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Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Interesting)

by eldavojohn ( 898314 ) * writes:

I (and many many others) have an achievement [slashdot.org] called "The Maker" ... what does that mean? It's not listed in the FAQ.

Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.

Also, if I have CmdrTaco's attention, why not leave this up? You've written the code for it and although it will certainly tax your database (default awards were handed out on different days)
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  by Jeremy Erwin ( 2054 ) writes: on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @09:34AM (#27415129) Journal
  
  I thought we were capped at Level 50.
  
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    by richie2000 ( 159732 ) writes: <rickard.olsson@gmail.com> on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @09:39AM (#27415195) Homepage Journal
    
    There's going to be an expansion out soon, upping that to level 60.
    
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      by Jeremy Erwin ( 2054 ) writes:
      
      Excellent.
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        by Albio ( 854216 ) writes:
        
        When will it end! Eventually they'll up it to 70 just to keep us interested.
        
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        by Spazztastic ( 814296 ) writes:
        
        When will it end! Eventually they'll up it to 70 just to keep us interested.
        And then they will up it to 80 and recycle content from when you were 60 because they are running out of ideas!
        
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        by synthparadox ( 770735 ) writes:
        
        And with each expansion they will exponentially decrease the difficulty to achieve things until a 2-year-old facerolling the keyboard could... oh. We weren't serious?
        
        Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by orclevegam ( 940336 ) writes: on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:23AM (#27416317) Journal
        
        Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
        
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        by Jurily ( 900488 ) writes: <jurily@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:10AM (#27417715)
        
        Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
        Except CmdrTaco. The one thing I'm actually proud of here and he leaves it out..
        
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        by Hardolaf ( 1371377 ) writes:
        
        True.
        
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        by kbielefe ( 606566 ) writes:
        
        Hah! The 'last post' achievement is mine!
        
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        by Dave2 Wickham ( 600202 ) writes:
        
        Hah! The 'last post' achievement is mine!
        Not any more!
        
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        by SkyDude ( 919251 ) writes:
        
        Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist psot!
        Fixed that for you
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by SQLGuru ( 980662 ) writes:
        
        Sadly, I'll probably never get that particular medal next to my name.........
        
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        by Zarf ( 5735 ) writes:
        
        you could make your own /. with... beer... and hookers... on second thought, forget the /.
        
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        by Maxo-Texas ( 864189 ) writes:
        
        They should definitely have both first post and frist post achievements.
        And one called Redundancy Lord (for 10+ redundant comments within a month)
        
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        by eleuthero ( 812560 ) writes:
        
        Could it be that these achievements already exist and we just don't have them or haven't seen them?
        
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        by Cube Steak ( 1520237 ) writes:
        
        But what about the "frosty piss" achievement?
        
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        by Maxo-Texas ( 864189 ) writes:
        
        It seemed like everyone I inspected had 3 achievements to start with.
        So I assume people got their top three achievements.
        Haven't seen a "first post" yet.
        
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        by Zarf ( 5735 ) writes:
        
        I don't know about you but I've been working for years on the 4 digit UID thing. I finally made it! Woo! Just a little longer and I'll get that coveted 1 digit UID ... yah baby!
        
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        by ZiakII ( 829432 ) writes:
        
        Your going to kill 5734 people?
        
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        by eleuthero ( 812560 ) writes:
        
        no, only 5726 ... thankfully, I'm higher than he is and safe
        
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        by joaobranco ( 55662 ) writes:
        
        Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
        Or posting on a silly thread just to get the achiev...
        
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        by CTalkobt ( 81900 ) writes:
        
        Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
        Or posting on a silly thread just to get the achiev...
        Heh - posting in a thread just to get another achievment...
        How silly.
        Wait.
        Oh drat....
        
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        by RLiegh ( 247921 ) writes:
        
        ...ment.
        
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        by ooburns ( 1254768 ) writes:
        
        Indeed.
        
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        by F'Nok ( 226987 ) * writes:
        
        Surely no one would do...
        Damn.
        
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        by xperimental ( 552918 ) writes:
        
        Who would do such a thing?
        
