Alliance...Huh.

In my last post I talked about how I faction changed my main over to the alliance. I did it mostly to play with my boyfriend, his brothers and some other friends, and I was excited to change my race after two years. But I was definitely expecting some negatives (the stereotypical alliance, 12-year-old, hardcore republican, idiot). I haven't run into much of that though, not more than I did on the horde at least. Yeah, there's definitely more young players on alliance because they don't want santa to bring them coal or whatever, but there's ways to avoid that. And it's not like everyone on the horde is a perfectly pleasant, intelligent, mature, polite person anyway. Zooming out the perspective, everyone that plays WoW, horde or alliance, is a person on planet earth, and most people suck at least part of the time. So I realized that before, lowering my expectations of the alliance and raising it of the horde, I was always disappointed because I was too proud of my faction to realize that the people on my side weren't going to be perfect. Now that I've been playing on the alliance, I haven't been disappointed at all (partly because I've been clearing raids faster anyway, which I thought was ironic) and partly because I'm sort of expecting the worst. I guess that's the key.