Tweets for Today
- 19:08 Fairly keen WoW amateur video here: tinyurl.com/22yxnf Not your average game machinima, either. #
- 20:00 I’m really missing Junkyard Wars. I want to watch one of those without having to download it. Preferably with Cathy Rogers hosting. #
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Rock Rockin’ Tha Spot
More WoW.
Mirandala just dinged 65, which means she can cast the Shattrath Portal spell as soon as I find the trainer. 5 levels to go before I hit the current cap; the last 5 levels took me… hmmm… 11 months.
Boy, I’m addicted, aren’t I?
(Okay, I did level Circy from around 5 to 55 in that period, and messed with a couple other alts. Still, that’s not setting any records.)
Interesting WoW rock video to the tune “Rock Rockin’ Tha Spot“. Despite the quality of the work, I feel I must warn potential viewers about the swear words and the Blood Elf nudity.
Clouds thinning by morning
Feeling much much better this morning. I have been trying to find an explanation for feeling so lousy last night… less caffeine, lingering crud from the weekend, full moon, etc etc… but I think that there’s no special explanation: I just felt bad. This is not satisfying to the logical part of my mind, but all the other possibilities just don’t ring true.
I think it helps that I did again wake before the alarm, though I had a bout of chills about 1/2 hour into my morning. I’m hoping that garbage goes away as the weather gets a little warmer.
My WoW backpack has 16 “item slots”, each of which holds anything from a rabbit’s foot to a 6-foot mage’s staff to an armored chestplate. These slots fill up insanely quickly – collecting additional bags ASAP is practically mandatory – so I’m disinclined to believe the “upcoming patch notes” that claim we’ll be seeing a “scaling” pack which starts at 10 slots and gets to 24 slots at level 70. 10 slots isn’t even enough for a newbie character.
(I love how, in loot-based fantasy gaming, the same pair of armored trousers somehow fit both a 3.5-foot tall gnome male, and an 8.5-foot tall tailed alien female. Imagine how easy clothes shopping would be if all clothing fit the moment you put it on!)
Since I’m WoW-gabbing this morning, here’s a great post on the official forums by a player who’s compiled a short history of Azeroth, giving players some background for a lot of those quests where something more seems to be going on. WoW lore’s pretty darn rich and full, even for a series of 4 video games. It may be no Silmarillion, but that’s a plus for some folks.
Tweets for Today
- 18:36 Got home from MarsCon. Very buzzed-happy… and very sleepy. We’re going to play some WoW to wind down. #
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Ironforge Chef
I feel smug. “Small Eggs” are going for ridiculous amounts of gold in WoW today; Greatfather Winter has arrived in the Dwarven capital city, and there are presents under the Winter’s Veil tree for those who bring him milk and “Gingerbread Cookies”… which need “Small Eggs”.
However, I know a place where I don’t have to compete with any of the other players for bird-monsters from whom I can loot the Eggs. Got enough for myself, Starr, and two alts in 15 minutes, and didn’t see another soul. Hah!
… what? I should be doing something useful today? Sorry, I cleaned and ran errands all week. Today, I’m slacking and proud of it.
The Master Control Program requires epic loot
Hmm, well. Apparently a batch of Maxtor/Seagate drives were shipped from the factory with a password-stealing virus, in search of your World of Warcraft gold.
Massively.com reports that “The virus is the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah, a molar virus that searches for passwords to online games and sends them to a server located in China. It also deletes other molar viruses and can disable virus detection software. All of the known games affected are Chinese with the exception of World of Warcraft. […] The virus resides in the root directory of the drive, and is executed by Windows when the drive powers up and is connected by the Windows Drive Manager.”
“Seagate is writing the infection off as an accident”.
Yeah, sure. We know what this is: SkyNet is taking its first steps to global domination – control of an MMO economy!
Never deal with a Dreadlord
Just watched Unlimited Escapism, Vol. 0, by “Baron Soosdon”. 14 minutes of wild visuals and trance music… nicely soothing on a Woden’s Day evening.
This image of Petite Nikita, however, made me want to run a Shadowrun (2nd ed.) game set in a highly-technological future of Azeroth…
I doubt that anyone would be thrilled to find that their back-alley street doc was an undead Forsaken 🙂
I dressed funny today. Like that’s new.
Happy Halloween / Samhain to everyone!
I wore my Enterprise jumpsuit for candy distirbution tonight. Nobody recognized it. Given that people even mis-recognized it at a DragonCon where Connor Trinneer was guesting, I have to wonder if it should be packed away and only brought out for hardcore fannish events.
On the other hand, I got involved in a very cool audio production of a part of the Headless Horseman legend. You totally need to check out the journal entry I’ve linked to, and listen to the file.
Here, have a holiday-themed WoW screenshot.
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Gnome on Broomstick Mirandala riding the “Magic Broom” available during the 2007 Hallow’s End celebration |
