I didn't lol IRL.

So if anyone is paying attention to our Blizzard forums this wonderful April 1st, you'll see that we've been besieged by a patently retarded filter on the forums. Apparently Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom, saw it fit to add a random string at the end of each sentence properly terminated with a period. So far, I've caught "lol", "rofl", "lmao", "lolcats" (WTF?), "i lol'd irl", and "kekeke", but there could be others. Now, IMO, there's a few things wrong with this. Firstly, they're only doing it to the people with enough good sense to write their sentences properly and end them with a period. However, those of us with that much grasp of the English language usually separate a "LOL" or what have you from our main sentence with a comma.

"Yeah, I went to the Arena and got owned by a 2000+ team in the 1400 bracket, lol."

Blizzard is just cramming them in the sentence right before the period with a space, without any concern for grammar or wit. They even had the audacity not to capitalize the 'I' in "I lol'd IRL" (rewritten to actual grammar). It's just... depressing.

Oh, and if you don't like it? Apparently you're "inciting hate", and you get a temp ban from the forums. What's next - is Warden going to sniff our Greasemonkey settings to see if we have javascript addons to prevent this childish nonsense? Is anyone with a dissenting opinion (i.e. that MM should be raid viable, oh noes!) be banned for good?

HAPPINESS IS MANDATORY. ARE YOU HAPPY, READER?

I mean yeah, I liked the furbolg avatars. I fell out of my seat laughing at the Molten Core video game. But come on. This whole meme thing is childish to an extreme. Lolcats doesn't even FIT, it's a concept, not an exclamation.

So I close this entry as a tribute to Mirshalak, who fell as the first martyr for the sake of English. I drink this tea to thee, Mir.