This is something I have to share with my fellow gamers and or World of Warcraft players/readers. As the title says, and it’s quoted from a guild member that no one seems to care about, and it seems the majority of the guild members that have come acrossed this guy has been fairly annoyed by his arrogance and slight ignorance on to how activity works in the game.
One simple day someone in the guild that joined a couple of days earlier asked if anyone wanted to join a group doing ICC heroics, and this guild member named Robin (with an accented o in his name) blurted out in the guild chat saying that people that do old content kills servers. This brought on a debate by two other guild members who disagree with this statement. I then jumped in saying how it doesn’t really kill servers and if doing old content in the game killed servers then Blizzard would’ve shut down ALOT of servers already. The guy was persistent to say that what he thought about people doing old content was the right way to think and his opinion alone. Of course he did stated after the fact that it was his opinion, agree or disagree.
The problem with that last statement was he was starting to get into defense mode because I and the other two guildies have said many reasons why his logic is flawed. Honestly people who do old content aren’t really kill the server. In fact people doing old content are doing the opposite. They are bringing activity to the server, if you do something in the game it’s activity. Logging in the game and just chatting is activity, doing dailies and collecting achievement that is making the server active. Running old content. THAT IS ACTIVE. How is being active killing the server pray tell?
The guild member that claimed all this killing server thing went into defense mode and try to be sarcastic about everyone else’s comment because he’s got nothing else to back up the claim that doing old content will kill the server. Granted this guy is a level 30 at the time complaining about old content and one of the arguements was “you’re leveling that is old content, why don’t you stop leveling if you believe so strongly that doing old content would kill the server.” He then proceeds to level up and say “DING” in which my response to this was, ” ‘DING’ing will kill the server.” The response I got was “Shove off.” Then he was asked if he was mad, and he replied slightly and of course the whole debate comes up again and statements on how he’s contradicting his own beliefs. Then when stated he was mad cause we caught him in his own hypocrisy he stated he wasn’t mad when he actually stated before he was.
So apparently now this has become a joke in the guild and everytime we see someone in the guild asking about old world content we state that doing old world content will kill the servers. Don’t do it! The guy every so often is online when this happens and he gets mad about it but try to mask it by saying it’s true and sometimes telling the person that started to stay that “don’t mess with me I’m in a bad mood.”
Really he actually has brought this upon himself stating something so absurd to think that doing old content is useless. If Blizzard has put an achievement in for that content it’s not useless nor will it kill the server. If anything Blizzard wants you to continue to do old content as well as the new. If they didn’t want you to do the old content they would’ve just taken it out already. Right?
With the slew of games that came out the past few weeks I have to say these are probably what’s been taking up a lot of my gaming time. Rather, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 has been taking up my gaming time, while my husband has been huddle in our bedroom playing Skyrim. This even pushed us to get another 360 (MW3 edition) and a new TV. What happened to the old tv and the old 360? Pushed to the side. Literally pushed to the side. If you checked my last blog post about rearranging the room the old tv and the old 360 was moved over a few feet and set up there.
The week MW3 came out my husband got it for me to make up for him getting Gears of Wars 3 for himself the week earlier, or two weeks earlier. He’s also been giving me slack about he never seen me play any of the Modern Warfare games, even though I have played the other CoD games. It wouldn’t matter though it’s something I was interested in so I showed interest in it. Of course the last Monder Warfare games I was interested in but no one wanted to play with me. I don’t know why, I’m not that competitive in any multiplayer gaming, I just play cause I like to play.
Anyway, just a bit dulled out on MW3 I guess because the campaign was pretty short, of course I played it on Normal. I probably should try out veteran or the harder levels. I’m eventually going to do so when I can. Want to find all the intelligence bonuses that are in the game. Which I didn’t bother looking for apparently, since I usually try for achievements in the game, but that was my fault for not looking hard enough. The campaign took me 8 hours to finish, at least that’s what the status said on the select screen. Don’t judge me for how long it took me to finish, I’m not as hardcore as I use to be 15 years ago.
