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Rings and Beads Change - The $25,000 Forums of Loathing

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:05:35 GMT

The following is brought to you by the letter "E" and by the number "7".

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.

*DING*

*DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING*
*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!

July's IotM

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:49:08 GMT

Here it is, 2009's Item of the Month for July:

Alright so a lot of people have been asking me what I think about this month's item. My initial reaction was posted on twitter which was:

xsmootx: @asym Way to obsolete the Bottle Rocket Crossbow, jackasses.

And then later when I saw more detail on it:

xsmootx: @asym Scratch that, way to be lazy and make something that's practically like the Bottle Rocket Crossbow, jackasses.

As a crossbow owner, I felt robbed by seeing this. Then again with the way they caved in and redid the Doppelshifter back in April, it doesn't really shock me as much more as it is a slap in the face. Yet again, we have another scenario of "Hey, let's give the new people a second chance". Good news for them, bad news for veterans of the game. With that said, if you missed out on this the first time around with the BRC here's your opportunity to redeem yourself kinda. What it lacks as a weapon, makes up for in other areas. The spell damage is great as well as the regen to it. The adding of buff duration to active buffs should be on a percentage because when you're running a crapton of buffs, +3 turns to something like 8000 turns polka of plenty is jack shit. The other part is how this thing supposedly buffs you with buffs from the bag, but after reading from the wiki on how to get them it seems a lot more hassle than what it's worth. I don't see why you can't just reach in and pull out a buff yourself than to have to something as lame as a "charge" system instead. It's another obstacle to prolong farming it seems like.

When you get right down to it, yes it's worth the Mr. A. If you're more concern with real combat damage, maybe sticking with the crossbow is for you. If you like dumb bullshit to where you have to do a million things in combat to get the most out of your farming methods, this seems geared for you. I personally like it cause of the regen and spell damage. Those two enchantments alone will make nice friends with the navel ring. I think if the BRC didn't exist and we were seeing this for the first time, I'd be raving and praising it all over the place like I did with the BRC. Seeing how it's a knockoff for the new players, I'm not that excited nor happy with it. So with that said, I would pick one up and hold onto one for investing, but I wouldn't exactly rush to sell off that spare crossbow (says the guy who's currently hocking his off).

I think I had something else planned for this entry but I can't quite remember what it was. In a few minutes, I have a new poll at the bottom of the page for you fine folks to vote on and criticize about.

Return of Tuesday Updates? - Next IotM - Poll Results

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:09:02 GMT

Better than the shittastic week this past week in entertainment, it's "I hope I can do more than one entry a week" with me, xSmootx

So last week we saw what was possibly the return of Tuesday Updates or something that just happened on a Tuesday. As stale as the game has gotten, something the return of TU would be great. However like many great things, the creative team steers away from it. So my bet it was just something that they had lined up and "oh look, it falls on a Tuesday" type of deal. Nonetheless, the update itself was crap to contain the already self-infested shit pile of content better known as the Sea so I wasn't expecting much to come out of this. The cleverness that was supposedly attributed to this was the fact that you could just cook the 3rd tier advance ingridient skill for myst classes with itself. Meaning that if you cooked the pressurized whatever sphere by itself and the tempura batter by itself, you'd get some kind of "Oh we're air in a container" which you can use to breathe underwater for 20 turns. A little late for this don't ya think? Maybe if this came out when the 3rd tier skills debuted, it would've been bettter Noitwouldn't. Another thing, I don't like the whole 3rd skill thing. I mean what's the point of reagents and dry noodles if you're just going to implement basically the same things only geared towards underwater. It seems like to me the whole point of the level 15 skills for myst classes is that you're all-knowing with potion crafting or noodle making and then the Sea comes along and is all "Your may be good but ours are better because we're underrrrwaterrrrrr *wavy arm motions*" Anyway, I'm losing sight here, the update isn't all that great nor is it that clever.

