/AFK – July 19

I’m back from vacation at blisteringly hot Sacramento (motto: “A frozen yogurt shop on every corner”) and ready with a brand-new /AFK — a weekly list of posts that really caught my eye.  Although because of the trip and my limited reading time, this list is a bit anemic this week:

• Are MMORPGs more like women or dogs?
• Hee.
• Apparently, part of Vanguard’s failure was Sigil employees not being team players. Y’know, like lead devs who cut ‘n ran when their employees were gathered up and fired en masse in a parking lot.
• Raindrops on roses — that’s Keen’s favorite thing in MMOs.
• Bullet Points looks to LOTRO’s Warden for ideas for creating more interesting spellcasters.
• Coolest geek soda EVER.
• Incoming Pull does a wrapup of their time in Warhammer, warts and all.
• Rog says developers need to man up and stop making excuses for slacking on content.
• Jeff Hollis has an idea — many ideas, actually — as to why World of Warcraft is dying: part 1 and part 2.
• KIASA bragged a brag in LOTRO and survived.
• I agree with Spinks —  guild bulletin boards/forums are rarely if ever read by me, and I’m kinda annoyed when they try to make me.
• Har de har har!
• It’s always great to see someone extolling the virtues of Kingdom of Loathing.  Great times, man.  Great times.
• Which of these is cheating?
• Darth Hater dissects the latest TOR video documentary for our edutainment.