WoW: New Race Leak

Scatter-Two. Bunch Right-Zip-Fire Right-273-Pivot-F Flat. On two. Ready? BREAK!


Sounds easy enough.

23 skadoo!

Those are on field call-signs. The other team isn't supposed to understand them!

EXACTLY! So are the in the game terms used by WoW raiders! If you were speaking to WoW spectators the terms used and level of depth would be different. This is why comparing WoW and sports does not make sense.

 

[Chibibar]

Scatter-Two. Bunch Right-Zip-Fire Right-273-Pivot-F Flat. On two. Ready? BREAK!


Sounds easy enough.

uh-whua?!?! (that is what I would say) cause that mean nothing to me.

but if you ask me what my tanking gear was and my defense rating, block rating and such I can tell ya

Chaz: Video games are still new. There are no athletes but there are players. It is catching on in the mainstream. There are even INTERNATIONAL competition for it. (just like sports)

also in my defense, I'm comparing a person PLAYING WoW vs. a person WATCHING a sport. If we are going to talk about a person PLAYING a sport VS person PLAYING WoW..... that is a whole different ballgame (short example: diet, training physical and mental, time, and well... getting paid)

Also: if I ask MY grandmother about football, hockey, baseball or anything relate to sport.... she doesn't know any sport or participate (watching OR playing) BUT she does know WoW cause her grandchildren plays them. I say give 100 years and videogame would be 2nd nature like baseball (in terms of people knowing it and less generation gap)

 

[Chazwozel]

My award-winning “Learning with Super Mario Brothers” system has helped thousands of children get their plumbing and pizza-making degrees, and is the leading cause of turtle extinction. You’re welcome. Now the power of this educational program can be used to achieve something that was at one time impossible: understanding World of Warcraft.

You might be asking, “How can one video game help explain another?” If you are, please turn to section )*) to kiss my learning program on the ass and butthole. Everyone else, let’s continue.

WoW isn’t like other nerd things. You can theoretically never see Star Wars, but during your everyday life you’ll pick up a basic understanding of what a Chewbacca is. However, if you never played World of Warcraft, listening to someone talk about it sounds like senseless and frightening gibberish. I think it was Kipling who described it as, “To the average man, another speaking on Warcraft sounds not unlike a rapist Chewbacca acting as his own defense attorney.”

That’s why my system utilizes Super Mario Brothers, the universal video game language. For those of you unfamiliar with Mario Brothers, I urge you to leave, as I’m sure the other Communists will soon be wondering why you’re not harvesting the collective’s potatoes.

Section One: Idiots

The first thing you should know is that most people playing World of Warcraft are terrible at video games, especially World of Warcraft. Every Nintendo owner has encountered the following scenario: You hand over the controller to a friend and then watch them clumsily murder Mario with the same bottomless pit until he stops coming back to life. World of Warcraft is an entire society of these people.

In WoW, danger is often preceded by a lengthy warning celebration. For example: You are a HntrPhüc, Beastmaster Hunter, shooting arrows into an ogre. It grunts, “I am throw a rock at you!” A dark shadow marks the area where the rock will fall, and a bar appears under the ogre’s name slowly counting down a spell called, “There is a Fucking Rock Falling On Your Head.” Six seconds later and you are now HntrPhüc, Meat Toothpaste, a stain waiting around to make future archaeologists puke.

In SMB, taking a step in any direction in under six seconds would be considered a minor challenge, if not an insult. To a Warcraft player it’s impossible for two reasons. One, flippers for hands. You can only sit in one place for so long before your DNA starts to think you’re a walrus. Two, most WoW players are away from their computers, stuck at a traffic light because their reflexes don’t work quickly enough to press the gas before it turns red again.

Section Two: Dicks

Maybe kindergarten teachers can still be nice when they’re surrounded by idiots all day, but Warcraft players can’t. They’re dicks. Plus, even though it’s a world of fantastic magic, it still counts as the Internet. Which means that social interaction is limited to typed-out temper tantrums and desperate attempts at bothering people. WoW is like Girls Gone Wild without the tits: idiots and douches taking turns doing anything to get noticed, and no one knows what a condom looks like.

