Here you will find a series of blogs by yours truely. Most will be about warcraft, while others completely random. Most of which will contain thoughts and opinions, nothing more, nothing less. WARNING: Some of this will not be rated pg. Expect profanity, nudity, violence and down right questionable content. Viewer discretion is advised.


This has been one of the biggest debates since the technogoly age began. I'll tell you right off the hop that I'm a born again christian and do not believe in the theory of evolution. Please do not take it as I do not believe in science. I love science and what it has done for us to further the advancement of our race. Now, I'm not here to preach. I'm not here to force my ideas and beliefs on anyone else. To force the process of thought on the subject as a whole though that is what I will try to do today. I've kept this short because I'm going to link a debate between two scientists. One a believer and the other one a true "Darwinist" so to speak. Enjoy.
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So this is possibly one of the greatest comebacks in multiplayer competition and most definately the best in WoW tournament action. The first video is the first part to the match. I'm not going to link the second video as the fight lasted over 18 minutes and Orange fights the priest for I think about 60% of it and I'm going with the assumption that anyone not a mage will probably find it boring. If you didn't watch the tourney basiclly the format was double elim and HON had one match down. Going into this round SK was up 2 to 1 and had the match in the bag and failed hard. The second vid explains what Orange did to change the ridiculous odds against him. Watching the original stream on youtube will have HD.




I was going to post a couple of vids of Orangemarmalade owning face at the Intel masters tourney but I suppose since I can't post vids at work I'll have to settle for another subject.
Todays topic of thought is a question I get asked frequently. "Why do you reminisce so much?". I do this because most aspects of the game were simpler and measure of skill was a little bit different. Let me explain. Recruiting was simpler, as in there were 8 classes back then and 40 spots. It was easy to recruit because you were recruiting for a set amount of spots for every week in every raid. Another thing that made things simpler was how blizz pigeon holed class. Priests, shaman and druids healed, warriors tanked and evertything else was dps. Sure the lack of options in gear for classes sucked and I'll be the first to admit that but it made putting together raids so much easier. Raid starts, class leaders get invited and they invite the 4 other people they were taking.
World pvp was simpler as in you didn't need to camp someone for 2 hours in order to get a war started. All you needed to do was find someone in a high level zone from a large ally guild and kill em. Sometimes(usually rare) you might have to kill them twice but within 15 minutes you'd get zerged by at least 20 people. Boombadaboom theres your war. Simple right? Thats not even the half of it. Old Kingdom and Kalimdor are each twice the size of Outland and Northrend put together and I'll be damned if you couldn't go through any zone and find at least a dozen 60's. Alliance were absolutely everywhere. Great times fer sur.
Measure of skill in pve was not simpler, in fact it was the opposite. In todays game the measure of skill is kind of retarded. 1, how good is your gear. 2, How well do you know the strats(can you stay out of fire;)). 3, Can you farm for gold/mats for consumables. 4, Can you watch omen/dbm and still do whatever the strat required. Thats pretty much it but back in the day well, it took time to be good, it took experience. No one really knew how much hit you needed, there were only educated guesses. If you got resisted a lot then you might need a few more % to hit. You didn't know how much but instead guessed and adjusted for the stats you were seeing.
The only thing we knew about threat is that it exsisted. Everything was trial and error. It took time playing with a tank to know how fast you could pull off him and it took constant adjustments and testing the waters everytime you or your tank got a new piece of gear. How that related to bosses was very hard at times, knowing the kind of fight, how much down time, which tank was doing what. Also keep in mind that most fights were designed less complex to compensate for it. Training new mages back then was at times a pain in the ass but a whole different process then what we go through now and a shit load more rewarding to see one of your crew excelling with the information and help passed on.
So in short the reason I reminisce is because allthough the game has the same face, it is in fact..... a completely different game.


Why a person plays warcraft is the same from one person to the next, because it's fun. Where things start to differ between people is "what about the game do you find fun?" If the answer is nothing then one would start to wonder why the fuck you're still playing. When theres nothing left in the game you find fun then the only things left will serve no other purpose than to piss you off. So then you might be curious as to why I would entitle this post Why I play instead of what do I find fun. Its simple really because I find many aspects of this game fun. From being the guilds administrative bitch right down to ganking lowbies and then spitting on them..... because apparently its the cool thing to do. Reasons though, I can only bring myself down to one. The only reason why after four and a half years I'm still playing this God forsaken time sink. The people.

The people make or brake this game. You can be doing anything. Farming, leveling alts, instance grinding, raiding or ganking. Add in some cool as beans people and whatever you're doing immediately becomes a hundred times more fun. Which begs the question why would someone play for any other reason? Its something I have a hard time understanding. To put anything else before the people is imo backwards thinking. Unless of course you're a top 10 guild, top 10(world) pvp team and or you have some sort of resource or blog pulling in millions of hits. In this sense you're making money and view the game as more of a business than an actual game. For everyone else though it really makes no sense at all. You got a server first feat of strength..... gratz..... ten years from now are you even going to remember it? Probably not, I wouldn't. After this game is long gone I'm not going to remember the bosses we downed, the gear I was wearing or the people I ganked. Shit I barely remember 99.9% of vanilla but its funny that what I do remember is the time Zag charged Rag, the time Kerz found out jumping down the hole above Rattlegore's room meant death and Fulk found out standing at the hole while Kerz was dieing meant the pulling the whole room, the time Entis lit his kitchen on fire, the mage can-can at Shazz, the infamous bat story at the snakes on a plane bbq(there was a sword fight involved, ask Wayne) and the damage race I had with Astorre and Crene. Most of my recollection of the early days of my WoW career really had very little to do with the game and allmost everything to do with the people I was playing with. So what it comes down to is what per say can I take away from this game when I'm done. Can't take my gear, can't take my achievements and I can't take my arena rating. I can take my memories though and for this reason alone is why the majority of what I do in game is to help keep creating more oppotunities for more memories.

My name is Fritz and thats why I play this game.

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