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Sam Katha

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2005

Canada

Furniture Liberation Army

N/Me

22 Apr 2005 at 20:07 - 1

There is a guild wars stroy on slashdot.

http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/0....shtml?tid=209

Slashdot has a high number of Wow players, should be an interesting read.

Sausaletus Rex

Death From Above

Join Date: Dec 2004

22 Apr 2005 at 20:28 - 2

Interesting to be sure. Always nice to step outside the echo chamber of GW fan land. I liked this comment:

Quote:

Originally Posted by crashmstr

I have not played WoW, but the women of Guild Wars are pretty modest. They are good looking, but are fairly well clothed.

Obviously from someone who has never seen a female Elementalist...

Bgnome

Elite Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

22 Apr 2005 at 20:30 - 3

i get the tinglies when naked elementalist chicks start dancing in town..

Weezer_Blue

Elite Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

Just a Box in a Cage

Hurry Up The Cakes [Oven]

22 Apr 2005 at 20:31 - 4

haha! yes. let alone a female elementalist with no armour on!

Synthos

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

22 Apr 2005 at 20:42 - 5

There are no real negative comments yet so far.

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

22 Apr 2005 at 20:55 - 6

no mention of Guru?

tektonik

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

22 Apr 2005 at 21:04 - 7

you do not want to be slashdot'd. It brings a server to it's knees.

wongba

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Alliance of Xen [XoO]

22 Apr 2005 at 21:30 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by tektonik

you do not want to be slashdot'd. It brings a server to it's knees.

that was several years ago. being /.'d isn't as big a deal now as it was. if ur website bandwidth is tiny then it'll still be matter, but for the most part the internet is just a bigger place now.

Sin

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2005

The Joint :p

22 Apr 2005 at 21:31 - 9

Looks like the reviews are pretty postitive. Some people seemed like on the downer trail and then sort of do a 180.

Pretty cool.

lllCo2lll

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

22 Apr 2005 at 21:34 - 10

Am I not up to date? Because I never heard of Slashdot or what happens when you get slashdotted...

Is it supposed to be some sort of mega game site? Because to me IGN is the only game site I go to for info...

Diamondspider

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

22 Apr 2005 at 21:35 - 11

Quote:

Originally Posted by lllCo2lll

Am I not up to date? Because I never heard of Slashdot or what happens when you get slashdotted...

Is it supposed to be some sort of mega game site? Because to me IGN is the only game site I go to for info...

No, it is a popular site for nerds (like me)

Just a lot a LOT of clicks so if you get your site linked you'll get swamped with traffic for a few days usually.

Most of the posts seem pretty balanced and the one offensive "fanboy" post was clearly labeled as such

ZennZero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

R/

22 Apr 2005 at 22:50 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by lllCo2lll

Am I not up to date? Because I never heard of Slashdot or what happens when you get slashdotted...

Is it supposed to be some sort of mega game site? Because to me IGN is the only game site I go to for info...

Slashdot is one of the largest user communities on the internet. It has ~750K registered users, and probably 5 times that in lurkers (like me!). Despite what wongba says, I am not convinced this site could handle a direct slashdot (from the main page, *not* their games page like this story) even on the new server. A few million clicks over the course of a few hours will put the hurt on you.

Anyway its a great site for general technology, science, and general nerdy news with a heavy linux/open source slant. Its my favorite site and I spend way too much time there when I'm at work.

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

23 Apr 2005 at 00:53 - 13

Hmm, I think GameFAQs has nearly as many members, if not more!

_Zexion

Sekkira

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canberra, AU

23 Apr 2005 at 01:07 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by wongba

that was several years ago. being /.'d isn't as big a deal now as it was. if ur website bandwidth is tiny then it'll still be matter, but for the most part the internet is just a bigger place now.

True, but even now slashdot lives up to that still. Considering their numbers still grow. Being slashdotted is either like having a DoS attack on your server, except that these pings and packets are legitimate. Or there's so many people viewing the content, no matter how small the site actually is, there isn't many servers that can handle the load out there.

This place put on /. would be damn good for it's rep, but the first few days, you wouldn't bother coming here as it'd get hammered.

Dreamsmith

Elite Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

Minnesota

Beguine Guild [BGN]

23 Apr 2005 at 05:01 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by wongba

that was several years ago. being /.'d isn't as big a deal now as it was. if ur website bandwidth is tiny then it'll still be matter, but for the most part the internet is just a bigger place now.

Wasn't that long ago that they brought NASA's JPL to its knees (announcing a new release of World Wind, which is apparently hosted on JPL's servers).

Tozen

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

All Senses Failed [aSF]

A/N

23 Apr 2005 at 05:27 - 16

No, I agree, the game IS modest... and it's a good thing.

No pure pra and bikini action, which promotes a very healthy attitude for my female counterparts. It's about time a game rewards female gamers for their skills and not their ubErz h0tTzneSs (and yes, I AM aware that 90% of them are really guys anyways...)

Wait a second, did I just admit that I checked what kind of underwear they wear

ZennZero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

R/

23 Apr 2005 at 06:11 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zexion

Hmm, I think GameFAQs has nearly as many members, if not more!

_Zexion

That may be the case (and I don't care to verify), but Gamefaqs isn't the type of site most people read every day for their news. There are other sites capable of unleashing a slashdot-esque episode of server smashing (Hardocp and Penny Arcade -- two other sites I frequent as an example -- often do the same), but not 15-20 times a day. I would say close to 40% or so of the sites that get directly linked from the main page don't make it very long. Again, I think it would be beneficial if we could avoid an even secondary (off the main page) /.'ing.

As an aside, who actually is paying the bandwidth and hosting bills for this site? It obviously isn't ad supported like some other GW fansites *coughgwonlinecough*.

snipes

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

23 Apr 2005 at 06:17 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bgnome

i get the tinglies when naked elementalist chicks start dancing in town..

Don't we all? Who did the ele dance? i bet he was like: "umm let me go do some research on dances" Then he went to a strip club and decided wow they are good dancers.
Maybe belly dancers hmmm.
Best dance in the game

tektonik

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

23 Apr 2005 at 07:32 - 19

Guys hate to break it to you but it is a freaking pixel

If I am slap happy out of my mind I might find it amusing but other than that it is just immature imo