Tuesday, March 25, 2008

in case you didn't already know, there are significant differences between world of warcraft and real life.

one of these differences is that in wow, you can carry up to 5 bags on your person, each bag with the capacity to carry up to 20 different items. for convenience sake, these are "stacked", meaning you can carry up to 10, 20, sometimes 50 of each one.

let me do the maths for you (ooh! she's doing maths!):

say you have four 20-slot bags* and the one 16-slot default backpack you get, that's
(4 x 20 x 20) + (16 x 20) = 1920

wow bags are crazy

can you imagine carrying 1920 assorted items ranging from gorilla giblets to boar tusks to potions to severed heads of trolls and ogres in your backpack?? and to add to the sheer terror of doing this, you have to navigate entire continents on foot.

cut to real life, (royal) we had to carry a laptop on one shoulder and a bag of books on the other while navigating our way between 3 libraries on campus and already our motivation is flagging.

* as you can see in this photo, one of these bags has 28 slots. this is because warlocks have a bag just for storing soulstones. can you imagine hauling 28 solidified souls with you everywhere you went? to me that is the height of insanity.

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