So, World of Warcraft players have formed a sub-culture within the gaming culture. What is cool is that a lot of members of this affinity group were not traditionally gamers.
Anyway, I was thinking about all the crazy internet memes that have propogated via WoW such as Leeroy Jenkins, the O Rly owl, the Chuck Norris vs. Vin Diesel debate, and the 50 DKP minus dude. But this stuff is part of a larger trend of new talk. People make shit up all the time in WoW it seems. Why do they do this and how does this new shit propogate?
One answer might be all the tedious grinding that has to be done in WoW. What else do you have to do while killing 200 plainstalkers to get 12 feathers or whatnot? Shoot the shit on the general channel. What else do you have to do while grinding for rep in Winterspring? Make funnies in the guild channel. Right?
Or maybe it’s just a simple matter of having enough people participating in some sort of meaningful event that a critical mass has been reached and language/culture can emerge…
If ways of talking/ways of being are dynamic toolkits, how the hell does participating in WoW culture help someone? Is it only useful for in-game stuff?
Haven’t been posting much lately… aaaanndd the World of Warcraft expansion, Burning Crusade, came out today… which means I won’t be posting for a while. :)
Lots of stuff has happened in the last two or three weeks. We had a party, we went to Andrew and Yo’s a few times, we played some boardgames and Name in the Hat, some friends were in town, we watch fireworks from a good vantage point near Obie and Michelle’s, I’m considering switching this blog over to Blogger if google adds pages maybe, watched A Bit of Fry and Laurie and been playing Lego Star Wars II with Robin. And now school is here again and my free time is nil again.
Here’s to the new year! I’ll likely be attending a few conferences this year, possibly presenting, and will become a PhD candidate officially by the end of this school year. :)
So, I heard over the summer that Oblivion was available for mobile phones. I found some screenshots and a review online.
But let me warn you… not all phones were created equal and apparently the game doesn’t look like those screenshots on older phones. I don’t know about the gameplay, but on my old phone it is essentially a hack n slash. All the story elements have been boiled down to 3 sentence paragraphs shunting you from one dungeon to the next. Argh. How can they even call it Oblivion? A text adventure would have been way better so long as it had some interesting RP choices like the *real* Oblivion does.
A link from a guildie… funny.
YouTube - Spiders On Drugs
