About Nothing and Everything

… and we’re back.

While ye olde blogge was in reruns, I took a stealth vacation, retooled my work schedule (NOT for the better), abused alcohol, visited the brink of death a few times, resolved not to do THAT again anytime soon, did, and kept up with the gaming news in a minimalist kind of way — which was easy because there was no news. If there’s nothing to say, there’s nothing to say.

Umm. Let’s see. General news: EA bought Mythic (won’t affect my life in any way). And that’s kinda it.

Warcraft news: Patch 1.11 went live, and 1.11.1 went live during primetime raids … that was fun, if one thinks raiding at 2 in the morning is fun and none of us did.

The scourge invasion was in full swing, which was fun for about a day until we all did the math on how much bag space was consumed with scourge and Argent Dawn (the hosting faction) crap. /delete crap.

The new keyrings were introduced — very popular with the non-rogue types.

The new global LFG channel is not popular with anyone except the emo Myspace crowd.

The new solution to instance stacking/chaining/exploiting is that players are now “Saved to this instance” any time they pass within 20 feet of a raid instance. Ok, I exaggerate, still annoying as fuck to be spammed with “saved to this instance” on every trash kill.

Some more of CT-RaidAssist’s functionality was integrated into the basic WoW User Interface — again, without thanks or credit to the CTmod team. I’ll allow that some of CTRA’s abilities are basic raiding needs that aren’t particularly innovative or, ahem, legally protected intellectual property; still, it’s long past due that Blizzard thank CTmod for all the … let’s say, inspiration.

Paid character transfers became a reality, so did the heartache. Witness: someone’s guildbank taking a powder to another server. (You had to see that one coming.)

My server is scheduled for paid transfer availability sometime this week and we’ve already made some friendly wagers about stealth transfers (i.e they do not warn the guild that they’re transferring):

Our raid leader predicted 10 stealth transfers which we won’t care about, plus 2 more that make us OMG. My prediction is 3 stealth transfers we won’t care about (and I named the players, I’m that good) and maybe 1 that will make us OMG. And I added, that OMG transfer better not fucking be the guildbank or I will hunt him down like the dog he is.

Other guild news from my guild, because that’s really why you’re here, you gossip whore: One of our married players has hooked up, officially (that’s IRL, noobs), with one of our single players. After telling all of us that they had sex over the weekend (we needed to know?), she announced that she’s getting divorced, officially (that’s IRL, noobs).

This will not end well … for any of us.

Another real life couple in the guild has been having an ongoing, rather public argument. One raid she can’t stand to be near him and will leave midraid. The next raid she can tolerate his virtual presence but will bitch about him the entire time. (“Heals. He calls those heals??”)

All told, these two mini-dramas involve a druid, a hunter, a paladin and a priest — all raiders with high attendance. !!! Please, everyone who can read my plea, please stop fucking around with the guild healers. Fuck the rogues all you like, but leave the healers alone.

Heaven forbid two priests in my guild start fucking, then we’ll really be fucked.

UPDATE — More nothings: World of Warcraft Patch 1.11.2 is live today. Find a mirror, they still can’t bittorrent worth a damn.

July’s Carnival of Gamers is (has been) available at the Grumpy Gamer. I haven’t read it just yet, so don’t spoil the ending for me.

8 thoughts on “About Nothing and Everything

  1. So wait, it was a female married player who cheated on her husband? So much for gender stereotyping!

  2. The person you need to hunt down like the dog he is, is the dev who thought the global retardation broadcast network LFG channel was a good idea and would “fix” grouping.

  3. I gotta agree with Marlowe there. Now you can get Barrens chat all over the server! Fantastic!

  4. Good news for the /lfg folks – the latest patch is supposed to not make that channel “on by default” anymore.

    Also good to see you back and posting Foton. What is up with healers often (not always, but often) turning out to be the biggest drama queening, attention-whoring, troublemakers to the Nth degree? Tanks and DPS types don’t nearly seem to cause that much trouble …

  5. Hmmm….we had a spot of guild drama last night, and it was a priest (and warrior friend) who were at the heart of it. Seems she got pissed that another healer had the *audacity* to roll against her (and win) on some item that dropped in UBRS.

    The warrior /gguit …. and the guild leader (on an alt) asked the priest (not the one who got the item, mind) if she wanted to quit or if he should log onto his main and boot her….

  6. I would guess certain classes are prone to dramatics because they can. Would your guild hesitate for even a second in booting Rogue49 for demanding an UBRS item? Mine wouldn’t.

    I’ve sometimes wondered if people that are hard to get along with purposely roll critical classes because they would be unguildable otherwise. Which came first, the priest/cleric or the diva? The world may never know.

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