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Top 10 most influential lore villians
Now what exactly even is an influential lore villian? well according to a deffinition I found online; Influence is the power to change or affect someone or something : the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen. or a person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way. So for this list, we'll be focusing on people who have had affects on things in important ways. Now what exactly consitutes important anyway? well my dear viewer, I think I've already turned enough people away from the video with that little vocab lesson at the start so lets just dive into the list of 10 influential lore villians, super summurized. Because I dont really want to go into details.
-10-sargeres
-9-Yogg-saron
-8-lich king
-7-Hogger
-6-azshara
-5-deathwing
-4-Kil'jeaden,Archimonde
-3-Gul'dan
-2-garrosh
-1-illadan
-10-First off, I'll start with the most obvious lore villain, Sargers "the ereadar lord of the buring legion". Haha just kidding, hes actually a titan. So anyway, Sareras was this titan guy who took care of killing demons n such to keep order in the universe. But over time he came to relize the only constant in the universe was chaos and that he should embrace, not fight againt it. He then went about creating the burning legion and destroyed a lot of worlds n stuff.
Then about 10,000 years before the start of wow, in the war of the ancients, He got into contact with Queen Azshara and got her to try and summon him to azeroth. Summoning in wow lore takes a ton of power depending on how strong the person is that is being summoned. And since sargeres is like, the strongest of the strong it would take something like the well of eternty to make it happen.
So anyway, a big fight broke out and the world was spilt into the 4 continents and everything was peachy.Then one day he was able to summon an avatar of himself to azeroth and it was defeated by the most powerful mage in history, err actually thats a depated topic, but thats another story for another time. Anyways, he ended up taking control of medivh, who helped bring the orcs into azeroth and started the whole orcs vs humans thing.
Now I'll be mentioning sargeres a lot more later on in the list so thats why he kind of had to be number 10.
-9- Now for number 9 on this list, well I mean with sargeres at number 10 I can really just list the other lore villians in a random order now since no one can really top that. Thats why I'm gonna put an old god at number,9 the good ol Yogg-saron. Why yog and not the other old gods? good question. You see, the old gods are said to be a pretty good match for the titans, and could take control of sargeres easily if he ever did set foot on azeroth. So dont go thinking the titans are the strongest things ever. EVen though they kinda are, but people always like to bring up that one line from some book that says the old gods were able to kill a titan. Now what does that have to do with yogg? well nothing really, I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Yogg took part in the curse of flesh, the whole reason everyone on azeroth dont look like the mogu. But theres some debate as to weather or not the curse of flesh is even really that bad, as the Algalon encounter in Ulduar might suggest. So for now lets just skip that and go onto the 3 visions.
During the yog fight in uldar, you encounter 3 different visions inside the brain room.these visions show pivotal momenst in the history of Azeroth suggesting that Yogg might have
had some invovlment with these events.
-The first one being the Creation of the Dragon Soul by Deathwing and the Dragon Aspects which
resulted in the Sundering during the War of the Ancients.
-The second invovles King Llane's murder by Garona which resulted in the fall of Stormwind
and todays King Varian Wrynn's hatred towards the Horde.
-and third, Bolvar Fordragon being tortured by the Lich King
If yogg really was behind either of the first two events, then that easily gives him a spot on this list. And the vision with Bolvar and the lich kings I guess hints that he had some involvment with the lich king? I'm not sure I coulndt find any info on that. Which makes a great segway into number 8 on this list
-8- Number 8 is the lich king athas! man there is no way anyone else on this list from now on can really match the star power of sargeres, an old god, and everyones favorite villian. I should probably go back and re-werite this. nah, I'm pretty sure everyone will appertiate making all the obvious tops of the list come first. Now then, where should I get started with the lich king? that guys story is a hell of a doozey.
Oh, did you know the arthas is like the only deathknight to never die? Because on my zombie video, I think I get a comment about that fact every other day. Although thats jumping aheada little.
Arthas was a prince who went a little nuts trying to track down a dreadlord and became the lich king through a series of events that would take a really long time to explain. Then he killed a bunch of people and turned them into zombies, including 90% of the blood elf population. He then ran to northrend after being nearly killed by sylvanas, the coolest character in wow, and waited for the right expansion to make his next move.
The lich king is probably the strongest villian players can face in wow that wasnt super waekened before th fight. Well, actually that fact is debatable if you take the frozen heart quest chain into account. Plus its not like the players actually killed him anyway, it was totally a well written fluke that tirion got a sudden surge of holy power and was able to break his super sword with an equally powerful super sword.
-7- Now number 7 on this list is hogger. why hogger? well because hes kind of a joke villian that wow players love to insert everywhere. hes not an influencial lore villian at all, its just back in vanilla he was the first eleite mob human alliance players faced and talied up a big kill count as players weren't use to killing a mob that required a group of people so early in the game, and is kinda famous for that to alliance players as being the first mob they couldnt kill or got murdered several times attempting.
Now this would be a great number 10 option as he's pretty much a joke character, but I've found that if you start off with a strong, lesser known, intresting thing at number 10, something that would have otherwise been really good as a number 2 or 3 on an objective list, people are more inclined to watch the whole video rather than actually listing what would be a weak number 10. and then end off with something strong. So really everything from numbers 9 through 2 can be anything as long as you have an intresting number 10, and a well known number 1. And I dont think hogger is quiet strong enough as a number 10, so he's kinda in the middle with the rest of the fodder.
-6- Now back to the list with real lore characters, and number 6 will be Queen azshara. She is the reason we have warlocks and sargeres to worry about. Well actually it would probably be her advisor who told her about sargeres, but she is the one who put everything into action and is arguably the strongest mage to have ever lived. Remember how I said that title was debatable? well as canidates for strongest mage, We've got the queen herself, Aegwynn, Medivh, Jiana, and Current khadgar. I'll go ahead and throw jiana and Khadgar off the table right now, as they can't really hold a candle to Aegeynn. And that only leaves 3, but It's also widley excepted that Azshara was way more powerful than Aegeynn, even if there isnt a univeral consensus. And as for the queen vs medivh, well when he was being controled by sargeres its gets pretty murky on how strong he actually was, and he was able to defeat his mother Aegwynn, so in a bat off between Azshara and Sargeres controlled Medivh, that would be an intresting fight.
Ok, to get back on track. Why is the queen so influential? well, she pretty much started the war of the ancients to bring sargeres into azeroth that split the world into 4 continents. And is the queen on the naga and a potential expansion end boss in the future, as shes still alive and well with an army of naga, and old god backing her power, and, might have neptulon in her control. For those of you who dont know who neptulon is, hes like the ragnaros of water. So a pretty strong dude.
-5- Speaking of people powered by old gods, We've got Deathwing in here as number 5. Well I wouldnt say he was so much powered by old gods as much as driven insane by them. We're gonna have pretty much all of the end bosses of all the expansions on this list, in case you want to try and guess the villians coming up next.
Now Deathwhing, this guy, he was involved with a lot more stuff than just what happened in cataclysm. In addition to being the father of the second coolest character in wow (wrathion) He created the demon soul, a super powerful artifact that he tricked the other aspects into empowering under the guies that he was going to use it to stop the war of the aincets and close the giant portal. While it ultimatley did fulfil this purpose, deathwing did kill nearly the entire blue dragon flight before losing and running away. Then after some other shenanigans, the reaming 4 aspects made sure deathwing couldnt use the demon soul and hid it away until he found it 10,000 years later and led the orcs to it, who then used its power to control alexstraza and creat some neat dragon mounts for the horde during the 2nd war.
Then some stuff happened, deathwing went to outlands, fought khadgar, and wasnt heard from until the catacylsm expansion, where he decided to destroy a bunch of stuff and was killed by green jesus. I mean thrall and the 4 other aspects using the dragon soul they took from another timeline.
-4- Number 4 will be a combo pack with Archimonde and Kil'jeaden. I was orginally going to do both of them seperate, but then i was all like "nah I gotta fit hogger in somehwere". So anyway
So anyway, Kil'jeadan and archimonde and like Sargeres right hand men in the buring legion and are super powerful. Archimonde partipated in the war of the ancients 10,000 years ago and killed Malorne by snaping his neck. In case you dont know who he is, Malorne is the father of Cenarius, the creater of the druid class, and is like the god of nature. So that was a pretty big deal.
Then 10,000 years later he was summoned back to azeroth by arthas and immediatly blew up dalaran. Then went over to the world tree and got killed by wisps.
Kil'jeadan is the guy who gave the demon blood to gul'dan to give to the orcs which pretty much started everything. He also created the lich king by fusing Ner'zhul's soul to a suit of armor that allowed him to control zombies for some reason. He's also the reason illidan ran to outlands and why the whole buring crusade expansion happened. As well as being the final boss of that expansion, wehre you were bascially just trying to push him back through his portal.
-3- And number 3 on this list is Gul'dan. Cant have a villian list without mentioning this guy. Although to be fair, Kil'jeaden is totally more influential than Guldan. And so are some of the other characrters on this list below him. Well whatever, I already said I'm not really putting these guys in a proper order.
Gul'dan was kinda obssed with getting more power and boy did he ever. Its widely beleived he's the most powerful mortal warlock to ever exsist. Gul'dan tricked the orcs into drinking the demon blood and was like the Little Finger of the horde for a while. He was contacted by medivh to build a portal to azeroth in exchange for more power, which he happily did. Then during the first war, while he was inside medivhs mind, Medivh was killed which cause gul'dan to go into a coma. When he woke up, his puppet ruler was dead along with his shadow council. To not be killed by the new warchief he created the first deathknights by taking the souls of his dead men and putting them into the bodies of human knights.
He later died while trying to obtain the eye of sargeres, a super powerful artifact. But even after death he still caused trouble, because he was so strong that just holding his skull made wnyone who held it, like 10 times stronger. I think, I dont know, I made that number up. But khadgar does use the skull to destroy the dark portal in warcraft. Ner'zhul used it to pretty much turn outlands into what it is today. And illidan used it to become half demon and fight the lich king.
-2- Speaking of illidan, number 2 on this list is actually garrosh hellscream and not illidan, because hes number 1. Now garrosh, while maybe not as influential as all the villians below him, is a personal favorite of mine. I love that he went evil not because of going mad from demon stuff or old gods, but of his own free will. Even after absorbing the power of an old god, he was till the same ol asshole he always was, and uncorrupted. And at the end of his trial in warcrimes, after they spent a few hundred pages detailing all the terrible things he had done, his last words before his verdict was to laugh at everyone and say he'd do it all again if he could. Truley an unrepentent villian, he just wanted was he thought was best for the horde. Well the orcs anyway, he was kinda racist. But then again show me a race in wow that isnt racist. Hell even the most peaceful race the tauren think they're better than all the smaller races. Actually now that I think of it, drenai might be the least racist race, as their leader is like the gaundi of wow.
anyway back to garrosh, this guy has a pretty intresting story, and a pretty long one like every other character on this list. But this video is getting kind of long and I've already mentioned why I like this villian over all the other saturday morning cartoon villians on the list. Actually thats not fair, arthas is definitly a pretty cool villian too, so is gul'dan. that guy just wanted more power. And illidan, he just wanted tryande's love. Speaking of illidan.
-1- Number 1 on this list is the love struck villian himself, illidan. I guess you could say he was..not prepared..(obvious fake laughter). ok that wasnt even a good pun. If you dislike this video for that I totally understand. Now then, why do I have illidan at the top of the list? Well, I've already firmly established that I'm putting the characters in a random order many other times in the video so you shouldnt be all that surprised. What it really comes down to is my personal favorites now. And I persoanlly love illidans abbs. I mean look at them, its like hes does cross fit or something. Plus his tatoos just really make his muscles look even more refined. If I were to rate all the villians on this list in appearance, illidan would be like an 11 out of 10. Why tyrande picked malfurion over Illidan is probably the biggest mystery in wow. I mean, look at malfurion. He's got like dumb wings or some shit. Plus antlers and a gross green beard. And illidan gots the six pack of the centry, plus the coolest weapons in the game. If this was real life, theres no way in hell someone would pick malfurion over Illidan. Illidans just too hot.
So why is Illidan so influential? well compared to everyone else on this list, hes not really. I mean, hes influential enough to be on the list, but everyone else on this list has done more than him. Except hogger, he totally beats out hogger.
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And thats it for my influential lore villians video. If you want to know more about any of the villians on this list, since I pretty much gave the cliff notes on their history, I suggest just watching one of Nobbel87's videos on any of these guys, since that guys goes into more detail than an encyclopedia. Plus hes got an awesome accent that makes your panties wet. I'd also like to thank Ethan Macauley for his wonderful help in research gathering. Really made writing this video like 10 times easier. And TobyWow for helping me edit. And of course, my patreon supporters for picking this video idea.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
Abandoned Script - Top 5 BattleGrounds
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Top 5 BattleGrounds
I have over a hundred wins in everysingle battleground in the game. When I first stated playing, it took me over a year to reach level 80 because I spent so much time doing battlegrounds instead of leveling, this was back in the day before BGs gave expericne. So this list will mainly be based on my own personal favorites.
First off, I'm just going to mention that I'm not going to add either of the capture the flag battle ground sin here, since I dont like warsong gultch or twin peaks. I mean they're fine and I dont mind them, but they are without a doubt, 2 of my least favorite battlegrounds to do, especially when I did rated battlegrounds. The game always came down to capture your flag and turtle. Not fun.
5-Number 5 will be wintergrasp. This was the first battleground I ever got the win 100 games achieve on, and I qued up for every battle I could possibly do.
4-Av if your alliance - zerg fest in wrath. Mention tol barad as well. Both favor alliance way too much.
3-Strands of the ancinets
2-Arithai basin
1-Eye of the storm
Top 5 BattleGrounds
I have over a hundred wins in everysingle battleground in the game. When I first stated playing, it took me over a year to reach level 80 because I spent so much time doing battlegrounds instead of leveling, this was back in the day before BGs gave expericne. So this list will mainly be based on my own personal favorites.
First off, I'm just going to mention that I'm not going to add either of the capture the flag battle ground sin here, since I dont like warsong gultch or twin peaks. I mean they're fine and I dont mind them, but they are without a doubt, 2 of my least favorite battlegrounds to do, especially when I did rated battlegrounds. The game always came down to capture your flag and turtle. Not fun.
5-Number 5 will be wintergrasp. This was the first battleground I ever got the win 100 games achieve on, and I qued up for every battle I could possibly do.
4-Av if your alliance - zerg fest in wrath. Mention tol barad as well. Both favor alliance way too much.
3-Strands of the ancinets
2-Arithai basin
1-Eye of the storm
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Abandoned Script - 10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Now, towards the end of wrath and all throughout Cata I was one of, if not the largest supplier of goods on my relms auction house. A lot has changed though from those days, But some of the basics of gold making are still the same..
Now for making gold while leveling Weather it be a new toon on a different server or your 9th alt, its all the same.
1.)First off, if you plan on leveling by doing quests take 2 gathering proffessions. Once you hit max level you'll unlearn them and get 2 real proffession.
There are 3 gathering proffessions to choose from, Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Which two are best depends on your server. Generally you want to take skinning with either mining of herbing, because if you take both herbing and mining you'll spend most of your time doing your quests gathering and running from one node to the other. So which one you pick is pretty much personal preference, low level herbs sell well because alchemy is such a good proffession to level on multiple toons at max level and they need low level herbs to skill up. Same with mining. Blacksmithing and Jewel crafting are 2 really good proffessions at max level and they need tons of low level ore to skill up. When you sell the ore sell both the ore raw and bars. Un-smelted ore, or "raw ore" will sell faster and in bigger numbers.Bars can be sold for more gold, but they do not sell as fast as ore and you won't be able to sell as many. Herbs on the other hand you just sell as is, scribes who mill the herbs just strait up buy herbs, but rarely do they buy low level herbs to mill, almost all sales for low level herbs are for leveling alchemy. And finally skinning, low level leather, like herbs and ore, sell very well.
If you plan on leveling through dungeons, then take enchanting and tailoring. Enchanting to Disenchant low level items, the materials you get sell well, especcially gear that's DE'ed in the 50-60 level area before outlands. Most people go strait to outlands at level 56 so high level mats from before BC stuff is rare. Tailoring is because you'll be getting a lot of cloth from dungeons and you can level it up as you go cheaper, then when you hit BC levels of tailoring you can make netherweave bags which sell well all the time. Alternatly you can take skinning in place of tailoring because some dungeons do have beast you can skin.
2.)While leveling check all vendors for recipes. People are lazy and would rather pay 10g for a recipe on the auction house rather than fly out to the vendor and buy it for 50c. Same with vendor pets, but not bags. Do not buy bags from vendors to flip on the Auction house. They cost way to much and do not sell well at all. "Flip" of course, means to buy low and sell high.
3.)Now when it comes to posting on the Auction house, always sell raw materials, meaning your ore, herbs, leather, and enchanting materials in stacks of 20 or whatever the highest you can get the stacks. If someone is going to buy some mats, "mats" being short for materials, that they need, then they are just going to buy whatever is cheaper. If all they need is 4 ore, they'll buy your whole stack 9 times out of 10.
When undercutting your competion, simply undercut by 1c. People will always buy whatever is cheaper and if you have 10 stacks of ore 1c cheaper then the guy who has 20 stacks of ore posted, 90% of the time they'll buy your ore first. The only reason to ever undercut by more than a copper is when you are deliberatly trying to tank a market. What that involes is posting an item way below everyone else in the hopes that your competition will undercut you at that low price. Then you simple cancle all your auctions and buy everything your compition posted and repost your items along with your new stock at higher prices than normal for a quick profit.
4.)buy the 16 slot bags from the AH whenever you have the gold to do so. Having bigger bags means less time running back to town to empty them which in tail gives you more time to level. Also if you plan on leveling in any other way besides dungeon grinding or questing then your going to be poor when you hit 90.
5.)Never vender greens. Ever. Post all of them on the AH. Even the crappy stat ones will fetch you more from people leveling up enchanting than you would get form a vender. Same goes for cloth, its worth more to other people than you can get from the vendor.
6.)Make a banker toon. Now this may seem very obvious and I'm sure 99% of the players already have one, but if your a new player watching this and you dont have one you should. A banker is another character whos is made for the sole purpose of sitting in a major city next to a mailbox close to an auctioneer. Having a banker allows you to just mail your stuff to your banker instead of going back to a major city to sell your stuff. Time is money afterall
7.) farming does not mean free. Farming of course, means using a gathering profession to go out and gather a ton of materials or grinding for a rare drop. Farming takes time, and is only free if you absolutley do not value your time. This is a common misconception made by people who are starting out in gold making.
8.)If I dont farm, how do I make gold then? you might ask yourself since all my tips before where for new players essentially. Well there are many ways but the most commone way is through crafting professions. Jewelcrafting and Enchanting being the higest earners.