Payed the Special Ops section and felt bored playing so I just sat in one place and camped the NPCs. Yes it’s a cheesy way to play but when you play alone there’s nothing much you could do when you suddenly get bored. Though I’ve been playing the Special Ops survival mode. Then tried out the multiplayer modes and well when I get put into a game there’s people that are like level 50-60 and I’m the only level 1. I get only one or two kills and then the game ends. Either my team wins or they lose. I feel like that system is kinda of flawed, but what can you do about it? I’ve seen level 6s and 10s but the whole random grouping is kind of uneven. Again what can you do about it really?
My husband purchased Skyrim the same day we got the new 360. He’s been playing it for the past week and seems like he’s very hooked on it. That, I guess, is because he wants to finish the game’s story. This is probably going to take several days of playing for him to finish the game. I’ve been sitting back and watching him play and I don’t seem to see the draw to Skyrim. Most of the time I just see a pair of hands glowing on the screen. I suppose I would understand more if I played the other elder scrolls games. Most of the time when I turn to watch him play I see an NPC dying or has died and then falling down a hillside with the rag-doll effect and yes there is a lot of rag-doll effect going on in the game.
The game is also very brown and grey. I guess the setting of the game is like that. Then again I shouldn’t be complaining cause MW3 is very neutral in color as well. I suppose it’s cause I’m so expecting games to be brightly colorful and eye catching lately, even though my favorite games were very bland in color. I guess I also need to remind myself that a game that is medieval inspired is going to tend to be very neutral in colors and not everything is all in rainbows and unicorns. =p
I’ve also been trying to finish up Star Ocean the Last Hope for the second time so I can unlock ending achievements. So I guess my brain is thinking nothing is as colorful as this. XD
I have spent most of the day rearranging and cleaning up my bedroom, because I was trying to figure out where to put our old tv at so that I can play whatever games I want when the hubby plays his game. He had picked up a new Xbox360 and picked up a bundle pack because I’m sure he figured we need a new one anyway. Plus we still have the old 20gb HDD Xbox so yeah we needed some more much space for the games we have. So while we were out yesterday he went and picked up the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 bundle pack. 320GB of space and now we have to get a memory unit so we can transfer our files to the new xbox.
Then we went to Walmart and picked up a new 32in TV screen which was a great deal for it and now my room is quite a mess due to my rapage of trying to sort everything out and clean the place up. Also seems like I have to go through my wardrobe and clean out any clothes that don’t fit me. We need to get new outfit, just our current wardrobe feels so outdated now. Eventually we did find a way to fit the old tv and 360 to stay in the bedroom and it’s quite creative in a way. With our collector edition boxes of WoW Wrath and Cataclysm I used them to make a shelf to hold the old 360 on.
Yes I know it’s not made to be used as a shelf but I wasn’t going to take those boxes and put them away in storage. Collectors Edition crap are made to be shown off. Although my StarCraft 2 Collectors Editon is shoved in the back there, but I will figure out a where to put it later. At this point I was just relieved to finally get that area of the room cleaned up. So basically it looks like this now.
There’s still a lot more cleaning to be done so I’ll be probably spending another whole day tomorrow to get this cleaned up and looking proper. >=o
There’s always one or two or three in the guild, and these guys always tend to try to get more attention than necessary. They feel that the whole guild revolves or should revolve around them and they think they know it all. They also befriend the higher ups to garner more stability to get positions as officers and such because they believe they can make a difference in the guild when they like the power to kick people they do not like.
This is actually taken up quiet a stir-up lately since we returned from Blizzcon although the attitude of this all was present when a former guildmate returned from leaving the Alliance side to join the Horde side to get away from someone he disliked that was in the guild. Now that person doesn’t play WoW anymore sold his account and moved on with his life there is a void left missing for this former guildmate now back in the guild. He apparently has no one to blame useless crap on, and his need to run into this person in Baradin Pennisula while he was on the horde side so he can kill him was never fullfilled. He has this grudge that never got satisfied and now is taking it out on anyone he can.
