Yeah, it’s actually Thursday, but I’ve been super busy the past few weeks (and that’s not going to change, as I’m about to head out of town again this weekend). But just in case you want to know what I think of the World of Warcraft, I hate to disappoint you, so here’s a late Warcraft Wednesday for you.

• Warcraft Word Jumble, and it’s even interactive! I would not be opposed to seeing Warcraft-related versions of common party and newspaper games. It would even be wild to see them in the game — isn’t it about time Blizzard added a little bit more interactivity to quests and games rather than just the click-this-item, run here gameplay?
• Brigwyn has me a little worried with all of this finality — hopefully he’ll still keep up the site as always. But it was nice to be mentioned in such a flattering way. And you can listen in to their podcast to hear me rant and rave about the sparkle pony.
• Larisa, intelligently as always, puts into words what I’ve basically been saying for years. I don’t guess at what Blizzard is thinking any more, just because none of their actions as regards their community have made any sense for a long time. And I don’t give them free advice about how to deal with that community, either, though I’ve definitely got plenty sitting around my huge head. Anytime they want to call me up to consult for their community team, I’ll be here. Meanwhile, however, never in the history of selling products has one company accomplished so much by doing so little. It speaks to the power of their game design talent that even as they shut doors and ignore their biggest core fans, people still can’t donate enough attention and time (and let’s be honest, money) to their games.
• In-game, I’ve actually been playing quite a bit (on the few days I’ve had recently where I’m not working from when I wake up to when I go to sleep). All I’ve been doing is running quests with my Paladin — he finally built his epic flying mount, and next I’m planning to get to da choppah. I need money, which is coming pretty quickly from the quests, and I need to level my Engineering a few more points, which should come pretty easily with all of the various ore I’ve stockpiled while questing around. After that, I’m seriously considering going for Loremaster, but I figured that I’d start in Northrend — I haven’t even cleared Icecrown yet, so first things first. If I finish all the quests in one zone, I’ll move to another, and if I clear out Northrend, then I’ll start questing in the older expansions. You may argue that I should do the older realms first, since Cataclysm will replace all of those quests, but I’m not in a hurry — I’m willing to wait and see what happens there. If they do replace all of those quests, then at least I’ll be doing new ones.
• These are cute. I feel like I should probably get some art of my characters done sometime here — I don’t want something so cookie-cutter or space-taking as a FigurePrint, but it would be cool to have a custom drawing or even painting of a few of my favorite characters to put on the wall. Of course, if I ever end up marrying somebody, it’ll probably just sit in the closet, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t want to look at it for now.
• And finally, I don’t remember if I linked this here or not, but just in case you missed it, I was also on this Group Quest podcast the other week. I don’t rant about the sparkle pony, but I do hopefully provide some entertaining insight on the game at large and Cataclysm’s class changes specifically. Enjoy!

And that’s it for now. This site is one of my favorite sites to work on, but it’s also kind of the inverse of whatever I’m doing in real life — when things are slow out on the other blogs, I write a lot here, and when things are busy out there, I almost never have time to write here. So even if you don’t see posts from me here regularly, you can at least know that somewhere, I’m out there, writing like a madman.