Kevin Bacon Game

Everyone talks about what WoW is and isn't. So do I. It's fun. And cathartic. Venting is good for the soul. It quells obsession.

Obsession.

It's like when you have a crush on a girl and you steal a few of her shirts in order to cut off the sleeves to secretly wear on your arms and legs alone in the dark in your room. Gosh that's hard to read.

Moving on.

She wore these. They smell nice. I'm not weird, this is love. Healthy. Healthy love. Like on Discovery with those wildebeests and llamas and shit. With less defecation on the face. Fine, comparable defecation. Actually, that's quite gross and is really that one line to never cross. I'm fucking done with you once you actually starting shitting on people.

It's a weird thing though, because I can't help but feel that the type of writing that comes from this type of venting was previously (as in the pre interwebz days) highly personal. Not something intended for everyone to read and analyze. You have grievances with something of value in your life. You come to term with them through writing them out. Analyzing them. It's become a communal exercise and WoW has increasingly become a game shaped very often by its players' personal frustrations. Or more simply, people get angry and complain and the devs cave in to the whiners emotional demands. The you're-crazy-bitch-I-still-love-you-stop-fucking-crying effect.

I've been reading Zilea's blog a lot recently and despite its prior season-two-of-OC-Seth-Cohen-emoness (read: abundant paladin nerdraging), it's become one of the more enjoyable blogs on Gameriot as I weirdly connect to the experience. Yes, weirdly. Granted that being complemented as one of the best on Gameriot is not exactly stellar praise, but I don't much like saying nice things about people as a rule. 'Gratz on not coming in last place in the Special Olympics of the internet' is more my style. Hey, it's a complement, chill bro. Oh yes, I had a point. Zilea has been talking about the inexcusably terrible downtime and long queues even post 2.4. Motherfucking word. The current matchmaking system blows on live servers. The queue times are a nice catch-22 as well -- queue times suck because lack of players and because of the sucky queue times, players choose to do something else. Such is life. Scrap 2s, link battlegroups, allow challenges, or kill yourselves.

Totally unrelated but that's how my retarded brain works --I'm perpetually confused when I see people talk about going casual in WoW and how this inevitably triggers tons of comments on how the "quitter" should be proud about getting back to real life priorities. As much as I love to dick about how stupid WoW priorities can be, real life stupidity is reasonably comparable.

There are people who go to wine-bars. They know about chardonnays. They enjoy multi hundred dollar tasting menus where every other course is some sort of foam. They're faux sophisticated but if they're our generation they still are true to their "roots."


Fake Douchebag: Back in college I used to play Counterstrike. I was awesome, wish I still had time for games. But you know how it is, man.
Me: Yeah, that's nice but I have to go put my --
Fake Douchebag: Yeah this map assault man. I used to play it with my roommate all the time
Me: ... in your girl's -- Huh? Assault? (WTF)
Fake Douchebag: Yeah with the cameras and boxes. DE_ASSAULT BRO. Good fucking times.
Me: D...E?
Fake Douchebag: Anyways, look man, I think it's great you still play games and cards and stuff
Me: ...
Fake Douchebag: (to his too-hot-for-him-gf) Let's go, hon. (to you) Blow my cell bro. We'll geek it up.
Me: (to nobody) D fucking E

It's okay. His girl gave me head.

Fine, that's a lie. But I did pee in her purse. She had lipstick in there. She puts that on her mouth. So she basically sucked my dick and swallowed.

Five degrees of separation from my penis. Penis->Urine->Purse->Lipstick->Mouth.

How many degrees of separation are between YOU and my penis?

No Real News

Been on tourney realm dueling for small batches of time past few days (char name is secret so people don't gay me) and, while dueling is mostly a dead form of PvP to most, it's been a lot of fun. Haven't done any 2s/3s in a while as my interest is pretty thin, but I'll probably be back to 5sing pretty actively on my mage and a certain priest who shall remain unnamed. ^^

Arena is pretty stale as is WoW generally so you'll have to forgive the sparse updates and lack of content -- my hope is that we'll see some WotLK news drop in the next week or two. A few people asked if I'd be playing Conan or Warhammer. Probably not. Not exactly my steez. =p

A few days off from WoW is always oddly charming still and provides much needed perspective. Not that I'm out balling. But my current priority of catching up on The Hills and Battlestar takes precedence over mindlessly grinding stupid Shattered Sun dailies. Oh, the joy of wasting time grinding for virtual items to feel like you're doing what you can to play your best. (Not a unique grievance by any stretch)

Still very much hoping to find a good opportunity to work on a flashy arena vid. Flashy play does not necessarily correlate well to great success (say that in a Borat voice pleas) but the feeling of knowing you outplayed your opponents is definitely more satisfying than shitting on them with garbage generic play. I have a few clips that are a bit old but pretty interesting I think. We'll see. ^^

And. Yakshemash!