Monthly Archives: May 2007

Meeting New Game Friends

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I am making friends FAST in Lord of the Rings Online:

Making Friends Already

Admittedly, my new friend has anger issues, but who doesn’t?

(I had range-pulled a trash mob — one of DOZENS available — while my new burglar friend was still setting up his stealth and opening moves.)

From the World of Warcraft forums, I spotted this soon-to-be-deleted thread (and it was):

WoW Forums - I am not Orig Owner (redacted)

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I just wanted to let the realm know that i am not the original owner of this account. as many of you know the original owner of this character died a few months back several days after he was hit by a drunk driver. i am one of his brothers friends and the account was recently given to me. i do not know the he had on this server but i wanted to let the server know that its not him playing.

Riiiiiiight.

Doesn’t it seem like the first thing a deceased gamer’s family does is sell off his/her game accounts? So many (reportedly) dead gamers over the years — without fail, their accounts are up on the auction block almost immediately, sometimes within days of the death.

Damn disrespectful if you ask me.

The Harassed Becomes The Harasser

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Remember that one hunter in my World of Warcraft guild, she’s the sister of one of our (former) druids, and they both left the guild AND THE SERVER after another guildmate was ALLEGEDLY harassing the hunter sister? (Here’s the links, lazy: Part I and Part II) Recall also that she returned to our server after some time and I couldn’t figure out why in the hell someone who was harassed off a game server would return to the same server.

Well, I think I know why.

About a month and a half ago, my guild was farming Karazhan early in the raid week. I was assigned to Raid #2 of 3 (three simultaneous Karazhan raids — now that’s good, clean fun). Also in my raid was a paladin who I never had many dealings with — good guy though, followed instructions, showed up for raids when he said he would, never complained.

We had just finished up the chess event and had a brief scheduled AFK break before charging ahead to visit the prince. The Ventrilo convo had turned to Myspace and the hilarious things you can see over there like GLITTER ANGELS. You have to imagine my Ventrilo Glitter Angels voice, a voice I have perfected over several weeks — a higher pitch with drawn-out sounds like: GLIIIIIIITTERRRRRRRRR AAANGELSSSSSSSSSSSS. It’s really obnoxious.

Then I added, almost as an afterthought, “I wonder whatever happened to *HunterSister*.”

Our paladin announced that, actually, he was dating *HunterSister*. (!!!)

This was me, inserting foot in mouth: Oh. I’m sorry.

Heh. I meant that I was sorry for mocking the Glitter Angels and thinking of mocking the Perfect MAN-i-festo and the whole harassment bullshit she imagined, but, how it sounded was that I was sorry he had to date her. Which, I suppose, was also true.

A few of the raidmembers sent me /tells with “hehe”, and lucky for me and for the raid, our paladin wasn’t offended and we moved on to other bosses and other conversations.

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