9.) if your a blacksmith, make belt buckles. Belt buckles always sell like hot cakes. if your an engineer, make mecho hogs and pets. Beleive it or not people still buy those. if your a tailor, make bags and spell threads. If your a leather worker, leg enchants are the way to go. Alchemy is all about using your transmute cooldowns because potions and flasks do not sell well and rarely will you make a profit off of them. Before cata, glyphs use to be up there with enchating and jewelcrafting in terms of money making, now its barely better than leather working or alchemy in the gold making department. Fortune cookies however, still sell pretty well. People love to gamble.
10.) Learn how to do the truffle shuffle. The ore shuffle actually. Bascically all it entails is buying cheap ore whenever you can find it, prospecting all of it, and useing the gems for transmutes and making necklances and rings to DE. The ore shuffle should give you all the mats you need for enchanting and jewelcrafting, the two biggest money makers.
10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Now, towards the end of wrath and all throughout Cata I was one of, if not the largest supplier of goods on my relms auction house. A lot has changed though from those days, But some of the basics of gold making are still the same..
Now for making gold while leveling Weather it be a new toon on a different server or your 9th alt, its all the same.
1.)First off, if you plan on leveling by doing quests take 2 gathering proffessions. Once you hit max level you'll unlearn them and get 2 real proffession.
There are 3 gathering proffessions to choose from, Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Which two are best depends on your server. Generally you want to take skinning with either mining of herbing, because if you take both herbing and mining you'll spend most of your time doing your quests gathering and running from one node to the other. So which one you pick is pretty much personal preference, low level herbs sell well because alchemy is such a good proffession to level on multiple toons at max level and they need low level herbs to skill up. Same with mining. Blacksmithing and Jewel crafting are 2 really good proffessions at max level and they need tons of low level ore to skill up. When you sell the ore sell both the ore raw and bars. Un-smelted ore, or "raw ore" will sell faster and in bigger numbers.Bars can be sold for more gold, but they do not sell as fast as ore and you won't be able to sell as many. Herbs on the other hand you just sell as is, scribes who mill the herbs just strait up buy herbs, but rarely do they buy low level herbs to mill, almost all sales for low level herbs are for leveling alchemy. And finally skinning, low level leather, like herbs and ore, sell very well.
If you plan on leveling through dungeons, then take enchanting and tailoring. Enchanting to Disenchant low level items, the materials you get sell well, especcially gear that's DE'ed in the 50-60 level area before outlands. Most people go strait to outlands at level 56 so high level mats from before BC stuff is rare. Tailoring is because you'll be getting a lot of cloth from dungeons and you can level it up as you go cheaper, then when you hit BC levels of tailoring you can make netherweave bags which sell well all the time. Alternatly you can take skinning in place of tailoring because some dungeons do have beast you can skin.
2.)While leveling check all vendors for recipes. People are lazy and would rather pay 10g for a recipe on the auction house rather than fly out to the vendor and buy it for 50c. Same with vendor pets, but not bags. Do not buy bags from vendors to flip on the Auction house. They cost way to much and do not sell well at all. "Flip" of course, means to buy low and sell high.
3.)Now when it comes to posting on the Auction house, always sell raw materials, meaning your ore, herbs, leather, and enchanting materials in stacks of 20 or whatever the highest you can get the stacks. If someone is going to buy some mats, "mats" being short for materials, that they need, then they are just going to buy whatever is cheaper. If all they need is 4 ore, they'll buy your whole stack 9 times out of 10.
When undercutting your competion, simply undercut by 1c. People will always buy whatever is cheaper and if you have 10 stacks of ore 1c cheaper then the guy who has 20 stacks of ore posted, 90% of the time they'll buy your ore first. The only reason to ever undercut by more than a copper is when you are deliberatly trying to tank a market. What that involes is posting an item way below everyone else in the hopes that your competition will undercut you at that low price. Then you simple cancle all your auctions and buy everything your compition posted and repost your items along with your new stock at higher prices than normal for a quick profit.
4.)buy the 16 slot bags from the AH whenever you have the gold to do so. Having bigger bags means less time running back to town to empty them which in tail gives you more time to level. Also if you plan on leveling in any other way besides dungeon grinding or questing then your going to be poor when you hit 90.
5.)Never vender greens. Ever. Post all of them on the AH. Even the crappy stat ones will fetch you more from people leveling up enchanting than you would get form a vender. Same goes for cloth, its worth more to other people than you can get from the vendor.
6.)Make a banker toon. Now this may seem very obvious and I'm sure 99% of the players already have one, but if your a new player watching this and you dont have one you should. A banker is another character whos is made for the sole purpose of sitting in a major city next to a mailbox close to an auctioneer. Having a banker allows you to just mail your stuff to your banker instead of going back to a major city to sell your stuff. Time is money afterall
7.) farming does not mean free. Farming of course, means using a gathering profession to go out and gather a ton of materials or grinding for a rare drop. Farming takes time, and is only free if you absolutley do not value your time. This is a common misconception made by people who are starting out in gold making.
8.)If I dont farm, how do I make gold then? you might ask yourself since all my tips before where for new players essentially. Well there are many ways but the most commone way is through crafting professions. Jewelcrafting and Enchanting being the higest earners.
9.) if your a blacksmith, make belt buckles. Belt buckles always sell like hot cakes. if your an engineer, make mecho hogs and pets. Beleive it or not people still buy those. if your a tailor, make bags and spell threads. If your a leather worker, leg enchants are the way to go. Alchemy is all about using your transmute cooldowns because potions and flasks do not sell well and rarely will you make a profit off of them. Before cata, glyphs use to be up there with enchating and jewelcrafting in terms of money making, now its barely better than leather working or alchemy in the gold making department. Fortune cookies however, still sell pretty well. People love to gamble.
10.) Learn how to do the truffle shuffle. The ore shuffle actually. Bascically all it entails is buying cheap ore whenever you can find it, prospecting all of it, and useing the gems for transmutes and making necklances and rings to DE. The ore shuffle should give you all the mats you need for enchanting and jewelcrafting, the two biggest money makers.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Abandonded Scripts - A day in the life of devbot
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
A day in the life of devbot
Devbot powers on
walks over to the computer
sits down
Types "wake up sheeple"
is walking down the street.
Goes into a starbucks
sits down, pulls out labtop
"Operation snow white and me" in a word document on his computer
is seen walking to a park
Fights a dragon (music cuts to epic shit, only 5 seconds max of this scene)
Goes home
Gets back on the computer
types out "non demolition towers do not just fall at free fall speed"
Knock knock
Who's there?
9/11.
9/11 who?
I thought you said never forget.
--ends somehow.--
New idea
Its time, for the philosophy corner with devbot
Life is nothing but a series of meaningless events. The only truth to the world is death. Because only in death are we truly equal.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Now it is time for more words with devbot in the philosophy corner
Just because, you flip a coin and get heads everytime you say the word banana, doesnt mean that saying the word banana causes the coin to come up heads. Thats a common misconception of causation and causality.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Now it is time for more words with devbot in the philosophy corner
Steal beams melt at a temperature of 2000 degrees, yet jet fuel only has a maximum burning temperature of 1200 degrees. Something just doesnt add up for me.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Between transitions, do a "fact" like "did you know the first robot appeared in 1896?" or something like that, less than 5 seconds each.
A day in the life of devbot
Devbot powers on
walks over to the computer
sits down
Types "wake up sheeple"
is walking down the street.
Goes into a starbucks
sits down, pulls out labtop
"Operation snow white and me" in a word document on his computer
is seen walking to a park
Fights a dragon (music cuts to epic shit, only 5 seconds max of this scene)
Goes home
Gets back on the computer
types out "non demolition towers do not just fall at free fall speed"
Knock knock
Who's there?
9/11.
9/11 who?
I thought you said never forget.
--ends somehow.--
New idea
Its time, for the philosophy corner with devbot
Life is nothing but a series of meaningless events. The only truth to the world is death. Because only in death are we truly equal.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Now it is time for more words with devbot in the philosophy corner
Just because, you flip a coin and get heads everytime you say the word banana, doesnt mean that saying the word banana causes the coin to come up heads. Thats a common misconception of causation and causality.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Now it is time for more words with devbot in the philosophy corner
Steal beams melt at a temperature of 2000 degrees, yet jet fuel only has a maximum burning temperature of 1200 degrees. Something just doesnt add up for me.
And that concludes wise words with devbot in the philosophy corner
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Between transitions, do a "fact" like "did you know the first robot appeared in 1896?" or something like that, less than 5 seconds each.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Diaries of a raider
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Diaries of a raider
****Episode 1, firelands****
(make in a documentary style video)
Raid - Firelands. Our group has been going strong. We lost quite a few players over the past couple of months, but recently we finally replaced out toxic healer shaman and got a brand new preist healer in his place.
Dread - Yah, praystation was a poorly geared healer, but anyone was better than our shaman healer. He would get mad at every single wipe and yell at people in vent. I'm so glad hes gone
- The team was never the most competitive group in the world, but they at least wanted to catch up to the other raid team in the same guild called the early crew, as they raided late at night, and were called "late crew"
Dread - I can only raid at night because I actually live in southeast asia but I play on a US server, so its the only time that isnt too too early but usually everyones asleep when I play.
- Progressing though firelands was going well even with an undergeared healer. The team was finally ready to start balroc on normal, but gear just wasnt quite there yet.
Hiru - Our ret pally isnt the best when it comes to dps. I mean his gear is fine and all, but theres no reason to ber barely above the tank every pull
Dread - Brasher is a nice guy and all, but I just wish he would pull little higher numbers.
Hiru - well its not like brasher is the only one with low dps. I also raid in the early crew and the numbers are just higher overall with roughly the same gear. The only reason I play as BM right now is because its the worst dps for hunters, and allows me to be closer to the rest of the dps, as they're pretty bad. AS BM, I'm only number 1 dps by a small margin, but if I go to any of the other specs I feel bad pulling 25% more dps than number 2
Cow - The healing has always been kind of a stuggle. its hard having to get use to a new healer every couple off weeks since we keep losing one for one reason or another
- over the corse of catacylsm, the late crew has lost 5 other healers. For a while, the original guild leader was one of the healers for late crew, but with the massive changes to healing from wrath spam, to mana conserve cata, she couldnt handle it and eventually just quit the game
hiru - Losing mojo was kind of a big deal. With her gone, we also lost a tank since her husband was our DK off tank. But man were their replacements better. Our brand new preist whos never healed before does better than mojo. But thats probably because I tought her everything she knows about healing since I heal on with the early crew on my priest.
Cow - I miss mojo, she was a great healing partner. But she did have a tendicy to go omm very early in the fight, and that was a big problem when we worked on chogall in the last teir. I pretty much had to single heal it most of the time.
Bloody - grim wasnt the best tank in the world either. I just couldnt understand how a deathknight could take so much damage. They're suppose to be one of the best tanks. Then one day, in the middle of a raid, I decided to take a look at his talents and he didnt have improved blood pressence!
- For those of you who dont know, Back in cataclysm, defense was removed as a stat, and all tanks need at least 6% reduction in crit from bosses to never be crit. It use to be with enough defense, you'd be fine. but with the stat gone, all tank specs have a talent that would just give them crit immunity, and improved blood pressence was this crit immunity for death knights
Dread - grim was a nice guy and all, but I'm sad to say started doing better with him and mojo gone.
hiru - so our raid team was in a goodish place. The new healer was undergeared, but was actually good at the game so it wasnt a big deal. Our biggest problem was dps. I even went marks for baleroc just so we could stop hitting the enrage timer.
- Now a little back story on baleroc. While not the last or even second to last boss of the raid, He was the gear check boss you needed to down in order to get to the last 2 bosses. If you could down baleroc with its tight dps check, then you had the numbers for the next two bosses.
Dread - we were hitting the enrage timer pretty frequently, but he was getting lower and lower each time so we just had to tighten things up a little more.
Cow - healing the fight wasnt a problem either, as if you did the mechnics right, you had major heals to easily keep the tanks up, as well as many classes to cheese the crystals.
Bloody - tanking the boss was pretty damn easy if I remember correctly. All you had to was taunght for like 1 ability and you would get super big and do more damage from a debuff he gave.
hiru - all was going well, and we were on track, but we knew what was keeping us behind. everyone knew, but no one would say anything, until the little incident happened.
- after another really close attempt, a wipe at around 5% health, someone mentioned in vent that maybe we just needed a little more gear, when the low dps pally finally had enough
bloody - to be honest, I was totally shocked. He's always easy going and laughing in vent.
Cow - He was the last person I would have expected to blow a fuse.
hiru - I thought it was kind of funny
- After the failed baleroc attempt, brasher, very clearly upset, yelled in vent. "lets not beat around the bush. the elephant in the room is me. I know my dps is low but I dont know how to do better. I'm just bringin you all down. You'll do a lot better if you just find a pug to replace me" he then logged off and wasn't heard from until a week later
hiru - you know, that wasnt the first time I've heard someone go off in vent after wiping a bunch, and it sure as hell wasnt the last. But it was kind of the saddest. I mean yah his dps sucked, and we downed the boss pretty quickly right after bringing a random person from the guild in who did middle of the pack dps. but you know. well, actually I dont know what to say. He did eventially switch to play a rogue for the next teir to get the legendary daggers. And when he got those, he did finally beat me in dps sometimes.
Cow - he came on like a week later and apalogized. By then we were working on the next boss and he deicied to raid on his rogue and did a lot better. But he was still the lowest dps.
Bloody - there was this one time, where he couldnt make it to raid one night in Dragon soul, but he needed the shards from the bosses so his girlfiend played his rouge for him. And you know what, she did better dps than he ever did desptie learning how to play the class that day.
hiru - omg that was so funny. Ok so, his girlfiend was our healer praystation, but we were able to get a fill in while she played his rogue. I taught her the basics of the class before the raid and she was keepng up with my hunter on most of the fights. there was like a universal agreement to not talk about the numbers when he came on the next day. Poor guy, I dont think I've ever seen someone that bad who tried so hard.
- the guild would eventually go on to defeating ragnaros and work on some heroic bosses before dragon soul came out. But that was the start of the end of the raid team. In the next episode of the dairies of a raider, we'll go back in time and talk about the start of the raid team, before going forward in time to the end.
Diaries of a raider
****Episode 1, firelands****
(make in a documentary style video)
Raid - Firelands. Our group has been going strong. We lost quite a few players over the past couple of months, but recently we finally replaced out toxic healer shaman and got a brand new preist healer in his place.
Dread - Yah, praystation was a poorly geared healer, but anyone was better than our shaman healer. He would get mad at every single wipe and yell at people in vent. I'm so glad hes gone
- The team was never the most competitive group in the world, but they at least wanted to catch up to the other raid team in the same guild called the early crew, as they raided late at night, and were called "late crew"
Dread - I can only raid at night because I actually live in southeast asia but I play on a US server, so its the only time that isnt too too early but usually everyones asleep when I play.
- Progressing though firelands was going well even with an undergeared healer. The team was finally ready to start balroc on normal, but gear just wasnt quite there yet.
Hiru - Our ret pally isnt the best when it comes to dps. I mean his gear is fine and all, but theres no reason to ber barely above the tank every pull
Dread - Brasher is a nice guy and all, but I just wish he would pull little higher numbers.
Hiru - well its not like brasher is the only one with low dps. I also raid in the early crew and the numbers are just higher overall with roughly the same gear. The only reason I play as BM right now is because its the worst dps for hunters, and allows me to be closer to the rest of the dps, as they're pretty bad. AS BM, I'm only number 1 dps by a small margin, but if I go to any of the other specs I feel bad pulling 25% more dps than number 2
Cow - The healing has always been kind of a stuggle. its hard having to get use to a new healer every couple off weeks since we keep losing one for one reason or another
- over the corse of catacylsm, the late crew has lost 5 other healers. For a while, the original guild leader was one of the healers for late crew, but with the massive changes to healing from wrath spam, to mana conserve cata, she couldnt handle it and eventually just quit the game
hiru - Losing mojo was kind of a big deal. With her gone, we also lost a tank since her husband was our DK off tank. But man were their replacements better. Our brand new preist whos never healed before does better than mojo. But thats probably because I tought her everything she knows about healing since I heal on with the early crew on my priest.
Cow - I miss mojo, she was a great healing partner. But she did have a tendicy to go omm very early in the fight, and that was a big problem when we worked on chogall in the last teir. I pretty much had to single heal it most of the time.
Bloody - grim wasnt the best tank in the world either. I just couldnt understand how a deathknight could take so much damage. They're suppose to be one of the best tanks. Then one day, in the middle of a raid, I decided to take a look at his talents and he didnt have improved blood pressence!
- For those of you who dont know, Back in cataclysm, defense was removed as a stat, and all tanks need at least 6% reduction in crit from bosses to never be crit. It use to be with enough defense, you'd be fine. but with the stat gone, all tank specs have a talent that would just give them crit immunity, and improved blood pressence was this crit immunity for death knights
Dread - grim was a nice guy and all, but I'm sad to say started doing better with him and mojo gone.
hiru - so our raid team was in a goodish place. The new healer was undergeared, but was actually good at the game so it wasnt a big deal. Our biggest problem was dps. I even went marks for baleroc just so we could stop hitting the enrage timer.
- Now a little back story on baleroc. While not the last or even second to last boss of the raid, He was the gear check boss you needed to down in order to get to the last 2 bosses. If you could down baleroc with its tight dps check, then you had the numbers for the next two bosses.
Dread - we were hitting the enrage timer pretty frequently, but he was getting lower and lower each time so we just had to tighten things up a little more.
Cow - healing the fight wasnt a problem either, as if you did the mechnics right, you had major heals to easily keep the tanks up, as well as many classes to cheese the crystals.
Bloody - tanking the boss was pretty damn easy if I remember correctly. All you had to was taunght for like 1 ability and you would get super big and do more damage from a debuff he gave.
hiru - all was going well, and we were on track, but we knew what was keeping us behind. everyone knew, but no one would say anything, until the little incident happened.
- after another really close attempt, a wipe at around 5% health, someone mentioned in vent that maybe we just needed a little more gear, when the low dps pally finally had enough
bloody - to be honest, I was totally shocked. He's always easy going and laughing in vent.
Cow - He was the last person I would have expected to blow a fuse.
hiru - I thought it was kind of funny
- After the failed baleroc attempt, brasher, very clearly upset, yelled in vent. "lets not beat around the bush. the elephant in the room is me. I know my dps is low but I dont know how to do better. I'm just bringin you all down. You'll do a lot better if you just find a pug to replace me" he then logged off and wasn't heard from until a week later
hiru - you know, that wasnt the first time I've heard someone go off in vent after wiping a bunch, and it sure as hell wasnt the last. But it was kind of the saddest. I mean yah his dps sucked, and we downed the boss pretty quickly right after bringing a random person from the guild in who did middle of the pack dps. but you know. well, actually I dont know what to say. He did eventially switch to play a rogue for the next teir to get the legendary daggers. And when he got those, he did finally beat me in dps sometimes.
