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so, like… i’m in a rambling mood and i may as well put it in writing, where i can later look back at it and think, “wtf was i thinking?” :|  blame the lack of a decent sleep schedule.  it’s not that i mind insomnia, i mind insomnia when i’m not in a big push to ~complete~ some project.  like.  now.  not that i don’t have things to be working on, just nothing that’s ZOMGDOTHISRIGHTNOWORWEALLDIE!  and yeah, i’m procrastinating a bit.  so.  a few may die.  just not everyone <.

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i cut way back on my wow playtime lately. i ran out of things to do. well. i ran out of goals that i could accomplish on my own, for the most part. i didn't start wow as a solo venture. it just worked out that way. from what i've seen, unless you have RL friends playing with you, you spend alot of time on your own. and that's ok, i *like* wow.

this video never fails to remind me of all the things i love in the game.  i miss the people i play with regularly.  some went off to end game guilds, so they’re busy raiding all the time.  others have just quit playing entirely. 

bc has changed the make up of guilds and ours has taken quite the hit since expansion.  people either burnt out or didn’t like the new changes, for the most part.  it’s hard to switch from 40-man raids, where everyone could be included to 10-man raids where people are left out.  especially in a guild like ours.  we’re really a carebear farm guild = we embrace everyone, good or bad, help them through, then the endgame guilds take the best of the crop.  i’m not saying that to be derogatory.  it’s just what we are.  i LOVE my guild.  they are the bestest EVER. smile  honestly, i believe we have some of the best players in the game… and they’ve managed to not only stay loyal to this guild, but to not turn into arrogant assholes like many of the endgamers.  there’s just not enough of us, right now.  we’ve a group of five hardcore players who are hitting some of the endgame instances and sometimes i’m lucky enough to get a spot.  i usually feel guilty tho cuz it means that they’ve had to leave out a RL friend or family member to bring me in :|

SO, yeah.  i quit playing much.  tho i’m really beginning to miss it and the people alot, so.  who knows?  i’ll throw myself at it again, i’m sure.  and yes, i know it’s *just* a game smile  even as open as i tend to be, i usually prefer to keep a definitive divide between things “online” and “real life”.  however.  every now and again, i’m comfortable enough to cross that divide and i’ve made some good friends within wow.  similar to my old chatroom… which seems to have scattered far and wide as of late :|  some are still in touch, tho, so yay smile

anyways, this was not really intended to be a post on wow.  i had bunches of things floating around in my head… ah well.  i rambled myself out.

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Tagged as: gaming,day2day July 10, 2007 @ 04:07 am

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ahahahaha - well done wow video :D

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Tagged as: gaming,humor,warcraft,videos March 21, 2007 @ 02:31 pm

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