Comments on: Save the dork jokes http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/save-the-dork-jokes/ a comedy of errors, or how iranamok in the college of perpetual indulgence Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johan Lont http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/save-the-dork-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Johan Lont Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:07:34 +0000 http://www.paperhurts.com/?p=203#comment-208 Yes, World of Warcraft (WoW) is probably the dorkiest stuff you do. But that is okay with me, because I find mad nerdy ladies very amusing in general. I don't mind listening to jargon I can't understand, as long as it is about non-essential things. Sometimes, I even pretend to understand less than I actually do. I once followed a link from twitter.com to www.worldofmatticus.com, a website for WoW players. Of course I understood very little of what was written, so I wrote in a comment "World of Warcraft is a sort of computer game, am I right?". (You can find it with Google). It gives me a special kind of pleasure to think what that question looks like to the regular visitors of the site. I must admit that I received an excellent answer. If you go back to your blog post for a minute, and find the place where you used the word PuG. That is exactly the spot where you lost me. The following sentences were unintelligible to me. Even the dictionary didn't help: - affliction: That which causes great suffering or distress; misfortune; calamity - DoT: Department of Transportation - gem: a precious stone, especially when set as an ornament - glyph: a picture or carving representing an idea; hieroglyph I picked the story up again at "It almost felt like work", because that is something I can relate to. I do believe that games that make you think, help you to keep your brains in shape. My mother (83), who loves to solve crosswords, confirms this. I'd like to reveal a secret. In 2007 on April 3, I edited the Dutch-language Wikipedia article on World of Warcraft. There was a lot of information, but it lacked a logical order. So, I split the article up in sections and subsections and grouped everything logically in these sections. I had forgotten about that, until I referenced the article after I had visited www.worldofmatticus.com, and I suddenly recognized it. Yes, World of Warcraft (WoW) is probably the dorkiest stuff you do. But that is okay with me, because I find mad nerdy ladies very amusing in general. I don’t mind listening to jargon I can’t understand, as long as it is about non-essential things. Sometimes, I even pretend to understand less than I actually do. I once followed a link from twitter.com to http://www.worldofmatticus.com, a website for WoW players. Of course I understood very little of what was written, so I wrote in a comment “World of Warcraft is a sort of computer game, am I right?”. (You can find it with Google). It gives me a special kind of pleasure to think what that question looks like to the regular visitors of the site. I must admit that I received an excellent answer.

If you go back to your blog post for a minute, and find the place where you used the word PuG. That is exactly the spot where you lost me. The following sentences were unintelligible to me. Even the dictionary didn’t help:
- affliction: That which causes great suffering or distress; misfortune; calamity
- DoT: Department of Transportation
- gem: a precious stone, especially when set as an ornament
- glyph: a picture or carving representing an idea; hieroglyph

I picked the story up again at “It almost felt like work”, because that is something I can relate to.

I do believe that games that make you think, help you to keep your brains in shape. My mother (83), who loves to solve crosswords, confirms this.

I’d like to reveal a secret. In 2007 on April 3, I edited the Dutch-language Wikipedia article on World of Warcraft. There was a lot of information, but it lacked a logical order. So, I split the article up in sections and subsections and grouped everything logically in these sections. I had forgotten about that, until I referenced the article after I had visited http://www.worldofmatticus.com, and I suddenly recognized it.

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