Norway is having awesome, awesome weather. It's gloriously summer! So I've been a bit distracted and spending a lot of time outside, getting some sunburns in the process. I also finished fic (with beta now, yay? will be posted later tonight, yay?) and my guild managed a nice Ulduar achivement.
Which brings me to today's special. I bring you an epic US versus Europe battle, wherein utter stupidity, lack of perspective, insults and gross stereotyping of the painful kind rule the field.
And what causes this? World of Warcraft.
For those unfamiliar with World of Warcraft, a little bit of background is needed. Basically, once you take your character to a certain level of experience, you can bring together with other players (usually in formed guilds) go into a raid dungeon and battle bosses. These bosses vary in difficulty, and thus killing certain bosses gets a certain amount of prestige in the WoW world.
The most prestigious of all is to be the first guild in the world to kill a boss. Kinda like fandom has BNFs, WoW has big name guilds. One is Ensidia, a European guild. Another is Exodus, a US guild. And what happens when Exodus claims killing a boss hardmode that Ensidia hasn't yet - but it's then discovered Exodus exploited a bug in the game?
Wank happens. Hoo yes wank happens.
Warning: Nasty language at times.
( full respect guys, dont let those whining garlic eating surrender monkeys get to ya (euros). I look forward to reading more of your guilds future adventures )
In conclusion - World of Warcraft is SERIOUS BUSINESS and having some painful stupidity appears to be something Europe and the US both have in common.
Let us share the pain.
Which brings me to today's special. I bring you an epic US versus Europe battle, wherein utter stupidity, lack of perspective, insults and gross stereotyping of the painful kind rule the field.
And what causes this? World of Warcraft.
For those unfamiliar with World of Warcraft, a little bit of background is needed. Basically, once you take your character to a certain level of experience, you can bring together with other players (usually in formed guilds) go into a raid dungeon and battle bosses. These bosses vary in difficulty, and thus killing certain bosses gets a certain amount of prestige in the WoW world.
The most prestigious of all is to be the first guild in the world to kill a boss. Kinda like fandom has BNFs, WoW has big name guilds. One is Ensidia, a European guild. Another is Exodus, a US guild. And what happens when Exodus claims killing a boss hardmode that Ensidia hasn't yet - but it's then discovered Exodus exploited a bug in the game?
Wank happens. Hoo yes wank happens.
Warning: Nasty language at times.
( full respect guys, dont let those whining garlic eating surrender monkeys get to ya (euros). I look forward to reading more of your guilds future adventures )
In conclusion - World of Warcraft is SERIOUS BUSINESS and having some painful stupidity appears to be something Europe and the US both have in common.
Let us share the pain.