WTF is a wendigo?

So I've been playing The Secret World.  Every time I turn around there's a zombie or a ghoul or SOMETHING needing dispatched.  Returned to the abyss.  Or jumping out and clawing me in the face.  I can figure out just about all of them, but...  Seriously.  What the hell is a wendigo?  In TSW they're these crunched-up muscular guys running around on all fours.

Yeah, I'm phoning in today's blogpost. I started ranting about casuals, realized that I sounded like a giant dildo, and scrapped it.  Eventually I'll get around to writing about casuals, but that's probably best saved for a night when I haven't tried to run a pickup group, ended up in the WORST dungeon finder ever, and been called a hardcore prick and had someone play the Life card on me.  (I have a life and a job, so I get to stand in fire and make you waste three hours of your night.  Counterintuitive much?  You'd think someone with such an important life would want to maximize the use of their time ingame.)

I'll also eventually get around to doing a proper writeup on the Secret World, and why it's a game worth at least buying and playing for a month.  Honestly, it's worth watching, too.  If Funcom handle the game well it'll be a really nice niche title.  It's a nice challenge, but there's definitely a lot of pressure to get everything done all at once.  A less obsessive-compulsive person would probably feel differently, but for me?  I can tank, and heal, and dps all on the same toon, and I'm having a hard time focusing.  Controlling my urge to cross-class.  It's going to be a long time before I find the plot over there, so to speak.  And rather than be That Guy who's whining that she doesn't have time (that guy is gender neutral, duh) to be good at the game...

I have a feeling that I'm going to be sidelining TSW entirely.  It's fun.  I love the flexibility of the system, the openness of the gameplay, and the overall challenge level of combat and the quests.  OMG the puzzle quests.  But right now I'm looking for some low key, low-maintainance fun, and...  TSW has the potential to be very bad for me.  Like discovering pineapple upside down cake martinis bad for me.  (I deleted the video from that night, because OMG was I obliterated.)  Self-control comes a lot more easily when I know I can walk away for a few days and not let my crew down.

Not the blog post I intended to write tonight, but there you go.  My quest to figure out what a wendigo is continues.  TO THE BATWIKI!