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[Abraxas Winterlight]

cobalt bars were always 1 ore = 1 bar.

& with that heirloom book I bought last night (I can wait to dual-spec my huntard) my 70 Lock now has Cold Weather flying (I even made the lower level flying carpet for him)

going to make questing with his squishy behind MUCH easier

 

[Recidiva]

cobalt bars were always 1 ore = 1 bar.

& with that heirloom book I bought last night (I can wait to dual-spec my huntard) my 70 Lock now has Cold Weather flying (I even made the lower level flying carpet for him)

going to make questing with his squishy behind MUCH easier

Damn! And I was so excited. So much for not playing my blacksmith for a while and having early onset Alzheimers.

I have...um...about eight chars who now qualify for being able to fly in Northrend or Outland now. I haven't bought a flying mount for a single one of them.

First the hunter, then the druid, then the paladin, then the priest, then the warlock, then the rogue, then the death knight...

And then I start on the horde characters.

Anyway, that's a bit o' cash. Fortunately it's easy to make money, what's not easy is me spending it all on crafting materials and recipes.

..I'm sure I'll get right around to that once I stop escorting my little orphan around

 

[HisSexyPet]

I did the orphan quest and got the little werewolf pup. He is so adorable in a gremlin sort of way.
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv238/dewdrops_photoalbum/werewolforphan.png

Ain't my kitty perdy sexy? -giggles-

 

[Recidiva]

I did the orphan quest and got the little werewolf pup. He is so adorable in a gremlin sort of way.
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv238/dewdrops_photoalbum/werewolforphan.png

Ain't my kitty perdy sexy? -giggles-

I got a curious oracle hatchling.

The little werewolves make me nervous because I was probably one of the people who made them orphans. Too many puppies in bags for me.

The oracle isn't quite a dancing murloc, but it's close!

Looks like a cross between a Murloc and Spike from "Gremlins"

http://warcraftpets.com/news/images/big/oracle.jpg

I can just imagine him saying "Gizmo Kaka!"

 

[Recidiva]

Heh. I just got around to "Flight of the WIntergarde Defender" and I'm saving feared villagers running around like...well, helpless villagers. While I'm trying to catch up to them I see this:

"Hungering Dead says: "NO RUN!!! NO MORE RUN!!!"

Well, stop fearing them.

 

[Raccoon251]

I picked the Wolvar pet. They look like really fierce Raccoons....hmmm

 

[Homburg]

Given the unnanounced change to the taunt spell, I have decided to forgive them for the change to Exorcism. New taunt rocks.

Anyway, my fellow gamer people will appreciate this.

So last night we had a HUGE FUCKING MESS here. We live in a three story townhouse. The bottom floor is the garage, middle is kitchen, living room, etc, and the top floor is bedrooms. The bathroom on middle floor blew up.

The toilet is a twitchy thing, occasionally prone to clogs and the minor overflow. Well, last night was the perfect storm of overflow, as the toilet clogged, the chain on the flapper tangled so the flapper was locked open, and the little hose what brings in the water blew. So the toilet overflowed and the hose was spraying water everywhere. And this happened AFTER the person what flushed it (me) left the room.

Youngest son discovered it, and basically stood transfixed as the water escaped the bathroom. I noticed him standing there like a little deer caught in the headlights, and got up. The HUGE pool of water on the floor caused much shouting of orders and galvanising of various parties into action.

HUGE FUCKING MESS, as the water, with nowhere else to go, started leaking through the floor and then the ceiling of the garage, then onto the garage floor. Whee. As viv fought to put down towels and such upstairs, MIS and I fought to get pots, buckets, etc out, and sweep the standing water out of the garage. Not fun.

Anyway, the toilet needed to be fixed. The hose runs from the float assembly into the overflow tube, and the bit what held it in place apparently ignored the laws of conservation of matter and completely disintegrated. If I wanted to have a functional toilet, I was going to need to be creative. I sat at my desk brainstorming and noticed an old drybrushing paintbrush that had hit some superglue, and was thus useless. Lightbulb goes on and I grab some zip-ties. I zip-tied the stem of the brush to the side of the overflow tube, and then zip-tied the water-tube onto the stem and then into the overflow. Voila, fixed.

