I told you I’d come up with an awesome way to come back to blogging.

By definition, Shaman are treehuggers. Not in the “we mana tap resto druids” way, but in the “lol I talking 2 spirits,” saving paper, Al Gore kind of way. Because of our innate greenocity, and the fact that Azeroth has no working computers, famous shaman like Thrall have never managed to get a Ventrilo working.

However, thanks to Eklo, this has all changed. For those who don’t know Eklo, Eklo is famous for perfecting the art of what is called “Eklocleave.” Commoners refer to this “Eklocleave” as “Davidbowiecleave,” but they don’t know that this is because it’s always been Eklo’s dream since he was a young blueberry shaman to be a 1980s glamrocker, and frequently laments the fact that time machines have not been invented yet after singing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody on vent.

At any rate, Eklo’s history behind us, Eklo decided to be cooler than everyone else (but me, ofc) and pony up some money to get a vent working for shaman to talk in/ask questions/not cyber. He deserves a pat on the back and many Black Bruises to drop for this noble effort. (However, since he is an Alliance, the fates will have it that Black Bruise drops weekly but he always loses the roll. That’s what you get.)

Beyond Eklo the Loaded, this vent will have a few administrators that exist to make sure that the rules (more on these later) are followed and the e-fawning over Elam doesn’t get out of hand. They are as follows:

Des, Hero of Orgrimmar, the Silent.
Yuuzu, Lord of the Torrented Anime, Resident Meme Master
Elam the Studmuffin (oratleastthat’swhathisgrandmothercallshim.)
Rival Clous, the Unaware
Private Eklo the Patient Jenkins

Anyways, we have a few groundrules to follow. Eklo isn’t aware of them yet because I only told him “Dibs on writing the introductory post” and didn’t explain what that entailed, but they’re totally the rules.

First off, these are the people we want to see in this vent:

Abhorrent
Palioh
Kiyolano
Your Mom
Hoofz
Renzolongjapanesename
Those girls from The Shining
Gurls in general
Koios
Ghostcrawler, Destroyer of Hopes and Dreams Jenkins
Levva
Rouncer
Darth Vader
Shaman who are interesting
Rita Repulsa
Shaman who have fun and worthwhile questions
Shaman who want to talk
Natalie Portman
Frequent Posters who we know but I somehow managed to forget. (I’ve done this before and I’ll do it again, and I’m sorry to anyone who I’ve done it to. I still <3 you. For instance, writing this, I just realized I totally forgot Liax. Rather than edit him in, I’m writing this so that he knows I remembered him. Hi Liax!)

People we don’t want in this vent:

Anakin Skywalker
Luke Skywalker
Lord Zedd
That level 79 shaman from the summer who complained about everything when he never hit 80. That kid was a prick.
Your dad.
Ash Ketchum
Your pug raid. Srsly. You will get permabanned if you decide to be cute and bring your pug icc25 onto vent with you.
13 year olds. Or 14 year olds. Or anyone who can’t pay for this game without parental assistance, really. Nothing personal, but I really don’t want to have to talk with your babysitter about letting her charge be corrupted by the likes of Des.

Things we want people to talk about:

Shaman. Norly.
Dragon Age: Origins
The Plagueworks
Power Rangers
How cute Elam is in that shirt
Davidbowiecleave
Puppies
Pokemon
Writing hearts on your notebook.
The Food Network
Star Wars
Why Daft Punk is better than topping dps, and why topping dps listening to Daft Punk is better than…puppies?
SNES
Dinosaurs.

Things we don’t want people to talk about.

Politics. For rl, no one cares that you’re voting Palin 2012, or that you think Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize was the best thing since Maelstrom Weapon. Save that @$@# for a first date you don’t want to score on or a boring people convention.
Why Elam plays his hunter more than his shaman. :3
Stupid Shaman questions, like whether WF/WF or WF/FT is better, or when to start gemming ArP. We’ll laugh at you and call you names like poohead and festergut.
Kittens. Vastly inferior to puppies.
Eklo singing on vent.

With all of that out of they way, the vent info is:

cobalt.typefrag.com
40147

Comments (8)

  1. Bob2 wrote::

    “Kittens. Vastly inferior to puppies.” I agree 100%.

    -Bob2

    Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 6:10 am #
  2. Pharyngula wrote::

    This looks like a good idea if it gets some traffic (non-troll type). Ever thought of having a Shammy Podcast or something similar? It’d be interesting to hear from people like Levva/Barawr etc without the usual “Kan u tel me if my geer loks gud?” posts surrounding the actual info. That is… if one could get them to do a podcast :)

    Monday, January 11, 2010 at 2:29 am #
  3. moondry wrote::

    Ahm I don’t know if I presented myself or not, btw I have a question:

    may you talk about (a little!) about elemental shamans?

    <3
    Viola

    Monday, January 11, 2010 at 3:28 am #
  4. Tahas wrote::

    Well. Now you’ve gone and done it.

    Monday, January 11, 2010 at 8:50 am #
  5. JD wrote::

    Definitely need some chatter about Elemental Shaman
    Also perhaps :

    *Why Rotface and Festergut have penises protruding from their chin.
    *How you totally want a pug that looks like Perky (and how his ass still exists. I mean the damn thing scoots all day on the Dalaran cement.)
    *Why Paula Deen would be the coolest grandma ever

    Btw I love SNES. I just bought an adapter so I can use my old controller for my Wii. :D

    Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 11:28 am #
  6. Morninglory wrote::

    Holy crap, awesome idea. I personally am attracted by the Daft Punk and Dragon Age: Origin talk. You complete me.

    PS: Post moar.

    Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 9:58 am #
  7. Asara wrote::

    There definitely needs to be more Power Rangers on Vent. I would love to discuss with many people the drool-worthyness that was Tommy the White Ranger and what a lucky #$@%^ Kimberly was when she got to have him for her boyfriend.

    Truly.

    Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 12:14 pm #
  8. XiphoZaDaiko wrote::

    I guess I need to let Natalie know she should be on your vent? mmmmk

    Darth Vader however, will be a challenge. They are still working on the voice recognition software.

    Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 2:01 am #