Where Politics And Video Games Collide

I'm trying - I just can't seem to scratch up any sympathy here. In the first place I could never quite understand the mentality that X dollars a month, "entitles" the payer to flawless service for that month. It does not. If lag were due to some kind of inaction or incompetence on Blizzard's part, in terms of network maintenance, then maybe they'd have a legitimate complaint. These people who are highlighting that it takes weeks of planning to put a raid together, probably should've, I dunno, rescheduled? It's not like they were keeping the march a secret. Besides, WoW is notorious for being the worst of the worst in terms of clientele. It's a natural by-product of its gargantuan size. It tends to attract a breed of player that, let's face it, you're probably better off not getting to know.

Say what you will about the Ron Paul'ers, at least they were semi-aware of the world around them and chose to support an event that didn't immediately benefit them or amount to an elaborate scheme to gank noobs. Seems to me that speaks of at least some desirable qualities.

I'm not quite thinking of the "read a book" (though it couldn't hurt); Here's the thing. We're in an election year. Unless you wall yourself off in a room somewhere and don't come out until 2K9, the election WILL disrupt your life somehow. Maybe because of signs on the freeway, maybe because of political ads. Maybe telemarketers will call you for ballot issues, maybe just because you live near your polling place and get stuck in traffic. I don't know. Either way, I don't see this being a whole lot different. So the election disrupted your life in WoW, get used to it. It's not like it's much of a realism game anyway, people scream ads on the broadcast channels for pete sake.

Like I said, it's an election year and the iowa caucases are tomorrow. You might as well get used to it.