Middle-earth Center Staff Blog

We all knew it was coming. Nobody knew for sure what it was.

I’m happy to say that MOST of the rumours we posted turned out true. Yeah, I know - we got the name wrong. Its pretty much in the same direction though, wouldn’t be surprised if Battlegrounds was the actual working title of the game.

So yea, I’ve been having an overflow of ideas for features on the site to abuse the f*ck out of the buzz around the game, and most importantly, continue support once it’s launched.

What they are?
I’m not going to tell. The game is still at least half a year away, and anything I’d promise here could very well turn out to be an empty promise in the end. Rest assured, we’re very exited about this game and are already working on getting some exclusive time with the devs to answer some of the burning questions our members have.

So I guess I did tell you something. Either way, let’s just keep it at the fact I have a lot more on my sleeve. A few of my ideas are quite drastic and may or may not even be possible technically. Seeing as most of them depend on the game itself, I’m just going to keep them in my own little idea box until we know more about the game and its actual release date.

Hasta-la-vista, I be outside for the next few weeks. I might take my lappy outside and even let MEC get a nice summer tan, though granted, it already looks like an Afro-american with a whole lot of fancy rings.

Dont be fooled, even geeks like me enjoy the weather at times!

Those who are staying inside, take a look at this great topic on our boards: MEC Goes Bollywood!

Another to-be-murderer was caught via the internet. People say the internet is bad, but I think at least 30-50 people somewhere out there should be thanking it considering how much ammunition this guy had. What a nut :

So a few days ago, I posted this announcement requesting gaming staff for the site.

The amount of replies I got? 0, null, zero or none. Any way you put it, this is a sad number for a forum memberbase that feels its needed to initiate a riot when an admin does not have gaming experience. I feel that a number of people (you know if this is you) just come on to criticise and sometimes even make suggestions now and then, especially during our infamous forum riots - but do not contribute anything when it is being asked.

At any rate, I realise many people here no longer play the games, but still. The only staff position that seems to be popular at times, is when a new moderator is requested. Maybe someone can explain that to me, but a writing positon allows for much more freedom, creativity and a hell of a lot less criticism then you would get as a moderator.

But meh, its probably just me. But some of these old-members-turned-lurkers are usually just pissing me off rather then contributing anything.

On a related note, Zach has been helping out on the RoTWK pages. I myself am working in the LotRO ones.

WP

Now let us get on with…

Breaking News:

• Freek caught drunk in hottub

Making world headlines:

• Ali came out of closet because he
  “wanted sex”

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And out popped… Martha Stuart

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I am currently working on a template for my posts on here, since this n00b site won’t let me have tables or divs or any of the fun stuff. Thus I am pretty much stuck with the hr line. It is a shame that you can’t do it, but then again there is probably some horrible trick to it and I am just a noob to WP so w/e.

Any self-respecting BSG fan (new series, not the old bots) will know about this date. Its when Season 4 kicks back into motion. I realise there aren’t many fans of the show on MEC these days - Berethor and Xbox were but those guys left quite a while ago.

At any rate, here’s an 8-minute catch-up video. Lost fans will recognise the montage and voice-over. I’d recommend watching the actual show as you can’t appreciate the drama and action from a 1 sec clip for each episode.

Also, here is the one trailer to rule them all, to stay in LotR terms. This is for season 4, and has some spoilers, so you might not want to watch this if you don’t like to be spoiled.

There’s a ton more trailers and promo’s, and more stuff is being posted and screened almost daily. I would recommend http://galacticasitrep.blogspot.com/ if you want to keep up

Mith

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But first - The Album of the Day!!!!!

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And now… the feature of this post… Ladies and Gentlemen (and Krv), I present to you, A MCCAIN SPEACH!!!!!111 (written by me, of course)

My friends, this is a beautiful day. My friends, this is a day in which us, friends, can be friends in a friendly environment to bring about friendly change in a friendly way that makes us all friends. My friends, we need to lower taxes. My friends, I know we are in a war, of friends, but taxes must be lowered. Since we are old baggage, my friends, we won’t have to pay for this war and shouldn’t. My friends, let our children and their friends pay for the war. While we, my friendliest friends of friends, live in friendly Florida to retire and die. My friends, eat the democrats.

Now, my friendly friends that are friends to many friends of friends of cousins of friends, we also must keep fighting this way. My friends, it is in our interest to —

Senator McCain falls on ground dying from a heat attack at this point, no one calls 911 because everyone is asleep.

A REMINDER TO NOOBS:

Another Reminder:

Remember, make the right choice, my friends.

Good night, and good luck.

A Mith Production

MECNN - The place for politics nazis stalin stupidity

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First and foremost, I am only going to type my entries in HTML. Why? Because I am pr0 like that. However, I must admit I forget nearly everything I memorized about a year ago. Generally speaking, I only know CSS. However, I did bother to learn HTML once but soon replaced that with C++.

As for the daily headlines making world news -

• Lenin came out of his grave and stabbed jesus with the sickle and beat him with a hammer
• The Beatles > All Other Groups
• George Bush took a swan dive into a pool of crap
• Condisleeza Rice was found nude in a bath-tub with Hillary Clinton

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Well it appears that vBulletin likes throwing out minor releases before their major releases. I just upgraded the forums from vBulletin 3.6.8 to 3.6.9, which probably means you haven’t noticed anything :). All the changes are bugfixes and secuirity fixes.

Regardless, the forums were offline for a few minutes so you may have noticed that. Just thought I’d inform you guys.

In the mean time, I’ve also fixed and tweaked a few site features. The news banners will now take you to the archive for that category, which makes browsing the news for your favourite games a bit easier. All the post details and archive pages have also been altered, as these held a few bugs.The forums have received a few visual updates, including the subforums which are now presented in a tidy list. You probably also noted the strategy forums that have been re-added.

To close this post down, we are looking for staff for some of our games. Check out the news message with details. We have a number of features up and coming we think you will enjoy, in addition to the tournament still going strong with the first 2 rounds just behind us.

Stay tuned!