Cow - he came on like a week later and apalogized. By then we were working on the next boss and he deicied to raid on his rogue and did a lot better. But he was still the lowest dps.
Bloody - there was this one time, where he couldnt make it to raid one night in Dragon soul, but he needed the shards from the bosses so his girlfiend played his rouge for him. And you know what, she did better dps than he ever did desptie learning how to play the class that day.
hiru - omg that was so funny. Ok so, his girlfiend was our healer praystation, but we were able to get a fill in while she played his rogue. I taught her the basics of the class before the raid and she was keepng up with my hunter on most of the fights. there was like a universal agreement to not talk about the numbers when he came on the next day. Poor guy, I dont think I've ever seen someone that bad who tried so hard.
- the guild would eventually go on to defeating ragnaros and work on some heroic bosses before dragon soul came out. But that was the start of the end of the raid team. In the next episode of the dairies of a raider, we'll go back in time and talk about the start of the raid team, before going forward in time to the end.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
10 Memorials and Tributes in wow
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
10 Memorials and Tributes in wow
Warning, the Following videoe is actually kinda sad
Now I know this title says 10 but I'm just gonna go ahead and ist all of them.
-Ahab Wheathoof <The Old Rancher> is a level 62 tauren quest giver located near Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore. He seems to be worried about his dog, Kyle.
He starts the quest Quest Avail 16x16Horde 15 [7] Kyle's Gone Missing!
-Caylee Dak is a level 70 elite quest ender located in the Aldor Rise in Shattrath City. he was named after a 28 year old player named Dak Krause who died of leukemia on August 22, 2007 (born March 10, 1979).
-Crusader Bridenbrad is a courageous, heroic, and humble paladin of the Argent Crusade, now infected by the Plague of Undeath. Tirion Fordring sends players on a rather elaborate mission to save him, which includes visiting several NPCs outside the zone. Bridenbrad is a tribute to Bradford Bridenbecker, the brother of Blizzard's Vice President of Online Technologies, Robert Bridenbecker. An avid player of World of Warcraft, he died from cancer in 2007
-Crildor is a level 55 elite night elf located in Darnassus. He can be found walking slowly between the Cenarion Enclave and the Temple Gardens, occasionally sitting down near a lake for a while. He offers no quests or services. Crildor, known outside of the website he moderated as Mitchel, was a Dutch Warcraft fansite moderator who died in a car crash prior to the release of WoW
-The Decorated Headstone is located in Southshore's graveyard in Hillsbrad Foothills. This is a memorial for Jesse Morales of Blizzard Entertainment who died.
-Austin Duink <Windmill of Draenor> .This NPC is a tribute to a player of the same name who died in 2013. One of his most used in-game names was Windmill.
-The Shrine of the Fallen Warrior is located on a small hill in the Barrens southwest of the Crossroads.[47, 29] To reach it, player must follow a ridge to the southeast and half-way up the hill will find the base of a mound. The short trail will lead directly to the shrine. The Shrine of the Fallen Warrior is a memorial to Michel Koiter, a Blizzard employee who died during the development of World of Warcraft. The base of the stone obelisk is engraved with the initials "MK" and the orc is an exact copy of Koiter's beta character: "twincruiser".
-Robin is a djinn found in the South Sea in Nagrand, south of Grommashar. When freed from his Ever-Burning Lamp, Robin proclaims "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!" before shrinking back down, adding "Itty bitty living space." He is named after and created in tribute to the late comedian Robin Williams, who was a fan of the Warcraft series among other video games
-Owen's Wishing Well is a small wishing well found inside the Tideview Thicket high on a bluff overlooking Jade Forest's north-central coast. The location is a reference to Brian "Owen" Wicks who visited the Blizzard Entertainment headquarters in Irvine, California on February 24, 2012 through the Make-A-Wish foundation.
10 Memorials and Tributes in wow
Warning, the Following videoe is actually kinda sad
Now I know this title says 10 but I'm just gonna go ahead and ist all of them.
-Ahab Wheathoof <The Old Rancher> is a level 62 tauren quest giver located near Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore. He seems to be worried about his dog, Kyle.
He starts the quest Quest Avail 16x16Horde 15 [7] Kyle's Gone Missing!
-Caylee Dak is a level 70 elite quest ender located in the Aldor Rise in Shattrath City. he was named after a 28 year old player named Dak Krause who died of leukemia on August 22, 2007 (born March 10, 1979).
-Crusader Bridenbrad is a courageous, heroic, and humble paladin of the Argent Crusade, now infected by the Plague of Undeath. Tirion Fordring sends players on a rather elaborate mission to save him, which includes visiting several NPCs outside the zone. Bridenbrad is a tribute to Bradford Bridenbecker, the brother of Blizzard's Vice President of Online Technologies, Robert Bridenbecker. An avid player of World of Warcraft, he died from cancer in 2007
-Crildor is a level 55 elite night elf located in Darnassus. He can be found walking slowly between the Cenarion Enclave and the Temple Gardens, occasionally sitting down near a lake for a while. He offers no quests or services. Crildor, known outside of the website he moderated as Mitchel, was a Dutch Warcraft fansite moderator who died in a car crash prior to the release of WoW
-The Decorated Headstone is located in Southshore's graveyard in Hillsbrad Foothills. This is a memorial for Jesse Morales of Blizzard Entertainment who died.
-Austin Duink <Windmill of Draenor> .This NPC is a tribute to a player of the same name who died in 2013. One of his most used in-game names was Windmill.
-The Shrine of the Fallen Warrior is located on a small hill in the Barrens southwest of the Crossroads.[47, 29] To reach it, player must follow a ridge to the southeast and half-way up the hill will find the base of a mound. The short trail will lead directly to the shrine. The Shrine of the Fallen Warrior is a memorial to Michel Koiter, a Blizzard employee who died during the development of World of Warcraft. The base of the stone obelisk is engraved with the initials "MK" and the orc is an exact copy of Koiter's beta character: "twincruiser".
-Robin is a djinn found in the South Sea in Nagrand, south of Grommashar. When freed from his Ever-Burning Lamp, Robin proclaims "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!" before shrinking back down, adding "Itty bitty living space." He is named after and created in tribute to the late comedian Robin Williams, who was a fan of the Warcraft series among other video games
-Owen's Wishing Well is a small wishing well found inside the Tideview Thicket high on a bluff overlooking Jade Forest's north-central coast. The location is a reference to Brian "Owen" Wicks who visited the Blizzard Entertainment headquarters in Irvine, California on February 24, 2012 through the Make-A-Wish foundation.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Garrison follower eaters egg References
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Garrison follower eaters egg References
Congo line thing
With the sheer amount of Garrison followers in the game, Itwould be weird if some of the names werent references to real life counterparts. Like the Tauren and Night elf followers you get as some of your very first Followers are direct references to the Tauren and Nightelf in the Vanilla wow Cinematic.
(10)The Blood elf follower Mychele MorrowSong is a reference to michelle morrow, an actress who is very active in the wow Community and plays a blood elf hunter.
(9) The follower Soulare of Andorhal, who you can get from a level 2 Inn randomly, is a reference to Solaire of Astora from darksouls. If you /praise him, he summons a sunbeam, and if you /tired him, he will give you the Wayfarer's Bonfire toy.
(8)
Olin and the night elf girl - bonus, not part of 10
Mechlle morrow
Justin timberlord
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=3320/references-to-games-in-world-of-warcraft ctrl+f "Darksouls"
-Priest (Disc.) - "Doc" Schweitzer (Alliance/Horde) - Is the Doctor from Star Trek 'Voyager' - the EMH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_%28Star_Trek:_Voyager%29
I saw this thread and that name was SO friggin' familiar... glad we figured that out.
-Pittfighter Van Damm, a Draenei Monk Alliance can get in Gorgrond, is a pretty obvious reference to an 80's action star.
-Wow, Eh? (Horde only)
Druid (Resto.) - Cadi Grasshoof
-Flintlocke vs. The Horde (Horde followers)
Hunter (Surv.) - Rok'tar
Shaman (Enh.) - Gravy
Priest (Shadow) - Calder Gray
Warlock (Demo.) - Cheri
-Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth (Alliance followers)
Warrior (Prot.) - Fargo Flintlocke
Priest (Disc.) - "Doc" Schweitzer (Alliance/Horde)
Hunter (Surv.) - Kathrena Winterwisp
Mage (Arcane) - Bloodrose
Rogue (Assassin) - Lowping
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=177/croman#comments
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=178/leeroy-jenkins
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=465/harrison-jones#comments
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=194/phylarch-the-evergreen#comments
His name likely comes from the greek word Phylarch meaning "ruler of a tribe" and the botanical term Evergreen for trees that retain their leaves.
Garrison follower eaters egg References
Congo line thing
With the sheer amount of Garrison followers in the game, Itwould be weird if some of the names werent references to real life counterparts. Like the Tauren and Night elf followers you get as some of your very first Followers are direct references to the Tauren and Nightelf in the Vanilla wow Cinematic.
(10)The Blood elf follower Mychele MorrowSong is a reference to michelle morrow, an actress who is very active in the wow Community and plays a blood elf hunter.
(9) The follower Soulare of Andorhal, who you can get from a level 2 Inn randomly, is a reference to Solaire of Astora from darksouls. If you /praise him, he summons a sunbeam, and if you /tired him, he will give you the Wayfarer's Bonfire toy.
(8)
Olin and the night elf girl - bonus, not part of 10
Mechlle morrow
Justin timberlord
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=3320/references-to-games-in-world-of-warcraft ctrl+f "Darksouls"
-Priest (Disc.) - "Doc" Schweitzer (Alliance/Horde) - Is the Doctor from Star Trek 'Voyager' - the EMH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_%28Star_Trek:_Voyager%29
I saw this thread and that name was SO friggin' familiar... glad we figured that out.
-Pittfighter Van Damm, a Draenei Monk Alliance can get in Gorgrond, is a pretty obvious reference to an 80's action star.
-Wow, Eh? (Horde only)
Druid (Resto.) - Cadi Grasshoof
-Flintlocke vs. The Horde (Horde followers)
Hunter (Surv.) - Rok'tar
Shaman (Enh.) - Gravy
Priest (Shadow) - Calder Gray
Warlock (Demo.) - Cheri
-Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth (Alliance followers)
Warrior (Prot.) - Fargo Flintlocke
Priest (Disc.) - "Doc" Schweitzer (Alliance/Horde)
Hunter (Surv.) - Kathrena Winterwisp
Mage (Arcane) - Bloodrose
Rogue (Assassin) - Lowping
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=177/croman#comments
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=178/leeroy-jenkins
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=465/harrison-jones#comments
-http://www.wowhead.com/follower=194/phylarch-the-evergreen#comments
His name likely comes from the greek word Phylarch meaning "ruler of a tribe" and the botanical term Evergreen for trees that retain their leaves.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Top 10 most influential lore villians
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Top 10 most influential lore villians
Now what exactly even is an influential lore villian? well according to a deffinition I found online; Influence is the power to change or affect someone or something : the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen. or a person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way. So for this list, we'll be focusing on people who have had affects on things in important ways. Now what exactly consitutes important anyway? well my dear viewer, I think I've already turned enough people away from the video with that little vocab lesson at the start so lets just dive into the list of 10 influential lore villians, super summurized. Because I dont really want to go into details.
-10-sargeres
-9-Yogg-saron
-8-lich king
-7-Hogger
-6-azshara
-5-deathwing
-4-Kil'jeaden,Archimonde
-3-Gul'dan
-2-garrosh
-1-illadan
-10-First off, I'll start with the most obvious lore villain, Sargers "the ereadar lord of the buring legion". Haha just kidding, hes actually a titan. So anyway, Sareras was this titan guy who took care of killing demons n such to keep order in the universe. But over time he came to relize the only constant in the universe was chaos and that he should embrace, not fight againt it. He then went about creating the burning legion and destroyed a lot of worlds n stuff.
Then about 10,000 years before the start of wow, in the war of the ancients, He got into contact with Queen Azshara and got her to try and summon him to azeroth. Summoning in wow lore takes a ton of power depending on how strong the person is that is being summoned. And since sargeres is like, the strongest of the strong it would take something like the well of eternty to make it happen.
So anyway, a big fight broke out and the world was spilt into the 4 continents and everything was peachy.Then one day he was able to summon an avatar of himself to azeroth and it was defeated by the most powerful mage in history, err actually thats a depated topic, but thats another story for another time. Anyways, he ended up taking control of medivh, who helped bring the orcs into azeroth and started the whole orcs vs humans thing.
Now I'll be mentioning sargeres a lot more later on in the list so thats why he kind of had to be number 10.
-9- Now for number 9 on this list, well I mean with sargeres at number 10 I can really just list the other lore villians in a random order now since no one can really top that. Thats why I'm gonna put an old god at number,9 the good ol Yogg-saron. Why yog and not the other old gods? good question. You see, the old gods are said to be a pretty good match for the titans, and could take control of sargeres easily if he ever did set foot on azeroth. So dont go thinking the titans are the strongest things ever. EVen though they kinda are, but people always like to bring up that one line from some book that says the old gods were able to kill a titan. Now what does that have to do with yogg? well nothing really, I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Yogg took part in the curse of flesh, the whole reason everyone on azeroth dont look like the mogu. But theres some debate as to weather or not the curse of flesh is even really that bad, as the Algalon encounter in Ulduar might suggest. So for now lets just skip that and go onto the 3 visions.
During the yog fight in uldar, you encounter 3 different visions inside the brain room.these visions show pivotal momenst in the history of Azeroth suggesting that Yogg might have
had some invovlment with these events.
-The first one being the Creation of the Dragon Soul by Deathwing and the Dragon Aspects which
resulted in the Sundering during the War of the Ancients.
-The second invovles King Llane's murder by Garona which resulted in the fall of Stormwind
and todays King Varian Wrynn's hatred towards the Horde.
-and third, Bolvar Fordragon being tortured by the Lich King
If yogg really was behind either of the first two events, then that easily gives him a spot on this list. And the vision with Bolvar and the lich kings I guess hints that he had some involvment with the lich king? I'm not sure I coulndt find any info on that. Which makes a great segway into number 8 on this list
-8- Number 8 is the lich king athas! man there is no way anyone else on this list from now on can really match the star power of sargeres, an old god, and everyones favorite villian. I should probably go back and re-werite this. nah, I'm pretty sure everyone will appertiate making all the obvious tops of the list come first. Now then, where should I get started with the lich king? that guys story is a hell of a doozey.
Oh, did you know the arthas is like the only deathknight to never die? Because on my zombie video, I think I get a comment about that fact every other day. Although thats jumping aheada little.
Arthas was a prince who went a little nuts trying to track down a dreadlord and became the lich king through a series of events that would take a really long time to explain. Then he killed a bunch of people and turned them into zombies, including 90% of the blood elf population. He then ran to northrend after being nearly killed by sylvanas, the coolest character in wow, and waited for the right expansion to make his next move.
The lich king is probably the strongest villian players can face in wow that wasnt super waekened before th fight. Well, actually that fact is debatable if you take the frozen heart quest chain into account. Plus its not like the players actually killed him anyway, it was totally a well written fluke that tirion got a sudden surge of holy power and was able to break his super sword with an equally powerful super sword.
-7- Now number 7 on this list is hogger. why hogger? well because hes kind of a joke villian that wow players love to insert everywhere. hes not an influencial lore villian at all, its just back in vanilla he was the first eleite mob human alliance players faced and talied up a big kill count as players weren't use to killing a mob that required a group of people so early in the game, and is kinda famous for that to alliance players as being the first mob they couldnt kill or got murdered several times attempting.
Now this would be a great number 10 option as he's pretty much a joke character, but I've found that if you start off with a strong, lesser known, intresting thing at number 10, something that would have otherwise been really good as a number 2 or 3 on an objective list, people are more inclined to watch the whole video rather than actually listing what would be a weak number 10. and then end off with something strong. So really everything from numbers 9 through 2 can be anything as long as you have an intresting number 10, and a well known number 1. And I dont think hogger is quiet strong enough as a number 10, so he's kinda in the middle with the rest of the fodder.
-6- Now back to the list with real lore characters, and number 6 will be Queen azshara. She is the reason we have warlocks and sargeres to worry about. Well actually it would probably be her advisor who told her about sargeres, but she is the one who put everything into action and is arguably the strongest mage to have ever lived. Remember how I said that title was debatable? well as canidates for strongest mage, We've got the queen herself, Aegwynn, Medivh, Jiana, and Current khadgar. I'll go ahead and throw jiana and Khadgar off the table right now, as they can't really hold a candle to Aegeynn. And that only leaves 3, but It's also widley excepted that Azshara was way more powerful than Aegeynn, even if there isnt a univeral consensus. And as for the queen vs medivh, well when he was being controled by sargeres its gets pretty murky on how strong he actually was, and he was able to defeat his mother Aegwynn, so in a bat off between Azshara and Sargeres controlled Medivh, that would be an intresting fight.
Ok, to get back on track. Why is the queen so influential? well, she pretty much started the war of the ancients to bring sargeres into azeroth that split the world into 4 continents. And is the queen on the naga and a potential expansion end boss in the future, as shes still alive and well with an army of naga, and old god backing her power, and, might have neptulon in her control. For those of you who dont know who neptulon is, hes like the ragnaros of water. So a pretty strong dude.
-5- Speaking of people powered by old gods, We've got Deathwing in here as number 5. Well I wouldnt say he was so much powered by old gods as much as driven insane by them. We're gonna have pretty much all of the end bosses of all the expansions on this list, in case you want to try and guess the villians coming up next.
Now Deathwhing, this guy, he was involved with a lot more stuff than just what happened in cataclysm. In addition to being the father of the second coolest character in wow (wrathion) He created the demon soul, a super powerful artifact that he tricked the other aspects into empowering under the guies that he was going to use it to stop the war of the aincets and close the giant portal. While it ultimatley did fulfil this purpose, deathwing did kill nearly the entire blue dragon flight before losing and running away. Then after some other shenanigans, the reaming 4 aspects made sure deathwing couldnt use the demon soul and hid it away until he found it 10,000 years later and led the orcs to it, who then used its power to control alexstraza and creat some neat dragon mounts for the horde during the 2nd war.
Then some stuff happened, deathwing went to outlands, fought khadgar, and wasnt heard from until the catacylsm expansion, where he decided to destroy a bunch of stuff and was killed by green jesus. I mean thrall and the 4 other aspects using the dragon soul they took from another timeline.
-4- Number 4 will be a combo pack with Archimonde and Kil'jeaden. I was orginally going to do both of them seperate, but then i was all like "nah I gotta fit hogger in somehwere". So anyway
So anyway, Kil'jeadan and archimonde and like Sargeres right hand men in the buring legion and are super powerful. Archimonde partipated in the war of the ancients 10,000 years ago and killed Malorne by snaping his neck. In case you dont know who he is, Malorne is the father of Cenarius, the creater of the druid class, and is like the god of nature. So that was a pretty big deal.
