World of Warhammer-Craft Online Age of the Frozen Reckoning King

I apologize in advance, as this post was written late at night, probably makes no sense, and spans over the past year of all my screenshot saving endeavors.

It really is nostalgic you know, browsing through your computer looking at screenshots. I don't have very many on this drive because it's fairly new. Even thinking about when I got this drive brings back memories (mainly memories of being employed). You know what? I don't like being unemployed. Mostly it's that whole not making money thing.

Anyways, I found some good pic's I'd like to share. I found a bunch of World Of Warcraft Screenshots (these are the oldest, they're from July), a few Team Fortress 2 screenshots, a screen from Warhammer, and one video from Spore I'd like to share. Maybe I'll add a few pictures of spore I found as well. I'll start off with the largest set of pictures, the World of Warcraft ones which sort of tell a story.

It all started one evening as a I logged into my 30 something shaman to go questing.
As an aside I just noticed I wrote "logged into" instead of the usual "logged on to". Maybe I play too much. Do you say you logged into something or logged onto something? Does it even matter?

 

How peculiar, a balance druid? At this level? Doesn't she know that feral is the fastest talent build at her level?

 

Why wait for cast times?

Why suffer through horrible spell animation?

Why eat and drink after every three mobs when you could keep going as feral all day long?

I didn't understand why then, but I do now. She's taking it slow. She (maybe a he in real life, but it's a she ingame and I'm sticking with it) doesn't care about leveling to 70 the fastest.

Her eyes are not on the finish line, but on the road she's traveling.

Perhaps that is a problem I have, and I think you'll notice it in a lot of gamers today. Maybe you even suffer from a bit of get-to-the-finish-line-now-itis. Do you look up every possible build, strategy, tips on all of your games? Do you discuss and debate every minute detail of a game you're playing? Do you follow guides that tell you exactly what quests to do in each order?

Do you even read the quest text anymore?

I haven't. I stopped reading quest text in Warhammer about 4 levels in. By the way this character I made looks kind of like my wife.

Anyways! Back to the pictures. I started playing Team Fortress 2 again, and here's some pics I found from it.

In case you don't know, when you die in Team Fortress 2, it zooms in on your killer and gives you a nice long opportunity to take a picture (hell, it even freezes time). The first one is probably two seconds after that spy killed my while I was playing engineer and my turret blew him up if I had to guess. The other two are just random.

Last but not least, here's me messing around in Spore. I think I used a money cheat after I finally unlocked the PlanetBuster to buy 5 of these puppies. In the video I leave a planet I just destroyed, move to a new planet, suck the life out of it, and destroy it.


You see I learned something today. It's not about getting to the end fastest, the best way, and with the best possible character. It isn't about the best score, the best creature, or how far you are in a game. When it comes down to it, I was missing out on a lot of content, and a lot of fun. At the end, could I really look back at the experience and say "you know what? I really enjoyed getting that PlanetBuster."? No, I couldn't. I shot a meaningless missle which I didn't earn at a meaningless piece of rock. It wasn't memorable, and at the end of that I felt like a cheat. I was bored. And I quit playing spore for a while. So what I learned is this. 
Slow down, take your time, and enjoy the journey!