{"id":1720,"date":"2008-06-21T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2008-06-20T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:34:36","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of The End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have now acquired the tool through which I may orchestrate my own undoing. Behold, and despair:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/wow_begins.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='wow_begins.jpg' title='wow_begins.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>After about four years of people badgering me to try this game, it&#8217;s finally happening.  Every time I complain about an RPG I hear &#8220;You should try WoW&#8221;. Well, now I&#8217;m trying it.  If it&#8217;s as addictive as people claim, then this website is probably doomed.  Savor this post. It might be sitting here for a while. <\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t say much about the sudden change of heart in regards to MMO games, but it is related to the comics I&#8217;ll have coming out in a few weeks. And no, it&#8217;s nothing to do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/community\/comics\/2008-06.html\">WoW comic contest<\/a>.  I&#8217;d enter that, but I&#8217;m not sure my particular brand of humor will tickle the funnybones inside of Blizzard when I aim it in their direction. <\/p>\n<p>Joining this game is proving to be tougher than I anticipated.  In Wow I have several people I consider to be personal friends who I&#8217;d like to play with, but <em>none<\/em> of them are on the same server.  So choosing a server means, in effect, <em>choosing between my friends.<\/em> I suppose this is an appropriate beginning to a game famous for destroying friendships and ending marriages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now acquired the tool through which I may orchestrate my own undoing. Behold, and despair: After about four years of people badgering me to try this game, it&#8217;s finally happening. Every time I complain about an RPG I hear &#8220;You should try WoW&#8221;. Well, now I&#8217;m trying it. If it&#8217;s as addictive as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}