Category: General

[IGN Live] Well even if I could afford the $120 for BlizzCon or the $85 to just go to the event and miss out on the Offspring concert, I wouldn’t be able to go. The event is sold out. As much as I enjoy WoW and Offspring (wouldn’t mind having a pet murloc either), the line up was always underwhelming to me. Panels about StarCraft: Ghosts (which I have played at Comic Con, contrary to the claim on the BlizzCon site that it will host the 1st public hands on gameplay), fan costume contests, playing Blizzard games on LAN, etc. Nothing really stood out aside from the Offspring concert, although they have said that detail about the WoW expansion will be announced at the con. I’m sure the details will be all over the internet a few minutes after they are announced anyways.

Continue reading No Blizz Con for Me. IGN Live Here I Come!

[World of Warcraft] Ah, the big four oh. That’s the number 40 for those who are not stupid enough to comprehend me. That’s also the level I just reached on my second character in WoW. That means I get a mount, baby. Yeah!

As I hit 40 and vendored some items from grinding and questing beforehand, I lacked 9 silver to get my mount. My brother lent me some money so I’d have enough to buy it and put stuff up on the AH, but he’s poor as well since he just bought his ram. Needless to say, I’ve only bought two of my level 40 abilities and probably still have about 10g worth of abilities to buy. I have some farming to do. It was a lot easier for my Shaman to get money for my mount and still have some left over for abilities.

Anywho, this is my second mount that only has two legs! Say “hello!” to Mr. Green Chicken! (I had to wave for him, he has no arms. Poor guy.)

In other news, I’ve killed my fair share of rats, what about you?

.:lufia22:.

Just got back from the first showing of Serenity. No spoilers here, just praise.

You know how when you really want a film to be good, really good, that it always ends up not meeting your expectations? Thankfully and for the first time in my movie viewing history, this one did not follow that path. This movie is better than I had hoped. It was fantastic. If I didn’t have to get back to work, I would have stayed for a second showing.

I’m shocked and suprised and thrilled and blown away. Bring on the sequal!

Do yourself a favor and avoid any spoilers, there are some suprises for sure and you wouldn’t want to ruin it.

Oh and personally, I think having watched the TV series really improved the quality of the movie. I’m not sure how someone that never saw any of the shows would think. I would hope they like it too, it was that good.

– Ethic

[EVE Online] I made my return back to P.A.D. Industries soon after my explosive leave from Huzzah, back to the good old times, of… mining, ugh

-Zxyrox

Caught this comic over at f13.net and I just had to link to it. Personally, I think it is hilarious. Enjoy!

– Ethic

So close I can taste it.

– Ethic

[EVE Online] Last weekend I was literally turned on by the HUZZAH federation, and was put on KOS for the allience, this occurred after I left the alliance for my own reasons, tried to leave on a good note, but apparantly it can’t be so, on my way out of providence in my kestrel frigate Mr Zarniewoop, executor of the HUZZAH federation attepted to gank me, results 4u!

2005.09.25 22:25:00

Victim: Zarniewoop
Alliance: HUZZAH FEDERATION
Corporation: Galactic Shipyards Inc
Destroyed Type: Typhoon
Solar System: Kheram
System Security Level: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Zxyrox (laid the final blow)
Security Status: 0.7
Alliance: Unknown
Corporation: The International House Of Pancakes
Ship Type: Kestrel
Weapon Type: Bloodclaw Light Missile I

I hope they think twice before tangling with t3h kessie again!

-Zxyrox

Let’s see, my account for EVE Online just expired. I’ll reactivate it soon as there are some things I still want to do – like venture into 0.0 space. A friend of mine stopped by tonight and asked me to help walk him through City of Heroes a little bit since he just purchased it. Thus, I have reactivated my CoH account at least temporarily. If he gets into that I’ll probably keep my account active just to hang out with him since he is moving across country. World of Warcraft is still active but I think it runs out in the beginning of October. I’ve had some good fun there lately so I’ll probably have to reactivate that as well.

Will I really have three accounts active? That’s just nuts. I don’t have the time for three games.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] I was strolling through Stranglethorn Vale one day, minding my own business. I was making my way to Booty Bay because us Alliance, unlike Horde, don’t have another flight point in STV except in BB while Horde have GG and BB. This is quite a long journey for a wee Gnome like me to make on foot with no mount. I pass a couple of Alliance dueling on the path, which is a stupid thing to do on a PvP server, and I see an Orc run past on a wolf. He stops next to the duelers and I think he’s going to gank them, so I continue on running minding my own business. What do you know? He doesn’t kill them and instead keeps running down the path in the direction I’m going.

So I’m thinking, “Ok, he must be a nice Orc.” Of course, I hear the “roar” of him dismount and obviously I expect the worse. He’s a warrior, so I wait for him to charge and stun me so I can blink out of it. He does, just like any warrior would do. So after blinking I turn and use polymorph and have to use my Gnome racial to get out of his hamstring. I was expecting him to intercept me (in-combat charge), but maybe he was a bit cocky. Needless to say, even though he was a skull to me (he ended up being a level 50 something), he was off eating some grass as a sheep while I continued my stroll.

A few seconds later he tries again. The same exact thing happens. I continue skipping down the path some more until he then tries another time but this time I ran into a 60 Alliance mage. Yep, the warrior got owned. Then a level 60 Orc warrior attacked followed up by a lower level shaman, who earth shocked me, but I cast frost nova on him and ran away. Instead of chasing me, he decides to help the 60 Warrior try and kill the 60 mage. I turn around once I see that he’s not chasing me and by the time I catch back up, the mage was already starting to kill the Shaman, so I added my scorch and fireblast in for the finishing blow.

Did I mention the level 60 mage was a Gnome as well? Yep…being a slippery Gnome rocks. Being a slippery Gnome mage rocks even more. Eat grass you stupid sheep! Why would you want to harm little ‘ol me anyways? I’m just as cute as can be!

.:lufia22:.

As Ethic has already alluded to, it is Talk Like a Pirate Day. It is also, however, the birthday of the emoticon. To celebrate both of these at once, I suggest using the following, eyepatch-clad emoticon:
P-)

Oh, and we should toss up a link to the relevant game. Yar!

: Zubon