The chain was still a problem though, as it has a propensity for doing this. In the old days, the chains were brass. Brass was heavy, and worked well, but is more expensive. This chain is plastic. Cheap, tough,a nd waterproof, sure, but also has a tendency to float. This leads to the chain getting tangled on the handle on occasion. I decided that the chain needed to be weighted down, and was thinking of fishing weights, but didn't have any. It crossed my mind to use a particularly gamer-ish item, but I dismissed it as entirely to geeky. I was brainstorming with the girls when MIS mentioned the very same gamer-ish item - miniatures. Small, lead/pewter, heavy, and it's not like I don't have 800,000 of them.

So I snagged an old elven grenadier from a very dead game, and zip-tied him to the chain. Now my toilet has a paintbrush used formerly for painting minis, and an actual miniature in there making it work properly. It's a combination of geek and redneck engineering that is almost radioactive.

The fucking toilet works though.

 

[satindesire]

If you touch that toilet soon after playing any video games, it'll explode in a fireball of geekiness that will blow your house to nerd heaven.

 

[MisterSir]

So, I'm playing Fallout.

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Tony, the level 14 paragon of goodness referred to by the title "Ambassador of Peace", has just walked in to the purifier's housing. He's spiffily dressed in a pair of tinted reading glasses and Sheriff Simms' hat and duster (attained when, sadly, I couldn't save him from being killed) that make him look like the Sniper's descendant, and armed with a plasma rifle. He's told the chamber up ahead will flood with radiation and kill whoever activates the switch inside it, but using it is necessary. Tony turns to Fawkes, his Super-Mutant follower who is completely immune to radiation, and suggests he be the one to go in. Fawkes, who more or less owes Tony a fucking life debt, says "No".

No.

YOU ARE IMMUNE TO RADIATION. I AM NOT. NOR IS SARAH LYONS. WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU GOING IN? WHO AT BETHESDA THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD ENDING? WHY ARE YOU MAKING US PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF A NON-RETARDED ENDING?

Fucking hell, Bethesda, you were doing SO well.

 

[Homburg]

If you touch that toilet soon after playing any video games, it'll explode in a fireball of geekiness that will blow your house to nerd heaven.

Nerd heaven would probably have more up-to-date computers, a t1 connection, and more consoles. Add in actual time to do tabletop gaming, and it might not be a bad idea.

--

Tony turns to Fawkes, his Super-Mutant follower who is completely immune to radiation, and suggests he be the one to go in. Fawkes, who more or less owes Tony a fucking life debt, says "No".

Reminds me of a game I played years and year ago. It was a HERO System tabletop game run in a homebrew post-apocalyptic setting. It was very Morrow Project like, if you know that setting. Basically the PC's were soldiers, engineers, scientists, etc put into deep freeze prior to a major nuclear war, and were charged with rebuilding society after the bomb. Usual stuff.

Anyway, I wasn't in the game from the start, so I couldn't really make a freezer pop like the rest. I worked out with the GM that I would play one of the human mutant survivors. So I was this low-tech George of the Jungle type hanging out with the assault rifle using, high tech armour wearing survivalist badasses. Yeah, the character was STUPIDLY Effective for no good reason, and everybody hated me as a result.

Anyway, at one point, we had to go into the site of a former nuclear power site. The containment was cracked open of course, and the whole place was silly with radiation. My low-tech goober had no concept, so we had this amusing roleplay of the high-tech guys trying to explain the concept of radiation to him. At the end, I said, "I do not believe in your primitive gods," and walked right into the yard as they yelled at me to stop. I dug around until I found whatever it was we were looking for, and walked out. They hose me off, and go through all the rigamarole. No side effects, no rad sickness.

So my character relates how he grew up in one of the "blue zones" which is what his people called the rad zones, and that some night the "blue" was strong enough to see the "words of the ancients" on the buildings nearby. The character's mutation? He was immune to radiation because he grew up surrounded by it. Stable mutation shared by his whole tribe.

The other players looked at me dumbfounded until one of the smarter ones realised that this meant that my character was probably radioactive, and actively toxic. Nobody slept near me after that

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

Given the unnanounced change to the taunt spell, I have decided to forgive them for the change to Exorcism. New taunt rocks.

Anyway, my fellow gamer people will appreciate this.

So last night we had a HUGE FUCKING MESS here. We live in a three story townhouse. The bottom floor is the garage, middle is kitchen, living room, etc, and the top floor is bedrooms. The bathroom on middle floor blew up.

