Old School

Gnomey was talking Gatekeepers, and others around the blogosphere are talking Immersion, or the lack there of.

It had me thinking, was WoW tougher back when it first started?  Has the Old School Guard gone away?  Am I a dinosaur in the WoW Landscape?

Back in the day we had 40 man raids, and guilds filled with 100’s of people. We had to tell people they couldn’t go. These days the guilds I’ve been in have trouble scrapping together a 25 man raid. Yes 40 man raid’s were a logistic nightmare, but when things went well. It was awesome thing. I would be chatting with our guilds mages 5 or 6 of them cracking jokes in mage chat. I would look around and see 39 other people raiding at the same time, making sure I did my part to not let them down.

It wasn’t about the purple pixels, damage meters, or your gear score. You got rewards if you showed up and performed, and stayed, called dkp, this dkp got you loot. There would be several runs I never got a piece of gear. It was ok, cause it was all for the Guild.

In MMO’s in general as I flitter from MMO to MMO, I see a scary trend. That it’s not about crafting a cool world to dwell in, but to make sure there is action all around you, and you get bigger and shiner loot for every step you make. In Warhammer Online, it was Scenarios, all the time….In Age of Conan everything was so instanced it was sick.  Sometimes the things I like the most were the little things in WoW, the attention to detail that made the World of Warcraft alive. The Ogres dancing by themselves, the paintings on the wall in Scarlet Monastary, the conversations between mobs when your eavesdropping, cool little things. Like Neo in the Matrix, things that made you stop the roses and go…Whoa.

STO Guest Pass Giveaway

I have an extra STO Guest Pass that gives you a 10 day free trial of Star Trek Online to give out. So leave a comment here, make sure you fill out your email addy, and I will contact you. I will just pick a person at random, special consideration will be given to those that tell me their favorite captain, and why?

BAH HUMBUG!

I hate Holidays in WoW…Bah Humbug!

Poor Keredria, My heart does bleed for her. Really it does. I mean I have other problems. What the hell do I do with all these stupid tokens…I mean really I just been deleting them all.

Seriously though I don’t do holidays. I’m not big on the titles they created in the World Of Warcraft.  I think of all the games I played I took interest in one event, that was in Warhammer Online, the title “The Drunkard” was the reward. Really Warcraft can do better, I mean ”The Love Fool”, I fall prey to the designs of women enough without advertising it, “The Patient”, “The Merrymaker”…etc.etc. to me is full of MEH!

What else is there, some Fluff like a little pet. Ok some of the pets are cool, like wasn’t there a little Ragnaros guy..that would be ok. But that takes ALOT of work. I think an extra mob in a dungeon is a cool idea, like the Headless Horseman, and if you got the mount…I HATE YOU!

Let me put it another way. If I want tedious, grind fests I would be playing AION.

Hit Me Baby One more Time!

Ok my brain is rebelling cause Saints won the Super Bowl, WHO DAT?  I am glad they won, that region of the States need some help, and plus any team that once was coached by the man himself Mike Ditka is a team for me. So I downed alot whiskey yesterday so I can not really think to straight, and I can get over this lame crap with Blizz…well…hold on….I gotta do something first… 

*Spoiler Alert*~ Though I’m sure you know by now, unless your living under a rock, I don’t mean to offend anyone if you do live under a rock. I just know internet is rough to get there.

So Arthas is dead. Some douchebag is now Lick King. Really?  Ok it pisses me off more and more that I think about it….The most prolific villian in the World of Warcraft…they just killed off.

The question is why? To start fresh?  How far off is Cataclysm?

This is the problem with Blizz expansions, the game goes through a lull, burnout will set in with the veterens. Guilds will explode over drama, because of boredom. Server landscapes will change, and raiders will stop raiding as much.

Before Burning Crusade, before Wrath, I’ve been here before, this feels like the I’ve been here, done that type of thing.

I’ll wait though, and bide my time. Collecting my gold, and consumables. Getting ready for the next best thing. Until….BAM!

Time to grind up 5 more levels…time to disenchant all my gear….and time to hit me baby one more time!

