J!NX, clothier for gamers, geeks and hackers, is offering up to $500 for TShirt ideas and artwork. Submission rules at above link: $100 for tshirt concept, extra $400 for the accompanying artwork. (Yes, you can do AFK Gamer fan art. See all the AFK Gamer fans with their hats? It’s catching on.)
More on the Chinese gold farming industry from the New York Times, Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese. I know … yawn! But this article has photographs that aren’t blurry shots of dark-haired people hunched over 1982 Compaqs. (I will say those aren’t very comfortable chairs.) Which one is your server’s farmer? Mine is in the shiny black jacket, I think. *waves to Xiaohuaheloly*
Recall how much I enjoy rambunctious young’uns and how much I enjoy the disruptive nature of the Warcraft mod, Whispercast. (recall)
So a few weeks back, we had this young’un in the guild — high schooler if I remember correctly and how the hell can I ever forget — who was a BIG FAN of Whispercast. In fact, to hear him tell it, he’s the one that birddogged this mod down and introduced it to much critical acclaim! Best. Mod. Ever. per him.
Anyways. He was constantly spamming the guild boards with these autobiographical opuses. Months after joining, he’s still writing these Intro to Me! posts. Fuck.
Plus, he’d always come up with these fabulous strats for our raids that he just had to introduce MID-RAID. “Umm hey everyone. I had this great thought in study hall today about these mobs. We have a few minutes, right? I can outline it for everyone. First, I was thinking today in study hall …”
The one raid, I stopped him in the middle of one of his little strat speeches and /told him to shut up and not to speak again until we were all in Ironforge. Seriously. Every last player must be in Ironforge before he could speak again. Or else.
I regretted that immediately. Not because I was too rough on the tyke, but because he spammed threatening and angry tells cuz I had disrespected him. (Whatthefuckever.) And I’ll quote … Don’t you care that you disrespected a guildmate?? Me: No. No I do not.