The toilet is a twitchy thing, occasionally prone to clogs and the minor overflow. Well, last night was the perfect storm of overflow, as the toilet clogged, the chain on the flapper tangled so the flapper was locked open, and the little hose what brings in the water blew. So the toilet overflowed and the hose was spraying water everywhere. And this happened AFTER the person what flushed it (me) left the room.

Youngest son discovered it, and basically stood transfixed as the water escaped the bathroom. I noticed him standing there like a little deer caught in the headlights, and got up. The HUGE pool of water on the floor caused much shouting of orders and galvanising of various parties into action.

HUGE FUCKING MESS, as the water, with nowhere else to go, started leaking through the floor and then the ceiling of the garage, then onto the garage floor. Whee. As viv fought to put down towels and such upstairs, MIS and I fought to get pots, buckets, etc out, and sweep the standing water out of the garage. Not fun.

Anyway, the toilet needed to be fixed. The hose runs from the float assembly into the overflow tube, and the bit what held it in place apparently ignored the laws of conservation of matter and completely disintegrated. If I wanted to have a functional toilet, I was going to need to be creative. I sat at my desk brainstorming and noticed an old drybrushing paintbrush that had hit some superglue, and was thus useless. Lightbulb goes on and I grab some zip-ties. I zip-tied the stem of the brush to the side of the overflow tube, and then zip-tied the water-tube onto the stem and then into the overflow. Voila, fixed.

The chain was still a problem though, as it has a propensity for doing this. In the old days, the chains were brass. Brass was heavy, and worked well, but is more expensive. This chain is plastic. Cheap, tough,a nd waterproof, sure, but also has a tendency to float. This leads to the chain getting tangled on the handle on occasion. I decided that the chain needed to be weighted down, and was thinking of fishing weights, but didn't have any. It crossed my mind to use a particularly gamer-ish item, but I dismissed it as entirely to geeky. I was brainstorming with the girls when MIS mentioned the very same gamer-ish item - miniatures. Small, lead/pewter, heavy, and it's not like I don't have 800,000 of them.

So I snagged an old elven grenadier from a very dead game, and zip-tied him to the chain. Now my toilet has a paintbrush used formerly for painting minis, and an actual miniature in there making it work properly. It's a combination of geek and redneck engineering that is almost radioactive.

The fucking toilet works though.

Brilliant

 

[lilsubangel]

Leak of Another World of Warcraft Expansion?

Could it be true?

i would love another expansion, but please, please, please...leave out the leveling, lol.

i have been reading some talk about this on the World of Warcraft's forums, and until it happens, you just never know how this talk gets started.

However, WoW.com tells you to head over to MMO-Champion.com for the details, because they have it on a "reliable source" that there will be another expansion coming out probably in another year or so. So many new changes, new races, flying in Azeroth, revamped classic dungeons. i love this idea, but with 5 level 80 Alliance toons to level and 2 Horde 40 toons to level...i am not thrilled about another level cap.

Here is what MMO-Champion.com has to say...

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=92919.0

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm​

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.

Level Cap
The level cap in the next expansion will be slightly lower than expected this time around; 85.

This suggests Blizzard wants more room for expansions before hitting the level 100 cap. With less leveling to do (along with the revamped leveling listed below likely to increase the speed and ease of leveling), leveling a new race remains appealing for new and existing players alike.

Leveling from 80-85 should be a much bigger deal, the idea is to make sure that gaining a level really means something and doesn't make you feel like you just have 4 more levels to go.

New Classes
Cataclysm doesn't introduce any new classes to the game. Instead, Blizzard have offered more race and classes combinations to players. The Some of these have alreadly been datamined from the 3.2.2 Test Realms. The An Injured Colleague quest and it's new Night Elf counter-part help to introduce the lore for these new race and class combinations, so we can probably expect to see more of these for some of the less traditional ones.
• Human Hunter
• Orc Mage
• Night Elf Mage
• Dwarf Mage
• Blood Elf Warrior
• Dwarf Shaman
• Undead Hunter
• Tauren Paladin
• Tauren Priest
• Gnome Priest
• Troll Druid


New Races
The events of the cataclysm has caused two new races to seek new allies. The Goblins for the Horde and the Worgen for the Alliance.

