There Are No Microbreweries in Orlando
BRK’s Top Ten Highlights of Standing in Line at the GameStop
10. Sam Adams on draft at the Red Lobster with Mania and the gang. Then getting drunk enough on 1/5th of a glass of Sam Adams that we had to employ the Twisting Nether Blog as our designated driver from the restaurant to the GameStop.
9. Not a single person from Argent Dawn put a finger in our chest and demanded an apology for crashing our server. However, several fisherman had big issues with our killing that BeLF pally in Ironforge a few days ago.
8. As a result of our stomach surgery in 2006, we don’t eat a lot. However, we do eat frequently so that we take in enough calories and protein to, well, stay alive. We have had enough dinners with Mania so that she knows how we work at the dinner table. So when we actually finished our ½ of a Mahi Mahi fish dinner – didn’t touch the appetizer or our broccoli – she exclaimed, “Oh good for you! You ate all your fish!” We felt about eight years old.
7. The manager of GameStop complaining about how he hated Warcraft, the GameStop workers outside acting like the Line Gestapo, the jackhammer running all night for the T-Mobile store right next door to the GameStop, the half-naked girl reading Ayn Rand, the dude in the pink, fuzzy top hat who was not achieving cool-factor-ten, the mom and her teenage son who had two CEs and three regular editions between them, and Mania not realizing she had pre-ordered two copies until she picked them up.
6. The hunter who had TOTALLY overshot his range with his paladin girlfriend. We may be married, but we still look, for cryin’ out loud. Dude, we don’t know what you’re doing, but don’t stop, you lucky b@stard.
5. Dr. Mudge – who brought us a really cool t-shirt! – leaping into the line and saying, “HEY! You said you wanted to meet BRK, well there he is!” And about 50 people turning and going, “BRK? Who the {bleep} is that?”
4. TJ, from her sickbed, calling to find out how many people had purposefully driven to Orlando to meet us. We said five, out of maybe five hundred people in line. She seemed surprised it was that many. We called her intimidating, in spite of her illness. That cheered her up.
3. Ottawa! We spoke to a gaggle of people in line there via this new fangled cell phone thingie. They said it was pretty cold up there. You want to know what’s really cold? An ice-cold Coke when it’s 74 degrees and muggy at 11:00pm at night in Orlando.
2. The computer science guy extolling the virtues of LISP, then getting into a minor argument with a CS-undergrad over C++ and how a mathematician would easily prefer anything besides it.
Look. When you’re in line with 500 people who are waiting to buy a game expansion and you’re *easily* the geekiest geek there, you need to take a long, hard look at your life. We’re not sayin’, we’re just sayin’.
1. The hawtness of the female WoW population in Orlando is not to be denied. Up and down the line, these… well, we’ll say it, these ragamuffin dudes with their scraggly beards and flip-flops are somehow taming some really fine-looking girlfriends. There are only a certain number of things that could account for this massive deviation in the looks statistic:
- Money and the love thereof
- A complete and total lack of heterosexual males
- Rampant blindness
- Pharmaceuticals
- All these guys play hunters
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Love it! So happy to read your wrap up!
The best quote of the night from our midnight line-up was from a 12 year old boy in PJs. “I only play Alliance because of my dad”.
she exclaimed, “Oh good for you! You ate all your fish!”
Mania proves again why she is Queen of the Arcania. I’d have driven to Orlando to meet her, perhaps not you though BRK, you keep breaking the servers!
I hate your WP spam free. I had a great post and blam no post no more.
After braving Best Buy tonight after work, I head to an elementary school play honoring our veteran’s. I suspect a few tears will be shed.
nah, all their girlfriends play hunters! See, and hunters take on this thing called a “pet” which at times may be less than desireable, but we all love them anyway
Any pics of the watiing on line?
My wife had that surgery when the last expansion came out, then later almost died from complications. I was a very sad puppy. Shes doing very well now, except all her clothes keep falling off.
So far we have one guild mate in Northrend, shes just fishing/cooking.
My wife and I arent going to NR till her collectors edition gets here, my buddy and his wife arent going till she gets lvl 68, and our warrior guildmate isnt going to install the game for a week he said. So for now were fishing in Ogrimmar and fooling around with Deathknights. My god its actually fun to play! I may have to smash plates over my head to bring back some tedium and suffering.
Was I the only one confused with #6? Screw LISP and C++ everyone knows FORTRAN is where it’s at. And of course hunters get the hot girlfriends. Everyone knows a puppy or kitty is the best way to pick up chicks.
Anyway, my midnight release was dead. 5 people showed up at walmart. Although we did get confused looks when 12:05 rolled around and we threatened to raid the storeroom if they didn’t bring out some games.
I’d gotta agree with Julianne… cute wives & gfs play hunters
This’ll be the only time I refer to myself as cute since I’m also calling myself a Noob. Fair.
It’s sad all the fine WoW ladies are in Orlando…a few of them should move East so I can have company too.
Oh, and she wasn’t half naked….she was just short, then shorter still by sitting on the ground, so you could look right down her shirt. I’d have hit it.
lol #1 is hilarious ^^
BRK said
“The hunter who had TOTALLY overshot his range with his paladin girlfriend. We may be married, but we still look, for cryin’ out loud. Dude, we don’t know what you’re doing, but don’t stop, you lucky b@stard.”
The former Redskin coach Joe Gibbs, speaking in admiration of his sons’ wives. said
” They really outpunted their coverage”
LOL
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So, the population of WoW players must just be much more attractive in Florida than in Utah. Here we just had a bunch of guys wearing dark jackets with half beards wearing a lot of black. Oh, we had one guy dress up and he won the contest because of default.
But we regress… Sounds like you had a fun night.