Obviously, my “Learning with SMB” program has received high praise for its comparison system, but I’m not here to talk about how great you are for selecting it. That’s coming up in the next sentence. You’ve made a brave decision, and I’m very proud of you.

Section Three: Dicks and Idiots Working Together

Warcraft is a lot like sex in that you can’t really get anything done unless you have at least five people. But let’s look at the figures: A five-man group in World of Warcraft contains one to five dicks and four to five idiots. Getting a WoW group to do anything together is harder than getting a bag of chickens its SCUBA certification.

Luckily, the people who make the game have these same figures. They know your group has the military precision of drunk toddlers in a dryer, so they designed every boss monster to do only zero to one special thing. Sounds simple, right? Here’s where the problem comes in. Asking a Warcraft player to do up to one thing is a 20 minute process of impossible, and there are five of you.

Say you’re about to go up against the sinister Pandemonius and you tell the group, “Just beat on this boss like normal, but stop punching him when he makes a force field of evil electricity.”

To any Super Mario Brother player, the proper response would be, “No shit? Don’t touch the glowing death field? Because I figured I’d drop my pants and back into one of the punishing tendrils of dark energy, asshole.”

To a Warcraft player, the proper response is a confused suicide against the deadly force field. If cows played World of Warcraft, there would be a pile of them dead against the electric fence.

Cow Store: “Good afternoon, Hank’s Cow Store.”

Farmer: “Yeah, goddamn it! You sold me bum cows! Aren’t they supposed to move when the fence shocks them?”

Cow Store: “Absolutely. They didn’t?”

Farmer: “No! They just leaned on it, and slowly fried themselves to death!”

Cow Store: “That’s very unusu- wait. They haven’t been playing World of Warcraft have they? Because Warcraft cows are fucking tards.”

Section Four: Multiply Section Three By Five

When WoW players get together in large groups, it’s called a raid. Because when you have no motor, people or communication skills, the best thing to do is glue yourself to 24 identical morons. Now that you have 25 mouths screaming different curses and 50 feet running in different directions, you have a perfect simulation of every birth defect and psychological disorder known to science, and are ready for a grand adventure.

Here’s where it gets tricky. When you tell 25 people to go to The Caverns of Time, seven of them don’t know what that is, two of them aren’t playing anymore, one fell asleep in his pizza, two have to drive their kids to therapy, one tells you to shut the fuck up, four are rebooting their computers, one is getting kicked off by his parents, two are lost foreigners who thought this was the train station, one is pressing enter on the same Chuck Norris joke over and over, two of them tell everyone to go to three different places and one is your girlfriend bitching at you about how much this sucks.

Ninety minutes later, when you finally get everyone there, someone will explain that no one should stand in front of the demon lord Kaz’rogal. This simple concept will take 40 minutes to convey, and repeat twice. During this part, you may want to take advantage of my “Learning with Super Mario Brothers” system for Overhauling 6-Cylinder Transmissions.

Then, after your beard has grown in and your marriage has fallen apart, you give the signal to begin the battle! Within moments, 15 people are lying in various states of liquid directly in front of the demon lord Kaz’rogal. As for the other 10 people, hey, they didn’t know you fuckers were starting.

Imagine you’re trying to teach your son to play baseball. You teach him the rules, how to throw, how to swing and when you tell him to go for it, he throws the ball into the side of his own head, runs the wrong way and tries to sell a blowjob to an undercover cop. Warcraft players fail in directions you never thought possible.

Section Five: Rewards

Say you did it. Say you all managed to work together and kill a boss. Now you get to split two or three prizes between the 25 of you. This means that you now get to add jealousy, greed and entitlement to a group dynamic built entirely around impatience, disrespect and retarded.

All that and you get nothing? To put that in Super Mario Brothers terms, it’s like fighting with your little sister over the TV for three episodes of Duck Tales. Then you clear the first stage while she flails her hands in front of the screen and the game rewards you with, “Game Over. Your little sister earns 200 points. Would you like to RESTART GAME or QUIT?”

