In my Summer Games entry, one of the commenters made the observation that Blizzard’s World of Warcraft was the anti-game because it sucked up the player’s time to such an extent that other games were left neglected. While I was initially skeptical, I’m now convinced that poster was onto something as many of my Summer Games have been neglected because of my online questing.

One of the things that makes the game so adictive is the number of things to discover. There are a ton of new lands, monsters, and items. As I found out a few nights ago, there are also character actions. By typing a frontslash followed by a verb, oftentimes your character will execute the action. /follow is useful when trekking with teammates, while /laugh and /bow add flavor to regular text-based chatting.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered /dance:

Anyone up for a Thriller remake?