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CTRL ALT WOW\xa0 004 The Road to Burning Crusade I\nWHAT\u2019S GOING ON\nA.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Preparing for the Burning Crusade\ni.Most upper level folks have been grinding I suppose but I\u2019ve been gathering materials.\xa0 Level 41 Hunter Treshel is mining her heart out.\xa0 Level 10 Alliance is mining copper so she can send to my new Dranei, then she will be deleted.\xa0 I feel kind of guilty knowing she\u2019s working so hard only to be \u201ckilled\u201d off. ii.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Took my 52 into Azshara to do Hunter Quest \u2013 Very hard and challenging solo but it was worth it.\xa0 Found the limit of riding through mobs\n\nB.\xa0\xa0\xa0 After listening to some other podcasts about World of Warcraft, I realized I needed to cover the \u201cwhy I play World of Warcraft\u201d subject.\xa0 I\u2019ve touched on how I\u2019ve come to play it, with some friends from Second Life, but I never really elaborated on why I love it so much. 1.\xa0\xa0\xa0 My history in gaming: a.\xa0\xa0\xa0 A little Magic the Gathering.\xa0 Mostly computer games.\xa0 Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide Text game.\xa0 Played a version of Dungeons & Dragons on a DOS computer.\xa0 Loved the quest. b.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Arcade Games Pacman in Japan, Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroid House of the Dead II \u2013 Going through the same game trying to do better.\xa0 In HOD2, I knew which monsters were coming from where and when to get ready.\xa0 It was repetitious but challenging. c.\xa0\xa0\xa0 A-Train, Sim City, Deus Ex, Marathon (the whole series)The Sims, Quake 3, TSO and the Second Life,. 2.\xa0\xa0\xa0 I love virtual worlds.\xa0 There is something very attractive about a place I can visit just by logging in on my computer.\xa0 I loved playing Marathon and Quake 3.\xa0 I played Quake 3 with a friend.\xa0 She was in NY and I was in DC and we\u2019d set up a server and played the game from start to finish.\xa0 It was so much fun.\xa0 We both had earpieces from our cell phones and we talked to each other.\xa0 Being on my computer and interacting with another person was so much fun.\xa0 The Sims were great because there were all the other aspects of interactivities, and this led to TSO, which was fun because of the interactions with other real people.\xa0 Second Life was an awesome eyeopener because you could personalize and build.\xa0\xa0\xa0 3.\xa0\xa0\xa0 But when I tried WoW and I found it had all the elements of the games I most loved.\xa0 It had quests, like\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Quake 3 and Marathon, with the grouping aspects and virtual online like TSO and SL, along with the creative aspects and personalization.\xa0 Alts brings with it the whole D&D game/Sims game iii.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Played my alliance character \u2013 2 funny things happened both in Fargodeep Mine in Elwynn Forest 1.\xa0\xa0\xa0 I came upon a player just standing in one of the tunnels.\xa0 He was being attacked by two Kobold Tunnelers and he was going down.\xa0 I took the two mobs down and was going to keep going, Pryl was farming copper.\xa0 But then I realized some more mobs would be spawning, so I stayed nearby.\xa0 I sent him a whisper telling him to wake up.\xa0 After about 5 minutes he was back and fighting.\xa0 A few min later he whispered a thanks back to me and said he had to chase his kid.\xa0 I told him I thought as much and was glad to help. 2.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Later, as I was mining, another behind me and tried to mine the same one I was mining.\xa0 I don\u2019t mind sharing but I could tell on the mini-map there was another node just a few feet ahead into the tunnel and this person seemed to be trying to sneak in.\xa0 When I\u2019m questing with a party, we usually take turns to get the exp, because if I hit it once and another miner hits it once, we both will get a point of exp.\xa0 But this guy almost seemed to be hitting it as I was hitting to take it from me.\xa0 I just laughed to myself and he ran ahead and got the next one after killing some mobs.\xa0 I went ahead and killed a bunch more and got another node.\xa0 Then I got a whisper that said \u201cdon\u2019t take all the copper, I need some\u201d.\xa0 I kind of chuckled at that and said, \u201cwe all need copper, hon\u201d and he wrote \u201cyeah, but don\u2019t take it all.\u201d\xa0 Now I\u2019m perplexed and I said \u201cso if I see some copper, I\u2019m suppose to run by it?\u201d\xa0 I wasn\u2019t trying to be me