2. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 04:33:02 PM PDT
From the article:
"Though it may be coincidental, Exordium's recent fate suggests the importance of O'Reilly's role - the guild broke up while she took a long hiatus from WoW to teach English in Japan. "
7. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 05:17:27 PM PDT
Q u o t e: From the article:
"Though it may be coincidental, Exordium's recent fate suggests the importance of O'Reilly's role - the guild was formed and lived while she took a long hiatus from WoW to teach English in Japan, and then died shortly after she came back "
8. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 07:15:20 PM PDT
I have taken the liberty of deleting anything remotely false from this article, here is
THE ANGEL IN THE GUILD EDITION 2
World of Warcraft (WoW) on her PC. They have just completed the Serpentshrine Cavern and defeated Lady Vashj, her cell phone rings. It's Oscard, and he wants to know: "Can we talk about what just happened on “The O.C.?"
These late-night calls have become routine for O'Reilly, a 24-year-old Notre Dame business school graduate. WoW's Exordium, which, at its height in burning crusade, was the fourth-best guild on the Mal'Ganis server.
disgruntled male players, who are often ridiculed for sharing their feelings with other men. She explains: "If you are emotional or show vulnerability in game, you'll often be called an 'emo ##!' and told to 'wipe your !*#!!' or something to that effect
Although O'Reilly has common MMOG disputes. one Exordium recruit told her the guild's senior cliques were excluding him from instances.
Exordium's main tank confessed offline that problems in his personal life were affecting his in-game performance
If someone has a bad experience, "they can burn out, get offended, log off and quit - or even sell their characters." “Everyone has a different motivation for playing. Some want to lead, some need competition, some just want to belong" "Many people just care about winning loot"
"I'll get on late at night with someone, after a raid, and ask, How do I make you happy?' I'm a girl" "me courting every single one of these guys, and they think we're just talking about our similar interests
Exordium's guild master - and her real-life lover is Matthew Gihring. O'Reilly created a Priest to talk to Gihring. She modeled her character's appearance after her own ash brown hair. I realized how good Matt's guild was and thought it would be fun to join, they began dating.
'Oh, she's just the GM's girlfriend.' I prefer people to know. And every time there's a conflict that Matt has to resolve, and it's my word against fenix’s, he’ll say, 'Why do you listen to some girl you met online, and not me?' ‘to which i reply ‘because im sucking his D’
Nihilum's no-girls recruiting policy: girl gamers instigate drama in MMOG communities. you suffer from the following: desire to cause drama, inability to take abuse, monthly @#!!!%l bleeding."
"People say things like 'don't be a !*#!!' and women will say, 'I'm a woman, you can't say that,' and get furious and log off. But that's just how 40 men act when they're in a room together.
during a tryout for another Mal'Ganis guild, a male player repeatedly asked her if she was "in the mood" or "a screamer" and would make repeated references to touching her "bottom”
a recent Daedalus Project survey conducted by Stanford doctoral student Nick Yee does suggest that male players enjoy leadership roles more than female players. (wow thanks for telling us that, its not like males do that everywhere else in the entire world)
"Matt can't get the information I can get. He's said it himself - the biggest problems don't reach him, or not friendly enough with him
When she returned to the U.S., she tried out for another top American guild, but withdrew her application because “They sucked out of the game."
"I'm going to spend six hours a day, five to seven days a week playing this game WoW is no longer fun for me."
12. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 10:02:02 PM PDT
To the OP:
If you would like to discuss girls playing WoW with a pathological liar, then by all means contect phetia. Over 95% of that entire article is flooded with so much BS that it isnt even funny. In reality, phetia had about 2% to do with Exordium and that is that she filled our GM's head with lies and self praise of how wonderful she is. Only two people in the entire guild even wanted here there...Matt(her boyfriend and the GM) and Oscard, a no name player we were forced to pick up when we reformed the guild because she was getting on matts nerves so bad that he was going to quit the game if we did not.
To the sexual harassment portion of the article, for all the other nerds out there who would like to pinch her "bottom" go here: http://www.myspace.com/christineoreilly
She makes herself look as if guys were hitting on her, but what really happened was she would make sexual innuendo's to many of us in the guild such as "I already told matt that I would cheat on him for fenix, Evilsteve, Korva, and Shawty." Those are the only names that i can recall at this moment, but there were other such references along the same lines as well.
I could pick the entire article apart piece by piece if you would like. Feel free to log into MG at anytime and shoot me a tell. Sadly, the worst part about all of this is how she brings matt down with her and makes him look like a complete tool.
ps: If you would like to sample other written works(lies) of christine you can head over to http://www.retributionguild.net/ which was the ONLY guild she applied to after Exordium broke up. You may have to ask them to reopen the forum as public, but im sure they would be much obliged.
16. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 10:09:24 PM PDT
We got some good laughs. Unfortunately I can't think of anything witty to nickname her with to convey her propensity for dying on absolutely everything.
17. Re: ? About Exordium 10/25/2007 11:06:42 PM PDT
I was in Exordium, who the hell was Phetia?
I thought she want an alt, until I learned she was just the GM's girlfriend. She came to minimal raids, which was great because when she was there, she was terrible. I was scared to have her as an app in the new guild I joined, and I am happy to have her gone.
The article is so funny it put me into sitches. The author should start to write comedy and give up on any kind of hope of ever being a real journalist.
