MMO blogs by and large have always been the home of the hardcore MMO follower, the elite few who love not only to play MMOs but to also talk about them at great length and in minuet detail. However I’m of the opinion that this catering to the elite has limited the true potential of MMO blogs, and today I seek to radically change this and make this very blog more casual-friendly, more pick-up-and-play, more geared towards the everyday man, and well, yes, more accessible.
Now after weeks of research, consideration, and costly experimenting, I’ve reach the only possible solution to this very dire problem: this MMO blog needs more Chuck.
In all of MMO history there is no greater population explosion than with the launch of WoW. And why was WoW so successful in bringing in the casual player? Was it the polish? Was it the content? The Blizzard brand? The fact that EQ2 launched in an alpha state and SoE was handing out “Go play WoW” stickers? Nope, all of that is nothing when compared to The Barrens.
And not just The Barrens overall, but one very important… no, CRITICAL aspect of The Barrens; Barrens chat. You see when historians look back on the early days of the MMO genre, all of the evidence will point back to one glorious day; the day the first brave pioneer captured the masses by typing up one brilliant sentence of text that forever shook the foundation of the genre, and perhaps humanity itself: the Chuck Norris joke. The Chuck Norris joke is not only casual-friendly, easy accessible, and panders strictly to the absolute lowest common denominator, but it’s also just damn funny (That’s not an opinion BTW, its fact).
And so this very blog will now reach new heights by Blizzard-ing Barrens chat and implementing a Chuck Norris joke at the end of every post. Every. Single. One. Or at least until I run out of material from the new book I bought at Barnes and Nobles while waiting for Aria to pick up a book she needed. If you hate this new feature, if you wish this blog would return to it’s hardcore origins rather than now catering to the masses, blame her. I mean it won’t change the fact that I’ll keep posting them, but at least it will give you a place to aim your rage. That’s healthy.
So without further ado:
Chuck Norris has the heart of a child. He keeps it in a small box.
Bam, mass market here we (I) come! The future is bright my friends, very bright.
Hardcore Casual 
Was funnier when Robert ‘Psycho’ Bloch said it.
Wait are you implying that a Chuck joke is somehow not a totally original work of art? Lies, all lies!
When I started reading, I thought you would want to dumb the blog down to the lowest common denominator to make it more accessible. You didn’t.
I had to ask in chat in Vanguard who Chuck Norris was. That was three years or so after WoW launched and in the endless WoW-bashing debates, the Chuck Norris thing kept getting referenced. I’d never heard of him and even after people explained and I went and googled him I still had no real idea what they were all on about.
I still have only the vaguest understanding, but I think even that’s probably more than I want to have…
You don’t understand Chuck Norris, he understands you.
Did I do it right…? It’s not really important to know who he is, just as long as you read every joke with the understanding that he is personified as some uber-god that controls the entire universe.
Actor / Martial Artist + internet meme that catches on = unstoppable train of fail.
For whatever reason, this post reminded me of how often I received “News” in WoW chat channels. I swear that anytime anyone died, I found out about it first in chat.
To Steve Irwin. Thanks for all the memories and bad jokes at your expense.
It’s true, when Snape killed Dumbledore, the first place I heard about it was in WoW general chat.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I’ll second the “Noooooooooooooooooooo”, and add WTF! Four books into the series and I get a major plot point exposed, on a site that has nothing to do with it.
That’s brutal ;)
All I will say is that not all spoilers turn out to be true. I went years thinking the wrong guy killed Harry Potter.
No joke.
Spiderman has Chuck Norris bed sheets.
I’ve always thought the Chuck Norris meme had undertones of white supremacy. You know, let’s re-write history where the best fighters in films are Chinese.
Suggestion:
Chuck Norris has destroyed the periodic table because he only recognises the element of surprise.
Keep up the good work.
Chuck Norris pulled down his pants and fired a syncaine …
Are you kidding? There is nothing casual about Chuck Norris. Only Hard Core.
BAH i say. The Chuck jokes are over rated! The Vin Diesel jokes are, and will remain forever superior! The Vin jokes were here first, and deserve more respect!
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Nice find, and the book the advertise at the bottom is the one I got. Always happy to reward quality work.
Jack Bauer > Chuck Norris
There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard, only another fist.
I love this blog, haha.
This brings me back to my days of being a middle-schooler in Barrens chat. Oh the fun I had…
I approve of this message and wish to subscribe to this more accessible… oh wait… RSS reader…
But back on subject, you haven’t really opened up to the mass market till you append to every post an “anal *insert appropriate(or better, inappropriate) juxtaposition here*” phrase of the day. Maybe a random, racist observation and some idle banter on politics, religion, or the sexual identity of inanimate objects/events/people you’ve never met. Can’t wait for a more accessible Syncaine and the great community that will cluster around such content!