Well, technically I’ve been legal for about a decade now, give or take, depending on what country you live in. But more importantly, as of Friday afternoon, I am playing World of Warcraft legally.
Whether poorly-hosted illegal servers are part of Blizzard’s overall marketing scheme or just a by-product of primordial internet chaos (you know, sans-regulations and all), my experience on the Outofdate Private server was enough to convince me that a) I really wanted to play the game and b) WoW is worth the monthly fee (for now, at least).
Not only was I running around in the most hideous green biker pants imaginable, I was running around in what appeared to be a beta-release of the WoW server at best. Which is tolerable when you are playing for free, but when you lose your character not once, not twice, but three times, you know that the old cliche is true; there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
As if to hammer home the karmic effects of pirated software, my computer crashed right after I finished installing my final legal patch. And we aren’t talking a minor please-reboot-the-operating-system crash, we are talking a major please-reinstall-the-operating-system crash. If you are less karmically inclined, you might surmise that my hard-drive is going bad, and you’d probably be right. Can anyone give me heads or tails on “invalid b-tree node size”? I’m thinking it’s time to cash in on that Apple Care I bought…
But anyways, I’d like to introduce you to Peaches, a level 10 undead warlock. Hopefully she’ll follow in Dalmona’s footsteps and contribute to this blog. Lord knows we haven’t had any guest writers in ages…
Peaches and beer. And a knife…
If you have no idea what World of Warcraft is, then allow me to share with you a quick video illustrating a group raid that will ensure you will never, ever begin to play. Beware, dork content is high.
Obviously no one on Jeopardy plays World of Warcraft either. The above video is so infamous that it became Jeopardy trivia. Thanks Trebek!
you are such a dork. seriously. the queen of dorks.
:-)