WOW Patch/Jersey Shore

I gotta say right out of the gate the new WOW patch sucks much ass.  I hate it so much I'm thinking about finding something else to play.  There is no way I'd do a dungeon or a raid right now.  It's like driving a car with half a steering wheel.


The Jersey Shore is what is really on my mind.  I don't get it.  Maybe I have to be 21 and orange to see the value but I'm not so I don't.  It's not like TV is even trying anymore.  This show is not clever, amusing, or interesting.  The deeper issue is that it has a following at all.  The fact that whoever is producing the show still has a job is indicative of what's wrong with our culture.

I let Jersey Shore have a couple hours of my life last night.  Time that I will never get back and that would have been better spent chopping off one of my toes.  I tried to understand it.  I really did.  I figured there had to be something there.  Some reason why this show was on TV.  I kept asking myself what these orange skinned people did from day to day.  In the three episodes I saw, the common theme was yell, fight, party, and hook up.  Yes, first rate theater indeed.  I finally had to rely on Google to explain it too me.  It's the Real World set on the Jersey Shore.  OK, I get it now.  It made me feel even dumber for having spent any time watching in the first place. 

I would advise giving this show a wide berth but do what makes sense to you.  FLAME OFF.

Ice Crown Citadel

So I went on my first ICC run Saturday and I had a couple of thoughts:

King slayers are straight up assholes almost without exception.  I have only known of one personally that only partially fell into this category.  The group that Nefertiti put together was tough enough to pull out of the air but there were a couple of Shami's that were just really put off that my gear score was only 4800 and not socketed.  As a result, they left and we were forced to find a couple more players that weren’t going to piss themselves because everyone in the group didn’t have a 6K gear score.  It took a minute but we got it done.

I realize there is an army of 12 year olds out there that have nothing else to do with their time.  I realize there are 30 years out there in the same boat.  They spend their days trolling the forums and reading the lore; researching the best way to gear their toons so they can ridicule player that aren’t as knowledgeable.  Yes, these are the kind of people you would almost certainly punch in the throat if they popped off in real life.  Yes, the only pussy they get it is pretend or paid for (I don’t necessarily have an issue with the concept at least its real).  My problem is the attitude.  You are playing a game in a pretend world.  If my gear score is that much of a deal killer than you probably need to re-think your priorities and hit yourself in the head with something blunt in the hopes that you’ll somehow align your neurons in such a way to keep you from being a douche.

The other thing I learned is that ICC is hard.  The whole time I spent trying to get my gear score high enough to go, I dreamed of great gear drops and loads of fun.  It’s not fun, it’s stressful and I didn’t get shit for gear.  I was told that I got experience (and frost emblems) but I been around long enough to know a bullshit comment when I hear one.  I admit, I had no idea what was going on. Four of us were sitting at the table during the run.  Nef would yell at me any time I did or was about to do something stupid.  I told her you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet; apparently she knows bullshit when she hears it too.  I think in some ways they didn’t feel like I had earned the right to be there.  I have heard “no one helped me” more times that I can count.  I tell them it’s because they’re dipshits and they don’t know how to use their resources.   I guess there is a point buried under the puss that has to do with finding out how things work in game.  There are billions of articles out there that explain the fights and what to do.  There is plenty of data out there.  I’m just not sure how much I care.  I like to play after work or late at night sometimes.  Just to unwind.  I know there are deep places to go and things to know.  I just have a balanced life.  I have lots to do on both sides of the cyber fence.

Thanks to my guildies for their patience and help.  Fuck all the King slayers, stop being such cock biters. 

MIA

Well I haven't been blogging like I intended.  I have been trying to decide if I was going to stick with the WOW theme like I intended or expand my content to include....well everything else that's on my mind.  I am leaning toward the latter.

We had a really active summer in-game but since school has started, I haven't been playing nearly as much.  One thing that no one tells you about getting to level 80 is that it gets boring.  Not boring enough to level a alt full time but boring nonetheless.  So there have been lots of other things that I have been thinking about that I feel need my special brand of commentary but I have held back unsure how to proceed.  My life in RL has been way more intresting that my in-game life.  Yes, I do still drive my toon while intoxicated from time to time (I don't recommend it) but I have had a lot more thought and mused about things in the real world. 

I have pretty firmly recreated my on-line life hiding behind a vale of anonymity (though some of you know me on some level).  I exist on twitter again (snakevudo@gmail.com) so follow me or send me email.  I am unsure about FB though. I still find myself suspicious of the social networking giant.  Let's just call it paranoia.  I was worried about how my content would be received but since no one is following me or reading my blogs I'm not sure if it matters.