Gaming Done Dirt Cheap

And we’re back.

It wasn’t enough that I almost single-handedly saved my office from certain bankruptcy by covering for all the sick people last week — I had to spend my weekend hacking up black stuff and blasting snot all over everything and everyone, which is even less appealing than it sounds.

I would like to thank the nation’s schoolchildren for sending that latest flu my way via working parents. Revenge will be mine when I turn over a bankrupt Social Security system fifty years hence … or sooner!

So, yesterday the long-awaited Warcraft patch arrived. It’s a content patch, too! Look closely, the new content is in the first two paragraphs: a new dungeon, Dire Maul, and two new dragons. Mostly it’s a bajillion fixes with the usual smattering of nerfs we’ve all come to know and love.

Improved flight paths is a welcome change, especially the Auberdine to Talonbranch Glade run … that one was a bitch. I still wish we could jump off the griffs midflight. Annoying as hell to fly over my camp with a few minutes of flight time left. That’s another five or ten minutes out of my life that I can’t get back.

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This is Not the Server You Seek

Once upon a time there were 12, maybe 14, players on my server. Right now, we’re trying not to make eye contact with Blizzard Management, lest our server be targeted to receive refugees from the hi-pop servers.

I know it’s a matter of perspective, but DAMN, it seems crowded as it is.

Days of Wine and Roses ... OVER

*STUDIES HIS BOOTS INTENTLY*

He’s Blogging Again!

Teamspeak Convo last week:

Involuntarily-electedGL (IGL): Everyone ready to do this?

All (except me, I was pouring mixing a damn drink and couldn’t hit the push-to-talk that very second): Ya.

CPADude: *ReloggingDude’sRealName* is relogging. Incoming now, I think.

(No surprise there. He relogs before every elite mob, which can be hell when doing an instance.)

IGL: *Foton’sRealName*?

BitterEx-EQMonk: Fucking *Foton’sRealName* is probably blogging. Leave that fucking blog alone!!

(Damn, he’s bitter.)

Foton: Umm, hi. I was getting a drink. Jesus.

ReloggingDude: back.

IGL: Ok, if we’re all done blogging now, can we finish this quest?

WTF, I was getting a damn drink. I can’t drink and blog.

Y’know, I shouldn’t. Not that I can’t or … haven’t.