{"id":529,"date":"2007-05-31T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/529"},"modified":"2007-05-31T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:38:36","slug":"portrait-of-a-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of a Prick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, the guy&#8217;s choosen nickname means, to paraphrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Comorat\">the Urban Dictionary<\/a>, a socially unskilled, heavy-handed, self-important prick.<\/p>\n<p>His involvement with WoW suggests that it is his entire life, as evidenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/armory.worldofwarcraft.com\/character-sheet.xml?r=Hyjal&#038;n=Comorat\">his character<\/a> and that <a href=\"http:\/\/members.ebay.ca\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&#038;userid=comorat\">he sells items on eBay<\/a>. Everything about his account suggests that he does not play the game for any sense of wonder, or thrill of the gameplay. Everything points to a drive for in-game status.<\/p>\n<p>And a guy like that will always hate someone else having something he can&#8217;t and a guy like that will always beak off when a normal human would know to keep their mouth shut, assuming they actually felt it important to have an opinion on the wishes of a dying kid in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Matt &#8211; see you in hell, you malignant knob.<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE] Blizzard just deleted his posts. Five bucks says he&#8217;ll beak off over that now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For starters, the guy&#8217;s choosen nickname means, to paraphrase the Urban Dictionary, a socially unskilled, heavy-handed, self-important prick. His involvement with WoW suggests that it is his entire life, as evidenced by his character and that he sells items on eBay. Everything about his account suggests that he does not play the game for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","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\/529","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}