Me on the Great Wall of China right after Maniac Mansion shipped. Relax… it was the 80s.
I’m playing a Alliance priest named Wilma on the PvP classic beta server. If you’re in the beta, stop on by and we’ll go kill some stuff.
I quit Twitter and haven’t post or even logged on in over a year. I can safely say I have never been happier. Twitter is a complete dumpster fire that consumes you and everything thing the demon touches. If I was a religious person I’d say with complete confidence that Twitter is a product of Satan run by one of this minions.
Just quit.
It will be hard for the first few months. It’s like a drug you have to detox from.
Just do it.
I’ve heard all the excuses for not quitting (I made them all), just substitute the words “heroin” or “booze” for “twitter” and see if your excuses make sense anymore.
You will be a happier person.
Just quit.
I got an invite to the World of Warcraft Classic Beta. I imagine that’s because I’ve been a paying customer since the night it launched in the early 1900s (I might have the date wrong) and have leveled countless toons. Less than a lot of hardcore players. but more than most.
I’ve never seriously played a Priest before so I started leveling one then realized that when the game goes live they are going to wipe the beta servers and I’ll loose all progress. So I decided to level something that I wasn’t going to play and in an area that was new to me. Other then the first toon I had I’ve always been Horde so I figured I’d level an Alliance night elf. Never played a night elf before (and unlikely to again) so it seemed good for the beta.
It’s interesting playing classic Wow again. So many rough edges that they filed away over the years. I imagine it’s like someone liking Thimbleweed Park and then going back to the original Monkey Island.
I’m really enjoying all the pointy edges. It seems more raw and honest. I miss the skill trees that modern Wow lacks.
While you could go back and level through original content, it was all nurfed with accelerated leveling and it’s fun that it’s a small challenge.
I tried to do a little healing in a dungeon run and it’s really hard without add-ons. I imagine that classic era add-ons will show up and I have no problem installing them as long as they are time-canon. They might already be out there, I haven’t looked.
I felt this tinge to join a guild and start raiding again. My raiding career started with Lich King so I’ve never done the classic raids while level appropriate.
I just wanted to make an announcement here, but my new game will be postponed indefinitely on August 27th.
I apologize to everyone that was looking forward to playing it.
Ron
I kid you not. But I think they’ve strayed too far from the source material, I don’t know if I can call it canon.
Fifteen years of Grumpy Gamer being 100% April Fools’ joke free. Of course the real April Fool’s joke is that it’s the year 2019 and we don’t have moonbases, flying cars and giant pneumatic tubes that whisk us around the city. As a young child of the 70s, I was promised these things. Oh sure, I can now carry a super computer in my pocket and talk to anyone in the world via a planet wide connection of billions of computers… but come on… moonbase!
And… kudos to Microsoft for sending out this memo banning April Fools’. I guess someone there reads Grumpy Gamer.
