Lost in translation.

First consider this post which I wrote as a parody of the opening scene of The Godfather. Through some Google search I recently came across this.

Nicolause busses Jessika’s mitt?!?!

Edit: Just now I found this, which is loosely based on this. Strange.

The Shmoo.

Seriously. The death knight names are getting old. You know what I’m talking about — the names that sound like the death metal bands (although I would approve of Deathtöngue). The Left Claw has two 80 Death Knights: Qyburn (a very reasonable name from a character in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, although we often call him Nkm as that is the name of his older mage, and we like to guess what these initials stand for) and, I love this, Shmoopsypoo. Shmoopsypoo is our blood DK tank/dps, and the current main of he whom we know as Chachi after the name of his hunter, which was his main before he switched to his shadow priest Brbafk, and we also call him Fonzy after his feral druid. He has many names and an identity crisis. Anyway, we call him Shmoo.

Some of you may know that Shmoo was also a character created by Al Capp. I remember there was a very bad Shmoo cartoon in the 80s, but the history of the original character is very interesting. A few entries from the Wikipedia article linked above show that this is a very appropriate name for Shmoo/Chachi/Brbafk/Fonzy. Here are a few quotes:

They reproduce asexually and are very prolific.

Hmm. Well Shmoo does have two sons, but I never inquired as to how they were produced.

Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children.

Knowing Shmoo, I’m sure that is quite true.

Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten.

Uh, no comment.

The frolicking of shmoo is so entertaining (such as their staged “shmoosical comedies”) that people no longer feel the need to watch television or go to the movies.

Or pay attention to Deadly Boss Mods for that matter. He is quite entertaining. I’m not quite sure where this fits in:

…”shmue” was a taboo Yiddish term for the female reproductive organ…

But when I look at that picture above, a female reproductive organ isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Oy vey. Let the teasing begin.

Touchy!

I wrote recently about how unusually friendly I’ve found PUGs to be lately. And although I’ve not encountered too many asshats (I love that word), it seems like I have been encountering more touchy people, or at least they are more evident now because such people are more likely to drop group and try to find another PUG with the new easier LFG system. I’ll give you three examples.

Exhibit A. Keredria, Nkm, and myself queued up for a random heroic and got Trial of the Champion. After the jousting I charged one of the three opponents, and the others two took off after Keredria who got herself a little healing aggro. Now this wasn’t a big deal. I could have easily zipped over and picked them up, but the mobs de-spawned due to that weird bug we’ve all seen in there so I didn’t have the chance to save the tree. But at that point the “leader” (a DPS, I forget what class/spec) suggested to Keredria that she might not want to pre-heal, especially with a warrior tank. Keredria responded with a “please don’t tell me how to heal.” Now, to be fair, I suppose K can be touchy when it comes to anyone telling her how to do, well, anything, but the comment was condescending. At this the commenter said “np gl” and promptly dropped group.

Exhibit B. I joined a PUG with my discipline priest for Forge of Souls, normal mode. Before we got started an over-geared retribution paladin, again the “leader,” suggested that to make things go smoothly he pull the mobs, repent one of them, and have the tank taunt the other. Lolwut?!? I was about to suggest that, as a healer, I would prefer the tank to, well, you know, do the tanking, but the tank said first that he could easily handle the tanking himself thank you. We proceeded to smoothly take down the first and second trash packs, and later the rest of the instance, while the retribution paladin hung back, massaging his bruised ego, before stating that he didn’t want to wipe and incur expensive repair bills and dropped group.

Now what amuses me about these two incidents is that in both cases the touchy one was a DPS “leader.” I think that for most people the “leader” designation means absolutely nothing in a 5-man PUG unless others ask for leadership. As far as I am concerned, the tank is the leader as far as any leadership is necessary in a PUG, unless the tank asks for help. I have a suspicion that there is a kind of person that checks the leader box in the LFG interface because they think of themselves as better leaders than the average person, when in fact they just have ego issues. Secondly…DPS…I love you guys, but in LFG you are a dime a dozen. In both cases we replaced the DPS that dropped in 10 seconds or less and finished the instance before the deserter debuff wore off.

Ok this third one is just pure win.

Exhibit C. Our warlock Buns crossed a healer in a PUG. She has one of those macros that gives an emote when she summons a minion. So she summoned her imp and the party saw

“Quzyap! Heel! Now!”

At this the healer took offense, called her an ass, and dropped group! Lawl! Seriously Buns. You should have been nicer to your heeler Quzyap.