expansion launched in less than thirty minutes. So, he did the only rational thing he could think of: he took his bowl over to the sink and filled it with water. As he sat the cereal aberration down beside him at his desk, Gavin noticed the first signs of something amiss. His user name was "IpwnU43." His user name for years, it was his calling card; everyone knew him by that name. But somehow, his name had been changed. It now read “G.S.1915.” "What the hell…G.S.1915!" Gavin shouted. "Can this day get any better? First rats, then no milk, and now some newbs tried to hack me! I do not have time for this today," he moaned. Closing his network, he decided against his better judgment to run one computer for the launch of the expansion and worry about the hack later. He navigated his way to the game’s start menu and logged in, or at least he went through his usual motions of logging in. He typed in his user name, his password, and clicked login. But the message he received was not a welcome one. "'Account does not exist!’" Gavin wrenched as he absorbed the blood red words that were burning into his screen. He tried again, fearing a typo had occurred due to his outrage over the hack. No luck. The screen displayed only its denial of his existence. He tried everything he knew to log into his account but with no success. After two and a half hours of relentless troubleshooting, he finally gave up and called the video game company's help-hotline. [click] "Hello, thanks for calling the Wizards of Warfare hotline. How may I help you?" "I've got a serious fucking problem over here!" "Sir, please calm down. The expansion has a couple bugs, but it should be running smoothly in a few hours." "Oh, this is much, much bigger than a couple shading bugs lady!" "Okay sir, what seems to be the problem?" "My account isn't registering is the fucking problem!" "Sir, have you tried account recovery?" "Lady, do I sound like a newb to you! I have three level 80 warlocks and a level 80 warrior who wields the sword of Kara’sou’l!” “Sir, I'm going to need you to stop yelling at me." “Just fix it!” "Okay, what is your name sir?" "IpwnU43!"
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