Filed under: World of Warcraft
I actually have no complaints about game mechanics, the grinding, raiding, or anything like that because… I just don’t do anything I don’t want to do.
No, no, what drives me crazy in the game is exactly the same thing that drives me crazy in real life – other people.
Specifically, two attitudes held by “other people” that are just so illogical/infuriating to me that after weeks on end of silence, I will actually appear in /g to rip someone up one side and down the other when these hot buttons come up.
…. this post can now be foind with everything else, here.
Things I Like
1. World of Warcraft
Hee!
2. TED Talks
Specifically, Ze Frank’s nerdcore comedy, Jane Goodall, and Michael Shermer was extremely enjoyable. Plus there are about eleventy billion more that are just as awesome, with Mena Trott, Steven Levitt, etc. Go watch some TED Talks.
3. Not wearing shoes.
Things I Don’t Like
1. People who tailgate me on my way to work or honk at me when they’re behind me while I’m trying to make a turn. You must understand, people – there is nothing you can do to make me go faster or turn sooner, I will go when I am damn good and ready.
2. Having a ridiculous amount of trouble sleeping and having to go to work anyway. I miss college. All my best sleeping was done when I was supposed to be in class.
3. Stepping on slugs with my bare feet.
Filed under: World of Warcraft
So, my main, a 70 lock, is unguilded and has been for quite some time, maybe when I finally finish the story of my week of misbehavior, I’ll tell the story of what happened there, but ugh, seriously, you all know. Was officer and raid leader, guild went crazy, words said, guilds quit, tantrums thrown, fingers given, etc etc. You know?
Anyway, being unguilded and whatnot, she’s a little boring to play so I have rolled a new alt, and for some reason, this just tickled me greatly tonight.
ROO ORE! AM BEAR.
Bet you can’t guess what I was up to…
… then right about here would be a post about how I am drunk, and isn’t that awesome!!
Except I’m not 20, and while I was drunk, I did not post about it, but drunkenly played WoW instead.
Sort of.
Well, see, I had a headache? Because the Redhead is moving away and as we all know, that calls for two bottles of rum to be vanished away over 5 or 7 hours, in the sun. On an empty stomach. Which also calls for a lot of tylenol. Except sometimes you can only find Tylenol PM. And then you’re really not aware of things for a long while after that. And then your phone rings at 4am and you’re so confused and you have NO idea who you’re talking to, and your head is pounding and they just won’t. get. off. the. phone. and even in your pre-hangover hangoverness, you’re way too polite to tell the person you’re not even sure if you know to fuck the fucking fuck off, can’t you hear I’m at death’s door here? And while you’re trying to figure out a polite way to tell someone to go to hell, you look to your left and your monitor is still on and you realize you only ATTEMPTED to play WoW, as apparently you were incapable of typing in your password, and then you quickly look at all your open MSN/AIM windows to make sure you haven’t embarassed yourself and also at the same time become aware of a lump on the back of your head and a burn on your hand and an overwhelming desire for water that is just WAY too far away, and you finally get whoeverthehellitis off the phone with some vague promise to call the next day, and then? Miracle of miracles, I mean seriously, someone call the Pope? You wake up some more hours later feeling perfectly fine.
Really, who called me?
(I have an e-crush)
And also, one of my roommates is moving out this week, and another just finished school for the semester, and another just likes to drink. So they’re downstairs, out on the porch with the windows open and music blasting, making the neighbors hate us.
Well, last time I was down there, one was in another’s lap, and the third was pretty comatose. I hope someone carries him to bed before the mosquitos get him.
IGN: Rumor: StarCraft 2 Beta By Year’s End?
Well, that’s no longer a rumor. After days and days of teasing and waiting and ever changing splash pages, Blizzard has announced that their next game will be StarCraft 2.
No word yet on release date, the announcement/presentation is still ongoing, in fact, over in Korea at the invitational tournament. So it’s hard to say if I’d leave WoW, an MMO, to dedicate my attentions to an RTS. I do love StarCraft, and for some reason, was playing it poorly and obsessively right before I started playing WoW, but obviously, an RTS and an MMO are two totally different animals, and depending on how long until release, something else, or just plain apathy, could be driving me away from WoW before SC2 even hits.
However, I, for one, welcome our new Protoss overlords.
(ETA – here’s a link that will be updated with information as it is available, since of course I’m not the only one awake at nearly 3am tracking this… right?… … right? Bah. SC2 news on 1up)
Another edit – Better link.
Filed under: World of Warcraft
Kala had a bit to add in the comments on this post.
She says,
You missed a few though. There are the women who are ‘damsel in distress’ types who have men and women alike flocking to them to save them. The abused housewife who squeals in delight at any positive male attention they might get. [...] This could go on forever…
[...]I’ve gotten to the point that rather than trying to befriend any of them, since I get stomped on at every attempt, I just stick with the guys. They are much easier to please, but keeping them happy seems to end up in black-mail. “Do this or I’m leaving.” I’ve been on the verge of deleting this game for about a month now. I should probably get on with it.
As I pointed out in the post – there ARE tons of females who play this game now. And some of them, like Kala, are ending up deleting the whole game. Again, call me sexist, anti-feminist, whatever you want, but it’s not “being a girl in a man’s world” that is driving women away from WoW, it’s the territorial, attention-whoring women (and again, it’s not all women who play WoW, just a very, very vocal sect) and the behavior they invite and encourage from the males in the game, that is making many of us throw our hands up in disgust.
