gogldictionary.blogg.se - Blender manictime

You know, I don’t even think it’s the game at this point. So I tried the ol “if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all” routine, and what do you know… I ended up not saying anything at all. I don’t know if any of my readers were tired of it, but -I- was tiring -myself- with all the negativity and complaining. There was the lack of positive feelings about anything Guild Wars 2, or a desire to promote it by writing about it.It may not have killed the idea muse, but it did steal some of the desire to even sit down and begin. This does, however, pose something of a challenge to writing when you’re consciously stifling a part of yourself and your experiences, editing before word is even laid out on the blank page, so to speak.

Hardcore players talk and know each other, stories can spread like wildfire. Bottom line, this is a very tiny community. Hell, I would not be surprised to find a fair number of this group have experienced the same Age of Conan/Warhammer/Aion exodus as I, just spread across various guilds and organizations. The raid guild I’m in appears to have subsumed a fairly hefty majority of this population. The Oceanic/SEA community in any game is a pretty small one, and when you compress it down to people that want to raid, even -smaller. I had long ago resolved that I would never write in fine-grained detail about anything that happened (good or bad) in my raid group, or the people and personalities and politics and stories of any other raid group I heard about, for that matter.

There’s my chronic allergy to all things drama.

…while philosophically being opposed to the divide that raids create. (reasons: a) no Legendary armor alternative b) the -need/craving- to see all content successfully completed c) maintain network of -competent- players in one’s timezones for future content, outcasting = no more success, d) yeah, the challenge / puzzle inherent in difficult content is somewhat entertaining, even if the need for 9 other people’s schedules to coincide is not)

Yes, there was the tension between the hypocrisy of continuing to raid….

Not in the usual “I hate raids” hermit-y grouch sense, mind you. If there’s one thing I would not have predicted, so many moons ago, it’s that raiding in GW2 would successfully kill my desire to blog.