Weird end to a weird kid
Odd story for the day.
We had this blood elf DK in the guild, who was a member for a long time. Probably something close to 9 months. On constantly, he maintained a stable of about 6 different level 80 characters, most with transmute mastery alchemists, to farm out gems all day long. I suspect he possessed a small fortune.
Now, he never raided because of parental controls, and his main interactions with the guild was randomly running heroics with other guild members. Yet he was always–ALWAYS–in vent, and if a few folks would hop on he would immediately move to the room they chose and help himself right into their conversation.
Moreover, he’d offer to tank heroics for people with the explicit proviso they go in vent and talk with him. Kid probably didn’t have many friends.
He’d also post nonsensicalities in guild chat and forums saying crap like “I like candy!” and “I love you guys!” Like I said, weird kid.
This weekend I was minding my business running a Heroic Halls of Reflection on the DK, when this kid announces in guild chat that he thought he should be the DK class lead (instead of the current one) because he’s on more often and is always answering questions about DKs for people. Nevermind that the current DK class lead is the nicest guy ever and pulls down 8k dps, single target, on bosses. This weird kid definitely deserved the honor.
Anyway, so I cut in after a few seconds of stunned silences and question in /o of “is he serious?” with the inquiry of whether that was an appropriate thing to demand in general guild chat. Weird kid retorts with the Ciceronian logic that he didn’t care and he wasn’t interested in “sucking up” to get the class lead spot. He then goes on to “demand” the guild leader talk to him about it.
So then of course we acquiesced to his well reasoned arguments and made him the new guild leader.
Actually, we told him no and he needed to learn how to communicate like adult. He gquit a few minutes later.
Then yesterday he posted a random link on the guild forums that reeked of keylogger (like he copy-pasted a keylogger post from the official WoW forums). I swear, I think that kid was trying to get back at us by getting some random members hacked.
I won’t be mourning the loss of the random weird kid, for one, but I know a few liked him. It’ll be nice to be able to go in vent and not have to hide in the officers channel to avoid the familiar, pubescent voice declaring “I like candy!”
It’s a shame, he was obviously very lonely. But also odd. Very, very odd.
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“So then of course we acquiesced to his well reasoned arguments and made him the new guild leader.”
Have to admit that I stopped, stared at the screen and may have even had the “WHHHHHAAAAAAA??!” look on my face for a second there. Got me good. lol
Sounds like you lost a real winner there, congrats. ^_^
I like candy!
O.o How odd!
@hazmacewillraid
21 December 2009 at 2:33 pm #
So wait, he had parental controls that prevented him from raiding, but not from being on all the time? How else would parental controls work than by restricting play time?
@Rhidach
21 December 2009 at 2:59 pm #
He was on every day, for most of the day, but promptly kicked off at night around raid time. Which, now that you mention it, doesn’t make much sense.
I’ve seen a few like this before, my logic says he most likely doesn’t get the attention a young person should from the parental figures either.
how very very odd… very odd indeed.
We have a 18+ rule on anyone in the guild. Even then, people still flake out and or have melt-downs in their early 20s.
Which one of your DKs is pulling 8k single target btw? I have an alt whose dps set I’m working on at the moment and I’d like to compare gear.
That’s a bit weird. I guess some people just want power.
If he was vanishing at raid time, either he was a complete lunatic towards his parents about not being able to raid, or he was raiding with someone else or something.
Either way, post more about candy. I like it.
@Rhidach
21 December 2009 at 8:50 pm #
Duly noted, next week I’ll do a best-in-slot list for candy.
Love you guys!
Indeed, that is weird.
Odd, in fairness though, if you raid from a fairly standard 7 or 8, he could be a latch key kid. That’d explain the attention seeking and the weird inability to do anything past a certain time.
@hazmacewillraid
22 December 2009 at 10:23 am #
Wait, wait, wait… blood elf DK? As in, “male” belf? Bahaha, explains it all.
… Ok, I have a belf DK, but it’s a female, so it’s all gravy.
Actually when he first started saying “I like Candy” I thought it was funny. Not because of how juvenile it was, but because he used to say it whenever people were arguing about something…sort of an icebreaker. Guildie A and Guildie B are going back and forth arguing a point over and over and the kid posts “I like Candy” . However, soon he began posting it a bit too much. Also, the thing with the class-lead was beyond ridiculous, but I guarantee you it was because he wanted to be in officer’s chat. He hated for people to be in Vent without him and probably hated it worse that there was a chat he could not see.