I know there are plenty more excellent bloggers, I know because I read them every day.
My usual blog day begins with ensuring my post is ready, checking comments and reading the Mage blogs, after that it’s on to all the other blogs. Sure there’s a priority list amongst them too. For the Horde is usually one of the 1st I visit after the Mage blogs are done and dusted, but there have been two exceptions to this rule.
Forbearance and before that OOM.
Neither of them are Mage blogs, but they were always my 1st read. I recently mentioned to Jong that I realized that the feedreader on my iPhone was stuck on one blog… Forbearance.
When I woke up in the morning, I checked my stats, then checked out Forbearance, even though I risked spitting my fresh hot coffee across the kitchen.
So what made them different?
More fail
Nearly all their posts contained an element of fail. Not in the Woe is Me sense, more in the what a nub sense.
Usually the nub was another, easy target. Often however, the target was themselves. One of my favorites was when Jong was owned, not by any uber Gnome Mage… No, by his father.
They presented in such a way that you knew that their insane fail was going to be followed by…
More win
Shirt ripping, chest thumping, boss intimidating win!
These weren’t blogs that concerned themselves so much with the strategies of winning. Tearing shirts and throwing dirty panties are not the tactics you will find on tankspot.
No, these were spiritual wins. The sort that would float through the back of your mind after the 3rd wipe, when three people leave the raid. That’s when the thought would come…
How would Jong handle this?
That’s when this squishy little Mage pushes past the Tankadin, casts aside the Tank and gives the boss the finger!
Less mechanics
Jong recently pondered out loud about his lack of DPSadin mechanics posts. Luckily he came to his senses real fast.
We, his readers, didn’t want to know about positioning (apart from appropriate distance from other Belfs), or rotations (apart from the graceful pirouettes he performed while T-bagging a boss).
The only mechanics we cared about were how many buttons must pop from your shirt while hollering at your monitor to ensure the maximum performance of your toon.
More LEET less noob
These folk were/are leet.
Not in the I have T8 and I can run laps of Dalaran sense.
Not in the I have a mammoth and I can hide the mailbox sense.
No, they were leet because there was no challenge too great.
Hodir… A toy for Jong’s enjoyment.
Gevlon’s balls, a toy for Jong’s boots.
No one, in game or out, was a match for their awesomeness and they weren’t afraid to express this, publicly and for our enjoyment.
They presented win stories in a way that Gevlon will never be able to do.
Often non-pc
I’m a nice Gnome.
I think I went 10 months before I felt the need to inject a swear word in my posts, just cause I didn’t think I needed it.
I’m a naughty Gnome.
Yes, the non-pc does occasionally give me a chuckle. Especially when there is no real target, or the target is themselves. I know I get perverse pleasure out of…
He won’t go there, surely he won’t go there… Ohh he did go there… Hehehe
Most bloggers write carefully, dodging any offense whether intended or not. I’m not talking the Gevlon “I will call you M&S and don’t care if you never come back“, I mean the, “I will write like I have had too many beers with my mates and this is for their ears only… But I’m going to record it and share it with the world. “
All laughs
Ultimately the thing that gave OOM and Forbearance No. 1 priority in my blog reading schedule was I was guaranteed a laugh.
Sometimes wrong, rarely Mage oriented, always funny.
So in an effort to find the appropriate method of saluting Jong I offer a macro.
/tar Jong
/kick to the nuts
/run like the squishy Gnome I am
PS: if you are thinking of blogging like Jong, or already blog like Jong, drop me a line…
WTB new Jong!
Gnomer and Out!
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http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/07/08/why-im-a-sad-gnome/
YOU are the poster I read at work, even though I know before I even click, that I’m going to giggle and snort too loudly for anyone to reasonably believe I’m editing spreadsheets.
YOU are the blogger stuck in my feed reader that I sometimes just hit refresh for!
Closed blogs are a sad sad thing…. but there are lots of great posters out there still. I hope my vote of confidence makes your day. Don’t stop blogging, and cheer up!
Ahh yes, you have made me a very happy Gnome…
No need to fear just yet… as long as I can hit the keyboard with my beer can I will blog… although at that point it may no be readable…
Dude, they broke the mold when they made Megs and Jong. All we can do is carry a little Jong around inside of us.
Preferably in a ziplock ’cause, man, that stuff is messy.
preferably a perfumed zip lock bag… cause it leaks, you will have a hard time explaining the smell
I’m Sure there are other Meg and Jong out there, they just needs to be find….
yep… there is always another one around the corner… OK, hopefully there is another one around the corner…
/seconding what rhii said…
Feeling loved….
“All we can do is carry a little Jong around inside of us.”
I couldn’t even if I wanted to. I think Sideshow would get jealous.
…
/sigh
He will be greatly missed.
*sets a new soulshard up on the shelf*
You and your blogger soulshard collection….
Must find a Rogue to stealth over to Syrana’s and pinch mine back…
*sets a new soulshard up on the shelf*
Brilliant
ARGH JONG, THAT QUITTER, WTF AMIRITE.
Oh, hi.
Yo Megan!
Long time no see… well, if you count hours…
But yeah… Jong… Pffft… not the sort of thing you can easily accept ha!
[Feeling very privileged at the visit from long lost Megs]
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