"People frighten me." - Anya 07.10.06

I hope you all are enjoying Rotten Apples, because there's much blood, sweat, and tears that go into those rants. First it starts with Jacob or myself running across some person with an absolutely gigantic Flagrsp description. This is usually accompanied by a cry of "Oh God". Quickly though our delight turns to horror as we wish to gouge our own eyes out from running across such lines as "the markings from her eyes are symbolic for the eternal tears she sheds to be so alone" or "He's a half-demon just looking for someone to love him and accept him even though he's a hideous beast."

After a short recovery period involving pure oxygen and sometimes CPR, the screenshot is cropped and Jacob ingests massive amounts of high-sugar soda in order to have the properly sarcastic and imaginative mood it takes to withstand the horror long enough to mock it.

And the screenshot is included so you always know that we're not making one word of it up.

Okay, so I'm exaggerating... but not by much.

Damn. Every time I think we've exhausted our own server for horrible descriptions, another three pop up and convince us once again there's no end to the barrel o' pathetic out there. Whenever we have found more than three descriptions we feel are worthy of being called good, we'll put up a page of what should go in a flagrsp description!

I just wish we could find some decent roleplayers.

In other news, the front page of the first chapter should be up sometime this week, followed soon by the beginning of the storyline.

"The Last Time, I Swear!"   - Anya 07.03.06

This is the last time with six panels, I swear!

If nothing else, I have a lot more respect for comic artists who manage three updates a week without fail. I'll add the required apologies here, what with exams, and getting sick, last week saw no updates.

Either way, I thought this comic was funny after I watched people jump down onto the gryphon from the Stormwind flight point. I imagine something like this would happen if the gryphons weren't just ornamentation.

Have a good week, everyone!

"Dun dun DUN!"   - Anya 06.16.06

Well, so much for an on-time update. Though technically it's still Friday so I'm not going to quibble. Mostly this entry is for my own amusement, though one of the biggest gripes I have about a lot of the new armor sets is that it completely obscures any unique characteristics of your character. The only things you can choose, face, piercings, hair color, skin color, are completely hidden in these, turning everyone into a series of identical people. I just don't like that.

But then again, I don't raid, so none of my characters will ever see these sets, and therefore it's not much of a personal worry to me.

Still, this made me giggle. And that's good enough for me.

"Yaarrgh!" - Anya 06.13.06

The title pretty much says it all, but I will ramble on for a bit anyway. I hope you don't mind. Those armor sets are a pain in the rear to color. But it's done! And up! Woot. It's funny that as I get towards the end of the comic I realize I could have saved a lot of effort by doing something different in the very beginning. I suppose that's all part of the learning process. Check out the Rotten Apples link at the top right if you haven't already. That updates whenever the comic does.

"Battleground Nostalga" - by Anya 06.08.06

This gag was something we wished we could pull off in Warsong just because it would be funny - at least to us.

That was back in the time when I played, before the battlegrounds became a torturous experience.

Don't get me wrong, I loved playing in the gulch and in the basin when it came out. It was fun, engaging, and something different than the level grind the rest of my playing time had become. Rogue plus warrior equaled a lot of surprise when people decided the warrior would be an easy kill. Those were the fun days.

Then came the drama - you all have heard it, everyone whining and complaining that their gear isn't as good as other people's. Other people using "dishonorable tactics" like slamming potions, or engineering, or even using various abilities that other people think is giving them an unfair advantage. To people doing truly dishonorable things like using exploits to physically hide in the terrain where they were unattackable.

And the whiners, the many varied whiners about how the horde (or alliance) are better, and we can't beat them, and ignorant people screaming "EVRY1 ON D!" Then came the twinks, in droves! I just wanted to play, not spend all my time grinding for gold so I can be the uberest uber in the 'ground. And now that I have more than one level 60, I'm probably never going to set foot in the grounds again.

I really would like it if they made it green items only and leveled the playing field so it would be more about skill than uber lewtz.

Ah well.

Two updates this week though =) Let's see if I can get that Wednesday one next week.