An entertainingly silly MMORPG
 

<a href="http://www.kingdomofloathing.com">Kingdom of Loathing</a>

Any game where your intrepid Seal Clubber, Disco Bandit or Pastamancer can attempt to steal your own pants without noticing, whack Knob Goblin Barbecue Teams with a Homoerotic Frat Paddle, craft powerful swords and armor out of meat, retrieve Bum Cheeks from the corpses of rushing Bums and glue them together to make an Asshat, and be told "You've had the crap kicked out of you. You'll have to find more crap" when you're KO'ed can't be all bad.

Don't forget Accordion Thieves! I'm level 6 I think. :) I like the Haiku Dungeon.

I've got one of each class (to try them out -- since the database is being reset soon, it doesn't really matter much, and I had a handful of email addresses to use). My highest guys are Level 5, holding their own in the Spooky Forest and trying to not get crunched in Degrassi Knoll.

The clans are amazingly helpful.

I haven't tried out PvP yet -- haven't really dared to, as I don't have any of the assorted safeguards around my campground.

Hmm, sounds alot like Progress Quest.

Better than PQ, though that's a great game in it's own right. :)

Level 14 and counting.

Watching the economy of the game fluctuate is almost as entertaining as the game itself. Prices ebb and flow in mysterious ways.

VSP, what's your screen name there?

I have a handful of them:
* delfin
* Video Sex Pope
* ThingFish
* Crotch Monkey
* I Never Wash My Groin
* Jones Crusher

Having WAY too much fun right now beating on members of a Gundam clan via PvP. One of them responded to a PvP loss by sending me a message of "why hu illl killl u basstred!!!!" I taunted him back, then started pounding my way through the rest of his clan; the leader attacked me today (and lost) with a message of "you bastared".

I'm going to keep hitting them until at least one of them can spell.

I finally got around to registering. Man, I wish I had done it long ago... Cool game.

durp
 

I'm with you Hm.. I read this one ages ago.. well maybe it just seems that way.. just signed up a couple of days ago... man I'm hooked! although I'm still low level. keep an eye out for a disco bandit by the name of chunk_hugelarge !

it just reminds me of all the silly things we'd do while playing AD&D stoned out of our gourds, all the old zork games etc. ah! memories.. well, parts of them anyway.

Ascension is coming! I'm stupidly excited about it. Kingdom of Loathing is my favourite work-time waster.

Alas, I am too low-level. When I get to that point, Ascention will be old news.

yeah same here.. damn rollover! I'm usually at work when it happens.. I'm only 4th level right now, although when ronald and grimace decide to shine on me! OH BABY! gimmie that Moxie! although the thing that has cracked me up themost so far.. when I was trying to explain the game to someone at work (who is now also hopelessly hooked) when I told him about the toot oriel (sp?).. when I said it outloud, I couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes.

Or the Orc Chasm. I haven't been there yet, but it's mentioned in some FAQ...

gurk... hopelessly involved.. damn my AD&D upbringing! 4th level disco bandit... 17 moxie! that has to count for something..... right?... right?

17 moxie? damn. I'm going to have to reroll.

Disco Bandit is my 2nd favourite class. I'm trying to ascend my level 24 Accordion Thief right now. Between lag and the quest itself being extremely tough, it's taking a lot longer than I thought.

it was my first forray into the kingdom of loathing... a guy I work with is playing a seal clubber (the funny thing is that he's a hard-core vegetarian.. although he does have a sick sense of humour, more than likely that's why we get along)
have you looked at the cafepress shop?.. all my dreams would be complete if I met a woman who wore the KoL panties. that's all I can say about that.

After more than a year of delays and preparation, Ascension is _finally_ here. My L23 Turtle Tamer is now reborn as a L2+ Pastamancer.

Needless to say, the server is running like liquid shit right now.

I wonder if jick may be hoping to hand out a few more Mr. Accessories to upgrade a bit. I've only been playing for a couple weeks, and I've got three, so I've done my part.

Jesus. I have two, one for my main and one for my multi, but those were cash-purchased long ago.

Mine were cash-purchased, too. I like to support things like this. Plus, I just picked up a cheshire bitten. :)

gurp.. drunk. have things I want to say.. better that I don't

A lot has changed since I last played this seriously. For one, restoring HP and MP is a bitch now.

