The Rich, The Noobs, and The Ego

A humorous game mail I received recently in Lord of the Rings Online:

Not My Fault That I'm Game-Poor

I could be misreading this but that sounds like a call to REVOLUTION! Hang the rich.

Here’s a screenshot from a recent, wretched Fornost PUGgie to whack the hilt mobs. As gaming vets, it’s always our responsibility to get the new-to-gaming noobs up to speed on how all this works. I realize that, I accept that, but after giving my short-speech about the do’s and don’ts of crowd control to the same 5 people again and again, I get a little irritated.

Crowd Control is for Noobs

They never did get it, but fortunately for me, we one-shot the last hilt mob — a BAMF nemesis mob — and thank you, Jesus, I never have to go to that pisspool again.

If you’re thirsty for more arrogance and Napoleon-esque posturing, Psycho E-Bitch’s Fraxx was granted an IM audience with me last week to chat about gaming, books and cyber music: A Visit with AFKGamer’s Blogging Bad Boy.

Some highlights: the “Mithaniel Marr story”, the rest of you suck, the liberal manifestos I’m reading, and, gaming’s last dirty little secret.

8 thoughts on “The Rich, The Noobs, and The Ego

  1. You played a cleric in everquest and a priest at some level in Wow, Right? Do you enjoy healing or is it for purely utilitarian reasons?

    Foton: i hate it. but alas, i’m a control freak and nobody can do it properly besides me

    By the end that’s pretty much why I stuck with my cleric in EQ too. So many twoboxers come in and are like, oh sure I can be in the chain, but one key person (tank, cleric, whatever) LDs and the box-clerics lose the thread completely, leaving the *real* clerics to pick up the slack.

  2. (Goes off to read the interview.) Dangit, the writer in me is twitchy at the fact that someone who’s conducting interviews has that kind of grammar and spelling. Once you’ve had your work gone over by harsh editors, you can never read anything the same way again.

    Huh, I think I just spent the entire afternoon farming (the kind with green onions, cauliflower, and hops) and cooking. In my defense, I was reading a review book at the same time so it wasn’t as boring as it sounds.

  3. Well I can take a hint. I changed “one-shotted” to the less rustic “one-shot”, but I’m insisting that BAMF stays in.

  4. I take everything I said back. I just saw someone on the LFF channel asking, “anyone for half-orc schemer, half ministral”–presumably meant to say “have minstrel.”

    There’s a part of me dying to ask if “ministral” is some sort of cross between minestrone soup and a minstrel, and what it means when you have half of one.

    I promise I don’t normally play grammar/spelling cop. There are just times when it hits me, or when I see an unintentional play on words that I can’t resist…

  5. To Heather, re: grammar – In my defense, it was an IM conversation and other than to condense the conversation, I left what we both said as it was from the text we both typed at the time. I see your point though and I fixed it. I even went back through what Foton said and capitalized his I’s this time around. 😛

  6. Oh, and Fraxx–I should clarify that it definitely isn’t your fault I’m hyper-picky about grammar today. I’ve been reading a grammar & style book for review. That does it every time…

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