Breakfast Topic: WoW analogies
by Eliah Hecht 
Jun 4th 2009 at 8:00AM
I don't know if it's because I blog about WoW, or just because I play a fair amount of it, but analogies between WoW and other parts of life constantly leap into my mind. This happens often enough in everyday conversation that it doesn't even annoy my girlfriend anymore; she's just used to it.
Most recently, I was at a large family event, maybe 30 people. I was noticing how hard it was to get the entire group to do anything - waiting for people to get ready, deciding what to do, etc. I immediately thought of 25-man raiding, with its horrendous logistics. By comparison, a group of 10 people, in raids or real life, is much more manageable.
What sorts of WoW analogies have occurred to you recently? Or am alone in this particular affliction?
Filed under: Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Doonami Jun 4th 2009 8:12AM
I often think of grocery shopping as questing, with my notepad of what-to-buy as my log. Planning out the fastest routes around a shopping centre kin my head, just like waypoints on questhelper.
Robert M Jun 4th 2009 10:10AM
Want to download grocery store carbonite!
nokturnus Jun 5th 2009 12:07PM
@Robert M
Here is your carbonite, still seems in beta though :D
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5241034/Elderly-shoppers-to-get-sat-nav-gadget-to-find-their-way-around-supermarkets.html
Erthshade Jun 4th 2009 8:13AM
The only one that occurs to me this early in the morning is that I must be level 80, 'cause I can't get any rest state.
Alanid Jun 4th 2009 8:20AM
you sir win 1 internets
Jaxson Jun 4th 2009 10:42AM
Best. Comment. Ever!
I feel exactly the same way.
Sinthar Jun 4th 2009 11:24AM
Erm strangely enough you DO still enter rest state at 80, you get the zzz on your chr, you just dont benefit from it (no double xp)
Burntpepperoni Jun 4th 2009 8:28AM
I am constantly considering different management styles whenever I'm grouping or raiding. Sometimes when raiding with a newer group (raid leader here) and a fewer more experienced members I'll even pull out good cop bad cop. I'm usually the good cop because I can't sustain that kind of anger for long. I get to say things like, "Aw come on, it wasn't that bad -- REALLY it is hard to get out of the green stuff sometimes."
Also I get really picky about camera placement sometimes in-game -- occasionally to the point where I think to myself, "Wow, isn't that a nice shot?" immediately followed by, "Oh crap." And then I'm dead. My guildies who know what I do for a living (digital media producer) can get impatient with how I line up my screen shots for first kills, but they also know that it IS going to be a better picture.
thevitruvianman Jun 4th 2009 11:30AM
While I don't do it for a living, I've always been into photography as a hobby. I too have got myself killed many times trying to get the perfect screenshot in WoW.
KJP Jun 4th 2009 8:23AM
Doing dailies after a raid feels like going back to work immediately after a party.
Royal Jun 4th 2009 8:23AM
I would love to give my WoW addicted husband achievements for doing his daily chores and not just dailies in game -.-'
Maybe then he would be motivated to do his chores.
Myaku Jun 4th 2009 8:55AM
You should check out: http://www.chorewars.com/
While not exactly achievements, it makes housework strangely fun.
paragorillabear Jun 4th 2009 2:52PM
I can think of a few Achievements you could give him...
BOIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG!!!!!
Stib Jun 4th 2009 8:27AM
you think leading 25mans are hard? try leading 40 mans pre bc!
Magresda Jun 4th 2009 8:29AM
Why do you think they scrapped 40-man raids?
crsh Jun 5th 2009 7:25AM
Hehe, 40-man raids were such a logistical nightmare, the content was great but oh how I don't miss waiting around for 30+ people to get their gear in check before being able to just start clearing trash mobs.
In before "you didn't need 30+ to clear trash, maybe you were bad?"
ziggler Jun 4th 2009 8:33AM
Being a mage in game constantly gets me begging for some of my powers irl. How many times have i though about teleporting, getting invisibility to avoid speaking with someone (or more recently mirror image to blend in a big crowd) or having blink for the walk home from work.
Wulfkin Jun 4th 2009 8:39AM
http://www.npccomic.com/2009/04/07/purple-death-puddles/
Gamer am I Jun 4th 2009 9:13AM
Well done sir.
Izumie Jun 4th 2009 8:40AM
I play WoW way more than my husband, and I've pretty much learned to "log out" when I'm logged out. Occasionally though, when we're driving, or going for a hike, my husband will come out with something like, "This looks like Silverpine." And I'll make some comment that we'd better watch out for gnolls, which will lead to some discussion about what it would be like to actually live in WoW. It gets pretty funny, and usually ends with how i would survive (being a hunter and having a RL "wolf"), and he would die and have to do a corpse run.
Anyway, it makes for some funny conversations... but I try to keep my Warcraft mind for when I'm actually in game.