April 2006’s edition of the Carnival of Gamers is available on n3rfed, cleverly illustrated with pseudo-screenshots of game conversations.

Don’t go read it now! If you’re going to play Warcraft tonight, save that link for the corpse run after Blackwing Lair’s Broodlord … y’know, when the instance starts to sputter and your casters use those famous last words, “I’m not sure this is going to work with the casting lag”, and you all decide to give it a try anyways because you don’t want to sit in the Suppression Room forever, so you dive in and shortly thereafter, your third tank starts getting his (or her) beatdown while the healers stare at perma-casting flash heals, and after the last rogue and hunter has been wtf-pwnt and you’re facing a run from the Searing Gorge graveyard through no fault of your own (this time), THEN take some time to read through the varied entries in this month’s Carnival.

I know you’ll be tempted to have the entire guild file an in-game petition, but reading the Carnival is a much better use of your corpse-recovery time and less likely to get your account banned for foul language.

The February edition of the monthly Carnival of Gamers is up and open for business at Slashdot Games.

Zonk of Slashdot: ‘The Carnival of Gamers’ [is] a roving blog event that collects together some blog entries on gaming written during the previous month. The entries are all self-submitted, and cover everything from the legalities of online currency to the state of videogame reviews. This is a great opportunity to check out some sites you may not have had the chance to read before, and expand your thinking on gaming in society today.

Next month’s Karn-evil will be at VirginWorlds on March 2nd.

You will only get that if you’re cool like me and Slashdot commenter winkydink.