Off to the Pan Galactic News System InfoNet

I bid farewell to the denizens of the Perfect World, I am off to the Pan Galactic News System InfoNet, a.k.a. the RF Boards.

It has been an honor to serve the nascent Perfect World game community. I will probably show up in-game, but only as a regular player.

MMOd Moments #6: Fanart!

Diwa Fernandez, a.k.a. Neoma of RFO-Ph Altrax, made a cute, super-deformed Holystone Keeper fanart of me.

I first found out about it when she posted it on the RF Boards. It’s so cute!

On a side note, GM Tristan named Diwa his latest Gamer Babe! Way to go Neoma!

Listen up apes! We’re at DEFCON 3!

This is the readiness setting I am in. Unlike the U.S. military I have had an opportunity to call DEFCON 1. That was when RF Online – Philippines had to block foreign IPs upon the request of the game designer CCR. Total chaos erupted on the boards and I had to stay online until the wee hours of the morning closing threads and banning people.

So why am I on DEFCON 3? Well, it’s two days from the start of Perfect World’s Closed Beta and already signs point to a very emotional outburst from the boards. Either from those who cannot join the Closed Beta or from those who haven’t received clients and accounts that were promised them. Sadly enough it is already a given that this will happen. It has happened before on the RF Boards and it will happen in the PW Boards.

The other outbreaks I expect is when Open Beta starts, which will probably be another DEFCON 3, and when Official Launch is approaching, which always merits DEFCON 2 at the minimum.

Thankfully I don’t expect a DEFCON 1 situation for the PW Boards.

The self-righteous

I am very sure you have encountered people like these. The ones that are doing something wrong and when you point that out to them they get angry. Yes, the self-righteous. The ones that think the rules apply to everyone else except them. In Tagalog: Sila na nga yung may kasalanan sila pa ang nagagalit.

We’ve all seen these kinds of people. I’ve been seeing them pop in and out of message boards for the longest times. These are the kinds of people who do not take the time to read board rules and then get offended when cited for a violation. After all, are they not immune from rules? They are the gods in and of themselves. These are the same people who break in-game rules indiscriminately and then complain that they got banned even though they claim they didn’t know it was against the rules.

You should always RTFM. Such people expect to get away with their actions, but not on my watch they don’t.

MMOd Moments: Whiners

I was moderating the Perfect World Boards early this morning after I got home and as I was reading through the new posts one caught my attention. It was a whiner and I suddenly got an epiphany of what a whiner truly is.

whiner (‘hwIn·er, ‘wIn·er) noun 1 : an individual who has achieved a level of physical maturity but throws tantrums like a 4-year old looking for a baby bottle.

Armed with this epiphany I proceeded to answer the whiner’s post thus:

Quit whining. You’re starting to sound like a 4 year old looking for his dede.

A dede, in the local parlance, is a baby bottle of course. So there you have it. A whiner can come in many shapes, sizes, ages, and can be of any gender, but they all have one thing in common; they want their dede.

So if you would be so kind, let us imagine a twenty-something whiner crying out “Dede! Dede sabi eh!“