The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
A Public Service Message
by Vonya
You people write too many awesome blogs.
I’m not even all the way through the comment list, and already my blogroll is dominating my sidebar like a devilsaur with Bestial Wrath and all three stacks of Monstrous Bite. (I’d have used a sports reference there, but the closest thing I get to sports is that old Nintendo basketball game where the announcer screams “He’s on FIRE!“)
But seriously. Chill out on the awesome blogs. I thought for sure I’d be safe. How many AWESOME blogs could there be? Mediocre blogs? Sure. But AWESOME?
The answer is “at least five more than too many”.
I AM working through the list of blog recommendations from way back when. Really and truly, I am. It’s like being given an entire bag of candy corn, though. Sure, it’s awesome, but you can only eat so many pieces before you kinda sorta start wondering whether other flavors exist in this world.
Too much awesome. You’ve been warned. I know people who do things. Nasty things, involving unpleasant stuff.
[This is the part where you imagine me doing that "point at my eyes, point at your eyes" suspicious glare thing. If there's a single word to indicate that series of actions, let me know. Whatever it is, I'm doing it. Right now. To you.]
October 22nd, 2008
(psst come visit me and Wulfa at http://www.twoandahalforcs.com)
(we’ve got some good stuff… just don’t tell Vonya cus she knows some people… who do things)
Things in () are whispers as anyone knows and Vonya can’t hear them but maybe her subconcious could come visit?
October 22nd, 2008
*whistles innocently*
October 22nd, 2008
Wow! I made it into your blogroll. You’ve got to have loads of visitors since I already got two guests sent to me by you, according to Feedburner. I can only say: Thank you. I’m very proud to be one of the chosen. /bow
October 22nd, 2008
Sucks, doesn’t it?
/grin
My feedreader is CRAZY if I don’t check it at least every day! … or every hour…
October 22nd, 2008
WHAT! Larísa is nondenominational!? Why can’t she be with the rest of us mages? =(
But I can see where you’re coming from. It just feels wierd to not have her in the mage group.
It’s kinda like in High School, where your best friend from elementary is sitting with all the cool kids table in the cafeteria during lunch, while you sit with the nerds.
But in the blogosphere, the nerd table IS the cool table. So ha!
October 22nd, 2008
I agree, there are way too many epic blogs out there, makes it a horrible task to whittle down the favorites. =/
October 22nd, 2008
Google Reader is my best friend. It keeps my awesome blogs, including this one, in a neat little basket. And it helps me get around my work’s Net Nanny, at least in part.
My wife’s Google Reader, on the other hand, has grown into an uncontrollable, hungry monster of blogs. Did you know that if you have over 1,000 unread blog items, the reader just says “1,000+”? I didn’t know that, but she discovered it!
To its credit, the game which you reference is “NBA Jam.” It was originally an arcade game and found its way to the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis after Midway discovered it had nearly unlimited profitability. Follow-ups were less successful. NBA Hang Time, while devilishly fun to play with the ability to create your own character (mine was a 7-foot tall guy with a chicken head named Abafab), lacked the charm of its predecessors, despite being a generation newer and being technically “better.” Many gamers feel that EA’s “Street” series of sports games returns to the over the top, off the wall, completely impossible by all known methods of physics and biology style of play, though revisiting an old format rarely results in the novelty of the original.
/gamingnerd off
=)
Completely off-topic: regarding your Twitter, “The female night elf /cower is quite possibly the best emote in the game.”, I have only one comment. “Did someone order Jell-O?” Interestingly enough, the more endowed females of Azeroth don’t seem to, umm, milkshake quite as much.
October 22nd, 2008
Im new to it but after reading a few blogs yours and Larisa being two of them i felt inspired too write and besides there aint many Discpiline priest blogs around
http://igotpenance.blogspot.com/
October 22nd, 2008
Thanks for the link. >.>
October 22nd, 2008
For real there’s too too many good ones. I find myself following classes I’m not even interested in just because the writing is so good. I’ve been forced to trim my list relentlessly because I just… can’t… handle it all…
It spoils you too. My attempt at duel-boxing has me perusing their special forum. It has some gems, but most of the time I’m irritated that thoughtful, well-worded content isn’t beamed magically to my cell phone. Where is the BRK of duel-boxing? Where is the Larisa? Eight Pink Pigtails: An Arcane Mage Army Blog. PLZ PLZ PLZ Larisa!!!
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Also, for some reason I only tend to drop comments here and on Critical QQ. Does anyone think of certain blogs, “This is one I leave comments on,” but of others, “that was delightful, but I must be going?”
October 22nd, 2008
I’ll try to do better–er, worse!
October 22nd, 2008
@Krizzlybear: She’s pretty smart this lady. Looks right through me and reveals me as the crap and fake theoyrcrafter I am. General ranting is what I’m capable of doing. I don’t deserve to be called a mage specialist as you do… But my heart is with you, always, you know that… Three gnome mages that stick together whatever happens
@Sonny: I’m afraid my pc couldn’t support dual-boxing, hey, my graphic card finds it hard to put up with normla raiding… Mages will soon get this fancy new mirror spell and I’ve also got the vodoo trinket making a little army of gnome mages, but guess that’s not what you’re looking for. Anyway I’m totally with you. If you look at my blogroll you can seriously wonder if I’m suffering from severe altitis. Why am I following all those paladine, druid, hunter, priest, yeah, whatever class blogs, classes I don’t play? Because they’re great writers in some aspect. And I can’t live without them. So I’ve given up the fight to keep my blogroll short. Mission impossible when it comes to me.
October 23rd, 2008
Yay for Snarkcraft making it onto the list! Now every blog I read is on there. Also plenty I have never read so I better get busy checking them out!
October 23rd, 2008
NBA Jam FTW… I also had NBA Hangtime on the 64 which was equally as win.
October 23rd, 2008
Perhaps I can take the oppurtunity to share my own blog: Healer Envy.
October 23rd, 2008
0_o
Wow … as a new boy on the blogg …er, sorry, block …. thanks for the link. May your quill never run dry.
/salute
October 25th, 2008
I don’t think there is a word, or even a phrase for that. Let’s invent one!
“Indefinite Future Aggro”