I discovered the answer...

to a question I've been asking myself for a long time. Why do I keep playing this game?

I found myself asking it during a lesson today, P.E to be exact. I was playing Soccer and playing as the goal keeper. As much as I sucked at it. Someone kicked the ball for goal, I caught it then dropped it and it went over the line. Then ALL of the other guys were teasing me, and making fun of me. It doesn't piss me off or anything, because I know that I could own any of them in a fight. But it makes me sad that kids are so cruel, and how rough high school actually is on people. I know a lot of people, who are in my position most days of the week, and it makes me realise why these people aren't social, why they spend lunch times in library's and such. I honestly think if I got put under all that shit, I'd crack and someone would actually like, really get hurt. Not like, broken collarbone or anything, actual like, hospital shit.

So my answer was that I keep playing, because it keeps me happy, keeps me sane, lets me have a place to escape from all of that shit. So why the hell do I hang around throughout all of the drama? Because I know that deep down, no matter what you really want to think, it doesn't mean anything. You can insult me all you want in game, talk all of the shit that you want, but it doesn't make you a better person, or me a worse person. I play the game to enjoy it, when I'm running raids and playing with all the people that I actually like, I'm having fun. That's what keeps me playing, throughout any shit that happens. That's why if someone's talking crap about me in a raid, or possibly telling me about how I'm under geared or anything, it's not going to affect me at all. I'll do my job to the best of my ability, because I enjoy it. If I went out and played a rugby match, I'm not going to play half heartedly because I want to win, and I love playing the game, this is no different to me.

I've been getting my marks back for my exams, and they're looking pretty good so far, so I can probably hang around for a while longer. Even though I was watching porn while I was supposed to be studying for my R.E exam. So far I've had a high of 98% for maths and a low of 77% for biology. So I'm doing good. Which may also be why this post seems like a goddamn essay, I've had to practise writing them for the past 3 weeks.

This brings me to think about how I do so well in my exams, when I don't study for them at all. My teachers tell me that I'm one of those kids that everyone's jealous of because I have a natural ability to learn quickly and easily, without having to force myself into remembering things. Brings me back to raiding and WoW. I can walk into almost any raid instance and be told about a fight once, and I will know what to do. Sometimes it may take me a double check or two so I'm sure, but that's it. If there's anything that makes me a good player, that's what it would be. I have a pretty good reaction time, however due to a perma-500ms, it's like my reactions are half a second slower.

Oh GG I've gone and blabbed on about shit all, for the past like, million words. Why can't I concentrate on work this well? Eh, loldps ftw.

Want to know how...

I got suspended from school?

Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTWe-8aC5GM

Yes, I was the kid in the box. No, the other three guys didn't end up on the better end of it.

One of them actually ended up with a broken collar bone. Enjoy it.

No explination needed.

Not writing a long post, not in the mood.

Listening to my emo music, sitting in my corner. Not really, but I probably could. Had an alright weekend of raiding/grinding and such, made some g's and got some valuble raiding experience, which is what matters to me. Glad to see PK and Halcyon have some good co-op work in gruuls lair, and all that.

I'm not playing my priest right now, so stop asking if I am. If you want to know why, I purely don't feel like it, and I enjoy tanking, as bad as my gear supposedly is. On that note, there are a few people that should be kinda glad that people don't get under my skin real easy, right now, but not naming any names.

Got some ogri'la rep, quests bugged out on me one day letting me do them twice, which (assuming there's no grindable rep with them) could actually give me the highest rep on the server with them. I don't know of a way to get rep with them aside from daily quests as of yet, so if you know, tell meh!

Had some fun this weekend, and during the week, and that's what really matters. My exams are over, so no more playing almost all day. We may even see a decrease in play time if I didn't do well. However, as limited as my raid times were, I enjoyed it - So thanks to Jade and PK, aswell as Halcyon for letting me play.

ps: that was much longer than I had intended.

Oceanic servers? What?