Speaking of lacking in cleverness, that brings us to July's IotM. And my oh my, we're about 6 hours until downtime in the game and there's no speculation thread as I'm currenly typing this. However I probably just jinxed it by saying it that. The only thing remotely close to a speculation thread is something how July's IotM should reference Michael Jackson in some fashion followed by a bunch of typical MJ jokes. If I'd venture a guess, I'd say it would have to be something that would be the next piece for the weak '09 gear if the Elvish Sunglasses are any indication of what has yet to come for this year's outfit. Then again could be the usual...:

Fam A + Fam B + Some typical shitty ability that's supposedly worth $10 = Familiar of the Month

...formula. We could see crap thrown against a wall with another familiar equip 2nd straight year in a row or another piece to the clan dungeon, though the latter of which I doubt will happen because Mr. A's haven't been below 5 mil in awhile. Could be the next tome where it falls flat on its face to oust the snowcones a la, like how the stickers did. So after thinking outloud to you here, my money's on either an equip or the next tome. They seem like the most likely vectors at this point in time to disappoint me for the month of July.

Let's check out the "Hey, I remembered this week" poll results:

COMMENTS:

Will said on Jun 28 2009, 05:08 PM:
Would any changes to this game actually please you, or at this point are you simply too enamored with the fame you get from complaining about anything to allow yourself to enjoy anything new?

JohnDoe244 said on Jun 26 2009, 10:40 AM:
@Anonamedude: Because the Hobopolis price tag was perfectly balanced, and the fact that the next dungeon was a quarter of the price was just a co-incidence. Now Hobopolis for 250k is a bargain. But it's not like you've gotta pay to play Spookyraven or adventure on the Peak. Balance isn't really an issue here.

Anonamedude said on Jun 23 2009, 12:31 AM:
So, you want as much content as Hobopolis for the pricetag of the Slime Tube? The poll as usual is all about you wanting to get something which is out-of-balance with regards to other things in the game.

Smoot's Input: First off, explain to me how if there was a "250k Hobopolis" clan dungeon how it would somehow throw the ascension game into turmoil when neither of Hobopolis nor the Slime Tube have provided practically anything ascension relevant. Second off to answer Will's question, yeah, how bout changes to the Pirate's Cove and the Level 11-12 quests to make them not shitty for starters, let alone ascension. Or how bout getting rid of consumable caps so I don't have to be stuck with 39 different flavors of ASSkins Robbins when I'm level 3 and need something eat. Yeah those would be nice changes for starters. Look, when Hobopolis hit the content for the most part was pretty decent. Has it flaws but hey, no one's perfect. The one thing that held it down was the price tag, you just don't get your money's worth. With the Slime Tube, the price tag was great but the content sucks. If we could have some kind of middle ground where there's Hobopolis type content (fuck that sewer BS) but had the cost of a Slime Tube, I for one would be happy. That doesn't seem that unreasonable.

That's it for me today. Again, slooooooooow news going on in the game and lack of radio show last night so no new ICYMI til thrusday-esq. I'll try to have something up later in the week so that you're not too deprived from me. Before I go, I'd like to give a shout out Gemelli. I believe I said he was like one of the newest cocksuckers to join the dev team or something to that extent. Recently I discovered that he keeps track of all the equips at the Well Tempered Anvil site and that disturbing fanfic was left off. With a little spading of my own, I was able to send him some information which by the way, the Disturbing Fanfic smashes into complete shit! How exciting is that!? Anyway, if he did see anything that I said when he joined the other devster alumni I may have been a little harsh in hindsight but then again....he's on the dev team, so he's not TOO bad. . Anyway, I'm outta here. Be sure to check me out on Twitter (it's like this generation's second hand smoking) and I'll have a new poll up AFTER ROLLOVER tonight.

Me, Smoot, Mentioned During WAVY NEWS 10 Broadcast

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:55:41 GMT

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On April 6th, 2009, I woke up a little early than I usually because of inclimate weather. When I turned on the TV to Hampton Roads #1 Newsleader to see what was going, I noticed Meterologist Jon Cash mentioning something about a Velocity Scope. Puzzled by what a velocity scope is and curious about storm damage, I went on to WAVY.com's online coverage of the severe weather and asked about the Velocity Scope myself. What exactly is a Velocity Scope? Take a look.

