Reeding and watching

I know I'm not the first one (because if I am, the world is more narrow-minded than I first thought) to say that Scrubs is one of the greatest shows to air on TV, closely rivalled (but neither dominant nor inferior) by the likes of Cheers and Seinfeld.
It's not only because of the razor-sharp wit cleverly hidden like a hair amongst spaghetti within the humour, or the excellent characters. It's also because (and this is one that most people miss) the show has a moral to it. Every episode, the moral is revealed in JD's ramblings at the end.

"It's always nice to let your friends know you appreciate them, but sometimes you can't quite find words to show that appreciation. At the end of the day, the best thing to do is be honest"
"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy"

The morals represented in the show are inspiring. If one understands what they're trying to tell the viewers, I suppose their hope is that the person will be inspired to go and practice those morals.
If you haven't seen Scrubs before, I suggest you do. My favourite show.


And now it's time for...
WORD ANALYSIS OF THE WEEK

Actually, it won't be done every week. But out of a matter of interest, I was once again thinking of some words in the English language and about how they became a reality.

So for this week:
Reed = River-weed

Genius, I know.


In case you were wondering, the "One Red Paperclip" guy, Kyle MacDonald finally achieved his goal of trading a red paperclip and progressively working his way up to a house.
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

~mmmm... Illegal Danisssh

The problems with World of Warcraft.

I've been playing WoW for two weeks now. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game and I love it, but there are some things that really shit me about it. The worst part is that they aren't part of the game mechanics, which means they won't be getting updated or patched later on. It's problems with the people that play it.

I've noticed that there's not a lot of help available for newer players. Something I find really odd is that more people on the older servers (where most people have one or two level 60's) are willing to help out newbies than their are on the new servers.

Instances
The problem with the community and instances is that if somebody is even one level higher than an instance, they won't go back to it and help you out. I know a group of people that are levels high enough to give me a hand at an instance where I'd really like a robe drop (Robes of Arugal, best robes I can get at my level) yet they're unwilling to help. The people in question did help me once, but two of them ended up going AFK half way through the run and one left. The other, the priest, stayed to help me. But we didn't get very far.

World PvP
I've heard of some guilds rushing to help out a newbie guild member after being ganked several times while trying to quest. I've heard tales of 40 man raids being held on an area where there was maybe two Pkers that were repeatedly killing one of their members. That's great generousity.
However, on this server, none of this generousity is to be found. A 32 mage and a 29 paladin ganked me five times before leaving the area while I was on my warlock. I asked for some help. The response: Anybody for RFK? and then silence for 20 minutes.


Bokra had a cry today. We were discussing raids in Vent (we're still sorting out a lot of things for the new guild). He doesn't talk to Bigmac a lot, but anybody that has, knows that he has a different way of talking to people, and just the way he talks makes him sound like a total asshole. He really isn't, but you just can't take him literally. Where somebody might say "talk a bit nicer" he might say "just shutup next time". He's a nice guy though.
So Bokra got sulky because he thought Bigmac was being insulting to him. Anybody who had even half a brain cell could tell that Mac was really enthusiastic, and grateful for Bokra's knowledge of end-game (he's pretty experienced). Anyway, then he got pissed, Mac asked him what was wrong, and he said "I don't like your attitude".
I just thought "Shit, what does this 17 year old little bitch think? That everybody should conform to his ideas just because he's done MC before?".
Whatever. Mac explained to him that it's just the way he talks. I think he's over it now.

/endbitch

Kids are fucking stupid

This isn't ambiguous as the last rant I had about how retarded most teenagers are.

There's a bunch of kids that I know, which me and some guildies (talking WoW here) have labelled 'Keyboard Warriors' because they just throw insults and talk shit about people over the internet from the safety of their homes, despite the fact they'd obviously get their heads caved in if they met their victims in real life. I'll paint a picture about how absorbed in virtual reality they are.

- They say things like "LOL" and "ROFL" and "Noob" in real life.
I know this because they're always on Ventrilo talking about how "LEET" they are after pking somebody. Like, shit, okay I understand that you may be a good player, but keep your MSN speak to MSN, or at the very least, in chat. Don't say it in real life, you just sound like a dick.
eg: "Lol I pawned that noob with my plus strength plus stam windfury axe crit". I don't mind if you say it in chat, but not in real life.

- If you meet them, you will be judged based on your level.
I was on Vent one morning. One of these Keyboard Warriors was also on. We started chatting, I didn't mind talking civily with him. Then he started his shit. "So what level are you?"
Admittedly, I have only played for two weeks, and I've played various characters. If I'd stuck to one, I'd probably be about level 40 something by now, but I didn't. At the time, I was playing a level 11 warlock.
"Level 11 now"
"Lol noob, serious? You suck learn2play"
Now, what the fuck is that? Yes, I had a level 11 warlock. Yes it's a low level? How does that equate to me sucking? I could've had level 60's on all servers for all he knew, and was just rolling a new one. What a shitcock.


