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"Ten years of marriage and she's still got a ass like a black tennis player! You 'bout to get re-pregnatized, girl!"

Yeah, he played a Nelf Hunter, I don't know how I remember these things.

You wouldn't understand half of it anyway, too much WoW lingo. It's far too addicting, or at least it used to be. My girlfriend from a few years ago never played a video game in her life and all off a sudden she's doing all of the grind work on my WoW character with a smile in her face, I almost proposed during those days.

Yeah, I like how the little lines just make it so funny. When Anders brought home some chick from their time in college, as they walk into Anders room: "I'm not saying I'm going to be rusty but..."

OK, where to start? I have been playing WoW for a long ass time now, the first contact I had with the game was actually because of these forums back in 2005. We used to have this guy posting called Gnarkill, he convinced me to give WoW a try. I leveled on Gnar's server but I believe he quit WoW shortly after I started, so there I was, on my first ever MMO, in one of my first online gaming experiences... I remember pressing escape and thinking the game was paused lol. I spent most of my vanilla days leveling, for a new player - leveling was harsh as fuck, and this was supposedly the MMO that made things simpler. It took me quite a few months to get to 60, once there I slowly made my way into dungeons, gearing up was a MUCH bigger deal, there was clearly a rope to climb from once you dinged 60, gathered dungeon gear, and actually raiding - it was a slow process, level 60 dungeons were long and the loot tables were gigantic, time+luck was the ingredients to success in WoW. So I raided for a bit with this one guild, I didn't have a microphone so my times in vent were spent just listening to the raid leader calling us names (with reason), we didn't really get too far, but I still saw some nice content - first time raiding in WoW was a great feeling, really good times. TBC was announced and I was pumped, the expansion was a new beginning for me, the small experience I collected in Vanilla gave me the chance to start on an even ground with others, I convinced 2 of my high school buddies to join me in WoW too, we started from 0 on one of the new servers and leveled and dungeon'd our way to 70, great GREAT times, no shame in admitting WoW helped us forge a true brotherhood! We met a few guys that lived close to us on our way up, some of them are my best buddies today! Right in the beginning we met a lot of people and decided to make a late night raiding guild, things went very smooth for us, we got to 70 and slow and steady cleared all of the content (including Sunwell, pre M'uru nerf bitches). Content in TBC was just beautiful, Kara started out as a FANTASTIC 10 man, Grull was hard as hell in the start, T5 was the best content ever fucking made - killing that whore Vashj and Kael were feelings that matched losing your virginity, T6 had amazing fights and diversity, and to top it all, Sunwell was HARD AS A MOTHERFUCKER. Roll in Wotlk, fuck. Me, my friends, my guild, we were all extremely excited about this... first game I actually waited in line to buy, and the lines were unreal, even in Portugal... lines to stores went all the way around the malls, I preordered a copy but quickly noticed that the store would run out of copies before I had mine... luckily we found a guy I know in the front of the line and we just skipped past everyone - that's right bitches, cutting line, what are you gonna do 'bout it?. Wotlk,simply put, was depressing. Leveling had literally nothing to it, quest quest quest, group quest, quest. It just went too fast and with no difficulty. We got to 80 and IMMEDIATELY jumped to Naxx... I kid you not, we cleared FULL Naxx with full t6, FULL FUCKING T6. Only our tanks geared a bit in dungeons. T7 was just garbage, only Malygos had a fun moment here and there. T8, fucking Ulduar. Ulduar broke my guild, people were quitting left and right, Hardmodes/Heroic modes are shit. I wanted new bosses, not the same shit with a slightly different mechanic and more damage. Unlike most people in WoW, I hated Ulduar, worst time for us as a guild. Meanwhile, Blizzard decided that everyone should have access to epics and loot, all of a sudden my beautiful game was riddled with mouth breathers who felt entitled to everything. Server transfers, faction changes, all of these things killed my perfectly tailored community... your reputation on the server used to mean things, the people you grouped with and raided was all defined by your rep. With these changes people were free to just jump server whenever they please, fuck around in dungeon finder, mess up BGs (back in the day, you used to only PvP with people from your own server, BGs included - awesome community feel and you actually knew the players). I went very casual after Ulduar and just did normal modes on weekend alt runs, rest of the content was still garbage, Blizzard kept implementing 'casual' features, and we had to wait a whole fucking year between content at one point... fuck it. Called it quits till Cata came out. Cata was slightly better, much more focus on PvE focus in the beginning, but it was ultimately another shit ass expansion... last tier was just a bad joke really. Reasons as to why WoW turned to shit (and infected many other games): It went from being a revolutionary MMO to some sort of Facebook game where 'everybody wins'. No more attunements after TBC, attunements were amazing. Heroic modes in raids - lazy development, Tier 5 did content beautifully: easy bosses, hard bosses, SUPER hard bosses in the end. This is good, this is how raiding should be like, enough of this bullshit on 'I pay the same as you, I should see the same bosses', fuck you. Server transfers, PvE to PvP transfers (and vice versa) faction changes and name changes - fuck all of this garbage, I liked knowing everyone on the server, I liked the concept behind having a reputation on the server (blacklisting and whitelisting players). Wotlk and Cata battlegrounds, holy shit, all of the new battlegrounds suck ass... Isle of Conquest ... no words to describe this shit. 25 and 10 man raids sharing the same loot - thanks for killing 25 man raiding. Dungeon Finder and LFR - more ways to kill the server community. No more Heroic dungeon keys - You do normals, you farm rep, you get an heroic key, linear progress is good progress. The day they removed Heroic keys was the day all the shitty groups started popping up and wiping to everything. I don't care about people failing in WoW, but this was the beginning of the big cries in the forum. Result: everything was nerfed. PvE content over the years - more and more simplified, nerfed too fast, access to content with no effort put on characters, etc. 2vs2 having no rewards anymore, 2vs2 was great, there should have been a bigger effort on class balance. Make stats/buffs/skills/talents different in PvP or whatever, don't just fix things by removing them. Talents and skills WAY too much simplified nowadays, I want to build my own spec, none of this cookie cutter bullshit with no options. The players these days - cry babies who just want things served to them on a silver platter, can't grasp the concept of difficulty on a video game, see the MMO genre as some sort of stress release instead of facing it as a challenge. I'll come up with more reasons. I should be working. edit: that is one long ass POAST.