Big special thanks to Stephanie Cooke for providing me with the footage.

Antagonizer in-game, Educational informative question-asker outside of the game. :D

More Chat Commands - Poll Results - Wrap Up

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:05:29 GMT

More amazing than this choir...:

...Okay, I'll admit I probably can't top that dude who just kills it with the awesome beatboxing. Also, that's probably the best cover to that song I've ever heard. Anyway it's another entry done acapella by me, xSmootx.

It's been a really slow couple of weeks in terms of KoL. This is usually the time where they throw crap into the game aimlessly and then prepare to head off to do ComicCon as well as KoL Con. I'll try to get a couple ICYMI's cranked out which by the way, we're up to like the 6th or 7th person doing the transcribing work for the radio shows. They really should give someone a job at doing those I feel. So with that said, this entry may be a little shorter than the usual shindig.

Anywho, the latest thing that's going on in the game gives me another use to bring back this segment that's slightly NSFW known as :

Look at that, more fucking chat commands at our disposal. Y'know I heard PvP still needs work or a certain thing called the Nemesis Quest would be nice to have back. Instead we have more crap coming out of the CDM slave pipe. The latest batch of failure are, count 'em, 5 new commands which we really don't particularly need. The first couple don't seem all that bad and kinda make sense if you're a fan of useless chat commands. /Examine lets you see the item description of an item while /Whitelist switches you to a clan that you're whitelisted in. Again, sounds reasonable if you're into the useless commands field. The next ones however are just completely fucking stupid despite if you're a fan or not. /chamois lets you use one of the shamwows from the bucket in the Slime Tube and /chamoisgoagain which allows you to use a shamwow and jump into another adventure in the Slime Tube. Y'know most of these commands wouldn't be such waste of time and resources if the interface was perhaps a little better and that there were proper links to where or what you wanted to do. That latter of that, is especially true because the final new chat command is /logout which, wait this was on Final Jeopardy not too long ago.......that's right, logs you out of the game. Really? You can't just hit the link at the top that says logout? Is there some kind of recent epidemic of carpeltunnel that I'm unaware of? The first two you could argue in having, the shamwow ones could be avoided if there was, again, proper linking. /chamois kinda already has it. And of course /logout makes me believe that the whole chat command mechanic is targeted either towards users of the KoLbar or for really really lazy people who can't spend time to click on something in a point and click game. Alternatively now, /headdesk will now be a shortcut to /bullshit whenever more chat commands come out.

Here's this week's poll results:

COMMENTS:

JohnDoe244 said on Jun 06 2009, 10:19 AM:
Eh. 11 mill to open Hobopolis? No. 11.25 mill to open Hobopolis and the Slime Tube? Eh. Now I've not been to one of my whitelisted clans to check this out properly yet, but I'm going to need at least one more Dungeon to come out before I dig my own basement.

toe76 said on Jun 05 2009, 11:25 PM:
I like the idea of a super-blitzable dungeon that can be done multiple times a day, but this? Seriously, this is a weekend project at most. A hat that's almost exactly like an orange peel, other than that though, nothing of significance. Hopefully the next dungeon will be a middle of the road type dungeon, fast, but not crap.

Narc said on Jun 05 2009, 03:00 AM:
An utter and complete sack of urine. Reminds me of Nintendo. By which I mean they used a game mechanic a four year old could comprehend(ML) to force you to slug through a whole bunch of useless shit, designed to annoy you with Element X....er, I mean, Slime damage, just for mediocre rewards. There's nothing even here for spades. Which is pathetic. Maybe they should strap on some item drop and combat initiative drawbacks. And make it so we can't brea...wait a minute. Same shittastic work, different area.

