Game geekery, and snark

[drwex]

To get this joke it is really only necessary to know that people create visualizations of their World of Warcraft characters that are a lot more... fanciful than the graphics provided by the game.

Dramatis personae:
"Ellyanna" - a female priest played by a woman who likes to make risque' jokes on chat
"Snique" (aka Snique E Bastid) - me, in my snarky mode

Ellyanna posts her new avatar image, thus:


Dear Ellyanna

I think you have hitched your belt up a little bit too high in that picture and I worry that it may have affected your torso. Also, traditionally, a belt is used to hold in place a pair of pants or similar clothing item. Using it alone is certainly a daring fashion statement, particularly given the gravity-defying aspects of your physique, but I worry about what will happen when you take it off for your "Discipline."

Yours in fashion,
Snique

Comments

[catness.livejournal.com]

I *totally* want to date her avatar.

*glee*

[drwex]

I suspect you beat MizA to that comment by mere minutes...

[mizarchivist]

I hear that she's a star.
Damn you, redhead, and your catchy lyrics! (uh, Felicia this time)

[emberwolfe.livejournal.com]

Seriously... I might *finally* have to break down and join WoW so I can date that avatar... Are all the WoW chicks that hot?

No, that's sort of the point

[drwex]

WoW characters are deliberately cartoonish, though they're subject to the usual torso deformations common in anatomically incorrect comics. Part of the point of this joke is that people go WAY overboard in sexing up their imagined avatars since the game ones are kind of lame.

The actual typical human female model looks more like this: http://i29.tinypic.com/20qmafd.jpg

Classes that wear cloth armor often show more skin (and more anatomical deformations) like this: http://screenshots.filesnetwork.com/5/files2/42950_1.jpg

Though some of the cloth armor models are also pretty scary: http://www.worldofraids.com/img/tier8/priest25-human-female.jpg

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[emberwolfe.livejournal.com]

Dude, it is impossible to have a waist that small (#2) without a corset 2 sizes too small being cinched to the max... Yeah I see what you mean... But this does help explain the draw WoW has for some of my male friends (and female friends too). I've never gotten involved because I know it will suck out my soul and I will never see daylight again. (as a video game addict annonymous founding member)

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I'd been avoiding the game for the same reason* as you. But my true love got hooked, so I'm in it with her. Daylight is unnecessary when I have her.

*Speaking as someone who once smashed a CD-ROM to bits as the only way to stop playing the game.

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[emberwolfe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my object of obessive twitterpation is a WoW addict, which means the end of my WoW free nights is probably coming soon. I can only resist for so long! So... when it's a downloadable application how do you proverbially "smash the CD"? I will probably need to know this information in about 2 months. :D

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[drwex]

Activate the parental controls. You can limit the hours played for an account that way.

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[drwex]

Oh and if you do start up let us know. We're on the Earthen Ring server and if you show up there you'll have friends to help out.

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[emberwolfe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have a trial CD that I got with my new video card and I pulled it out and looked at it last night. But, I have a presentation to do in front of a local SQA association on Tuesday and I decided it's better for me to stay focussed.. So WoW might be my reward for making it through this presentation, but not until after Tuesday.

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Of course, given the ears in the original image, I'd have to say that Ellyanna is some variety of Elf. Night Elf is my guess judging by the facial markings.

Re: No, that's sort of the point

[drwex]

Yeah, you're right, it's a nelf. I could show some of the really bad things that happen with nelf models, all of which seem to stem from lack of a pelvic structure, but what's the point.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

UR BELT.

UR WEARIN' IT WRONG.

snerk

[drwex]

Indeed.