Sony sunk to a new all time LOW....

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » February 17, 2005, 6:31 pm

http://everquest2.station.sony.com/pizza/

No, this isnt a joke.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » February 17, 2005, 6:32 pm

I can smell the cat ass from here.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 17, 2005, 6:35 pm

/miir ON

Diae, you're such a troll. What's there to criticize if SOE wants to make life easier and more convenient for their customers.

/miir OFF

Because it's not like you should have to get up from your computer to do well... anything.

Looking forward to a game that implements:

/winninglotterynumber
/oilchange
/vaccuummyhouse
/blowjob

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 17, 2005, 6:42 pm

That command was there in the beta as well.

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » February 17, 2005, 6:44 pm

At this point in my life...

/vaccuummyhouse > /blowjob

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » February 17, 2005, 6:45 pm

If they implement /blowjob Im going to cut up all credit cards in my house.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » February 17, 2005, 7:10 pm

Pizza Hut doesn't deliver to my house.

FUCK SOE those goddamned prejudice bastards. If I played EQ2, I'd be super pissed.

Thank goodness I never bothered with that piece of crap

Post by **Xouqoa** » February 17, 2005, 7:25 pm

Now would be an opportune time to market my online ordering application to Blizzard and Dominos!

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 17, 2005, 7:27 pm

this is honestly one of the most brilliant things i've ever seen.

imagine if you could order food with a TV remote. holy shit i've said too much.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » February 17, 2005, 7:57 pm

FUCK DOMINOS AND PIZZA HUT! PAPA JOHN FOR THE BIG "W"!

noel · Post by **noel** » February 17, 2005, 7:59 pm

Notable commentary from another forum:

Woah, this must be the new solo content - finally something you can do without camping a spot in a group for 4 hours. I'm so excited!

/makegamefun

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 17, 2005, 8:20 pm

All it does is launch your web browser and go to pizzahut.com. Talk about lazy people!

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » February 17, 2005, 8:21 pm

It would be way cooler if you could set up an account with them and it just bills you and sends it.

Or gives a checkbox with stuff you can order.

Or even if you could order a pizza for someone else!

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » February 17, 2005, 8:28 pm

Donatos > Papa John's > East of Chicago > Pizza Hut > Dominos!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 17, 2005, 8:44 pm

I agree. I don't really like Pizza Hut. Papa John's the way to go!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 17, 2005, 8:54 pm

Aslanna wrote:All it does is launch your web browser and go to pizzahut.com. Talk about lazy people!

Sounds like a great excuse if I was still playing if I screwed up during a raid.

/tells guild, "my pizza macro misfired and launched my browser right as I was about to cast Malo!

Fash · Post by **Fash** » February 17, 2005, 8:59 pm

lol winnow.. that would be the laziest-case-scenario.. /pizza in a macro.

parked on the highway

left work 2 hours ago, not even halfway home yet.. vv'ing from phone

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » February 17, 2005, 9:19 pm

UberLevel9381Mob hits Bob for 391 damage.
UberLevel9381Mob hits Bob for 227 damage.
UberLevel9381Mob hits Bob for 192 damage.
Bob tells the group, "FUCKING CLERIC WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
You tell the group, "Hold on a sec...im ordering pizza."
UberLevel9381Mob hits Bob for 372 damage.
Bob tells the group, "..."
Bob has been slain by UberLevel9381Mob.
You tell the group, "Hmm...should i get a large with pepperoni or anchovies..?"

nobody · Post by **nobody** » February 17, 2005, 9:19 pm

you can vv from your phone!? holy shit that is scary

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » February 17, 2005, 10:07 pm

There's absolutely nothing that I can add to this that would make it any funnier than it already is. Except for this picture of a smiley getting a wedgie.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 17, 2005, 10:28 pm

<anarch> my only question is what took so long?
<Tortolia> it IS brilliantly stupid
<dm^O_o> if it was tied into my subscription, i might actually use it
<dm^O_o> so i didn't have to find my wallet for the CC
<anarch> yeah that would be even better
<Ray> heh, knowing mmog companies, you could only get papa johns after you hit level 50 and you completed the quest of italian sausage +1
<Tortolia> ahahahaha
<anarch> I'm sorry you are not strong enough for Pizza Hut yet.