Of course while he was on the horde side he became somewhat of a hardcore raider even though he tried to convince people that the guild was just a casual guild. He apparently got kicked out of that guild when his buddy and him took something that should have been between the two into guild chat. Mostly complaining about progression in the guild and raids and making a big highschool drama out of it. His buddy apparently quit the guild or something to that sort and he went on the guild Ventrilo to explain himself and the officers told him that they should’ve kept that in whispers instead of bringing it into the guild chat. Which was obviously true and much more courteous, but knowing the guy he’s not very courteous when it comes to other people’s feelings lately. So the officers kicked him out of that guild and he was left wandering for a day or two asked my husband if he could come back. My husband allowed it cause he was being a good friend, and then he came back.
Then left again to another server for another guild and that apparently did not work out for him and then came back to our server and rejoined the guild with most of his characters. All goes right with the world the guild is in a peaceful environment and then here is when the attitude comes in. I ask him to join a FL pug that I frequent and he says sure and joins. Then leaves in the last attempt of the Beth fight where we knew we could get her down cause of the group makeup and such. The reason for his leaving the group was cause the raid leader did not take his advice on how to do the fight. Pretty much throughout the whole entire run he was trying to tell the raid leader how to do the fight when the RL has done it as many times as he has if not more on another character. He started acting like a primadonna, and before the last attempt on Beth he left the group and in guild started saying that he couldn’t take the RL’s explaination cause the RL kept saying “ummmm” after every sentence.
Then started offering to lead raids cause he said he could explain better than anyone else about boss fights. Now granted he has the knowledge of the boss fights and all his explanation skills aren’t very clear. He always ends up confusing everyone and makes it take longer for us to get the fight started because we have to re-explain fights to simplify the shit he just said. Even though he says he’s simplifying the fight so people can understand, even though in his head he thinks it’s simplifying it, he really hasn’t.
He has also asked my husband if he can be officer again, in which my reply is, no. My husband’s response and rational thinking is, “we have a whole new group of people in the guild. It is not the same guild members as it was when we were raiding during BC and Wrath. These people do not know who you are or who you were so pretty much everyone is starting from scratch.”
The guy didn’t take it so likely, and every other week seems to ask again if he can get his officership back. One week he did a guild Zandalari group and before they did the last boss he kicked one of the guildies out who was trying to get points for gear to heal. Stated that he didn’t think that guildie could heal through the last boss. Honestly if you made it to the last boss with that person healing why not give it a try? Nope from reports that’s not how he wanted and from reports it was stated that he said “as officer of the guild he did what is best.”
Seriously holding a position that you don’t actually have control of over the other guildies head in a heroic dungeon run? Then a guildie dps or I believe she was a tank at that time left the group and it was left with the three guildies. Then he left the group cause he wasn’t going to go searching for another two people to fill the spots to finish the dungeon. Obviously when things don’t go his way he leaves groups or logs off or go play on his horde. We then get messages saying that things are happening in the guild and this was during our trip to Blizzcon and then when my husband logs on he states that this is his vacation let us have it and told everyone to get along. Everyone in the guild seem to have agreed and asked how was the convention, but no the drama queen can’t stand that he wasn’t being taken seriously emails my husband all screenshots of the chat and then tries to explains himself.
After the Blizzcon trip I started up the raid again which is good and all we hardly ever had a solid core group to do a full 10 man guild raid. We always have two friends, from outside the guild help us fill our raids cause they want to see the guild progress, and in the process get some gear for their alts, since their mains are raiding FL and I love them for helping us out. This day my husband was sick and we ended up having three tanks in the group so my husband decided to dps or rather I decided that for him cause his dps is better than our other two tanks dps. Plus one of them didn’t have dps gear. So he logs on his DPS the guy logs on after I filled the raid with 8 guildies and our two regular fill-ins that comes helps us every week and the guy knows that these two come in every week to help us out. Well my husband says he’s ready for an invite I invited him, then the guy jumped in saying he’s ready as well but he didn’t sign up on the calendar. I told him that it’s filled up, and the last spot was my husbands.
