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PocketFox ([info]pocketfox) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2008-12-13 10:39:00


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Current mood:*sporfle!*

WoW Wank that ISN'T on the Official Forums!
So, as some of my fellow WoW junkies may have discovered, the recent 3.0 patch for the Wrath of the Lich King thoroughly broke the user-created WoW Model Viewer program.

On the forums for the WMV, there is a post by pseudo-admin Zayfox offering steps to help fix the problem by essentially fooling the program into thinking you're actually using a version of WoW that only goes up to patch 2.4.3. The steps are fairly involved, involving quite a bit of copying, pasting, moving, reinstalling, repatching, and messing around in the registry that some people might be uncomfortable with.

For the first couple pages things are fine. People say "yay, this totally worked!" or "hey, I still have a few questions", and life goes on. There are a lot of problems for people who run Vista, but overall things are peaceful and polite. Then faithfeen dares to mention fixed bandwidth problems and to ask for a possible "light alternative" until an actual 3.0-compliant version of the program is out.


Zayfox: Yes, Oh Demanding One. But until  I get the code from chuanhsing, I'm not doing anything. I'm on capped internet too, but I don't tell everyone.
If you love it as much as you say you will think logically and download the "copypasted" version of WoW on the last day of your download plan.


faithfeen replies saying s/he already planned on doing that, and only mentioned bandwidth to clarify that s/he was "not not following the steps because I 'don't feel like it'". Once again, life goes on...

That is until Throatslit feels the need to point out that anybody who isn't thoroughly and blissfully happy with this fix is obviously being totally unappreciative! And this is where Zayfox starts putting on his martyr hat.

Zayfox: Throatslit, thank you =) I worked through the night on the program and almost missed an exam at school the next day.

You see, he's sacrificing his education for you people!

Things really start getting fun when Redith137 shows up. He admits to being "tech dumb" and basically asks for a bit more clarification. Foxboron wonders how Redith137 managed to register on the forums since he apparently can't read. Zayfox essentially tells Redith137 he must be stupider than a 10-year-old if he's having trouble.

A few posts later, someone mentions a perfectly legitimate issue regarding the companion Map Viewer program, and Zayfox feels this is grounds to warn us all that we'll be sorry if we aren't nicer to him! User Muffiny agrees, and reminds Zayfox that such is the tortured life of a developer, and all these people with problems are just "inconsiderate". (And here I thought a program developer might appreciate being alerted to various problems with their programs and hotfixes...) The previously mentioned Pinkhair pipes up with some surprise that Zayfox is taking all this so harshly, and Zayfox proceeds to reply to her and several other posts (including one apparently deleted one) in a great passive-aggressive way.

After this things are quiet... for all of half a page, when user Ziya dares to commit the ultimate sin of offering their own version of the step-by-step instructions that might help those who might have problems and that (at least to me) read more easily than Zayfox's original post. Zayfox is not happy.

Zayfox: Dunno who the hell you think you are.
2 things:
1) This is my help thread, don't tell people they can wait. I'm working on a fix.
2) what you did is the same as my way my way, all you did is write a load of crap in it as well.
Kindly don't reply to this thread again unless you have thanks, questions or suggestions.


So... apparently Zayfox is the only one who can tell people they need to sit on their hands and wait for a fix, as well as the only one who is allowed to write step-by-step instructions. And I think he forgot to mention that only thanks are welcome, but all questions and suggestions must be approved first, or else they risk a snarky and butthurt reply.

User Selkhet fires back, pointing out that Ziya was only trying to help. Zayfox doesn't like this either.

Zayfox: Next time I'm abused, I'm removing my patches from here and leaving, I'm fed up of the sh¡t I get from the people here. So RAWR!

That's right, folks. He'll take his toys and go home, and it'll be all your fault for being so MEAN to him!

Muffiny shows up again, with a version of the "don't leave, we luv u!" post. Actual administrator hellfire delivers a very mild stfu, and hjklmnop tries to get everybody to just take a pill. But Zayfox has one last reminder about how much he suffers for you people.

It peters out around there, aside from one honestly humorous post by Pinkhair comparing the hotfix to making tasty sandwiches. Rather disappointing that it ended with such a whimper, rather than a bang, but seeing as there still is no 3.0-compliant version of the viewer, we may not be done here yet.

ETA: The forums seem to have asploded for the moment. Woe.


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[info]the__ivorytower
2008-12-14 02:20 am UTC (link)
That's a mighty fine amount of geek rage.

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[info]bleachedclouds
2008-12-14 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Tasty, tasty raw egg geek rage.

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[info]reeve
2008-12-14 04:23 am UTC (link)
Something tells me Zayfox wouldn't last long on an open-source project...

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-14 05:46 am UTC (link)
He stayed up all night and almost missed an exam. OK. That is called procrastinating and the last time I checked you can't blame other people unless you have the borderline personalities taking over and even then...

Also hellfire is fabulous admin name, while hljklmnop looks like something on a Danish menu. Perhaps something with herring.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-12-14 07:51 am UTC (link)
Pickled herring and vodka!

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-14 08:19 am UTC (link)
God, the hangover would be disgusting.

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[info]aloysius
2008-12-14 09:08 am UTC (link)
That's exactly what we have for Easter. And the hangovers are indeed disgusting.

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-14 09:13 pm UTC (link)
I guess Jesus suffered too...

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-12-14 10:05 pm UTC (link)
This is the funniest thing I have read all day.

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[info]brennalarose
2008-12-15 02:38 am UTC (link)
You both win Marie Antoinette's cakes

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-15 03:03 am UTC (link)
*wears them as a bra*

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[info]brennalarose
2008-12-15 08:11 pm UTC (link)
I never thought of doing that! *makes a note*

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[info]seldomnaughty
2008-12-14 10:47 pm UTC (link)
*swoops in from nowhere*

I heard the Finnish foodie call. What's going on?

