Blizzard is slow for everything apparently.
Heh.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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How.... OtakuPenguin.... uughhhhhh:
Holy fucking shit, announce the Beta people already, Jesus Christ.
Patience is a virtue. I suggest you learn it and wait because complaining won't get it done faster. Blizzard is going to nail this thing down to the point so that when it is released, the problems in the game will pretty much be non-exsistent.
I'm not checking blizzard's site every five seconds, nor am I checking my email any more then I usually would.
I occupy the time with other persuits, and I suggest you do as well. Keeps you from going insane. And letting things fester is bad.. Watch Law and Order: CI sometimes.. Ooh. Creepy.
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Lechium's fortune cookie read:
Blizzard is going to nail this thing down to the point so that when it is released, the problems in the game will pretty much be non-exsistent.
Hahahahaha, a MMOG released without any problems! Good one!
quote:Dude, I could have told you that they weren't going to be sending out emails til March, the earliest. Cool your jets. (Guildmate of mine is working on WoW. So that's pretty much official.)
OtakuPenguin will suffice.
Holy fucking shit, announce the Beta people already, Jesus Christ.
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WoW - An ethnic metaphor for the real world
Humans - The humans of WoW represent the western europeans of medieval and colonial times. They are "the man", as seen in TFT's obvious racism and attempt to colonize the rest of the world, ripping the rightful land away from the more opressed races. They represent all that is both grand and disgusting of the vitorian/classical era.Dwarves - Represent the plight of the lower class working man below the aristicratic elitests. Dwarves are the ones who have to do the hard labor, mining away in their mountains and working at their forges, they are the ones who drink away their woes and appreciate the little things.
EDIT: Possibly dwarves could also represent the disenfranchised Jewish populations - smart, but distrusted due to their adept ways of hording gold.Gnomes - Gnomes can be placed as representives of lesser privilaged white european countries, who have brilliant innovations, but are scoffed at because they look and sound ridiculous. Their race is one of constant ridicule, and their ideas are constantly stolen without proper respects given to the creator (why few understand gnomes' siginificance in warcraft). They are best placed as either the Irish or the Polish.
Night Elves - Represent the Asian cultures. They have a strict sense of honor, as well as strange powers and a sense of mysticism that places the moon as a goddess. Much like the Asians, their culture speaks of very old tradition, and firmly held beliefs. Their presence in the alliance is merely tactical power for the humans to try to take over their lands eventually.
Goblins - The neutral race. They are the swiss.
Orcs - Represent the plight of black man. After breaking their chains of slavery after a defeat at the hands of the humans, they are now alienated from their home land, and seeking a place to call their own in this new world. They are attempting to educate themselves, as well as look to old traditions in order to find their own sense of culture.
Taurens - Represent the Plight of the Native American, long held under the oppression of the vicious centaurs (early americans), and only recently set free. Their culture is rich with the land, and a sort of natural spiritualism binds them to it. They are not used to things suddenly changing, but are willing to fight to retain what is their inheritence and native land.
Trolls - Represent islandic tribal union. They are the jamaicans, the south americans, the cannibals, and the voodoo worshipping cultures of the world. They believe in rich spiritual understanding of the world, and have allied with the horde in hopes of retaining what is their cultural inheritence, and keep it from being lost to the white man.
Undead - Represent communist russia and nazi germany. They use propaganda (banshees) and secret police (shades) in order to enforce a tight rule. They want to unite the world under a common order, to cleanse (make undead) all the living races of the world. They have allied with the horde because they know the imperialistic alliance stands as the biggest threat to their dreams of a homogenous communist/socialistic/dictator run world.
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High Elves - They represent holocaust Jews. The nazi styled undead destroyed their homeland, destroying their culture, and ripping what they had once loved apart. Now, without a home and wealth to call their own (without magic to empower them), they wonder the land as outcasts, trying to come to terms with what the undead have done to them.Blood Elves - Represent the warsaw jews. Although realizing the threat of the nazi undead, instead of accepting the consequences, they have chosen a vigilante's life of rebellion. Much like the warsaw jews however, the blood elves were let down by forces that were supposed to come to their aid (the humans in this case, and the russians for the warsaws). As a result, they are now outcasts from their original culture (the jews have a long history of non-violence), and desperately seeking a new form of enlightenment for their people (now in the form of the burning legion).
Edit: The Blood Elves may also be represented in the modern views of Israel.Edit:
Naga - The huns and the mongols. They are big and tough and don't take no $!@% from no one. They have strange ways of transportation (the huns and to a lesser extent, the mongols were experts of horse combat long before the europeans perfected cavalry - the naga are able to traverse water like no other race). This allows them access to many undiscovered means of attack, as well as rapid and unforseen attacks. However, like the huns and mongols, the naga are without strong leadership, and thus look to causes like Illidan's (Ghengis Khan) to put their wrath into action.
Edit: Another theory upon the hard to place Naga would make them the vikings who tore apart the roman empire. Masters of the sea with old magic and barbaric natures, they swarmed over the land with unseen force.I might also suggest the most obvious, that Naga would be atlanteans, but bearing nothing but myth for that, I do not think it would quite fit into the spectrum of the metaphor.
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What?
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into OtakuPenguin who doth quote:
Holy fucking shit, announce the Beta people already, Jesus Christ.
Relax, you didn't make it.
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Mooj had this to say about Pirotess:
You mean you didn't get an EMail? Sucks to be you.
I sold my beta key on ebay for $400 only delusional losers would play this game
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OtakuPenguin had this to say about Duck Tales:
Holy fucking shit, announce the Beta people already, Jesus Christ.
Um, wow.
OP cursed multiple times in a sentence, and said "Jesus Christ" in vain.
I wonder if he has already chewed off both arms and is starting on a leg.
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Katrinity had this to say about Cuba:
I'd find it really funny if all those who are becoming rabid beasts over the release of the beta don't make it into the beta. ^.^
I'd find it really funny if OP didn't get in and called you an asshole for jinxing him. 
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El Imán Grande! spewed forth this undeniable truth:
I'd find it really funny if OP didn't get in and called you an asshole for jinxing him.
And I'd find it funny if you fell into this pit of molten lava!
<pushes JooJoo>
As for the idea that an MMOMPG will ever launch without bugs, get a grip. It won't ever happen. There's no way to stress test it the way you'll have to deal with it after a week or two up.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
Blizzard does tend to release a solid product when they eventually get around to releasing stuff. There will still be bugs, but there'll probably be less.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
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Mod obviously shouldn't have said:
OPEN EURO BETA U RACISTS!
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ACES! Another post by Drysart:
Hay guys, WoW is really fun!!
Oh, did you download the Alpha too?
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El Cuchillo stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
With my luck I'll get into the beta and a day later my computer will explode again. If that happens I swear I'm selling the account on Ebay.
But if your computer explodes, how will you get to the email that contains the beta key that you're selling? 
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OtakuPenguin's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
<hugs OP>
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
But if your computer explodes, how will you get to the email that contains the beta key that you're selling?
Two computers. This one, my old (500mhz), rock solid Linux box (42 days of uptime and climbing). And my other box (Athlon 2000), which is currently non-functional due to the failure of the fan on my GF4.
Any other silly questions?