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        by nacturation ( 646836 ) * writes:
        
        Agreed!
        
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        by narcberry ( 1328009 ) writes:
        
        Like this!
        
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        by narcberry ( 1328009 ) writes:
        
        People do that?
        
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        by orclevegam ( 940336 ) writes:
        
        I vote for a whooosh achievement for when you fail to get the joke... not sure how you would automate assigning that though.
        
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        by Numbstruck ( 955273 ) writes:
        
        if ($Post.Child.text =~ /whoosh/) && (($Post.Child.Moderation.Type =~ /funny|insightful/) && ($Post.Child.Score = 5)){ $WhooshAchivement = true }
        
        Perhaps something like this?
        
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        by Obliterous ( 466068 ) writes:
        
        And Double Drat! (and that darned 18 second rule, WTFBBQ?!?)
        
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        by fractoid ( 1076465 ) writes:
        
        I don't think I've ever seen a /whoosh/ post that was rated higher than 2 or 3.
        
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        by Sir Toby ( 660923 ) writes:
        
        Not me... Nope.
        
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        by bigstrat2003 ( 1058574 ) * writes:
        
        Yeah! ...wait. I suppose the fact that current 5-mans are harder than vanilla 5-mans, and Naxx is harder than MC, kind of ruins your rant. Seriously, WoW has already been way easier than this. Quit bitching.
        
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        by Tsagadai ( 922574 ) writes:
        
        Did someone hit a nerve? You better get back to playing WoW before you start twitching again.
        
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        by fractoid ( 1076465 ) writes:
        
        Probably just that (like most of us) he's sick of people saying "THIS GAEM IS 2 EZ" to try and make themselves look good. To add injury to insult, the people that say this are usually prime examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect, lending their copious quantities of fail to whatever endeavour they join before blaming everyone but themselves and leaving in a storm of self righteous name calling.
        
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        by zeropointburn ( 975618 ) writes:
        
        What are these levels you speak of?
        For those of us playing a real game, let us link to the eve api and score per million SP.
        
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        by kv9 ( 697238 ) writes:
        
        For those of us playing a real game, let us link to the eve api and score per million SP.
        Moderation perfectly strikes you wrecking for 5 karma damage.
        
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        by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
        
        And with each expansion they will exponentially decrease the difficulty to achieve things until a 2-year-old facerolling the keyboard could...
        You must be new here. (Yes, I am on a quest to see how many times I can say that in an AF story. Thank you for asking.) Have you seen some of the comments around this place? And I'm talking about the ones that get modded up...
        
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        by MrMunkey ( 1039894 ) writes:
        
        I just hope I don't have to install the expansion "Slashdot: Goatse Edition" to get the other content.
        
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        by stfvon007 ( 632997 ) writes:
        
        and wheres the "I dont play wow" achievement?
        
        Re: (Score:1)
        
        by Zarf ( 5735 ) writes:
        
        and wheres the "I dont play wow" achievement?
        It's called a life
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by Kuukai ( 865890 ) writes:
        
        You can enter the account someone else is using and then remove it. They should really add a check for that...
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        by FreeFull ( 1043860 ) writes:
        
        Bah, I always say that the level cap should be 255 but the game made so that it's too hard to go past level 99, and only one person actually manages to get to level 99.
        
        Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by Verdatum ( 1257828 ) writes: on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:18AM (#27416159)
        
        Uh, hi, excuse me, just in case you are interested, we have a potential kill-screen coming up on Slashdot if you'd like to come see; potential kill-screen on Slashdot.
        
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        by Fallingcow ( 213461 ) writes:
        
        hahaha, awesome reference.
        Will the Slashdot version be called "Slash of Dot"?
        
        Re: (Score:1)
        
        by Sulix ( 1154971 ) writes:
        
        Will we have to post live now, just in case posting from home isn't accepted?
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by Idiomatick ( 976696 ) writes:
        
        In maplestory the cap is 200 and the fastest person to do it took over 3years.
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        by Talderas ( 1212466 ) writes:
        
        Yes, excellent.
        
