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14 years ago @ Jaded Alt - Who's On First? · 1 reply · +1 points

Hahaha, I happen to have a post in my draft folder on the exact same topic! People standing in MY spot drive me playfully nuts. I always try to get the same assignment, to stand in the same place. If I can't, it's not the end of the world, but if it's a laid back night, then I'll whine and jokingly scold my teammates for stealing my space.

15 years ago @ Target Dummies - Is it the Age Gap? · 1 reply · +1 points

I wouldn't blame it on age either. I'm 26 and I can't do the limbo sticks for the life of me.

I've played with a lot of players of all ages and it does seem like players over 40 *generally* struggle more with situational awareness and reaction time. That said, I've known an excellent, versatile 42 year player and I've met plenty of slow young players.
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15 years ago @ Non Elitist Raiding Diary - I have been quiet a while · 1 reply · +2 points

Congrats on your wedding!!

I'm really sorry to hear you're still sick. Keep us posted on how you do!

I miss you!

15 years ago @ The MMO Gamer - Are you too sappy for ... · 1 reply · +1 points

On the archetype thing, the original post was about how I got caught up in being a bit too emotionally invested in my guild and was trying to move back to the "Academy" perspective.

My guild is a 25 man raiding guild (we're level 11 or level 12 at the moment). I'm actually leaving them in the near future (and they know about it), but I don't have any concrete plans for future guilds yet.

15 years ago @ The MMO Gamer - Are you too sappy for ... · 3 replies · +2 points

"Too sappy for your guild". I like that ;D

The Daycare, that's a good one. I must admit, I'm not even a GM or officer, but sometimes think of my guild as "The Nursery". Don't tell them though!

15 years ago @ Non Elitist Raiding Diary - Holy Pally Co-efficien... · 1 reply · +1 points

Ok, I finally got around to looking at those!

The tooltips ingame are no longer accurate so you can't use them to calculate the values (unless they fixed them on Tuesday...will have to check) . It's interesting that the base values you found for each spell was well below the base value indicated on WoWhead. Where those values taken from the tooltip or from experimentation? I originally thought that when they buffed paladins, they buffed our coefficients, but it seems like they buffed our base values instead.

Odd that the coefficients you found were actually lower than the ones I found, since we were both going by tooltips.

15 years ago @ Non Elitist Raiding Diary - Raidleading Phrases du... · 1 reply · +2 points

Great post! I wholeheartedly agree, most of those are tricks I've discovered along the way as well (and I also learned about "what to say" from my years of childcare too!)

I especially love promoting guild jargon because it's not only useful to shorten instructions, it also creates a sense of belonging among the raiders in a team.

15 years ago @ Kiss My Alas - I'm a girl and a GM - ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh, not at all! I did want to make sure I didn't rub you the wrong by adding you to a list, but that's it.

After answering all the comments on my own blog, my brain is fried so I'm coming off as really mechanical. I don't mean to sound angry.

I find it age to be really interesting too! In my current guild, most of us are close in age, but when I was in an older guild, I used to wonder what these people were thinking of this 20somethings kid telling them what to do and how to be better players.

15 years ago @ Kiss My Alas - I'm a girl and a GM - ... · 2 replies · +1 points

I added you to that list (and bothered to make a list in the first place) kind of as a way to say "sure, women can be GMs, here are some to prove it". I also like that all the female GMs/RLs I know of have different approaches to their leadership.

My latest post had been brewing in my head since the RealID fiasco, where suddenly it seemed like every blogger, even the men, was using "but the WoW community is so hostile towards women! Women can't even talk on vent out of fear of being harassed/treated unfairly/mocked!" as an excuse to say RealID was bad. I mean, yeah, it's totally an necessary risk, but since when is the WoW community as bad as it's being made out to be? And why wasn't I aware that talking on vent was dangerous?

I do talk a lot about gender on my blog, but it's because I find it interesting. I'm such a people watcher, I love everything that has to do with social behaviour. To each our own. Some people like sports. I like people.

15 years ago @ Non Elitist Raiding Diary - Excuse for a lack of u... · 1 reply · +1 points

Really sorry to hear that you haven't been well. I hope that you feel better! I miss your posts.

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