Sad Day

Before I say anything, I called up my dad at some stupid hour and chatted for an hour and forty minutes, so I am feeling fine now. Though, damn, I go through a lot of tissues these days.

The reason I called is because I lost what I thought was a very good friend today. Not sure how much detail I will go into because it requires I explain a stupid video game (World of Warcraft). Essentially, I made a guild in the game and ran it since roughly September of last year. I put lots of time and effort into this thing, including making the website (which is very pretty, the guild is called Descend). When I was diagnosed with cancer, I put my friend in charge of it since I knew I wouldn't have the time anymore. And this friend had been very nice, he even drove me to the hospital once when I couldn't find a way there (he got free lunch out of it). However, one week I was very very sick and didn't log on at all. I just couldn't move off the sofa. When I logged back on, I found that I couldn't chat in the officer channel anymore... he had demoted me! Mind you, this was the only channel I talked in. I sometimes logged on just to chat in there, since those were the people I knew best online. So of course I was pissed off, I actually cancelled my account, but the whole time I simply assumed he did not realize that it would upset me.

Well, it seems that was not quite the case. I decided to start playing again, hoping he would promote me when he saw that I was back. Today I went to a raid, and afterwards I jokingly asked what was going on in officer chat. They were apparently having fun joking about such and such, and I said I missed being in the channel. His response was, oh, you're not missing much. Well, then I decide to be a bit more straightforward for him (maybe he still doesn't get it?) and just flat out tell him that I was pissed off he booted me from the channel, seeing as I made the guild, ran it, made AND pay for the web page. His response? "We needed new blood"... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? Oh, but he's nice, he'll pay for the web page now.

Now, this would not be such a big deal if A) I hadn't made the guild, B) I hadn't invited him to the guild and then promoted him, or C) He wasn't a real life friend. If I had been some random officer, not the one in charge who made the damn thing, or if he was just some online friend (hard to tell who the jerks are online), then this would not be a big deal, it's just a game. But, unfortunately, this was someone I had been friends with since my very first semester at Tech 5 years ago. And what he did was really really really mean. There's no way around it, that was just callous.

Edit: Just another point to make here. The main reason I went back to playing was so I could chat with this friend since he's always on. But since he pretty much only talks in the officer channel and he banned me from it, he essentially banned me from talking with him online.