So these idiots don't want to have anything to do with you if you're not level 60 and have full Tier 3 Raid gear.

In our guild, a lot of shit goes on, and a lot of it centres around me. Readers of this blog will know that where I go, usually contraversy surrounds me. It's just who I am. For example, I was about to go on an SFK run with a group, but they took too long to get organised and I estimated that I wouldn't have time to finish the run (because I would have to go to work). So to be fair, I decided to leave the group and allow them to get another member before starting.
One of the group members (who was also a guild member) messaged me in game telling me that if I knew how to summon properly, there would've been time. I then replied with "And maybe if you knew that you need three people to summon you wouldn't be such a complete dumbass".
I was happy to solve his problems in private chat, however this idiot wanted to take it into Guild Chat.
"Oh, real nice munchkin you fucking idiot. You can't summon, how pathetic". (My warlock's name is Munchkin)
Okay, that's not right. One of the primary principles we follow in the guild is that private matters stay private.
"This doesn't need to be in Guild Chat, Bandit" I said. He responded with a lot of swearing and shit-talk. A lot of people told him to shutup and keep it private, but he didn't want to. He finished with this:
"Well, its either me or munchead".
After an overwhelming flood of "lol, munchkin then" in guild chat (I'm not exaggerating, I'm well liked okay? Don't hate me because I'm awesome) he left the guild. This thing happened about 5 times. As far as I could see, I was just weeding the dicks out of our guild.

So one such time, one of our Keyboard Warriors decided to disagree with me. I said on guild chat "I'm so bored that I'm using my Eye of Kilrogg to draw mobs to questing players in this town, heh".
Bokra, the Keyboard Warrior, said (word for word) "Lol serious? You noob you can't draw aggro onto players with the eye".
Now, I don't know if it was bugged or something, but I know for a fact that I was. I said that. He disagreed again, and then another of my friends piped in saying "Well, if he's there and doing it...". He got pissed off (another major factor of these attention whores is that they are always right, and if you tell them otherwise, you should die painfully). He then left the guild.

Later that day, Big Mac, the Guild Leader, came into Vent and told us all he was tired of all the dickheads and fighting and childish bullshit going on in the guild, that he was making a new one, and inviting a select few of the good people (including me). He also said that Bokra, Apog, and Dayla were coming. Now, Dayla I don't mind, he's pretty funny and he doesn't really talk shit. Apog is exactly the same as Bokra though. If you tell him he's wrong, he gets pissed off. Remember the person I told you about who judges based on level? Apog is the greatest perpetrator of this observation.
So, okay, I decided that if Bokra, Apog and I were to be in the new guild together, to make it as good as Mac wanted, I would try and make up with them. I didn't want any conflict, I just wanted a good guild that could help me through the game and everything else people join guilds for.
So me and Apog make up somewhat. And so do me and Bokra. Everything is sweet until tonight.

We're all on Vent together (about 13 of us, all planning on joining the new guild) laughing and getting along and whatever. Bokra all of a sudden says "OMG" (yes, Oh em gee) "I just saw a Worg, looks so much like Munchkin". I don't know where the fuck that came from, but okay I can take it. After all, I thought, he might just be having a joke.
It was followed by a round of "LOL's" from his asskissing Keyboard Warrior friends. Whatever, I'll keep playing.
Then he continues with "I never knew a dog could look dumb". That was it. Fuck, I can take it if somebody insults my physical image (don't you think if I cared about that, I wouldn't spend so much time at my PC), but insulting my intelligence is another thing. Obviously he doesn't know me very well. Another thing that pisses me off about the comment is about how stupid it is. You've never seen a dog look dumb? Well how about a dog that looks smart, or maybe a dog that looks like rainbows? Fucking idiot.
I was seriously willing to let it go, and continue not caring at all about who Bokra is or what he's doing. But as it stands, I may just leave the guild if it happens again. It's just unprovoked childish bullshit, and I don't have to take it, because it's ruining my game experience. I don't pay $20 a month to listen to an insecure dolt talk shit about people.

On a slightly more positive note, I've made a total of coming up on $1000, which for a poor bastard like myself is quite impressive (although I know some rich kids that make this in a week by sitting around doing nothing).




The new guild is called Vicarious, and if you roll on the Barthilas server, come and join.


- Munchkin

Orc Warlock (Level 23)

Out.

~french people were discoverd smuggling moon cheese