Section Six: Victory?

In Super Mario Brothers, you play the part of a brick-breaking plumber working a kidnapping case. I don’t want to spoil the finale, but it pays off. WoW doesn’t really have that. Warcraft has an ending like a fat burglar finishes dinner in a Twinkie factory. He’s kind of only done until he has the energy to open his mouth again. And speaking of, for those of you hoping to look back on your day with a real sense of accomplishment… I’d go into Twinkie burglaring before World of Warcraft. Your adult-onset diabetes might not have as big a stamina bonus as your Bloodstained Elven Battlevest, but at least it’s real.

Thanks for learning with me and the Super Mario Brothers. You did great!

That last sentence is sheer gold!

 

[Piotyr]

So the argument boils down to this: Being a sports fan is socially acceptable, and being a video game player is not.

Beyond that, everything else is pointless noise.

 

[Chazwozel]

Scatter-Two. Bunch Right-Zip-Fire Right-273-Pivot-F Flat. On two. Ready? BREAK!


Sounds easy enough.

23 skadoo!

Those are on field call-signs. The other team isn't supposed to understand them!

EXACTLY! So are the in the game terms used by WoW raiders! If you were speaking to WoW spectators the terms used and level of depth would be different. This is why comparing WoW and sports does not make sense.

If I recall, I'm never the one who starts these shitty sports to video games analogies. And it always ends up being hockey because morons seem to believe that's all I understand...

-- Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:44 pm --

So the argument boils down to this: Being a sports fan is socially acceptable, and being a video game player is not.

Beyond that, everything else is pointless noise.

Yes! Fucking nerds.

 

Penn & Teller had a great comparison the other night on Bullshit.

Say that video games had been around for a hundred years or so and that there were professional leagues set up and that games were played and watched by large numbers of spectators. There would be fantasy leagues, etc.

Now in the mid 80's or so someone invented football - a sport where actual kids were getting hurt and sometimes killed during play. Do you think that there would be these sports allowed in our schools or do you think that there would be an uprising against it as there is against violent video games right now?

The only difference between video games and sports is the spectator base and the level of interest paid in being one of the aforementioned spectators.

And I use NFL because I know that. I can't speak to hockey because I don't watch it, nor do I understand it when it's being talked about in a technical manner.

 

[Chazwozel]

Penn & Teller had a great comparison the other night on Bullshit.

Say that video games had been around for a hundred years or so and that there were professional leagues set up and that games were played and watched by large numbers of spectators. There would be fantasy leagues, etc.

Now in the mid 80's or so someone invented football - a sport where actual kids were getting hurt and sometimes killed during play. Do you think that there would be these sports allowed in our schools or do you think that there would be an uprising against it as there is against violent video games right now?

The only difference between video games and sports is the spectator base and the level of interest paid in being one of the aforementioned spectators.

And I use NFL because I know that. I can't speak to hockey because I don't watch it, nor do I understand it when it's being talked about in a technical manner.

They were using that as an example of violence being blamed on video games, not to denote if they are one in the same thing.

Here we go....

Video games are not sports.

 

[ScytheRexx]

The part of the article I quoted is absolutely correct. To the average person.......

I think it was not a very fair comment, though, but it is from a comedy website. I don't think it was supposed to be 100% accurate.

Star Wars has a lot more time under it's belt. It has been around since the 70s, and many of the people that grew up watching it as a kid have now become adults, thus telling their own kids, and the cycle goes on as information spreads out. I can already tell if you walked into a room during the 70s and started talking about the Force and the political criminal climate of the planet Tatooine, and how Chewbacca's weapon was called a Bowcaster, people would look up at you kind of funny too. I can walk into any gaming store these days, say the name "Illidan" and at least two people will make a "You are not prepared" joke. In the end, how WoW is seen in 30+ years will be locked to it's longevity. Star Wars has the nice advantage of being a movie that one can watch now, WoW, when it finally shuts down, will not.