So yeah that didn’t go too well with him and he messages my husband saying that he will leave his spot open for pugs only since I value pugs over guildies. At that point I didn’t know he had said that until after the raid when my husband came into the room and said that the guy was pissed off that he didn’t get to come to the raid. The guy also stopped signing up for the raid about a month ago and never logged on whenever we had raid time scheduled. Nor did he ever tell me that he wanted to go or even signed up on the calendar. I even posted it on the MoTD to check the calendar for raid schedules and sign up if you are able to join in on the raid days. HE… NEVER… DID. As he probably expected to have a saved spot every time I suppose but why should I do that? There were people already signed up and ready to go, and as I don’t value pugs over guildies we had more guildies in the group than we did pugs, and really he logged on late after I filled. If I truly value pugs over guildie the whole run would be pugs. Hell I wouldn’t schedule raids with guildies that want to get achievements or gear, I would just go join a pug. So that was his dealing this past two weeks.
Friday night I log on to get a raid together for those that were online and the first thing I see was him saying he doesn’t participate in Friday and Saturdays raid anymore, and I’m sure he wants people to ask him why so he can state that I don’t care about bringing in guildies. I say in guild that well I guess I’ll cancel raid cause I’m not doing things right or something to that point (I wished that I had screenshotted it) and he said “how about them packers” to diverge out of the subject and then whispers my husband something about me and does a little ^ pointing to what he said and acts like my husband is suppose to laugh with him about it. He also stated to my husband that he speaks how he feels which is not so cool at this point cause what this guy feel is just wanting to be a major douchebag. My husband logs off the game and comes in angry about it and I ask if he’s mad at me and he said no he’s more angry at the guy trying to get my husband to take his side on all this. My husband doesn’t take side cause if he takes one or the other someone is bound to not be happy. In this case the guy will never be happy unless my husband agrees with him. I could care less cause I speak for myself most of the time.
He’s been trying to play the troll and trying to get everyone to agree with him, and mostly wonders if my husband values his friendship. Honestly I want to say that this guy wants everyone to value his friendship, but he doesn’t seem to have consideration to do the same for anyone he is friends with and to me it just seems like he’s trying to cause a rift between me and my husband lately because of that “pug over guildie” incident. The fucked up thing about it is that when the guy logs off of wow, the people in wow disappears until he logs back on again. So he can piss someone off and just turn off his computer. When my husband logs off wow and the renewed guildie pisses me off my husband can’t get away from me. He lives with me, we sleep in the same bed together. This is something that guy doesn’t freaking get. If he values my husband’s friendship he wouldn’t or SHOULDN’T piss me off. Because that just causes stress to my husband aka HIS FRIEND, who happens to have to hold a full time job, worry about bills, car payments, if his wife is happy, and if his daughter will have a good day at school or not
He is acting like a high school girl wearing their heart on their sleeve and expressing his feelings about everything that he thinks is wrong to him. He is trying to start a revolution within the guild and trying to cause problems between me and my husband. Mainly trying to get my husband to agree that I am a bitch, and that I don’t give a shit about anyone else but myself and pugs.{start sarcasm} Cause clearly I play wow all day long and it has become my sole life and purpose to piss this guy off instead of me taking care of my family and doing other productive things like have a life. {end sarcasm}
Yes this is a rant and I’m probably being a drama queen myself, but had to get it off my chest for a bit. Sorry that it’s a long rant, but the change in the guy since I met him in BC until now is just so drastic because he use to be a good guy that didn’t care so much about a lot of stuff, just wanted to have fun. That all changed when he started the hardcore raiding and sad to say, he is acting like that person he dislike when he first moved over to the horde side. He may believe he doesn’t act like that but I see it and a couple of others have seen it and he has.
My look of the day. Pink and blue dyed hair! This is what was planned for the trip since May. It was curled up but then the curls seem to have fallen dead to straight. /shrug
As we entered the building there was posters all over the place with the sponsors name on them. Of course posters are of Blizzards artwork that were related to Starcraft, Warcraft or Diablo series. First day of BlizzCon always makes me giddy.
The usuall Kerrigan statue, there’s a statue of Illidan, and Tyreal as well. Didn’t get pictures of those though.
