"How was school today?" "I played WoW."Follow

I liked "The Grapes of Wrath." >.> Granted I also just read it for the first time last year, I never read it in high school. We watched the old movie in high school in my history class, and I thought it was boring as hell back then.

In any case, I think the idea of using WoW as a learning tool is very fascinating. For my Intro to Game Studies class, we watched an episode of Frontline on the digital age, and they showed a class in New York that used computers for absolutely everything. It had really helped get the students interested in the different subjects, and it improved test scores and attendance as a result. I'd LOVE to teach a lit class on WoW someday, that'd be freaking awesome. Being a WoW player helps that of course, but I think digital media in general is just very fascinating.

Easy - Gandalf PL'd Bilbo and the dwarves through some higher level zones and instances to twink them so they could raid Lonely Mountain and Bilbo got a lucky world drop in the form of the One Ring. Golum, who was in the same area as Bilbo, was a rogue from a PvP guild who got jealous when Bilbo got the world drop and, feeling that it should have been his since he'd been farming it, has been stalking and trying to grief Bilbo's ever since. Bard the archer used an exploit to one-shot Smaug and then world PvP broke out when several different guilds rolled in to try to ninja the drops.

Bard got perma banned for the exploit, Gloin's player rolled a twink named Gimli, Gandolf joined a raiding guild while Bilbo's player took a year off to play Star Wars MMO but later came back and rolled a twink he named Frodo - Golum, being the loser d00d that he was, held a grudge and is now trying to grief the new toon.

Done! ;-)