Then 10,000 years later he was summoned back to azeroth by arthas and immediatly blew up dalaran. Then went over to the world tree and got killed by wisps.
Kil'jeadan is the guy who gave the demon blood to gul'dan to give to the orcs which pretty much started everything. He also created the lich king by fusing Ner'zhul's soul to a suit of armor that allowed him to control zombies for some reason. He's also the reason illidan ran to outlands and why the whole buring crusade expansion happened. As well as being the final boss of that expansion, wehre you were bascially just trying to push him back through his portal.
-3- And number 3 on this list is Gul'dan. Cant have a villian list without mentioning this guy. Although to be fair, Kil'jeaden is totally more influential than Guldan. And so are some of the other characrters on this list below him. Well whatever, I already said I'm not really putting these guys in a proper order.
Gul'dan was kinda obssed with getting more power and boy did he ever. Its widely beleived he's the most powerful mortal warlock to ever exsist. Gul'dan tricked the orcs into drinking the demon blood and was like the Little Finger of the horde for a while. He was contacted by medivh to build a portal to azeroth in exchange for more power, which he happily did. Then during the first war, while he was inside medivhs mind, Medivh was killed which cause gul'dan to go into a coma. When he woke up, his puppet ruler was dead along with his shadow council. To not be killed by the new warchief he created the first deathknights by taking the souls of his dead men and putting them into the bodies of human knights.
He later died while trying to obtain the eye of sargeres, a super powerful artifact. But even after death he still caused trouble, because he was so strong that just holding his skull made wnyone who held it, like 10 times stronger. I think, I dont know, I made that number up. But khadgar does use the skull to destroy the dark portal in warcraft. Ner'zhul used it to pretty much turn outlands into what it is today. And illidan used it to become half demon and fight the lich king.
-2- Speaking of illidan, number 2 on this list is actually garrosh hellscream and not illidan, because hes number 1. Now garrosh, while maybe not as influential as all the villians below him, is a personal favorite of mine. I love that he went evil not because of going mad from demon stuff or old gods, but of his own free will. Even after absorbing the power of an old god, he was till the same ol asshole he always was, and uncorrupted. And at the end of his trial in warcrimes, after they spent a few hundred pages detailing all the terrible things he had done, his last words before his verdict was to laugh at everyone and say he'd do it all again if he could. Truley an unrepentent villian, he just wanted was he thought was best for the horde. Well the orcs anyway, he was kinda racist. But then again show me a race in wow that isnt racist. Hell even the most peaceful race the tauren think they're better than all the smaller races. Actually now that I think of it, drenai might be the least racist race, as their leader is like the gaundi of wow.
anyway back to garrosh, this guy has a pretty intresting story, and a pretty long one like every other character on this list. But this video is getting kind of long and I've already mentioned why I like this villian over all the other saturday morning cartoon villians on the list. Actually thats not fair, arthas is definitly a pretty cool villian too, so is gul'dan. that guy just wanted more power. And illidan, he just wanted tryande's love. Speaking of illidan.
-1- Number 1 on this list is the love struck villian himself, illidan. I guess you could say he was..not prepared..(obvious fake laughter). ok that wasnt even a good pun. If you dislike this video for that I totally understand. Now then, why do I have illidan at the top of the list? Well, I've already firmly established that I'm putting the characters in a random order many other times in the video so you shouldnt be all that surprised. What it really comes down to is my personal favorites now. And I persoanlly love illidans abbs. I mean look at them, its like hes does cross fit or something. Plus his tatoos just really make his muscles look even more refined. If I were to rate all the villians on this list in appearance, illidan would be like an 11 out of 10. Why tyrande picked malfurion over Illidan is probably the biggest mystery in wow. I mean, look at malfurion. He's got like dumb wings or some shit. Plus antlers and a gross green beard. And illidan gots the six pack of the centry, plus the coolest weapons in the game. If this was real life, theres no way in hell someone would pick malfurion over Illidan. Illidans just too hot.
So why is Illidan so influential? well compared to everyone else on this list, hes not really. I mean, hes influential enough to be on the list, but everyone else on this list has done more than him. Except hogger, he totally beats out hogger.
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And thats it for my influential lore villians video. If you want to know more about any of the villians on this list, since I pretty much gave the cliff notes on their history, I suggest just watching one of Nobbel87's videos on any of these guys, since that guys goes into more detail than an encyclopedia. Plus hes got an awesome accent that makes your panties wet. I'd also like to thank Ethan Macauley for his wonderful help in research gathering. Really made writing this video like 10 times easier. And TobyWow for helping me edit. And of course, my patreon supporters for picking this video idea.
Top 10 most influential lore villians
Now what exactly even is an influential lore villian? well according to a deffinition I found online; Influence is the power to change or affect someone or something : the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen. or a person or thing that affects someone or something in an important way. So for this list, we'll be focusing on people who have had affects on things in important ways. Now what exactly consitutes important anyway? well my dear viewer, I think I've already turned enough people away from the video with that little vocab lesson at the start so lets just dive into the list of 10 influential lore villians, super summurized. Because I dont really want to go into details.
-10-sargeres
-9-Yogg-saron
-8-lich king
-7-Hogger
-6-azshara
-5-deathwing
-4-Kil'jeaden,Archimonde
-3-Gul'dan
-2-garrosh
-1-illadan
-10-First off, I'll start with the most obvious lore villain, Sargers "the ereadar lord of the buring legion". Haha just kidding, hes actually a titan. So anyway, Sareras was this titan guy who took care of killing demons n such to keep order in the universe. But over time he came to relize the only constant in the universe was chaos and that he should embrace, not fight againt it. He then went about creating the burning legion and destroyed a lot of worlds n stuff.
Then about 10,000 years before the start of wow, in the war of the ancients, He got into contact with Queen Azshara and got her to try and summon him to azeroth. Summoning in wow lore takes a ton of power depending on how strong the person is that is being summoned. And since sargeres is like, the strongest of the strong it would take something like the well of eternty to make it happen.
So anyway, a big fight broke out and the world was spilt into the 4 continents and everything was peachy.Then one day he was able to summon an avatar of himself to azeroth and it was defeated by the most powerful mage in history, err actually thats a depated topic, but thats another story for another time. Anyways, he ended up taking control of medivh, who helped bring the orcs into azeroth and started the whole orcs vs humans thing.
Now I'll be mentioning sargeres a lot more later on in the list so thats why he kind of had to be number 10.
-9- Now for number 9 on this list, well I mean with sargeres at number 10 I can really just list the other lore villians in a random order now since no one can really top that. Thats why I'm gonna put an old god at number,9 the good ol Yogg-saron. Why yog and not the other old gods? good question. You see, the old gods are said to be a pretty good match for the titans, and could take control of sargeres easily if he ever did set foot on azeroth. So dont go thinking the titans are the strongest things ever. EVen though they kinda are, but people always like to bring up that one line from some book that says the old gods were able to kill a titan. Now what does that have to do with yogg? well nothing really, I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Yogg took part in the curse of flesh, the whole reason everyone on azeroth dont look like the mogu. But theres some debate as to weather or not the curse of flesh is even really that bad, as the Algalon encounter in Ulduar might suggest. So for now lets just skip that and go onto the 3 visions.
During the yog fight in uldar, you encounter 3 different visions inside the brain room.these visions show pivotal momenst in the history of Azeroth suggesting that Yogg might have
had some invovlment with these events.
-The first one being the Creation of the Dragon Soul by Deathwing and the Dragon Aspects which
resulted in the Sundering during the War of the Ancients.
-The second invovles King Llane's murder by Garona which resulted in the fall of Stormwind
and todays King Varian Wrynn's hatred towards the Horde.
-and third, Bolvar Fordragon being tortured by the Lich King
If yogg really was behind either of the first two events, then that easily gives him a spot on this list. And the vision with Bolvar and the lich kings I guess hints that he had some involvment with the lich king? I'm not sure I coulndt find any info on that. Which makes a great segway into number 8 on this list
-8- Number 8 is the lich king athas! man there is no way anyone else on this list from now on can really match the star power of sargeres, an old god, and everyones favorite villian. I should probably go back and re-werite this. nah, I'm pretty sure everyone will appertiate making all the obvious tops of the list come first. Now then, where should I get started with the lich king? that guys story is a hell of a doozey.
Oh, did you know the arthas is like the only deathknight to never die? Because on my zombie video, I think I get a comment about that fact every other day. Although thats jumping aheada little.
Arthas was a prince who went a little nuts trying to track down a dreadlord and became the lich king through a series of events that would take a really long time to explain. Then he killed a bunch of people and turned them into zombies, including 90% of the blood elf population. He then ran to northrend after being nearly killed by sylvanas, the coolest character in wow, and waited for the right expansion to make his next move.
The lich king is probably the strongest villian players can face in wow that wasnt super waekened before th fight. Well, actually that fact is debatable if you take the frozen heart quest chain into account. Plus its not like the players actually killed him anyway, it was totally a well written fluke that tirion got a sudden surge of holy power and was able to break his super sword with an equally powerful super sword.
-7- Now number 7 on this list is hogger. why hogger? well because hes kind of a joke villian that wow players love to insert everywhere. hes not an influencial lore villian at all, its just back in vanilla he was the first eleite mob human alliance players faced and talied up a big kill count as players weren't use to killing a mob that required a group of people so early in the game, and is kinda famous for that to alliance players as being the first mob they couldnt kill or got murdered several times attempting.
Now this would be a great number 10 option as he's pretty much a joke character, but I've found that if you start off with a strong, lesser known, intresting thing at number 10, something that would have otherwise been really good as a number 2 or 3 on an objective list, people are more inclined to watch the whole video rather than actually listing what would be a weak number 10. and then end off with something strong. So really everything from numbers 9 through 2 can be anything as long as you have an intresting number 10, and a well known number 1. And I dont think hogger is quiet strong enough as a number 10, so he's kinda in the middle with the rest of the fodder.
-6- Now back to the list with real lore characters, and number 6 will be Queen azshara. She is the reason we have warlocks and sargeres to worry about. Well actually it would probably be her advisor who told her about sargeres, but she is the one who put everything into action and is arguably the strongest mage to have ever lived. Remember how I said that title was debatable? well as canidates for strongest mage, We've got the queen herself, Aegwynn, Medivh, Jiana, and Current khadgar. I'll go ahead and throw jiana and Khadgar off the table right now, as they can't really hold a candle to Aegeynn. And that only leaves 3, but It's also widley excepted that Azshara was way more powerful than Aegeynn, even if there isnt a univeral consensus. And as for the queen vs medivh, well when he was being controled by sargeres its gets pretty murky on how strong he actually was, and he was able to defeat his mother Aegwynn, so in a bat off between Azshara and Sargeres controlled Medivh, that would be an intresting fight.
Ok, to get back on track. Why is the queen so influential? well, she pretty much started the war of the ancients to bring sargeres into azeroth that split the world into 4 continents. And is the queen on the naga and a potential expansion end boss in the future, as shes still alive and well with an army of naga, and old god backing her power, and, might have neptulon in her control. For those of you who dont know who neptulon is, hes like the ragnaros of water. So a pretty strong dude.
-5- Speaking of people powered by old gods, We've got Deathwing in here as number 5. Well I wouldnt say he was so much powered by old gods as much as driven insane by them. We're gonna have pretty much all of the end bosses of all the expansions on this list, in case you want to try and guess the villians coming up next.
Now Deathwhing, this guy, he was involved with a lot more stuff than just what happened in cataclysm. In addition to being the father of the second coolest character in wow (wrathion) He created the demon soul, a super powerful artifact that he tricked the other aspects into empowering under the guies that he was going to use it to stop the war of the aincets and close the giant portal. While it ultimatley did fulfil this purpose, deathwing did kill nearly the entire blue dragon flight before losing and running away. Then after some other shenanigans, the reaming 4 aspects made sure deathwing couldnt use the demon soul and hid it away until he found it 10,000 years later and led the orcs to it, who then used its power to control alexstraza and creat some neat dragon mounts for the horde during the 2nd war.
Then some stuff happened, deathwing went to outlands, fought khadgar, and wasnt heard from until the catacylsm expansion, where he decided to destroy a bunch of stuff and was killed by green jesus. I mean thrall and the 4 other aspects using the dragon soul they took from another timeline.
-4- Number 4 will be a combo pack with Archimonde and Kil'jeaden. I was orginally going to do both of them seperate, but then i was all like "nah I gotta fit hogger in somehwere". So anyway
So anyway, Kil'jeadan and archimonde and like Sargeres right hand men in the buring legion and are super powerful. Archimonde partipated in the war of the ancients 10,000 years ago and killed Malorne by snaping his neck. In case you dont know who he is, Malorne is the father of Cenarius, the creater of the druid class, and is like the god of nature. So that was a pretty big deal.
Then 10,000 years later he was summoned back to azeroth by arthas and immediatly blew up dalaran. Then went over to the world tree and got killed by wisps.
Kil'jeadan is the guy who gave the demon blood to gul'dan to give to the orcs which pretty much started everything. He also created the lich king by fusing Ner'zhul's soul to a suit of armor that allowed him to control zombies for some reason. He's also the reason illidan ran to outlands and why the whole buring crusade expansion happened. As well as being the final boss of that expansion, wehre you were bascially just trying to push him back through his portal.
-3- And number 3 on this list is Gul'dan. Cant have a villian list without mentioning this guy. Although to be fair, Kil'jeaden is totally more influential than Guldan. And so are some of the other characrters on this list below him. Well whatever, I already said I'm not really putting these guys in a proper order.
Gul'dan was kinda obssed with getting more power and boy did he ever. Its widely beleived he's the most powerful mortal warlock to ever exsist. Gul'dan tricked the orcs into drinking the demon blood and was like the Little Finger of the horde for a while. He was contacted by medivh to build a portal to azeroth in exchange for more power, which he happily did. Then during the first war, while he was inside medivhs mind, Medivh was killed which cause gul'dan to go into a coma. When he woke up, his puppet ruler was dead along with his shadow council. To not be killed by the new warchief he created the first deathknights by taking the souls of his dead men and putting them into the bodies of human knights.
He later died while trying to obtain the eye of sargeres, a super powerful artifact. But even after death he still caused trouble, because he was so strong that just holding his skull made wnyone who held it, like 10 times stronger. I think, I dont know, I made that number up. But khadgar does use the skull to destroy the dark portal in warcraft. Ner'zhul used it to pretty much turn outlands into what it is today. And illidan used it to become half demon and fight the lich king.
-2- Speaking of illidan, number 2 on this list is actually garrosh hellscream and not illidan, because hes number 1. Now garrosh, while maybe not as influential as all the villians below him, is a personal favorite of mine. I love that he went evil not because of going mad from demon stuff or old gods, but of his own free will. Even after absorbing the power of an old god, he was till the same ol asshole he always was, and uncorrupted. And at the end of his trial in warcrimes, after they spent a few hundred pages detailing all the terrible things he had done, his last words before his verdict was to laugh at everyone and say he'd do it all again if he could. Truley an unrepentent villian, he just wanted was he thought was best for the horde. Well the orcs anyway, he was kinda racist. But then again show me a race in wow that isnt racist. Hell even the most peaceful race the tauren think they're better than all the smaller races. Actually now that I think of it, drenai might be the least racist race, as their leader is like the gaundi of wow.
anyway back to garrosh, this guy has a pretty intresting story, and a pretty long one like every other character on this list. But this video is getting kind of long and I've already mentioned why I like this villian over all the other saturday morning cartoon villians on the list. Actually thats not fair, arthas is definitly a pretty cool villian too, so is gul'dan. that guy just wanted more power. And illidan, he just wanted tryande's love. Speaking of illidan.
-1- Number 1 on this list is the love struck villian himself, illidan. I guess you could say he was..not prepared..(obvious fake laughter). ok that wasnt even a good pun. If you dislike this video for that I totally understand. Now then, why do I have illidan at the top of the list? Well, I've already firmly established that I'm putting the characters in a random order many other times in the video so you shouldnt be all that surprised. What it really comes down to is my personal favorites now. And I persoanlly love illidans abbs. I mean look at them, its like hes does cross fit or something. Plus his tatoos just really make his muscles look even more refined. If I were to rate all the villians on this list in appearance, illidan would be like an 11 out of 10. Why tyrande picked malfurion over Illidan is probably the biggest mystery in wow. I mean, look at malfurion. He's got like dumb wings or some shit. Plus antlers and a gross green beard. And illidan gots the six pack of the centry, plus the coolest weapons in the game. If this was real life, theres no way in hell someone would pick malfurion over Illidan. Illidans just too hot.
So why is Illidan so influential? well compared to everyone else on this list, hes not really. I mean, hes influential enough to be on the list, but everyone else on this list has done more than him. Except hogger, he totally beats out hogger.
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And thats it for my influential lore villians video. If you want to know more about any of the villians on this list, since I pretty much gave the cliff notes on their history, I suggest just watching one of Nobbel87's videos on any of these guys, since that guys goes into more detail than an encyclopedia. Plus hes got an awesome accent that makes your panties wet. I'd also like to thank Ethan Macauley for his wonderful help in research gathering. Really made writing this video like 10 times easier. And TobyWow for helping me edit. And of course, my patreon supporters for picking this video idea.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Top 10 Reasons Alliance sucks
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Top 10 Reasons Alliance sucks
Reason number 10, only kids play alliance
(there is nothing else, that was the whole script)
Top 10 Reasons Alliance sucks
Reason number 10, only kids play alliance
(there is nothing else, that was the whole script)
Monday, January 21, 2019
The Nature Zone, Ungoro Crater
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
The Nature Zone, Ungoro Crater
(try to imitate that one British guys voice from all those nature documentary)
Hello, and welcome to another exciting episode of the nature zone. A show in which we brave the wild in search, of some of Azeroths most exotic animals. I have Hemet Nesingwary with me, a famous hunter in his own right, to keep me safe in the event that one of these dangerous beasts decide to attack me.
First, we'll be taking a look at the diemetradon. This exquisite Beats resembles a very large lizard. It has 6 legs, for double the running capability, allowing it to catch down any prey that has the misfortune to cross its field of view. It also has these immense red spiky things coming out of its back, I'd guess to intimidate foes and attract mates. It also has a very strong jaw with 2 very long sharp teeth in its lower jaw to shred its prey into smithereens. I'm going to throw a rock at it.
(show quick shot of nesingwary saying 'wat?' real quick)
(screaming these lines)
YOU STUPID ANIMAL! I HATE YOU, YOUR MOM NEVER LOVED YOU. SHES WISHES YOU WERE AN ABORTION. YOU NEVER HAD ANYTHING BUT SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND NEVER FORMED CLOSE PERSONAL BONDS WITH ANYONE.
