For KSP’s first time at the “cutting edge” of raiding – and that cutting edge must be as dull as Alzheimer patient’s mind – I’m very proud of our accomplishments in TBC. What did we accomplish you ask? Allow me to list them:

1. We managed to finish the TBC raiding experience in approximately 1000 hours less than most everyone else at the "cutting edge". That left us time to pursue other interests. For example: Our main tank had time to go out with his old buddies, get drunk then get beaten up by his neighbor. Our elem shaman had time to have sex with a girl at college! One of our resto shamans had time to come down with a mystery illness. Another resto shaman had time to work for the gov't spying on Iran...and he can hardly read. Our only rogue had time to perfect being asian right down to taking Kung Fu and working in a sweatshop. Imagine if we hadn't waited for all the strats to be posted and instead wasted 3 months wiping on Muru and KJ while pretending to be an uber guild? Shiver me timbers! Thats just not for us.
2. We managed to finish the TBC raiding experience while barely recruiting anyone and  generally being considered the biggest dicks on the server. We also didn't use and help disband another guild so we could absorb their best players. Who says you need to get along to go along?
3. We managed to finish the TBC raiding experience without a husband/wife leadership structure. Normally that would be a recipe for some epic fail, but we somehow managed to get from point A to point B without falling apart (well we fell apart a little, but that was the fun part). And we did it without a wife whispering in my ear at night about who she hates and who shouldn't get loot. Goooooo me!

We’ve stuck together through thick and thin and did “incredible”. And by “incredible” I mean “good for a video game that basically requires repetition to be successful”. The “elite club” Kil’Jaedan killers has a new member! Of course like the old saying goes…I don’t want to be a member of any club that would have me. Besides this club got a lot less elite about 2 weeks ago. Yay patch!

There is something to be said for perseverance and there is no question you demonstrated your desire and heart with this trek through Sunwell. Ok, who the fuck are we kidding here. It doesn’t take much to persevere in a computer game. It’s not like a mountain lion chewed off our feet and we put a tourniquet on the wound and crawled out of the mountains to a hospital. And heart? Did I really need “heart” to mash my buttons and run when I was supposed to? It’s not like I was jumping up to snag a catch against my helmet in the Super Bowl here.

I learned so much about myself and what it takes to be where we are. Know what I really learned? That people I’ve never met need to have someone they’ve never met yell at them over the Internet to be good at a game. The main thing I learned about myself is that I enjoy yelling at people I don’t like.  Know what it took to get where we are? About 10 hours of raiding a week and lots of racist jokes in vent. A patch that makes it so we don’t need to raid another 150 hours helped too.

Some people say its just a game and others say its more. Don’t kid yourself --  its definitely just a game. If you’re learning things about your inner strength and your heart and desire from a computer game you have so many other problems going on that you should just back away from that keyboard and get a grip on the real world. It’s. Just. A. Game. The best part of the game is the people you meet, not the imaginary monsters you kill by repeating a series of actions 57 times in a row in a 6 minute span.

There are 11,000,000 playing wow and we’ve done something that most of them can only dream of…before the patch. A lot more people can pull this shit off now – look at us! Besides I’m willing to bet that 10,500,000 are dreaming of something other than killing Kil’jaden. Like, for instance, I’m dreaming of fucking Miss October from Playboy. Some others are dreaming of their wives disappearing forever…by accident of course. I'm fairly certain 5,000,000 chinese subscribers are dreaming about democracy, making more than $11 a month and having something other than rice for dinner. Still others are, I dunno, dreaming of not having to work for Mary Kay and driving around a pink car. The point is if you think most people are dreaming of killing some pixels in a video game then you really need to get out more.

Hey, don’t get me wrong, it was fun playing wow and killing raid bosses. But the fun came from bullshitting with people in vent and having a good time with them. WoW is something you do while enjoying your friends in vent. If you’re playing Wow to “accomplish goals” or “prove heart and desire” or “complete a dream”, well, its time to take a stiff drink, look at yourself in the mirror and then scream “I can’t believe I spent 1000 hours more than KSP doing the exact same shit they did…and I did it with my wife and a bunch of boring people!”

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Normally this is where I'd write a rambling paragraph about how great I am, how bad my guildmates are and how unabashedly homosexual Jaclynne is. However after downing Muru two nights in a row and Kil'jaden looking like a kill tonight I think I will save all my caustic humor and biting social commentary for the KJ kill. Loot and screenshot (yet another picture of us standing around in an empty area):