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This has been submitted to every AC news site:

This contest is for anyone on the Frostfell Server who is of level 5 or higher, and pays the one mote/speck/shard admission fee.

The contest consists of the two monarchs (Mr Magoo and The Lady Rose) putting the eligibles through any test they please is order to pick a winning husband/wife and then get married.

This event will take place on Friday June 2, at 6 pm pacific, (9pm eastern) at the Yanshi meeting hall!

If you have any questions please /tell Toshima on Frostfell.

Online marriage is quite cheesy enough without turning it into a game show. Don’t give me the “it’s role-play” line, either: role-players don’t name their role-played characters after cartoon characters.

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You’ll be thrilled to note that there’s going to be a UO2 HoC (House of Commons) chat on Stratics. Well, maybe you won’t be, but I am, because I’m a connoisseur of high comedy.

According to the mission of the original UO HoC:

The Ultima Online House of Commons is a collaboration between the makers of UO (the Development Team and Game Masters) and Stratics to bring you the means to express your views about UO through an open forum. As the motto above states, our goal is to form a more common bond between the Peoples and Rulers of Britannia. How do we do this? Read on…

Not to belabor the obvious, but forming “a more common bond between the Peoples and the Rulers” of Neo-Post-Apocalyptic-FurryBritannia is somewhat difficult, as there are no “People” to “Rule” yet.

But why quibble? The various gaming news networks are bound and determined to have a news service for each and every game out there. It’s no longer enough to have a site for the Big Three (UO, EQ, AC). Now you have to have sites for games that aren’t out. Nothing new about that, either. As I recall, both the Crossroads of Britannia and the One Site began during the beta.

Now, the networks scramble to get a site up as soon as the game is announced, sometimes years before the beta. Other sites linger on even after the odds of them seeing the light of day dwindle into absurdity. “This game might be a hit someday!” It’s called “hedging your bets”. It’s no longer acceptable to have one or two really good sites that do one thing (in that case, STATISTICS and GAME DATA) really well. Now you have to be all things to all people. At least that’s the thought process. Everyone’s a network now. Everyone.

So should it surprise me that there’s a UO2 HoC? Probably not. Maybe I’ll see you there tonight. Let’s watch yet another specific-purpose entity become a generalized diluted offering. Maybe next week I’ll catch you at the Star Wars Online HoC and the Rune Conquest HoC the week after that.

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