(the animal starts to attack the announcer)
Ahh it appears the beast is attacking me for no reason, hurry Hemet, shoot the beast
(pow)
Whew that was close. But that's a predetary beast for you
-Why did you throw a rock at it
I didnt throw a rock at it
-I clearly saw you throw a rock, and then verbally provoke it
I did no such thing, it attacked me of its own volition. Its a good thing you were here to save me
-ugh, whatever, just dont do it again.
I'd never dream of provoking such a dangerous animal.
(next scene)
The next exquisite animal on our adventure is the Ravasaur Runner, the fastest spieces of Ravasaur there is. These thing are capable of running up to 50 miles per hour and have very sharp claws and strong jaws to instantly disable their preys. It's also blue (throws a rock at the raptor)
(screaming)
TAKE THAT YOU STUPID ANIMAL. You must have been born on a highway, because that's where most accidents happen.
If you were twice as smart, you'd still be stupid.
(animal runs after announcer)
AHH shoot it, shoot it! its attacking me
(pow)
Whew, that was another close one, I need to be more careful today.
-I'm not stopping any other attacks if you keep provoking them
I would never dream of provoking an animal
...
The Devilsaur Queen, the true king, or Queen I should say of the jungle. A truly magnificent creature standing in at almost 20 feet tall of pure muscle. (throws a rock at it)
YOU STUPID ANIMAL! YOUR WORTHLESS, YOUR GARBAGE, NO ONE WILL EVER REMEMBER THAT YOU EVEN EXISTED. YOU'VE WASTED YOUR POTENTIAL AND DONE NOTHING WITH YOUR LIFE.
(devilsaur starts attack announcer)
Aww! its coming after me for no reason, quick shoot it!
...
(gets eaten)
-death noises-
Camera man, grab his gun and shoot this beast
...
If I die neither of you get paid!
(man dies)
-fades to black-
On the next exciting episode of the Nature Zone! (show announcers funeral) So tune in next week to see the exciting conclusion!
The Nature Zone, Ungoro Crater
(try to imitate that one British guys voice from all those nature documentary)
Hello, and welcome to another exciting episode of the nature zone. A show in which we brave the wild in search, of some of Azeroths most exotic animals. I have Hemet Nesingwary with me, a famous hunter in his own right, to keep me safe in the event that one of these dangerous beasts decide to attack me.
First, we'll be taking a look at the diemetradon. This exquisite Beats resembles a very large lizard. It has 6 legs, for double the running capability, allowing it to catch down any prey that has the misfortune to cross its field of view. It also has these immense red spiky things coming out of its back, I'd guess to intimidate foes and attract mates. It also has a very strong jaw with 2 very long sharp teeth in its lower jaw to shred its prey into smithereens. I'm going to throw a rock at it.
(show quick shot of nesingwary saying 'wat?' real quick)
(screaming these lines)
YOU STUPID ANIMAL! I HATE YOU, YOUR MOM NEVER LOVED YOU. SHES WISHES YOU WERE AN ABORTION. YOU NEVER HAD ANYTHING BUT SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND NEVER FORMED CLOSE PERSONAL BONDS WITH ANYONE.
(the animal starts to attack the announcer)
Ahh it appears the beast is attacking me for no reason, hurry Hemet, shoot the beast
(pow)
Whew that was close. But that's a predetary beast for you
-Why did you throw a rock at it
I didnt throw a rock at it
-I clearly saw you throw a rock, and then verbally provoke it
I did no such thing, it attacked me of its own volition. Its a good thing you were here to save me
-ugh, whatever, just dont do it again.
I'd never dream of provoking such a dangerous animal.
(next scene)
The next exquisite animal on our adventure is the Ravasaur Runner, the fastest spieces of Ravasaur there is. These thing are capable of running up to 50 miles per hour and have very sharp claws and strong jaws to instantly disable their preys. It's also blue (throws a rock at the raptor)
(screaming)
TAKE THAT YOU STUPID ANIMAL. You must have been born on a highway, because that's where most accidents happen.
If you were twice as smart, you'd still be stupid.
(animal runs after announcer)
AHH shoot it, shoot it! its attacking me
(pow)
Whew, that was another close one, I need to be more careful today.
-I'm not stopping any other attacks if you keep provoking them
I would never dream of provoking an animal
...
The Devilsaur Queen, the true king, or Queen I should say of the jungle. A truly magnificent creature standing in at almost 20 feet tall of pure muscle. (throws a rock at it)
YOU STUPID ANIMAL! YOUR WORTHLESS, YOUR GARBAGE, NO ONE WILL EVER REMEMBER THAT YOU EVEN EXISTED. YOU'VE WASTED YOUR POTENTIAL AND DONE NOTHING WITH YOUR LIFE.
(devilsaur starts attack announcer)
Aww! its coming after me for no reason, quick shoot it!
...
(gets eaten)
-death noises-
Camera man, grab his gun and shoot this beast
...
If I die neither of you get paid!
(man dies)
-fades to black-
On the next exciting episode of the Nature Zone! (show announcers funeral) So tune in next week to see the exciting conclusion!
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
How to heal 101
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
How to heal 101
I've been healing for quite some time and I truly enjoy it more than DPS or tanking. Why? because after doing 100 attempts on the same boss as a dps I would get so bored doing the same rotation all the time while he healing would change a little everytime. I like the unpredictable nature of healing and having to react to situations rather than just following cooldowns and procs.
I was asked by a few of my subs to make a guide on how to heal for begginers and this will be that video. It'll be very basic, so dont expect to much if you've already healed before and your watching this for tips.
First off, change your mindset.its not your job to kill stuff but to keep people alive. There is no rotation, there are only different heals you use in different situations and with practice you'll find out which ones they are. That being said you also dont pop cooldowns just because they're availbe like you do as a dps and thats probably the hardest things for new healers to learn. Since they dont use their cooldowns off cooldown like they have been they tend to just forget they exist and never use them. With practice you'll change that mindset so dont worry.
Your going to have to learn how to manage your mana. Mana is something dpsers largley do not have to worry about anymore, but is still a very big concer for healers. All healers have moves that heal for a lot quickly at the cost of high mana costs. Usually you only use those flash heals in emergencies because if you use them regularly you'll go oom. Also you can't just spam your cheap heals all the time because they do not heal for a lot. You have to find a balance.
Learn what your instant cast heals are. All healers need someone to heal while moving because you dont have the luxuray to just stand still all the time.
Know the difference between your aoe heals and single target spells and how to use them. All healers have aoe spells and they all work a little differently. If everyone is spread out and moving all the time, then your healing rain might not be the most useful since its just stays at one fixed point. If however you get to stack up and still still for a long time then you should try and keep it up as long as possible.
Don't forget to keep yourself alive. While tanks are the most important person in the group, they rely on you to keep them alive. One issues a lot of new healing players have is that they forgot to monitor their own health.
Positioning. Know where all your dps and tanks are at all times. If your an avid pvper than your probably already a pro at this. Its your job now to make sure you have everyone in range of you to heal at all times, unless they absolutly have to be out of range for whatever reason.
How to heal 101
I've been healing for quite some time and I truly enjoy it more than DPS or tanking. Why? because after doing 100 attempts on the same boss as a dps I would get so bored doing the same rotation all the time while he healing would change a little everytime. I like the unpredictable nature of healing and having to react to situations rather than just following cooldowns and procs.
I was asked by a few of my subs to make a guide on how to heal for begginers and this will be that video. It'll be very basic, so dont expect to much if you've already healed before and your watching this for tips.
First off, change your mindset.its not your job to kill stuff but to keep people alive. There is no rotation, there are only different heals you use in different situations and with practice you'll find out which ones they are. That being said you also dont pop cooldowns just because they're availbe like you do as a dps and thats probably the hardest things for new healers to learn. Since they dont use their cooldowns off cooldown like they have been they tend to just forget they exist and never use them. With practice you'll change that mindset so dont worry.
Your going to have to learn how to manage your mana. Mana is something dpsers largley do not have to worry about anymore, but is still a very big concer for healers. All healers have moves that heal for a lot quickly at the cost of high mana costs. Usually you only use those flash heals in emergencies because if you use them regularly you'll go oom. Also you can't just spam your cheap heals all the time because they do not heal for a lot. You have to find a balance.
Learn what your instant cast heals are. All healers need someone to heal while moving because you dont have the luxuray to just stand still all the time.
Know the difference between your aoe heals and single target spells and how to use them. All healers have aoe spells and they all work a little differently. If everyone is spread out and moving all the time, then your healing rain might not be the most useful since its just stays at one fixed point. If however you get to stack up and still still for a long time then you should try and keep it up as long as possible.
Don't forget to keep yourself alive. While tanks are the most important person in the group, they rely on you to keep them alive. One issues a lot of new healing players have is that they forgot to monitor their own health.
Positioning. Know where all your dps and tanks are at all times. If your an avid pvper than your probably already a pro at this. Its your job now to make sure you have everyone in range of you to heal at all times, unless they absolutly have to be out of range for whatever reason.
Monday, December 31, 2018
10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Now, towards the end of wrath and all throughout Cata I was one of, if not the largest supplier of goods on my relms auction house. A lot has changed though from those days, But some of the basics of gold making are still the same..
Now for making gold while leveling Weather it be a new toon on a different server or your 9th alt, its all the same.
1.)First off, if you plan on leveling by doing quests take 2 gathering proffessions. Once you hit max level you'll unlearn them and get 2 real proffession.
There are 3 gathering proffessions to choose from, Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Which two are best depends on your server. Generally you want to take skinning with either mining of herbing, because if you take both herbing and mining you'll spend most of your time doing your quests gathering and running from one node to the other. So which one you pick is pretty much personal preference, low level herbs sell well because alchemy is such a good proffession to level on multiple toons at max level and they need low level herbs to skill up. Same with mining. Blacksmithing and Jewel crafting are 2 really good proffessions at max level and they need tons of low level ore to skill up. When you sell the ore sell both the ore raw and bars. Un-smelted ore, or "raw ore" will sell faster and in bigger numbers.Bars can be sold for more gold, but they do not sell as fast as ore and you won't be able to sell as many. Herbs on the other hand you just sell as is, scribes who mill the herbs just strait up buy herbs, but rarely do they buy low level herbs to mill, almost all sales for low level herbs are for leveling alchemy. And finally skinning, low level leather, like herbs and ore, sell very well.
If you plan on leveling through dungeons, then take enchanting and tailoring. Enchanting to Disenchant low level items, the materials you get sell well, especcially gear that's DE'ed in the 50-60 level area before outlands. Most people go strait to outlands at level 56 so high level mats from before BC stuff is rare. Tailoring is because you'll be getting a lot of cloth from dungeons and you can level it up as you go cheaper, then when you hit BC levels of tailoring you can make netherweave bags which sell well all the time. Alternatly you can take skinning in place of tailoring because some dungeons do have beast you can skin.
2.)While leveling check all vendors for recipes. People are lazy and would rather pay 10g for a recipe on the auction house rather than fly out to the vendor and buy it for 50c. Same with vendor pets, but not bags. Do not buy bags from vendors to flip on the Auction house. They cost way to much and do not sell well at all. "Flip" of course, means to buy low and sell high.
3.)Now when it comes to posting on the Auction house, always sell raw materials, meaning your ore, herbs, leather, and enchanting materials in stacks of 20 or whatever the highest you can get the stacks. If someone is going to buy some mats, "mats" being short for materials, that they need, then they are just going to buy whatever is cheaper. If all they need is 4 ore, they'll buy your whole stack 9 times out of 10.
When undercutting your competion, simply undercut by 1c. People will always buy whatever is cheaper and if you have 10 stacks of ore 1c cheaper then the guy who has 20 stacks of ore posted, 90% of the time they'll buy your ore first. The only reason to ever undercut by more than a copper is when you are deliberatly trying to tank a market. What that involes is posting an item way below everyone else in the hopes that your competition will undercut you at that low price. Then you simple cancle all your auctions and buy everything your compition posted and repost your items along with your new stock at higher prices than normal for a quick profit.
4.)buy the 16 slot bags from the AH whenever you have the gold to do so. Having bigger bags means less time running back to town to empty them which in tail gives you more time to level. Also if you plan on leveling in any other way besides dungeon grinding or questing then your going to be poor when you hit 90.
5.)Never vender greens. Ever. Post all of them on the AH. Even the crappy stat ones will fetch you more from people leveling up enchanting than you would get form a vender. Same goes for cloth, its worth more to other people than you can get from the vendor.
6.)Make a banker toon. Now this may seem very obvious and I'm sure 99% of the players already have one, but if your a new player watching this and you dont have one you should. A banker is another character whos is made for the sole purpose of sitting in a major city next to a mailbox close to an auctioneer. Having a banker allows you to just mail your stuff to your banker instead of going back to a major city to sell your stuff. Time is money afterall
7.) farming does not mean free. Farming of course, means using a gathering profession to go out and gather a ton of materials or grinding for a rare drop. Farming takes time, and is only free if you absolutley do not value your time. This is a common misconception made by people who are starting out in gold making.
8.)If I dont farm, how do I make gold then? you might ask yourself since all my tips before where for new players essentially. Well there are many ways but the most commone way is through crafting professions. Jewelcrafting and Enchanting being the higest earners.
9.) if your a blacksmith, make belt buckles. Belt buckles always sell like hot cakes. if your an engineer, make mecho hogs and pets. Beleive it or not people still buy those. if your a tailor, make bags and spell threads. If your a leather worker, leg enchants are the way to go. Alchemy is all about using your transmute cooldowns because potions and flasks do not sell well and rarely will you make a profit off of them. Before cata, glyphs use to be up there with enchating and jewelcrafting in terms of money making, now its barely better than leather working or alchemy in the gold making department. Fortune cookies however, still sell pretty well. People love to gamble.
10.) Learn how to do the truffle shuffle. The ore shuffle actually. Bascically all it entails is buying cheap ore whenever you can find it, prospecting all of it, and useing the gems for transmutes and making necklances and rings to DE. The ore shuffle should give you all the mats you need for enchanting and jewelcrafting, the two biggest money makers.
10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Now, towards the end of wrath and all throughout Cata I was one of, if not the largest supplier of goods on my relms auction house. A lot has changed though from those days, But some of the basics of gold making are still the same..
Now for making gold while leveling Weather it be a new toon on a different server or your 9th alt, its all the same.
1.)First off, if you plan on leveling by doing quests take 2 gathering proffessions. Once you hit max level you'll unlearn them and get 2 real proffession.
There are 3 gathering proffessions to choose from, Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Which two are best depends on your server. Generally you want to take skinning with either mining of herbing, because if you take both herbing and mining you'll spend most of your time doing your quests gathering and running from one node to the other. So which one you pick is pretty much personal preference, low level herbs sell well because alchemy is such a good proffession to level on multiple toons at max level and they need low level herbs to skill up. Same with mining. Blacksmithing and Jewel crafting are 2 really good proffessions at max level and they need tons of low level ore to skill up. When you sell the ore sell both the ore raw and bars. Un-smelted ore, or "raw ore" will sell faster and in bigger numbers.Bars can be sold for more gold, but they do not sell as fast as ore and you won't be able to sell as many. Herbs on the other hand you just sell as is, scribes who mill the herbs just strait up buy herbs, but rarely do they buy low level herbs to mill, almost all sales for low level herbs are for leveling alchemy. And finally skinning, low level leather, like herbs and ore, sell very well.
If you plan on leveling through dungeons, then take enchanting and tailoring. Enchanting to Disenchant low level items, the materials you get sell well, especcially gear that's DE'ed in the 50-60 level area before outlands. Most people go strait to outlands at level 56 so high level mats from before BC stuff is rare. Tailoring is because you'll be getting a lot of cloth from dungeons and you can level it up as you go cheaper, then when you hit BC levels of tailoring you can make netherweave bags which sell well all the time. Alternatly you can take skinning in place of tailoring because some dungeons do have beast you can skin.
2.)While leveling check all vendors for recipes. People are lazy and would rather pay 10g for a recipe on the auction house rather than fly out to the vendor and buy it for 50c. Same with vendor pets, but not bags. Do not buy bags from vendors to flip on the Auction house. They cost way to much and do not sell well at all. "Flip" of course, means to buy low and sell high.
3.)Now when it comes to posting on the Auction house, always sell raw materials, meaning your ore, herbs, leather, and enchanting materials in stacks of 20 or whatever the highest you can get the stacks. If someone is going to buy some mats, "mats" being short for materials, that they need, then they are just going to buy whatever is cheaper. If all they need is 4 ore, they'll buy your whole stack 9 times out of 10.
When undercutting your competion, simply undercut by 1c. People will always buy whatever is cheaper and if you have 10 stacks of ore 1c cheaper then the guy who has 20 stacks of ore posted, 90% of the time they'll buy your ore first. The only reason to ever undercut by more than a copper is when you are deliberatly trying to tank a market. What that involes is posting an item way below everyone else in the hopes that your competition will undercut you at that low price. Then you simple cancle all your auctions and buy everything your compition posted and repost your items along with your new stock at higher prices than normal for a quick profit.
4.)buy the 16 slot bags from the AH whenever you have the gold to do so. Having bigger bags means less time running back to town to empty them which in tail gives you more time to level. Also if you plan on leveling in any other way besides dungeon grinding or questing then your going to be poor when you hit 90.
5.)Never vender greens. Ever. Post all of them on the AH. Even the crappy stat ones will fetch you more from people leveling up enchanting than you would get form a vender. Same goes for cloth, its worth more to other people than you can get from the vendor.
6.)Make a banker toon. Now this may seem very obvious and I'm sure 99% of the players already have one, but if your a new player watching this and you dont have one you should. A banker is another character whos is made for the sole purpose of sitting in a major city next to a mailbox close to an auctioneer. Having a banker allows you to just mail your stuff to your banker instead of going back to a major city to sell your stuff. Time is money afterall
7.) farming does not mean free. Farming of course, means using a gathering profession to go out and gather a ton of materials or grinding for a rare drop. Farming takes time, and is only free if you absolutley do not value your time. This is a common misconception made by people who are starting out in gold making.
8.)If I dont farm, how do I make gold then? you might ask yourself since all my tips before where for new players essentially. Well there are many ways but the most commone way is through crafting professions. Jewelcrafting and Enchanting being the higest earners.
9.) if your a blacksmith, make belt buckles. Belt buckles always sell like hot cakes. if your an engineer, make mecho hogs and pets. Beleive it or not people still buy those. if your a tailor, make bags and spell threads. If your a leather worker, leg enchants are the way to go. Alchemy is all about using your transmute cooldowns because potions and flasks do not sell well and rarely will you make a profit off of them. Before cata, glyphs use to be up there with enchating and jewelcrafting in terms of money making, now its barely better than leather working or alchemy in the gold making department. Fortune cookies however, still sell pretty well. People love to gamble.
