I went riding today. I've been doing a lot of that lately. I mean I have a motorcycle, not like I'm not gonna ride. I did some easier roads today, with less turns and hills so I could keep my speed up. I'm getting pretty good at riding; it's a lot like skiing, I'm starting to feel more confident in the tucks and lay-down turns. It's real chill.
So two posts ago or so I was talking about how interested people seem to be in virtual worlds. I will admit that I've been spending some of my spare time playing World of Warcraft out of pure boredom. Let me clarify something right quick: I am not very good at that game.
Like so many people with no girlfriends devote so much time and effort to making their little fantasy characters the most powerful in the world (of warcraft) and I'm just fucking around killing other players for fun.
There are people that piss me off because they wanna be (or think they are) pilots when they have no fucking clue what it takes or what it means. Everyone just fucks around and acts like flying a plane is easy and they're gonna waltz into the airport, take the keys to a plane, and go fly to Atlanta. Bottom line they don't fucking know what they're doing nor do they care. Yeah that's how I am with World of Warcraft.
There are some people who are professional World of Warcraft players. People who are so adept at the game that they can produce quantities and qualities of shit and sell it for real money. While doing that, they're learning street-smarts programming so they can effectively play god of the world (of warcraft). Then once they get noticed by the parent company "Blizzard" for cheating the game for monetary benefit, Blizzard fucking hires them. If you can't beat them, recruit them. So the world is really governed by super smart, super efficient, and super nerdy guys who've gone rogue and then joined the ranks of Blizzard.
World of Warcraft is a marvel of computer programming. It should really be one of the 7 wonders of the man-made world. The fact that they literally landscaped hundreds of square miles from nothing, created several independent infrastructures, then made up rules of physics that actually work is incredible. Over ten million people play this game, which creates an active society with a fluctuating economic market. Some people are rich and some people are poor.
Competition is derived among players, which then makes some players celebrities in the game who are talented enough to defeat everyone. Players who may not be exactly celebrities, but develop "get rich quick" schemes have the power to buy anything in the world (of warcraft) with virtual gold including slaves, who are actually other players that need money!
Blizzard created like 3 languages so that players from different regions in the (world of warcraft) can't understand each other! After like three years of the games release, almost enough time to explore half of the world, they write more code and make a new planet! And only the most powerful players can access the portal to get there! Shortly after that, fucking Christopher Columbus of Azeroth finds a new continent, and there's even MORE shit to do!
Blizzard wrote like 10,000 years of history. And I mean this shit is DENSE. Blizzard has written a more detailed fictitious history for their world, than human society currently has of it's own. Yeah Skyrim doesn't have shit on Blizzard's level. Blizzard has recreated a universe that is bigger and better than the real one. It's amazing...
And this entire alternative universe is only 10 gigabytes! It's incredible! People have offed themselves because they couldn't handle the reality of the fact that it's just a game. No fucking wonder!
Despite it being just a game, it seems that I am the only person that treats it as such. People live out their life more in the game than in reality. With this game being as ridiculously massive as it is, it's really fun. It provides more entertainment than just about any other game I know of. Like compared to watching TV, this game is awesome.
But compared to riding a motorcycle, flying a plane, throwing a party, liking a girl, or catching up with your bros; World of Warcraft can't keep up because it's not reality. My real life doesn't suck. So I guess that's why I'm able to not take World of Warcraft seriously.
But it is fun. And like the cigarette companies Blizzard is getting billions of dollars, pounds, yen, euros, franks, pesos, etc. But they fucking deserve it! Blizzard has more patience to create all this shit than the Egyptians did with the pyramids. Having written a few computer programs myself, I can't fathom the headaches derived from writing billions if not trillions of lines of interlocking code to create a near flawless utopia in the minds of 12 million imaginative players.
Hats off to them, really. But I'm done writing this, until next time.
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