<Tortolia> I'm waiting for EQ2 mages to be able to cast Summon Supreme
<anarch> haha
<Tortolia> and honestly, it's only a matter of time now before there's Summon Pepsi
<anarch> maybe at higher levels you get better summons
<anarch> starting out with summon: cheese
<anarch> then on up to peperonni
<anarch> and ending in the supreme meat lovers
<anarch> but you have to quest for unique pizzas
<anarch> such as hawaiian
<Tortolia> just think of the synergy
<Tortolia> whenever Pizza Hut rolls out a new one you have a time limited quest to learn that spell
<anarch> haha
<Tortolia> only 3 more weeks on the Dipping Pizza quest
<Ray> have to raid for breadsticks
<Tortolia> those evil bastards!
<anarch> only the fearsome mozarella dragon drops the rare ingredient for the chicken wing quest!
<Tortolia> beware the grease elementals
<anarch> haha
<Ray> heh

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 18, 2005, 12:10 am

Fash wrote:lol winnow.. that would be the laziest-case-scenario.. /pizza in a macro.

parked on the highway left work 2 hours ago, not even halfway home yet.. vv'ing from phone

#1 you are god

#2 i would definitely have tied my pizza macro to forage.

yeah that is gayer than aranuil's brad pitt avatar, but sue me

pS ara,

taht si some funny as shit IRC chatter too

you can lust on Brad Pitt and still be cool in my book chief

Kithyen · Post by **Kithyen** » February 18, 2005, 12:30 am

Actually the only way they could redeem themselves with that one is if you typed /pizza and the message, "Pizza delivery? Get up and call it in yourself you fat fuck!" popped up.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 18, 2005, 12:35 am

Great, chain pizza when there's ten billion real pizza joints out there.

"Hi, would you like our ass pizza because, you know, we have commercials, and they're on tv and everything?"

Oh, you'd like to order from the real pizza joint(s) that are only 50 yards away? Fucking commies

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » February 18, 2005, 12:54 am

Voronwë wrote:this is honestly one of the most brilliant things i've ever seen.

imagine if you could order food with a TV remote. holy shit i've said too much.

So when are we gonna hear James Earl Jones saying, "This is PNN"?

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » February 18, 2005, 1:42 am

Chidoro wrote:Great, chain pizza when there's ten billion real pizza joints out there.

"Hi, would you like our ass pizza because, you know, we have commercials, and they're on tv and everything?"

Oh, you'd like to order from the real pizza joint(s) that are only 50 yards away? Fucking commies

Chidoro, I got news for ya, in Texas Pizza Hut *IS* good pizza. I fucking lust for a New Haven style white clam pizza.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 18, 2005, 2:09 am

Erm, Pizza Hut isn't good pizza everywhere in Texas. The only thing I think is worse than Pizza Hut here in Austin is Domino's.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » February 18, 2005, 10:34 am

We don't have any 'real' pizza joints around where i live, except for one, and they don't deliver.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 18, 2005, 11:24 am

Tenuvil wrote: Chidoro, I got news for ya, in Texas Pizza Hut *IS* good pizza. I fucking lust for a New Haven style white clam pizza.

May God have mercy on your poor taste buds

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » February 18, 2005, 12:07 pm

I grew up east coast...Bayonne, NJ...not too far from NYC proper....now I live in Kansas. There are two things you cannot get here like I could back there

1. Real pizza
2. A decent bagel

All of the chain pizza places suck compared to a good hand tossed pie made in a small privately owned pizza place.

EDIT - BTW..Frank Carney founded Pizza Hut and he did so in the city in which I live now...and it sucks ass...greasy pizza wannabe muck...

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 18, 2005, 12:27 pm

i worked at Pizza Hut in high school. actually made good money waiting tables.

i had a piece of flare that said "I'm talking serious pepperoni".

that was the highlight. other than the fact that one of the assistant managers smoked weed in the kitchen when he was running the ship. that was before my pothead days so i just stayed out front

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 18, 2005, 12:34 pm

Moonwynd wrote:EDIT - BTW..Frank Carney founded Pizza Hut and he did so in the city in which I live now...and it sucks ass...greasy pizza wannabe muck...

