Wow... Losers...

[pasithea]

So... Last night, Stacey conned me into taking her to the midnight sales event of this stupid World of Warcrap thing at Fry's. I thought I'd be clever, drop her off and take a friend home, then pick her up on the way back.

What repulsive creatures WoW players are. There seem to be two major categories of them. There are the obese beardos, who generally weren't so bad and then there were the wanna-be gangsta boys that are STILL wearing those pants that make them look like they took a crap in them. What the hell is with that fashion disaster anyhow?

Anyhow. The parking lot at Fry's was just FILLED with garbage. What the Hell is with people? Did mommy always clean up after them? Is that what that pants look is all about? They really are shitting themselves but mommy isn't there to change them now? Who knows!?

Of course, it doesn't stop there. How many times did I hear some some guy coming out of the store proudly with his over-packaged piece of crap game shout something to the effect of 'BYE FAGGOTZ!!!LUL!!!' then jump in his overpriced car that I can only assume his parents bought him, and squeal the tires across the parking lot to prove how studly he really is. Seriously. It was sickening. These losers seriously outnumbered the dorky beardos at Frys.

A world populated by pathetic asshats with the IQ of shoe leather. Their only purpose is to kill imaginary monsters and stroke their fragile little egos with power fantasies. They're just fucking pathetic. I don't get World of Wastrels at all. I need to be doing something interesting and creative with my time almost all the time. Repeating the same menial tasks over and over again just doesn't seem like fun to me. Nor does being commanded around by worthless pieces of human filth who have the strategic planning abilities of a gerbil. If I wanted that, I'd work fast food or go back to the telecom industry.

I think this is why SecondLife is so adamant about not being a game. Sure there are pretentious club-kidz in SL too but in general it's draw is for creative types. Almost everyone in SL makes stuff. Maybe it's just textures for clothes to sell to try to make money but it's something that at least has an element of creativity. WoW doesn't even have any roll-play that I've seen. It's all about the numbers. No one is 'in character'. It's a total waste of time. WoW players just sit around gaining weight, skipping real-world events with their real friends to go on 'raids'.

Oooh. You might make a couple friends in WoW... But if the majority of the users have the personality of coleslaw with too much mayonaise, what's the point? It's like shifting through shit to find some seeds that might not have got digested. I need something more substantial and less vile.

Although. Speaking of insubstantial and vile, after the WoW crap, we went to Denny's. Ugh. I had a bit of a fit watching the pathetic losers at the Fry's WoW thing. (How many young men squealing their tires and darting across a parking lot while shouting obscenities at people can you tolerate before losing it? My tolerance is a surprisingly high 14) There's something wrong with me. Sometimes I just wake up to how ... uninspiring the majority of people in the world are and break down and cry, and the WoW thing triggered it. Blah.

Anyhow, we ended up at Denny's. It was empty except for two loathsome yuppies blathering about their stock portfolios and whispering conspiracy theories to each other about the stock market decline in 2000 and how they, of course, were smarter than market analysts and such. Every bit as bad as the WoW crowd.

Eventually, a cute goth guy came in too. He had a very Clark Gable kind of look but with more eye shadow and of course the frilly poet's shirt and stuff like that. Cheered me up quite a bit. Reminded me I have fluorescent hair and I'm not the only freak in the world.

Stacey had noticed he was counting his pennies to get dinner and bought the cheapest thing on the menu. On the way out, Stacey asked me if I minded if we paid for his dinner. For some reason this made me totally happy, so she whispered to the waiter and we picked it up and then snuck off. Mwhuahahaha!

I suppose in retrospect, it was a little rude, but honestly, I consider six bucks a small price to pay for not feeling like the entire human race should just be scourged from the face of the planet. Plus, odds are high we'll never see him again, so it's just some mystery for him. :D That'll teach him to wear make-up in public! ;)

Comments

I didn't realize that I needed to shave....

[plucky.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess because my pants are firmly around my hips and I occasionally get some really strange chin hairs, I must be a bearded weirdo. It's true that I haven't rushed out and gotten the expansion yet but I find gathering (over and over again) very theraputic. I also hang out with bearded weirdos (Tim) who happen to be fabulous tacticians. Saying that a limited segment of a gamer population is the totality of the population is like saying that those cross dressing overweight guys with the bad makeup and cheap wigs with the feather boas are the totality of another population. While the little bitches are a pain in the butt, sometimes you can reclaim them in the game by enforcing some social skills on them, blocking them until they can behave. Even Tim's little brother, who also plays WOW, was slowly broken of saying negative stuff.

Treating the cute goth boy to dinner was cool. Two things though, how do you know he was a good man (counting pennies?) and how do you know he wasn't a WOW player? Just because he wears makeup doesn't mean he couldn't be a total bitch on the game.

