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Bring Enough Love Tokens for the Entire Class

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This month’s World of Warcraft holiday content is for Valentine’s Day: Love is in the Air. Remember that part about how I thought the special event content was well done and not overly annoying to participate in? I take it back. The good: the food rewards have stat bonuses. The stupid: Who has the time to run all over the cities passing out Valentine’s cards? (They’re called Love Tokens, but we know they’re just Valentine’s cards.) Who would have the bag space to carry all the quest pieces? Not me and nobody I raid with does either. For future reference: In March, I won’t have the bag space to collect shamrocks, but I’ll gladly take a pot of gold and some green ale as a reward.

The Pale Light of the Greater Moon

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Lunar MoongladeBy now, you’ve probably read about the World of Warcraft’s Lunar New Year’s Festival, loosely based on the Chinese New Year’s celebrations.

The cities are redecorated, there are kinky quest rewards to be had, and best of all, there’s a teleport system included with your Lunar Festival Invitation linking the major cities … available to you once every 10 minutes, 20 minutes if you have to pass through Moonglade on your way. (Hearthstone is available once every 60 minutes, do the math.) I love kinky quest rewards as much as the next guy, but I LOVE practical, even if I’m only shaving a few minutes off travel time.

Screenshots of the decor and the sights are available in a Flickr Lunar Festival photo set.

Take some time this weekend to see the Lunar sights for yourself. Spectacular.

Are All Cow Druids Lying Douchebags?

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Well, well, lookee here. While searching for more info on that rumored teleport-rezz-rogue-LBRS-hack, I ran across this Warcraft forum thread, authored by Hornwood, lying douchebag of Medivh. Quoting the relevant material:

… I think the defining moment of last night was when we gathered at 12 AM (our scheduled time to ring the gong) after 7 crashes, and OUR SCEPTRE HOLDER WAS STUCK IN A QUEUE OF 2300+. We had to wait over an hour and 15 minutes for him to log in, all the while asking the level 1 alts to please leave the server (which they didn’t do, even though most were halfway across the world).

I had a very interesting conversation with (to put it bluntly) an absolute ass from afkgamer.com. I asked him, as we all were, to log out his level 1 alt so we could speed up the process, prevent crashes and start getting screens up. He said “No, I have every right to be here. Blame Blizzard for this mess.” I said to him well, you’ve seen the server crash, and you know you’re a part of it. You know Medivhians need to be on to get this ball rolling. I pretty much think YOU are the problem here. …

First of all, I wasn’t even logged into my Medivh alt for the gong ringery. Secondly, no one asked me to log out my alt, (again, I wasn’t on the alt anyways because I got my story already and am through with Medivh). Thirdly, the quote he assigns to me he has pulled out of his ass. I never said to anyone, on the Medivh server in tells, in general, in party, or offline either … “No, I have every right to be here. Blame Blizzard for this mess.”

Y’see, when you use quotation marks, or a blockquote as I have done above, generally it should be what someone has actually said or written.

Lastly, Hornwood writes that he said to me … “you’ve seen the server crash, and you know you’re a part of it. You know Medivhians need to be on to get this ball rolling. I pretty much think YOU are the problem here.” Even if he’s paraphrasing, huh? The server didn’t crash when I was on Medivh. If it crashed later, how would I see that? How would I be a part of that if I’m not logged in?

Fucking Blizzard! Did they put me in charge of infrastructure and didn’t warn me??

Congrats Hornwood. I may be an ass, hell, I AM an ass, but I’m not a lying douchebag.

Addendum: I address this issue only so that regular readers, WoW forum visitors and non-primadonna Medivh residents will understand that I never had that conversation with anyone; I never used those words, nor did anyone use those words in response while speaking, emailing, or IM’ing me. (Thread archive of above link 1/24/06)