perusing today’s penny arcade and then reading the subsequent story (i’m not a console gamer, so it’s all news to me) reminded again that there is a vast sea of dickery out there in the gaming world.  for the most part it’s easy to avoid, or in my particular case of warcraft gaming, the instances of dickery are usually so infantile that it’s easy to channel out.

i found it coincidental then that i had to deal with my own dickery as recently as yesterday.  as any wow gamer knows, the daily pug (pick-up group for the uninitiated) is a ritual many go thru to get their shiny emblems.  i usually get mine out of the way early in the evening before a raid or just logging off and heading out the door.  i’ve been lucky, in that the groups i’m usually tossed into have been amiable.  yesterday pretty much shit all over that semi-flawless track record.  the run itself started off pretty bad.  upon zoning in (cos), the healer states he needs to break for 5 minutes to go shit.  i go “wtf”, while the tank decides to just leave.  awesome.  a new tank arrives shortly, but starts bitching about the length of the “role-play” until he notices that we’re already well into the dialogue.  red flags go up however as he liberally tosses out “fag” and “shit” in his typical communiqué.  fine, whatever.  we get thru the first half, and then the healer decides to bail too all of a sudden.  maybe he was clairvoyant.

a replacement arrives and we continue on.  the tank wants to do an achievement, and dishes out vague and retarded directions to the rogue to do so and so.  the rogue does as he’s told, and we don’t get the achievement.  more “fags” are tossed about in party chat.  i tell him to shut the fuck up.  he immediately retorts with “no you” (oh shit), and proceeds to go on a diatribe about how i’m fat (hardly) and a nerd (possibly) and have never seen a vagina (i have…they’re nice).  i’m unaccustomed to being bombared with 3rd grade insults, so i just tell him to stop breathing and point out that he’s a fucking idiot for calling others nerds while within an online game.  he continues on about people not having seen vaginas and butchering the use of “your” vs “you’re”.  its intolerable.  i’m mashing the ‘vote to kick’ option but we’re in combat.  by the time i can however, we’re at the last boss, and i think “fuck it”.  we jump on the last boss, i notice the little dick’s not tanking…so i proceed to tank and kill the boss with little to worry about.  i type out a last message suggesting he’s a failure at many things, including this game and life, and leave immediately.  in hindsight (of course), i…and we as a party, could’ve probably 1. gotten him killed on the last boss, 2. had him kicked properly, or 3. track down his personal info and hire professional hitmen to torment him and anyone he’s associated with.  the first and second didn’t happen for various reasons, and the third option can be costly and possibly illegal.  so i just put in a ticket to a gm to have him suspended.  hopefully we’ll hear good news today!