User:Tom Morris

Disclaimer

The name and biographical blurb for the UD character Tom Morris are based upon a longtime friend of the actual player, and are not to be confused with the actual electronics guru by that name, who to my knowledge does not play this game (though if he does sign up, I'd hope he creates a fake version of me to get repeatedly killed).

The fact that I named a character after my friend, make light of the character on his in-game bio page, and spent the first two weeks I played getting him repeatedly killed in ever more amusing ways should indicate to even the most casual UD wiki reader that I'm not into roleplaying in-game. Even in an ideal gameworld, it wouldn't look like much fun to me to play a mindless creature like a zombie, and the wiki, user groups, private forums, etc, turn this into a free for all of metagaming extravagance, so those people who play in-character are both seriously outnumbered and strategically out-manuevered.

Which is fine with me, at any rate. I appreciate this game as a quick daily diversion, and as a sort of political warfare simulator. Anybody can form a group with any outrageous agenda and try to achieve their goals, through various tactics that I doubt Kevan intended when he set the game up. Each round of skill rebalancing and addition leads to new layers of complication and deceit; it's a lot of fun really. Zerging and such is obviously nasty cheating, but things like PKing, ZKing, zombie spies, saboteurs, various methods of scouting and recon that fall on the shady side? Some of that stuff is brilliant. You never really know what you're dealing with, and the situation on the ground in a particular suburb can change overnight, which is really cool. I also admire the level of dedication the zombie players put forward; seriously outnumbered, they've really put a lot of thought into organizing their hordes (though I still think that, pre-Headshot 2.0, the ankle grab skill was horrifically broken and overpowered).

The community of deranged wackos is what makes this game special; where else do you get faux-secret societies of survivors dedicated to murdering the scientist classes who keep them alive, or fake churches for the undead based on a shameless satirization of Christian dogma? Really, you come for the zombies, but if you stay, I think, you have to stay for the lunacy.

That all being clear, here's a character bio for you:

<coming soon when I'm not so damn tired>