The Cranky Old Gnome

One thing that can be a confusing and scary experience is actually installing and maintaining addons.  And when I first started playing wow no-one really told me how to install and maintain addons; the only other person I knew who played was my roommate and he has this slightly ridiculous hatred for every addon ever made.  I’m still not exactly sure why.  I think it’s because all technology everywhere hates him.  Seriously, I’ve never seen anyone who is so technologically unlucky.  It’s not that he’s even all that un-savvy.  He just has horrible tech-luck.  He’s managed to fry more than one piece of electronics via his massive static charges.  And he’s accidentally deleted vital files for the running of his computer on more than one occasion.  So I guess he’d just rather not bother.  But I digress.  When I started I wished that someone had told me how to deal with all the addons out there, so I’m hoping that I can help guide those who are dipping their toes in the magical well of AddOns.

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