Norrathian Pizza Delivery 143
Eletido writes "SOE's newest massively online role-playing game has now incorporated the ability to buy Pizza Hut pizza from the in-game command prompt. From the site: 'You're in luck - pizza is just a few key strokes away! While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com.' Never has gaming been made so easy." Commentary available from Grimwell.com.
Just what your fat arse needs. (Score:5, Funny)
just type
Next year they'll introduce "/exercise" and "/weight_watchers".
Re:Just what your fat arse needs. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just what your fat arse needs. (Score:1)
Re:Just what your fat arse needs. (Score:2)
(Please no "tossed salad" jokes)
wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wow (Score:3, Insightful)
Not quite... (Score:5, Funny)
Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:1)
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:2)
As the citizens die, their bodies are recycled into food for the current population.
I hope you get out and get some exercise when you're not feasting on those cans of Ensure in front of the computer
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:1, Interesting)
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:1)
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:1)
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:2, Interesting)
Wouldnt you lose those nutrients that were used by that person?
No you couldn't.
Respiration, the stepwise oxidation of glucose to make ATP, is only about 30% efficient at best. The anabolic pathways that use ATP to build and maintain body tissues are also a great d
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:1)
Re:Information wants to be anonymous. (Score:2)
This is one of many reasons why the first Matrix was really only a corny (yet well-made) kung-fu superhero flick, and not the great science fiction that many drooling fanboys insisted it was. None of it made a damn bit of sense. The sun was blotted out because it was the power source for the machines!? Who's that stupid? Machines can be powered by pretty much any energy source, we are the ones who need the sun!
Fortunately, the following two movies were bad enough that few people still
Awesome (Score:1)
Re:Retarded. (Score:3, Insightful)
OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OMG! (Score:2)
Re:OMG! (Score:3, Interesting)
"Prostitution is a mix of sex and free enterprise: which one are you against?"
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
...But then, when i realize you're an Everquest gamer, I'd dump everything out of your apartment window and take all your money for not spending enough time with me.
Disclaimer: not really going to dump all your stuff or steal your cash.
Disclaimer fine print: not really going to date you, either.
Re:OMG! (Score:4, Funny)
Depends on what kind of electronic entertainment you mean...
Re:OMG! (Score:2)
Re:OMG! (Score:2)
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Informative)
It's called
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Re:OMG! (Score:2)
But not very easy (Score:3, Insightful)
Nothing like advertising on London regional channels when you rarely deliver there for a waste of money. Everquest, well I don't care, now a Pizza Hut clan on Counterstrike, well they'd be the terrorists with bellied which ran slowely and couldn't think straight from constipation.
Re:But not very easy (Score:3, Interesting)
I think I ordered my first pizza online in 1999. Not because it offered any advantage over using the POTS - this was during the bubble so the general belief was that anything that could possibly be done online, should be done online.
Back then, they mostly used simple CGI-to-email scripts and it was a
Re:But not very easy (Score:2, Interesting)
My previous residence was on the edge of town and the nearest pizza place was several miles away. If I called and ordered, most of the employees were convinced that I was beyond their delivery area and wouldn't let me make delivery orders. If I ordered through the website, however, the order was routed to the same place and it would be delivered without question. On top of that they have *never* messed up an order sent in through the site, even
Re:But not very easy (Score:2)
Wow, cook for once in your life man, not only will you be healthier but it will be cheaper too!
Re:But not very easy (Score:1)
Re:But not very easy (Score:2)
It's also nice to be able to see the full list of ingrediants if your like me and like to try different topings instead of just sticking to a certain favortie.
All that said, although I think pizza hut has the best online orderi
That's nothing... (Score:4, Funny)
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would be cool (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:would be cool (Score:2)
Try liquid nutrition. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Try liquid nutrition. (Score:2)
Benefiber. (Score:1)
Re:Benefiber. (Score:2)
Using the term "built-in" to refer to that makes me laugh. Appreciatively, mind you, not derisively.
Re:Try liquid nutrition. (Score:5, Funny)
m-
Chocolate!! (Score:2)
If you're wondering why I drink this is because I don't eat a lot since I can't chew due and don't get enough nutrients due to my physical disabilites.
Re:Christianity is a mental disability. (Score:2)
Re:Christianity is a mental disability. (Score:2)
What!? (Score:1)
Come on, the pizza hut around me doesn't even deliver.
And I don't play everquest.
I just want someone to write a quick Dashboard app for various pizza places, with built in calculator, and let me order with CC# for those days I don't have any cash on me.
Re:What!? (Score:2)
Re:What!? (Score:2)
So what happens (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So what happens (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So what happens (Score:1)
Re:So what happens (Score:2)
I have this friend who lives by the axiom: Pizza is like sex, because, you know, even bad pizza is pretty good.
I think that this just says he hasn't had enough sex or pizza - as personally I would rather avoid bad versions of either.
Legal protection (Score:2)
Remember the gamer that died after playing 20 straight hours: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078
They plan on EverQuest II being so addictive that you will forget to eat.
