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Crossing the Nerd Wall: Seriously, Keep Reading
Since setting up WTTRP, I’ve tried to keep a wall between WoW Nerd stuff and Old Fashioned Nerd stuff. I planned on changing that in the near future, as I’ve planned to put up some fiction I’ve been working on. I’m breaking the wall early to show how to stick up for someone via the internets.
My friend Anna has two blogs: one for WoW one for Not Wow. She’s helped me with baking, we’ve bounced ideas off each other for writing things (blog posts, fiction, political stuff) and she sent me delicious Christmas cookies. She shared me a link, now deleted, about an event that was supposed to take place in game. In short, this event was going to target people “bad RPers with other RP.”
Folks, this is just bullying other people. If you don’t like something, or someone, on a video game you ignore them. You don’t go around mocking them.
Instead of writing a passive aggressive blog post, kvetching or just letting it lie there, Anna took that post to task. As of this writing, aside from one consistent troll, she’s made a pretty positive impact on the nerd community. She took on the nastiness with a well written post that didn’t devolve into name calling, cursing or spitting. That’s how you defend people on the internets: Passionately and with grace.
Friday Fiction: Over by There
It’s here.
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It’s WoW Related.
At the end of Festival Lane was one of Stratholme’s homiest of pubs. The food was typically sub-par and the privvy was always in shambles, but the drinks were never watered down and the regulars were warmer than Northron folk tended to be.
Bricu’s men were welcome there. Since courting their daughter, the proprietors of Stackpole’s Public House treated Bricu’s brigade as family. It quickly became the place for other off-duty soldiers.
Bricu and his remaining squad stood outside the door to the pub. It has been fortified with wood, iron and holy symbols to ward of the plague and the plague ridden. Inside its walls were Bricu’s family. A beautiful girl who loved him, a young man that looked up to him and surrogate parents who treated him with all the kindness in the world.
Bricu has his men fall into over watch in the front of the building. He ordered the burliest soldiers hack the door down then stand watch outside.
“Eammon? Markita?” he said as he walked into the pub. There was no answer other than the groans and sobs of the plagued. This did not make his task easier. Bricu carried out his orders, one at a time.
Christ
Long story short: I had to redo a video I’ve been working on for a retirement party. On the plus side, I got more music/pic sychroncity, but I doubt other people will care about that.
This week’s Friday feature… It has to be something I worked on this week. I got nothing yet. It may actually be a WoW thing, since its the only bit of writing I’ve done since Sunday….
Ask a Bastard 2: I made this all up.
Another week, another question.
Itanya asked, “Why shouldn’t I set you on fire? If I can’t set you on fire, who should I set on fire?
There are those who think I should be set on fire. Typically, those individuals come from the far, far, far right. Setting me on fire would make them happy. Now, these are the same people who annoy you. Making them happy would only irritate you further.
Now if this is a question of PvP on WoW (player vs player on
World of Warcraft), I would have to say feel free to set my character on fire. He has it coming.
As for who you should set on fire, I don’t think you should really set anyone on fire. It increases your carbon foot print and I’m not entirely sure how it would smell. It is also very illegal, and I cannot help you beat said case.
In PvP I would recommend setting someone not in my guild on fire. Pick someone from the forums, typically a really annoying player, and do it. Do it often. When things get rough, get more people so you can do it again. We have to face it: Most of the people on our server have it coming.
I will, of course, answer more questions today. The deadline is 7pm CST.
Cheers!
UPDATE:
The lovely and talented VONsaves the day with two additional questions:
Who do you want to win the Super Bowl this weekend?
What movie will win the Best Picture Oscar?
Honestly, I had to look up the the teams who were playing this year. I got so disgusted with the Bears that I stopped paying attention to the rest of the NFL. I didn’t even have a fantasy football team this year–not that I ever do well in that endeavor to begin with.
But, I am cheering for the Steelers. My uncle is from Erie, PA, and I want him to be happy.
However, we’re all winners this year. The Boss will rock our socks off.
As for the Oscars…
I haven’t seen a single one of the movies. I want to see most of them (I can do without Ben Button and the Reader), but I don’t think I’ll have the patience to sit through the “Oscar Day” that most theaters do (ala the one you and Shannon did last year).
I’m going to root for Slumdog; however, I think MILK will win it.
Guest Gig!
via Too Many Annas
Today’s post is brought to you by none other than the Pretentious Bastard, who plays Bricu, one of the Paladins in the Riders and who has been a HUGE help in my development of Aelflaed. He’s a fantastic writer, storyteller, and friend and hopefully will be contributing on occasion here at Too Many Annas! Enjoy!
With that introduction my friend Anna introduced my critique of a nerd blog. It probably won’t make sense to must of you, but I figured I would share this side of myself. Enjoy–but don’t be a dick.