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Weep for Wizard101

Posted by io (Who am I?) | September 5, 2008

I loved Wizard101 from the moment I laid eyes on it. I had tried to play the MMORPG holy of holies, WoW, last year but it never clicked for me. Even after hours of questing, leveling, and whooping ass with my friends, I couldn’t get myself to care about my character or the world. The storylines seemed violent, fake, impersonal, and bland — all at the same time. I felt like a cog moving through a modern war zone. Though I had loved text-based MUDs as a teen, I came to believe that I just wasn’t cut out for MMORPGS.

Then I met Wizard101 during its beta.

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In Defense of Bad Behavior

Posted by io (Who am I?) | May 18, 2007

As a many-time witness, I provide the following defense of Bad Behavior fully knowing that I am only contributing to the distraction that I denounce, like a mutton-fingered idiot who replies-all to chastise someone else for replying-all.

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