Re:Legal protection (Score:1)
Your link is broken (due to a space), here it is repaired:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078
It requires a quick registration with email address, nothing special.
Very funny story, considering he probably died happy (:
/afk (Score:2, Funny)
Why isnt that in-game as well? (Score:5, Interesting)
Not to mention the pizza can get cheaper on advanced stages, with the game company's help, giving much more incentive to kids to play
Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? (Score:3, Insightful)
It sounds fun, but I doubt that the in-game security is enough to handle valuable information like Credit Cards.
And for added bonus, CC numbers in-game are handled by ChoicePoint [slashdot.org], a proven leader in information extraction and loss.
Re:Why isnt that in-game as well? (Score:3, Interesting)
EQ2 is a subscription game. They already have your credit card number. Why not set up a system to allow you to charge your preexisting credit card information for a pizza ingame?
Obviously you'd have to set it up so that the account holder can block this feature to prevent little Jimmy from charging a million pizzas to be delivered to the Lunanites, but it could still conceivably work. Oh, and people using game cards to play would be SOL, but - oh well.
/babyfood (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:/babyfood (Score:1)
Re:/babyfood (Score:2)
An alternative (Score:2, Insightful)
Pizza Hut [pizzahut.com]
Papa John's [papajohns.com]
Domino's [dominos.com]
If I didn't list your favorite, I apologize. You can probably find them by clicking HERE [google.com]
Re:An alternative (Score:2)
Open the damned browser yourself and go to your favorite pizza place's site.
Pizza Hut
Which one of the links you sent actually links to someone making pizzas? I fail to find any that sell anything close to what is usually called a "Pizza"Papa John's
Domino's
some ambitious scripters.... (Score:2)
Weak + Lame (Score:3, Insightful)
Second, it's not nearly as sophisticated as it could be. It could log your street address and credit card, and has some feature to specify what you want so you enter it all into the command line. Like /pizza large .5 pepperoni 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.
Instead, what they have now takes even more keystrokes. /pizza is six keystrokes. alt-tab to browser + favorites button for pizza hut is two keystrkes and one mouse click. Maybe one more click if you don't have a browser open already.
Re:Weak + Lame (Score:3, Funny)
You know, when they started injecting cheese into the crust, we all wondered where else they were going to try to cram extra cheese. I guess now we know...
If they were smart (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:If they were smart (Score:1)
Crazy Jim, I take your idea and I Copyright it, so it's all mine now. Thank you very much. /me tips hat
Re:If they were smart (Score:1)
Re:If they were smart (Score:1)
ourz wus mor sofistimacated as we not tipe noten wed juz yell reals lowd an we gets it free
wats pizza hut dit like pizza shack
Prior Art, Bitch!
Re:If they were smart (Score:2)
[picks up phone....]
Re:If they were smart (Score:1, Funny)
Re:If they were smart (Score:1)
implement /weed plz (Score:1, Troll)
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EQ3 (Score:2)
Re:EQ3 (Score:2)
Commandline pizza (Score:3, Informative)
CLI Pizza [beigerecords.com]
Re:Commandline pizza (Score:2)
Pizza every two hours, automatically...
reminds me of pizza party (Score:2)
also a slashdot acticle
Now all they need is pizza people like to eat... (Score:1)
Re:Now all they need is pizza people like to eat.. (Score:1)
Yes, but... (Score:2)
more... (Score:2)
and then, we can have marketing at our UNIX prompt!
Re:more... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:more... (Score:2)
I miss kozmo.com ...
Re:more... (Score:2)
Type /pizza (Score:2, Interesting)
How much ... (Score:1)
But PizzaHut doesn't make Pizza. (Score:1)
You know Slashdot is losing it... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Excerpt from Friday's page:
Awful Link of the Day
Everquest II Pizza (thanks OMGWTFBBQ) [sony.com] - Great news for those of you too lazy to actually use a telephone while playing Everquest II; you can now order a pizza from inside the game. Blue faggot needs food badly.
While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser w
Yeah, right. (Score:2)
What I got in 30 minutes was voice mail from Pizza Hut, telling me that they couldn't deliver my pizza because the delivery guy's car broke down. I know that cars are a real rarity in today's culture and that they couldn't have found another one to use no matter how hard they tried...
Interfaces don't help if the technology behind them (and the human management, in this case) are broken.
Perhaps... (Score:2, Funny)
two questions (Score:4, Funny)
2. does the 'get it in 15 minutes or it's free' clause count if it takes me 25 minutes to answer the door because i'm currently instancing with a group and want to make sure im not AFK when the blue item is dropped and i want to roll for it?
Re:/exit (Score:2, Interesting)
it's
Besides, lots of people play in order to escape the life they have. They actually have too much life for their tastes at the moment.
I once met a prostitute who just loved EQ just so she wouldn't have to think about her life. Met her in reality, though (and no, I was not a customer).
Re:/exit (Score:1)
Nah, it just gives you the pentobarbital (Score:1)
Re:Finally, Now All I Have To Do Is... (Score:1)
So your toilet is by the front door... sick man.. very very sick man...
Re:WoW (Score:2)