Farmers

So, wait... Is Calhoun one of those Chinese farmers?

Does anyone know what farmers are rogues?

Has Hyjal been full more lately?

It seems the server has been full more often lately, you guys havce been using it longer than me, comments?

The Engrish of Dr. Kitamura

"Penises, large or small, are all much of a muchness."

Just... just, "wow."

Picasa2

has anyone used picasa?

Maraco Rapes Molten Core

So, if you saw me lately, I may look a little diffrent....














So there I was taking cookies and cakes to grandma's house though the big dark wood called Molten Core. Of course I wasn't alone, 39 of my buddies, ridding shot gun w/ their AKs were keeping things real. Well Then we showed up that this little piggies house made of straw...
He mumbled something about not getting chin? Anywho, We Nuked that fucker like the pupet Regan in that one music video in the 80s. Well lil ol' me happend to find this piece of trash laying around... cool right, 1st set bonus from epic sets..


So , then me and my crew found this house made of sticks. we was like "YO, PEEP MY GAME BITCH" and he was like... FUCK U you CRacker!... I was like, bitch better run , the po po are comming... we ll as that scared as piece of pork bolted for the door, big tataruchi shows up with some FUCKED up shit... and blows his brains out w/ some lighting out of no where! FUck that I said, and robbed the asshole of these fine as treads here...

Then just as I thought we were done, this rich as princes shows up trying to lick some toad, and I yelled at her said, Get on your knees and lick this!... Well the bitch wanted money so i slapper in the face and said, yo! I don't be paying Bi-OTch!... and grabbed her by the hair and... well she threw this shit at me, but BO YA,... 2 set bonuses 1 night..












Translation, I got lots of goodies, cause i was the only priest who didn't have this stuff in sunday night's mc run... lucky me ^.^

Late Notice BFT? run

Its friday, most people have it off.. toc is going to do something a bit tougher than sfk (getting my alphabet soup mixed up)... So Black Fathom Deeps... Me o'l nemisess.... (that and spelling)

So about 2 ish we will start.

Happy T-Day

Oh yah, and Happy Thanksgiving!! My best to all of you and yours. Remember, +10 stamina for being well fed!

1.9 Patch Notes

Reportedly confirmed valid by Caydiem, tho perhaps not complete. I haven't seen any actual blue text myself, but everything seems to be in line w/ what we heard at Blizzcon. Us shammys are actually getting a new spell. Happy Day!!

ROLFOCOPTER

http://drunkreport.com/media/simmonswhosline.htm Take a look... I like who's line is it anyway... but. Okay, just watch.

Thanks scott for sending this my way.

Essence of Fire - For Sale

I needed Mar to make me a Cloak of Fire, plus put a Fire Resist enchant on it. I was hedging my bets in shopping for Essence of Fire, but to my surprise all my bids went through and now I have 4 more than I need. I paid 9g each for them. If anyone wants, drop me an in-game mail.

Maraco:

Hey I just found out My Wife's having a girls night on saturday night, which means I get to have a guy's night! Wanna do sone WSG? or if Dexterfoo logs on maybe that instance neard undercity, bloodfang keep or something like that. Sound good?

Harry Potter and HPC Tonight - Confirmed!

I haven't heard any opposition to the suggestions made in the HPC thread, so I'm going to go ahead and confirm this.

Harry Potter
7:35 showing
Century 25, Union City
Tonight, 11-18
Hot Pot City to follow
Snow Bubbles to follow that (if anyone can still eat.)

I'm Fandango'ing tickets for myself, my wife, and Will right now.

How I might redesign the Logitech G15

In response to some comments at the end of Pimp My Keybo.

I forgot to change the silly blue, but of course that would have to go, too. There are only two "multimedia" [snear!] buttons on a keyboard I give a rat's ass about: volume and mute. They're on the right above the keypad.