Anyways, I'm not meaning to jump salty but I've been reading your posts for a good long while and every time you go off about people you don't like, it seems like you judge them instantly on their appearance, particularly males. It also seems that those judgements are based on appearances which seem to coincide exactly with what Tim looks like; beard, body hair, a bit overweight, gamer. That gets a little old. You may or may not have meant it consciously but there it is.

I admit that I classify people too but I take into account their behavior and the context in which I meet them. I try to look people in the eye and smile, I've met a lot of cool people who may have looked either dangerous or stupid but just needed the right kind of friend to alter their behavior. Besides, cute chicks like us can get anyone to listen to us, right? :)

Re: I didn't realize that I needed to shave....

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I should have made it more clear that I do like a lot of beardos. I even like the bearded Sailor Moons. :D Also that I realize the wanna-be gangstas are a subset of the game and not everyone who plays it. They were just a majority of the ones at Frys last night.

You're right. I do judge on appearance. I generally don't like the overpriced frat-boy hip-hop look worn by kids who drive BMWs and Audis. Real street people don't bother me. I am still a little more likely to prejudge men but a lot better than I used to be. There weren't many women in the line which is why I expressed no opinion about them. Also, the sort of women who annoy me are the pastel creatures that blither endlessly about their manicures and wedding plans. What I really dislike at this point in my life is 'normal' people. And by normal, I mean totally freakishly deformedly abnormal. The people who shop at the GAP and Acrombie and such. The people who are dressed exactly like the people you see on the MTV Spring Break shows. Suburbanites.

As for the guy at Denny's. Yep, there were a few fluorescents and goths at the Fry's thing too, and he could easily have been one of the ones there. There aren't that many reasons someone would be out in full make-up at 3AM on a Tuesday night. In fact, knowing my luck for guys, he'd probably just raped a whole litter of kittens or something. I dunno. It was Stacey's idea. It just made me happy. I'd rather be someone who practices random acts of kindness than one who sits around hating the entire world.


Is it really so much to ask that people just not act so borish? Littering, tire squealing, shouting hatespeech at strangers? What kind of person deliberately persents themselves this way? The part about it that upsets me most is that their ugliness makes me feel ugly.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Wow. Sorry you had to see the PvPers. It's like connecting to SL and only seeing the boxy clubs and Xcite scripts. I don't play WoW myself (I don't like camping chairs^W^Wlevel grinding), and avoid Fry's, using it only as a last resort, but Plant plays it often. Plant was at Gamestop picking up Burning Crotch^wCrusade. She reports there was no shouting while she was in line. A woot! or two, but it's all good. Like SL, it really depends on which sim^Wserver, where you're at, and which group^Wguild you're in. Plant's Bluten character (On one of the 12 servers dedicated to RP, as opposed to the PvP which is most prolific) is an Orc who has had many more storylines than Bob on SL has, sadly.

As for offline, there's quite a few WoW machinima that Plant bores me with, mostly music videos, although Illegal Danish is really good. It's 20 minutes, though, but it's a complete movie in and of itself. Eternal Legend, on the other hand, doesn't have a plot, but is very nice, like the intro to an anime movie.

A lot of the better WoW machinima, including the two linked to, using an external third-party program that extracts the models and their animations for viewing on a blue screen called copybot^WModel viewer. That's how they were able to have separate characters move about with all that motion and depth blurry goodness in post-production.

Afterthought: I shouldn't be as mean with the ^W as I was, but I think to flat-out deny SL's game attributes is doing it injustice, as many do consider it "An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime". No, it's not strictly a game, or strickly a muck with 3D tacked on. But it faces a lot of the same issues and troubles that WoW does: griefers, internet lawsuits, cheats and exploits, selling of accounts, centralized storage, bandwidth, inworld economy, client security, third-party add-ons, downtime for scheduled maintenance, and support for a custom scripting language to name a few. I have a few thoughts on the open-sourcing of SL, in that the move will push SL away from the MMORPG model for the better good, but until then, the family resemblance is quite strong, and it'd do good to observe how others have handled the issues (Or, in the case of WoW's PvP homophobes, how not to).

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Fry's at several locations had Blizzard devs there to sign the copies they were selling, and had a guaranteed number of copies to be delivered. All of Blizzard north and some of the younger expansion devs were shipped up to scribble on random things.

So that's why Fry's was 'special'. I was just going to bicycle in the sub30F weather to the local GameStop, but...

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Hmm. True that. And PC and I went to get WC3:Frozen Throne at the Sunnyvale Fry's. And I mean as a last resort in general; I'd rather buy from TCQ computers or Halted or Central Computers or Surplus Computers first. (Offnote: We're so spoiled here, ain't we? I hear in other states, "Computer store" means "Best Buy.")