Notes - Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games - page 187

21. Michael Gray, “Training Dummies in Capital Cities,” WoW Insider, http://
wow.joystiq.com/2008/10/21/training-dummies-in-capital-cities/.
22. Euripedes, “The Theorycraft Suit,” Critical QQ, http://criticalqq.wordpress.
com/2008/11/06/the-theorycraft-suit/.
23. Boubouille, “Yogg-Saron +0 Strategy by Stars,” MMO-Champion, http://
www.mmo-champion.com/content/?topic=72925.0.
24. Xav, “Yogg-Saron Zero Watcher Downed,” Death's Demise—Premonition
:: Senjin (US), http://www.premoguild.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2bc4
d5c28de1df9b4cc135e2f4c0e6d0&t=4144.
25. Bbr, “Elitist Jerks Theorycraft,” Random Ravings of Warcraft, http://rrvs.
blogspot.com/2008/01/elitist-jerks-theorycraft.html
26. Howgego, “Map of World of Warcraft Online Communities,” Tim Howgego,
http://timhowgego.com/map-of-world-of-warcraft-online-communities.
html.
27. Gevlon, “Information Available,” Greedy Goblin, http://greedygoblin.blog-
spot.com/2009/08/information-available.html.
28. World of Logs is a data tracking and analysis tool primarily used by raiders.
It is available at http://www.worldofl ogs.com/.
29. For more on mods and the user experience in WoW see: Nardi, My Life as a
Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft ; T. L.
Taylor, “Does World of Warcraft Change Everything? How a PvP Server,
Multinational Playerbase, and Surveillance Mod Scene Caused Me Pause,”
in Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader , ed. Hilde
Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
30. Pokin, “Encrypted Text: The logic behind Rogue axioms,” WoW Insider,
http://wow.joystiq.com/2009/04/29/encrypted-text-the-logic-behind-rogue-
axioms/.
31. T. L. Taylor also has a nice analysis of guild recruitment ads in Taylor, “Does
World of Warcraft Change Everything?”
32. Melbu, “[Horde][Ner'zhul] [EST-PVP] <Spike Flail> 0 Light—Alg Down—
Warlock—Ret—Hunter,” World of Raids, http://worldofraids.com/forums/
showthread.php?t=23047&highlight=theorycraft.
33. Benita, “[H] Bad Omen-Dentarg, SWP 6/6 + Uld 9/9 HM pre-nerf, Top50,
recruiting for 3.2,” World of Raids, http://worldofraids.com/forums/
showthread.php?t=22878
34. Sean Forsgren, “Addon Spotlight: DrDamage,” WoW Insider, http://wow.
joystiq.com/2008/05/02/addon-spotlight-drdamage/.
35. Ghostcrawler, “Re: 116% Armor Pen Only Giving 66%!?!?!?!,” World of
Warcraft Forums, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=
16473618356&pageNo=4&sid=1#60.
36. Ibid.
37. Mike, “Breakfast Topic: Nobody Understands Me,” WoW Insider, http://
wow.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/breakfast-topic-nobody-understands-me/.
38. Angkorwat, “Does Elitist Jerks Make Everything Suck? ,” World of Warcraft
Forums, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=16904261
303&sid=1&pageNo=1
39. Petitmort, “Re: Does Elitist Jerks Make Everything Suck?,” World of War-
craft Forums, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=169
04261303&sid=1#8.
40. Gevlon, “Is Mathematics Bad?,” Greedy Goblin, http://greedygoblin.blog-
spot.com/2009/05/is-mathematics-bad.html
41. Bilsybub, “Does All My Math Make WoW suck?,” World of Discourse, http://
worldofdiscourse.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/does-all-my-math-make-wow-
suck/.