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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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7:54p - Because it had to be said...
"We are aware of the latency and stability issues in this realm."
If you play World of Warcraft at all, you know that this is Blizzard-speak for "We're really fucking this up, but we know we'll still have your money at the end of the month, so... I mean, the devs have this Project Runway pool and it's on in a few minutes, and we're busy popping popcorn to throw at the TV whenever Santino comes on, and you understand. Or you don't, but whatever."
I think it would be awesome if, whenever you have a problem in real life, you can act with impunity and refuse to fix whatever's wrong - and you can only suffer repercussions if thousands of people can overcome their addictions to you at once. You know, like what happened with the crippled morass that is Star Wars Galaxies. (Seriously, anyone still play that? Everyone I know jumped to WoW.)
My own latency and stability issues are as follows:
1. I HATE the phone. I do not feel it is my obligation to answer the phone when it rings, and I will frequently just feel like not talking. This does NOT mean to call my cell phone several times in succession, because then I will assume you are having an emergency of some kind. If you call me over and over for trivial shit, I am therefore absolved from blame if you actually HAVE an emergency and I don't answer.
And when I say I HATE the phone, I mean it causes my attention problems to skyrocket, and reaches physical pain because I just do not know what to do, like, on a neural level with bad connections and static and fifty thousand things demanding my attention at once, and then hello migraine and irritability. Because I am also an auditory epileptic, sometimes I am better equipped to handle certain frequencies than other times. Some days I only have seizures at night, but some days it creeps into waking hours, and static and feedback happen to be two of my bad frequencies. (I'm good at concerts. If there's going to be the slightest problem with mic frequency, I can tell long before the sound guys ever will.) According to my EEG, I can have minute seizures when I blink and not really even be aware of it. It doesn't always happen, and it's not like I'll have a grand mal just because of the phone, but when I do not answer, it usually means that physically I am not up for a conversation, even a short one.
So everyone's on notice, and I'll tell you I need to go if I answer the phone and things go wonky, or I won't answer at all, and if you behave like there's an emergency when there's NOT, the gloves will then come off. I've made my preference for e-mail over phone calls well-known anyway. My livejournal e-mail address forwards to my "real" one, so it's not like I'm hard to reach.
2. Pineapple and mango. I am allergic. Well, not so much allergic, as "projectile vomit upon ingestion." With pineapple, I have about .5 seconds to get to the nearest receptacle. Pineapple I can live without - but if I were not allergic to mango, I would likely eat nothing else. It is my favorite food. Specifically, mangoes from Costa Rica. If they ever wind up at the grocery store, I'm eating them even if I have to go to the hospital because of it. Mango in pot roast? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, dude. Oh, man.
I'm also mildly allergic in the same way to papaya, but not enough to put me off of it particularly if it's in milkshake form, and starfruit, but I think it tastes vile so no problems there.
3. I have insanely high standards... for myself. I don't care if other people don't have a 4.0, or don't know how to write copperplate calligraphy, or can't read archaic Romance dialects. I have issues with things coming easily to me, but at the same time, it bugs me to not be able to understand something or to not be really, really good at something I enjoy. If you're happy doing your thing, that's great, and that's all you should ever expect of yourself. And that's all I expect of any of you. Because I like you. People I don't like are doomed to be horrible, miserable failures at life and everything, because it makes my day enjoyable.
4. Any given day, I think most of y'all are better than me. This is an indisputable fact. People I like are better than me; people I don't like aren't. It's a comforting hierarchy.
5. Will be back when I have more to say. It's in the works, people.
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