PrettyCoolGuy said on Jun 03 2009, 04:24 PM:
I was alright with most of it, but when I saw that that you had to get ten of each slimy organ, I was filled with unbridled rage. Really, otherwise I wouldn't mind that it took them a while to get done and that it's pretty short. But that whole bit is simply ridiculous for such small passive bonuses.

Anonamedude said on Jun 01 2009, 05:56 PM:
Neat. Fun. Less complicated and involved than Hobopolis which is both good and bad. Was it worth waiting for? Only an anally retentive numbnuts would be thinking he was owed this, so I just found it an enjoyable new addition which makes the game slightly better than it was last week.

L said on Jun 01 2009, 03:49 PM:
I voted "Yeah, it's alright," and that's exactly how I feel. It's alright; not blowing my socks off, but it's alright. It's no Hobopolis, but I don't think anybody is presenting it as such. (It costs a fraction of the price to open it, for instance.) I'll have to hold off on my exact level of "impressed", since the mechanics behind things are still murky. It's basically within the parameters of what I would expect from a small clan dungeon. It's a good effort. Meets but probably doesn't exceed expectations.

Smoot's Comment: Given how they were presented with a good idea, a dungeon that has a 1000 monsters with a boss at the end, they yet again crapped it up. This time with the whole slime mechanic and lack of rewards. I agree with toe76 because I wouldn't mind a fast dungeon that has actual decent rewards at the end. The Slime Dungeon just has the motivation on loop because the only thing the rewards do is make you do more Slime runs that also have practically no use outside of the dungeon. (Maybe alternatives for basementing if you haven't tricked out your telescope yet or have the right gear). Also agree with Prettycoolguy with the skills, if you're going to have multi useable skills, make the fucking reward worth perming in the longrun. Narc's gotta great point too with the whole Element X deal, I gotta admit I wasn't too pleased that the dungeon was focused around something that's like bad spelling damage or shadow damage as in shit I can't protect myself with +elemental gear. What's the point of having elements if you're just going to create stuff outside of the element chart? Challenge? pfft, gimme a break.

Overall, it was a nice idea but yet again, poor execution. A new poll is currently in place, scroll to the bottom and try to vote on it

With that said, it's time for me to head off again. Been playing a lot of Gears of War multiplayer lately and I love annoying people with the chainsaw. Hopefully I can Bing my way to another game of some kind, already have another controller on the way. Anywho, I'm gonna go do...stuff, not sure when the next entry will be. Hopefully tonight's show will provide some actual entertainment worth noting. Until next time, have a good one folks.

Just to inform you...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:00:08 GMT

...was going to do a new entry on Friday but didn't want to bombard you with that and the audio thing (maybe I should). I'll have something short and sweet up tomorrow.

60 minutes of OH GOD MY EARS!!! with xSmootx & playhavock

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:49:40 GMT

Here it is once again the always loveable but yet ignorable:

(There's loud static after the song, but clears up...somewhat)

(This is the Playhavock edited version of the show)

NOTES:

-Ear raping listeners with static in the beginning
-Discussion of some aspects of the game
-Exactly how assy the forums are
-Giving props to Jick and Skully for some things
-How NS11 would exist in playhavock's mind
-Debating on calling the show "oh god, ear rape" from now on

MUSIC:

Mysto & Pizzi - Somebody's Watching Me Remix link is on that page
Sonic 3 - Sonic Gargles with Garden Marbles provided by Dwelling of Duels

New entry and poll later on tonight.

Unorganized stuff

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:05:14 GMT

More pleasing than raping Sarah Palin's daughter....yup, still got it.
It's the return of me, xSmootx, after a long break.

So I got caught up with the arrival of my brand new FREE Xbox 360 (provided by club.live.com, now known as Club Bing) where I obtained a copy of GTA4 a couple weeks ago and last week, got Gears of War as well. The first of which I've been spending a lot of time on and am almost done with. For some reason, I'm starting to hear a lot more "Roman calling to annoy you" skits and bits all over the place for some reason. Anyway, this started the impromptu break from the site and KoL as well. Halfway through Gears and last week a friend of mine came down and spend vacation time here doing stuff. He brought "Dead Rising" which provided a lot of entertainment and am currently looking forward to the sequel despite how the the first game appeared how Capcom sorta cheaped out on some of the production costs. Yesterday we spent the whole day at the always lovely Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. I rode so many roller coasters, it's miraculous how I'm still in one piece. Anyway, he left today and it's back to things as normal on here.

