Editorial Thursday: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

Allow me the indulgence of an analogy.

Let’s say you have a second car that you only use for pleasure drives. After work, you haul that bad boy out of the garage and just drive around town to see the sights. In fact, when you bought the car, you even told the dealer this — the car’s intended purpose was for occasional driving in the evening and on the weekends.

“This car is ideal for that,” he said. (Of course he would. He’d say that about anything.)

This car is trouble from the start, though. Some nights, it won’t start. Other times, it will only chug down the street. Most nights though, it runs just fine and is a pleasure to scoot around in, but it’s annoying nonetheless that you can’t drive your own damn car whenever you want.

So you call the dealer to complain. He sends a crew to look at your car. They scratch their heads. They fiddle with a few things under the hood. They pronounce it improved and thank you for your patience.

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Gaming Done Dirt Cheap

And we’re back.

It wasn’t enough that I almost single-handedly saved my office from certain bankruptcy by covering for all the sick people last week — I had to spend my weekend hacking up black stuff and blasting snot all over everything and everyone, which is even less appealing than it sounds.

I would like to thank the nation’s schoolchildren for sending that latest flu my way via working parents. Revenge will be mine when I turn over a bankrupt Social Security system fifty years hence … or sooner!

So, yesterday the long-awaited Warcraft patch arrived. It’s a content patch, too! Look closely, the new content is in the first two paragraphs: a new dungeon, Dire Maul, and two new dragons. Mostly it’s a bajillion fixes with the usual smattering of nerfs we’ve all come to know and love.

Improved flight paths is a welcome change, especially the Auberdine to Talonbranch Glade run … that one was a bitch. I still wish we could jump off the griffs midflight. Annoying as hell to fly over my camp with a few minutes of flight time left. That’s another five or ten minutes out of my life that I can’t get back.

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