The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/press/020613war ... 3.shtml</a>

WarCraft III has gone gold, could this mark the rebirth of Online Gamethought? :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>woohooo, i'll finally be playing a computer game again and posting in OGT!!!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Me gots cable modem! MWAHAHAHA! But if I get it, chances are, you goons will ally against me. So...I'll stick to solotair and freespace. =8^P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Can I polay the game now bewcause it really sounds like a fun</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>heh :)</div>

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Downloading it as we speak...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Hurry up....you're taking up my bandwidth space! I need SPEEEED! =8^D</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You're probley getting the beta, what's the filesize?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>AAAHH! I downloaded one that said "WafCraft 3 - Full Version" It's actually Black & White! AAARGH!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>The words "duh" come to mind. But that's just me.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Well...how else could I have known? It says "War Craft 3 - Full Version" and then there's the WarCraft.exe" file with it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>At least learn mIRC....</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I haven't tried it yet, but when you guys start playing...I'm sure I'll join up for a game or two (personally though, I am more excited about Neverwinter Nights)

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>How? explain, never learned!</div>

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Game seems.... OK. I dunno, not a very large screen size (as in units that can fit on the screen). We'll see how it goes.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Once again, how big was it, and where'd you get it?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>http://acid.net/~sysreset/sysreset249.exe

And install...then let me know.

After that, I'll get ya started (plus, you can usually download off me anyway)...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Dowloaded and installed......Esplain to me, amigo.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>I'm in on this too yo</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh...alright.

When you start it up, you'll have to fill in some quick info (fake user name, fake e-mail addy, NICKNAME1 and NICKNAME2.

Under "File", "Options", "Connect"....the second pull-down-box (beneath "IRC Network ALL") is where you choose your server. Each server hosts it's own bunch of channels... for our purposes, we will choose EFNET because it is fast and easy to connect to.

Once you pick it, click the "Coneect to IRC Server button" (this can also be done at the main screen with the little 'lightning-like' button).

Assuming it connects OK (which it should), you can either click the third button in from the left (looks like a folder with "#+" symbols inside) and type TOWS or simply type (in the little bar at the bottom) /JOIN TOWS.

You'll enter a channel with my bot, Pulp. If I'm not there...just stick around (leave yourself in the channel...if I get back and you are not around, I can still send you messages with info you can read when you get back)...

In this channel I'll teach you the commands for FSERVE and XDCC bots which you can try out on me...then I'll give you some good pub channel lists...and if you want, you can d/l Warcraft or whatever...</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>That reminds me......didn't you say a while back you were going to have an FTP up soon?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I do...It's just that I really don't like the constant flow of 1337 hackers that try to break in...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>You know you guys could just buy the game in a month and not worry about all that hacker shit that will fuck up your computer.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Smart people use firewalls and AV software.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You mean on IRC? Your PC is in greater danger just being connected to the net...(this point would be more dramatic if your PC was Online right now and I could probe the ports, but it isn't ; ).

Basically, the ONLY ways to get a virus on IRC would be:

- Not having a firewall/Anti-virus

- Opening something that someone you don't know sent you (like happy.vbs ; ). Though files with these malicious extensions are auto blocked with the software I had people download.

- Believing and following instructions when some loser sends you the message: "You have been infected with a trojan virus. Please go to www.angelfire.com/anti-trojan/trojan-cleaner.exe

- Actually believeing (and typing) when someone sends you the message: "To stop spam, type: //DECODE ---->various mirc code here<-----

3 ways which require you to be very gullible...no, IRC is extremely low threat.

KO-
"And no...why buy it? I don't really even want it... If I bought every game/app/movie on my machine, I'd be broke. Besides, it's fun having everything early..."</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>you god damn right</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>... of course you're to be trusted but things like this sketch me out. I'd prefer to not DL the neccessary programs and not put myself in a situation to possibly get my machine f'ed with.

As for being broke, you cant possibly tell me you have so many illegal copies of programs that you wouldnt have been able to buy them? That would be a lot, or you'd have to be really poor, and a guy as smart as you sound shouldnt be poor. Yeah, you probably have the $300 or so versions of stupid stuff like photoshops and video editors that i'm sure you never use and you could have lived without. I'll admit that i listen to mp3's that are probably illegal and mr. person showed me how to get a illegal beta copy of war3 that worked fine (which is where i get my opinions) and maybe i did my share of petty (<$20 items) shop lifting as a kid. But I always had the intention of buying war 3 and you have to give game creators their due and just buy it IMO.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ah well, Neverwinter Nights is all over the place now...time to go grab it ; )</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well we can only play the single player campaigns at the moment, BNET is only avialalble if we buy it and get a CD Key.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>no firewall on my cpu, but my school gives us a full copy of NAV coporate edition that works well.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually I followed your insturctions connected to the EFNET server, and left it running to get some instructions later, but my mother closed the program.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ahh...so you were DJ"soandso"</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I have no intention of buying Warcraft 3...nor would I if I didn't have it already...so for me, it gets grouped with the other "useless" software (which if you added up, would easily be more like $50,000+). The things I do actually need (web dev tools and stuff) I can't/won't pay for...there is no way I am going to pay thousands of dollars for something I can get for free...moral or not.

And as for having your machine f'ed with...like I said...you are in greater danger just being connected to the net...

Oh well, to each their own.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You sure? There is a keygen on the CD right?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Yes, DJ Jubilee.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Not Blizzard games for example you can use any StarCraft CD Key with your copy of StarCraft. You CAN get the CD key after it's installed but that's whatever CD Key you put in on installation.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>And I hope everyone else here buys it on its release to help support Blizzard in making new and better products in the future. In otherwords, don't be a cheap ass.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I've been using Mirc for a year. Hint Hint, it's really good for downloading other stuff(like porn!) hehe</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>yeah, i saw ya stop by the channel ya perv....</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I actually stopped by to see if anyone was there but it didn't look like anyone was so I left.</div>

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>It was 790Megs, and its the full release, made by Razor</div>

<div style='font: bold 10pt ; text-align: left; '>Cheap saves me money and a trip to EB. Win - Win</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I support only Sid's games. =8^) After all....he's from Maryland. Me gots to support the local economy!</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>wow you really are a bitch.........goodie little 2 shoes :)</div>