

[kleenexwoman]

my new hobby

it is perplexing groups of nerds by pretending that i don't know what "firefly" is when someone makes a reference to it