Yah, I must say, we had a pretty sorry looking lot of nerds at our midnight event. The store passed out cheap (not name brand) sodas. My family was second in line, and my daughter who had arrived very early was pissed, she has a reputation for being first in line for geek movies and game releases.
It’s good to be running around Northrend!
“the half-naked girl reading Ayn Rand”
Go on.
@Orlando Girls
Yeah, i don’t get it either. I dunno if you’ve noticed it lately, but the “in” thing with these teenypobbers is the tighest fitting clothes with a Beatles hair cut. They’re uglier than sin, but i guess they gotta have something going for them.
Anyhow, the world was almost one Gamestop employee less as this jackass decided to tell me they were out of the xpac when i arrived and that it would take a month before my pre-order was in. He dares not imagine how far from the ‘other-side’ he came tonight, as you don’t mess with a game similar in addiction to crack.
How a gamer nerd gets a hawt gf explanations, from supposedly hawt gf of a gamer nerd.
1. Gamers are good with their hands.
2. All tanks need healers.
3. All squishies need tanks.
4. Want a cheap date? Try pizza and Scarlet Monastery.
5. Chivarly is dead to those rich non-nerd types, but not to the guy who spends time in a slightly anachronistic kinda medieval virtual world.
6. HUNTER PETS. Especially the kitties.
7. Well, you’ve got to do something to keep warm in line at Gamestop.
8.Males of *insert race here* are hot. (I personally prefer Draenei.)
9. Um, pheremones?
10. It’s not the drugs, it’s brains. Intelligent is sexy, and while stupid people think I and/or my guy is ugly, we both adore each other in more than superficial qualities.
Drakoh The taruen hunter demands photos. Lots of them. Fo’shizzle.
Seriously, what do you look like?
I… I had no idea you lived just over in Orlando BRK. Next time an xpac comes out, I’m going to need to find out which GameStop you go to and drive over from St. Pete if that’s alright. Then you’ll have six faithful admirers. Kicking myself for missing that right now. =\
If I werent on the oposite side of the country I would have totally gone to the event just to meet with you all. As I said when I messaged you the other night, ima huge fan and enjoy reading your blog often.
My husband would like me to say he believes that “geek” is the new “jock” hence the explination of so many hot females dating and/or married to WoW geeks.
I think its the girls who are hunters and the cast “Beast Lore” on the prospective men and find the ones who are more easily tamed and have better specialty skills.
8.Males of *insert race here* are hot. (I personally prefer Draenei.)
/flex
/waggle
To think I was only a hop, skip, and a jump away from being a part of the festivities. I didn’t have the game pre-ordered, but I was considering going down there anyway! lol.
Sadly, it just wasn’t to be this time. Next time for sure.
Damn, wish I was from USA to see some stuff like that in game releases, lol. Like, standing in lines just to buy a new game, meeting other gamers, etc. *_*
Something like this here is seem like: “you are a gamer? omfg you are retarded or what?”.
“2. The computer science guy extolling the virtues of LISP, then getting into a minor argument with a CS-undergrad over C++ and how a mathematician would easily prefer anything besides it.”
LOL, anyway, yeah this is true, we just can’t live without C.
Here in Middlesbrough, UK, I was that guy argueing C++. We’re a Uni town, and a great deal of our players are coders on games programming courses.
As for the women…..I noticed that too. I have my ideas though.
1. Considerate lovers – Got to make up for the geekiness somehow right? Might as well learn to be good in the sack
2. Chivalry isn’t dead – Most of the geeks I know, are quite chivalrous with there partner, not old fashioned, but certainly chivalrous.
3. Nice guys don’t always finish last – Again, most of the geeks I know that are pulling these insanely hot women (me included I hope
) are nice guys.
4. Some people like beards.
5. I’m warm and cozy to snuggle up to at night
That is not true… there is a VERY VERY good microbrewery in Orlando… http://www.orlandobrewing.com. Its just off of Kaley Ave around exit 82 on I4… I highly recommend it! We have a keg of their Blonde ale on draft at out house
Have you ever played a Paladin? You’ll do almost anything for someone who will chase down the runners for you.
Oh, and if you want a functional language, Standard ML kicks LISP’s no-type-checking butt.
Lets not forget the ample amounts of crack these women enjoy or the hawtness of a man who lives…
a.) with there mother or
b.) in the basement.
Being one of those “hot” girls in line was an experience! I don’t typically see myself as that though. I went after work so I was rather dressed up and still had my name tag on, bad idea. I have no less then three guys find me at work since, and the cashier at KFC recognize me!
But I’m gonna have to agree with Julianne on this one!
I gotta say getting hit on and getting a toon name and server rather than a phone number is amazing!
Hahaha your experience sounds fun! I went to a release here in Australia (Fountain Gate) and there were about 200 people there including an 80 something year old lady with her 50 something year old son. Lots of nerds but also some cute guys and lots of chicks (including me and my friend) and some of those chicks were hot. There was a very cool looking guy who was covered in tats with his very cute asian gf. Ran into two guys from an old guild and had another friend from work there with us so it was a social night. Picked up my CE and had a fun night to boot. What a blast! I’m so glad I stayed up and participated.
It was very nice meeting you, although I’m sure I said that at least three times in-person, all without ever introducing myself.
I was the short, probably-babbling paladin girl that didn’t want to interrupt the hunter conversation going on at the time. (”We don’t discriminate here!” made me feel better, haha.) All without even finishing up in the first line! I had a ton of fun listening in, though; pet talk and number crunching and Wrath talk made me happy, lol.
All in all, had a blast that evening! : ) Even though eating fast food for the first time in ages (Checkers ftw) made me sleepy earlier than usual, lol. Hope Wrath is treating you all well!