Goblins
Deathwing once again sought the services of the goblins, as slaves. Unable to refuse such an offer, the goblins were enslaved by him. A large group have resisted however. With their previous homes devastated by the cataclysm, they escaping to an island off the coast of The Barrens. As they strive to recover, they come across an Orc captured on an Alliance ship and rescue him. The Orc turns out to be none other than Thrall himself, and in return offers the Goblins a place within the Horde. These events are carried out in a quest line, allowing players to experience first-hand the reasons behind the Goblins' shift from neutrality.

Worgen
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. With the Worgen curse taken hold, they have found a partial cure, allowing thme to retain their Human minds even when transformed. Venturing forth from Gilneas and seeking help from the Alliance, they have decided to join them, to combat the new threats of Cataclysm.

Gilneas will make extensive use of the phasing system (much like the Death Knight starting area), to show what happened while the kingdom was cut off from the rest of the world and lead up to present day.

Worgens will have two forms, a Worgen form and a Human form. Players will be able to customise the look of both forms.

New Content
Cataclysm will be the first expansion not to introduce a new continent, instead making use of previously unreleased zones and revamping existing ones.

Classic Azeroth Revamp
A cataclysmic event caused by Deathwing and Azshara will change the face of Azeroth as we know it. Most of the new content for Cataclysm will take the form of a revamped Azeroth, taking advantage of newer additions to WoW such as phasing and daily quests. Most of the quests and mobs in the classic zones will also be redesigned to make leveling less painful. With the revamp, a greater narritive and sense progression will be offered to players. Some zones and dungeons will change drastically to fit this, e.g.,
• The Barrens will be split into two separate zones of two different level bands.
• Azshara will become a low level (~10-20) zone.
• Some of the zones like the Thousand Needles will be flooded.
• Durotar is wrecked and apparently Orgrimmar could be destroyed. A new Orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion.
• Gnomeregan will be part of the expansion as well and gnomes might be able to reclaim their capital. (The last part is still unconfirmed)
• Wailing Caverns will be become a lush tropical area as a result of the druid's magic.
• The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.

In the aftermath of the cataclysm, and the new conflicts on the horizon relief efforts can be found in many zones and new open PvP areas similar to Lake Wintergrasp.

Flying in Azeroth
Part of the redesign of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is the introduction of flying to the two continents, allowing access to many new areas and quicker travelling across the large continents.

Classic Dungeon Revamp
Redesigning Onyxia's Lair in Patch 3.2.2 was just the first step. As most of the leveling will take place in revamped areas of Azeroth, so too will the dungeons, allowing players to use them to level from 80 to 85.

Unreleased Zones & Dungeons
With the addition of flying mounts to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and the redesign of many zones, most of the previously unreachable or incomplete zones will now be made available to players. This is where most of the new content from 80 to 85 will take place. Some of these are,
• Hyjal (present)
• Gilneas - The Worgen starting Zone.
• Uldum

It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclyms with the revelation of the goblins' plight, but several new islands have also been risen from the seas by the events of Cataclysm, some on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales, with the addition of several underwater zones.

Characters and Events

Deathwing
Deathwing the Destroyer / Neltharion the Earth-Warder will play a major role in Cataclysm. Having been driven mad by Old God whisperings and turning against his own kind only to be fail in his attempts, Deathwing has sunk into the shadows. While the Horde and the Alliance were busy fighting back the Burning Legion only to then be beset with the Scourge, he has been lurking and moving things into place. After Lady Sinestra's failed attempts to create a Twilight Dragonflight, he again retreated to Grim Batol and succeeded where she failed. With his results seen in the Obsidian Sanctum, he has finally created the supreme Dragonflight he sought and plans to unleash it upon the world. But what of the Old Gods' sway over him?

Azshara
Queen Azshara will also play a major part in Cataclysm. Unknown to many mortal races, long forgotten by others, and believe to be dead by her own kind, she has not been dormant in depths of the Maelstrom. Having those around her transformed by the Old Gods into Naga after her failure in the War of the Ancients, she has become far more powerful and a greater threat than she once was. Not content with just Nazjatar and the depths of the sea, Azshara seeks to reclaim power and reign once again. With the true plan behind Lady Vashj's support of Illidan remaining a mystery we do not know what hand Azshara has yet played. The big question remains, is she now serving her "saviors", the Old Gods?

