Noobs

everyone was a noob once. it's true. even if you're the most uber-l337 son's of mothers that are playing at the moment, at one time you didn't know what the spacebar did. or that you could eat and drink at the same time.
yesterday i introduced a friend of mine to world of warcraft. he had heard of this before...this world of warcraft, but he had not played it, merely listened as the rest of us rattled on about mobs and aggro and pallies bubbling like bitches.
so i sat him down at the computer and told what does what, and walked him through the first three levels or so.
now, it's important to keep in mind that when you're teaching someone, the best thing to do is to let them try things out on their own, and make their own mistakes, which is what i did. eventually he started to get the hang of things, finishing quests, putting on better gear ( well, more gear, since you don't start with much) and such.
and he was a noob.
it was beautiful, everything was new and different to him, and i look forward to that feeling somewhere down the line where i can be a noob again at some other game.
so when you meet a real noob, someone like a warlock with plus attack power gear, or a strictly melee hunter, do not scorn them. we were all noobs once.

also, this post has a lot to do with world of warcraft.