I don't think WoW will have the general longevity of Star Wars, but I also thing the comparison was rather flawed, unless Cracked has a time machine.

Also, good show Ed, good show.

 

[Shegokigo]

The part of the article I quoted is absolutely correct. To the average person.......

Pssst, the average person loved Transformers 2. :slywink:

Haha

Section One: Idiots

I guess the same people that loved Transformers 2 are those folks that make up the bulk of WoW.

You're backpeddling on yourself. You said the average person would have no idea what WoW is about or they wouldn't understand what anyone talking about WoW was getting at. :slywink:

 

[Chazwozel]

The part of the article I quoted is absolutely correct. To the average person.......

I think it was not a very fair comment, though, but it is from a comedy website. I don't think it was supposed to be 100% accurate.

Star Wars has a lot more time under it's belt. It has been around since the 70s, and many of the people that grew up watching it as a kid have now become adults, thus telling their own kids, and the cycle goes on as information spreads out. I can already tell if you walked into a room during the 70s and started talking about the Force and the political criminal climate of the planet Tatooine, and how Chewbacca's weapon was called a Bowcaster, people would look up at you kind of funny too. I can walk into any gaming store these days, say the name "Illidan" and at least two people will make a "You are not prepared" joke. In the end, how WoW is seen in 30+ years will be locked to it's longevity. Star Wars has the nice advantage of being a movie that one can watch now, WoW, when it finally shuts down, will not.

I don't think WoW will have the general longevity of Star Wars, but I also thing the comparison was rather flawed, unless Cracked has a time machine.



Also, good show Ed, good show.

Bottom line: WoW is for morons who even suck at regular video games. There I said it.

 

[ScytheRexx]

Bottom line: WoW is for morons who even suck at regular video games. There I said it.

Well at least you are now making it easier for people to realize your opinion on a subject does not matter in the least, at least now we don't have to discuss it further, since you already tainted your arguement from this point out.

 

[elph]

In Super Mario Brothers, you play the part of a brick-breaking plumber working a kidnapping case. I don’t want to spoil the finale, but it pays off. WoW doesn’t really have that. Warcraft has an ending like a fat burglar finishes dinner in a Twinkie factory. He’s kind of only done until he has the energy to open his mouth again. And speaking of, for those of you hoping to look back on your day with a real sense of accomplishment… I’d go into Twinkie burglaring before World of Warcraft. Your adult-onset diabetes might not have as big a stamina bonus as your Bloodstained Elven Battlevest, but at least it’s real.

Thanks for learning with me and the Super Mario Brothers. You did great!

That last sentence is sheer gold!

It is pretty funny and I agree with it. It goes for all MMOs in my opinion.

See the difference is that you play hockey. You actually get your hands dirty and go play. You enjoy the sport. You enjoy watching because it's like studying and improving on your game. Much like people watch movies on how to beat X boss. You like reading on it because it improves your game. Much like people reading strat guides.

What's the % of people that watch hockey to those that actually play it in some physical fashion? What's the % of people that watch MMOs to those that actually play them to some degree? I'm pretty sure the MMOs when out on that one.

 

[Chazwozel]

The part of the article I quoted is absolutely correct. To the average person.......

Pssst, the average person loved Transformers 2. :slywink:

Haha

Section One: Idiots

I guess the same people that loved Transformers 2 are those folks that make up the bulk of WoW.

You're backpeddling on yourself. You said the average person would have no idea what WoW is about or they wouldn't understand what anyone talking about WoW was getting at. :slywink:

yeah sorry, it's hard being attacked from all fronts when you walk into a house full of heroin addicts and take away their drugs.

The average idiot plays both WoW and thinks that Transformers 2 is a profound, enlightened piece that debates the very essence of the human spirit. This idiot is incoherent and his inane babble of raids and dungeons is of little use to those of a higher intelligence. Run along now, "ow my balls" is about to start. :smug:

-- Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:56 pm --

Bottom line: WoW is for morons who even suck at regular video games. There I said it.

Well at least you are now making it easier for people to realize your opinion on a subject does not matter in the least, at least now we don't have to discuss it further, since you already tainted your arguement from this point out.

