A few minor developments in the World of Warcraft: I’ve become more dedicated to my rogue (perhaps pathologically so… I am beginning to get to the point where I transgress against the time limits I set for myself) and don’t play the other avs as much. Rozalind is level 10 as of today (shortly after my own birthday) and I am told that life, with all the good moves, begins at 10. Dave Sturgis says he will buy me a pony when I get big enough.
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Meant to post last night, but the network was down. The big notable from yesterday was that I suddenly, and with great force, developed a class preference. I’d been playing around with a gnome rogue on a server where none of my friends were logged in, and found her range of abilities significantly more interesting — she could pick pockets, sneak around, and use a broader range of attacks than my priestess. All in all, there was simply more to do as a rogue, and I was much more able to play without anyone else logged in.
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Last week I played WoW with friends for the first time. I met two college buddies, Neil and Sam, on the Silver Hand server after sorting out my confusion about how to find people, invite them to quests, and above all negotiate the command-line chat system which seems like it should be analogous to IRC but isn’t.
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I’m reading through the article “Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice” from the Journal of Literacy Research and have a few thoughts.
First of all, this was just the article I was looking for and didn’t even know it. The authors set out to bring the global back into the very local practices studied in new literacies research. Let me step back and explain.
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Started playing Worlds of Warcraft today. I don’t know what Jim Gee’s talking about when he talks about how you don’t need the manual to start a game — he sure wasn’t talking about piloting those Night Elves of his!
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