The Sociology of PUGs

LFG - a blessing and a curse: Yes, I do love theLFG tool in WoW. It helps me to quickly run a few dungeons and to collect emblems, loot, experience and more then wanted - frustration. Some groups are just wonderful, fun, forgiving, lots of team spirit, lots of LOLs involved. Other groups are terrible, tanks sprinting ahead, nobody heard of a ready check, a lets charge and think later strategy. I don't mind being the only one returning into a dungeon and rezing the group - heck we wiped so what's the deal, but it makes me sad to see that healz and great tanking are taken for granted. Folks, let your tank and healer know if you like them or have suggestions for making things better. Just leaving the group because you feel embarassed is not cutting it.

I have good days and bad days as everyone has. Some days I run HoR and FoS on heroics without breaking a sweat. Some days I wipe in AK. I never enjoy to see anybody of my group dying, regardles is pro or amateur, arrogant or ignorant, because I am a healer and it's my job to keep you alive. Just have an open mind and accept group feedback and input. Be mindful and try to adapt and enjoy the fun that a PUG can provide.. next to embs and loot

Creating Facts

Riding public transportation is fun. If you enjoy it or not, you will always be exposed to "public" discussions, heated debates, private whispers. Often passengers exchange heresay and assumptions they pic up from TV/Radio/private social networks as self declared facts. It makes we wonder what drives this machinery of whitewashing low level information and to sell it as game changer? Maybe modern media did us a disfavor in their hunt for news, their self creation of news to keep us customers fixed and frozen to screen and speaker. Next time you ride the subway - tune in and listen..

Darwin's birthday

The Endowment effect; a phenomena which is the tendency most people have to value objects they already own more highly than similar ones they have never owned and as a consequence of such are reluctant to trade them in/up.