Every year there’s a graffiti wall where you sign your name or guild name etc, etc. After the first day this wall ended up being covered by a massive “BOULDERFIST” which was kind of a douchey way to get your name out cause surely thousands of other people can’t see their names after it’s been covered up by D-Lists AHOLES from that realm. Still got my picture in before that ninja graffiting.
Had to snap a picture of my husband sitting down waiting for the opening ceremony. He was busy playing with his phone.
So we got into near the middle backrow next to the bathroom. Then the lights dimmed to dark and everyone started to cheer as Morhaime takes the stage to welcome us all to Blizzcon. Then announcing the three new things that were to be expected in the upcoming year. Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm, Starcraft Blizzard DOTA, and the news that got twenty thousand plus people cheering when the character dropped down on the trailer, World of Warcraft Mist of Pandaria. Although Metzen is the one that announced MoP but well that is the opening ceremony.
I do wish that I had taken more pictures on day one though, but I did get to demo the MoP and the monk class which I find fun. Also my husband apparently gotten a free poster cause of a drop in the demo game. If you get this drop and let the employees know you get a poster of MoP. So we stood in line for the BlizzCon store because we missed the pre-sale online, but it wasn’t that bad, I mean the line was quick and only about 30 minutes to wait in. I have to get my BlizzCon 2011 tee. How else will people know if I’ve gone, aside from telling them.
Then hubby keeps getting txted from @Fondrewow cause he wanted to meet up so badly that I had to force the hubby to just meet the guy. This was the time to network yo. So Fondre and the hubby met and talked, and how Fondre knows who my husband was is because of RaidReady videos and apparently he follows my husband on twitter. =o So after the little chit chat, Fondre invited us to @TwistedNether’s meetup which they were doing a raffle for Child’s Play charity. Then we try to make our way to the costume contest, then
Costume contest is what I pretty much wanted to stick around and watch for the first day, although sitting for panels would be great, but it’s something I am always interested in. Of course I’ve been searching for a few of my twitteraitis that were at BlizzCon and well it took to the end of the costume contest to find @Strio13. Funny thing was I was at the location where he said he was on twitter and could not see him. >.> Short little me.
During the costume contest this guy that was walking by to go to the bathroom I swore he looked like Santa Claus! I’m serious! I really wished I had taken a picture of that guy. >=D If you guys have been following BlizzCon through blogs or livestream you would know who won, but to those that missed out here’s a video announcing the winners.
For those of you that missed out on the dance contest this video may scar you for life.
After the costume contest, we headed to the MoP demo and waited in line while it was short which I did mentioned earlier. Then headed back to the hotel room where my husband had to do some quick work. Yeah he was working on his vacation, which was a bit frustrating to both me and him. Internet connections isn’t really that great at the hotel when you have hundreds of BlizzCon goers using the same connection. So afterwards we decided to go to the Twisting Nether’s Blizzcon meet up at Bar Louie at the GardenWalk. Spent 20 bucks for raffle tickets for a good cause and won Bladerunner Umbrella, a Twisted Nether extra large shirt that eats me up, and a ThinkGeek Video Watch. >=D. Fondre won the MegaBloks BattleCruiser in which I want to kill him for. Also met some of the rest of the crew of @Rawrcast
Seriously the BattleCrusier is like $115 bucks at the BlizzCon store and it is a limited edition. So badly want, but that ended the first day of BlizzCon for us. Tons of fun, met new people and got sweet lewts.
Saturday October 22, 2011
As day two begins I went in pigtails today to satisfy my husband need to see me in pigtails. You can hardly see them cause I do not have voluminous hair. It’s very thin I couldn’t even out the pigtail very well. I felt one side had more hair than the other.
Most of the day on the second day of BlizzCon was spent walking around the convention looking at what the sponsors had and what was coming out. I wanted to do some StarCraft DOTA demo and then some Diablo 3, but that suddenly slipped my mind after I went through the Art Gallery. Me being a art freak I had to see it and adore the works of awesomeness. Just makes me want to keep practicing at my style and hope to improve.