Oh please, you're accusing me of bias? Like you're any different? You'd lick out Chris Metzen's asshole if he bent over and pulled his pants in front of you. Any negative comment towards Blizzard always sends you into a white knight frenzy.

 

[Shegokigo]

Personally I think the "Ow My Balls" crowd is defenitely more from the "Physical Sports" side of the populance than from the gaming side.

Oh please, you're accusing me of bias? Like you're any different? You'd lick out Chris Metzen's asshole if he bent over and pulled his pants in front of you. Any negative comment towards Blizzard always sends you into a white knight frenzy.

Um, no? (I realize that wasn't directed at me, none the less.....)

We're simply saying "Why do you think your interests have more bearing than ours?" and you've yet to respond with anything other than "it's more socially accepted", but what's more socially accepted these days is the exact opposite of what anyone with a lick of intelligence would want to associate themselves with.

It's just that simple Chaz.

 

[Chazwozel]

Personally I think the "Ow My Balls" crowd is defenitely more from the "Physical Sports" side of the populance than from the gaming side.

You've obviously never been on xbox live or read the WoW forums...


All the guys I grew playing football or ice hockey with range from doctors to lawyers to high end business types. And that's not even an exaggeration, but you keep hold of that precious Revenge of the Nerds perception.

 

[ScytheRexx]

Oh please, like you're any different? You'd lick out Chris Metzen's * if he bent over and pulled his pants in front of you.

I will just shoot back with an "at least I am not licking my own ass, you got that covered in stride." Since you are now degrading out of actual discussion into the realm of "Nah ah you suck!" territory.

I await your "You are a loser epic fanboy cocksucker bitch with no life asshole" comment that is sure to follow.

 

Chaz is having some fun today!

Video Games are not sports. This I agree with. I also think NASCAR is not a sport & Pro bowlers are not athletes. But competitive video gaming is growing and will probably be given the designation of sport sooner rather than later.

Sport:

1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
3. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
4. An active pastime; recreation.

I believe that these definitions preclude those of video games - for now. But you start factoring in motion sensor devices and virtual reality and you'll have sporting event that will surpass those which are currently being played.

I fully understand what it is you are saying, Chaz, but I disagree that knowing terminology because you are involved with something is less useful to the general populace than knowing only common terminology used by those spectating a different and equally useless activity.

 

[sixpackshaker]

The difference between a sports fan and a video game player is the level of interaction. A sports fan sits on his fat ass and yells at the TV, and has ZERO effect on the outcome. A video game player sits on his fat ass yells at the TV or Monitor and participates in the outcome.

The true over the top sports fanatic is not well received either. Because no one else out side of that little clutch of fanatics can give a shit about batting average, quarterback rankings, or number of hat tricks. Or go to a sports bar to watch a game and you get that ass-hat that needs to yell and scream about every nuance and call, then gets mad at people for talking during the play...

Video games mostly boil down to and individual sport that few others care to hear about out side of the game store or voice chat.

 

[Shegokigo]

You've obviously never been on xbox live or read the WoW forums....

You ever been to a sports game? :slywink:

 

[Chazwozel]

Oh please, like you're any different? You'd lick out Chris Metzen's * if he bent over and pulled his pants in front of you.

I will just shoot back with an "at least I am not licking my own a**, you got that covered in stride." Since you are now degrading out of actual discussion into the realm of "Nah ah you suck!" territory.

I await your "You are a loser epic fanboy cocksucker * with no life *" comment that is sure to follow.

I'm not JCM. :toocool:

-- Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:03 pm --

You've obviously never been on xbox live or read the WoW forums....

You ever been to a sports game? :slywink:

You ever been around someone drunk? Anywhere?

 

[Shegokigo]

I'm not JCM. :toocool:

To which the reason this conversation has actually proceeded pretty decently in my opinion. Cept the whole tossing Metz's salad. :slywink:

You ever been around someone drunk? Anywhere?