Let me start off by saying, I hate this night, realm shutdown night. Like, really really hate it. Mostly due to the fact that the realms go offline at around 8pm my time. I figured while I should be studying, I'd take the time to write up something else.

People ask me very often why I didn't originally play on an oceanic server, this is the story of how I ended up here instead. My friend who got me into this game, plays on Agrammar, and I attempted to put a character on that realm but they were not allowing new characters to be created on full servers. I hit the button to recommend a server, and that's what came up. Alexstrasza.

My plans were to play on this server until they opened up this other server to allow me to create a char on there. Sadly this didn't happen until I was level 18, which at the time was a big deal to me, so I stayed. This was my first character ever, my priest. Shortly after hitting 60, I became aware of oceanic servers and looked at leveling a new character on one of those servers. However after talking to friends that had played on oceanic servers, they said they were no different. Alot of the people on those realms were still American looking for lower population servers, and because the servers were located in the same place, I would have the same latency (at the time I was on dial up. Average ms of 1200.). This made me decide I would stay where I was.

Server transfers became available and the first thing I did was looked at transferring, but now I also had the excuse of having friends on the realm along with the old reasons. I've now decided that I probably wont ever go anywhere, I love our server no matter what crap it throws out.

So off of that topic, I finally got Bb to 490 defense, 510 in fact. I still have a fair amount of health, which can still be improved by enchants and several gear enchants. I'm really hoping that I might get a shot at kara this week, assuming my schedule allows. My exams are almost over, I have one useless one and an English exam which is a little more important. Once this is over, I'll have a few days before I have to go back to school again. Hopefully this will be my window of opportunity. If not, it could be a few weeks sadly.

That's all for me tonight, maybe I'll go study for my Religous Education, maybe I'll go watch some porn. Who knows. Whatever it is, wish me luck.

So I finally caved in.

I've been contemplating it for a long time now, and I'm kinda glad that I've done it. I made myself a blog.

I'm not sure how often I plan on updating this - and it may not be as interesting as others (loljade/jago), but it's somewhere for me to vent my anger and let people know how I'm feeling.

Okay. So right now, I'm chilling with Boney in shatt, just talking about the game and stuff. He's cancelled his account now. That's another friend of mine that's decided to leave, the numbers are dwindling and it saddens me. Right now, it is my mid-year exam week. I'm really unhappy with myself, as tommorow, I have two exams. One of which is incredibly important - but I havn't studied for either of them. Why? Simply because I've been too busy playing an online game. This to me, defines addiction. I'm more worried about how much defense my toon has than my marks at school.

If I ever was contemplating quitting, now is the time which is pushing me the most.

So anyway, I'm sure none of you really care about what's going on in my real life, so I'll tell you more about my in-game agendas. MY (yeah that's right Majinn) warrior, is getting geared to tank raids (eventually). I need 8 more defense and I'm just about set to start. There are alot of slots in my gear that can still be improved, but this will give me a very solid base. However I'm having alot of trouble coming into this last 8 defense. All I need is one more piece of armour (LOL U) and I am un-critable in raids. Mech hates me. Shadow labs hate me. Every goddamn instance that could drop it for me, hates me.

If I was to start tanking raids, this would theoretically mean that I have taken part in every aspect of the game. Currently I've healed, ranged DPS'd and melee dps'd, so tanking is the only thing left I havn't tried. So far in 5 mans instances and such I'm enjoying it alot and I feel like I'm doing fairly well at it too. There's still quite a bit that I can improve on, but I'm doing okay.

Majinn, Zurosk and I killed two 5 man bosses for quests yesterday, which was great fun, especially running around avoiding the three giant elite demons and praying he wont spawn another. There's soo many things that I have done in this game that I enjoy and wont ever forget, that's one of them. I really think that the thing that keeps me playing this game is the people. Not just my friends and guildies and such, but also the people I don't like that keep me entertained and laughing at their futile attempts at insults and starting drama.

Well this is the first of possibly many more to come, so I hope you stick around to read them, and that I didn't bore you too much!