The Cataclysm
I'm still not sure who is the true end boss of Cataclysm is, but the cataclysm appears to have been caused by attempts to incantation to summon extremely powerful beings using an ancient incantation by Deathwing and Azshara. They're both very powerful, but the cataclysm itself suggests something more powerful is behind it, perhaps their shared past of Old God influence?

The Guardian of Tirisfal
Malfurion Stormrage will be returning to Azeroth to aid in the creation of the new Guardian of Tirisfal - Thrall! Med'an's role in these events is currently unknown.

The New (New) Horde
Thrall will hand over the leadership of the Horde to Garrosh Hellscream, while he serves as a coordinator for both the Horde and Alliance forces in and effort to combat the new threat of the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Without Thrall to keep Garrosh in check, he declares open war on the Alliance. In the political upheaval Cairne Bloodhoof is implicated as a traitor to the Horde and murdered by Garrosh. Cairne's son Baine takes over as the new Tauren chieftan. This could explain why Baine was removed from the game in Patch 3.2.2, you can find more information about this in Ahmo Thunderhorn - replacement for Baine Bloodhoof?

What do you all think of this news? Hope it's true? Hope it's a farse?

 

[Recidiva]

I hate the "leveling is a big deal" thing. That's ridiculous.

I'm actually back to playing original Everquest and having a blast because they made the leveling much less insane and have added in a Mercenary system where I can hire a healer or a warrior to travel with me. It's bloody awesome and I think all the games should implement this now.

 

[bholderman]

Anyone play City of Heroes/City of Villains?

 

[Recidiva]

Anyone play City of Heroes/City of Villains?

I tried it around beta, but I was bored to tears. I'm a fantasy girl. I don't do well in tech/modern games.

All that urban blight was harshing my game buzz.

 

[Homburg]

The Cataclysm mess sounds weird.

And it appears that viv's WoW account might have been hacked. And no fucking support available on a weekend.

Whee.

 

[serendipitous2]

Just a little vent... to no one in particular.

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[Abraxas Winterlight]

grab authenticators Homburg. fairly cheap, & they work!!

& I think I'll give Champions online a spin. (loved that game in pencil & dice mode)

 

[Recidiva]

grab authenticators Homburg. fairly cheap, & they work!!

& I think I'll give Champions online a spin. (loved that game in pencil & dice mode)

My husband uses one. Nice peace of mind.

 

[Homburg]

grab authenticators Homburg. fairly cheap, & they work!!

& I think I'll give Champions online a spin. (loved that game in pencil & dice mode)

Authenticators? ... Time to hit google.

And Champions Online does have a certain attraction to it. I'm not sure how well HERO System will translate to online play though. The stupendous flexibility of the actual system would cause paralysis by analysis for most people. Shame, as I think that sort of thing would be truly impressive.

 

[Recidiva]

Authenticators? ... Time to hit google.

And Champions Online does have a certain attraction to it. I'm not sure how well HERO System will translate to online play though. The stupendous flexibility of the actual system would cause paralysis by analysis for most people. Shame, as I think that sort of thing would be truly impressive.

Yeah, the authenticators are the random number generators you can buy from Blizzard.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

yeah. never spent 2 days building a character before.

that game is a numbers person's wet dream



& go to Blizzard store on their website. they are less than 10 bucks each

can even get a iphone app that does the job

 

[Homburg]

I'm sold on it. It's cheap insurance. Assuming we can get viv's account going again, I believe we'll be getting them.

If we can't, it may not bode well. She already had to restart with a new account for a couple of reasons, and I don't know how well she will take having to do it again.

 

[Recidiva]

I'm sold on it. It's cheap insurance. Assuming we can get viv's account going again, I believe we'll be getting them.

If we can't, it may not bode well. She already had to restart with a new account for a couple of reasons, and I don't know how well she will take having to do it again.

You caught it fast and Blizzard will reimburse stuff, I know. I reported mine two years later and they couldn't confirm my equipment, but they did throw money at me. Hopefully with a little fuss she'll be back up and marauding.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

yeah, it's fairly painless. should take about a day & you get everything back.

my guildleader got hacked so much he named his bank toon Hackendorf
(his main is Jurendorf)

hasn't happened since he got his authenticator