Dear Althonis,
I do so very much appreciate your comments to my post – “So He’s a Football Widower”. You are correct in assuming I didn’t do much research outside of my own observations within my own situation. The truth is, I’m not dedicating the time and effort into the WoW universe that you so obviously have.
This site as noted below in the disclaimer is my own therapy. I do enjoy seeing both sides of the story, and also understand that there are many extremes when it comes to those that play WoW and those that live WoW. My Dearly Departed falls somewhere in the middle with the occasional lean to the extreme. My blog is for those of us that fall somewhere in the middle – a form of entertainment, a way to vent frustrations. It is also satire – a subtle form of comedy obviously lost on people such as yourself.
I am sorry that you took offense to my comments, and even more deeply sorry that you failed to see the humor. I suggest you take a bit of advice from one of the other more serious Online WOW Widow forums - “Stop Leveling, and Start Living”. I’d also suggest a long talk with your own significant loved one and see what their feelings are on this topic. It may be an enlightening moment for you both.
I am going to cut this communication short now, as I have more important matters to attend to. The NFL season starts on Thursday, and I need to set my fantasy line up.
Thank you,
The Widow
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I certainly fail to see the humor in stating facts and comparisons that are innacurate, especially if someone else will read them and take them as accurate. Your website certainly is not The Onion.
Putting a disclaimer after innacurate statements does not make them any more or less accurate. And that is assuming that most people will read the disclaimer on something and factor that into what they already read. Most people don't read disclaimers, so my concern was that your statements (in jest or not) my be perceived as factually accurate. In my humble opinion, making the statements that you did, again disclaimer or not, just shows others that you didn't bother to find out the facts from a different perspective before you passed judgement (and you don't have to immerse yourself into WoW to do so - try having discussions with some people involved in it?). Maybe if you have those discussions from time to time, you wouldn't get frustrated so much?
As for your advice for me, I find it sad that you immediately assumed I was some avid WoW player (I guess if you are defending something that immediately makes you a zealot for it?), and that I needed to read something that would get me to "start living". I haven't played WoW for 3 weeks, and had only really had occasionally (1 maybe 2 short sessions a week) for months before that. So I had already figured out on my own a play/life balance without having to read something someone else wrote on the subject.
As for my loved one, again its sad that you assumed that I wasn't already in communication with her (I guess avid WoW players/zealots automatically don't proactively talk to their significant others?). I am constantly checking to make sure that I am paying enough attention to her, and make sure she knows she can tell me if I am not. We have never had communication issues, and are letting the other one know when something gets out of hand.
These two assumptions speak volumes about how you perceive people who take issue with the statements you make on your website.
I applaud you for putting up a website where you can be as witty as you want to be, and post your feelings, frustrations, and thoughts. However when you open that website up to comments and responses, you should be prepared for those people who don't appreciate your "humor", and try to get you to play a little more fair when making broad generalizations and innacurate statments. Especially when the primary subject of the website is a very sensitive issue - I personally wouldn't make a satire based around the concept of a game being responsible for the death of my spouse as I believe this has occured in real life. That would be the equivalent to making a Heroine Widows website and turning it into a satire. But that's my own perspective and not wanting to potentially offend someone that it has actually happened to.
If this request to be a little more fair in your "humor" from a no life/uncommunicative WoW zealot is falling on deaf ears, then so be it. I still felt the need to correct your assumptions and statements to avoid anyone from reading them and potentially taking them as fact.
"I haven't played WoW for 3 weeks, and had only really had occasionally (1 maybe 2 short sessions a week) for months before that. So I had already figured out on my own a play/life balance without having to read something someone else wrote on the subject." His angry diatribe leads me to believe that he is, in fact, quite upset with the fact that he hasn't been able to play as often as he would like.
I am not a WoW widow, but I am an NFL widow. He's right in his previous comment that it is actually more like my husband has a year-long attraction to the game, rather than just the football season. But, I'm okay with that. I can find humor in it. I can even sit and enjoy games with him. Especially because it allows me the opportunity to sit and knit (my addiction). :)
I also find great humor in the fact that he "requests" you be more fair in your humor. The last I checked, the world was not ruled by Althonis the Angry. And what if someone read your words and took them as fact? Ooohhh, the trajedy! Methinks Althonis has quite the ego...
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