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Thank you for visiting Murloc Parliament. This blog is inactive since the authors have stopped playing WoW.
However, the blog will continue to be hosted for a while because, while outdated, some information may be useful. The site will be taken down once Mists of Pandaria is released, because at that point all information here will be obsolete.
Interpersonal Relationships Archive
Playing the Game with Your RL Friends
Posted on November 3, 2011 | 20 CommentsTL;DR DON’T DO IT!!! I’ve played WoW with RL friends. Hell, one of them got me to start playing WoW in the first place. However… I can’t say that it...I Should Just Drop Group If I Hear…
Posted on September 8, 2011 | 16 CommentsPreviously, I bemoaned the completely silent Pug. I am reconsidering that. A completely silent pug would be preferable to some of the things I’m hearing in party chat lately. Now,...Pugs: We Can’t Salvage This Relationship Unless You Talk to Each Other
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 20 CommentsI’m pretty damn demoralized by pugs lately. And why? Because people won’t fucking talk to each other. Here’s how it usually goes: Me: Hi, blah blah intro how are you...
You Can Hate Cliques Until You’re In One
Posted on June 23, 2011 | 10 CommentsAs a kid, I was never in a cool clique, or a clique of any kind. Now suddenly, I am, in the most unlikely place – Team Heal. In fostering...
When Husband and Wife Fundamentally Disagree (about raiding policy)
Posted on June 13, 2011 | 20 CommentsArcaneTinkerTank (otherwise known as Gnoble, Husband, and He Who Sleeps On Couch) is dead wrong. Now what? It all started when Gnoble announced that he was going to start tracking...
Raid Rostering: How to Give 12 People 10 Slots In a Raid
Posted on June 2, 2011 | 10 CommentsDon’t give us none of your aggravation We had it with your discipline Saturday night’s alright for fighting Get a little action in Get about as oiled as a diesel...
Conflict, Grudges, and Personal Responsibility – In-game and out.
Posted on February 16, 2011 | 16 CommentsHas this ever happened to you? Person X: “This thing that I don’t like happened/is happening in guild. I want it to stop.” Person Y: “Thank you for bringing it...
Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me, Guess I’ll Eat Some Worms
Posted on January 3, 2011 | 21 CommentsIn the whole drama mess going on in guildland (sigh) it has come to my attention that unnamed “people” don’t like me. It has further come out that this may...“This isn’t in my contract” – when the raid changes plans, what are your options?
Posted on November 18, 2010 | 43 CommentsScenario 1 You sign up for ICC. At go-time, the raid leader announces that there aren’t enough people signed up to do ICC, but if we pull in some casual...
What have you done for me late-ly?
Posted on September 16, 2010 | 12 CommentsLately bloggers have been discussing then versus now: Were things “better” in vanilla? Do people who were here since vanilla treat the relative newcomers differently? In keeping with the theme...