Weekly Lagout

Just waiting on my new puter, turns outon my old one  it wasn’t the power supply, my graphic card blew causing the computer to shut down. A 45 dollars, and a little sweat lesson. I figured since this desktop is going to my dad, he won’t be needing any graphic card magic.

The computer I decided to go with is a Dell Refurbish Intel Dual Core (2.6ghz)/500gb HD/4GB RAM/ 512 ATI Radeon HD 4350  for $409.00, it’s almost double the HD space, and graphics memory, as well as 1GB more of RAM, plus it comes with Windows 7, and if I bought the OS, it would of been about 100 bucks alone. I was thinking of building my own, but I was parting it out, and man it still didn’t come close to as cheap as 409 bucks…We’ll see how it works when it gets here, but it does come with a warranty too.

WoW

Yeah so I got a Speedstream 4100 DSL modem, that doesn’t like WoW. It blows up whenever I hit Dalaran, and if I go on primetime, it blows up in any city.  After searching the tech forums there’s one or two third party fixes, but yeah nothing for Vista/7. So now my toons are hiding in the outskirts of Azeroth like some sort of refugees, but I’m concentrating on my little pally until I transfer my Mage to Horde side. Though thanks to Ensidia, thinking about Engineering for a new profession. Next week though I will be contacting Comcast Cable.  

STO-

I did indeed pick up the collectors edition, and just waiting for my new computer to install, and rock it out Qap’la

WAR

Even though I don’t play this game, I read the books religiously, and sometimes I get the twinge to resub, but the latest patch and the removal of scenarios, and the removal of Tor Anroc one of my personal favs has got me a little peeved.  Here’s to hoping Warhammer 40k is done right.  ***********This just in….Looks like Scenaros will be saved…

High Latency Love -

This…. Gotta Love it. Thanks Shadow

Gotta give Bootae some love,  His dedication to WAR is admired by me, and his writing is top notch. Plus we chewed alot of the same dirt as Chosen.

Also I’m gonna give some love to I love Gnomes…they’re delicious… That is one funny blog title. that and what he write is good….and good for you just like Gnomes.

Something Funny….

Don’t AFK in STO…

With that….

MY PING SUCKS…..PEAS OUT!!!

Warhammer 40K

This

Yeah I got wood…that is all.

This is how I would of done it.

You empty the Joe, You make some Mo...WHOO!

Armchair quarterback…that’s what I’m all about.  So Arthas is dead, I feel I don’t know unfulfilled. Is this how girls feel when the boy doesn’t do the job? Like we did all this work, and for what.

Well if I was the man in charge this is how I would of done things.

Arthas isn’t defeated…he escapes and disappears.  In Cataclysm, Worgen are cool. But the Goblins…not so much. I would of had the Naga become a playable race for Horde.. Deathwing is back big time, and threatening to destroy Azeroth…In the end Arthas comes back to help this time against Deathwing…now that would be redemption. Can I hear making the Scourge a playable Faction?  I was always enthralled when you were able to see the other side of the coin, like I heard if you had corrupted Ashbringer, the Scarlet Crusade was friendly. Cool stuff like that.

Well no matter what happens, I think Cataclysm will be interesting….I just hope it’s fun.

Girls got Cooties!

Yeah, I'd rather raid with her, then you dude.

I was reading Pugger Priest, and came across this, and was like wha? Really? An All Male Guild….I admit there are some times I like a place where its men only, where a male can bond, and just be his farting, nut scratching, 17 year old boy self, usually when my latest female in my life, spears my heart, and devours it, but my MMO isn’t one of them. Even strip clubs have women, they’re called strippers….and god bless those girls.

I find it strange, you can’t handle being mature enough to do your job around women, you can’t focus on your spell rotation when a girl is around, then really if you can’t handle your job around anybody, around the different personalities in WoW male or female, then maybe you should go play a single player game. Yes it’s their 15 bucks a month, but I think their limiting themselves, while giving the male of our species a bad name, also giving into that typical male gamer stereotype. This reminds me of when I was 7, when I thought girls had cooties, and I didn’t want to get infected by their girldom 

I don’t like exclusionists, it’s worst than elitist attitudes. Even if the guild was all female it would rub me the wrong way. Though if they raided naked…I would rub myself the wrong way. Bottomline,  Sometimes we males can get a little douchebagitis, and if I was to say I would play with only straight males, then I would have missed out meeting some of the greatest players I have ever known who just happened to be women, gay, lesbian…and everything in between. Now I’ve learned that Girls got Coochies, and not Cooties….and I don’t mind those getting on me.