On my keyboard, that little LCD would be extremely legible, and fully programable so anyone else could develop a little app to controll it. The real G15 has a hinged LCD so you can adjust it for maximum readability. If the screen were very high quality, this would be unnecessary as it would be readable from any angle. I'm thinking B&W OLED would do the trick. There would be about 10 - 15 degrees of tilt built right into the unit, but hinging would be unnecessary.

I permitted the M1, M2 and M3 buttons to stay, as the ability to shift the programable keys might actually be useful. My keyboard would also be very thin, but have a very solid bottom so it didn't flex and would feel like a quality piece of hardware. Hmm... custom weighting to each key like the Das Keyboard might also be slick. Wireless model also available, RF of course.

I tried to figure out a way to incorporate frickin' lasers, but no ideas yet.

Gotta lover her!

"their personality of curiosity tickles my heart"

Limited Play Time For A Few Weeks

Hey all. I've got a Japanese language ability exam (日本語能力試験二級) coming up in early December, and about now is the time I should put my studies into overdrive. I'll likely not be playing much other than the Sunday MC runs, and perhaps hitting Ony on Fridays.

5th Set Item Bonus, EF Gloves!

Bask in the aura of my 1337ness...

Anyone feel like a Hot Pot run?

I don't get to eat very much meat at home these days. Besides, I hardly see you guys anymore (online or elsewhere).

Discover

"Discover is busy working on your package. You may cancel by clicking the Cancel button below."

Pimp my Keybo

almighty tat, lord of hi tech fashion, is brush alum still in?

found on gizmodo

WoW Story & Lore

If you haven't played Warcraft III, or if you have but it's been a long time, I highly recommend playing through it again. In the context of WoW, the storyline really comes together. It turns out Blizzard isn't just building these games on some vague concept, but an intricately planned universe. I had never finished WCIII: The Frozen Throne expansion, so I picked up from there. It explains the rise and development of the Blood Elves and their alliances, the Draeni, the Outlands, Illidan, how the Night Elves came to the Outlands, etc. etc. You even get a glimpse of the titan who was responsible for unleashing the burning legion on the universe. It explains it so well, in fact, that I may go back and re-play WCIII non-expansion after I finish the expansion.

WCIII ends with the Battle of Mount Hyjal, the very same battle Blizz is going to recreate for us in the WoW expansion. The Frozen Throne expansion takes us right up to the point in time where WoW begins.

When playing WCIII and the expansion in campaign mode, each load screen includes a map of the area you're in, and an explanation of the storyline. The maps and story are dead-on true to the places in WoW. My favorite example is the undead areas. Tirisfal Glades, Silverpine Forest, Undercity (although at that time simply refered to as the ruins of the old human capital city,) Dalaran, Plaguelands, Lordaemere Lake... they're all there and exactly where you know them to be from WoW.

If storyline playes a part in your enjoyment of WoW, going back and playing through WCIII will bring you both breadth and depth. Well worth the time - I give it two thumbs up. =D

Let's go Wail on some dudes in a Cavern.

Hey I was thinking about hitting up Wailing Cavern tonight if my friend Dexterfoo/peyrac logs on. Anyone else wanna have an adventure in lowbieland? I'll be on ~7.

Ony Pwnage

Ok, this is only interesting because of how close the fight was. All but two hunters were dead at 1% health remaining. That's 10k hp on Ony. It's amazing the hunters brought her down considering how fast she can wipe players out when she's running around loose like that. Anyway, fun times. :)

WoW expansion

Excellent article.

The Pwnage of Ragnaros

First defeat Majordomo. He's the final boss before Ragnaros, and he's got eight (yes 8!) buddies. Four of them are priests, and four are high DPS melee mobs. You kill all of them, then Domo submits. Basically, he pussies out and yells, "Impossible! Stay your attack mortals... I submit! I submit!" He then drops a treasure chest full of loots.