10.) Learn how to do the truffle shuffle. The ore shuffle actually. Bascically all it entails is buying cheap ore whenever you can find it, prospecting all of it, and useing the gems for transmutes and making necklances and rings to DE. The ore shuffle should give you all the mats you need for enchanting and jewelcrafting, the two biggest money makers.
Monday, December 24, 2018
My warcraft story
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
My warcraft story
-wow was an escape, but not for the usual reasons
-played other mmos first, talk about those
-little brother asked me to install it
-guy from work recommended it
-mulgore was first zone
In order to tell the story on how I got into world of Warcraft, and then started making a living making videos on the game, I have to first talk about pokemon.
When I was in 4th grade, a friend of mine name Jose got Pokemon blue and let me borrow it. I had a gameboy color and only 1 game on it, so I was super excited to try out something new. So I go onto pokemon blue and just start exploring the world. I think my friend had already chosen a starter and only got to the first town, so it was pretty close to the start of the game. So I took my bulbasaur and pidgeys and started just grinding levels. It was my first time ever playing an rpg and I loved going up in levels and getting new abilities, plus the eveolutions were pretty sick too. I gave the game back to my friend a few times and he was happy that I had gotten so many levels for his pokemon, that he just kept letting me borrow it until I beat the game for him basically. When I finally got around to the eleite four, my venasaur was at like level 80 something and I swept through them all pretty easily on my first try. Because I had just out-leveled them all.
Then I just gave the game back to my friend and bought yellow version some years later and beat that as well. Then I bought all the new versions that came out and had a blast with gold and silver version. In those games, you got to get 16 badges and fight pokemon trainer Red at the end, whos pokemon were all around level 80 or something, which really rewarded my constant grinding. After I had beaten gold and silver, and collected all the pokemon I could, I reset the game and just played through them again and again. And then when crystal version came out, oh boy. I never touched gold or silver ever again and played the game probably more than I've played anything else.
All that to say, I fucking loved leveling. And just playing video games in general.
Fast forward to my highschool years. My mom was given a computer through like some charity or something so I had internet for the first time. I should probably also mention I was poor as fuck. I'm pretty sure the only reason I had a gameboy color when I was little was because my mom took it from the lost in found when she was working as a hotel maid or something. And the only way I was able to buy games was through a combination of saving birthday money and returning old games for store credit.
anyways, with internet for the first time, I thought I'd try out some browser based rgps. The first one I tried was maple story, and I actually have another video on this channel about why I stopped playing that. To summerize it though, Maple story was were I learned what cybering was and I thought it was really weird so I just logged out and never went back. Then I tried out Runescape, because everyone talked about how good it was since you could explore the world n shit. It was fun enough, but I got stuck in some building that required me to have a paid subscription in order to get past, so I just stopped playing since I didnt like the concept of having to pay for content in game when it boasted to be a free to play game. Plus I didnt have money to pay for it anyway. So I went to other browser based mmo's, and tried out a few and fell in love with one called Fallensword.
Fallensword, for a browser based rpg, had a ton of depth that I never saw in pokemon games. The game had no level cap, and was totally pay to win looking back on it. But I had no idea what that meant. All I know is I played the hell out of that game. You couldnt spend all day leveling mind you, you had to spend stamina to move, and stamina to fight. And fights were autodecided based on your stats, gear, and talent points. And you could have it set to auto-complte the fights so fights would last like a second. The strategy in that game was to just put all points into attack stats to finish the fight in 1 round, because every attack spent your stamina. And there were not a lot of quests in the game, I can only remember ever doing like 5 quests total I think, so all your leveling was done by grinding monsters. But monsters gave a lot of experience points so it wasnt really that bad, afterall the game was designed around that. But after like, half an hour of playing you'd usually run out of stamina for the day and that was it. You could check the auction house and work on your gear, and that was about it. But I would play that game all day every day. I dont even know how thinking back on it. They did update the game with stuff every now and again to add stuff to the game to do outside of leveling.
I also tried starting my own guild in the game, but that did not turn out well. Guilds had some really nice advantages in that game. For one, you got a guild bank which was great because backpack space was very limited. You could also have guild battle to control towers throughout the game to get exclusive guild wide buffs. And these buffs were good too, so top guilds were always fighting for them. I eventually just abandoned the guild I made and applied to join a top one that I fit the requirements of. And holy crap was it great being in a big guild like that. They had rules on the forum about how you had to log in and play everyday and use your stamina. And if you were going to not be able to log in for some time, you had to make a post on the guild forum stating how long you'll be gone and why. Guild space was limited, and the guild level was based on xp it got from guild memebers when they leveled up, and the guild had its own talents point which were super good to have. Plus the guild had all these rare weapons and items in the guild bank that were free for anyone to use. So I could just constantly borrow the best gear for my level and level up that much quicker with all these guild buffs as well as help out in guild battles. Plus the guild forums were pretty active, so I took part in discussions pretty regularly there, and thats were I learned about wow. The guild leader use to play wow and would talk about it occasionally. Well bash the game really, they would all just bad talk the game and talk about why they quit. So I did not have a good opinion of the game and had no inclination to ever play it.
Then about a year later I got my own job. There was a guy at work who played wow and when we worked together, he would tell me all about how great it was. But I was conflicted, I'd heard nothing but bad things about the game from my guild, but the things he was saying about the game had me just so interested. Apparently you could level up for as long as you wanted in the game! Imagine that. No wait, that cant be true., If you could level non stop then why would you ever stop playing the game? I thought. So I didn't really believe him.
Then one day, we got a free trial CD in the mail, and my little brother brought it to me and asked if I could install it on the PC so he could try it. And I was all like, "ok I guess" and begrudgingly installed wow.
After it was done installing, I tried it out to see what it was like, and made a tauren Hunter named Hirumared. Quick story about the name, I always named my characters in video games "Red" since I was a big fan of pokemon trainer Red in the gold and silver games, but Red was never an available name online, so I would just put the name of an anime character in front.
ok, so my first time in mulgore as a hunter was, pretty neat I guess. I had no idea what I was doing. I was a hunter, yet I had to attack things with my melee weapon, since I could only get in 1 shot before they got into my melee range. So I ran around the starter zone, wacking stuff with my weapon, trying to use the clunky ass ability called raptor strike, and it was pretty fun leveling up. It wasnt until I left the starting village and headed to Bloodhoof village that I fell in love with the game. You see, I was not use to doing quests, and tried leveling up by killing monsters, so it took me a long time to get out of the super beginning level 1-5 zone. And the run towards Bloodhoof village was just breathtaking. I have always been a big fan of open plains landscape, and thats all Mulgore was, just a giant ass open grassy plains. I explored literally everything in that zone, and holy crap my first time getting to thunder bluff was overwhelming. It was so big, and you needed to use an elevator to get to it. And holy crap at level 10 I got to tame a pet? And holy crap, you really can level forever, theres nothing stopping me from not playing. I dont think I would have kept playing if I had started in a different starting zone. Luckily I choose tauren.
I was so hooked, I dont think I've ever been as hooked on something as I was when I first started playing wow. I wasnt too into at first, but thats because I went in with a negative mind set. Once I left the cramped starting area and went out to explore the rest of the zone, that was it for me. I got to do my 2 favorite things, grind endlessly, and explore a gigantic open world of my favorite landscape.
My little brother didnt get to try the game for the first time until a few days later, because I just could not stop playing.
But I didnt really have to much time to play. At this point in my life, I was in highschool, played sports, and had a part time job. The job was cool because it allowed me to easily pay the subscription fee, but that took up half of my weekends, since I'd always work Saturday and Sunday. At school, we had morning practice for football at 6am. And the rule for morning practice were to be in the weight room lifting by 6am, or else you had to run after practice. So I had to wake up at 5 every morning for that stupid shit. Then practice after school lasted until 7 o-clock normally, so by time I got home, showered, and ate dinner, it would be around 8 or 9 o-clock. Luckily I was a smart kid so I never had homework, so for those 2 hours before I had to go to bed to wake up at 5 am the next day, I got to play wow. And those were the best 2 hours of the day.
Wow was my escape, but not for the normal reason people use video games as an escape. I was just so damn busy all the time, that it was nice to escape into a fantasy world for a few hours a day to relax. I also didnt talk to anyone while playing wow, I tried my best to be as anti-social as I could in the game to the point were I didnt even join a guild until I had been playing for like 6 months. I had to talk to people all day at school, at practice, and at work, And wow was my alone time. A place where I could finally take a break from people. And my goodness was it great.
If friends invited me to go out, I'd tell them, "no, I'm gonna play wow tonight" And eventually they'd stop asking. Is what I'd like to say but I'm pretty sure they thought I was joking and kept asking me all the time anyway until highschool ended. Looking back on it, they were pretty great friends. But at the time, I just thought it was mildly annoying since I gave them the same answer every time.
So I was a busy bee, enjoying wow for about 2 hours a day, and a little more on weekends when I got home from work, until my senior year of highschool. Thankfully, luckily, during practice one day, while we were doing hitting drills, I injured my shoulder. It wasnt to bad, I had hurt it a few months earlier, with what I thought might be nerve damage, but I could just grit through the pain. But this time around, the pain didnt go away after practice. So I went to the personal trainers before practice the next day and had them take a look at it, and they said I sprained my rotator joint or something, so I got to just ice it up and not practice.
And boy, I was the happiest kid in town. I left practice early that day and just went home and played wow. The next day I just left early as well, and it was the best. I have never been so happy in my life to be injured, bucause it meant i could go home during pracitce to play more wow. And sometimes I'd even just not show up to pracitce at all and just leave right after shool. It was literally the best. I couldnt do that everyday though, because the coach started to notice, and I had to keep coming to keep up appearances. So I would just talk to the other injured players about wow, No one else on the team played wow, but that didnt stop me from talking about it anyway. I have never been shy about my hobbies, and no one ever gave me any kind of shit about it. I also learned that people are not interested when you talk on and on about a hobby they have no interest in. So eventually I just talked about wow to them all the time to annoy them because I thought it was funny for some reason.
Then, as the end of the football season drew near, my shoulder was slowly getting better, but I milked the puppy for as long as possible. Our team usually lost in the first round of the playoffs, if I could just hold out until then I'd be fine I told myself. Well, to my dismay, that was the first time in 18 years that our team made it all the way to the finals. I was not able to fool the personal trainers that long, so I eventually had to go back to practice for the last week before the final game. I didnt play in the game, and practice was light so it wasnt that bad.
But after football was over I was finally free at last. I could play all the wow I wanted after school.
In the next semester, I had my schedule set so that I could go home during lunch, since I had the last 2 periods off. So I just drove home during lunch and skipped all the traffic and got to play so much wow it was ridiculous. Once I graduated highschool, I decided to take a year off before decided on weather or not I'd go to college, and I also cut all of my friends out of my life. I did not return their calls and just ignore them until they stopped talking to me so that I could just focus on playing wow 24/7. Well, at least until I had to go to work on the weekends anyway. I still had to pay for my subscription afterall.
So how did my year off from everything and only play wow for a year work out for me?
Well, that was THE best year of my life. It was better than I thought it could possibly be. I actually got to raid, since I could actually stick to a raid squedule since I wasnt crazy busy all the time anymore. I got to level up so many alts, I got to grind so many battlegrounds, I got super into the auction house and became super rich in game. Everything was just the best. You'd think I'd burn out on wow playing it that much BUT NOPE, that didnt happen until a few years later in mop. I was just crazy into the game. And then cataclysm came out around that time too so I had this giant new expansion to explore. I ended up raiding on 2 raid teams, one on my priest, and another on my hunter. when LFR came out, I had all 10 toons on my server at max level, with raid viable gear and specific professions to make the maximum amount of gold possible. You'd think if I would have burned out it would have been there, but not even close. I even organize my own rated battle ground teams as well as lead the raid group on my hunter. My guild was the biggest guild on the server, with the best pvpers, and the 2nd, and 3rd best raid teams. Of which, I healed on my priest in one, and Dps'ed on my hunter in the other. I also had friends in the guild who had the best raid team on the server and I would fill in for them sometimes on one of my many raid ready alts. My life was basically just playing wow.
Then later on, some stuff happened, I got kicked from my raid group on my hunter, yadidada, guild drama, a crazy psycho jealous boyfreind incident with an arena partner, and MOP comes around.
I wasnt really in the right state of mind to really go all out in Mop like I did in cataclysm, so I stopped leveling all my alts, only raided on 1 team, stopped palying the auction house, and only did the bare minimum amount of dailies to unlock patters and vendor items for raiding. It was in mists that I was basically only logging in to raid and for nothing else.
Then I got fired from my job, and something else personal happened, and I knew I was going to go to a negative place. In order to change my mindset and not allow myself to even have the chance to be depressed, I decided to try a couple of things that I've always wanted to do, but never got around to for one reason or another. One of the things was make youtube videos again. SO I made some fake guides for classes, modeled after pyrion Flaxes Dota2 fake guides, with the ms paint drawings and everything. But man are those videos so bad. But I also had a lot of fun making them, and they took so much time to make that it was keeping my mind occupied, so I just went on a video making binge, and started making my "history of X ability" series around this time, which actually got some decent views. I remember putting so much time and effort into researching and editing together the "history of paladin seals" video, and the posting it on reddit and then watching it hit the front page was such a good high. It was great to see something I put so much time and effort into getting some recognition. And I was finally turning my mind set around and getting to a better place. But then that night, Literally the day I uploaded the pally seal video, while I was on my run, I was attacked by 2 men with a gun. What a perfect event to round off a perfect year of just everything going wrong for me.
But rather than give up, I just went right back to making videos. And it wasnt even really a big deal. It should have been, that should have been the straw to break the camels back. How often do you have a whole bunch of shitty things happen to you one after the other, and then come back from staring death in the face? By just making more videos thats how! And deal with mild PTSD and flashbacks for a couple of months. But hey, its not like I needed to leave the house anyway, I didnt have a job anymore afterall.
So I just kept making videos, and about a year later I was finally making enough to live off of the income from my channel. I didnt think it would happen, it was totally a pipe dream I thought. I started too late afterall, it was already 2013, and there were so many bigger channels on youtube that there was no way I would get noticed. Well it turns out that wasnt true, and I did get noticed.
As for now, well I'm too busy making videos all the time to play the game as much as I use too. I still play a lot more than just logging in to raid, but no where near the levels of when I use to no-life the game.
Do I regret cutting all my friends out of my life to play wow after highschool? Yah a little bit. I do and I dont. For one, that was the best year of my life and I cant help but look back on that time with fondness.And I could have never had that year unlessI did what I did. And two, I could always just re-connect with them later on in life if I want, which I did do with a couple. But I also made so many new friends through wow and youtube that Its not really a big concern of mine. Plus highschool was like 6 or 7 years ago now(9 years now), so all of them are adults with jobs and kids and responsibilities. God I feel old.
My warcraft story
-wow was an escape, but not for the usual reasons
-played other mmos first, talk about those
-little brother asked me to install it
-guy from work recommended it
-mulgore was first zone
In order to tell the story on how I got into world of Warcraft, and then started making a living making videos on the game, I have to first talk about pokemon.
When I was in 4th grade, a friend of mine name Jose got Pokemon blue and let me borrow it. I had a gameboy color and only 1 game on it, so I was super excited to try out something new. So I go onto pokemon blue and just start exploring the world. I think my friend had already chosen a starter and only got to the first town, so it was pretty close to the start of the game. So I took my bulbasaur and pidgeys and started just grinding levels. It was my first time ever playing an rpg and I loved going up in levels and getting new abilities, plus the eveolutions were pretty sick too. I gave the game back to my friend a few times and he was happy that I had gotten so many levels for his pokemon, that he just kept letting me borrow it until I beat the game for him basically. When I finally got around to the eleite four, my venasaur was at like level 80 something and I swept through them all pretty easily on my first try. Because I had just out-leveled them all.
Then I just gave the game back to my friend and bought yellow version some years later and beat that as well. Then I bought all the new versions that came out and had a blast with gold and silver version. In those games, you got to get 16 badges and fight pokemon trainer Red at the end, whos pokemon were all around level 80 or something, which really rewarded my constant grinding. After I had beaten gold and silver, and collected all the pokemon I could, I reset the game and just played through them again and again. And then when crystal version came out, oh boy. I never touched gold or silver ever again and played the game probably more than I've played anything else.
All that to say, I fucking loved leveling. And just playing video games in general.
Fast forward to my highschool years. My mom was given a computer through like some charity or something so I had internet for the first time. I should probably also mention I was poor as fuck. I'm pretty sure the only reason I had a gameboy color when I was little was because my mom took it from the lost in found when she was working as a hotel maid or something. And the only way I was able to buy games was through a combination of saving birthday money and returning old games for store credit.
anyways, with internet for the first time, I thought I'd try out some browser based rgps. The first one I tried was maple story, and I actually have another video on this channel about why I stopped playing that. To summerize it though, Maple story was were I learned what cybering was and I thought it was really weird so I just logged out and never went back. Then I tried out Runescape, because everyone talked about how good it was since you could explore the world n shit. It was fun enough, but I got stuck in some building that required me to have a paid subscription in order to get past, so I just stopped playing since I didnt like the concept of having to pay for content in game when it boasted to be a free to play game. Plus I didnt have money to pay for it anyway. So I went to other browser based mmo's, and tried out a few and fell in love with one called Fallensword.
Fallensword, for a browser based rpg, had a ton of depth that I never saw in pokemon games. The game had no level cap, and was totally pay to win looking back on it. But I had no idea what that meant. All I know is I played the hell out of that game. You couldnt spend all day leveling mind you, you had to spend stamina to move, and stamina to fight. And fights were autodecided based on your stats, gear, and talent points. And you could have it set to auto-complte the fights so fights would last like a second. The strategy in that game was to just put all points into attack stats to finish the fight in 1 round, because every attack spent your stamina. And there were not a lot of quests in the game, I can only remember ever doing like 5 quests total I think, so all your leveling was done by grinding monsters. But monsters gave a lot of experience points so it wasnt really that bad, afterall the game was designed around that. But after like, half an hour of playing you'd usually run out of stamina for the day and that was it. You could check the auction house and work on your gear, and that was about it. But I would play that game all day every day. I dont even know how thinking back on it. They did update the game with stuff every now and again to add stuff to the game to do outside of leveling.
I also tried starting my own guild in the game, but that did not turn out well. Guilds had some really nice advantages in that game. For one, you got a guild bank which was great because backpack space was very limited. You could also have guild battle to control towers throughout the game to get exclusive guild wide buffs. And these buffs were good too, so top guilds were always fighting for them. I eventually just abandoned the guild I made and applied to join a top one that I fit the requirements of. And holy crap was it great being in a big guild like that. They had rules on the forum about how you had to log in and play everyday and use your stamina. And if you were going to not be able to log in for some time, you had to make a post on the guild forum stating how long you'll be gone and why. Guild space was limited, and the guild level was based on xp it got from guild memebers when they leveled up, and the guild had its own talents point which were super good to have. Plus the guild had all these rare weapons and items in the guild bank that were free for anyone to use. So I could just constantly borrow the best gear for my level and level up that much quicker with all these guild buffs as well as help out in guild battles. Plus the guild forums were pretty active, so I took part in discussions pretty regularly there, and thats were I learned about wow. The guild leader use to play wow and would talk about it occasionally. Well bash the game really, they would all just bad talk the game and talk about why they quit. So I did not have a good opinion of the game and had no inclination to ever play it.
