November 14th, 2006

Happy Birthday, Tard Leader

Today, we celebrate a very special day, the birthday of our esteemed Tard Leader. In homage, instead of some screenshots, I offer the following photos of Heidi Klum and Grace Park.

Grace ParkHeidi Klum

And here are some Andes Mints, because he digs them. Probably would dig them melted with Heidi and Grace, but that’s another story entirely.

Andes Mints

Lastly, what’s a Zug post without Giada Delanoboobs? Check out that giant bobble-head!

Holy crap, look at that head!

Anyway, happy birthday, Tard.

November 3rd, 2006

Philosophies of Recruitment, Volume 2

How does a guild go about getting new members? Or perhaps I would be better asking the question: How should a guild go about getting new members? Every day more and more spammers clog up the channels with their guild advertisements, and I am still wondering if this method brings in quality recruits - or recruits at all, for that matter. Most advertisements spout the same attributes as the next: Friendly, have tabard and teamspeak, and are wannabe uber raiders looking for more members. After much research (AKA being subject to the incessant spam of Orgrimmar and Ironforge) I have come to the most logical conclusion: False Advertising:

Deuces Wild Recruitment

Medium-sized guild?

Deuces Wild Roster

Medium-sized = two.

When guilds are afraid of giving those kinds of specifics, another method is to make your guild sound much, much better than it actually is.

killers Of The Nightt is recruiting and uber!

Evidentally guilds who take this method have two seperate plans - the first plan is to get you through the door, and once you are in, there is an entirely seperate plan to keep you in the guild.

Dragonfire Recruitment

This advertisement sounds great and this individual is incredibly enthusiastic! Unfortunately what he is saying is: “We don’t have ten people and can’t even raid VC, but if we get two more our growth will be impressive!” His name is Gor-cyber, so I can only guess what the secondary plan of keeping people in the guild is. Hey, who am I to judge? Some people are into that sort of thing.

Rachel Ray likes things salted

Anyway, when all else fails, lie.

The Crazy Whities

Actually, it does mean The Crazy Whities. I tried signing some of you guys up, but they said you had to sign up in person. Oh well.

In related news, the Jedii Council needs a priest leader. Or a priest guild leader. Or something.

Jedii Council looking for priest leader

You’ve gotta stay, though. (WTF?)

Because I’ve been with the same group of jokers for so long now, I don’t really know how other people do it. I can’t imagine how hard it might be to join a new guild, especially one based on a generic advertisement, because you have no idea what you’re going to get. There’s always bound to be one person in every bunch that turns out to be wrong. Whether that means that one person is a tard, a jerk, griefer, or an exploiter - well, there’s just no way to tell what you might get. If anyone ends up with an exploiter in their guild, fear not! The Nerd Police is on the scene.

The Nerd Police

Who ya gonna call? Nerdbuster Holysymbol!

Don’t get me wrong, we do have issues in the LoO-TAB conglomerate. Issues of morality and corruption among the leadership that must be exposed: Bribery and coercion!

Thorr doesn't raid without pie or cake Thorr doesn't raid without pie or cake part 2

Before Thorr’s integrity could be disputed, Andalone stepped in to clarify.

Justice for pie!

Don’t be too hard on him, he’s probably trying to make up for his lack of…. you know.

Hearthstone

At any rate, this should probably be taken before the officers and vets for a serious discussion, but we reserve the almighty /o chat for only the most sensitive matters.

Poop is Highly Classified

Well, we’re heading back to the Horde side tonight. Funny, I remember when we were rushing to get our names on the list for UBRS because we had too many people. Now we’re counting to make sure we have enough. Honestly, I love it. I’m looking forward to a night of everyone trying to remember how to play our characters.

Party like it's 1099

You know it.

Stay tuned for more from the LoO-TAB clan.