Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Open recruiting
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Nerd Rage
So I've been playing this game for about 5ish years now and besides the usual things that bug me, there is one thing that really has gotten on my nerves as of late: social elitism. Here's what I mean, the WoW purist that refuses to do anything at all because it's "soooo cliché". Okay, I can understand not wanting to participate in certain endeavors on Azeroth because they're simply overdone, but lately I've noticed that the vitriol that has spilled from the mouths of babes has finally gotten on my last nerve.
In the immortal words of Dennis Miller, "I don't want to get off on a rant here, but...". Class elitism, gaming elitism, and social elitism all seem to stem from the roots of "I'm better than you are because I'm so off the beaten path" asshattery mentality. Oh, I'm going to play LotRO because everyone plays WoW and it's so overdone. Oh I'm not going to roll a death knight because you didn't really earn that character and it's sooo passé. Ugh, rolling a worgen is sooo flavor of the month and I'm sooo over dwarf shaman.
Oh yea? You know what I'm sooooo over? This incessant bitching and whining. Yea so people are race-changing to dwarf shaman. It adds a new flavor and variety of shaman in the Alliance. We've never had that before, the only choice was Dranei. Yea so people are down with Gilneas and are playing as worgen. Big deal. You know why they're all doing it en masse? Because it's still brand freaking new. Now the part that bothers me the most is the fact that people are turning their noses at other people's decisions for race choice/aesthetics based upon some sort of pseudo-elitism that their decision to not try anything different makes them so much more superior. I hate to break it to everyone, but really, who are we to tell anyone how they should or shouldn't spend their hard earned money and time in the game? The last time I checked, I'm not paying for Bobby Sue's account. I'm paying for mine. And to be quite honest, as long as Bobby Sue (now WorgenSue or DwarfShazammy) is still a solid player, I don't give a flying fuck.
/end rant.
In the immortal words of Dennis Miller, "I don't want to get off on a rant here, but...". Class elitism, gaming elitism, and social elitism all seem to stem from the roots of "I'm better than you are because I'm so off the beaten path" asshattery mentality. Oh, I'm going to play LotRO because everyone plays WoW and it's so overdone. Oh I'm not going to roll a death knight because you didn't really earn that character and it's sooo passé. Ugh, rolling a worgen is sooo flavor of the month and I'm sooo over dwarf shaman.
Oh yea? You know what I'm sooooo over? This incessant bitching and whining. Yea so people are race-changing to dwarf shaman. It adds a new flavor and variety of shaman in the Alliance. We've never had that before, the only choice was Dranei. Yea so people are down with Gilneas and are playing as worgen. Big deal. You know why they're all doing it en masse? Because it's still brand freaking new. Now the part that bothers me the most is the fact that people are turning their noses at other people's decisions for race choice/aesthetics based upon some sort of pseudo-elitism that their decision to not try anything different makes them so much more superior. I hate to break it to everyone, but really, who are we to tell anyone how they should or shouldn't spend their hard earned money and time in the game? The last time I checked, I'm not paying for Bobby Sue's account. I'm paying for mine. And to be quite honest, as long as Bobby Sue (now WorgenSue or DwarfShazammy) is still a solid player, I don't give a flying fuck.
/end rant.
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