Ugh, why would you move from anywhere to Wichita?

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 18, 2005, 1:26 pm

I grew up east coast...Bayonne, NJ...not too far from NYC proper....now I live in Kansas. There are two things you cannot get here like I could back there

1. Real pizza
2. A decent bagel

Ouch. Bayonne is looking pretty snazzy these days as well. The light rail has been completed up to hoboken. It's been built up pretty well of late.

Well, if you can find one, I guess you can make one. If you can't get a good dough at your market it's pretty simple if you have a KitchenAid and, hopefully, you have a stonewear pizza plate:

1 packet active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour, divided

Dissolve yeast in warm water (105° to 115°F); stir in oil and salt. Beat with an electric mixer at low speed for 1 minute, scraping the sides of the bowl often. Continue beating for another 3 minutes at high speed. Fold in 2½ cups flour. Dust a work surface with flour and knead in enough remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic, 6 to 8 minutes.

Grease a bowl and top of dough. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled.

For sauce, this is a pretty basic one although I typically use a little more olive oil than this recipe's recommendation:

tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 29-oz. can stewed tomatoes
1 6-oz. can tomato paste
2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 bay leaf
1/8 teaspoon sugar
1/8 tablespoon hot pepper sauce

Heat oiI in a large skillet. Add onions and sauté 1 minute. Add green pepper and sauté 3 minutes.

Add stewed tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, basil, oregano, bay leaf, sugar and hot pepper sauce. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Remove the bay leaf prior to spreading sauce on the pizza.

Pre-heat the oven to 500, flour up the dough again, spread the sauce, sprin*kle about a half a cup of mozzarella, cook for about 15 minutes spinning the stonewear occasionally until you see the crust is a little brown. Voila!

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » February 18, 2005, 1:28 pm

In all seriousness, I may use this command next time I have a few bucks to spend on a pizza. This is so lame it's funny, and I can't help but use it because of it.

/waits for DQ to make a deal with Blizzard

Siji · Post by **Siji** » February 18, 2005, 2:10 pm

They need to implement Olive Garden into the new EQ1 guild halls.. because after all, when you're here.. you're family.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · February 18, 2005, 2:11 pm

masteen wrote:FUCK DOMINOS AND PIZZA HUT! PAPA JOHN FOR THE BIG "W"!

Damn skippy!

noel · Post by **noel** » February 18, 2005, 4:45 pm

Scenario: You're some shmuck working at a Pizza Hut. You hate your life. You hate. It's 2:30am Saturday morning and your stuck in this nowhere bullshit job where dickhead assistant managers think they know jack shit about anything (establish mood) when an email comes in from "Lord Akaran" on your new PizzaHut(r) Orders by Email(tm) software. Apprearantly Lord Akaran is too fucking lazy to get off his ass and find a phone while he sits in his underwear behind some fancy computer that his mother probably bought him.

What are you going to do to that Pizza?

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » February 18, 2005, 4:55 pm

rofl
My phone actually sits next to my computer...

To me it's just a matter of remembering their number.

/blow me noel

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » February 18, 2005, 5:18 pm

noel wrote:Scenario: You're some shmuck working at a Pizza Hut. You hate your life. You hate. It's 2:30am Saturday morning and your stuck in this nowhere bullshit job where dickhead assistant managers think they know jack shit about anything (establish mood) when an email comes in from "Lord Akaran" on your new PizzaHut(r) Orders by Email(tm) software. Apprearantly Lord Akaran is too fucking lazy to get off his ass and find a phone while he sits in his underwear behind some fancy computer that his mother probably bought him.

What are you going to do to that Pizza?

