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Just a little note… today one of the least expected things in the office happened… my boss prompted me to join his mafia in facebook… go figure.

Note: This post turned out to be pretty long for my own reading/writing standards, feel free to take bio breaks while reading. There’s also NO TLDR version.

First of all, credit to whom is due, Rappelz is a game by nFlavor/Gala-Net Inc, and all the graphics and screenshots are of the game and grabbed/taken by one of my best friends (their character names on the screenshots) of the Tortus server.

I’ve started playing a new (for me) mmorpg, Rappelz. I have three friends playing it, specially two of my best friends, and enjoying it, and since it’s free I dediced I’d give it a try.

I’ve not gotten to level my character too high, but I’m working on it and have gotten at least a taste of what the game is. At the moment I have a Gaia Fighter, at level 32, and job level 30 named Deneor in the Tortus server, he’s on the process of being an Archer.

I decided to write this review for a couple of reasons:

1. As feedback to my friends that already play the game, so that they know the awesome things we have on the game they are playing and the things we are missing in it.
2. As feedback for the game developers (see #1).
3. As an overview/introduction for anyone that approaches this game without knowing anyone that plays it.

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Note: This is a re-post, with or without allusion to When freedom expired…, this is by no means a declaration of intent anyways, I put it here because I find it extremely educational and nurturing to the old points I knew about this. I took the liberty of modifying a bit the format of the <pre>’d text and abbreviated some words on long lines to better fit the theme of my blog. Sorry, there’s a line I decided not to break and couldn’t abbreviate, live with it.

Everything below this line is a re-post from OpenBSD Journal – Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 1), credit to whom is due.

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Word of the day: Moronic

According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu:

Moron: S: (n) idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard (a person of subnormal intelligence)

<rant>

Due to some moronic rules/policies or the people that came up with them… or the people that weren’t fit for a “loose” system made the system tighten… now I see a message like this:

Content is blocked by your organization

Reason: This category of ___________ is being filtered: Social Networking and Personal Sites

URL: <URLHERE>

Funny that on some sites something like this reads:

To view sites on this category, you must use your quota time. You are provided with 60 minutes of quota. Click on the button “Use quota” to begin to use your allotted time in periods of 10 minutes to view this and other sites on categories limited by quota.

So, now we see that the system was too loose for some (immature) people, and now they made the whole thing tighter to the point of making the misfits as well as everyone else uncomfortable, everyone, including those who did NOT abuse their freedom which is why I find this moronic. Now I think the one that’s not fitting is me.

What will I do? Use the channels that the system lets me to, until I can find a way to change the system, or to change systems altogether.

</rant>

Note: Will update this later with the correct/linked definition from the princeton.edu… yes… it’s blocked too so had to grab it from somewhere else.
Edit: Done.