IRONY BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND — updated
I love irony–in fact, my highly advanced brain can more or less only function on the ironic level or else I’d slip into some sort of Camus fueled existential coma. That said, sometimes irony makes me really fucking mad. Like this week’s wow.com abortion. Here’s a fuckin’ link. Just be clear at the outset: I feel uniquely qualified to comment on the abilities of our new friend, since he and I play the same class. That’s why I am fairly comfortable saying that there’s a pretty fair chance he’s the stupidest person on the entire fucking internet.
I honestly reserved judgment on our new UI moron, but I can’t believe he’s saying some of this shit after he posted his own garbage dump of a user interface. What’s worse, he somehow thinks that his UI approximates a “good” UI experience and instead of taking his own advice and critically fucking evaluating his own UI, he non-ironically tries to give advice to other people. The uncanny nature of his non-ironic irony is like unfuckingbelievable.
Section One: oPie
Motherfucker is talking about fucking opie when he has his MOTHERFUCKING AURAS ON HIS FUCKING ACTION BAR! What the fuck? You have to be in the 1st percentile on a fucking “living/breathing functionality exam” to not know what fucking aura you have up. You oPie your auras because you don’t need every fucking button on your screen at once you ignorant cocksucker.The fuck gives you the right to tell anyone anything when you obviously don’t understand the implications of what you’re saying. It’s like having the fattest fucking person on the planet scream in your ear because you ate a cheeseburger all while the fat idiot is having lard pumped directly into his veins.
Section Two: Action Bars
Look at his original screenshot. At one point I’d gone through and made a graphic showing every ability that should be hidden, but I closed photoshop before I saved it and then lost interest. Like more than 50% of his visible buttons should either (a) be on hover-over bars or (b) be left in a fucking spell book. Don’t even play around with action bars when you don’t know the first thing about prioritizing spaces on your fucking UI. This mouthbreather probably couldn’t contemplate a world without his cooking button on his action bars! WHY IS HE GIVING ADVICE TO ANYONE ON ANY SUBJECT?!
Section Three: Simpler Unit Frames!
Don’t worry, he has his own name visible on his unit frames and his own level! I don’t think I need to say much more than this. I’ve lost steam and don’t want to comment on the rest because it just makes me shake with anger. I mean it doesn’t really do that, but I just find it offensive. It offends me that someone like him believes that he should tell people anything about anything when he’s clearly an ignorant idiot. It offends me that the people running wow.com are so vapid that they don’t seem to care that their website viciously promotes stupidity by running such unbelievably insipid columns.
I’m offended.
UPDATE:
Let me just give you this gem from the comments. Reading shit like this honestly makes me angry:
Just wanted to give you some positive feedback Matt. This was an excellent article, showed me a few new things (I consider myself a bit of a UI pro), and was extremely useful for everyone to the newbies out there to the old school high end types. I’d seen Opie but did not know that it could be used to hide elements of the UI that you didn’t need at the moment… thanks for the intro to it.
