It's mostly a joke playing on the years of my life wasted in WoW, except I'm totally not joking about anything I said.

Are you kidding? It's the most perfect response I can imagine. It follows the OP's metaphor even more rigorously than the OP does, it's useful and it's exactly right on every point. If that's outsourced, I would like to get me some of that cheap labor.

I don't know. I think it is him.

I used http://www.standards-schmandards.com/exhibits/rix/index.php and copy pasted the grandparent comment in - got a reading ease score of 58.

Copy pasted some answers from http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator - got a reading ease score of 59.

Close enough for government work, I think. I never knew that patio11 played World of Worldcraft?

Edit: Oops, just read the response above me, learn something new every day. And no serious critiques of my methodology please, it was just for humor's sake. :-)

You don't think he would have a little fun with the "leveling up" concept?

Have you seen this video? http://blip.tv/business-of-software/patrick-mckenzie-marketi...