I, Ugly American

As I’ve already disclosed, my current guild is composed of many nationalities. (Note the use of “current” guild … ya, they’re on the bubble. More on that some other time.) I’m too lazy to calculate percentages, but I’d guess that it’s 20 – 25 percent non-Americans and 80 percent Americans.

Since I’m a stereotypical ugly American, I’ve made some stereotypical observations about the ugly non-Americans. It’s not politically correct, and it’s fundamentally inaccurate, but there are interesting cultural differences. (And, if you think I would worry about being politically correct, you haven’t been paying attention.)

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The Warcraft Hall Monitors

While slicing and dicing my way to Warcraft victory this weekend, I ran into a couple of volunteer Hall Monitors. You know the type. They cheerfully point out behaviorial violations, usually by using the public chat channels so that all may know of the violation … maybe so we can be on the alert for future violations.

I hadn’t realized how important a function this is OR how prevalent the volunteer monitors are until this weekend. If not for their selfless activity, it would be chaos, I tells ya. CHAOS!!

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