Going out with a bang.

You'll have to excuse me when I giggle with unbridled delight at scenes like this one.

Basically what's happening in that video (besides some seriously kickin' tunes and an epic melee the size of Blackrock Mountain) is you have a large Horde guild mourning the recent loss of a good friend, when suddenly a large Alliance guild comes along and rocks their faces totally off.

Not that there's anything wrong with mourning a loved one. I personally am not chained by the emotional baggage that comes with illogical attachments to people, but I understand that many lesser mortals don't possess the dark iron will of a warlock. I might even show up and mourn myself, if it was a person I particularly respected... or feared.

What strikes me as funny to begin with is that it's the Horde doing the mourning. I, like every other brainwashed budding Alliance lackey, was raised with the firm belief that orcs and trolls and tauren were barbarians incapable of honor or respect. Of course that's a bunch of hogwash (isn't there a "Valley of Honor" in Orgrimmar, for crying out loud?), but that still doesn't explain the many undead in the funeral procession. Leave aside for the second that the forsaken as a race only pay lip service to the Horde -- why do they revere death with anything but a withdrawn smugness? One of the forsaken mourning (or celebrating, whatever) someone's death is kind of like a night elf listening excitedly to a dwarf's description of his vacation to Darnassus. The phrase "been there, done that" comes to mind.

And let me point out, that infernal you see running around is targetting Allies. That means that not only was there a warlock in that funeral procession to begin with, but she cared enough about the departed to summon an infernal to put a stop to the desecration. For shame.

Equally surprising is the fact that it's the Allies that are doing all the slaughtering. The same Alliance propoganda that teaches us that the Horde are evil teaches us that the Alliance is righteous, honorable and good. So... it's dishonorable to sneak into Grom'gol and slit the bread merchant's throat, but not to crash into a funeral procession and lay waste to the festivities? Does anyone else seriously not find that as amusing as I do?

Above all else, why on earth is the funeral being held in Winterspring, of all places? I mean, at least do the thing in Mulgore, where you won't shiver your knickers off, and there's no chance of a small army of Allies dropping some carnage on you.

For good or ill, the departed (with whom I was not acquainted) will be etched in the memories of all those present, Alliance or Horde, for probably as long as this stupid war lasts. What a send-off. The rest of us can only dream of such a wonderfully ironic and memorable eulogy.

Well, the rest of you anyway. I have other plans for myself...