Now in the past couple weeks while I was gone in KoL there's been...well absolutely nothing new. We had the obligatory content filled familiar for the item of the month which was a disappointment. Followed up was the new clan dungeon, the Slime Tube, where it captivated speed players like a housewife to the Home Shopping Network to generate high demand for +ML items. Aside from that, it has lame poor rewards and lacks good game design. Since then, there hasn't been anything new or anything decent to get me to out the routine farming gig that I'm currently enticed with. While I was out, I got a comment that sorta caught my eye:

"Smoot, I often disagree with you but still enjoy your point of view and the way you express it.

....However I think as far as 'content familiars' go it's a non issue, If there is nothing fantastically amazing in the content you can ignore it, you still get the spleen items regardless of whether you choose to go on the mystical whatever, having another option for spleen is fantastic for newer players who don't want to shell out on the high priced Llama / Pixie etc." -Misanthropy

Well for starters whenever I say that I don't like something, I tend to ignore it. The thing is though if a mistake is left uncorrected, the person will keep on making the mistake. In this case, they keep making the mistake that content familiars are still fresh despite the past three familiars that are chocked filled with content. Or the mistake that they think that familiars are still welcomed. Clearly, as you can see they never listen to me, let alone factor in common sense when it comes to their decisions (You have to be someone close who can generate 12 paragraph long arguments to get anything across to them). With that said, again I'll just buy the neuro pill that regens mana because out of everything that familiar produces, the regen pill is the only thing that's not covered in shit (which by the way, lacks a use multiple link). So whenever I need mana, I can just buy it from the mall and avoid the assyness of yet another spleen familiar. While I approve varied options of things, I highly doubt that speed players automatically have to jump at the fact of nabbing one of the spleen familars just to get into the speed game. If they really wanted a past content spleen familiar, they should work up to get it rather than relying on the admins trying to craft something decent year after year that attempts to target new players with crummy content.

Anyway, now that's out of the way, I'd like to mention that I'll be doing another audio thing here coming up and I have a person locked in to doing it. Hopefully I can get that knocked out tomorrow. Also, the results from whatever poll that I have, will be up by Friday. And of course, some kind of new ICYMI sometime down the road. So that's what's been going on, I'll see ya folks within the next day or so assuming I'm not tied up with the 360. See ya next time!

New Entry on the Way

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:29:04 GMT

Been busy with some stuff outside of KoL. Going to hopefully be at Busch Gardens Monday being a major schedule thing at the moment. Haven't forgotten about you folks and will have some kind of thing for you where I respond to comments and will make an ass out of myself in some way. Hang tight.

June IotM - New Clan Dungeon - Wrap Up

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:25:55 GMT

It's only a couple days late but here is the IotM finally, let's see if it's worth the wait:

Wasn't too excited by it being a spleen familiar when they announced it on the radio show and now that it's here, it doesn't appear to be all that great. One of the first things that I noticed is that the item it drops requires spleenage to use. Kind of odd when you think about how astral mushrooms, bottles of absinthe, and llama gongs were potion useable with no strings attached. So from that alone, it's already shot itself in the foot. The empty Aqua Velva bottle is where the action really happens which by the way is nontradeable, so they actually want you to sacrifice spleen in order to get content in return. Strike number deux. The three zones have a theme of time evolving going on. The only thing that I saw that was useful from all three zones was the neurotism pill which regens mana. They don't seem too hard to get unless there's some kind of low droprate that I'm not factoring, which case I'll probably stock up on these from the mall. Aside from that, the content seems a little overblown. I can see why this required a couple of extra days to fiddle around with but overall it's just not worth the buy. You have to be pretty meticulous with your choices to get good stuff (something I didn't really like with the pixie) and even then the gear and stats for all that effort are really crappy. With all that going on you have the familiar itself being a sombrero which I personally don't mind sombrero types being in Mr. Store, it's just with all the numerous familiars that have spent time in Mr. Store I would've appreciated a sombrero type ages ago.

