Persevere

  I'm sitting here eating nutcream pocky trying to figure out how I'm gonna do this without sounding like a butthurt tool.

I don't think I'll ever be able to let go unless they go free to play.
If you haven't already gathered, this is gonna be yet another ranty entry about World of Warcraft, even though I don't even play anymore and haven't since a few months after Cataclysm launched. My sad ass is still gonna go to Blizzcon... but ugh.

The other night my guildies were having a discussion regarding MMOs and how much they've changed from what they used to be back in the day regarding integrity... lol. It's pretty pathetic how much emphasis I put on these games in my life, but the reality is they've been a big part of me since my wee years. They're just not the same, and it hurts. :(

My friend Aaron, who I've mentioned before I'm sure, went off on a tangent. See, this is why I like him so much.

I did a review of the skills
And wanted to vomit.
Priest.
Stealth.
'nuff said on how retarded that xpac is.
WoW singlehandedly buttfucked community-ness of MMOs
By drawing in the shooter crowd and the "ease of grouping" thus turning every group to a "fuck it I'm never gonna see them again" mentality
Priest have a stealth skill now
Warlocks have instant cast normal fear.
Blood DK does the most DPS in the game.
BM hunters ROFL people without any second thought.
Rogues now carry 10 combo points on targets
because apparently managing 5 was too hard for nubs.
So they gave them more combo points for all those spammers.
It's depressing that it's such a lore rich game
That it's at the point they no longer care about anything other than the "easy-fix" and moneyInstead of a lore rich expansion
What do they release?
A regurgitated "theme"
I'm just tired of the lack of creativity and caring from the company lol

guildie: I mean after 8 years
guildie: what else can a game do
guildie: it's like how simpsons was the shit
guildie: but eventually had to past the torch to family guy

That's the thing though
They have like what
4 books?
and like 40% of it's content covered.
They completely left out an entire raid in Cata because they didn't feel like puttin in the work
So the entire abyssal maw thing, and all the bad guys and shit you were involved with there
"just magically poofed"
lol
All they care about is money.
My favorite quote from Blizzcon was
"So what about your new MMO?"
Blizz: "Yeah we don't have the money for that."
They've ruled the MMO world with an iron fist for EIGHT YEARS.
How. How do you "not have the money"
lol

guildie: so true

If Activision is bleeding them THAT dry

guildie: cuz those fat cats are too busy eating all they can every meal

Wtf was the point of selling out
I also like the wording on the launcher haha
"GET A FREE FACTION SPECIFIC MOUNT!"
".... When you bring a friend back to world of warcraft"
Idk
It was a good game while it lasted
I'm just tired of it.
It got to the point where I knew exactly what you were going to do at any %age of HP
Just based off the class you were.
:/
In WoW, not to sound like a doucher
But I probably knew what you were gonna do before you did.
Every class played the exact same.
On higher tier arena, everyone played the same.
X class will use Y skill at Z percentage hp.
Always.
First time grouping with friends or even people you never met
It's hard to give up
Which is why people keep going back to WoW
They're hoping
Each new patch will give them that feeling back
But they're just setting themselves up for disappointment
They cares about the people who played shooters
The people who played phone games.
console games
xD
Cause that's where zhe money is
The mmo players started leaving WoW
So they had to grab the attention of the other demographics
Wow would be dead if they didn't

me: one day I got drunk when I decided I wasn't getting MOP
me: and started watching concerts of video game music
me: and this one epic video had all the old WoW songs on it, and some songs from WC3
me: I started bawling my eyes out

Well you have to remember
The team who made WC3
Blizzard.. north? was it?
Was fired upon selling out to activision.


Are you bored yet? I know. This seems retarded. WHATEVA, IT'S MAH BLOG. AH WRITE WHAT AH WANT.
It just feels good having someone go off like that because it's all exactly how I feel. I feel bad for the ones that have been there since Vanilla and still hang on. They have no idea. Hopefully, Blizzcon will address some things that will give players like us piece of mind. I still love what they've made in the past, and sort of have some hope for the future, I just want closure. And I KNOW... I know someone is going to be asking those questions at the panels. I just know it. And the developers will have to answer to us all. What the fuck happened? What are you doing? DOES ACTIVISION'S DICK TASTE GOOD? And I wanna be there for all of it. Also there was an awesome rice and bean stand outside that was bomb.

It's unreal how much I'm looking forward to Blizzcon. I haven't decided if I wanna cosplay or not. My undead mage was so important to me... =\ but I don't know if I could do her justice. Not many undead cosplayers for a reason. It's hard! Probably expensive as shit, too. We'll see. I'm definitely gonna be in the dance contest again though.  :D That was unbelievably fun.

GAMEY THINGS ASIDE... 

I have stuff to work on regarding this last weekend. As some might have been aware there was a Psyclon Nine and Dawn of Ashes show on Saturday.
My work schedule had me wake up at 9pm today. I'm all sorts of fucked up in that regard. However I do have a lot to write about and show from Saturday.
Apologies ahead of time. My phone died halfway through the night, but I still was able to get some stuff.
 Including this.

My life has turned a weird angle, but I'm enjoying it. I only wish I had let loose a little earlier on. OH WELL. :D
Despite that... I'm still horrified by everything that moves.

This Friday it seems that the Little T gang are all off from work. I'm hoping something happens. I'm craving ramen and boba tea. I'm just not looking forward to the solo Metro ride.
Devon has started school again and unfortunately Friday is one of the days she has classes until like 3 or something. We've agreed to just meet there at the station.
The first time this was planned out, I misunderstood and flaked from mortification. The very notion of texting about going by myself to meet her there made me anxious and told her another time. =\
So then we tried again. I prepared myself mentally for it, and braved the drive to the metro station and the ride to ... whatever stop I had to get off at. My brain is so against it that I can't remember the name of the stop. haha
However, on my way to get to the metro I got lost. With a GPS. Even though I've driven there with Devon like 8 times before.
I finally got there with surprisingly no issues finding parking. Got my fare on my weird card thingy and as I was passing the little metal gate thingies, some (homeless?) ogre guy 8 feet away from me kept trying to get my attention by shouting a crude compliment. Naturally I'm ignoring him and screaming bloody murder inside hoping I drop dead. I lowered my head and stared at the floor because he just wouldn't shut up, so I finally said 'thank you' 
Again, my brain blocked the memory of what he kept shouting.
However I do remember that he felt 'thank you' wasn't enough and got louder, trying to get me to react.  I kept ignoring him and he said even more crude things to which I eventually responded with 'go die in a fire'
He then kept shouting something about me loving him looking at me and telling me whatever.
I'm pretty sure the look on my face when I got to the platform was similar to this:

 I locked my gaze on my phone and didn't look up for the next 45 minutes. There were no available seats so I had to stand in the middle area by the doors.

Are you reading this in my voice? Is it hilarious?
SHUT UP

Also, November is a thing. I'm gonna be going to visit the east coast for a few days. My video card can wait. All I've been doing when I'm not working is watching Gossip Girl and jumping on GW2 intermittently.
Time for foods and more editing! Not gonna lie... Season 5 is a little whack.