Great game

I'd like to tell you about a game you've never heard of. (Well, maybe you have. If you have, you are officially cooler than I am—big surprise, huh?) I learned about it last weekend, and I love it.

This game is The Kingdom of Loathing (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/). If you're an RPG (Role-Playing Game) fan, you'll find this game fun, familiar, and jarring. If you've never played an RPG before, you really want to give this one a try.

This KoL is a free, web browser-based, multiplayer RPG with stick-figure graphics that add to its considerable charm. Instead of gold (tritely used in other games), the currency of the Kingdom of Loathing is meat. Yup, meat.

If you want to learn more, the Wikipedia entry actually provides a much better summary than the website itself.

I encourage all of you, gamers and non-gamers, to visit this site, create a character, and play the game for a little while. Then, come back and post your game reviews as a comment on this article. All reviewers will be entered into my punctuation raffle. Two winners, drawn at random, will receive an assortment of periods, commas, semicolons, em dashes, and even braces (subject to availability), mostly used in context.

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