I'm surprised you made it! I remember mob density in vanilla WoW being incredibly thick. Today you're generally quite safe on the roads but at the time low levels couldn't (easily) run through higher zones iirc, especially through Burning Steppes/Blackrock Mountain or whatever it was called.

My first trip to Stormwind from Ironforge was overland. I wanted to play with my girlfriend the gnome as a level 8 human rogue, and I didn't know the tram existed. So I walked. Through the woods outside Stormwind to the Redridge Mountains. To whatever zone it is with BRD in it...through the big Blackrock tower...the…

2004. I begged my boss to send me on a business trip to New York because World of Warcraft wasn't out in Europe yet. Finally he accepted. I remember the look on the receptionist's face wondering why the fuck an investment banker wanted to know where the nearest game store was, and then wandering around lower…

Dreamed it was mine (9 years old by then)

whoa. In ten years it's gone from looking like an N64 game to looking like a PS2 game. That's progress.

It's the South....they are behind the times on everything. They still wave the confederate rag, fer Christs sake.

The Banner Saga is worth a look, especially if you are a strategy fan. What really stands out about the game, to me, is the fantastic art direction. It's reminiscent of Don Bluth or older Disney animated films. The whole game is good, but the art style is magic.

Seems like they're becoming less and less human. Maybe in twenty years they'll just look like Greys.

Let's just say we programmers don't tend to be a very social bunch.

I sense you are speaking from some personal experience?

ugh... you hit me where it hurts

Maybe if he bought 99 Nokia phones instead, they could have been... N-Gage'd

What, a girlfriend?

Yeah I call bullshit PR stunt: Computer programmers don't have this many friends.

That would never happen to a PC user!

"Where are the penises?"

The cover also works for the other main story: 'How to become a video game tester'.

Some F2P games grind you so hard, as intended, until you give in and buy.

Spot on, solid episode.

I'm Mark Stafford. Thanks for digging up some of my older LEGO creations. It's been a while since I last built any Cthulego though I've had the next big one planned for a long time, I just have to find the time to build it!