On a daily basis . I have to admit though, I've found more intelligence within PC gamers than any tailgate party. I mean, that's just

 

[sixpackshaker]

You've obviously never been on xbox live or read the WoW forums....

You ever been to a sports game? :slywink:

Yeah, lets listen to people that know how to interact in public, scream profanities for 3 hours while grown men play children's games.

 

[Chazwozel]

I fully understand what it is you are saying, Chaz, but I disagree that knowing terminology because you are involved with something is less useful to the general populace than knowing only common terminology used by those spectating a different and equally useless activity.

Fine.

-- Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:06 pm --

I'm not JCM. :toocool:

To which the reason this conversation has actually proceeded pretty decently in my opinion. Cept the whole tossing Metz's salad. :slywink:

You ever been around someone drunk? Anywhere?

At least daily. I have to admit though, I've found more intelligence within PC gamers than any tailgate party. I mean, that's just

I hear black people like watermellons...

 

[elph]

If I recall, I'm never the one who starts these shitty sports to video games analogies. And it always ends up being hockey because morons seem to believe that's all I understand...

Me after the Stanley Cup Final:

Awesome game, did you see Talbot's second goal to the top shelf past Osgood?

Wow nerd after a raid.
[quote:3lt67juv]
So the first thing my guild (the tommy knockers on shadowfang) does is attacks lord zorlorft with a stun spell, but our stupid rogue first sapped the adds which in turn generated tons of aggro onto the guys who were fighting the add mobs into wtfpwnbbqsauce and then.....

See the difference?

http://www.cracked.com/blog/understandi ... -brothers/[/quote:3lt67juv]

You were the one to start the sport comparison (at least this time, I don't pay attention enough for past events) and specifically started it with Hockey. We were just following your lead.

 

[Chibibar]

Personally I think the "Ow My Balls" crowd is defenitely more from the "Physical Sports" side of the populance than from the gaming side.

You've obviously never been on xbox live or read the WoW forums....

also remember that like most forums, it is only a small fraction of the players actually post on them (usually the same people) kinda like our forum. How many lurkers vs actual posters?

There are 10+ millions WoW players (well 6 million in China... so lets say 4 million players that are NOT in China) how many of that number are U.S. players? European? Taiwan? etc etc. and out of that, how many actually post on WoW forums?

I am guessing a small number. Also the end content usually "unlocks" or experience by small group of people (I don't even know the numbers but since they are tough and require coordination between players to be successful) that is even smaller.

There are tons of players and many have no even been to Kara (or finish it) BEFORE the "nerf" patch. We have notice a trend that the devs are making the end content accessible toward casual gamer (which may take them 2-3 years before they even SEE end content)

 

[Chazwozel]

If I recall, I'm never the one who starts these shitty sports to video games analogies. And it always ends up being hockey because morons seem to believe that's all I understand...

Me after the Stanley Cup Final:

Awesome game, did you see Talbot's second goal to the top shelf past Osgood?

Wow nerd after a raid.
[quote:38er7x1k]
So the first thing my guild (the tommy knockers on shadowfang) does is attacks lord zorlorft with a stun spell, but our stupid rogue first sapped the adds which in turn generated tons of aggro onto the guys who were fighting the add mobs into wtfpwnbbqsauce and then.....

See the difference?

http://www.cracked.com/blog/understandi ... -brothers/

You were the one to start the sport comparison (at least this time, I don't pay attention enough for past events) and specifically started it with Hockey. We were just following your lead.[/quote:38er7x1k]

I would say that each of us on this board has their own little area of useless knowledge. I'm sure you have one, too.

Oh everyone does. Mines just random facts. I rock at Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit, and Who wants to be a Millionare.

I guess my resentment towards WoW players still lingers from me wanting to punch someone anytime I hear their inane leet speak babble and drawn out raid stories. I had a former grad student colleague would would come to my lab and just prattle on about his guild's latest exploits. Ugh...

heh....

How is that different from a group of guys talking about sports and the latest "cool play" they saw on TV? (yea I know people like that and there are MORE people like that than WoW players) I mean I have co-workers talk about some "great plays" in Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer and such.... Or how someone talk about fishing/hunting (just for fun not for food) or anything else for that matter.

