All the World's a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.

It's a strange feeling to look back on four years of roleplaying in WoW, more than two of which were spent writing "All the World's a Stage," and feel as though the curtain is coming down on this part of my life, just as many new things are rising up to take its place. It's a sad thing, and it's a happy thing at the same time.

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Reader comments -- ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.

The story's not over 'til [1.Local] has picked it to bits and pieces ... So what did the local denizens have to say about the world of WoW during the first half of the year? In fact, the [1.Local] scene itself became the news back in June, as [1.Local]: The epic rap battle comment war edition hit readers' screens: "Players disagree over Blizzard's upcoming badge changes. Rap battle ensues. Site is left terrified and confused."

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Every week (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a UI and addons blog for WoW.

I'm going to cheat.

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Wowhead has given us a few new features for holiday presents. The navigation tabs have been tweaked to showcase some of the features and pages they've been adding recently. There's also a super-cute wallpaper by Noxychu, featuring cartoon avatars of various Wowhead employees.

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It's the Sunday in between Christmas or Hanukkah and New Years festivities, which is the perfect time to settle down and read through the weekly comics:

• Guilded Age: Chapter 2, Page 23.
• Teh Gladiators: Crazy Vallant Magical Offspring.
• Da!ly Quests: Hurry Up and Wait.
• Dark Legacy Comics: This Time of Year.
• NPC: Kitty Tip Number One.
• NPC: Kitty Tip Number Two.
• NPC: Kitty Tip Number Three.
• Beyond the Tree: A Small Scheme.
• LFG #315 and #316.
• Holiday filler from Complex Actions.
• Dungeons and Draenei: Frostsaber and Bad Behavior.
• NoObz: Tenth Commandment.
• Cru the Dwarf: Thanks for the Memories.


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Mobule of <For the Herd> on Proudmoore took this picture of himself modeling the only useful gnomish engineering device -- the Gnomish X-Ray Specs. His girlfriend, Kristilrae, has volunteered to serve as the test subject. Nice pic and all, but doesn't it sort of ruin the point of X-Ray Specs if you can only use them on your significant other?

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This isn't a breakfast topic where I protest. I'm not signing petitions or grumping, I'm simply looking back and saying "Gee, I wish X".

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Tuesday, we kicked off our Twelve Days of Winter Veil contests at WoW.com Every day until January 2, 2010 we will have new prizes to give away along with new loot codes. Today, we are giving away 1 Ogre Pinata code courtesy of WoWTCGLoot.com. As you can see in the movie above, this in-game item summons an ogre-shaped pinata. After it takes a certain amount of damage, it explodes, throwing candy onto the ground. Anyone can pick up the candy and when they chew it, can blow bubbles.

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Icecrown Citadel - The Lich King
You knew it would eventually appear on the front page. Here is a mini-preview of what to expect of the Lich King encounter/storyline in the Icecrown Citadel.

SPOILERS!!!! Do not read this post if you do not want to read spoilers, there are a LOT of them here.

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WoW.com continues celebrating Winter Veil with our Twelve Days of Winter Veil contests. Today is day seven of our countdown and we are giving away a Feast of Winterveil TCG Collector's Set to three lucky winners courtesy of Upper Deck. Each Collector's Set comes with all the following goodies:

• 10 exclusive Feast of Winter Veil cards that can't be found anywhere else and feature new content that are all usable in your favorite WoW TCG deck!
• Two exclusive Pet mini-cards that allow players to customize their experience even more!
• An exclusive holiday deck box featuring Feast of Winter Veil artwork
• One Heroes of Azeroth booster pack
• One Through the Dark Portal booster pack
• One Fires of Outland booster pack


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