I wonder if something similar has happened in WoW. It’s happened IRL. A woman was fired for using all caps and red lettering her company emails.
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So true! Fabulous facial expressions again.
Thanks Caylynn.
ok this is the weirdest thing, my message must have some kind of nasty spell on it…
why do all my comments get through, except for the one I’ve been trying to post for weeks? >.>
i haven’t changed a thing since yesterday
i guess i’ll try again as a reply to this one, in parts, to discover the problem
Hi Mary,
I recently discovered your comic and was instantly hooked by your style, the characters and their typical behaviour. There’s a bit of several characters in all of us – I can very much relate to the one about the comfy red sweatshirt for instance – and that combined with some common Warcrack (I love that play on words) facts or prejudices results in some great humor. Kudos. Some of my favorites include: the first, the squirrel 1&2, Blizz responds, driving the car, veggie restaurant, what’s your dps?, heal deal, and Jenny’s recent storyline.
I’ve been going through them a couple at a time – it was hard to resist reading them all indeed, but it’s more fun that way – and now i’ve now reached the latest. Like others have mentioned you’ve improved quite a bit, especially the typical facial expressions make the comic stand out more. Compare the Lisa
and Jenny from the first comic, ‘on your side’ and this one with the new facial shades for instance and it shows your progress and how much personality can be added by their looks. Great work.
One more thing, I really liked it how you used to drop a line or two about your own comic below the title in the start of the series. Any particular reason why you quit doing that?
all the best and eager for more
a Dutch fan with some family connections in Firenze
PS: The pic you use in your comments and about page is amazing. You have this mysterious smile and a powerful look in your eyes.
Thanks very much! *beams*
And again, sorry about the commenting trouble. Oh, and about why I lately don’t have any lines talking about the comic – well, I guess I just haven’t thought of anything to say about them lately. But perhaps I’ll pick that back up, if I can think of something. 
Oh, update! You inspired me, and I wrote something under the comic today.
PS2:
After I concluded that the difference between my other messages and the above could only be the text itself, I quickly found the error.
In the sentence “I love that play on words” I had used the graphical gamer abbreviation for “I love”, the ’smaller than’ sign, followed by 3. The ’smaller than’ sign is however used, as clearly written below the comment box, as html tag. Guess that’s my first lesson for commenting at blogs
Either way, entirely my bad and sorry for the inconvenience.
A well behaved piece of blog software would translate any “html special characters” in what you type into “html-safe” varieties, when it doesn’t recognize it as one of the tags it allows. You’ve manage to step into the twilight zone, though. Or this blog software isn’t well behaved.
While it’s something that our host here may not herself be able to change, it is still a flaw in the blog software. Might report it as a problem.
<3
Testing it out. Doesn't seem to be the problem?
alway turn it on by mistake : /
QUICK SOMEONE CALL 911! WE HAVE A CUPCAKE HERE THAT NEEDS TREATMENT STAT!
Although I do believe branding irons ARE pretty popular among us MMO nerds nowadays
Nice improvement with your drawing style, have definitely improved over time! Especially with the shading… I suck at shading XD
Haha! And thanks, I’m glad the work going into the art is paying off!
tehe, cupcake ^^
i LiKe tO MeSs wItH PeOpLe aNd uSe sCrIpTs tHaT MaKe tHe tExT AlL WiErD LiKe tHiS!
Or better yet, Telk leeke-a zee Svedeesh Cheff frum zee Mooppets. Bork Bork Bork!
You’ve got a backhand incoming! Once the room stops spinning!
I had an interesting episode a while back. I have discovered that you can bypass the language scrambling and get messages through to opposite faction if y o u p u t s p a c e s i n l i k e t h i s.
When doing this once, I got a very strange reaction. One of the opposing faction immediately started calling me the N word (my character has a very dark cast to her skin) I shrugged it off until one other player mentioned it in shock, at which point I decided that I was going to break precedent and get a GM in. If anything like this ever happens again I am going to ask everyone around to back up a complaint.
I am sure the player who did this got him or herself into some kind of discipline from Blizz, either hand slapped or sent to sit in the corner for a spell.
So that was YOU!
I’ve often wondered about alternate ways to communicate with the opposite faction.
I’ve been trying Azerothian Sign Language (ASL), but entirely too often, the mean vicious horde punt me across Wintergrasp before I’ve gotten through a formal “hail and well met”.
Discrimination, I tell you!
just do /e and you can type what ya want . come over as a emote but they can read it
no, they can’t. Only default emotes will be understood, any “/e message” will parse as “[yourname] is making some strange gestures” or something alike
Uh, Zargoth, sadly you can’t do that, instead of seeing the emote the other faction just sees “X makes some strange gestures “
You can do any of the standard emotes, though. “stop”, “follow”, “come”, “charge”, “wait”, etc.
And the general fun of “dance”. … or “spit”.
Just putting spaces in what you want to say doesn’t do it either, apparently single letters don’t all translate directly (some do).
You have to substitute letters depending on your root language. There are sites with suggested “translations”… for instance, if I’m surrounded by Alliance players but all I want to do is pick that pretty herb over there, I might type “ok ivx”, which an Ally would hear as “no kil”. when Alliance says “d a p yu vb” it comes out something like UU l o s e” Not everything has a correlation, though… lots of letters come out as the same latter, and lots of words translate the same.
That first frame of you about to eat that cupcake is priceless.