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      by Jay

        Someday, September 22, 2002 - 41:9 XM

 I don't have any major topic to rant about today, so I plan on trying out my stream-of-consciousness writing skills.  The first on my agenda is explaining the comic since I doubt very many will understand the humor.  A select group of people on campus own a new form of digital crack called Warcraft 3, and whenever time permits they will rise up and challenge each other to a multiplayer game of Warcraft.  The game itself is pretty basic, you pick one of four different fantasy races (humans, elves, etc) and then you proceed to mine supplies so you can create an assortment of men/beasts for your army.  Then you proceed to search and find your opponents somewhere else on the map to destroy them before they destroy you.  Basically it's a war simulator where whoever can build an army faster than the other guys wins.  While it may not sound addicting from this brief description (which I some how was able to describe a 2 hour game in 2 sentences), trust me it is.  Just think of it as a large scale game of chess that can be played by 12 people simultaneously except you don't have to wait on your opponents to move.  Whoever can move and strategize the fastest wins, therefore it relies more on brains and wits more than it relies on who can mash buttons the fastest.   
  Regardless, the point of the comic is that in the honors dorm it isn't uncommon for someone to pick up the phone and hear an ethereal voice whispering "waaaaaarrrcraaaafft" on the other end.  This calling usually indicates that someone is tired of doing school work and wants to challenge another person to a game of wit and skill (aka Warcraft 3).   But again, sometimes this spiritual chanting of "warcraft" can become a nuisance, especially when real work must be completed or sleep must be acquired. How scary it must be to wake up in the middle of the night to find a sleep-deprived college student chanting for more games of warcraft so he can temporarily entertain himself and procrastinate any real work he must finish.  Thus the comic is explained...
    Now that I have pretty much singled out my core audience by discussing a form of entertainment that so few ever admit to participating in due to it's low niche on the social ladder I can try to rant about something that everyone will understand: The stupidity and gullibility of a few freshmen, and those upperclassmen who choose to exploit it.  The situation which recently incurred my wrath was when I discovered an acquaintance of mine decided to break up with their long-time boyfriend/girlfriend (aka the soon-to-be-fiance') because a "hot" upperclassman started showing interest in them.  To make matters worse, I just so happen to know the upperclassman plays people like this all of the time, and I think the last thing they desire out of my acquaintance is a meaningful relationship.  Basically, some upperclassman ruined a long term relationship hoping for some quick pleasure and an ego boost while in the process ruining two people's lives (the dumped fiance', and my acquaintance whose life will be in shambles after the upperclassman is finished with them).  This type of thing just boils my blood, especially when there it's nothing I can do about it but wait until the house of cards falls so I can help my acquaintance pick up the pieces.  Not much else I can say about this subject other than asking these to all freshmen: "How can you be so gullible to believe the lies these people tell you?!?   What can possibly possess you to leave someone who has a future for someone you is probably just using you for the present? "
    While you think about the answers to those questions I am going to go hit on some cute freshmen and tell them what they want to hear so I actually compete with all of those other heartless upperclassmen. 

    - J, a lover of irony, is still trying to figure out what an appositive is