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Does A Body Good
August 13, 2004
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This week has been a losing battle with my addition to World of Warcraft, as I struggle to be productive - cranking out new strips and the wallpapers for the deserving - versus the allure of getting my character to level 30 before the patch comes out. SO dammed CLOSE. And I have had to deal with so many dammed Alliance raids in the past few days that I am feeling that anyone who plays Alliance, or even is friends with anyone Alliance-related, should be punched right in the eye without delay. Now, now, that's the Tauren part of me talkin': my real self, my "IRL self" if you will, knows I should give you all a running start before the punching begins.
...No seriously. I know it's dumb, but razing towns in the standard Beta server seems like the height of retarded, ESPECIALLY when one thereafter goes on to forums and bellows about it like some high school jock pounding his chest and congratulating himself for having knocked over that skinny geek kid in the halls again today. I know the Horde does it too, but really, it slows down the server and seems like just a waste of time. If you dig inconveniencing people, go on Player-VS-Player and stop being a dick to everyone else who just wants a good game. I had a quest I wanted to hand in, NOW I have to wait something like a half-hour to turn the dammed thing in because a band of "OMG I AM TEH HARDCOR!!!!!111" high-level Alliance dipshits came in town and killed everyone, and keep hanging around doing so each time they come back? Oh, and might I mention that I can't do anything about it, because they are so much higher level than I am that I cannot SEE what their level actually IS. They could be level 47, they could be level twenty-goddamed-thousand, it doesn't matter, because it still means I'm stuck staring in anger at a field of corpses, unable to hand in my quest, while some smarmy night elf fuckwad (wow, my spellchecker wanted to make that a proper noun! Weird!) prances around taunting me and killing whatever wanders within a mile of him. And should some Horde people who are strong enough to stop him have a problem with this and start - to use the vernacular - "bringing the shit," then Captain Twinklelf calls HIS friends, and the Horde peeps call THEIR friends, and next thing you know there's a giant-ass battle raging, I'm getting killed randomly by enemies stronger than God, the server is lagging like a puppy with three busted legs, and I STILL can't hand in my god-be-dammed QUEST.
So what I'm basically saying IS:
1) this whole system, Players killing Non-Player Characters, is DEEPLY FLAWED.
2) it would be nice if people weren't such utter assbandits.
3) anyone who looks at the pure evidence of how things have been developed will note a not-so-subtle favoritism towards the Alliance. Put less diplomatically, the Horde has been royally fucked over many MANY times,, and this fact blows, as I have said before, all manner and breed of goats. It's bollocks and needs to be changed STAT.
4) again, the not being cockbites would be nice, thanks.
You may be saying "Jesus Annie, stop bitching and tell Blizzard about it" and you're right, I plan to, and in detail. But in the meantime, my rant is about what's going on in my life, and the so on, and this is it, brothers and sisters, Sad as it May Be. And I don't mean to make it seem that World of Warcraft isn't an utterly awesome game - ye gods it IS! - it just has the problems with people being dickheads, same as every other thing related to TEH INTARWEB does. It's just life, I guess. And in other news I can't wait until I'm REALLY high level and can mete out justice when and where I see fit. GRRRAR!
Anyhow. That's about it from me in the peanut gallery, if only for me to say that the new They Might Be Giants album - The Spine (Homestar Runner did a video of one of its songs, 'Experimental Film', that is super-awesome) - is beyond awesome in all sorts of delectable ways that I muchly enjoy. GO GET IT!
Peace out!
The Raging Tauren,
Annie "Blue" C
Tonight's my night, oh yes indeed
- Nekromantix
"Trick or Treat"
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