More Stupid Than the Others

You know what the most frustrating thing was while playing World of Warcraft (ages ago)? Apart from spending 9 or more hours per day of your life in a game that felt like work and being socially inept at the end of it all (well, more or less) it was the fact that you spent so much time understanding something fairly complex, you couldn’t be easily fooled by anything else pretending to be World of Warcraft.

When awaited ‘Age of Conan’ came out, people were super excited that it might ‘replace’ World of Warcraft, which is a game everyone loved to hate. It was unfair, it was time-consuming, it felt like it had sub-par graphics if you look at all the other games out there that challenge real life imagery.

The above image (well, screenshot) was taken about two and a half years ago when Blizzard released Naxxramas, whenever that was, and we were slapping ourselves awake at 2.30 in the morning to kill the huge fat blob pictured for some, you know, internet recognition. Yes it was an old screenshot, I had disabled every other addon I had on my PC to make it run properly in order to achieve whatever it was, just kinda pushing everything to the max basically to kill the bastard. For what? I don’t know really, the only things I got from that period were two very good friends whom I still speak to after about 4-5 years. Frankly, it’s pretty strange but it works.

Anyway, considering I’d spend evenings playing the same thing over and over it meant I’d be pretty frustrated and unimpressed when someone who had recently started playing got all excited about something I had done, “like, ages ago, man!” Like when you see someone excited about starting in a new work place and the people working there greet you with a ‘Don’t worry, it’ll die soon.’

So yeah, anyway, you got your first purple item..yeah, well, I got three of those while levelling up. Whatever!

You’ve exploited some design/programming weakness in a battleground and won numerous games in an unfair manner…well don’t be a twat about it and post it on YouTube! Sheesh.

What I’m getting to is this:

• EA’s Tiger Woods video (He’s just THAT good) - Their game did not have a glitch of Tiger Woods walking on water as some dude reported on YouTube.

• Samsung Omnia unboxing viral – Yes, thousands of people have tiny joygasms when they unbox their favourite gadgets, I thought I was shaking a bit when I opened up my iPhone box as well. Some of them post videos of how happy they are when they do and others how unimpressed they are with what their stuff performs and the features it offers. Marching band? Yeah, interesting…just skip to the end, will you?

Why the World of Warcraft intro then? Because people tried to woo us with in-game Toyotas. Seriously, come on. This is World of Warcraft, not the video for ‘Californication‘. If you’re going to dabble into what we do then actually do it properly. We do spend most of our time on the internet and lolcats are cute but they’re last year’s news, we’re not your colleague sat in the cubicle next to you that just discovered I can has cheeseburger on his favourite car forum.