My First Love.../sigh

My fellow Poxer, Raven, recently gave a shout-out to Massively's visual history of MMOs Part I. Massively's slideshow might be a nice trip down memory lane for some or make the rest of ya shudder at the pixelated "eye-strain inducing" graphics. And frankly, although I loved me my Pac-Man, those graphics didn't allow me to lose myself in the early games. Great fun but I was always aware that I was playing a game. WoW's environments are another matter. I can lose myself in the game. Start to care about my character and what they are doing (and I don't even need Molyneaux's puppy dogging my heels for that to happen).

However, Raven did remind me that my first online MMO (actually, I think it was a MOO and not in the Tauren sense) was a text-based game. I got online 'round-about 1997 via AOL. AOL took me in and let me play in their walled garden before I knew that they sucked. Forgive me, I was young, easily impressionable and the garden sure was purty. And at that time, AOL supported Modus Operandi, an online MMO (MOO?) that let you play around in a Miami-Vice meets hard-boiled film-noir kind of world. But it wasn't the vibe that got me so much but the lack of visuals. Yup, I said it, the lack of visuals rocked my gamer socks off. You had to imagine everything. I can still "see" the city streets in that game. It combined the immersive quality of reading coupled with an online community. Oooh I thought it was so cool.

And do you know, Modus Operandi is still around? Well I didn't. I thought it had died out about the same time AOL had to dismantle its walls. I'm a bit afraid to venture in. Don't want to ruin a good memory. Can you go back to puppy love after you are all grown up and in Outland? I don't think so. Plus they charge $14.95 a month to play. I like my nostalgia served up a bit cheaper...as in free.

But thanks Raven for sparking my look back and getting all stupidly sentimental.

A clean-slate

I just read this great post over at newly legit*** Gun Lovin' Dwarf Chick...you can read it here. Okay, yes I have my secrets. Don't we all? I'm going to join the GL'DC and lay 'em out on the line.

DeadRabbit's Secretary's Laundry List:

I had a Leif Garret album. I bought it. And I listened to it. And I don't care that he looks like a mopey-assed Blood Elf...I still was made for dancing

I use to make fun of computer gamers. I considered myself a console gamer dyed-in-the-wool and disparaged what I saw as the "tip tapping" mincing game play of computer games. And look at me now /grin. I love WoW.

I'm an English major and a rotten speller. And, here's the worst part, I don't care. "Correct" spelling is a fairly new invention. English is an evolving language...and a little incorrect spelling helps that process in my book. Plus I consider it a huge social faux-pas to correct grammar and spelling mistakes. Especially, if it's obvious that it was a mistype.

DeadRabbit's List of Shame:

I'm kind of excited about the variety show. Anybody tells Thrall and I will deny, deny, deny. And then sheep the ba$#t@d who told him.

I didn't just skinny dip once in the Ogrimmar lake but many times.

Sometimes, as I'm getting dressed in the morning, I sing "Dem Bones" in front of the mirror:



Chester comes clean:

I'm not that fond of acorns. They are just so "nutty." Now a good steak with mashed potatoes on the side? That's good eating.

I read Watership Down and Animal Farm and hated them. I know that DR's secretary is all about the books and LOVES those two in particular. But blah, blah, blah...talking animals...blah, blah, blah. Give me a Tom Clancy novel any day of the week.

**newly legit? what???

Seems Appropriate After Previous Post

Have you seen this yet? Zendulo, thank you for strapping on the angry pants:




It's a response to this video...which is pretty damn funny....but does lay a smack down. There are no hawt nerd gurls? What?:






Okay, I've already proven that DeadRabbit is dead sexy. But I'm gonna back up my girl Zendulo. And put on the angry pants:



Hawt in a post-Victorian, mournful English major, MLS student nerd-o-rific kind of way, no?

My nerd credentials?

Saw Star Wars (original release) in the theaters 14 times.

Saw Indiana Jones (original release) in the theaters 8 times. The last time, crammed into one seat WITH my brother because there weren't two seats free.

Collected Star Wars cards: full set of the blue and the red

1978, I'm eleven. My brother is six. For Halloween, I was Princess Leia and my bro was R2D2. My mom, an artist, recreated the costumes from my Star Wars cards. People were dumping bowls of candy into our halloween bags because we looked so damn cool.

Sheesh, let's cut to the present. Love R.O.D., finished Halo on Legendary and then replayed it on Hero using just the M6D pistol, play WoW, gave my spouse a written explanation of what it means to be a gamer pre-marriage (just wanted to make sure we wuz clear), read urban fantasy, quote LOTR (movies and books) and Monty Python with my best friend.

My ace in the hole? I can quote (in Middle English) the first 18 lines of the prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales from memory. Boo-ya!

Probably not uber-nerd but not so shabby.