This Just In: My Coworkers Are Losing It
Exhibit A: The Mallo Cup. This candy of indistinct, dubious lineage was recently added to our subsidized vending machine.
Exhibit B: one of our programmers decided he really liked the concept of Mallo Cups. Not eating them, per se. He just liked them. A lot.
Exhibit C: another one of my coworkers has been angsty all day because he couldn’t actually kill a warlock. This may not strike you as unusual, until you realize that the warlock was AFK.
I think we need to start getting something out the door, or we’re all going to need therapy.
April 9, 2008 at 6:37 pm
My favorite part of Exhibit B is that not a single fluorescent light is turned on in that picture.
Oh, the battles I’ve fought and the enemies I’ve made trying to achieve a workplace that doesn’t give me a splitting headache when I spend as few as four hours there. You are lucky.
April 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Newb should have opened with Ambush on a caster.
April 10, 2008 at 4:52 am
Mallo Cups are gross.
The World of Warcraft Warlock is over powered in PvP combat. When I did play WoW as a Rogue on a PvP server, Warlock killing was serious business. If the gear disparity is large enough in favor of the Warlock a Rogue can only hope to escape.
It’s no surprise that a noob rogue was killed by an afk warlock. If he hasn’t learned his lesson and doesn’t respec assassination sub for PvP it’ll happen often.
April 10, 2008 at 7:19 am
This sounds like you’re close to making an announcement regarding Üb3r 5eKr3t project #563454.
Confirm/Deny?
April 10, 2008 at 7:35 am
His new project is apparently a game coded by people who can’t kill a warlock with a rogue in today’s WoW
April 10, 2008 at 7:44 am
Question:
Why can’t he kill the pet THEN the warlock?
Is the pet that good?
Or is the rogue utterly gimp and cannot press buttons to save his life?
WoW noob here.
April 10, 2008 at 8:23 am
You guys are totally missing the point.
“Well, obviously, his Felguard was not AFK!” is epic win.
April 10, 2008 at 9:09 am
When gear is equal a rogue can tear up a warlock. The Felguard based warlocks are actually the less resilient of the PVP specs too. WoW just places too much of an emphasis on gear, and games prior to WoW placed too much emphasis on level power scaling.
It takes months on an average team to get geared out for PVP with the best gear, and during that time you get rolled by inferior teams who’s only advantage is gear. Battlegrounds wouldn’t be so bad though if they didn’t also require those stupid marks of honor.
Anyway, I wouldn’t admit to being killed by an AFK person no matter how OP I thought a class was.
April 10, 2008 at 9:14 am
They really need to change the wow BG match making system to use average gear level in addition to player level.
April 10, 2008 at 9:50 am
ubvman:
He probably could have, but he apparently thought he wouldn’t have to kill the pet. He assumed (reasonably enough) that he - a player - could kill the warlock before the warlock’s pet killed him. Also, killing a pet first would be dumb without the benefit of hindsight…the warlock could hear you killing his pet and come back from AFK.
What he didn’t realize is that he’s a noob bitch noob that needs to learn2play and how to suck it jeeeeeaaah.
No, really, what he didn’t realize is that the warlock (probably) had insane gear, and he probably had trash drops. And, it looks like, not a terribly lethal strategy. What’s the point of cheap shotting someone who’s AFK?
April 10, 2008 at 10:02 am
His gear is fine, it’s his MH weapon speed that completely gimps his damage.
This is less a case of noob/veteren gear disparity and more a function of people not doing any level of research on how to play into the strengths of their class. He was very cordial and funny about it, which was nice, but in end the lion’s share of fault was certainly his.
Kill the pet first, pop blade flurry and kill them both, pop evasion and stop taking melee damage, blind the pet.. I mean, really, multiple options there that would’ve yielded much better results.
Uh, not that I play wow or anything.
April 10, 2008 at 10:04 am
In other news: Has anyone actually “eaten” a mallo cup or are they just decorative adornments?
April 10, 2008 at 11:28 am
I talked to our vending machine guy (I work down the road a bit), and he said he sold 5 rows worth of Mallo Cups at the NCSoft building yesterday.
April 10, 2008 at 12:38 pm
They mostly went to our team’s Fortress of Mallo Solitude, I suspect.
April 10, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Haha, you guys are WoW Insider post of the day:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/10/forum-post-of-the-day-rogue-killed-by-an-afk-warlock/
April 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm
hmm, 5 rows of Mallo Cups you say that means there are probably 4 other vending machines in the NCsoft area that I will be pillaging.
I already drained the vending machine by our team down to fig newtons.
My quest to become a Mallo Cup millionaire will soon be complete!
http://s88204154.onlinehome.us/pmjack/pmtables/mallo/malloart.htm
April 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Your project isn’t in trouble, is it? I hope not.
April 10, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Hmm…500 Mallo-points required per dollar back, 10 points per package at 25 cents each (that’s our subsidized rate…
means about $12.5 million worth of Mallo Cups to be a Mallo-millionaire. 50 million packages at 200 calories per package would yield about 70% of the energy required to send a 1000 kilogram spaceship to the moon and back by my non-rocket-scientist calculations (so give or take an order of magnitude or two), about double the energy required to power a house for a year, or about 15% of the energy required to bang keys fast enough to kill a warlock.
April 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm
In related news the Mallow Cup company’s web site was apparently designed in 1996 by the look of it. Jesus they must pay their web designer in mallo points.
http://www.boyercandies.com/
April 13, 2008 at 12:26 am
>>> His new project is apparently a game coded by people who can’t kill a warlock with a rogue
Lets hope that rogue player is not in charge of designing combat or PvP.
April 17, 2008 at 11:37 am
>>> Lets hope that rogue player is not in charge of designing combat or PvP.
I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I do have the strong urge to exclaim “lrn2play” but on the other hand maybe it’ll drive home how shitty it is for a combat system to be so gear-dependent.
April 18, 2008 at 3:14 pm
So I decided to buy and actually eat one the other day. They’re essentially like Reese’s Cups.. the chocolate is a bit thicker. The filling is a white cream that’s fairly similar to melted Marshmellows, except it has coconut shavings in it. Kind of like the cross between a Mounds bar (without the almonds) and a Reese’s Cup (without the peanut butter). I’m not sure if I’m going to have another one any time soon. It’s just… weird.
There’s also a mail-in rebate offer on the inside. If you buy 20 of these you’ll collect enough points to get $1 back. Which is only $5, but still…