While most of us would assume that normal workers would not do anything, we can assume the Pizza Hut guy...who we will just call "Noel"...would realize that someone sitting around ordering pizza and playing EQ at 2:30 am and not out trying to get laid is probably a tad unstable and could quite possibly be dangerous. "Noel" would be wise to not fuck with that pizza unless he is putting extra pepperoni on it.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 18, 2005, 5:22 pm

Hypothetically speaking of course

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » February 18, 2005, 5:26 pm

Lohrno wrote:It would be way cooler if you could...order a pizza for someone else!

LOL

If "/pizza winnow" would have billed my CC and sent him a pizza, that would have been awesome!

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » February 18, 2005, 5:29 pm

Shaerra wrote: LOL

If "/pizza winnow" would have billed my CC and sent him a pizza, that would have been awesome!

Call me silly, but I seriously do think so. With the social aspects of EQ, it would make things interesting. Or "/flowers winnow" or something.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » February 18, 2005, 5:43 pm

West Shore Pizza for the win! A guy from Philly owns them, good stuff.

The chains pretty much suck, Hungry Howies is probably the best of them around here though.

The NY\NJ style pizza I've had is like cardboard with a dab of tomato paste. Getting a pie when I lived in CT was a sorry experience.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 18, 2005, 6:10 pm

Lol Kilmoll!

Akaran, I only used your name because I figured you had thicker skin that most and could take a joke.

Not like I said anything about topping the pizza with Nair!

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » February 18, 2005, 6:13 pm

Aabidano wrote:Getting a pie when I lived in CT was a sorry experience.

You apparently never went to Wooster St in New Haven

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » February 18, 2005, 6:22 pm

OH NO YOU DIDNT
OH NO YOU DIDNT
No NAIR on PIZZA!

Just for that.. I hope Lance gets a flat tire going uphill next Tour. =p

//evil laugh

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » February 18, 2005, 8:04 pm

Kind of silly, but also not a bad move on their part. All it does is open a web browser to Pizza Hut's existing online ordering system, so the effort to implement was almost certianly trivial. In return I imagine they are getting some revenue from Pizza Hut (or some reciprocal advertising). Pizza Hut gets some advertising, and in a form that exposes people to their on-line ordering. Probably a decent benefit for both of them.

For the people that seem to be knocking online ordering versus the phone. You're nuts. I have been using Papa John's online ordering occasionally for a couple years now probably and its great. You can actually see the menu, you can see what specials, no waiting on hold, and its probably a lot less hassle for the people taking the order as well. Unless they enjoy reciting the menu/specials endlessly and trying to hear customers orders over the general noise, then I guess they might be angry enough to try to carry out pizza facilitated vengeance on me, but I feel pretty safe taking my chances.

Dexail · Post by **Dexail** » February 18, 2005, 9:01 pm

posted this on our guild board. When other advertising tie ins become the norm in MMORPG.
___________________________________________________

your EQmatch.com matches are ready!

Sassydruid4U
474 years old
divorced
enjoys quick runs through kithicor with 4 or more mobs chasing me
best feature: ears

Barbarianchick
35 years old
single, never married
enjoys skinning wolves and moonlight romps through the alchemy patches
Best feature: (I'm a barbarian, with barbarian boobs)

Inkiesexbabe
22 years old
single, not a mangina
enjoys cybering for plat
Best feature: I'm not a mangina

Gnomishwonderbra
137 years old
divorced
enjoys finding new uses for my clockwork "devices"
Best feature: i'm 3 foot tall.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 22, 2005, 6:01 pm

Yet more: http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/comment ... tm?cnn=yes

Should the experiment succeed, expect to see similar sales programs go into effect – this time with the billing tied directly to the credit card number players give Sony to cover the game's monthly charges.

For the record, I think Sony was brilliant for implementing this. What I'm making fun of is the people who've made a market for this.

Patch notes 2-28-2006: Pepsico promotion now live! With the Deathfist's recent occupation of the Runnyeye Gold Mines, it has become fashionable for some pawns to carry gold-plated picks. These can be redeemed via the /pizza command for a free large Pepsi with your next order. In addition, the rare gem-encrusted gold-plated pick may be exchanged for one free family size pizza.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » February 22, 2005, 8:28 pm

You know, I don't see the big deal about a command that opens up a web browser... hell that crap existed in IRC 10 years ago!