What Gives Me the Right? 0
A short while ago I posted something I had written a long while ago. It went like this: “people who think might makes right are pretty much assholes.”
Since then, I’ve had an opportunity to call myself an asshole for doing just that.
When it comes to PvP, I thought of myself as a “nice guy.” I don’t attack other players unprovoked. I thought this meant my philosophy was, “don’t be a dick.” But that explanation didn’t quite cover my actions. You see, while I am definitely not a dick “because I can,” I most certainly AM a dick to people who choose to be a dick to me first. If you kill me for no reason, I absolutely will retaliate. If you kill me while I’m doing an escort quest or fighting mobs or weakened for some reason, I will retaliate three three fold. I happen to be a class that is especially suited for world PvP retaliation, and I happen to be a HUGE dick when I think people deserve it.
I was participating in a “Fishing Contest” that takes place in the game world. Winning the contest nets you a neat fishing pole (which I already have) or a neat trinket (which I don’t need). I wasn’t there to win. I was there because I wanted one of the rare fish you could only catch during the contest. I happen to know that this contest is generally ruthless, so I tried to fish off the beaten path. It didn’t work. A particularly well-geared shaman found me and started attacking me. I attacked back. I came to realize he had pretty nearly infinite mana, and my mediocre dps and inability to interrupt his heals sufficiently meant that I wasn’t going to be able to kill him. That’s fine, I told myself, as I swam to my escape. As I swam back to that area, however, I found him standing by the fishing pool but not fishing. He was “spotting” for his friend, who came up a bit later. His friend was trying to win the contest, and he aimed to help his friend win by attacking any other person fishing they came across. Well, that didn’t sit right with me, so I decided to do something about it. I decided that this guy would not successfully help his friend win the fishing contest. How did I do that? By casting a stun spell on his friend (which interrupted his fishing) and then swimming away (preventing them from following and killing me). I did this over and over for the next 20 minutes until someone else won the contest and these two left.
They messed with the wrong druid, ya know?
I’m a self righteous dick. I decide that you won’t win the fishing contest and then make it so; not because I am skilled enough to take on two people who outgear me, but because my class just happens to have the skills that make it possible for me to pull it off.
I’ve thought about it quite a bit recently and I can’t justify it as anything other than that “asshole philosophy” I mentioned earlier. No, I don’t apply the philosophy to people who don’t “deserve it” in my opinion (well… unless they’re friends with someone who does deserve it I guess), but I sure take advantage of such a philosophy whenever I get the chance. It’s sort of the basic reason I have fun on a PvP server, I like the feeling of power that comes along with punishing someone who I think is a jerk. It’s probably very similar to the feeling of power those jerks get when killing someone who is low on life fighting 3 mobs.
Sure I consider myself better than them, but we run on the same juice. Philosophically I’d say my original “don’t be a dick” philosophy still stands, it just has the rather “Punisher-esque” caveat that if someone is a dick to me or my friends, then I will turn their philosophy against them. I’m like a gentle giant who turns into a douche when you are mean 
At the end of GameStorm 10 I got to talking to one of my buddies I frequently play Arcanis with. Steve told me about a SpyCraft 2.0 campaign he was running that really caught my attention. Using the various expansions available he was running a fantasy campaign.
Jak to bude dál? Opět je důležité si položit tuto otázku, když jsem se dnes dozvěděl na filletzzovém blogu. Náš oblíbený (možná ten nej v ČR 
WoW free server se rozhodl nadělovat – přidání nového realmu – Mangos je tady. A přichází další důležité rozhodnutí. Trochu jsem to pobral i se samotným filletzzem. S největší pravděpodobností je na řadě rozloučení s WoWEmu a přechod na Mangos. Za prvé, Mangos je stabilnější, za druhé – příjde mi zbytečné levelovat dále na WoWEmu, když za chvíli tam už skoro nikdo nebude, ano věřím tomu, že za chvíli všichni přesedlají na Mangos. Takže je to tu zase, už mě to přestává bavit :D. Zbývá jen vyčistit místo na disku, stáhnout 500 mb patch (s mou rychlostí mimochodem obrovský problém), zprovoznit a jde se na to. Je mi to líto, Cane sbohem. Byla to super zábava, ale nedá se nic dělat, možná ještě někdy se s tebou setkám, co víte? Každopádně je tu i další výhoda, všichni byli nuceni začít od začátku, tak se i potkám s filletzzem už od začátku, který teď jede za Trolla a jako Hunter. Já nejspíš… nebudu prozrazovat – menší překvapení. Uvidíme, kdy začneme, každopádně se to dozvíte až nejdříve 25. prosince. Snad už zítra budu moct Mangos vyzkoušet. Vítej nový Cane! Ovšem o “poslední” řeči Cana vás nepřipravím. Jo a co se týče megapostu, jehož vydání se teď trošku zkomplikovalo (bylo plánované na 40./”60.” výročí), ale vypadá to, že ani tu 40 a ani tu 60 nedám, tak se snad (doufejme všichni) dočkáme o Silvestra. (UPDATE 21.08.08 - xDD)
