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map_of_the_world) wrote2007-07-22 06:54 pm
map_of_the_world) wrote2007-07-22 06:54 pm
Lol, noob!
So I got to level 20 and it took me thirty three hours even though I wasn't fart arsing about running up and down the shore fishing and stuff.
God some wow players are truly annoying. I was in darkshore, killing and looting and skinning as you do and this total fuck wit was running around behind me skinning my corpses before I had the chance to which in my opinion is just rude and the fucker kept on at it even when i told him to quit it and eventually I was like " do your guild know your so rude?" and he was all "no why" and I told him I'd tell them if he didn't stop doing it so he did stop. but I bumped into him later and he was like "can I have some of your leather pls?" How about no since you stole it all earlier fuck wit.
Then I was in westfall (I'm I Night elf but I ran through the wetlands at lvl 15 because I prefer the human territories) and some one kept bugging me to group with them to do the dead mines, I hate grouping especially in dungeons I just get completely confused about who is doing what. I'm actually surprisingly capable of doing low level dungeons on my own it just takes patience judgement and stealthy ness. (I also have an extra six yards on my ranged weapon which is really useful for soloing)but groups confuse me. But anyway I gave in and joined this group, but I told them I wasn't used to grouping. And god was it a dumb group. no organization whatsoever the paladin didn't have his res skill because he hadn't done the quest yet. Um okay then. And then they were all about me being a crap tank WTF?! I'm not a tank, since when did hunters tank? And even if I was a tank class it would have been polite of them to tell me that was my position they told me they needed a random not a tank. I gave up in the end but i did win a couple of good green items on the group loot rolls.
I frikking hate the Auction house on my server everything goes so cheaply and there either are no alchemists or they do their own fishing because no one buys oily black mouth which has always been what I made my money from. I bought two netherweave bags (16 slot) for 5g each because I had 11g and thought I'd make that money back really quickly but I still haven't I'm up to 4g at the mo (though I have been spending on good armour and weapons) It could just be a blip I suppose, and it might get busier now its the school holidays. I canceled a couple of auctions because I was no way going to make on them what I should have been so I'll sell them another time.
So I was thinking about why I play WoW, why I like it so much. It has been the only thing I have ever found that switches my brain off. Seriously ever in my whole life, Books never did it, they always made me think. Even crap TV never did it because i was always thinking about the politics and media issues and stuff behind them. It is almost like a sort of meditation/dissociation thing. I remember having a conversation with a group of friends about how I thought computer games in excess (and played while young) were really bad for socialisation and learning to connect on deep emotional levels with people and I still stand by that (the person that was arguing against me was one of the most emotionally disconnected and social;y inept people I have ever met so go figure) But there is a balance there, clearly if you do something, anything that involves interacting with a machine all the time you are going to be emotionally and socially stunted and disconnected. But people do need down time, hibernation time.
I tried to interact with other played in wow but first I belonged to a couple of guilds full of wankers who thought rape jokes were funny and who used me because I'm really good at making money and then I got head hunted by an absolutely Kick ass guild and most of them were men, but most of them were 25+ plus with partners and often children and jobs and lives and they behaved like adults. A case in point was one of them did make some joke about gang rape and I was like "hey I'm really not comfortable with that" and instead of calling me a stuck up tightass he apologised. And we used to talk about things that mattered, life and politics and books and films and stuff and they didn't care that I mainly soloed and when I quit Wow to finish my degree I got a lovely email from The Guild master saying they wished me luck and to take care. But Ive thought about it since and though being in that guild was a good positive experience i realise that I don't actually want that level of interaction from WOW. I need it to be my hiding place where I don't have to talk to anyone because when i connect with the world i connect intensely and that take s a whole lot out of me.
