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[thistlechaser]

Continuing the trend of reposting great old videos, remember this one?

The Craft of War. I hadn't seen it in a year or so, but it came up in conversation so I tracked it down. Still the most awesome thing ever.

It's funny, the first time I watched it I thought both main characters were Alliance, I hadn't realized the woman was Horde/belf (I wasn't playing WoW, had quit after just a month or so). Now I know why I love that city/background music so much!

In a very related thing, it's still sad to me that WoW splits the playerbase up into two factions, I'd still rather have it be all PCs vs NPCs. Heck, I wish for that even more now than ever. I went back to Hordeside to make a Vial of the Sands mount for the lovely kaelash, and the AH was full of people flagged for PvP. I had such intense uncertainty in my stomach! Should I be happy they're defending the city? But even more strongly, I worried that whichever Alliance they killed off might have been someone I knew. (And yeah, yeah, silly, death isn't meaningful like that, but that's still what I felt.)

I miss Hordeside. Timing is funny on that -- this weekend we had a giant (100+ people) successful IC event run by our guild. I still don't feel like Alliance though. Will I ever? Do I want to? I wonder how people play both sides. I'm not sure if I'm having trouble with this because I played Horde for years and never ever ever set foot once on Alliance side or if it's something different about me as a person (or maybe both).

I'm RPing by email (sort of) on Haken, so if anyone who has previously RPed with him (or Keen) wants to, poke me in comment and we can set it up.

Dandelion is nearly 80 (needs less than a quarter of a level). My patience for questing ran out a few levels back and I've been doing it through archaeology. I figure if I need to quest for guild rep, I might as well do it at 85 when I get ~75 per quest rather than now when I get ~20 per quest.

Comments

[pennadelia.livejournal.com]

You're the most unintentional pimp I have ever met. Have my babies. <3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

If I were a pimp, I'd have more hos. :|

And ewww babies! Keep 'em away!

[teslanomaly]

HEY YOU, I saw Thistle in the OOC room today. It reminded me to try to lure you back~

Also, in equal and opposite news, I have caved to the inevitable: My friends cobbled me together a GolemPC and I've started playing WoW. I'm still learning the ropes but I really like it! :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, I hope you have lots of fun in WoW! What server are you on?

Eeek yes! I should log on again! (I half-thought my character would be deleted by now for being inactive.) So much to do, so little time! When I had applied, I had nothing but time! Somehow it got all reversed. :P

[teslanomaly]

Uhm... ... the main one? Hi, I'm a dork. I don't know. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You're not a dork! Everyone needs to learn these things. :D Next time you log on, watch for yellow text in your little text window. It should say something like "Welcome to..." with your server name.

I think it's listed on the character selection screen, too.

<3

[teslanomaly]

Oh, yes, I have heard this word. I just don't remember it, since it's the only server I've ever signed on to. Starts with an 'E'?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmm, looking at a list of the US servers, http://us.battle.net/wow/en/status , looks like there are a lot of odd named E-names! I'm on Wyrmrest Accord (a RP server), so alas we're not on the same one.

[teslanomaly]

Oh, hey, look at that! I think I'm on Eredar.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eee, hope you enjoy it! If you ever want to try RP, come see us on Wyrmrest Accord! :D .

[teslanomaly]

Thanks!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the faction war doesn't appeal to me at all. People are always wanting to go kill Horde in Stormwind regardless of what they're doing and when I tell them to lay off, they're just fishing/rping/doing a holiday thing, there's always some joker who asks, "What happened to the WAR in WARcraft?" Because fighting Illidan/Arthas/Deathwing/etc can't possibly qualify as a war? Huh?

The way they split up the factions doesn't make much sense anyway. In tauren zones, you go around attacking dwarves for doing basically the same stuff you attack orcs for in nelf zones. The dwarves are destroying everything in search for artifacts where the orcs are just plundering resources, but the end result is the same. Hard to believe the nelves, taurens, and draenei would really have anything to do with orcs, forsaken, dwarves, and so on.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

"What happened to the WAR in WARcraft?"

I always tell them they're backwards: warCRAFT. Go skill your black smithing! Go fish! No need to kill other people!

Hard to believe the nelves, taurens, and draenei would really have anything to do with orcs, forsaken, dwarves, and so on.

I'd almost rather have every race be its own faction, with alliances lasting for an expansion or so. I know it'd be next to impossible to work out code/gameplay-wise, but it sure would be cool and more fitting.

Failing that, let everyone talk and be of the same "alliance", and have the tensions be IC/done through quest text/whatever.

I guess I was in a mood the night I wrote this post. I'm not much bothered by it today. I wish it were different, but it doesn't make me sad like it had.