Get your popcorn ready folks! I'm apparently so famous that a "daeitysucks.com" blog has just been created that's all about me. It's great to have some new and interesting content to write about. :)

It's called "Digital Frustration" (digitalfrustration.blogspot.com) and it's run by a previous Joystiq blogger I'll call the Bully BCC. I think he's employed by Joystiq or maybe a contract writer for them. And boy is he mad. Possibly in love with me. You can see his very angry Twitter account here. He's only sharing it with his WoW Guild members (for certain specific reasons which you'll understand later), but I wanted to share it with all of you too.

I had to do a Google search to find out who this person was. Apparently, I made an off-hand comment about him back in November of 2011. Yes, that far back. The one and only time I have ever mentioned his name and he's been obsessed (Twitter, comments, blogs, forum posts, etc.) with me ever since. He's also oddly obsessed with the letter Q, and he uses it in all of his character names and online aliases.

The Joystiq Connection

You see, a lot of this drama came out of Joystiq it appears. BBCC is a professional victim and frequent troll on forums like 4chan and reddit. He's also very good friends with Michael Sacco and they have shared comments about this blog many times in the past. Remember him? I'm surprised he hasn't been terminated for stealing content, toxic chauvinism, or his deplorable antics. He's just like The Bully BCC.

Much of his jealous streak was made quite evident around the time of the Joystiq layoff rumor which I had used to discover major layoffs happening within Blizzard (everyone forgot that it was eventually confirmed and that mass layoffs really did occur.) This particularly made Sacco quite cross.

And, to top things off, the first thing he addresses "coincidentally" in his new blog are in regards to really old Sacco-specific blog posts. He calls them "a series of conspiracy theories." Sacco, by the way, is the person who claimed that "Blizzard's internal security has never been compromised" and that authenticators cannot be bypassed among many others. A real turd.

The Delicious Irony

Remember, this is a guy who tried to create some major hoax in the past but he was quickly caught lying to everyone and was ridiculed for it. He trolls people, lies, works from the shadows, and has been manipulating his guild through Twitter to harass this blog and myself.

The absolute best part of all of this is the posting in which he was first mentioned here; it was entitled "I Smell Fraud." :)

In this post, a reader commented that [BBCC] tweeted that in my post I claimed that "Blizzard steals credit card info from wine enthusiasts to artificially inflate subscriber numbers..."

Obvious lies. In reality, I wrote "They all probably use the same wine (or related) online ordering site, and their credit card numbers have been compromised."

So, he was lying to his Twitter followers, working them up into a frenzy, and it definitely wasn't his first time. After reading his other posts, I responded with:

I've never heard of this guy before. Based on his most recent posts though, it appears that he just attacks everyone. I detect a lot of anger, jealousy and judgment.. so he probably just hates everyone.

I've been called worse things by better people. :)

Apparently, my discernment of his anger and jealousy towards me were spot on as made even more evident over the past few days.

He's spent months and months monitoring and reading the blog. He claims to hate the blog, but loves to read it and even steal content from it.

So, we've got a known fraud who commits fraud for attention, commits more fraud for more attention, gets mad because he's caught being a fraud, obsesses over it for 6 months, then decides to commit more fraud trying to expose something he thinks is fraud so that he can fraudulently get more attention.

Love Is Blind

The problem with being a celebrity stalker is that these obsessions can seriously affect sound judgement. Apparently I'm a "celebrity". And this sad individual fits all of the psychological criteria of being a classic celebrity stalker.

1. [BBCC] has been obsessed with me for at least 6 months. 6 months! And that's 6 months of planning of who knows what. Holding a grudge over petty matters for over half a year is very concerning.

2. He uses the word "conspiracy theory" a lot, and if you go over his scribbles he writes about his own paranoid feelings and claims a real actual conspiracy taking place that involves many people.

3. The blog was obsesively written like a manifesto and it's a hilarious read which is why I'm publicly sharing it.

4. He tweaked a lot of comments, reinterpreted things to fit his narrative, and has even fabricated a lot of posts and information desperately trying to give himself some legitimacy.

5. There are several fatal flaws in his theories. Some are because his timelines are completely mixed up and he couldn't keep track of the blog posts. This is either accidental, or more likely intentional, due to the other overwhelming evidence of what he's trying to do. For example, he "forgot" that I was already communicating with TOD during the first week of August and he forgot that I update posts with * UPDATE. One in particular that was crucial and damning to his theory was noted to have been updated "3 weeks" later, which destroys most of his claims.

6. The other problem is his lack of knowledge. He's not familiar with imgur and reddit, he doesn't know that editing features weren't added until SEVERAL MONTHS later which I had to find out myself, and he doesn't know that editing is time restricted and that everything is Google cached (which is something I use all of the time to find resume changes and be certain that nothing was tampered with).

Intentionally misleading, twisting the timeline, and desperately attempting to bend facts to his own personal narrative? I mean, what's more to say? It's foolish buffoonery and clearly a biased attack without any supporting evidence or even an investigation.

