They stole an hour from usss, preciousss! The bastards!

That's right, I just picked up my copy of World of Warcraft! Now to wait for the servers to come up...

I keep getting a feeling something's killed Magic: the Gathering for me. I like to consider myself a Johnny player and I've always been a Johnny. But recently I keep thinking things like "no, this card sucks, it's too expensive; the effect is really cool, I love it, but it won't fit in my mana curve" or "this card penalizes my tempo too much", and I can't help but feel I'm losing out on exactly the kind of cool interactions that made me like Magic to begin with. What's worse, I'm actually considering the metagame, and that's a bad sign if ther ever was one.

I blame not having anyone to play with, which in turn brings me to IRC channels, which puts that competitive pressure on me. Bloody pro tour players.

Warriors in World of Warcraft have an ability called Charge. What it does is, well, charge against an opponent, briefly stunning them and giving you some Rage points. The range is fairly short, and what you do is basically just run towards your opponent really really fast and hit them. Now, under normal conditions there's nothing between you and the opponent at this point; but watch what happens when something is in the way.