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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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 Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:18 am Post subject: Most addictive thing on the net - guaranteed! |
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I was looking for quiz materials at Funtrivia.com (which I cannot recall registering for) and clicked on 'game shows'. What I discovered is more addictive than heroin, cocaine and nicotine combined.
There are two 'game show' quizes, whereby you compete against real opponents from all over the world. Up to 4 players can compete and slots always fill up quickly because the site presumably gets so much traffic because it's so addictive. It shows your username and the flag of the country you're in. It's in English so naturally most of the players are from English-speaking countries, but I've played against an Israeli, a Swede and a Serb also.
It has two games and the site says more are to be added. They're both general knowledge/multiple choice games. For more info, register and play.
WARNING: ADDICTIVE |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed.
This is impacting severely on my social skills.  |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
No, becuse my first life is compelling and time consuming enough as it is. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
They should merge WoW and Second Life. I imagine it would be fun to roll through that game with a mage.
"Hi! Where are you from?"
"I'm from The Den."
/fireball
pwnt |
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freshking
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty cool games. But have you tried the "Attack" app on Facebook? It's basically playing "Risk" online. Really addictive and a huge time burner. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| I'm partial to Scrabulous myself. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
Back when the media was going nuts over Second Life I tried it and found
it boring. I tried it again a few months ago and now it's boring with audio
chat. Later I heard a news story that said they were having trouble getting
new people involved. |
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Jessie
Joined: 20 Jan 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Justin Hale wrote: |
Indeed.
This is impacting severely on my social skills. |
I do not know whether to thank you or hate you! 
I have definitely become quite the social recluse since discovering it a few days ago! |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| dogshed wrote: |
| matthews_world wrote: |
Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
Back when the media was going nuts over Second Life I tried it and found
it boring. I tried it again a few months ago and now it's boring with audio
chat. Later I heard a news story that said they were having trouble getting
new people involved. |
Everyone who is so desperately unsatisfied with real life (and can afford a computer) is already paying. Er, "playing". |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Been there, done that.
Anyone played Second Life yet? There's was a nice piece about it on one of the western news media services this weekend. People can actually build second lives there. |
Yeah. Just uninstalled it. Boring as paste. Maybe it's fine if you pay money and build your own world and people come to it and host their christian dance parties there... but I really couldn't see the attraction. It's IRC with avatars. I dunno. I like to talk to people but I don't need to be reminded visually there are so many furries in this world. |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Second Life reminds me of MSN Comic Chat (anyone remember that?) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Zutronius wrote: |
| Second Life reminds me of MSN Comic Chat (anyone remember that?) |
Yeah! Worst thing since MS Bob.
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| However, the method that this software used to achieve the comic effect was to prepend an unreadable code in parentheses to the plain text of the user's speech, which defined what emotion the character expressed. This had a somewhat annoying effect on non-Comic Chat users. The inclusion of this code could be disabled, but this would result in being unable to transmit characters' emotion states to other Comic Chat users. |
Reading the wiki entry I remember this now. Comic chat interfaced with the IRC networks. They would spew their codes and instantly enrage us Mirc users. Instant ban along with warnings about "don't use blood comic chat you tard!" |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Jessie wrote: |
| Justin Hale wrote: |
Indeed.
This is impacting severely on my social skills. |
I do not know whether to thank you or hate you!
I have definitely become quite the social recluse since discovering it a few days ago! |
MWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA! 
Actually, I got kinda pissed off, because the 'Conquer and Quiz' game has just sports, music, movie, TV questions - no longer any geography, science/nature, history - proper subjects, in other words.
I still enjoy 'Last one standing' though.
You know what? Some of the other players are ridiculous how quickly they answer (0.2 seconds and stuff, when I've not even finished reading the question!  ) |
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