So I was thinking today about something I was told during my employee review earlier this year.  I was told that I was good at communicating my thoughts clearly, and that I was good at talking to people of varying skill levels about technical details and such.  I was also told that I had a "calming" voice and was easy to approach, and that I had a tone that made me sound "more experienced than I may be" - which come to think of it, may not always be a positive.

The whole reason I bring that all up is because I learned it from interacting with members of <Downfall> and from my experience as a raid leader, raid member, recruiter, and pseudo-sit-in-guild-leader-for-a-time.

I know I'm not the most beloved of <Downfall> members.  Loads of you have an opinion of me as being an asshole, an uncaring unwavering jerk that took the game too seriously, and in some cases an intolerable person to be around.  Others formed a different opinion.  To each their own, and I can't really go out of my way to prove myself one way or another.  But I can say that communicating with people whose opinions of me ran the gamut of possibilities really expanded on my ability to actually communicate effectively.

Although my experience in WoW didn't end on a good note - and my last couple of years may have actually helped lead to me losing my previous job - the whole of the experience was positive.  My lead raidership actually helped land me a job out of college (in an indirect manner), and the communication skills I picked up from trying to organize so many people helped me to gain recognition in my current job.  In 6 months I've moved from an entry-level-ish intern position, to a full-benefits employee in a little bit of a supervisory position.  I've helped more than a handful of new engineers get on their feet.

So long story short, whether you remember me fondly or remember me as an overbearing asshole, I wanted to say thank you for helping me to learn how to talk to people in a professional setting.

Anyone else a little sentimental about all the incoming changes to the old world? All that time in STV and Eastern Plaguelands, now all changed forever?

I didn't see a discussion about this yet, so I thought I'd put it here. 

Goodbye, Vanilla WoW. 

Attached are the addons needed to provide your game with sounds from
Final Fantasy 7.  The sounds are not included, however and will have to
be downloaded from the provided link.

STEP 1:   Unzip
the contents of the attached .zip into your ".../interface/addons"
directory.

STEP 2:   DOWNLOAD (don't use Curse install)
the FinalFantasylization Renewed SOUNDPACK file here
(200mb file, lots of songs)

STEP 3:   Unzip the contents of FinalFantasylization
Renewed SOUNDPACK into
your                                                 
".../interface/addons/finalfantasylization_ff/sounds" folder.

STEP 4:  
Run World of Warcraft, check the addons button on the character
selection screen and check Load Outdated Addons if necessary.

STEP 5:  
Use the command "/ffsp ff" (no quotations) in the World of Warcraft
command box.

STEP 6:   PROFIT!!!!

*I
do not take credit for the creation of the FinalFantasylization addon
nor the template used to make the soundpack

If you have any
problems, post here and I'll try to help you resolve them

Looking to do a quick Headless Horseman run before the server reset on Sunday morning.  This way we get an extra day's worth of shots, so to speak!