{"id":528,"date":"2007-05-31T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/528"},"modified":"2007-05-31T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T18:15:02","slug":"nerf-assholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Nerf Assholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowinsider.com\/2007\/05\/30\/the-phoenix-mount-is-indeed-in-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">nice little story<\/a> about the dying kid who received a highly coveted mount in World of Warcraft as part of his Make-A-Wish experience, I first felt a little glow. Gosh, that&#8217;s neat, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Then, recalling my own brief time spent in WoW and the horrifying human beings I encountered on Blizzard&#8217;s official boards, I wondered how long it would take for some prick online to pervert the gesture. I quickly found out: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.html;jsessionid=001A8E653F98A0706CBB1ECAE3EC3E3B?topicId=106578193&#038;sid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Twelve posts.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Touching story and all but I must point out the glaring differance between in-game and real life:<\/p>\n<p>In-game: Phoenix mount, woot, I fly fast! Phoenix rises from the ashes when it dies.<\/p>\n<p>Real life: This kid is worm food.<\/p>\n<p>He should have wished for something that mattered, way to blow a wish douche bag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Touching, indeed. When this fucker burns in the firepits of hell for all eternity, I hope that&#8217;s what his own personal demon keeps shouting in his ear, or writing on his penis with a hot poker, over and over: &#8220;Way to blow a wish, douche bag.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the nice little story about the dying kid who received a highly coveted mount in World of Warcraft as part of his Make-A-Wish experience, I first felt a little glow. Gosh, that&#8217;s neat, I thought. Then, recalling my own brief time spent in WoW and the horrifying human beings I encountered on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}