The story of Bunny

Bunny was a guildie who had the unfortunate bad habit of keeping his caps lock button pressed, this means that HE SPOKE IN CAPS ALL THE TIME no matter what he said. For those of you who don't know using all capital letters in chat is the equivalent of screaming in a face to face interaction. Not only did he keep the caps button on but he always felt the need to type out the lyrics to songs that he was listening to in guild chat. I can understand that sometimes people use caps to indicate frustration, but he was not doing that, it was like he was screaming everything he said for no reason. I found this very obnoxious and so the first few times I saw him do this I asked him to stop, and I asked politely, the conversations went something like this...

Bunny: I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT

me: Um, hey there Bunny would you mind taking off caps?

Bunny: WHY?

me: Well I find it sort of obnoxious and I would appreciate it if you did not do that

Bunny: HERE IS MY HANDLE AND HERE IS MY SPOUT

Basically he refused to listen to me so I went to see the guild leader and I complained to her telling her that I understood that sometimes using caps could be important but that Bunny was being really obnoxious. She told me that she would speak to him and eventually did. When she did Bunny through a fit and insited that he was not changing to make anybody happy and that if somebody had a problem with him that they should put him on ignore. I was really pissed off at this and I promptly put him on ignore. I thanked my guild leader for her help and that I chose to put him on ignore but that I was not happy about it. My guild leader reminded me that I could not like everybody and that especially in a big guild that lack of manners was to be expected sometimes. I told her my problem with Bunny was that he was rude and unreasonable but that she could count on me to not cause drama and that is what happened. I put him on ignore and then I tried not to think about him.

Then one day my guild was raiding with this new person. Bunny did not like her and he trashed her as much as he could, he said many very unpleasant things about her in guild chat but when she joined the guild he was very polite to her face. His hypocracy really got on everybody's nerves and because he would not stop being both polite and rude behind her back the guild leader kicked him out of the guild. That's when he started badmouthing the guild in trade chat, that is a very public channel. After he did that and was not angry anymore he asked Sadie to be let back into the guild again. He would quit the guild with alarming regularity for no reason and come back as quickly so I think he expected to be let back in again but this time she said no. He got really upset and started begging and so she decided to ask the officers if they thought he should let him back in. He told her that he wanted to apologize so she let him and he then sent an apology to every guild member. I had been offline while the actual drama had taken place and despite my dislike for Bunny, stemming from the fact that he's a rude idiot, I was willing to let him back in provided he had really changed. He spammed his apology to every guild member. Spam is generally considered to be a rude thing so he was apologizing for his rudeness by being rude, interesting approach. In any event I don't think he is back in the guild and I'm hoping he never comes back.

Jerac also disliked Bunny, he felt morons like Bunny were taking over the guild and turning it into a really not fun place. He also felt that Bunny was up to no good and that he and players like him were out to con the guild and take the good honest members for all they could.

Bunny wanted to be the only member of his class in raids so he would not have to compete with other players for the items that dropped, I think he was really mean about that other player because he was jealous of her, she had a hunter and he did not want to have to even contemplate sharing loot with her. One day he told the whole guild why a specific kind of weapon should be usable only by his class: so that he would get it when it dropped in raids and not have to compete with anybody. That kind of attitude is really offensive, he felt he was more entitled than anybody else to get epics and even though he was well geared he still acted like he needed them more than anybody else. To be honest I never want to raid with people like Bunny because they are so unpleasant and stupid.

Last night a trinket saved my life!

This week I ran a bunch of dungeons as tank, I ran 5 or 6 dungeons: Shattered Halls, Nexus, Auchenai Crypts(not sure about spelling), Sethekk Halls and most of Utguarde Keep. I say most of Utguarde keep because I wiped at least once on each boss in the dungeon once. My guild leader who is both an amazing player and a really great guy told me that I did a really good job even though we did wipe a few times and even though in the end two party members had to get level 80's to finish the Keep I would like to think I did well. I'm still reeling at this, I am amazed to find I am a good tank. One thing that helped me was the fact that I have ne of the most popular tanking trinkets that drops in the outlands!

When I first made my toon I never imagined I would be tanking dungeons with him, and when I failed my first attempt at tanking evar I never thought I would ever do as well as I did this week. My guild leader used to raid for one of the major raiding guilds on ym server and he told me I was doing a good job. One of the reasons that we had trouble was that our super competant healer was a few levels lower than the rest of the group, it's not to say that she was bad just that even a higher level healer would have trouble doing what we attempted.

In the middle of Utguarde Keep I suddenly realized that I had a project even better than PvP practices in WoW sitting in my lap. A project that is much better suited to the auto-ethnographic method, the story of me and my blood elf paladin. The story of how I decided to make him, how I leveled him, what happened to him and what I am doing with him now. This is part of the story of how I started to play WoW and comes from my encounters with the game and the other players.

I'm sure that it has less of the anthropological cachet of "I went to observe the wild PvPer in his native environment." that anthropology sometiems seems to sometimes revel in but I think this will make my project ulitmately more managable.