Effemiftheycanttakeajoke

My guild rank is "Bowler." 

If I put this sort of thing on my resume, you would think I was a bad hiring risk. Yes, I had to leave my last guild. I knew going in that I wasn't going to get a spot on their ten-man team, and that was all right. I figured if I wanted to get back into raiding, then I'd figure out a way. There was so much new content anyway, and LFR, and then pandas, and oh yes, job, life, sleep. Yeah. But, there was this nagging...sometimes in guild chat the nerd-rage got a little heavy. I brushed it off. And, it seemed like it was tough to really bond with anyone. I adore my friend, and I hope he's not upset with me for my spontaneous /gquit, but it was coming. While they were all merrily raiding away, I decided to pop into an LFR. Young leet druid looks over my shoulder and says something about an AOE spell I have I wasn't using to full potential (fire nova and flame or earth shock). I experimented with KABLOOEY! CRITS ALL ROUND! Like Oprah with cars, "You get a crit! You get a crit! And you!" I ended up being top three in damage, only behind two hunters. I was so proud of myself, I hit recount to the guild.

Will I ever learn to curb my enthusiasm? 

Nope. 

Got told something by a guild-mate to the effect, "Don't recount unless you're number one." 

Okay.

Pause. 

I typed, "Just proud of myself." 

Then am told by same guild-mate, "Well, some of us don't like to be spammed." 

Fair enough. 

I never liked it when players spammed recount, but understand that sometimes, well, it's just fun. And in this guild, I have been "spammed" plenty by recount. But I never considered it spam - I always thought of it as sharing a success. But, perhaps I should have kept it to myself. But I didn't. I wanted them to know, subconsciously at the time I guess, that I could hang, too. And since I had been thinking about moving Mataoka back to her little cottage guild anyway, well, the fingers did the quitting before the emotional lizard brain could stop it. 

There are always such cultural undertones and shifts in any group, and when we break those protocols it can embarrass us when publicly dressed-down. And I am at a point in the game where I don't need to be dressed down. 

He was all like, OVER THE LINE SMOKEY

and I was all like, "All right, it's f******* zero, are you happy, you crazy f***?"

It's a LFR, Smoke.

So, back to Ever Thus.

*If you spam that recount, you're entering a world of pain.