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The Perfect Ten: Excuses for ditching a dungeon run (from least to most insane)
I never knew I suffered from narcolepsy before I started playing MMOs, but it only took a few late-night dungeon-runs before I started to experience extremely rapid transitions between being an active member of my team and snoring somewhere in the vicinity of the WASD keys. I'm not saying that all dungeons are boring or anything, but rather that when you start one, you've kind of committed to seeing it through (unless you're the jerk who always teams up with me through the LFG tool). Unfortunately, that means you're locked into an unknowable span of time during which narcolepsy, hunger, and brilliant flashes of insight about how to cure Chronic Giggling Syndrome (CGS) can strike. What can you do? Usually, nothing other than to suffer through the slow plodding of your four other ball-and-chains and start burning small sacrifices to your deity of choice in hopes that this run will end soon. Or you can pull out an excuse and get out of Dodge. I'm not saying you should use these every night -- you will build up a very negative reputation, quickly, if you do so -- but sometimes you just need an escape hatch so you can go sleep, eat or call the CGS laboratories in Albuquerque. That's what I'm here to help you with today by providing 10 tested excuses to ditching that disastrous dungeon run and getting on with your life.
Justin Olivetti10.06.2011
The Daily Grind: What excuse do you use to get out of dungeon runs?
It happens to the best and most well-intentioned of us. There we are, deep in the thick of instanced battle, and we need to go. We have to go. For whatever reason, this dungeon run isn't working out and it's time to bail. Maybe the group is frustrating you 10 ways from Sunday. Maybe you've wiped so many times that it's a foregone conclusion that a victory is never going to happen. Maybe a teammate is irking you and you've broken two fingers from throttling your monitor in frustration. Maybe you're just exhausted and ready for some shuteye. Whatever the situation, what is your go-to excuse to extricate yourself from a dungeon run or raid? Do you tell the honest truth or go for the easy lie? Do you have a ready-made excuse lined up, such as the infamous "Oops electrical storm crashed my computer!"? It's OK -- we've all been there. Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
Justin Olivetti03.28.2011
German trucker uses mobile as "ear warmer," court believes it
Oh sure, we've seen alleged criminals wriggle out from under the strong arm of the law, but this one takes things to an entirely different platform. Reportedly, a truck driver in Germany was pulled over for yapping on his cellphone while cruising, but apparently, said trucker actually wasn't talking when the boys in blue saw his handset upside his melon. As the story goes, the 43-year old was actually using the freshly recharged mobile to "warm his ear" in an attempt to alleviate an earache. Astonishingly enough, he was even able to provide "an itemized telephone bill proving he had not been using the phone at the time he was stopped," thus, a court in Hamm accepted the excuse and let him go sans penalty. Something tells us this guy's got friends in low places.[Via Switched]
Darren Murph03.18.2008