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pelf
The chill you feel is the herald of your doom.
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631520
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pelf
Pfft, it's not KT, but Lil' K.T.. All I do is laugh manically at people.
You look like you'd do that well
^_~
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Wikipedia
Congrats on being stickied.
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pelf
Congrats on being stickied.
Second. Keep those creative juices flowing, and keep us posted!
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pelf
You can link to the transcript post in the OP with this:
http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=163909.3&p=2216083#p2216080
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pelf
For your age, in this day and age, your English output is quite good
:)
. I only hit a few things that tweaked my eyes a bit, and they were minor. (As I ponder this, I'm not sure you wanted grammar or composition feedback; however, it's something I'm good at, so I figure, what the heck.)
Using "one" is almost always a failing prospect, as once one decides to use "one", one finds oneself in a gorge of restriction with regard to one's options in phrasing. It also sounds really stuffy. I'd rephrase the Raiding paragraph to something like this: (other changes included outside of the "one" point)
In an encounter, a warlock is performing the role of ranged tank. As the warlock is kiting the mob he is tanking, he is a fair distance away, but is losing threat. Using his mouse to turn, he can do so nearly instantly, cast a few Searing Pains, turn back around, and continue kiting. Attempting to do this with keyboard turning would result in too much time being spent turning. He would lose time, not be able to cast as many Searing Pains and therefore not produce as much threat as he could have -- less threat means less raid damage to the mob he is kiting.
Obviously that's my style and flavor, but you see what I mean about how it sounds better without trying to use "one".
You only had one run-on sentence type situation that stood out (probably because it was the first sentence in the post).
Hello everyone, my name is Xzilend. I am one of the new bloggers to join the writing community here at Felfire, and I hope to use my experience of warlocking in the World of Warcraft to supply both interesting and useful content to the site.
All I did was add a period after Xzilend.
"in an attempt to relieve the pressure." kind of makes me laugh. Sounds like something I'd read on Engrish.com. I'd keep it -- everyone knows what you mean.
In the PvP section, you introduce the concept of "jumpspinning" without naming it and don't really come back to it. Being able to jumpspin is possibly one of the most useful results of keybinding in PvP.
"accessable" and "cursur" are spelled wrong.
I need to check out your part 2 video. I can't do that until I get home.
Let me know if you don't want me to be so nitpicky. With English composition, especially, I'm constantly thinking about how to say things in ways that flow better and carry the right connotations as well as literal meanings. It's something I enjoy.
I think you could expand the justification somehow. You could look into some archived threads in various forums ... keybinding versus clicking debates usually go several pages before they putter out. Everything you said could be summarized as "Keybinding lets you mouse turn which means you can jumpspin and take less time turning so you can cast more spells while moving." There's more to it than that, isn't there? In terms of your videos, those are showing methodologies and criteria for how to set up keybinding once you've chosen to do so.
Oh, last thing: if you're going to put your email address on a public, google-indexed blog and if that blog is about wow and if that email is
also
the email you use for your battle.net account, I would suggest you take a screenshot of the text of your email as it displays in your blog post and place that image in place of the text so that it's at least difficult for a scraper to mine your email and try to hack you or send MORE spam to your Gmail account
:)
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HighFive
Feedback on pelf's feedback:
It peeves me that you used "he" instead of "them" (sexist!). It's probably just me though.
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"cursor" is spelled wrong :P
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pelf
"them" is plural. Usually when people want to appease the people who cry foul when the male gender pronoun is used, they just use "she". No male cares, and it appeases the females.
cursor
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EDIT
: In my case, I use the male gender pronouns for anonymous entities (like the unnamed warlock) or groups (like "you guys") as it's a linguistic tradition. Perhaps the tradition was created and enforced by a patriarchal society, but I'm using it neither to "keep the women down" nor to degrade the female sex.
I'm just writing a sentence.
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Wikipedia
I'm just writing a sentence.
We both know this is a lie
:)
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HighFive
"them" is plural. Usually when people want to appease the people who cry foul when the male gender pronoun is used, they just use "she". No male cares, and it appeases the females.
Really? In my experience I've ran into "they" (I meant "they" btw, not "them, if that makes any difference to your train of thought) much more often than "she".
As I said, I'm probably the only person bothered by that. It's the result of a more general issue of mine related to assumptions (such as assuming the warlock is male). Totally irrational, I know.
Also, just in case you didn't realize, the "sexist!" comment was meant as a (bad) joke. There's not way I'd assume that about you just from your post (largely due to the aforementioned issue of mine).
cursor
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What's your point? I was referring to you typing "curs
u
r", not anything to do with the definition.
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pelf
Well, just because people
use
"they" and "them" as a non-gender-specific way to refer to single unnamed humans doesn't mean it's right. "One" is really your only option for this if you're going to be grammatical about it. It has just fallen out of favor and sounds stuffy -- everyone uses "them" and "they" for this purpose.
I didn't think you were serious about the sexist thing; I just responded directly without smileys.
I misspelled the quoted misspelling as Xz did? I guess so. I guess I didn't misspell check my misspelling
:)
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We both know this is a lie
:)
I have to concede that you're right. That was far too reductionist to the point where it was simply false. I'll redact it. I guess
some
people have been paying attention to my morals and ethics as conveyed through my writing style here
^_^
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1. However, I take the use of 'one' with great thought.
Then, my suggestion changes to: "use 'my' and 'I'". I would avoid one at almost all costs.
In an encounter, my warlock is performing the role of ranged tank. As I am kiting the mob I'm tanking, I find myself a fair distance away, but I'm losing threat. If I use my mouse to turn, I can do so nearly instantly, cast a few Searing Pains, turn back around, and continue kiting. Attempting to do this with keyboard turning would result in too much time being spent turning. I would lose time, not be able to cast as many Searing Pains and therefore not produce as much threat as I could have -- less threat means less raid damage to the mob I'm kiting.
The PvP section should probably follow suit.
While kiting a melee character, my warlock wishes to apply the glyphed Shadowflame slow effect in an attempt to gain some distance. Using my mouse, I simply jump, rotate 180 degrees, cast Shadowflame and finish the rotation. This method is unachievable while turning with the keyboard and would simply result in there being no way to cast on a player who is chasing you.
3. I believe I meant to say alleviate the pressure, rather than relieve. I finished the article in the morning and must have not been thinking.
Rephrased completely in my re-re-phrase.
4. I'm at somewhat of a loss in regards to what you mean when you say that I did not come back to jumpspinning. I thought I had made a clear and relevant example. I thought further discussion would have seemed redundant.
My point is that the PvP situation
included
jumpspinning. But, you didn't call it out as such. Neither in the PvP example nor later, directly. If your article is read by someone who is just deciding to stop keyboard turning, they won't be able to glean the term "jumpspin" nor associate that term with the example in your PvP situation. I think you should more specifically address it.
In regards to my email address, it is not the same as my battle.net address and is solely used for 'Xzilend-y' business. Now while it is forwarded to my primary address, Gmail is actually quite successful at blocking out malicious emails.
Right on, very smart. You might consider it anyway. It's probably just a good habit to never post your email in selectable, parse-able, plain text on the internets.
I appreciate all of the feedback!
Quite welcome
:)
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There, I ended all my post sections in a smiley. Does everyone know I'm being jovial now?
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