Then about a year later I got my own job. There was a guy at work who played wow and when we worked together, he would tell me all about how great it was. But I was conflicted, I'd heard nothing but bad things about the game from my guild, but the things he was saying about the game had me just so interested. Apparently you could level up for as long as you wanted in the game! Imagine that. No wait, that cant be true., If you could level non stop then why would you ever stop playing the game? I thought. So I didn't really believe him.
Then one day, we got a free trial CD in the mail, and my little brother brought it to me and asked if I could install it on the PC so he could try it. And I was all like, "ok I guess" and begrudgingly installed wow.
After it was done installing, I tried it out to see what it was like, and made a tauren Hunter named Hirumared. Quick story about the name, I always named my characters in video games "Red" since I was a big fan of pokemon trainer Red in the gold and silver games, but Red was never an available name online, so I would just put the name of an anime character in front.
ok, so my first time in mulgore as a hunter was, pretty neat I guess. I had no idea what I was doing. I was a hunter, yet I had to attack things with my melee weapon, since I could only get in 1 shot before they got into my melee range. So I ran around the starter zone, wacking stuff with my weapon, trying to use the clunky ass ability called raptor strike, and it was pretty fun leveling up. It wasnt until I left the starting village and headed to Bloodhoof village that I fell in love with the game. You see, I was not use to doing quests, and tried leveling up by killing monsters, so it took me a long time to get out of the super beginning level 1-5 zone. And the run towards Bloodhoof village was just breathtaking. I have always been a big fan of open plains landscape, and thats all Mulgore was, just a giant ass open grassy plains. I explored literally everything in that zone, and holy crap my first time getting to thunder bluff was overwhelming. It was so big, and you needed to use an elevator to get to it. And holy crap at level 10 I got to tame a pet? And holy crap, you really can level forever, theres nothing stopping me from not playing. I dont think I would have kept playing if I had started in a different starting zone. Luckily I choose tauren.
I was so hooked, I dont think I've ever been as hooked on something as I was when I first started playing wow. I wasnt too into at first, but thats because I went in with a negative mind set. Once I left the cramped starting area and went out to explore the rest of the zone, that was it for me. I got to do my 2 favorite things, grind endlessly, and explore a gigantic open world of my favorite landscape.
My little brother didnt get to try the game for the first time until a few days later, because I just could not stop playing.
But I didnt really have to much time to play. At this point in my life, I was in highschool, played sports, and had a part time job. The job was cool because it allowed me to easily pay the subscription fee, but that took up half of my weekends, since I'd always work Saturday and Sunday. At school, we had morning practice for football at 6am. And the rule for morning practice were to be in the weight room lifting by 6am, or else you had to run after practice. So I had to wake up at 5 every morning for that stupid shit. Then practice after school lasted until 7 o-clock normally, so by time I got home, showered, and ate dinner, it would be around 8 or 9 o-clock. Luckily I was a smart kid so I never had homework, so for those 2 hours before I had to go to bed to wake up at 5 am the next day, I got to play wow. And those were the best 2 hours of the day.
Wow was my escape, but not for the normal reason people use video games as an escape. I was just so damn busy all the time, that it was nice to escape into a fantasy world for a few hours a day to relax. I also didnt talk to anyone while playing wow, I tried my best to be as anti-social as I could in the game to the point were I didnt even join a guild until I had been playing for like 6 months. I had to talk to people all day at school, at practice, and at work, And wow was my alone time. A place where I could finally take a break from people. And my goodness was it great.
If friends invited me to go out, I'd tell them, "no, I'm gonna play wow tonight" And eventually they'd stop asking. Is what I'd like to say but I'm pretty sure they thought I was joking and kept asking me all the time anyway until highschool ended. Looking back on it, they were pretty great friends. But at the time, I just thought it was mildly annoying since I gave them the same answer every time.
So I was a busy bee, enjoying wow for about 2 hours a day, and a little more on weekends when I got home from work, until my senior year of highschool. Thankfully, luckily, during practice one day, while we were doing hitting drills, I injured my shoulder. It wasnt to bad, I had hurt it a few months earlier, with what I thought might be nerve damage, but I could just grit through the pain. But this time around, the pain didnt go away after practice. So I went to the personal trainers before practice the next day and had them take a look at it, and they said I sprained my rotator joint or something, so I got to just ice it up and not practice.
And boy, I was the happiest kid in town. I left practice early that day and just went home and played wow. The next day I just left early as well, and it was the best. I have never been so happy in my life to be injured, bucause it meant i could go home during pracitce to play more wow. And sometimes I'd even just not show up to pracitce at all and just leave right after shool. It was literally the best. I couldnt do that everyday though, because the coach started to notice, and I had to keep coming to keep up appearances. So I would just talk to the other injured players about wow, No one else on the team played wow, but that didnt stop me from talking about it anyway. I have never been shy about my hobbies, and no one ever gave me any kind of shit about it. I also learned that people are not interested when you talk on and on about a hobby they have no interest in. So eventually I just talked about wow to them all the time to annoy them because I thought it was funny for some reason.
Then, as the end of the football season drew near, my shoulder was slowly getting better, but I milked the puppy for as long as possible. Our team usually lost in the first round of the playoffs, if I could just hold out until then I'd be fine I told myself. Well, to my dismay, that was the first time in 18 years that our team made it all the way to the finals. I was not able to fool the personal trainers that long, so I eventually had to go back to practice for the last week before the final game. I didnt play in the game, and practice was light so it wasnt that bad.
But after football was over I was finally free at last. I could play all the wow I wanted after school.
In the next semester, I had my schedule set so that I could go home during lunch, since I had the last 2 periods off. So I just drove home during lunch and skipped all the traffic and got to play so much wow it was ridiculous. Once I graduated highschool, I decided to take a year off before decided on weather or not I'd go to college, and I also cut all of my friends out of my life. I did not return their calls and just ignore them until they stopped talking to me so that I could just focus on playing wow 24/7. Well, at least until I had to go to work on the weekends anyway. I still had to pay for my subscription afterall.
So how did my year off from everything and only play wow for a year work out for me?
Well, that was THE best year of my life. It was better than I thought it could possibly be. I actually got to raid, since I could actually stick to a raid squedule since I wasnt crazy busy all the time anymore. I got to level up so many alts, I got to grind so many battlegrounds, I got super into the auction house and became super rich in game. Everything was just the best. You'd think I'd burn out on wow playing it that much BUT NOPE, that didnt happen until a few years later in mop. I was just crazy into the game. And then cataclysm came out around that time too so I had this giant new expansion to explore. I ended up raiding on 2 raid teams, one on my priest, and another on my hunter. when LFR came out, I had all 10 toons on my server at max level, with raid viable gear and specific professions to make the maximum amount of gold possible. You'd think if I would have burned out it would have been there, but not even close. I even organize my own rated battle ground teams as well as lead the raid group on my hunter. My guild was the biggest guild on the server, with the best pvpers, and the 2nd, and 3rd best raid teams. Of which, I healed on my priest in one, and Dps'ed on my hunter in the other. I also had friends in the guild who had the best raid team on the server and I would fill in for them sometimes on one of my many raid ready alts. My life was basically just playing wow.
Then later on, some stuff happened, I got kicked from my raid group on my hunter, yadidada, guild drama, a crazy psycho jealous boyfreind incident with an arena partner, and MOP comes around.
I wasnt really in the right state of mind to really go all out in Mop like I did in cataclysm, so I stopped leveling all my alts, only raided on 1 team, stopped palying the auction house, and only did the bare minimum amount of dailies to unlock patters and vendor items for raiding. It was in mists that I was basically only logging in to raid and for nothing else.
Then I got fired from my job, and something else personal happened, and I knew I was going to go to a negative place. In order to change my mindset and not allow myself to even have the chance to be depressed, I decided to try a couple of things that I've always wanted to do, but never got around to for one reason or another. One of the things was make youtube videos again. SO I made some fake guides for classes, modeled after pyrion Flaxes Dota2 fake guides, with the ms paint drawings and everything. But man are those videos so bad. But I also had a lot of fun making them, and they took so much time to make that it was keeping my mind occupied, so I just went on a video making binge, and started making my "history of X ability" series around this time, which actually got some decent views. I remember putting so much time and effort into researching and editing together the "history of paladin seals" video, and the posting it on reddit and then watching it hit the front page was such a good high. It was great to see something I put so much time and effort into getting some recognition. And I was finally turning my mind set around and getting to a better place. But then that night, Literally the day I uploaded the pally seal video, while I was on my run, I was attacked by 2 men with a gun. What a perfect event to round off a perfect year of just everything going wrong for me.
But rather than give up, I just went right back to making videos. And it wasnt even really a big deal. It should have been, that should have been the straw to break the camels back. How often do you have a whole bunch of shitty things happen to you one after the other, and then come back from staring death in the face? By just making more videos thats how! And deal with mild PTSD and flashbacks for a couple of months. But hey, its not like I needed to leave the house anyway, I didnt have a job anymore afterall.
So I just kept making videos, and about a year later I was finally making enough to live off of the income from my channel. I didnt think it would happen, it was totally a pipe dream I thought. I started too late afterall, it was already 2013, and there were so many bigger channels on youtube that there was no way I would get noticed. Well it turns out that wasnt true, and I did get noticed.
As for now, well I'm too busy making videos all the time to play the game as much as I use too. I still play a lot more than just logging in to raid, but no where near the levels of when I use to no-life the game.
Do I regret cutting all my friends out of my life to play wow after highschool? Yah a little bit. I do and I dont. For one, that was the best year of my life and I cant help but look back on that time with fondness.And I could have never had that year unlessI did what I did. And two, I could always just re-connect with them later on in life if I want, which I did do with a couple. But I also made so many new friends through wow and youtube that Its not really a big concern of mine. Plus highschool was like 6 or 7 years ago now(9 years now), so all of them are adults with jobs and kids and responsibilities. God I feel old.
Monday, December 17, 2018
Draw my life
Note - This is an abandoned script and done in notepad with no spell check. And I'm real bad at spelling.
Draw my life, hirumaredx.
I'm a bag fan of these kinds of videos and I they're pretty freakin easy to make. I mean, all you have to do is talk about yourself and draw stick figures and I already draw shitty picutres for half of my videos anyway. So without further adu,
actually I should probably warn you guys. I've told my life story to only a handful of people and they all think its pretty depressing so if your not in the mood to get bummed out you should probably just watch one of my other amazingly funny videos instead.
I was born on April 29th, 1992. I am currently 22 years old as of making this video. (lawl young boy -edited 1:40 PM 12/17/2018)
My childhood was pretty normal. Or at least I thought it was until I told other people about it.
In kindergarten I made a lot of friends and was a pretty outgoing child. In first grade I moved to a new school and made a whole bunch of new friends. Also I saw the first episode of Pokemon around this time. i still remember watching that shit on my 5 dollar tv in my room thinking it was the coolest shit ever.
In 2nd grade I moved to a new school again and made a whole bunch of new friends.
At the start of third grade there was this kid who sat in front of me that was way bigger and fatter than I was who started picking on me. Writing shit on my paper, stealing my pencils, the whole douchbag grade-school shabang. I didnt take this shit sitting down though, I'd steal his stupid pencils right back and rip his papers up. I was always one of the shorter kids in the class so he probably thought I was an easy target, so after a couple of days of this going down I talked to one of my friends in a different class and we organized a way to stop this little problem.
This kid was way bigger than me, so I was at a huge disadvantage in a fair fight. So me and my friend waited for Recess because this wanna be bully didnt have any friends and just sat by himself under a tree. So while he was sitting in the shade doing nothing we jumped him. And since it was 2 on one we easily won that little exchange.
Then after recess was over we went back to class and this kid made a 180. He was super nice as shit and wanted to be my friend. I was hesitant at first but he seemed sincere so that was that. I moved to a new school about a month after that.
New school, kinda bummed about having to make new friends but I make due. After a couple of months I make a ton of new friends and develop my first crush and this girl named A. Nothing to special happened about that. I would hang out with her and her friends from time to time at recess and she told me she liked me in my ear one day at lunch. I'd like to say that I told her I liked her too and we had whatever 3rd graders call a relationship, but I totally bitched out and just avoided her for the rest of the year instead.
Then in 4th grade my mom went into rehab for the first time and me and my 2 sisters moved in with my grandmother, and my 6 month old brother went to live with his grandmother from his dads side.
I should probably mention that my mom was a drug addict, and the reason I went to a new school every year was because we would go and move in with whoever her new boyfriend or drug dealer was. all of my siblings are from different dads and I've lived in more motels than I can remember. I remember once, I bought this bug catching kit from the dollar store and tried to catch all of the cock roaches in the apartment and I filled that bad boy up. I was so use to cock roach apartments that I didnt know most houses weren't filled with them. Of course I'd take cock roaches over having to sleep outside in front of a church any day.
You see, when my mom wasn't able to get a motel we just slept at the local church. not inside or anything, but like in the back of it on the concrete. Fun fact, if you ever find yourself homeless and need a place to sleep, churches are usually pretty good at letting you stay there.
Sleeping outside and in roach motels wasn't really a problem, the biggest thing was finding food to eat. You see, during the day my mom and whoever her boyfriend was would lock us out during the day and we werent allowed back inside until night. So I had to make due with getting my own food during the day, not that we ever had any in the motels anyway. One day when we got to eat ramen noodels was a fucking feast. since i couldnt rely on my mother for food I just went to the local convenience store and just stole stuff. This homeless guy showed me this trick, where you could put some hot dogs from the roller into a 32.oz cup, fill it with ice, and just walk out the door. They didnt charge for ice for some reason but it worked. also, since I knew if i was the only person in the store the clerk would be suspicious if he saw a little kid walking around the store for so long looking over his shoulder and just walking out.
So what I would do is walk up and down the sides of the roads until I found 5 cents. A nickle, 5 pennys, whatever it just had to be 5 cents. Then i'd walk in the store, slip stuff into my pockets with one hand while picking up items and looking at them intently with the other, go over to the cheap candy and grab one of the 5 cent ones and go up to the counter and buy it. I got away with it every single time and showed my sisters how to do it to because I hated sharing with them.
All in all I thought i had a pretty great childhood, I mean my mom let me go outside where ever I wanted during the day and i could do whatever i wanted. I had a pretty positive attitude about all of this back then. when one of my moms boyfriends was choking my mom and he was doing it a little longer than usual I just grabed one of his knifes and threaten to stab him in the neck if he didnt let go. He stopped and I went back to doing my thing after he hit me like nothing happened. one day a group of people that my mom had kicked out this house we were staying at came back and beat everyone with baseball bats. I was pissed because i was going to miss the new episode of dragon ball z that was suppose to start when it all went down. They were in the middle of the cell saga back then and if you watched dragon ball z back then you know how awesome that shit was. cell was the best villian ever at this point.
So yah, enough about that stuff, I moved in with my grandmother in 4th grade and that was pretty cool. I mean, i couldn't go out whenever i wanted anymore for as long as I wanted, but we had food everyday which was pretty nice. 4th grade was also when yugioh came out and i was all over that shit. But then when my mom came back to visit she decided that yugioh cards were of the devil and threw them all away, making me want to have them even more than ever. Now i should mention my moms not religious, she was just a druggie. Now a days I have my own yugioh youtbue channel as well as this one and its doing pretty well.
So anyway, the reason my mom was visiting was because she ran away from her rehab clinic and was getting ready to go to a new one. this new rehab place was made special for women and had this section for single mothers so me and my sisters moved into a rehab clinic in 5th grade.
Now that place was actually not half bad and I have nothing but found memories of that place because they had activities and gave us presents and it was pretty great actually.
The school i went to was at this church school were everyone in the grade was in 1 class. Our 5th grade class was the biggest in the school and was about the size of a regular classroom. that school was pretty fun, the work was super easy, I made a lot of friends and had a great time. Afterschool we were taken to a youth center until my mom got out of work that had pool tables, ping pong, and free arcade games. This was also the time beyblades came out and I had figured out how to add a second metal ring to my top which made it unbeatable at school. This kid traded me a gameboy advance for my unbeatable beyblade and I accepted, because gameboy advances where all the rage.
Anyways, after 5th grade ended my mom was able to leave re-hab and enter this program for poor single mothers, where they gave us a house, food boxes, special fun classes to go to afterschool, and a shit ton of presents for Christmas. Of course I had to go to a new school as well for 6th grade which made my 6th new school in 6 years. Now I had so much fun back in 5th grade that I was pretty bummed out about going to a new school, and this place was in an upper middle class area with kids who had been friends with each other their whole lives.
To be honest it was kind of a culture shock, these kids where so much different than the kids I'd known before. They were all so well behaved and valued education and reading. I had never read a whole book in my life at this point but everyone else in class where reading these huge ass chapter books with no pictures.
It had turned out that I was way behind in school because my last one didnt teach us anything, so I had to go to remedial classes for a few months. The teacher in that class was great and I learned more in those few months than I had all of the previous year. Now I've always been really good at with school work and won a pizza party in 4th grade for coming in second place at a math meet. (fucking 4 x 7).
So after getting out of the remedial class I went back to the regular classes and had yet to make a new friend, which was weird considering how easily I made friends before.
I thought all the kids at this new school were weird and just gave up on them, and instead just spent all my time at the swing set. I'm pretty fucking good at swinging with all the practice I got. Anyways, after about half a year I finally got over myself and tried to make friends again and had fun for the rest of 6th grade. Turns out he kids were pretty freaking nice, they were just all in their own groups already and weren't interested in reaching out to the new kid who never talks.
Then in 7th grade I moved up to the middle school. I didnt have any classes with the friends I made the year before and sat by myself at lunch like some kind of loser. I also got it into my head for some reason that I'd only talk to people who had watched dragonball Z. I'm not sure why, I got over myself in a couple of months and made some great friends though.
In my 2nd semester in 7th grade we moved to a new house in the program. Before they had given us a small town house but the program had a pretty nice house for us to live in so we moved far away. But the short bus from my middle school would drive all the way in the hell out to our house to pick me and my sister up and just assumed we'd do that again in 8th grade, but I was wrong.
Turns out there was another middle school really close to our house and i had to go there. This middle school, was located in the middle of a low income housing area and I just went from a higher middle class area to this school. The difference was like night and day. The work in 8th grade was 10 times easier than it was at my old school, and the kids were all super immature and could give two shits about school.
