Roleplaying the Year 1910

I’m not going to tell you where I found this bit of antiquated advice written by a male World of Warcraft player as advice to other WoW players who game with their lovers, or my preferred term, PICF:

Online marriages can be a wonderful experiance. Especially to the female player.

He didn’t get into discussing kitchens and lack of footwear and buns in the oven, but, y’know, he’s probably saving that for Part II.

WoW Patch 2.2

Now available on the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm, Patch 2.2 — patch notes.

Rogues: Sap duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.

NOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOooooooOOOOO!

Goddamit. Where did that Developer Who Loves Rogues More Than Life Itself go?? He on vacation? I see that the Developer Who Conceptualized Lightwell And Will Defend Its Value To The Death is still at work, but where’s my rogue guy?

Actually, looks like everyone’s PVP crowd control abilities were dropped to 10 seconds, which is fair, but juggling two PVP targets in the battlegrounds was one of the few joys in my World of Warcraft life. Well, that and killing warlock pets.

Where?

This NPC from World of Warcraft must really like Thousand Needles to have commissioned a painting of the zone. And maybe if he cleaned those windows, he would have a nice view into … what zone?

Where in WoW (07-13-07)

They built this city on rock (and roll) in Lord of the Rings Online:

Where in LOTRO (07-13-07)

(I really hate that song, but everytime a guild officer gears up for a Ventrilo speech with “We built this guild on …”, I like to interrupt with “rock and roll?”. I’ll bet that’s really infuriating.)