MMO Nazi says: No WoW For Me!

Due to some family medical issues, I have had to temporarily cancel my WoW subscription. I'll be keeping up with developments by listening to The Instance, however, and I am pretty sure I can sneak in 10 minutes of Forsaken World once in a while, so I don't go bat-sh!t crazy.

Thinking of taking a break from WoW?

Personally I haven't had time to WoW for nearly a month due to some family medical issues, but if you have a Steam account, you might like to try Forsaken World (or go to http://fw.perfectworld.com/ to get it direct). It's free-to-play and you can easily pop in for 10 minutes or so and get something done.

Humor(?): CAPTCHAS for Dummies

How to keep the illiterati off the Internet

This provides its own comments.

Add-Ons: Watto

Watto has replaced AutoProfit X2 in my add-ons list ; it's a vendor-interaction mod that sells all your gray items at the click of a button. Additionally, Watto makes it easy to buy stacks of items, and has both general and "personal" (e.g., per-toon) exclusion lists to either automatically sell, or not sell, any items you add to them. Please do read the ChangeLog; there are more features than I have time to list here. Watto can be downloaded from Curse or directly from the author's website on Google.

Humor: Pugs

We heard you like PUGS...

Tip: Gear up without Heroics

You're Level 85. You'd like to start raiding, or at least running some heroics. But you don't have the gear! How do you get the gear to go get the gear? Catch 22!

Fortunately, Blizzard has thought of that. And Silix over at Epic Diapers has thoughtfully put together a "how-to" on getting gear good enough to get you started. Silix does a segment on The Instance also; you should listen!

Add-ons: Spammenot

Are you tired of gold farmer spam? Sick of seeing immature boys linking spells and items along with body part references? Then you need Spammenot!

From the developer's comments:

SpamMeNot intelligently detects, blocks and reports commercial and annoying spam messages before you even see them

Also:

SpamMeNot is being [has been] completely rewritten for the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion.

• Configurable spam score level means you can tighten up the spam detection or relax it as you desire.
• The level it auto-reports at is also configurable.
• Monitors the trade channel for people linking an exceptional amount of spell links as well as keywords such as "An*l" and "Dirge" and will flag and auto-report participants of mass trade spam.
• 3rd party AddOns can ask SpamMeNot to filter their events via it's API.
• Nicer configuration interface.
• Much more organized internal structure.
• Less chance of causing code taints.

You can get Spammenot from Curse or through Wowmatrix.