A homie hit me up to test an online crawler they are working on. We go way back to the Pre-EQ days when bugs were written on paper, so I couldn't say no. Well, I could. Shit, I should have, now that I think about it.
Anyway, after the NDA's are penned I hop onto the server and am met with a gathering of the old heads and we get to catch up. Some left the biz, some had kids, some came up, some came down. All said we were pretty much the people we knew last time we clocked out of the same office.
We party up, assign roles, calibrate what we need to pay attention to and get to it. The game was wack (don't be mad homie, it's what you asked me there to do and search your heart, you know it's true), so we spent most of the time grinding on autopilot while arguing life from our vastly different perspectives.
Our healer was elated about the current state of the world. I am not, but recognize it is what it is. The healer asked what my problem was because they remember this particular chain of events being all I enjoyed talking about during our twelve hours, seven days a week sit-ins.
The conversation went like this:
Healer: "But it's so cool! It's like we are living in France before the Revolution!"
Tank: "If you say so, Le Miz."
Healer: "First off, fuck you, Le Miz is the shit. Second, you don't think so?"
Tank: "Nope. Cause in the American version Jean Valjean is a lazy fool, Inspector Javert is a Nazi, Fantine is a ho, and the internet makes poor people think they are the 1%. The system is working as intended, they ain't doing shit."
DPS: "Goddam, I see time ain't give you any chill, old man."
Healer: "One of these days people are gonna surprise your grumpy ass. Also, watch the play again cause those characters were already pretty much those things."
Tank: "Hey, I believe we are in the age of heroes. I just don't believe we are the heroes. Our kids are, or their kids, maybe. Us, we just gotta do the best we can where we at."
Healer: "... But I wanna be the hero."
Tank: "Then keep healing."
Anyway, like I said, the game is wack, but if they keep at it and listen to the developers and the community they could birth something special.
Shouts to information. rip TC rip TB rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobz.
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