I remember on the first day at this new school, in 8th grade mind you, this kid made a fart noise with his mouth and the entire room erupted in laughter like it was the fucking funniest thing in the world.
I thought, "ok, this is pretty weird". Then 2 classes later, a different kid does the same thing with the same results. And eruption of laughter like he had just told the funniest joke in the world. It was then that i told myself "ok, I'm not going to associate with any of these kids" and I made zero friends in 8th grade. I talked to no one and know one tried talking to me. Going that long without talking to anyone and having no friends, i developed some social anxiety and became shy. I remember by the end of the year, wanting to talk to people but I just couldn't. there was this other kid at lunch who sat by himself that I saw everyday, and I sat close to him. I wanted to talk to him so bad just so i could have a friend but, but no matter what I did, what mental tricks i put myself through I could never bring myself to start a conversation with him. And tried a ton of times before school let out but i just couldnt do it. Being shy sucks and I dont recommend it to anyone.
Anyways 9th grade comes around and I signed up for football. In 7th grade the program I was in would pay for any sport i wanted and my mom signed me up for football and I was pretty good at it. Our coach said that if we had the chance, we should sign up for our schools team when we could and I just kinda decided to go for it. I also took a weight lifting class in 8th grade so I was fit enough.
A shy nerd playing football, what could go wrong right? well it turns out I was really really good because I had better reactions than everyone. When I played, my body would move on its own and it always did the right thing. Playing on pure reflexes is actually pretty damn effective in football. I wasnt the fastest, or strongest player on the team, but I was without a doubt the best player on the team because no one could beat me in drills and I got more sacks and tackles in games than everyone else on the team combined. There was one game where the other team started triple teaming me and completely shut down our defense, so our coachs strategy for beating that was to send one of the line backers in to take one of the guys off of me, because I could deal with a double team no problem.
Now let me tell you what happens when you become the best player on your schools football team, because 9th grade where I lived was still middleschool. You make a lot of friends whether you want to or not. There is no keeping to yourself anymore, because everyone is trying to be your best friend. Going from no one talking to me for a year, to everyone wanting to be my friends was a little jarring at first. Now I was still shy as shit but I was starting to come out of my shell. In 9th grade i was moved into all advance classes, because I kept getting a 100% on all my tests and the kids in the advance classes where so much more my type.
In advance algebra this guy who sat next to me looked like your stereotypical pot head, but had a mind like a calculator. I'd never seen a real genius before I met this kid. Since we both always got 100% on our tests we raced to see who could finish their test first. Since the dude had a brain like a calculator he always won, but I got close sometimes. So anyway I made a lot of friends and had a great time until the end of the year.
9th grade for me was around the time that myspace was all the rage and we got a new computer and I had all these people who wanted to add me to myspace so I made an account.
Now i'd get random messages from people I'd never met before all the time because of my football popularity but this one girl kept messaging me eveyday. She could keep the conversation going no matter what the hell it was and I literally talked about nothing. My social skills at this time where poor as shit but she acted like I was the funniest, most interesting person in the world and I fell for her hard.
She wasnt in any of my classes so we decided to meet up afterschool and she was way cuter than her picture and I was totally on cloud 9. Anyways, after being friends for 6-8 months she stopped talking to me one day out of the blue and blocked me on myspace. I had made some other really cool lady freinds before i met her and she did not like any of them and told me to stop talking to them. So i did like a little bitch, but one of these girls made a public comment on my myspace page, or however wall posts worked in myspace. she saw and super over reacted by removing me from her life.
Seeing as I was super in love with this girl and in the middle of puberty, where your emotions are stronger than they will ever be, I took it pretty damn hard.
About 2 weeks after said girl stopped talking to me, a good friend of mine tried to kill himself after being rejected by a girl he liked. I went and visited him in the hospital and he was not playing around, or doing it for attention. I'm not sure how he survived to be honest, but I hate to say it but that event helped me a little. I decided to do something about this crippling depression so i wouldn't go down the same path he did and learned how to turn off my emotions with lots of practice.
now the trick to turning off your emotions is actually pretty easy, it follows the same principal as saying a word over and over until it loses its meaning. What i did was focus on the emotion intensely whenever i felt anything, sad, happy, it didnt matter because I needed practice. I would focus on it, and internalize it like "so this is sad. I can feel it in my stomach. If I stand still I can feel it. So this is the emotion." After doing that for a few minutes the emotion just goes away. It wasnt until college that i realized this is called internationalization, a way to cope with stress.
Anyway after a while I didnt need to consciously intellectualize my emotions anymore because I did it automatically from doing it all the time and entered 10th grade with no emotions.
Now let me tell you what living a year with no emotions is like. School work was super easy, i've never been able to concentrate so intently on work in my whole life. I still had friends from middle school, and just latched onto them and didnt talk much. In my football JV team I was no longer the best player on the team, but i was still one of the best and got the nick name Serial Killer because I never talked to anyone or celebrated after getting sacks and tackles in games like everyone else. That year was, I dont know how to describe it. It wasnt bad, but it wasnt good either. It was so so. Interesting to say the least. It also killed my joy of watching the show dexter, because for someone whos suppose to not have emotion he sure does show a lot of fucking emotion.
But anyway, the summer before 11th grade I turned 16 and my mom made me get a job and working in customer service all summer pulled me out of that trance.
(End of script, probably got tired of typing for the day and just never finished it upon a re-read)
Draw my life, hirumaredx.
I'm a bag fan of these kinds of videos and I they're pretty freakin easy to make. I mean, all you have to do is talk about yourself and draw stick figures and I already draw shitty picutres for half of my videos anyway. So without further adu,
actually I should probably warn you guys. I've told my life story to only a handful of people and they all think its pretty depressing so if your not in the mood to get bummed out you should probably just watch one of my other amazingly funny videos instead.
I was born on April 29th, 1992. I am currently 22 years old as of making this video. (lawl young boy -edited 1:40 PM 12/17/2018)
My childhood was pretty normal. Or at least I thought it was until I told other people about it.
In kindergarten I made a lot of friends and was a pretty outgoing child. In first grade I moved to a new school and made a whole bunch of new friends. Also I saw the first episode of Pokemon around this time. i still remember watching that shit on my 5 dollar tv in my room thinking it was the coolest shit ever.
In 2nd grade I moved to a new school again and made a whole bunch of new friends.
At the start of third grade there was this kid who sat in front of me that was way bigger and fatter than I was who started picking on me. Writing shit on my paper, stealing my pencils, the whole douchbag grade-school shabang. I didnt take this shit sitting down though, I'd steal his stupid pencils right back and rip his papers up. I was always one of the shorter kids in the class so he probably thought I was an easy target, so after a couple of days of this going down I talked to one of my friends in a different class and we organized a way to stop this little problem.
This kid was way bigger than me, so I was at a huge disadvantage in a fair fight. So me and my friend waited for Recess because this wanna be bully didnt have any friends and just sat by himself under a tree. So while he was sitting in the shade doing nothing we jumped him. And since it was 2 on one we easily won that little exchange.
Then after recess was over we went back to class and this kid made a 180. He was super nice as shit and wanted to be my friend. I was hesitant at first but he seemed sincere so that was that. I moved to a new school about a month after that.
New school, kinda bummed about having to make new friends but I make due. After a couple of months I make a ton of new friends and develop my first crush and this girl named A. Nothing to special happened about that. I would hang out with her and her friends from time to time at recess and she told me she liked me in my ear one day at lunch. I'd like to say that I told her I liked her too and we had whatever 3rd graders call a relationship, but I totally bitched out and just avoided her for the rest of the year instead.
Then in 4th grade my mom went into rehab for the first time and me and my 2 sisters moved in with my grandmother, and my 6 month old brother went to live with his grandmother from his dads side.
I should probably mention that my mom was a drug addict, and the reason I went to a new school every year was because we would go and move in with whoever her new boyfriend or drug dealer was. all of my siblings are from different dads and I've lived in more motels than I can remember. I remember once, I bought this bug catching kit from the dollar store and tried to catch all of the cock roaches in the apartment and I filled that bad boy up. I was so use to cock roach apartments that I didnt know most houses weren't filled with them. Of course I'd take cock roaches over having to sleep outside in front of a church any day.
You see, when my mom wasn't able to get a motel we just slept at the local church. not inside or anything, but like in the back of it on the concrete. Fun fact, if you ever find yourself homeless and need a place to sleep, churches are usually pretty good at letting you stay there.
Sleeping outside and in roach motels wasn't really a problem, the biggest thing was finding food to eat. You see, during the day my mom and whoever her boyfriend was would lock us out during the day and we werent allowed back inside until night. So I had to make due with getting my own food during the day, not that we ever had any in the motels anyway. One day when we got to eat ramen noodels was a fucking feast. since i couldnt rely on my mother for food I just went to the local convenience store and just stole stuff. This homeless guy showed me this trick, where you could put some hot dogs from the roller into a 32.oz cup, fill it with ice, and just walk out the door. They didnt charge for ice for some reason but it worked. also, since I knew if i was the only person in the store the clerk would be suspicious if he saw a little kid walking around the store for so long looking over his shoulder and just walking out.
So what I would do is walk up and down the sides of the roads until I found 5 cents. A nickle, 5 pennys, whatever it just had to be 5 cents. Then i'd walk in the store, slip stuff into my pockets with one hand while picking up items and looking at them intently with the other, go over to the cheap candy and grab one of the 5 cent ones and go up to the counter and buy it. I got away with it every single time and showed my sisters how to do it to because I hated sharing with them.
All in all I thought i had a pretty great childhood, I mean my mom let me go outside where ever I wanted during the day and i could do whatever i wanted. I had a pretty positive attitude about all of this back then. when one of my moms boyfriends was choking my mom and he was doing it a little longer than usual I just grabed one of his knifes and threaten to stab him in the neck if he didnt let go. He stopped and I went back to doing my thing after he hit me like nothing happened. one day a group of people that my mom had kicked out this house we were staying at came back and beat everyone with baseball bats. I was pissed because i was going to miss the new episode of dragon ball z that was suppose to start when it all went down. They were in the middle of the cell saga back then and if you watched dragon ball z back then you know how awesome that shit was. cell was the best villian ever at this point.
So yah, enough about that stuff, I moved in with my grandmother in 4th grade and that was pretty cool. I mean, i couldn't go out whenever i wanted anymore for as long as I wanted, but we had food everyday which was pretty nice. 4th grade was also when yugioh came out and i was all over that shit. But then when my mom came back to visit she decided that yugioh cards were of the devil and threw them all away, making me want to have them even more than ever. Now i should mention my moms not religious, she was just a druggie. Now a days I have my own yugioh youtbue channel as well as this one and its doing pretty well.
So anyway, the reason my mom was visiting was because she ran away from her rehab clinic and was getting ready to go to a new one. this new rehab place was made special for women and had this section for single mothers so me and my sisters moved into a rehab clinic in 5th grade.
Now that place was actually not half bad and I have nothing but found memories of that place because they had activities and gave us presents and it was pretty great actually.
The school i went to was at this church school were everyone in the grade was in 1 class. Our 5th grade class was the biggest in the school and was about the size of a regular classroom. that school was pretty fun, the work was super easy, I made a lot of friends and had a great time. Afterschool we were taken to a youth center until my mom got out of work that had pool tables, ping pong, and free arcade games. This was also the time beyblades came out and I had figured out how to add a second metal ring to my top which made it unbeatable at school. This kid traded me a gameboy advance for my unbeatable beyblade and I accepted, because gameboy advances where all the rage.
Anyways, after 5th grade ended my mom was able to leave re-hab and enter this program for poor single mothers, where they gave us a house, food boxes, special fun classes to go to afterschool, and a shit ton of presents for Christmas. Of course I had to go to a new school as well for 6th grade which made my 6th new school in 6 years. Now I had so much fun back in 5th grade that I was pretty bummed out about going to a new school, and this place was in an upper middle class area with kids who had been friends with each other their whole lives.
To be honest it was kind of a culture shock, these kids where so much different than the kids I'd known before. They were all so well behaved and valued education and reading. I had never read a whole book in my life at this point but everyone else in class where reading these huge ass chapter books with no pictures.
It had turned out that I was way behind in school because my last one didnt teach us anything, so I had to go to remedial classes for a few months. The teacher in that class was great and I learned more in those few months than I had all of the previous year. Now I've always been really good at with school work and won a pizza party in 4th grade for coming in second place at a math meet. (fucking 4 x 7).
So after getting out of the remedial class I went back to the regular classes and had yet to make a new friend, which was weird considering how easily I made friends before.
I thought all the kids at this new school were weird and just gave up on them, and instead just spent all my time at the swing set. I'm pretty fucking good at swinging with all the practice I got. Anyways, after about half a year I finally got over myself and tried to make friends again and had fun for the rest of 6th grade. Turns out he kids were pretty freaking nice, they were just all in their own groups already and weren't interested in reaching out to the new kid who never talks.
Then in 7th grade I moved up to the middle school. I didnt have any classes with the friends I made the year before and sat by myself at lunch like some kind of loser. I also got it into my head for some reason that I'd only talk to people who had watched dragonball Z. I'm not sure why, I got over myself in a couple of months and made some great friends though.
In my 2nd semester in 7th grade we moved to a new house in the program. Before they had given us a small town house but the program had a pretty nice house for us to live in so we moved far away. But the short bus from my middle school would drive all the way in the hell out to our house to pick me and my sister up and just assumed we'd do that again in 8th grade, but I was wrong.
Turns out there was another middle school really close to our house and i had to go there. This middle school, was located in the middle of a low income housing area and I just went from a higher middle class area to this school. The difference was like night and day. The work in 8th grade was 10 times easier than it was at my old school, and the kids were all super immature and could give two shits about school.
I remember on the first day at this new school, in 8th grade mind you, this kid made a fart noise with his mouth and the entire room erupted in laughter like it was the fucking funniest thing in the world.
I thought, "ok, this is pretty weird". Then 2 classes later, a different kid does the same thing with the same results. And eruption of laughter like he had just told the funniest joke in the world. It was then that i told myself "ok, I'm not going to associate with any of these kids" and I made zero friends in 8th grade. I talked to no one and know one tried talking to me. Going that long without talking to anyone and having no friends, i developed some social anxiety and became shy. I remember by the end of the year, wanting to talk to people but I just couldn't. there was this other kid at lunch who sat by himself that I saw everyday, and I sat close to him. I wanted to talk to him so bad just so i could have a friend but, but no matter what I did, what mental tricks i put myself through I could never bring myself to start a conversation with him. And tried a ton of times before school let out but i just couldnt do it. Being shy sucks and I dont recommend it to anyone.
Anyways 9th grade comes around and I signed up for football. In 7th grade the program I was in would pay for any sport i wanted and my mom signed me up for football and I was pretty good at it. Our coach said that if we had the chance, we should sign up for our schools team when we could and I just kinda decided to go for it. I also took a weight lifting class in 8th grade so I was fit enough.
A shy nerd playing football, what could go wrong right? well it turns out I was really really good because I had better reactions than everyone. When I played, my body would move on its own and it always did the right thing. Playing on pure reflexes is actually pretty damn effective in football. I wasnt the fastest, or strongest player on the team, but I was without a doubt the best player on the team because no one could beat me in drills and I got more sacks and tackles in games than everyone else on the team combined. There was one game where the other team started triple teaming me and completely shut down our defense, so our coachs strategy for beating that was to send one of the line backers in to take one of the guys off of me, because I could deal with a double team no problem.
Now let me tell you what happens when you become the best player on your schools football team, because 9th grade where I lived was still middleschool. You make a lot of friends whether you want to or not. There is no keeping to yourself anymore, because everyone is trying to be your best friend. Going from no one talking to me for a year, to everyone wanting to be my friends was a little jarring at first. Now I was still shy as shit but I was starting to come out of my shell. In 9th grade i was moved into all advance classes, because I kept getting a 100% on all my tests and the kids in the advance classes where so much more my type.
In advance algebra this guy who sat next to me looked like your stereotypical pot head, but had a mind like a calculator. I'd never seen a real genius before I met this kid. Since we both always got 100% on our tests we raced to see who could finish their test first. Since the dude had a brain like a calculator he always won, but I got close sometimes. So anyway I made a lot of friends and had a great time until the end of the year.
9th grade for me was around the time that myspace was all the rage and we got a new computer and I had all these people who wanted to add me to myspace so I made an account.
Now i'd get random messages from people I'd never met before all the time because of my football popularity but this one girl kept messaging me eveyday. She could keep the conversation going no matter what the hell it was and I literally talked about nothing. My social skills at this time where poor as shit but she acted like I was the funniest, most interesting person in the world and I fell for her hard.
She wasnt in any of my classes so we decided to meet up afterschool and she was way cuter than her picture and I was totally on cloud 9. Anyways, after being friends for 6-8 months she stopped talking to me one day out of the blue and blocked me on myspace. I had made some other really cool lady freinds before i met her and she did not like any of them and told me to stop talking to them. So i did like a little bitch, but one of these girls made a public comment on my myspace page, or however wall posts worked in myspace. she saw and super over reacted by removing me from her life.
Seeing as I was super in love with this girl and in the middle of puberty, where your emotions are stronger than they will ever be, I took it pretty damn hard.
About 2 weeks after said girl stopped talking to me, a good friend of mine tried to kill himself after being rejected by a girl he liked. I went and visited him in the hospital and he was not playing around, or doing it for attention. I'm not sure how he survived to be honest, but I hate to say it but that event helped me a little. I decided to do something about this crippling depression so i wouldn't go down the same path he did and learned how to turn off my emotions with lots of practice.
now the trick to turning off your emotions is actually pretty easy, it follows the same principal as saying a word over and over until it loses its meaning. What i did was focus on the emotion intensely whenever i felt anything, sad, happy, it didnt matter because I needed practice. I would focus on it, and internalize it like "so this is sad. I can feel it in my stomach. If I stand still I can feel it. So this is the emotion." After doing that for a few minutes the emotion just goes away. It wasnt until college that i realized this is called internationalization, a way to cope with stress.
Anyway after a while I didnt need to consciously intellectualize my emotions anymore because I did it automatically from doing it all the time and entered 10th grade with no emotions.
Now let me tell you what living a year with no emotions is like. School work was super easy, i've never been able to concentrate so intently on work in my whole life. I still had friends from middle school, and just latched onto them and didnt talk much. In my football JV team I was no longer the best player on the team, but i was still one of the best and got the nick name Serial Killer because I never talked to anyone or celebrated after getting sacks and tackles in games like everyone else. That year was, I dont know how to describe it. It wasnt bad, but it wasnt good either. It was so so. Interesting to say the least. It also killed my joy of watching the show dexter, because for someone whos suppose to not have emotion he sure does show a lot of fucking emotion.
But anyway, the summer before 11th grade I turned 16 and my mom made me get a job and working in customer service all summer pulled me out of that trance.
(End of script, probably got tired of typing for the day and just never finished it upon a re-read)
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