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But He’s Been Here Forever

In my guild, we have a long-time mem­ber, I’ll call him Mark. He’s a good and friendly per­son, but he’s def­i­nitely not offi­cer mate­r­ial. Passive-aggressive, flaky, self-centered. Mark’s been pin­ing for offi­cer­ship for years. I haven’t been in offi­cer­ship for a while (because I’ve been raid­ing more dia­pers than instances), but I was sur­prised to learn [...]
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Guilds are not Businesses

Guilds in these online games are com­pletely vol­un­tary, at-will orga­ni­za­tions of peo­ple. This cre­ates a strange dynamic when it comes to leading. When I was GM, a good friend of mine in the guild–we’ll call him Angus–was excel­lent at lead­ing groups and raids. He wasn’t shy about grab­bing a cou­ple of our more pas­sive guild­mates [...]
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Raiding does not mean Skilled

(Related post: Max level does not mean Skilled.) There’s a class of player who feels that their sta­tus in the raid­ing game means that they’re Right. They label other peo­ple noobs, and the silly thing is that peo­ple believe them. “I have this awe­some item, you don’t, there­fore I know what I’m talk­ing about and [...]
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Max level does not mean Skilled

(Related post: Raid­ing does not mean Skilled) World of War­craft, and every game like it, is really two dif­fer­ent games. I first read this thought at Penny Arcade (can’t find where because their search func­tion is weak). Basi­cally, you have the lev­el­ling game where you start at L1 and then play until max level (cur­rently [...]
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Drama is Inevitable

Like most peo­ple, I learned the hard way about sec­ond chances at relationships–backsliding, regres­sion rela­tion­ships, what­ever you want to call it. Namely that they don’t work, despite the fact that regres­sion sex might sound like just what you need after a series of ter­ri­ble first dates. How­ever, unless one of you has been in a [...]
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