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        by CyberKnet ( 184349 ) writes:
        
        Fabulous, even.
        Wait...
        D'oh!
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      by yincrash ( 854885 ) writes:
      
      better start farming
      - Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Insightful)
        
        by rchatterjee ( 211000 ) writes: on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:35AM (#27416695) Homepage
        
        I believe it's referred to as karma whoring here.
        
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        by vamin ( 1356057 ) writes:
        
        better start karming?
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by rootofevil ( 188401 ) writes:
        
        or get some poor folks to do it for you
        
        Re: (Score:2)
        
        by Kuroji ( 990107 ) writes:
        
        Clearly I will have to outsource my slashdotting to India, just as I outsourced my MMORPG moneymaking and my catalog ordering and tech support calling.
        
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        by Zarf ( 5735 ) writes:
        
        Considering slashdotting and MMORPG are things we do for fun... isn't it kinda dumb for us to outsource having fun? Isn't that the point of having a job? You know... to pay for having fun?
        How amazingly filthy stinking rich are we (Americans and Europeans) that we outsource our fun-having because it's not quite the optimal fun-having we want?
        
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        by street_astrologist ( 1522063 ) writes:
        
        I think I understand... so, where can I sign up to have other people post for me? My usual gold farming crew doesn't seem to understand when I ask them to work on this.
        
        Re: (Score:1)
        
        by Esteban ( 54212 ) writes:
        
        In the spirit of the World of Warcraft achievement addition, "karma whoring" has been renamed to the less-impugning "karma farming" or "grinding karma."
        
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        by RESPAWN ( 153636 ) writes:
        
        Which is why they removed the numerical value for karma, I'm guessing...
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        by HunterX ( 28292 ) writes:
        
        Dangit, I joined this website because I thought it was geared to the casual reader -- and now I find there's a whole big endgame with a bunch of content that I'll never see 'cause I don't have enough time to devote to just this place!
        *sighs* Ah, well, at least grinding can be done solo easily enough...
        grindgrindgrindgrindgrind
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        by TheEldest ( 913804 ) writes:
        
        I hope that was sarcasm.
        
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        by Glsai ( 840331 ) writes:
        
        I don't think it was. Besides everyone knows Vanilla WoW you were capped at 60
        
        Re: (Score:1)
        
        by Zarf ( 5735 ) writes:
        
        Does this mean we're playing vanilla /. then? Can we please get an expansion pack? How about the ability to post comments as YouTube videos?
      - Re: (Score:2)
        
        by HardCase ( 14757 ) writes:
        
        Holy cow, Captain Obvious actually posts on /.! And all this time I thought that it was just a sarcastic expression!
    - Re: (Score:3, Funny)
      
      by mariushm ( 1022195 ) writes:
      
      I thought it was going to be over 9000 :( [youtube.com].
      - Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
        
        by Tetsujin ( 103070 ) writes:
        
        I thought it was going to be over 9000 :( [youtube.com].
        Or 8000 in the original Japanese...
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      by Tetsujin ( 103070 ) writes:
      
      There's going to be an expansion out soon, upping that to level 60.
      Yes, ladies and gentlemen - not only is "up" a verb, but it's transitive! :D
      - Re: (Score:2)
        
        by Nefarious Wheel ( 628136 ) writes:
        
        There's going to be an expansion out soon, upping that to level 60.
        I have a fundamental dislike of gerunding.
      - Re: (Score:2)
        
        by richie2000 ( 159732 ) writes:
        
        You will get your comeuppance, dear Sir, come the revolution. :-P
    - Re: (Score:2)
      
      by Kadagan AU ( 638260 ) writes:
      
      So, not being a WoW player, and wanting the level 80 achievement so badly.. I decided to steal it. Am I the only one who's WoW character is Zmdrtaco@Chromaggus? =)
      - Re: (Score:2)
        
        by el americano ( 799629 ) writes:
        
        Not anymore...
    - Re: (Score:2)
      
      by Kingfox ( 149377 ) writes:
      
      I can't wait for Slashdot V: The Trolls Strike Back.
    - Re: (Score:1)
      
      by Liath ( 950770 ) writes:
      
      +1

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