Casual Corner: WoW Personality Types – The Drama Queen
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Lawbringer under Alliance, Funny, General Tips, Humor
The Drama Queen
The drama queen comes in many forms is always highly amusing and entertaining. But the DQ is also a breed that all guild masters have to keep an eye on; for some can actually be dangerous .
As I have said before I have been a GM for over 10 years now in many different games. And I have come across many drama queens in my time, as well as all the other types of folks we have mentioned in our personality series in the casual corner. There are several types of drama queens.
Harmless Drama Queen
One of my fondest memories back in the old Noverlogic delterforce 2 days was when a young [high pitched kid] that thought he was the dogs b…….s was screaming on Roger Wilco (no vent in those days):
“Hes cheating! Hes cheating! I f….ing shot him loads!”
This after several weeks of explaining the concept of lag (it was the old dial up days]). So again we explained about how – due to his lag – it was like shooting at fish under the water, i.e. what he was shooting at was in fact 10feet to the left of where he saw it as on his screen. So we go into the next team death match and its not long before again he’s at his screaming:
” I spun round that time! I must have got him! He’s cheating!”
And he is getting louder and louder. You can hear the spit from his mouth hitting his mic I mean this guy has lost it big time. At this point our version of the Fonz says:
“oh stop crying cos your a noob and couldn’t hit a barn door from 6 feet with a shot gun. If you have lag hit alt+f4 – that will fix it .”
So, you guessed it, the kid hits alt+f4 and windows shuts his game. Well with that the kid just goes ape. You hear his seat screech across the floor as it hits the wall behind, and he’s verbally attacking his computer. You can hear him thrashing about knocking mugs and books around. You hear pencils flying across the room – then you hear this loud
BANG
CRASH
accompanied by:
“I’ll teach you to lag you f…….. b….”
. . . as he beats his own pc to death with a baseball bat live on air.
Well I have to say its one of the funniest things I have ever heard online during a game. There was 30 of us in the game and a total of 100 in the Roger Wilco server. We were whooping and crying and laughing for about 2hrs. No one could play any more – it was just too funny.
OK – so no less than 2 days later he is back online. Having convinced his parents (and the police) that he had single-handedly fought off a burglar and that he had to throw his pc at him as the burglar had got hold of the bat. So mummy and daddy got him a new pc with all the latest gizmos on it – and he still had lag (lol).
So that was just one of his many adventures, but you get what I mean by a drama queen. This one was harmless to the guild, although; like all of this type, he would turn any minor problem into the biggest disaster of his life.
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Our next drama queen was of the dangerous ilk!
What do I mean by this? Well, they complain so much about every thing (and nothing) but are not at all funny – just loud and annoying. They sulk when they can’t get their own way, and generally disrupt the ambiance of the game, although not in a malicious way.
Like when I was playing wow in the beginning with a lot of the guys from deltaforce2 and a few we had picked up over the years with other game titles. Add to the mix our newfound friends in wow and we had a group that had played between 1 month and 9 years online together. We pretty much did things the Dominate way and always had.
But one of the new guys had a problem with this. He just could not understand why we bothered to help lower toons, or why we explained the fights, or why he should not be allowed to need every item . . .
Now none of this was done in guild chat or vent it was all done via whisper to any one he could get to listen – almost resulting in a guild split.
These Drama Queens get a G-kick.
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Since then I have had the displeasure of meeting our final drama queen type:
The malicious cunning greedy argumentative constantly moaning and finding fault Drama Queen
They are the virus you never want on your computer. At 1st they seem helpful and pleasant to talk to (its just a feint). They make a point of talking to every one old and new (its just to widen their web of deceit). Then you start to notice that they do not help with any of their many toons, in fact they are the 1st person to jump onto any raid or group that their toons are not saved to – and they will sit there waiting for others to join no matter how long it takes for the group to form.
But they will never offer to get on their other toon that could fill the missing roll so that someone that does not have a high lvl toon can get in on the run. And since the group can’t get the class they need, the group breaks up and the same person now starts mouthing off that nothing ever gets done since the leaders of the guild are no good and no one is ever online and every one else is to blame. When, in fact, they could have solved the issue in the first place just by not being selfish.
They normally have wormed their way into the very spine of the guild and start their campaign of turning the guild inside out (to what ends one can only guess maybe to be leader themselves). And when confronted will always try to change the subject or turn the blame to someone else. Then they will apologize say it was stress from work so you all hug and forgive – but even then:
Its all part of there plan to sucker you in again. All the time this is going on the guild is suffering which gives him more ammunition for his next attack. At least until the guild dies Or you G kick him. The fun part about this one is all the time he is trying to split the guild. The members are moaning about him and as always he gets found out and just when he is ready to make his final attack . . .
