Scott Jennings

World of Warcraft forums blow up, y0. 479 pages last time I checked, and about 5000 closed threads with the note “dear god please keep it to one thread oh god my head it burns”. Some official comment by the completely calm and not at all stressed Blizzard community team:

Remember those halcyon, carefree days past, when Blizzard introduced the RealID system for friends lists, saying it was completely optional and that you should only use RealID with your closest friends? According to Blizzard today, once Cataclysm ships, everyone that uses the official forums are your closest friends.

This is how you elegantly walk back a mistake. I was a fool for mentioning video games in the first place. I would never express an opinion on a movie I hadn’t seen. Yet I declared as an axiom that video games can never be Art. I still believe