The fling is over, I'm going home.

*snuggles Rotty*

Cataclysm is beautiful, but it ultimately brought home to me how much I hate WoW's combat architecture, and how I disagree with almost all of Blizzard's game design choices. And so, in what was probably a foregone conclusion in the first place, I've cancelled my subscription again.

That being said - Cataclysm is truly polished work. If this had been the first expansion I'd played, rather than the Burning Crusade, I might never have left.

But now, it's time to catch up with Gwen and Keiran, and to get back to feeding toes to Rotty!

Public Groupon Editorial Manual - Some of the Best Guidance on Writing Humourous Marketing Copy You'll Find on the Intarwebz (and Arguably, Anywhere Else)

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_11gtqx983t

Groupon's writing style is very similar to Thinkgeek's - absurd, witty, and engaging without ever sacrificing clarity of information, and the hard-sell call to action.

I was going to write that it 'may not be appropriate for all markets and clients', and then I realisd that while it definitely may not be appropriate for all instances - what is? It's appropriate for many, many instances.

It's just that clients are often afraid.

And when clients are afraid, they fall back on corporatese.

That's one of the tragedies of copywriting. Corporatese. I can write it. I do write it. But it makes the craftsperson in me who wants to deliver a fine product sad every time.

Plinks - I Hear a Call

My poor, poor neighbours. I'm attempting to play assorted songs by ear. Poked around a few iPad piano apps, but the one with the most friendly keys and effects seems to be Pianist Pro.

PLINK! goes the nugget! PLINKETY PLINK PLINK!

...now if only I remembered how to read sheet music. Then I could subject them to my absolutely atrocious sight-reading. (It was atrocious even back when I could do it.)

And yes, I'm still not playing very fluently. XD 10 years out of practice, no score, and an unfamiliar touchscreen thingie. Must improvezorzorzor!

The Wonderful Things You Learn From Language Filters

So there I was, chatting with a friend in Jade Dynasty, an F2P MMO from Perfect World Entertainment.

Quoth a nugget:

I was looking lustfully at the shinies of shiny doom!

Or that's what I tried to say.

Quoth an in-game nugget:

I was looking lu****lly at the shinies of shiny doom!

Eek! Wut? LOL!

You see, gentle readers - and be warned, your delicate sensibilities may be offended! The word 'lustfully' (and of course, 'lustful' too) contains the acronym 'STFU'.

LuSTFUlly.

Is that not a wonderful thing? I would never have seen it by myself. XD