3rd September - Fear and Loathing. . .

Now, if you've taken the time to read my profile, you would of seen that I listed MMOGs as one of my interests, and this is by no means a small interest. At one time, I would have listed RPGs rather than just MMOGs... hmm, just incase you are of the unenlightened, I'm not talking about rocket propelled grenades here, to clarify, Massive Multi-player Online Games and Role Playing Games.

I've played RPGs in one format or another since the age of 13. I fondly remember the first day I ever picked up the book entitled 'Sorcery!' in one hand, pencil in the other hand, and feverishly skipping from page to page, step by step which ultimately led me onto the pencil, eraser, pen & paper, and in some cases a small miniature lead-like figure or figures acting as your avatar, or the foes you were up against. Some of the time these were merely replaced with a button and coloured beads depending on the frame of mind of your fellow gamers, or genre of RPG. After all this of course came the age of the chip, and I'm not talking about fried wedges of potato, or if you reside in the Americas, thin slivers of the root vegetable fried to a 'crisp', I am of course talking of the sillicon type, which revolutionalised day-to-day living. This brought about the long standing and much beloved 'text adventure', very reminiscent of the Steve Jackson Fighting Fantasy books, but on the screen, and although I enjoyed them, they were less tactile and didn't have the same pleasure for me somehow. . .

Anyhow after playing around in the MUD for a while, the day finally came when MMOGs were truely born and I dived in fitfully, totally and, venus-flytrap-like I was devoured. . .

lol, what I'm trying to get to is that recently I stumbled, nay tripped head over heels, across Kingdom of Loathing which takes a long hard look at everything that has gone before it and says, "eat my meat" with a tongue-firmly-in-cheek attitude. I've played for 2 days so far, and I can honestly say that never have I ever bought a piece of "chewing gum on a string", to dangle it down the sewer to see what I can attach to it. I have been battling tins of asparagus in the Haunted Pantry, chatted to the Captain of the Gourd in the town's Gourd Tower, not to mention a visit to Mt. Noob and speak to the bird there, the Toot Oriole. A very funny affair which comes with a great community and very friendly, no nonsense chat area.