Of course, a lot of that is because there's STILL umpteen billions in bugmeat floating around the Kingdom, leaving players like me who never abused the system adrift. Alas.

Yeah, I'm scrimping and saving for a couple of thousand for training, and I see people betting a million on a coin flip.

I've ascended my Accordion Thief to Disco Bandit. He's gonna be a mad looting machine. I went hardcore/Oxygenarian (which means I can't eat or drink to gain adventures). It's gonna be tough, but I'm already having more fun with the game than I have in a long time.

okay loosers! I have roped 4 guys in at work into this game. yeah we're all 30 year old asses (and all of them but me are married!) so.. ya wanna form a clan? just a thought..?

I'm a bit poor to help much in forming a clan, but I'd probably switch to a cellar-based clan if it existed.

yeah I'm a little meat poor at the moment (not like that! wink wink) but I figure if we here and a few others joined forces... we would at the very least be perhaps one of the most sarcastic clans out there.

You evil, evil, evil people.

My 2nd level Tern Slapper is named "veryfrightened"

make that level three puffin intimidator

Welcome aboard! I've got Happy Monkey and Sad Monkey (I wanted to try out a couple of classes).

The nice thing about Ascension is that a decision you make at that point sends you down one of three paths, which will open up different areas when you return to the main world. That's replay value, folks, instead of just pounding on Knob Goblins and the Bonerdagon over and over.

Cool. Something to look forward to.

Bonerdagon, eh? I gotta admit, I'm a bit tired of the goblins.

I just made it into the forest and really like the mummy. The pretentious artist was certainly amusing.

I think I have the cash to form a clan.

Cool. Is there anything else necessary? Can your post-ascention character access that meat yet?

One of my characters is softcore ascended, and can access 20k meat per day. Want me to go ahead and create it?

Sure! I'll join later tonight.

Clan Name: The Cellar

Excellent! I'll have to bid my fond farewells to the clan that was kind enough to recruit me...

O. K.

I'm intrigued. More updates as events warrant.

I was sticking to two characters this time around, but maybe I'll start a third to tag along for this.

I'm DreadedSplice, a Moose Harasser. Yes, I like to hit things.

I've applied. :)

Me too. A big dumb Toad Coach named BigCecil. Uh, what now?

Cute. Level 2 Skink Trainer. Goody for me!

then, CLICK. the lights when out. maintenance, they say. *sheesh*

It's jick (the creator of the game) painstakingly giving everyone more adventures one by one.

you're not zerious. just resetting the adventure count to the daily default (80) right?

hmmm. is it reasonable to expect to wait around for the lifeguard to whistle us all back into the pool, or should I just go to sleep and check again tomorrow?

it re-sets at around 10:30pm EST (if you look in the forums they have a cool map and everything!) so perhaps sleep would be best, as for me it's almost 5:30 AM and sign of sleep in sight.. damn insomnia!

I'll head for the clan once I hit 6th.. chunk_hugelarge by name, drinkin' and disco is my game!.. wait.. that's not quite right

Actually, the daily adventure count is 40. 80 is the day one bonus. (yes, I was joking about jick doing it one by one). Maintenance is nightly, and usually doesn't take more than half an hour.

Should have mentioned my character's names: Olofik and Nataya.

FINALLY out of Ronin! Now I can finally start trying to make some meat with all the stuff I had lying around. The only big-ticket item I have is a Bow (350K or so), but a hundred-plus Little Paper Umbrellas (I can _make_ them now? Whoa) + cheap bottles of booze in the Mall == some profit, even if the umbrella drinks cost a fraction of what they once did.

I made a lot of money off White Canadians, simply because they're needed for a trophy. Last time I sold one (shortly before ascension) they were going for 5k. Which is hilarious, because I think anyone can make them.

I made several thou as a newbie by having my Turtle Tamer sell can lids, and my Pastamancer sell firecrackers, and they're quite easy to get. I guess when you've got millions in meat, a few thousand meat is cheaper than wasting adventures in first-level areas.

At some point I should probably read the instructions rather than just happily playing along.

But hey, I figured out how to join the clan, and tithed. One thing at a time.

The instructions are useful, but not necessary. The majority of the game involves trying to figure out how things work together.

As an aside, it took me forever to get the pun in the name of the dwarven mine. I thought it was "It's not your zits", and I was wondering why the dwarves cared about acne...