Next Domo heads over to Rag's room. He'll wait there for two hours before he despawns and goes back to his original location with his 8 buddies again. If you don't make the two hour timer, you have to defeat him again with no chance for loots. To spawn Rag, you talk to "friendly" Domo, who tells you you're about to have your ass whooped in ways you didn't know were possible.

Rag spawns, and boy is he pissed. First, he's pissed that all his minion-bosses haven't taken care of you. Second, he's pissed that you are after the secrets of the flame. Third, he's pissed that Domo brought you to him.

Rag demands an explanation from Domo for the intrusion.

Rag finds Domo's explanation lacking, and one-shots the poor bastard.

The Fabled valiantly fights back against Rag.
Rag shows us the meaning of "pwnt," and flosses his teeth with the strings on my cod piece.

Blogger Problems

Yay! Blogger is working again! Sorry about the outage. Alk and I confirmed the issue was w/ Blogger and not my server, so our hands were tied*.





















*Tied to the bedposts!!

Warden

I dunno if any of you have heard of/been following the discussion around the process that WoW runs to actively scan your system for cheats.

Parallel to this: Sony's Music CD Rootkit, which auto-installs itself as soon as the autoplay is triggered by one of their protected music CDs. A rootkit basically alters the Windows kernel, allowing certain programs to cloak their presence from the operating system. They are pretty much immune to standard virus and spyware scanners, and are active even in safe mode.

How are these related? A group successfully managed to use Sony's DRM rootkit to cloak the presence of a cheat program from Warden. It's kind of like getting a flu to fight off a cold.

Raiding Screen Layout

Maraco was asking how I lay everything out on my screen during big raids.

Alkhwarizmi:

First off thanks for getting me started in the Wailling caverns last night, I eventually got a group of 5 together after you abandoned me for MC and we had a blast. However we did not have time to 100% compleate any of our quests and we need to go back in. In other words I want to go back in either next tuesday or on the weekend and want to know if you'd like to help me & Dexterfoo do it. Also, I am posting the following link for my own reference so I don't get lost again: http://sancus.off.net/wc.jpg

P.S. Dexter if you're reading this we still need to finish off those RFC quests too. we could probably do them ourselves now with all that loot I got last night.

BlizzCon Pix

At long last, my BlizzCon site is done! Thanks for the patience, all. As previously reported I had an internet connection on Thursday night, and that was the last I saw of one until I returned home on Sunday. I got straight to work on the pictures, and this is the result. There are a lot of captions to read, and hopefully you'll find something new that you didn't know in there. On the other hand, I'm sure I've forgotten 80% of what I heard, so put up questions and it'll jog my memory.

At first I wasn't very interested, but the Warcraft Lore discussion panel turned out to be the most fun and informative of them all. Chris, the guy who is the "god" of sorts of the Warcraft Universe, is a really cool guy and a font of knowledge. (Of course he is, it's his world!)

Off the top of my head, cool announcements were:
-Mages are going to get invisibility back (it was pulled in beta) in the expansion. It will be one of the top-end talants.
-Ahn'Qiraj in Sillithus is coming in patch 1.9 (expansion not required) and will require the effort of the entire server to open. Alk, here's your persistent world changes in action! Blizz talked a little about their desire to do more of this, but also talked at-length about why it's so very difficult.
-Fully linked auction houses in every major city in 1.9!
-The expansion will not just be the opening of closed off areas in Azeroth, it will be the opening of a whole new planet! That plantet is called Outlands and is where the Warcraft III expansion, The Frozen Throne took place. Looking far into the future, Blizzard plans to take expand WoW to many new planets!
-In Outland, you can buy flying mounts, but they will only work in Outland. A flying mount will be required to access some zones that will not otherwise be accessible.
-Shard bags are in the works for Warlocks.
-A keyring is in the works to hold all your dungeon keys.
-We'll soon be seeing chance-to-proc-on-damage items for casters.
-The devs confirm: Paladins are "Easy Mode."

If you haven't seen the expansion trailer yet, it explains far more than I can. Check it out.