Whatever I've done or continue to do, he'll always be very upset with me. It's the nature of these kinds of stalkers. Celebrity stalkers are also erotomanics, and it won't matter if I deny feelings for [BBCC], since he'll still see my denying of his love as a sign of affirmation. Every gesture I make, like this blog post, is just another sign of affirmation to him.

Why Is He Doing This?

My guess is plain old envy and he's bitter about something specific. You see, about 3 days before Blizzcon he posted a hoax "Pandaren Brewmaster" screenshot. He obviously spent A LOT of time working on it.. probably for months only for it to be flushed down the toilet when it was outed as an obvious hoax very quickly (since he used stolen copyright material.)

During this same time, I also posted Daeity's image 3 days before Blizzcon and it quickly stole his thunder. Rather than blaming himself for trying to deceive everyone, he's looking for someone else to blame because he didn't get his wanted attention like a petty child. He's been obsessed ever since I starved him of attention.

Internet Pranks Don't Work

Frankly, internet pranks/believable hoaxes just don't work. I can't think of any successful internet prank and no one ever does them because they just never work or they involve too many people. There are just too many variables and things that can go wrong, making them impossible. This is something that he experienced first hand, but he didn't learn anything from it.

He's spent MONTHS investigating and researching the Blizzcon posts and he still couldn't find out how it was possible. His best guess involves a significant number of coincidences happening, a group of people assisting me (this is called a "conspiracy" by the way), using internet magic, somehow silencing people who could easily expose me, and doing activities that would have taken years of preparation and precognition, as well as some crazy multipronged internet attack. His explanation gets really complicated and elaborate (which should tell you something right away.)

And even though he spent months working on it, he still couldn't reproduce it. Although he claims it's easy to do, he actually said that the reason he couldn't reproduce it is because, "I had less motivation to work longer on it." Come on, really? Did you see the sheer amount of work he put into the blog and all of the research he did into this huge project?

"Yeah, I uh.. spent 6 months researching something, but the one critical piece of my theory I just threw together and I uh.. didn't spend any time on it at all."

Unfortunately, much of his theories are predicated on the "fact" that I'm superhuman. Although I'm flattered, this is not a good basis for a theory. This entire blog, and my firm beliefs, are actually based on the complete opposite; people make mistakes. That's how I have discovered so much information online from different employees.

This is simply an example of occam's razor. Things are way more simple than he's making things out to be.

So, what's next?

Next up for Digital Frustration, he'll be refuting my blog post about the major layoffs that have, and were to, happen within Blizzard and he'll prove irrefutably that the 600-person mass layoff never happened.

He'll also call my "In-Game Ads Planned For Titan" post into question, because there's no way I could have ever posted that 2 months before Gamespot, Neogaf, IGN, and his favorite Joystiq among many others. Oh, and those unreleased games and official pitch documents from Swingin' Ape Studios.. yeah, those were all fabricated apparently. Everything on the blog is all conspiracy theory.

Sure, he's lying to his "followers", but this will be good for both of us. His followers will increase and drive traffic to his blogs, and I'll have something fun to write about to stave off boredom and entertain you. It's mutually beneficial after all.

With the Mists of Pandaria beta supposed to be announced very soon, I figured it's about time to start speculating on the Release Date.

As far as I could tell, the last time I talked about this, I put MoP down for Q4 (October/November time frame) until more information was made available.

Even though there are supposed to be 3 games released this year, things are looking down for HOTS anytime soon. I'm still hopeful for a surprise Christmas release though.

Now, according to Boubouille, Blizzard will be sending out the Beta Invites either today or tomorrow, and the F&F specific Beta will not be happening this time.

The information that I'd really like to know (to determine a release date), is the length of the beta. This will be determined by the amount of content. So, will the Mists of Pandaria beta be just like past betas (approximately 5 months long), or are they going to shorten the beta this time around?

The WOW beta was 7 months long, TBC 4 months, WOTLK 5 months, and CATA 5 months.

Assuming that this is going to be a "normal" beta, the release date should be some Tuesday in July or August. However, they've skipped the F&F Beta test this time and they might shorten the beta to get it out even sooner.

So, say that I have a specific date already in mind.. but I didn't want Blizzard to see it. What's the best way to "lock it up" until a specific day so that critics could not possibly deny it's authenticity? I've been trying to think about it, but unfortunately, critics will just claim that it was "hacked in" or something (they'll have an excuse for everything.) Anyone aware of a website where you can post a message that "unlocks" at a certain time?

* Oh, by the way, I have another Path of Exile key to give away. I'll create a new post at approx. 1:00PM PST today and put it up. First person to register it, gets it.

I received another Path of Exile beta key, and I will be posting here tomorrow at 7:00AM PST.

Same as before: a simple 4-letter jumble.

* UPDATE:

Sorry, forgot about this so I'm late. :)

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Letters: M J U C

This will probably be the last one for a while my guess.