To each their own I say

Post right before my sports comparison. I just followed up with a simple example on how a normal person can pick up verbs like 'skating' and 'shooting' over 'nerfed', 'kite', 'aggroed'.

 

[Shegokigo]

I hear black people like watermellons...

A swing and a miss.

Don't worry folks, he's still go two to go! :slywink:

 

[Chazwozel]

I hear black people like watermellons...

A swing and a miss.

Don't worry folks, he's still go two to go! :slywink:

No seriously, that's exactly where you were going with your idiotic stereotyping right?

 

[elph]

How is that different from a group of guys talking about sports and the latest "cool play" they saw on TV? (yea I know people like that and there are MORE people like that than WoW players) I mean I have co-workers talk about some "great plays" in Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer and such.... Or how someone talk about fishing/hunting (just for fun not for food) or anything else for that matter.

To each their own I say

Post right before my sports comparison.

He does bring in sports. I missed that since I was only looking at your posts for something to show, but he also brings in other sports for his example. Even fishing.

You're the one to bring in Hockey. Stanley Cup is hockey, right?

You could have changed the whole comparison argument and stuck with the car one that was started before, but you carried on with the sports.

 

[Shegokigo]

I hear black people like watermellons...

A swing and a miss.

Don't worry folks, he's still go two to go! :slywink:

No seriously, that's exactly where you were going with your idiotic stereotyping right?

Nope, I was saying that I personally (as in me and my experiences in life) have found a more intelligent group of people within gaming circles than I have in the sports circles, and I have been around both extensively.

Am I saying there are NO dumbasses in gaming? Oh no, I've met my share. Am I saying there are NO intelligent people in sports fans? Defenitely not, I know a few doctors who are huge sports fans.

My point is from simple personal experience, as does yours. The difference here, is I don't typecast all sports fans the way you typecast all WoW fans.

 

[SeraRelm]

No, it's Tennis.

Wimbledon is Hockey.

 

[Chazwozel]

How is that different from a group of guys talking about sports and the latest "cool play" they saw on TV? (yea I know people like that and there are MORE people like that than WoW players) I mean I have co-workers talk about some "great plays" in Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer and such.... Or how someone talk about fishing/hunting (just for fun not for food) or anything else for that matter.

To each their own I say

Post right before my sports comparison.

He does bring in sports. I missed that since I was only looking at your posts for something to show, but he also brings in other sports for his example. Even fishing.

You're the one to bring in Hockey. Stanley Cup is hockey, right?

Fine, you got me.

Chr

You could have changed the whole comparison argument and stuck with the car one that was started before, but you carried on with the sports.

Honestly, who cares?

-- Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:18 pm --

I hear black people like watermellons...

A swing and a miss.

Don't worry folks, he's still go two to go! :slywink:

No seriously, that's exactly where you were going with your idiotic stereotyping right?

Nope, I was saying that I personally (as in me and my experiences in life) have found a more intelligent group of people within gaming circles than I have in the sports circles, and I have been around both extensively.

Am I saying there are NO dumbasses in gaming? Oh no, I've met my share. Am I saying there are NO intelligent people in sports fans? Defenitely not, I know a few doctors who are huge sports fans.

My point is from simple personal experience, as does yours. The difference here, is I don't typecast all sports fans the way you typecast all WoW fans.

I have yet to meet a WoW fan who isn't a.) an idiot b.) a dickhead c.) a whiny little bitch d.) a kid

 

[elph]

No, it's Tennis.

Wimbledon is Hockey.

Ahh. Thank you.

 

[Cajungal]

I have yet to meet a WoW fan who isn't a.) an idiot b.) a dickhead c.) a whiny little bitch d.) a kid

You're right. Black people DO like watermelon.

 

[ScytheRexx]

No seriously, that's exactly where you were going with your idiotic stereotyping right?

Bottom line: WoW is for morons who even suck at regular video games. There I said it.

Anyone else seem the bitter aroma of hypocrisy? :smug: