Forum post of the day: Nerf Pop-Tarts
by Eliah Hecht 
May 18th 2009 at 4:00PM
This is a few days old, but still a quality post. The original poster has a bad experience with a Pop-Tart, leading to nerf calls against fire damage - apparently a pastry being able to take his tongue down to 60% in one GCD is just too much burst. Of course, if the opponents hadn't been running a Pop-Tart/Toaster combo, this never would have happened; burn damage is highly situational.
It's a good set-up, but the thread really starts to shine when later posters get into it, like "You didn't specify the flavour of the pop tart, so we can't exactly see what the problem was. If it was strawberry that's kinda understandable since it is considered a hero class, but if it was brown sugar, yeah, you're making this up." You heard it here first: Strawberry is the Death Knight of toaster snacks.
What do you think: do Pop-Tarts need nerfs, or do you side with the poster who says that "Pop Tarts are fine. l2eat"?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Quarth May 18th 2009 4:06PM
Who cares?
Agony May 18th 2009 5:05PM
Filed under "Humor"
L2laugh.
Quarth May 18th 2009 5:26PM
I have L2laugh and I still don't care.
Arathanar May 18th 2009 5:56PM
Nice job. People like you got the thread deleted.
QQ.
jbodar May 18th 2009 7:54PM
Yeah, can't have any humor or good-natured posts in amongst all the forum QQ. Harumph! Hey, I didn't get a "Harumph" outta that guy!
Sidius May 18th 2009 4:37PM
Very very Epic
Kittez May 18th 2009 4:07PM
Can I has poptartz!?
Avan May 18th 2009 4:08PM
Lemon and grape pop-tarts are under marketed at the local mega mart.
I enjoy cherry poptarts, personally.
Jason May 18th 2009 4:12PM
I don't know what to do with this... where do i store it in my head... my brain hurts...
Nadril May 18th 2009 4:13PM
Brown Sugar poptarts are fine, nerf strawberry.
Marolas May 18th 2009 4:49PM
I've been rolling S'mores for the past five years, and I can safely say it's the most balanced Pop-Tart out there.
plasalai May 18th 2009 4:16PM
the pop tart is a lie
Matthew May 18th 2009 4:18PM
Are you high?
Enien May 18th 2009 4:19PM
L2 Eat!
Vassal May 18th 2009 4:21PM
Wow, is this really all WoW Insider has to post? I'm removing you from my favorites.
anonymoose May 18th 2009 4:34PM
To the haters--I can only guess you are part of the new influx of "casual" to the game? So perhaps your familiarity with e- and mmo-humor is at a novice level and you might not understand the humor. This doesn't make Eliah's post "not news" or a "psuedo article".
My only critiques would be: days behind! ;0)
And sure, I think there could have been a more delicious way to introduce the topic.
To those familiar with internet memes, e-humor, mmo-related humor, and specifically those who have played this game longer than 1-1.5 years, you must check out the thread. It's pure win.
Some of my many favorites from the thread:
"Packaging has received a new graphic."
"try runnin bread spec'd toast and penut speced butter it works out alot better also can cc teeth and slow tongue. may even slow cast time on mouth "
"And lol @ posters asking what his partner was doing the whole time. Ideally she'd be cooling his tongue in some entirely fascinating manner, but far more likely she was being chain cc'ed by the fridge, stove and dishwasher. Meals should just end after a certain amount of burning; the fact that people can be chain burned until their plate is empty is completely ridiculous."
"Edit: Just went over to www.ratedarenabreakfastfoods.com and pancake rep has dropped once again for 2's and 5's. WOW BLIZZ WOW. Guess I'll just have to keep my 3v3 with eggs and OJ going if I want to arena huh? "
"I agree. Also Cereal has so much milk they don't know what to do with it. While other classes need to actually MANAGE their resources, Cereal can just mindlessly frontload.
When was the last time you seen a Cereal go OOM (out of milk)? Seriously? "
"The mouth should just blow cool downs until the tongue can handle it."
"you can one shot the toaster by pulling out the cord "
If you don't understand the humor, you haven't played the game long enough. Feel free to unfavorites WoWInsider, but understand you do so from a place of your own ignorance.
Avan May 18th 2009 4:34PM
WoW Insider is srs bsns. No room for fun and humor here!
Lighten up and laugh a little.
Keyra May 18th 2009 5:07PM
Toodles. Don't let the internet door hit you in the a** on the way out.
Hey, everyone! One less troll! YAY! We win!
Bart May 18th 2009 4:21PM
You forgot to add the category "Fail" at the bottom of your pseudo article.
Laynne May 18th 2009 4:21PM
Pop tarts are working as intended ;)