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I wanna know more about how hacking works in PS2.

I remember walking into that house in Bree... Laughed my ass off, shook my head, and then slowly backed out the door.

Remember that whole iPhone controversy over Smurf Village and their in-app purchases? Where clueless kids ran up tabs of thousands of dollars because their parents' credit card info was bound to their App Store account?

Yeah. Kids are getting nowhere near a F2P game.

I plan on getting a Vita for the Persona 4 remake. Sigh. Ay, me.

I guess you could say I had three. I had a older cousin that played EQ back in the day and I got the chance to play around a bit using his computer. I thought the whole thing was mysterious. But I had experience with online games, I was big into the whole Warcraft 2 / 10Six thing on Heat.net, and I'd been hearing about people going nuts over EQ, so I gave him my best young-kid wisdom at the time: "Sooner or later you're going to get into a fight with a friend over something stupid in the game and quit playing."

I went over and visited a few months later and couldn't find EQ installed on his machine. I asked him what happened, and he laughed and said he got in an argument with his best friend about some gold. He uninstalled the game and threw the discs away. So I guess you could say I have had some perspective on MMOs for over a decade now thanks to him.

In college the guy in the dorm across the hall from me played during the days of classic WoW and got me hooked on it too. It wasn't good for my grades. I was there when he quit his guild and wiped a raid at the same time when he got tired of dealing with an overbearing guild leader. Later that year he dropped out (not because of WoW) and went back to California to join a heavy metal band. I hear they're doing pretty good for themselves now.

My last mentor was a nice roommate I had in college. He's the one that really got me into raiding and introduced me to an amazing guild of people who all lived nearby (!) that was just a blast to play with. He was in college to study music on a full-ride scholarship... that he blew because he could not stop playing WoW. He dropped out and ended up joining the Army. Guy still owes me $500 and a bike.

The culmination of all these experiences has taught me never to take the ability to play MMOs with friends for granted, to not take things too seriously, and that moderation, as in all things, is the key.

How did a AMX12 from WoT make it into Dust 514?

The dude wearing the breathing mask at his desk in the video kind of bothers me.

Isn't that right Zach?

Not pictured: the Type 59 about to absolutely own that French tank.

Theorycrafters: wrecking game systems since the 90s.