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One Shots: Giant envy
Last week's call for screenshots of MMO giants brought out some big responses. Hefty contributions, if you get my drift. And we'll kick off...
One Shots: A good day to respawn
You'd think it would be mentally exhausting to be a Klingon, what with waking up every morning fully expecting to die and looking for...
One Shots: The magical land of candy
We would all like to think that, given the opportunity, we would be brave adventurers in fantasy lands, venturing forth to slay dragons and...
One Shots: A friend closer than a brother
When you are heading out to the dangerous wilds where dismemberment, face melting, certain death, or even experience loss might be around every corner,...
One Shots: Your eye is at stake!
What did you get for the holidays? If it was anything other than a weapon to fight super mutants in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, then...
MOP Awards: Best MMO Player Screenshots
Every Friday morning after breakfast, I crack open the comments to the previous week's One Shots column and pick the most eye-catching and interesting...
One Shots: Memories in crystal
We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...
One Shots: Gaming in the Before Times
The beginning of 2020 seems so, so very long ago now, doesn't it? It's strange to think back to a time when we could...
One Shots: Pledging Trekkie Trekkie Trekkie
So you know how Star Trek claims that it has a functioning futuristic society without money? Somehow? That's made me overthink how Starfleet Academy...
One Shots: The life of fish people
Indentured servitude is something that Final Fantasy XIV likes to introduce to its players, such as poor Scott, who discovered that he's in for...
One Shots: Rising sun, setting slaughter
"After a short break from Final Fantasy XIV, I’m back with my /gpose addiction," reader Josh said.
Josh, you're breaking our hearts here. We thought...
One Shots: Bring your poor, your tired, your zombies
For a while now, IronSalamander's been taking amazing pictures of the colorful and stylish Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, but I think today's...
One Shots: Don’t stare directly at the book
In most games, a book is a dumping ground for ignored lore or, at best, a prop to make you look extra-nerdy for all...
One Shots: Cooking with arsenic
In the apocalypse, cooking shows are a lot weirder -- and deadlier. But just because your co-host accidentally drank that bubbling green liquid and...
One Shots: Rock out in your hideout
I don't have a full-blown lair, unless my work office counts, but if I did, I would aspire to put it someplace really cool....
One Shots: Disco dunking
Just because the career possibilities are limited for monsters with gigantism who have rage issues doesn't mean that they don't have feelings. Passions. A...
One Shots: Spit take
If my experience with that giant camel at Aladdin's Flying Carpets at Disney World is any indication, all dromedaries are jerks that want to...
One Shots: Watch where you’re waving that thing!
Several Christmases ago, my mother actually bought me a giant pirate sword that was very metal and very, very sharp. I instantly became terrified...
One Shots: Amnesia and shipwrecks at level one
Utakata's shot of a "quiet earth" in Blade and Soul here is not from the starting area (I'm assuming!), but it definitely makes me...
One Shots: Unholy abominations
We may view them as horrible monsters who are standing between us and our precious loot, but have you ever considered life -- such...
