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MMO Hate, Happiness, and Hope...what are we missing?
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I do in-house editing, so when there's nothing currently needing to be editing, I sit around reading forums. It's frustrating because I could do 95% of my job by telecommuting and then do something useful and/or fun during down time, but there is this archaic "it makes the higher-ups feel better if they see people in the office" thing.
I go type type type and insurance software comes out. Now who's job sounds cooler ?!
Hope: That it doesn't take me forever to get relatively decent at this game again...
Hate: At work for 5 and a half more hours with absolutely nothing to do but read junk on the internet.
hi5
Solidarity! Wouldn't be so bad, but I had to start later and that always fucks with my sense of time, and time seems to go backwards without work to do. Plus it'll be dark when I leave. Anyway, [Hope] that the stupid amount of time I've got to spend reading guides and forums will somehow translate into not feeling like a total idiot when attempting to kill manz.
Well, the original hardcore alliance guild decided to reform for WotLK and easily nabbed the server first Naxx25 and Sartharion25 kills.
Then yesterday - Amusement :
Screenshot is by someone in that alliance guild, the text is from when Malygos is at 10%. Evidently a horde progression guild had server transferred to our server and managed to nab the server first Malygos kill by about 40 seconds.
Vive la resistance!
Topical: hope: Heroics this weekend. I'm trying to be patient, I know it's only been a few weeks, but I'm slightly wary that the hardcore achievement whores are going to build up oodles of badges, get all their achievements and then just say fuck off to the rest of us.
Probable: starting the climb on the druid, likely aiming for ~72 sometime Sunday.
I brought the PSP for such emergencies. Except I have Disgaea on it, which is worse than WoW.
And dear Jesus is this realm just filled with retards. Every single instance group I've been in has been a completely and utter disaster. On my main realm you can go into instance and be done with it in 30 minutes, max, because there's very few mentally handicapped people playing on that realm, but not quite so on Stormrage, oh no! Fucking realm is like the goddamn special Olympics, only the people here are even dumber than the people partaking in that event.
Yeah, gonna transfer back to my main realm as soon as I can. Stormrage is probably the worst realm in the whole game.
Ha! That's brilliant.
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An electrical circuit? What's that?
Don't get me started. We had a customer run a 220 line into a device meant to 12 volts at .5 amps. It's been a bad electricity day.
Shocking!
What, dare I ask, does your job entail?
Isn't there supposed to be a grace period for those server first achievements so that anyone else who accomplishes it within the next few minutes also get the achievement?
I work for a company that makes CCTV and Access control systems. My job is to make sure that what sales sells to a company will work as the customer wants it to. I spend much of my day reading RFP's and answering questions. I spend part of my day looking over blueprints. And I spend the rest of my day fixing shit. It's a fun way to combine lots of IT stuff with a bunch of low voltage stuff. The massive upside to my job is I get to play with exotic toys. And demonstrate that "Yes it is possible to completely flood a gigabit conection". And what remains of my day I spend plotting to kill the writers of CSI.
Hope: I can get to 74 this weekend
Happy: I got 5 friends to come back to WoW after a 2 year break. Sucky part is they are all lvl 8 and im 72... time to powerlvl them.
1-70 is really, really easy now.
Are you telling me you can't take an image from a digital camera and change the focus in the picture to get a fingerprint from the finger the photographer held in front of the lens!?
Also the respawn rates suck
The discovery that the 80s will be remembered for.
You've got to reach your prime.
That’s when you need to put yourself to the test,
And show us a passage of time,
We're gonna need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)
Show a lot of things happing at once,
Remind everyone of what’s going on (what’s going on?)
And with every shot you show a little improvement
To show it all would take to long
That’s called a montage (montage)
Oh we want montage (montage)
And anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage (montage)
Even Rocky had a montage (montage)
(Montage…montage)
Anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)
Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seem like more time
Has passed in a montage,
Montage
:winky:
Hope: Blizzard does something about that.
Hate: I get the shield out of strat the day I had my titansteel shield wall made. So I now I have two shields both of which are decent. The titansteel is better for me for raid tanking since it has more mitigation and keeps me at the cap but the crest looks beyond awesome. So torn, so I will just swap between them!
Beyond Happy: Killed 3 of the Alliance faction bosses, first Horde guild on my server to kill Magni, Tyrande and Valen. Wrynn did not die do to the Alliance waiting with about 50 people. On my server its an accomplishment for Horde, we are out number 3 to 1.
Hope: I am there for the last one for my black warbear.
oh god I spent 4100g on this trinket
That's it? Cards have been selling for 2-3k EACH on my realm. I would kill for one of these decks.
I've literally been logging my character in every 2 hours.
Yes, I've been sacrificing swaths of sleep to snipe the cards that people were listing far below what other people with more sensible sleep schedules would be willing to pay.
EDIT: I also made six Darkmoon Cards of the North personally, two of which were Nobles, one of which was a duplicate and I sold and the other of which was a duplicate but I traded for a Nobles card I didn't have yet
hope: I can track down an Ace of Furies and a Six of Lunacy before the Faire ends, so that I can get the rest of the pre-Northrend decks out of the way and clear out some bank space
no chance in hell: I've got a few cards from the other Northrend decks, but I think with Nobles (the one I'll actually be using) out of the way, my epic flying training will take priority over my strange obsession with digital digital cardboard
Dum dee dum, new cooking recipe for me, and a few skillups! This is nice. Let me put my crap in the bank.
Hrm, I still have a bunch of Outlands food mats in the bank. Why don't I port to Shatt to see if I can do the cooking daily for shits and giggles? Sounds good.
Super Hot Stew, okay, that's easy, doo dee doo, finish quest, Crate of Meat... FUCK YES CHOCOLATE CAKE
Wipe #2: "oh hey guys I gotta repair brb"
Wipe #3: "shit my weapon's broke gotta go repair"
Wipe #4: "oh lol my stuff's broke too brb while I repair"
WHEN ONE PERSON GOES
YOU GO TOO
Because I have the foresight to repair my shit before I go into a dungeon
And the foresight to not run with PUGs who wipe?