Stupidity Doesn’t Describe it
It fascinates me that people can be so stupid. They can make things that have no merit whatsoever and get people to join in with them just be spouting off some word or phrase that gets people instantly riled up. Take, for example, “violation of privacy.” Sounds pretty awful, no one wants their privacy violated. I don’t want people coming into my house and rooting through my drawers, or finding out how much money I have in my bank account, or watching me as I sleep, that is just creepy.
What about The Armory? I reported it being launched yesterday and suddenly I wake up and it’s as if the world got hit by a big, fat, stupid stick overnight. Some massive hand came out of the heavens and slapped the sense right out of everyone.
When I wake up to see variations on “OMG what about virtual privacy? now everyone knows my talent spec/reputation/gear” I can’t help but feel bad because it shows a complete disregard for even attempting to be remotely intelligent.
People can see how much reputation you have with each faction? Must be awful for you, knowing that Jimbo the hunter knows you only need 100 more points to reach revered with the Sands of Time. Oh wait…he doesn’t give a shit? No one, in fact, gives a shit? This is fascinating. All this time I was under the impression that people were just dying to find out how much more rep I have to grind to get that latest cooking recipe from the Sporeggar.
The reputation information is so entirely inconsequential that it amazes me to even think someone would try to bring this up as an argument. Pull your head out of your ass for a moment, make a fist, and pummel yourself, because you are better off, if not dead, at least in serious pain and unable to play the game any longer.
“But they know my gear too!!! Oh noes.” You know what, just rinse and repeat the last sentence from the previous paragraph, and if at all possible break both your hands and possibly cut out your own tongue because if you never wrote or spoke another word the collective intelligence of humanity would close to double. That’s right, you single-handedly manage to drag the entire human race into depths of idiocy unfathomable to the mind just by existing. It’s called inspect, people have been using it for 2 years now. The only difference is now some random guy can tell you that you own “Epic Staff of Jackassery”.
“They know where I put my talent points!!!!1!!!”
Take a step back. Imagine you are in a time where dinosaurs roam the earth. Now imagine you are there staring into the face of a T-Rex. He bites you in half without even thinking about it.
That death is too good for you. It needs to be a thousand times worse just to inflict anywhere near the same pain your bumbling incoherence inflicts upon me every second you breathe air on this planet (or, for that matter, any other.)
You cry about how this will unbalance PvP, people will know what you can do before you start because they can look it up.
Fascinating as that is, there is something else to consider. They could also just watch their damn monitor to see what the hell you can do! If I am fighting a priest in shadowform I will be willing to place money on the fact that he has in fact learned silence. I’m not going to be shocked by this, he’s a shadow priest. Guess what, no protection warrior is going to charge in at you carrying his 1-handed weapon and shield with his tanking gear equipped, he’ll probably have a set of PvP gear set aside. It’s fascinating isn’t it. OMG they know I have Mortal strike, what ever will I do? Hmm…I don’t know, I guess you could always just, you know, use the move as you normally would and let them work out how to deal with it. “My hunter is Survival specced and now everyone knows.” Well, okay, as embarrassing as this is for you, it doesn’t do anyone a whole lot of good, but my advice to you is still respec, no one honestly tries to play a survival hunter.
Such incredible ignorance astounds me every day, but please people, none of this matters. It is a nice extra feature, which may be used on occasion for a few minor things, but aside from that it gives people nothing of any real consequence. So, try to retrieve your brain from whatever lab you donated it to in the name of science and put it to some actual use trying to think of something intelligent to complain about for once.
March 4th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
[...] To round out the week, on Friday, I was amazed by the sheer idiocy of a great number of people. Even forgetting the fact that player’s have no rights to their character’s in Blizzard’s game the arguments were stupid. [...]