Sorry Massacre, but as a long time player (I started in 2005), I'm gradually becoming less and less interested in WoW. I played for a good chunk of Vanilla and it was very fun, that new game feel on a very large scale. TBC was AWESOME, best game I have ever played, EVER. Wotlk went extremely downhill right from the beginning - I will write a few lines on this tomorrow. Cata was OK, I kinda liked the content, but nothing really spectacular. Fact is, I've raided with the same people since 2005. That's a long ass time, we did all of the content as a guild, from MC to Deathwing Heroic, we've been killing dragons and bugs forever now, most of the people in the guild just play because there really isn't a viable MMO option outside of WoW. I gotta get me sleep, tomorrow I will find the time and write a long ass post on why I think WoW is shit these days, get ready for a srs wall-of.text filled with elitist ideology on the MMO genre.

My 10 day free thing ended up with me not really playing that much, lack of time+motivation... I leveled for a bit and just kept hearing guildies complain about the game turning to shit, so, fuck it.

Am I the only one who finds this shit hilarious? Best comedy show of 2012 by far (and for a good few years actually). What prompted me to make this topic is that I just found out JET SET died. FUCK. He was the funniest side character on the show!

Massacre, Christmas gift?

There wasn't much gift giving this Christmas, but I am now a rum cognoscenti.

Nigga, I get a fine red for my dad, everyone else gets supermarket champagne.

Oh wait, this one topic isn't about giving, it's about receiving. Hopefully no one tries to be a smartass and get me something, else I'll have to buy another bottle for them.

I might buy a wine bottle on my way North to see the family.

Yeah, even from the beginning you could see... this shit ain't real Diablo. If you liked D2 and actual challenge, check out Path of Exile, I got into the closed beta and plan to play it at least for a while with a few friends once it goes into open beta in January. edit: Massacre, I played it for a while during my 10 day free trial, got very bored very fast. Guildies kept saying PvE is not worth it and that everything else is either gay (pokemon fights) or just totally broken (PvP). My guild is having a hard time with server progress, seems like a lot (A LOT) of guilds have opened ranks for more than 1 team, there's a few guilds on my server who run up to 4 10 man teams... we used to sit top 5 on one of the busiest servers in Europe and now they are having problems breaking into top 15 lol.

As long as the internet doesn't die, I'm good. *watches more cat videos*

Nice qwob! I like maths too, maybe we can discuss some Arzela–Ascoli or Banach space soon! Here is something to keep you busy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_mathematics

Not sure about the Real vs ManU game, would be funny if Real lost... Mourinho would probably leave or whatever. Real is a shitty club anyway, it's starting to feel like NO ONE can pick up that team, too many stars, too many egos, too many changes every year. Barça will take the win. I think Bayern has the man power to just smash Arsenal silly. Would like to see Celtic win, but Juve is Juve... respect.

You know what game isn't on any list? Diablo 3. Fuck you Blizzard.

I think powerlifting is bullshit lol, all I see is awful form and small range of motion... sorry to say, but it's just an American thing. Olympic weightlifting is cool as fuck though. Why? Because it's regulated. Powerlifting depends too much on your region, I've seen these videos of "record breakers" who bench about 3 fucking inches with some sort of back arch from hell. It's not a bench press if your ass isn't sitting on the bench. Deadlifts taking about 15 seconds with what looks like forehead veins about to pop... one way ticket to snap city. If all you want to do is keep the lumberjack look, just eat and lift lol. When I want to bulk fast I just go on a white meat bender, mix it up with a lot of carb based food (Chinese rice ftw), I've eaten to the point of falling asleep in my chair... maybe I just passed out.

It's becoming very hard. I could just lard it up and become a powerlifter or whatever, but keeping fat below 10% and > 200 pounds is getting VERY hard.

6'1 and 202. 6 months ago I was 215!

What's your mental image of me Massacre? ;-)) guess-a-height-n-weight-game

gotta hit them squats harder cuz.

Great story qwob, loved it.

I'd like to know what's so fucking amazing about Spider-Man.