Apparently, the video and images leak pretty much covered everything that was going to be released today so there's nothing new to see there.

I had a hard time deciding what to say about the Mists of Pandaria press event. It's been pretty disappointing for me personally because there's so much they haven't said yet. So, I may have to reserve judgement for later (e.g. after the game is released.)

Here were the big ones I had questioned:

• The 10 player realm limitation. It was removed, but instead of 40-50 per realm, it appears to be just 11 per realm instead. This was a big selling point for me, and I was seriously considering a new subscription until I saw this. With the MoP release so far away, this can still change however. The problem is that the press question wasn't a very good one; they asked if an eleventh character slot would be opened, but they never asked if "more than 11" would be available so there was no definitive answer to this.

• The "Item Squish" question hasn't been answered yet. They haven't made a final decision about it yet, so for now it's going to be "Mega Damage". They want to wait until the talent system controversy wears off first so that they don't freak out players too much. Just as a reminder, Ghostcrawler said that "there are some very real computational limitations... PCs just can’t quickly perform math on very large numbers" in regards to Mega Damage. Apparently, PCs can handle math on large numbers now..
  
  I understand that making this change in the game is a huge undertaking, but it will have long term benefits. I think that they probably don't have enough time to do this before launch. It's going to be a "better situation" for them "in like 6.0 or 7.0 if players are demanding the item squish." Player demand, huh? That sounds familar. :)

• There's also no firm answer on "cross-faction" PVE Scenarios and Pet Battles like what I was expecting. They've only created 5 scenarios so far, and they're still being deliberately ambiguous about any future events. So, this could still go either way. What they have said, though, is that "players can group together" (they never differentiate with Horde/Alliance, always "players"), and that the Scenarios are given to them by Factions (like the Brewmaster Faction) and you help them out doing something. However, both Horde and Alliance can belong to this same faction. It has been confirmed, though, that a PVE Scenario is in fact an instance. So, it's basically a instance teleport and the dungeon is crafted using a "slice of the world". Pet Battles are unclear too. I was expecting "friendly battles" between Horde and Alliance as well. All I know about this is that you can "challenge another player in the world" (once again "players" but not Horde or Alliance.) However, it is cross-server.. so it might be cross-faction like what I was expecting.

• And finally, we have the story arc. I was expecting "the addition of more cross-faction cooperative stuff, stories/lore/events that are all about fighting for inner-peace, learning about ourselves, and a whole silly enlightenment thing." And, I was expecting the Pandaren to choose sides to teach them (Horde/Alliance) something about themselves and try to bring enlightenment to them and get them to relax. The consensus of the readers here, though, was that it would lead to a great (PVP) war between Horde and Alliance and there wouldn't be any cooperation at all.
  
  Blizzard has been a little ambiguous and contradictory on this subject, though. For example, here's that they have to say about Mists of Pandaria:
  

  "Escalating tensions between the Alliance and Horde have broken out into open warfare. The roar of cannons blacken the sky while naval engagements around the globe fill the seas with blood. As the clash of mortal armies spins the world into chaos, a continent -- once shielded by impenetrable mists -- suddenly manifests itself in the southern oceans. There’s no question that this resource-rich new land will be at the center of a global conflict. Will the Mists of Pandaria part to reveal Azeroth’s salvation? Or will this new battlefield become the flashpoint that pushes the Alliance and Horde over the brink into total annihilation?"

  The "escalating tensions" sounds like it's past tense.. so this could be the pre-events to MoP or just the start of the MoP story arc. And then there are two questions; will this bring Azeroth's salvation or annihilation? Will they work together or destroy each other? :)
  
  If this was all about a new super war, why would they even ask these two opposing questions?
  
  Chris Metzen said that the final patch of Mists of Pandaria will be the two factions working together and laying siege to Orgrimmar. Around the 8 minute mark, he said that MoP is basically "throttle off" and more about exploration, exploring ourselves, and no super villain. It's a "vacation.. before things ramp up." And he also said that the Pandaren will play a distinct role in regards to the "factional hate" going on. So, it's a little contradictory. Most of you were expecting that all hell breaks lose and the greatest war ever starts once the Horde/Alliance visit the Island of Pandaria. However, the environments still look very tranquil (not destroyed), and Metzen said that all of the hate between Horde/Alliance is instead manifested in a physical form as Sha. Basically, the whole "your enemy is war itself" and you destroy these physical manifestations of your hate towards the opposing faction.

So, I don't think I'll know any answers to most of my questions until well after the game comes out.

The one item I didn't discuss, though, was AOE Looting. From what I've seen on the forums, users have previously stated that Blizzard would never do this and they have constantly said "No, it will never happen." Many users claimed that it was an engine limitation or some such nonsense. Anyways, I can't find any official quotes from Blizzard stating that they would never do this (except for Diablo 3.) So, if you find any older official quotes (especially when most users were asking around the time Rift came out), let me know.