This is the timeline of the founding of Blizzard until present day. 20 years ago Blizzard was just a measly little company with 12 (I think) employees to god knows how many employees there are now. Morhiame, Metzen and other co-founders have come along way and they are very proud of it.
After the artgallery we went to sit at the making of Pandaria art panel and there were many awesome things discussed there, like what were they influenced by to make the environment of Pandaria, and the tools and scripts used to make it. They even showed a concept of a Panderan rickshaw mount that was goldfish powered, but the panelist said that “Chris does not want you to have it.” It was a cute concept I think it would be awesome to have in game one day.This is during lunchtime at the Anaheim Convention Center. Opposite sides of each other lol. We went back in the BlizzCon line because my husband wanted a Diablo 3 Rainbow Unicorn shirt so we went and got that and and Alliance Pennate. I wanted both Horde and Alliance so I have it up on the walls but well possibly Nov 11th we’ll get a chance for it again while supplies last. We headed back to the hotel room for short while, the hubby ended up doing some more quick work again and I was trying to extract some pictures from my camera.
Afterwards we headed back to the convention center for the Lore Q&A which had some strange awkward moments. Like the guy that printed a screenshot out of the Zul’Drak temple scenery asking what the giant snake tail is. Then rushed our way through the convention center to get to the main hall to get ready for Foo Fighters. However we ended up standing in the back until an employee had said there were seat up closer so we wouldn’t stand. Which is great because my feet were starting to hurt, badly. Honestly I didn’t know who the Foo Fighters were but apparently I have heard most of their songs that they’ve played. I just never associated the song with Foo Fighters since I just like listening to music. I did manage to meet up with @Shad0wembrace during the concert but couldn’t hand out with her very long. Unfortunately the song I really wanted to hear Everlong was the last song they played but we had to get going to hang out with Fondre at the RawrCast livecast at the Hilton. I’ll catch that performance on YouTube eventually. Sadly I don’t have pictures of the concert because my camera SD card was left in my laptop in my hotel room and my phone battery was about dead.
Round table drunken discussion going about anything and everything at BlizzCon. Let’s not forget plugging our sites away, and my husband had gone out and told the podcast what realm we play on and what guild we run. Of course they introduced me and I am not very articulate as most people cause my brain draws a blank, but apparently I didn’t hold the mic right cause they couldn’t hear me very well so I did this:
Yep I did that to the mic. It’s kind of a big mic. =o More pictures of the Rawrcast guys can be found at their facebook.
Tried to meet up with @Ceraphus at the after party too but the moment we left he went to where we were waiting, and I’m knew that was going to happen. Of course my phone ran out of battery and couldn’t get any updates for the last half hour cause my battery defender kept turning off data transfer to keep running.
It’s alright I’ve had a great time at BlizzCon this year and though I didn’t do much of what I wanted cause I totally forgot about them I can’t wait until next year.
Is there an album by @blink182 that I do not like? I don't think so. I seem to love every album they've come out with.February 22, 2012 7:51
@moralextremist LOL well I'm sure I've had my share of gross things to tweet about. At least it's not definition of sexual slang. Urban DictFebruary 22, 2012 7:46
@GloriaYangBB @JenniferJBeauty @JuanJuanSalon It looks great. I love it. <3February 22, 2012 7:44
I don't know why I go to other blogs and the first thing that would turn me off on the blog is how it's layed out. Urg.February 22, 2012 7:44
@moralextremist I don't see how they're gross.February 22, 2012 7:43
Must not squeezeFebruary 22, 2012 7:42
And as I've not broken out so much the past few month, I can always feel ONE blemish forming and it hurts when I poke at it. X_xFebruary 22, 2012 7:41
Once a month for a few days I feel bloated, fat, tired, cramped up, and have a huge headache. Stress to the body causes me to break out.February 22, 2012 7:41
Yep going to need to get Hello Kitty headphones. /sigh another 50 bucks. Sad I loved these headphones. So does my daughter =xFebruary 22, 2012 7:35
well I guess the jack to the headphone is just messed up and I can't fix it. My fault for letting my daughter use it for her gaming ;-;February 22, 2012 7:31
