Acid for Blood

After I started my new job a couple of months ago, I was going to respond immediately to the bigoted, ignorant, and narrow-minded views of several people in various gaming communities. Since then I’ve been busy at work and at home, and frankly I haven’t been in much of a mood to blog, nor have […]

Priceless quote from a commenter on a recent Joystiq post about Gaymer.org (emphasis mine):
I’m sick of hearing about gay gamers and female gamers. When 90% of their audience is straight men, why would any developer care about any of you? I know that trying to segregate yourselves is a lame attempt at getting a bit […]

One of my friends recently started playing World of Warcraft. He’s one of those people who would rather ask someone about something instead of first searching for the information for himself in the instruction manual or on the internet. Indeed, he actively refuses to read the instruction manual.
I don’t mind answering questions if the information […]

Players on PvP servers level up more slowly because while out questing, they keep getting interrupted fucking ganked by players of the opposing faction all the fucking time.
I had an absolutely terrible night on WOW last night.
I was unable to find a group for Gnomeregan after trying to find one for nearly 45 minutes. I […]

I was walking east on the road in Ashenvale and see two male Night Elves walking towards me. Nearby is the corpse of a player. It appears to be an Undead character. One of the Night Elves says to the other, “He’s dead now. Let’s go skull fuck him.” Then they bound over to the […]

Tara has a post about why she dislikes PvP servers in World of Warcraft:
People hunt down and kill easy marks, just because they can. Then, when those victims get to a higher level, they do the same thing. I get beat, I beat someone else. It’s classic bully behavior, and it really bothers me. I’m […]

Eleven days ago, I placed my order for the Collector’s Edition of Guild Wars Nightfall on GameStop.com. This was two days after pre-orders for Nightfall became available. At the time, GameStop.com were offering the Pre-Release Bonus pack for an additional $4.99 with the purchase of the game. I checked the site just now, and they […]

Right. Pissed off now. The Guild Wars: Factions Collector’s Edition has been delayed. This has been known for about a week. GameStop and EB Games have been instructed to tell their customers that the CE will not be available on the 28th of April. Looking on various message boards and forums has confirmed this information. […]

Last night, one of my guildmates suggested that I stop going to my table-top Dungeons & Dragons games every single week so I had more time to quest with him regularly in Guild Wars. Unlike my D&D party, he can group with Henchmen and other players. My DM will generally not use PCs as NPCs […]

One of my friends, who is not a member of my guild, exhibits a patronising attitude (in my opinion) towards the way I have been playing Guild Wars. Each time the game comes up in conversation, he tells me that I “should be in the desert” (I assume he means the Crystal Desert) or that […]