Krydal Thrashcog

• Class: Barbarian
• Level: 2.3
• Race: Warforge
• Gender: Varies, ask first
• Alignment: True neutral

Background
Coming from a Filipino family, there are a number of etiquette rules specific to my family’s culture. Growing up as the first generation born in America, I had to learn another set of etiquette rules while going to school and then in the work place. When I started playing MMORPGs, I found that with each new game I had to learn a new set ( Read more... )

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With the Economic crisis at hand and our new president working hard on a bipartisan solution for a bailout package; it seems natural to talk about the emergent economies of virtual and persistent worlds. My knowledge of economics only expands to some basic collage courses (read Macro and Micro econ). My personal experience with ( Read more... )

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My first 3D MMORPG, was Asheron’s Call back in 1999. I played for about 2 years. Game play consisted of quests, hunting monsters, and exploring locations. I moved on to Everquest for about 3 months. My EQ play time was short, because it felt the same as AC: cookie cutter quests, killing monsters, and wandering around the country side ( Read more... )

Background Info
Normally I wouldn't be playing Second Life, but I'm here exploring it because we're having a class inside in the game itself. The class I'm in is called "State of Play: Digital Culture, Virtual Worlds" and is a 5 credit course at the University of Washington. Here's the boilerplate for my interested friends and readers:

"Virtual ( Read more... )

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I have a number of online friends that seek me out every time i log on. During my time as a co-guild leader for the Umber Hulks Guild, I created a lot of ties with the other guilds. This was an effort to create a community base for questing in raids. UH is a small family and friends guild, but we offered casual gaming. Our motto ( Read more... )

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I've never really played a social centric MMO before. I think the closest I've come to are MOOs, MUDs, and IRC, which are text-based virtual worlds. They do contain games, but I primarily used them for real-time social interactions in my teen years. I grew out of them when I reached my mid-20s when i started to feel more comfortable ( Read more... )

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I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons Online for almost 2 years now. I've been not playing as much because of school and work. But given that my homework is to play an MMO. I decided to fire up this game again. I also produced a Podcast bite called Crunchy Bits with my husband. It was an irregular feature bit on a podcast called ( Read more... )

Background Info
I've been playing WoW since Dec 6 with a static group. we decided to to create our characters on an RP server and selected Hoard for our faction. We wanted to create comical evil characters, and so selected Turens as our race for our band, The Nerd Herd. We play every Saturday 1 to 4pm.

Nerd Herd Visits the Orcs
My friend Dennis is ( Read more... )