Obviously with wow there are things to think about on the pointless humanities spectrum about Internet demographics, gender, sexism, the politics of fantasy/fantasy back stories, depiction of characters etc and I do think about all this and I do enjoy thinking about all this, but I don't do it while I'm playing. when I'm playing i just pretend to be someone else who is just out to kick ass and survive (and that in itself is a whole 'nother post about the mind connections between me and stray and why I prefer playing hunters and rouges who are completely self sufficient and skinners or herbalists)
God some wow players are truly annoying. I was in darkshore, killing and looting and skinning as you do and this total fuck wit was running around behind me skinning my corpses before I had the chance to which in my opinion is just rude and the fucker kept on at it even when i told him to quit it and eventually I was like " do your guild know your so rude?" and he was all "no why" and I told him I'd tell them if he didn't stop doing it so he did stop. but I bumped into him later and he was like "can I have some of your leather pls?" How about no since you stole it all earlier fuck wit.
Then I was in westfall (I'm I Night elf but I ran through the wetlands at lvl 15 because I prefer the human territories) and some one kept bugging me to group with them to do the dead mines, I hate grouping especially in dungeons I just get completely confused about who is doing what. I'm actually surprisingly capable of doing low level dungeons on my own it just takes patience judgement and stealthy ness. (I also have an extra six yards on my ranged weapon which is really useful for soloing)but groups confuse me. But anyway I gave in and joined this group, but I told them I wasn't used to grouping. And god was it a dumb group. no organization whatsoever the paladin didn't have his res skill because he hadn't done the quest yet. Um okay then. And then they were all about me being a crap tank WTF?! I'm not a tank, since when did hunters tank? And even if I was a tank class it would have been polite of them to tell me that was my position they told me they needed a random not a tank. I gave up in the end but i did win a couple of good green items on the group loot rolls.
I frikking hate the Auction house on my server everything goes so cheaply and there either are no alchemists or they do their own fishing because no one buys oily black mouth which has always been what I made my money from. I bought two netherweave bags (16 slot) for 5g each because I had 11g and thought I'd make that money back really quickly but I still haven't I'm up to 4g at the mo (though I have been spending on good armour and weapons) It could just be a blip I suppose, and it might get busier now its the school holidays. I canceled a couple of auctions because I was no way going to make on them what I should have been so I'll sell them another time.
So I was thinking about why I play WoW, why I like it so much. It has been the only thing I have ever found that switches my brain off. Seriously ever in my whole life, Books never did it, they always made me think. Even crap TV never did it because i was always thinking about the politics and media issues and stuff behind them. It is almost like a sort of meditation/dissociation thing. I remember having a conversation with a group of friends about how I thought computer games in excess (and played while young) were really bad for socialisation and learning to connect on deep emotional levels with people and I still stand by that (the person that was arguing against me was one of the most emotionally disconnected and social;y inept people I have ever met so go figure) But there is a balance there, clearly if you do something, anything that involves interacting with a machine all the time you are going to be emotionally and socially stunted and disconnected. But people do need down time, hibernation time.
I tried to interact with other played in wow but first I belonged to a couple of guilds full of wankers who thought rape jokes were funny and who used me because I'm really good at making money and then I got head hunted by an absolutely Kick ass guild and most of them were men, but most of them were 25+ plus with partners and often children and jobs and lives and they behaved like adults. A case in point was one of them did make some joke about gang rape and I was like "hey I'm really not comfortable with that" and instead of calling me a stuck up tightass he apologised. And we used to talk about things that mattered, life and politics and books and films and stuff and they didn't care that I mainly soloed and when I quit Wow to finish my degree I got a lovely email from The Guild master saying they wished me luck and to take care. But Ive thought about it since and though being in that guild was a good positive experience i realise that I don't actually want that level of interaction from WOW. I need it to be my hiding place where I don't have to talk to anyone because when i connect with the world i connect intensely and that take s a whole lot out of me.
Obviously with wow there are things to think about on the pointless humanities spectrum about Internet demographics, gender, sexism, the politics of fantasy/fantasy back stories, depiction of characters etc and I do think about all this and I do enjoy thinking about all this, but I don't do it while I'm playing. when I'm playing i just pretend to be someone else who is just out to kick ass and survive (and that in itself is a whole 'nother post about the mind connections between me and stray and why I prefer playing hunters and rouges who are completely self sufficient and skinners or herbalists)