Solo is the new Gimp!

[Tamu]

Glad to have you back, V. Sorry to learn about your guild problems, though. I would definitely not stick around with that guild if I had gone through your experience, especially after I read some comments from a pally named Athore who applied to one of the guilds on Garithos.

You know Athore? Small world!

Suvega likes to call him "Pro-thore" in a very sarcastic manner.

No I don't know him, I just noticed that he applied to a guild I still have friends in and when I looked at his armory I noticed that he was in a guild I'd heard of before. I finally remembered that it was the guild you and Suvega are in. They denied his app, btw. He didn't do a good job of selling himself as a favorable guild-mate.

[Kel]

girls cannot perform in video games at the same level as men.

Grrrr I hate people like this.

I've never tried to hide being female, at the same time I don't shove it anyone's face either, to me the gender of the person playing the character isn't important. I care more about their attitude, personality and skill. Luckily I've only had one person say this to me in my 2 years of playing wow, and that was someone at level 10 to my (second) level 60 character. But he was generally an immature brat and ended up getting kicked out of my guild at the time (not soon enough for my liking, but the GL was one of those people who hopes everyone will get along) and then pretty much got kicked out of every other guild he joined all the way up to 70.

Luckily my current guild is nice because:
a) My bfs the GL
b) we have an 18+ age limit (I'm not saying that younger people can't be more mature or vice versa, but I think it helps us get less annoying wanks in the guild). I think our marketing as a 'mature' guild helps encourage more applications from 'mature' people.
c) we have a fairly large number of active females in the guild (+1 if you include a male guildie who's decided he's a teenage girl), most with mics, so it's not a case of 'omg there's a gurl here!11!!!!!11!'

Female gamers are rarer, but that's not because they are any worse at the game than males. I wish people would judge others on attributes that actually matter to the situation in hand, rather than steretypes which have no real relevance in a game environment.

[Vyndree]

I'm having more fun times with a spammer harassing me via blog comments. I hate to have to censor him by removing all of his oh-so-lovely posts, so instead I provided a link to them and his IP address for all to see.

http://vboxing.net/blog/webs.php/200...1/dear-spammer


Enjoy the trash that is the intarwebz and the reason why Vyndree does in fact need to take breaks from these kinds of people.

[Maz]

Lulz!

[Zaelar]

b) we have an 18+ age limit

I wish people would judge others on attributes that actually matter to the situation in hand, rather than steretypes which have no real relevance in a game environment.

Hypocrite. You could replace age with gender(with female = younger) and you have the exact same situation. Younger will generally be worse than older, and female will generally be worse than male. I have no statistics(I could make some up if you'd like) for either of these, but from my experience they both hold true. It's prejudice to use either as a rule for who can join unless there is a 0% chance that one side will be able to meet the performance requirements, which doesn't happen in wow. Bullshit requirements that have no relevance don't count, which is the whole point.

PS if you want mature players just require a 4 year college degree.

[Djarid]

I don't agree, admittedly the posted reason for the 18+ rule is for maturity in members but I think that an 18+ rule is important in some guilds.

I was an officer in a guild in the distant past (1.8) and we had huge guild drama because we had minors in the ranks and the behaviour in GC was unsuitable for that audience. If that guild had an 18+ rule then this would not have been an issue.

[Ðeceased]

Hypocrite. You could replace age with gender(with female = younger) and you have the exact same situation. Younger will generally be worse than older, and female will generally be worse than male. I have no statistics(I could make some up if you'd like) for either of these, but from my experience they both hold true. It's prejudice to use either as a rule for who can join unless there is a 0% chance that one side will be able to meet the performance requirements, which doesn't happen in wow. Bullshit requirements that have no relevance don't count, which is the whole point.

PS if you want mature players just require a 4 year college degree.

While I agree that rule is somewhat hypocritical there are added reasons why this might be implemented, aside from not wanting immature players around (immature=younger? not always imo)

the 18+ rule is often also implemented to provide a guild with a means of expression which would otherwise have to be curtailed in the presence of -18. We are talking; language, inappropriate conversational topics etcetc and whilst many a -18 are likely to dispute that as an adequate or valid reason for a declined application or exclusion from a guild, it is for their protection and protection for their current guild members.

That is not to say I agree with it. Personally I disagree with any exclusion (except for under 12s - due to that being the games player age!) based on a players age, sex, race or nationality, to name but a few. However i will make an exception for those being nublets, asshats and otherwise offensive or argumentative for no reason but to be such.

(+1 if you include a male guildie who's decided he's a teenage girl)

inch:

Edit: gah soz Djarid - my brain hasn't been working recently and ur post past me by. take mine as a confirmation of your own inch:

[Yamio]

/throws in two cents

Sorry, but having a degree doesn't make you a grownup, nor does it automatically make you intelligent. I'm sure most of us have ran into people with degrees who've seriously made you think they wasted money on their education.

IMO having a degree only means you have the tenacity to stay with something until completion. Other than that a degree means nothing when speaking of someone's level of maturity.

[Ðeceased]

http://vboxing.net/blog/webs.php/2008/05/01/dear-spammer[/url]

Enjoy the trash that is the intarwebz and the reason why Vyndree does in fact need to take breaks from these kinds of people.

/facepalm

some ppl are just silly

I feel some hacking coming on :P
Ð's to do list:

1) New entry: learn how to hack
2) become a billionaire
3) use most of those billions to help with world issues (noble cause inch: )
4) use the leftover billions to develop 4 clones of myself and equip all of us with long ranged cattle prods

[Ðeceased]

/throws in two cents

Sorry, but having a degree doesn't make you a grownup, nor does it automatically make you intelligent. I'm sure most of us have ran into people with degrees who've seriously made you think they wasted money on their education.

IMO having a degree only means you have the tenacity to stay with something until completion. Other than that a degree means nothing when speaking of someone's level of maturity.

fully agree ^^ take the newest batch on "The Apprentice UK" !!!!