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[info]lady7jane
2008-12-14 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Also hellfire is fabulous admin name

No! It's forever tainted! I suppose it was fine when it just represented eternal torment, but now it's something truly horrible.

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-14 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I totally missed those wanks. That was the year I was so busy I stayed off LJ and JF almost completely.

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[info]demonbean
2008-12-16 02:05 am UTC (link)
In case it isn't too late for you, don't go to the main site (incestboard or some such).

I mean, that's just my advice.

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[info]ari_o
2008-12-16 02:53 am UTC (link)
Reading the wiki was enough--yeah.

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[info]cyndra_falin
2008-12-14 10:53 pm UTC (link)
I wasnt around for those wanks. Wow. *blinks*

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[info]pfeffermuse
2008-12-14 11:46 pm UTC (link)
And to think I'd almost forgotten about daddy's little girl.

As for her other wank, somehow I missed that one completely.

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[info]syncopation
2008-12-27 07:33 am UTC (link)
He stayed up all night and almost missed an exam. OK. That is called procrastinating and the last time I checked you can't blame other people unless you have the borderline personalities taking over and even then...
You win an internet.

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[info]nonnyeve
2008-12-14 06:21 am UTC (link)
I'm surprised there isn't wank going on about the gender change options that just opened up.

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iwanttobeasleep
2008-12-14 09:31 am UTC (link)
I saw some. Just what'd you'd expect, a lot of oldbies going "In my day when we dinged 60 and didn't like our hair color, we deleted the character with full t3 gear and rerolled something with a slightly more yellow blond. Fucking n00bs."

And, surprisingly, a lot of people complaining that Blizzard was going against what they said. Because that means anything.

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[info]msilverstar
2008-12-14 11:36 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, Blizzard going against what they said is complete wankbait.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-12-14 09:56 am UTC (link)
Personally I feel this option would have been worth the $15 only if 1) they hadn't already given us free in-game hair changes and 2) they had offered us some new alternative options to go with the new changes. I've been pining for ages to give my human mage a less fugly face, and I might take this opportunity, except that, uh, all the faces are equally fugly. :|

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[info]stromatolite
2008-12-15 01:11 am UTC (link)
I feel that the human male hare lip evens the ugly factor when you consider they're the only characters to have tabards map nicely across their chests. That being said, can't Blizzard just fix both of those problems?

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-12-14 09:55 am UTC (link)
Zayfox has failed to realize that technical writing is something you outsource to other people so you don't have to do it, and failing to appreciate that he can get it for free here! Speaking of ingratitude.

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[info]lirazel
2008-12-15 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Word.

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[info]dottiness
2008-12-14 10:25 am UTC (link)
WOW wank! It's always so strange and foreign compared to just about every other fandom in the world, but boy, they don't mess around when they get going, do they?

Zayfox sure has a big martyr complex, doesn't he? Wow.

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[info]nightfalltwen
2008-12-14 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Mmmm I think I'm going to have a tasty sandwich right now. Minus any raw egg of course.

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[info]greenling
2008-12-14 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Now I want a BLT with egg. :<

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[info]nightfalltwen
2008-12-14 06:04 pm UTC (link)
Mmmm even better? BLT with cheese melted on the bacon and that egg. So long as it's cooked.

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[info]mornmeril
2008-12-14 05:55 pm UTC (link)
I leavez the internetz 4 evar, kthx!

Well go, at least one less idiot to make us WoW players look bad.

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[info]tisiphone
2008-12-14 07:58 pm UTC (link)

Maybe this kid is a tester at Obsidian Ent, it would explain so much.

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[info]annepackrat
2008-12-14 09:22 pm UTC (link)
From Foxboron:

"wow how did you rigster when you can read properly?"

Apparently literacy is not a requirement for registering if Foxboron managed to do it.

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[info]lirazel
2008-12-15 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Maybe they use the option that lets you pick out the pictures of kitties. :3

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[info]kashira
2008-12-15 03:36 am UTC (link)
With a name like "Zayfox" I suspect furries, which makes everything much less surprising and much more hilarious.

BAWWW YOU GUYS DON'T APPRECIATE MY ~EFFORT~!! FURSECUTION!!!

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[info]aerobot
2008-12-15 04:06 am UTC (link)
Hmm. This is always happening more and more.

1. People who think the internet and everything else revolves around them. When they want something, they expect and demand it.


No, THIS is something that keeps happening more and more. If anyone so much as gives constructive criticism or a complaint or anything less than e-fellatio, someone starts bitching about how demanding and selfish people are on the internet and how dare they be so ungrateful blah blah blah.

No, I'm not slightly bitter about getting this response after crafting a long, TL;DR post of helpful con-crit, of course not. *wipes up*

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[info]sorchar
2008-12-15 06:58 am UTC (link)
I used to have a cat named Selkhet, only spelled Selket. I miss her. :(

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[info]nos
2008-12-15 06:52 pm UTC (link)
Ah wow wank.

I basically live on the customer service forum, and most people think that the intentional break was a side effect of making it nearly impossible to host private servers now.

I wish the last wank I saw there hadn't been baleeted. Basically, a bunch of people started complaining to Blizzard that people in the armed forces were getting 'free powerleveling'. ....From an illegal powerleveling company. Who was actually stealing the accounts instead of powerleveling them. My response was to tell people that anyone taking advantage of such an 'offer' would be banned if caught, be they military or the President of the USA.

...this thread went on for 20 pages of demanding that Blizzard no longer treat the military more spechul than them. *facepalm*

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[info]ghostmaster
2008-12-15 10:35 pm UTC (link)
I keep reading Zayfox as Gayfox.

Also, the wank seems to have been deleted.

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