The Banstick

Someone showed up Blizzard, we can’t have that. Showed Blizzard their flaws…shame on them. Ensidia beat the Lich King. Blizzard said they used an exploit, and banned them. Larisa goes into it more then I care too.

I just want to touch on this subject. Is it fair to Ensidia. No. It’s Blizzard being the 800lb Gorrilla they are, and trying to make an example of them. It smacks of the 4-man Leviathian Incident.

If the game allows me to do it, and I figure out how to do it. Why should I be punished? Say we were in the NFL, and I figured out if I tossed to the reciever on the left, because on the left you have a bad safety covering there. That’s like the Ref’s blowing a foul, because I know the player was weak…isn’t that ridiculous.

Whether you feel it’s cheating or not, whether Ensidia used an exploit or not, whether they knew or not is regardless. If the game code allowed them to do it, then I see no fault. I feel Blizz is in the wrong.

Though in the scope of thing 3 day ban, been there done that, it ain’t so bad.

So you met that Dream Geek Girl?

Well it’s getting close to Valentine’s day, and you met a wonderful girl online. But is she really a girl, or is she a G.I.R.L (Guy In Real Life)There are alot of guys out there who play chicks, and to get their free gold they aren’t going to bust character for your sorry arse. Sure you can just come out and ask, Are you a girl?, or ask to see some pictures but then you run the risk of losing your new virtual sweetheart, or being lied to.

Your in luck friend…I devised a test for you.

1. Video Game Question: Are you a healer, dps, tank?

     If she answers healer add 3 points. DPS add 2 points, for tank add 1 point.  If she plays an orc male rogue named Bob, -2 points.

2. Pop Culture Question: I never watched Jon and Kate plus 8, did you?

     If she answers yes add 2 points, no add 0 points, she answered she never missed a show it’s not a negative, but she might be bat shit crazy.

3. Pop Culture Question : Did you see what Lady Gaga was wearing at the Grammys?

    If yes add 2 points, no add 0 points, she says the same thing I wore to my drag performance – 2 points.

4. General Knowledge Question : What the hell is Fuchsia?

     She answers a pink purple color add 2 points, if she says a color add 1 point, she says it’s the name of my penis – 4 points.  

5. What kind of pets does she like?

     If she likes cats add 2, if she likes dogs add 1, if she like pythons  -1 point. Any girl that can feed mice to a python either has a penis, or likes women more then you do.

6. Situational Question: If  she was driving, and got lost what would she do?

If she said stop ask for directions add 2 points, if she said not stop, and try to find the way – 2 points.

7: Situational Question: If playing around in bed, and you fart and hold her head under the covers, and give her a Dutch Oven, Would she?

Hit you, and call you gross add 2 points, Enjoy the aroma of you man stench, and then do the same to you add 1 point, teabag you – 3 points.

8. Sports Question : Scream “Go Penquins!”

Her reply is I love those little birds too add 5 points, if she asks if that’s some sort of sports team add 2 points, if she goes, “Fuck the Pens, Go Hawks!’ -3 points.

9. Movie Question: Have you ever cried at a movie that doesn’t contain a dog, soldier, or a sports figure dyeing?

If she has cried at other movies, add 2 points, if she only cried at these types of movies -1 points, if she cried tears of joy at the end of Too Wong Fu, then – 10 points.

10. General Knowledge Question: Do you have a vagina?

Yes add 100 points, if she answers now I do add 5 points, if no subtract 100 points.

Ok let’s see how your dream girl scored.

Above 100 points, She’s a girl, and lets face it your not going to get any better if you have to give this test. Just ask her to marry you, and bare your spawn, and be done with it.

From 0 -100 – She may or may not be a girl, or she use to be a guy. Either way take a chance, can’t be any worse then what you usually do on Saturday night with the bottle of Jergens lotion.

Below 0 – Yeah she’s a dude, you can stop giving her stuff now…unless you like your chicks with a little something extra you freaky bastage.