When someone pulls a cucumber out of a hole and it had turned into a pickle...

As for finding a euphemism to the title of this entry... some people are just complete loot whores. I don't know what else to say.

I am in a a raiding guild. I KNOW. Remind me one more time and I just might slice someone's opening. Yes people who run alts have better raid awareness and knowledge of the strategy of the fights than most of the Marauders (AKA friends and family). But why do we even have a Marauder rank if we don't want the Marauders to roll on shit against Alts? Why do we insist that the Alts be the only ones allowed to have gear? Alts might as well call reserves on EVERYTHING, if that was the case.

Why do the Raiders feel so damn high and mighty? Cause we raid and other people can't? Some people CHOOSE not to be a raider. They can't make our normal raid times, maybe because of their jobs or their commitment to their families. Some just aren't strong enough players. Some just can't make the cut.

Call me a hypocrite, really. I do get mad when people we never see again get the shit I want on an alt. (I mean, this shit's happened to me on my main too!) But that's just part of the game. Screw the game. That's how real life works too! Yes some are deserving of the gear (or the job or the house with the white picket fences) but some are just better off not having these things because they don't know what to do with them!

But does it occur to some people that some of the Marauders are our friends? Can I blame someone else for their friends' lack of skills? NO!

Trust me, I am hard on my two friends who had transferred to this server. Both have been MIA from the game and are fast re-learning the way it goes. They followed me here in Arygos because our old server sucked major balls and because they want to play with me, no matter what character and no matter how sucky I can be on that toon. Albeit they knew they would rarely see me as the raid healer they once knew and loved, but they like *me* not just as a guildie but also a friend. How many guildies even think of me as a friend and not just a colleague? It's sad when I say I can only count a handful that I know will go with me to the ends of the earth.

My friends spent REAL money to get their butts to where I am. They've brought alts and one of them is faction changing all of them! (Insane, I know.) Now that's not just sincerity, but dedication to a friendship.

When it comes to the game, I REALLY kick their ass. They're already behind enough as it is. If I don't give them tough love, they will NEVER catch up. They don't do their dailies? Trust me, they get their ears boxed. They don't do their weeklies? I need not be intoxicated to drunk-call them at 4 am to remind them what they should do.

They are trying their best. That's what matters to me. They aren't fucking up on pulls like even the most experienced raiders do. They are honest when they say they are not familiar with fights. It takes more courage to tell the truth than to lie and pretend to know a fight. And they have the balls to say it.

I've known these guys for as long as I've started playing WoW. They've known me and loved me before I was even in a serious raiding guild... when I was just a bud yet to sprout as a beautiful flower. I really hate writing like I'm trying to be cheesy, but I don't care. I love these guys and they love me and they are fucking awesome. I don't care if they are on the top or bottom of the meters. THEY ARE MY BOYS. Anyone fucks with them... I don't think I can control myself from going The Hulk on some people.

This is probably the best guild I have ever been in. I have no enemies AND I have strict competition. Guilds come and go though (knock on wood!)... but these guys, MY BOYS, have been around for me, on- and off-game... I wonder where some of my guildies stand when a storm hits and I need to deal? Will they be concerned for my well-being or will they backstab me like dickless traitors? The guild doesn't need to prove me anything. We're all here to play and kill bosses. But at least I know these friends I have now will always be there, guild or no guild. Game or no game. And for that I am thankful.

So Cucumber-Hole can kiss my yellow ass. How many friends does CH have that loves CH like my friends love me?