Smoot's Verdict: The concept of annual content familiars should've been phased out when the llama debuted because it summed up the badger and pixie quite nicely while also bring something to the table as well which would've been a nice way to fade out on. Instead, we get something that's brain-pain inducing with what all you have to do and where to go. It further proves the fact that simpler is better which is something I personally think they need go back and doing instead of having all this overelaborate crap. Not really worth getting unless you're really really striving for a sombrero. Which case, get help.

Speaking of overelaborate crap, new clan dungeon's finally here!.....And it only took them about a year to make a second one! So the question that I asked was, how can you take the concept of bum rushing a dungeon with a 1000 and taking a big ol dump on it? Well the Slime Tube would be the answer. Now before all judgemental on me, I actually gave this dungeon a shot because it didn't cost a mil to open up nor did I wait for wiki information(Same could technically be said for hobopolis as well). At first glance, the image of the dungeon is pretty phalic which isn't any shock with Jick and his phallicness with drawings at times. The actual adventuring in was what slowly killed my interest in this dungeon pretty quickly. Apparently everytime you encounter a slime, you get an effect called "coated in slime" which does zany exponential slime damage in your next adventure if you don't remove it. I thought the whole "doing damage outside the 5 elements" gimmick was done when they did the shadow and bad spelling damage were introduced. Anyway, the only ways to remove the effect are the shamwow knock-off shammys that you sometimes get after fighting a slime because soft green antidrops aren't as cool or...something and the VIP hot tub because they think that's worth the 10-40 bucks you forked over for. This dungeon is also the reason why the Urkel song got capped because ML is somewhat important. Depending on how much ML you're running with, determines the length of being covered in slime. Somehow, I feel swindled after getting that purse rat when they said how ML will be important when they capped Urkel. The thing that killed my interest completely was when I finally peeked at the wiki to see what the hell the ass rewards are. 3 of them are skills which you can use over and over again to a limit of 10, however +10 to HP, MP, or Combat Initiative is a bit of a slap in the face. The equips themselves aren't all that great and provide little to no use outside of of this dungeon. Hell, the "Finish this dungeon in X turns or less" special items aren't that great.

Smoot's Verdict: I don't normally say this but it really seems like bad game design with this one. The fact that the whole dungeon punishes you as you're going along kinda turns me away to it. The rewards completely suck, even the special ones. The shit you pick up along the way like the food and booze aren't that great but yet they provide ML and slime resistance if you don't use your stomach or liver for anything else. Skills are a joke. The common gear you get from the slime rags seem like shit that would be best put towards pulverize. The only thing they got right was the price at least, I guess. (To be fair if you rack up 10 mil for the clan basement, the dungeons should at least be free) What gets me scratching my head is that...why did this take close to a year to make? This seems like something that should've taken a day, maybe two if you factor in lunch and coffee breaks, to come up with and put into the game. If anything I think the rich bastards who are capable of having a hockey stick along with people who really dig clan dungeons would be into the Slime Tube, kinda. I might be spoiled on Hobopolis but something like Hobopolis scaled down to the price of the Slime Tube would've been great. Seems like they missed the mark on this one.

That will about do it for me today. I've been pretty whacked out and aggitated the past couple of days because of some stuff behind the scenes and I really shouldn't have posted at all on Monday now that I can think a little more clear and not hopped up on shit. I wasn't thinking as as pointed out by someone I kinda reaped what I sow or something like that expression. Anyway, I'm not gonna change. I'm gonna still be an ass here and there with things and people can get the hell over it. Whatever. I'm gonna play some more GTA 4 and I'll see ya folks next time. G'nite!