You Launch the wrath of the guild on him and let him run to the spine of the guild for support only to find that the guild is 100% behind the leadership so all the leaders need do is G kick. The members turn on him – all the leaders have to do is sit back and enjoy. And the funny thing is that you instantly notice a difference in the ambiance of the guild,
Then a member that has not been on for a while turns up and “says where is [insert drama queen name] the drama queen?” So someone tells the story of how they got G kicked and they reply:
“Dam, you finally sussed him out? Hes been getting away with it for ever , I’ll let [insert former guild member name] know.”
And before you know it four old members have come back every one is having fun – laughing and joking again.
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The drama queen; they wont help you Dominate, but they will give you hours of entertainment.
Have fun – Anibow
u bastards.. u made me read the whole thing un edited without a hint u had it typed out properly.. and i was reading it to my wife
lol
GREAT article.. need more of these to lighten our moods
thanks as long as i get a laugh iam happy and yes we did have one gavin but not any more and iam glad to say since that artical was origanly posted we have recruited over 160 new members 80 of those were 80 or have reached 80 since joining we are now running 10 man icc and looking for more hard core raiders aswell as casual players so dont be great come join Dominate …. ANI
You guys really should have put some kind of a disclaimer saying that the edited version was posted below, it took me almost half an hour to read through that the first time.
I used to make my living as an editor, and even Lawbringer’s editing often makes me cringe. But after reading Anibow’s writing, well, let’s just say I may never get the blood stains out of my underwear.
Still, amusing article.
Great article, although I also struggled through the original before I realized that it was all edited below lol still a great read Anibow, and very entertaining!!
if you like my articals you should come join us an hear me live on vent lol our new guild site is http://www.dominateguilds.com
You have to mention the attention whore drama queen . These are the women of men who luv the game and play only because they feel it helps them bound they love to seek attention from any male in guild. They are not above shameless flirting, and often say my bf doesn’t care as long as it’s just that. Also beware of the ones who would further seek to destroy the guild if she discovers that her hubby/bf is having fun but she cannot stand that game. These types will seek to destroy any that come in their way.
*bond
I read through it pretty quick, but then again, I’m used to reading Ani’s writing. By the way, you’re much easier to understand over vent – so long as we all remember to ask you what every other word means, as it’s all in that oh so cool British slang category. :p
I simply love all these posts. I learn a drastic amount from them. Submitting me to the first part and then waving the edited version right in my face made me feel really, really pwnd….. I’m a sad panda
Yeah – I couldn’t take it any more so I had to scrub the whole original version. besides – it was making the entire site (especially the back end) do wonky things which means it had some illegal characters and stuff that was making the server choke. So it was a great idea while it lasted, but apparently not even computers can read Anibow.
The one thing about blogging Vyle is that you don’t really want ‘english class sterilized standard’ english. If you take all of the personality out of a piece by ‘fixing’ everything it ends up being a little boring. And, as you can see, none of us are writers in the ‘elk’ of Twain with sweeping powerful descriptive prose. You have to use the voice of your audience (while still maintaining some, however small, measure of professionalism).
But in the end it boils down to just one thing: you will never make everyone happy anyway (especially english wonks) so at a certain point MORE effort becomes wasted. So I edit to the degree that preserves personality (even if it means retention of certain syntax errors) if the errors themselves are not causing confusion of communication – and then move on with my day to do the five hundred other things that need to be done. You will just have to permanently excuse my lack of perfection by your definition.
BTW, I’m pretty sure that Agorg would love for you to have the editors chair so I can turn him loose to do other things in the guild and at the site – since you ‘used to make you living as an editor.’ We would be happy to let true professionals do the dirty work if you like.
Uh… you meant ‘in the ‘ilk’ of Twain,’ right?
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I was thinking the same thing… ilk is not a large deer. On another note, I have been reading your posts for so long that I actually have one bookmarked that talks about “working the auction house” to make up to the astoundingly large amount of 3-5g per hour. Keep up the awesome (and entertaining) work.
I’m an English teacher and a writer so feel free to throw me any extra workload to edit during busy times.
Cheers
Great article as always Ani, would loved to have seen the unedited original. The kids were wondering what I was laughing at.
You would have to have seen the original post from Anibow. He meant ‘ilk’ and spelled ‘elk’ – inside joke I’m afraid if you missed the unedited version.
Sounds like our Ani
sigh lol
Amen, sounds like you have been a fly on our walls for some time…..Glad to know we aren’t the only ones that get these. I love your comment about the atmosphere of the guild changing…..That is so true…..It is actually refreshing when that final moment comes and bye bye they go……..Like a collective sigh of relief. Thank you for this article.