Welp

This thread has successfully made think I should find friends. Maybe even a fc.

There's so much...muck--that's the word I'm gonna use, muck--in this thread, I can't even.

This thread taught me when you're pugging, its all business first. Via a third party global parsing website of all things. I'd like to be parsed for sure. But I'd like to be parsed by the right people. Genuine people. People who won't sugarcoat but also won't shut you out from the start. That's pug business all right. I'd like to be parsed by people you know and want you to succeed at things, just as you want them too. Have a laugh at it too.

Pugs can't do that. And that's fine. But its a bit cold.

This thread is cold as hell.

I see raid mentality leak into casual content. Some people will tell you that's good: it reduces the enabling of bad play. Some people will tell you its bad: its toxic or elitism.

All I know is when you put a stranger among other strangers, the only thing everyone can fall back to is efficiency. Everyone's got their own level of efficiency. Some pure hard numbers. Some just want the clear of the week. Some its 3 wipes and you're out.

When you got no time to waste, sometimes the process of elimination to find the efficient people for the job is having their resume's up for everyone to see first. Credentials. I don't find it good or bad, just...very buisiness like. But that's the pug world.

So for me, I don't mind doing better. I don't mind pushing the hard numbers. But I don't think I want to do that for pugs.

I want to do that for actual friends. A static full of friends for certain. Or an Fc. Avoid all that...gray stuff pugs seem to carry around when its time for raids. I don't want to be checking people's parses that I don't know for a game. Its too hard, if you catch my drift. For a friend, yes. Cuz I know that we would be well-meaning and we'd both seek to improve ourselves.

Sorry if this post sounds weird as well but re-reading this thread from start to finish made me feel like I just read a novel where pyrrhic victories and downer endings come abundant.