Vitriol Espresso"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." General James Mattis
Proof that I am over 25. And I'm kind of glad that I can't hear it considering they play this noise at my local Wal-Mart in the electronics department around the video game displays. That's right, they don't want the kiddies sticking around on the trial games for too long. But since I'm old and can't hear it, I can stand there and play for an hour or more. Go me! Hahahahahahaha. Fucking kids. I might put this on a little recorder and loop it out by the parking lot. Nice little experiment, hmm?
Meh. Okay, so my buddy and I left our guild. But it should be known, before everyone starts blaming the wrong parties, that we left because of the almighty drama llama. My buddy and I then discussed switching servers or building a guild before settling for joining another friend's guild. Starting a guild that raids and doesn't dramafest everywhere is still an option on the table. Discussions will be happening on and off.
First things first. My brother type person had his non-raiding alt leave our old guild to join an ex-guildmember's new guild. For some reason the GM of our old guild didn't like this and tossed out his raiding alt saying he'd stolen some piece of T7 gear from an Obsidian Sanctum raid.
To begin with, you can't steal jack shit from a raid if there's a master looter. Which there always is. And that person is the GM of the guild. If my brother type person got a piece of T7 gear from an OS raid it's the GM's fault. And nobody else's. Getting shitty with bro about the gear he got doesn't fuckin wash with me. But I can live with that part of it. It's a personality clash and I can deal with it.
What made me leave the guild is the fact that the GM threw out my brother type person because he joined up with an ex-guildmember on his non-raiding alt. And apparently our old GM is somewhat of a hypocrite, because he was telling people how stupid that was with another guild not a day beforehand. On top of that it's for the SAME damn reason that I left the guild previously during the same kind of drama bullshit a few months ago.
If you understood this then you were probably part of the guild I'm talking about. None of this was the ex-guildmember's fault. None of this was bro's fault. None of this was my buddy partner's fault. This one is all on the GM of our previous guild.
So much for raiding, huh? I should make a diagram. Jeeze.
There's been a few explosions lately on the WoW front and it's not really all that surprising that it's happened. What might be a tad surprising is the rumor mill assuming that everything is over and the guild is dead. Which is pretty ludicrous. The guild is only dead if it's well and truly broken. However, it might be dead for myself and my gaming buddy if things don't get moving this week. We really just don't have the time to get entrenched in another casual raiding guild before the inevitable (ask him about that, it's not being brought up here). I go where he goes. And he needs somewhere to hang out as a regular non-raiding lowbie for about 8 months this spring/summer. Doesn't matter much to me if I'm raiding or not as long as things are slightly amusing. If anything I can always raise another or finish one of the 70+ toons.
Anyway, back to the action. Our GM, a nice fella, decided on pushing for 25-man raid content. The heroic version of Naxxramas, VoA, and OS with or without drakes alive. This is all wonderful if it can be pulled off. This doesn't help the many guildies who's gear isn't good enough to keep up in a heroic Naxx raid, much less heroic 25 man raids of any kind. I still don't have my body drop from regular 10-man Naxx. I know my gaming buddy isn't anywhere near heroic raid content ready, though he could be soon. The trouble erupts when guild people realize that pushing a non-ready guild into a 25-man raid instance leads to long waits, frustrations, heavy repair/item bills, and tensions with people outside the guild. And that, I think, is what has happened here. There's just not enough lower content to keep the casuals happy. The guild simply isn't that hardcore.
The easy fix? Hey, I wouldn't be me without putting in suggestions for improvement instead of just bitching about what's wrong. Criticism is fine as long as it's constructive, no? Here it is. Make 10-man raids during the week. Limit them in time frame. Make more than one team and adjust times for maximum exposure. Don't make them every day of the week. And for those that want 25-man content? Do them on the weekends when people can stay up later. Simple. The further people get in 10-man content the better they will be at 25-man content. Eventually one will replace the others as we get these areas on farm status. It's slow going, but every guild has to do it the same way.
Watching over Glenn Beck's latest Worst-Case Scenario War Room special and I'm nodding along with him all along. If you haven't seen this, you want to. They have most of them on the Fox News Website. If you can't find them there, you can find them here on Hot Air.
These people on his show aren't tinfoil hatters. They're real analysts and professionals. This is a bit scary. And still it's nothing all that surprising to those of us who are paying attention. I know I'm screwed, but my family might make out okay through this coming decade. We don't live in cities and we have enough farmland to barter for things we might need when the dollar goes down the poop-chute. Anyone with a computer can be a rebel!! Don't let those lines go down no matter what.
Go watch the three parts they have on the website. Go. Go now. This is really good stuff.
Btw, the last post on the Financial 9/11? Think about it while you watch this. Think about it while you follow the money in your mind. I guarantee you'll come to the same conclusions that I have...
I hope you moonbats are happy now. You've bankrupted an entire generation and caused near-war conditions with nations we are supposed to have had good relations with. Even Putin is warning us not to go Socialist (video).
For me, personally, the final tally is kind of shitty. More food stamps, sure, but as a single person alone I don't rely on them to get by to begin with. The benefit is maybe a tenth of my entire food budget. And that's being kind to the statistic. You see, in welfare, the more you benefit from one program the less you benefit from all the others. So if you get a lot of food stamps, (unless you have kids) the less you get in medical care. And since I need medical care fairly badly I don't go all in for the other crap. Well, that's over now. The stimulus is taking that quid pro quo to a whole new level.
As someone with no children or husband I will be shit upon by the dem donkey.
Ah well. Guess I'll go apply for SSI so I can get myself a couple hundred bucks of free cash and start sucking on the social tit. Here's an explanation of the rest of it if you have the stomach. Most of it is programs that should have been passed seprately so that Congress wouldn't have their hands on any of the money. Because you KNOW they've shoved a lot of that into the pockets of their cronies. It's always that way with politics.
...and I haven't had any coffee yet. Thought I'd start the day with a Dr. Pepper and clear the sinus drainage outta my throat. The sparkly bubbles seem to scour out all that foul crap better than coffee, so I'll have my happy hot stuff over lunch.
Anyway, as I was reading my morning news sources (as I do every day) I ran across several things all pointing in the same direction. It seems as if The Financial Crisis was another September 11. And only now the money is being traced back to whoever engineered this particular crisis. And yes, it was engineered.
Since the biggest problem wasn't the housing bubble at the time, it's important to look at the few days /before/ this happened. If you'll recall, Obama didn't bother to address the nation about the financial crisis. Something that McCain had been predicting, literally, or years along with GW in trying to stop the bursting housing bubble.
Bigger and more awake minds than mine are examining this. To think the whole economic problem could have been engineered by some communist twat like George Soros and the Saudi royal douchebags to get Obama into the white house. Huh.
I guess we'll find out when our Democrat masters tell us what's actually in the monstrosity they've passed. And you KNOW Obama doesn't give a shit what's in it as long as he gets his way.
