The setting is Ironforge. The conversation in /say between a male 60 Hunter and a fem level 15 priest. It’s never too early to fish for a cyber date for the weekend.

You can’t get this kind of up-to-the-minute, insider news on the better blogs.

If you’ve ever played World of Warcraft, you know what loot lag is. If you haven’t tried WoW yet, you’re wrong. I kid! I kid! If you don’t know about loot lag: when the item databases start slogging (that’s my very uneducated guess), the character bends on knee to loot a corpse and gets stuck in that position until the lag clears or they log off in disgust, whichever comes first. The effect is captured here in an animated gif.

If you’re just getting started in the magical world of gaming cyber, you might want to hone your (ahem) technique by studying these examples. Now don’t say I never did anything for you.