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Jeez I'm starting to think of just making a weekly newsletter or something here. Nah......Hi folks, happy belated 4th of July, hope you had a swell weekend. As you can tell, not particularly a whole lot going on with the game. I feel like a broken record saying that. An unneutered Golden Retriever has seen more action than KoL, especially when it comes to the past couple of months. We seem to be in another content drought with no signs of relief in sight. Instead, we have microscopic mediocre updates like the change with clay beads & rings to tide us over. Yes apparently the fodder to get semi decent stuff in the level 12 quest is now no longer marked as quest items. As joyous and exciting as this may be to some, I for one was sorta happy about it myself until I realized that you can't trade them or rid them from your inventory. So they're still like quest items only that you'll just end up with asstons of them piling up in your inventory because people can never remember to trade them in. What, no greasemonkey script to scream at you? "HEY, TRADE YOUR CRAP IN AT THE ISLAND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!1!" This change also begs the question of, why the hell were these quest items in the first place. I'm guessing Jick and his team of fail sat around probably saying "Y'know, to ensure no more fast runs with one dayers happening every day we have this overlelaborate Level 11 quest, a grindy 12 quest, and soon we'll redo the pirates to make them a real hassle for what it's worth.....but just to make sure as insurance to oppress the speed game, let's make these currency objects in the L12 area quest items."

With one of the yes-men chiming in with "Sounds great! let's test it!"

Jick: "You idiot, we don't test stuff around here. That would make us look like we were organized and had some kind of structure around here. Hey Phoenix, getme a beer wouldya you dingbat you"

Apparently Jick's Archie Bunker now. Anyway, beads and rings are no longer quest items let's have a parade about it. Wooooo. Moving on

I was browsing the forums to see if I could find any type of news/noteworthy stuff of mentioning but instead that's too much to ask from the several thousand forumgoers. On the first page alone there's just enough crap for one's head or septic tank to explode. However this time around, the crap on forums was different. It's like it had some several types and variations of crap and that I had to rise above said crap. Quick! Someone give me 60 seconds.

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*FLASH THE $25,000 GRAPHIC*

See, I would've been $25,000 richer had this actually been a game, though I might've gotten buzzed for that Skullhead quote for being too descriptive. Anywho, this was all on the first page! And yet despite all that mess, yes, there was actually something decent on the forums. Granted it should've fallen under the Make-A-KoL category up top, but unlike those ideas this one's actually decent. Some dude or chick by the name of Tulisin suggested that when you're ascending, your body gets tossed to side like a serviced prostitute. With the bodies stacking up like firewood, the NS would possess them and you could be able to fight them. The problem with this is, how is this different from a zombie and better yet, how's this different from the zombies in the cemetary excluding them being mispelled. I mean, how do we know they're not prior adventurer's post ascended bodies? Not only that it kinda sorta seems like the Grey Plague all over again as well. Now that I've gone through it outloud, it kinda doesn't seem that good of an idea in retrospect. The only thing that's salvagable from this would be the fact of a high level content area. I'm not counting that abortion of a cess pool called the Sea. I would like an honest high level area and hey, I'm in the 40's I could use some more exp at my level that isn't piss poor for a change. Alas, that would require them to take a good idea and not shit on it for a change. (Forum Thread)

That's it's for me today. Hopefully when I get some time, I can update the top stuff more often than one eon per.....eon. I'll hold over the poll til next week, milk some more votes out of it. Again, to vote just travel down the page. Also you can always see what I'm up to by checking out my twitter which I'm subconsciously sadistically addicted to apparently. And uh, until next time I'm xSmootx saying, so long!