World of Beercraft
First I woudl like to apologize for my hiatus, me and the intertrons have not been much on friendly terms since the release of Burning Crusade. What is Burning Crusade? It’s an expansion to the revoltingly popular World of Warcraft MMORPG. Which brings me to the story.
So within the first few hours of installing the game I was cruising around Hellfire Penninsula when some one made an off comment about beer in the general chat. Naturally I immediately drop everything and defend my beverage of choice, as a beer guy is wont to do. Apparently so did every other beer guy who plays WoW (as we colloquially refer to it), and within seconds the chat was an explosion of pleasant frothy conversation. Then of course something terrible happened, someone who had some idea what they were talking about, but not enough to be remotely well informed, showed up spewing his somewhat questionable information. Some of his drivel were opinions (”only ales and stouts are REAL beers”) some of them sheer nonsense (”Pilsners are just watered down lagers,” and “All lagers and pilsners are made with chemicals”). No amount of explanation that a lager and a pilsner are as different as a stout and an ale (which was the extent of the conversation) could make this fellow understand that all beers are different and all have their places. So I dropped the conversation, which seemed to be what most people had done at this point, given that this guy had the uncanny ability to mutilate polite conversation, after which the fellow immediately began whispering me, and I, not quite as politely as I should have, told him that I was done with this conversation, to which he responds with “You’re an idiot. You don’t know beer” and that he was putting me on ignore.
The moral of this story is not that WoW is full of retards, which I can assure you, it is. The moral of this story is that this fellow got mad about beer, and I can safely say that though he may have been misinformed about many things, I am happy to see that there are people in this world harboring so much passion for our foamy friend.