I tend to like Sunken Temple a lot because of all the dragons, especially the dreaming one, he's a good challenge. But another one of my favorite parts is when you have to open up these shrines in a certain order and everyone stands on a different platform. If you don't open it in the right order, you get attacked. hehehe. Then you drop down and fight the boss.
Ding 52! Oye...8 more to go.
WoW! My lucky night! All this phat lootz dropped for me! My spirit is now 306!! Spirit Whore FTW!
Boozefort, Maebee, Felix, Sadin, and I ran Sunken Temple tonight. We had a late start so I didn't get to complete all the quest but we're going back tomorrow. I'm just two more bubs away from 52! And as usual, the group kicked ass. Smooth as butter.
Drops:
Spire of Hakkar-http://www.thottbot.com/?i=2969
Vestments of the Atal'ai Prophet-http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5364
Featherskin Cape-http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5159
Quest Rewards For ST:
Rainstrider Leggings-http://www.thottbot.com/?i=4534
Gemburst Circlet-http://www.thottbot.com/?i=2951
The first time we ever ran Sunken Temple, we dared Sadin (his warlock) to eye of kilrog the pit. Back then, eye of kilrog didn't slow fall, so it dropped fast and caused sadin to move forward and fall through the pit and through the world. mwahahaha.. now everytime we go in there, we're like "i dare you to eye of kilrog down the pit"
Thanks for the link Starman...
http://www.worldofwarcast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2582#post2582
I swear, it's like whatever class I'm playing at the time never has any revamps. Nothing much for priests at all.
hahahahhaa.... and so the warlock nurf begins...
Warlocks
- Melee damage of "Felguard" has been reduced.
They can nurf everything, but not my thistle tea!!!! Nooooooooo!!!!
Items
- The energy gained from "Thistle Tea" now decreases with levels past 40.
Two of my favorite people to party with is Maebee and Boozefort. They have two kids so their schedule is usually pretty filled during the weekends and most of the evenings. But it's always cool when they finally are free for a few hours and can instance with us.
I wanted to get a group photo of us in Mauradon. They wanted me to take the group photo pic in front of the penis statue but I refused.
I made them turn around and take a pic in the opposite direction. We definitely owe levels 48-50 to Boozefort and Maebee. Tomorrow we're probably going to tackle Sunken Temple with them. 
http://wwww.own-age.com/vids/9921
This a french production by Easy-Production by a WoW player named Jack. Sean pointed it out to me and I was up at 3am last night watching it. I was floored. I love small creative productions like this. They are so kick ass it's not even funny.
Now I must get my projector hooked up and watch this with it!
Warning: this movie will make you want to raid Nax. hehe. Cuz all the progression raiding is taken out of it. It's not realistic in terms of how epic raiding really is but good lord it's dead on with the emotional high of downing a boss.
Truly fucking awesome shit. Go watch it now!
Okay, Here's the small recording I made over Christmas with my Iaudio and new microphone of our xmas review from Taint (tai), Sadin, and Felix.
It's short and non-eventful. See if you can hear someone playing with a nurf dart-gun in the background.
:D
Listen: WoWcast Xmas 2006
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Ding 50. Vampiric Touch FTW! I'm loving loving loving the priest. Shadow Mages are the shit. This weekend we covered tanaris, hinterlands, searing gourge, ferelas, stv, ZF, Maura, and badlands. 10 days to BC, 10 levels to go.
Things I learned:
1. Shadowpriest + Warlock = complete destruction
2. Priest will get 10+ whispers an hour for instance runs
3. Why Heal when you can do damage and heal at the same time!
PWP (power word pain)+ VE (vampiric embrace) + MF (mindflay)+ occasional renew
4. Flash Drink Flash Drink Flash Drink!
Now that I have VT (vampiric touch), I suspect I'll have to drink less.
okay....time for more Un'Goro!
p.s.
I also learned a few months ago that you can mount on the boat for easy take-off.
you just have to find the sweet spots. there are about 4. One on the box, one on the netting, one on the stairs, and one at the edge of the boat. :D
Thanks for this pic Balooja! It's gorgeous. If you're horde, see his email below to how to check this out!
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This is Balooja, don't know if you remember me but I had asked about
preparation for TBC.
Anyway, I was on a horde alt questing in ashenvale and while in splintertree I saw a
strange cave that I had never seen before. With the hope that there were some good
quests inside I went in to explore every inch of the passages.
I didn't find any quest-givers but I did find the most beautiful screen that Ive
ever seen through my year of playing WoW.
I took a picture of it and set it as my desktop background (yes, its that awesome).
Well its at the back of the cave in Splintertree and would be hard to find if you
dont have a 15-20ish horde alt. If you go to the cave in town, go in, and take a
right at the fork you can't miss it.
Ive attached a screen shot of it in the highest quality I can muster, enjoy =)
So my goal is to hit 50 by Sunday. I'm level 45.5 as of last night. Our static party is chaotic right now.
Taint is going on a ski trip from Saturday-Wednesday. Felix went on a 4 day nookie run this past weekend and has 4 levels to catch up to us. Sadin and I work the longest hours so we have to keep treking because the other two can easily catch up. Felix is off from school until the 12th and Taint levels like the wind without us (6 days played on his warrior).
What to do? Where to go? ST run is in order. Maura run is in order.
I can't wait to get to my favorite questing zone. Un'Goro Crater! It's Sadin's most hated questing place and my favorite. So whenever our party goes there, my visit there always gets rushed. heh. I remember the first time I saw Rex. I almost shat my pants. The ground shaking...
60 or bust! Well, I think my odds are better than 50/50!
Just got back from a two hour lunch. The bosses are out of town so all the lads and gals (9 of us) here opted to go to a small brazillian restaurant just a block away. Perks for working downtown. Its located at 200 San Jacinto Blvd. Next to PF Changs, Mongolian BBQ, and the gay bar called CockPit.
It was quiet colorful little place owned by a guy named Renato. He was hilarious. AND he gives all of his customers free potent alcoholic capreneas. I'm not sure what it had in it. Sugar, lime, and some serious alcohol. I took two sips and gave the rest to my co-worker.
We sat outside. it's like 70s in Austin today. Really, Really awesome day.
Renato comes out and says "okay. what we gonna do for you today? I have enough food for 50 people. I know it's only 10 of you but I have enough for 50. I gotta black bean soup with rice and collard greens with a touch of bacon and sausage served with a fresh slice of orange. okay. how many of you want that?!" we all raise our hands.
"you see, I treat all my customers like family. I don't need no advertisements. You treat them good, they always come back."
he even gave us free deserts. a tray full of flan, figs, tres leches, and rasberry fudge cake.
"obrigado, renato!" - that means thank you in portuguese
I think I'll be stopping there for lunch more often.
While we were waiting for the check, a woman comes up with a video recorder asking if any of us wants to be in a documentary for the sundance film festival 2008. The documentary was about Christians and Homosexuality.
Makes sense as we were right next to the Cockpit.
None of us really had any commentary for her but she did interview one of my co-workers because he was a messianic jew.
He's a funny guy and was very tongue and cheek about the whole thing. It was all very spontaneous.
Sorry, none of this has to do with WoW. BUT as I was standing in the small little Cafe Do Brasil checking out the red walls, the colorful bottles of water on the tables... there was this kid sitting at table. And as I was leaving to go sit outside with my group, I heard him say something about hunters and attack power and I kind of stopped in my tracks. Then I thought it would be rude to listen in on his convo so I walked on by.
heh. kinda WoW related... oh well. I tried. Getting back to work after these types of lunches is almost impossible.
Northern Ferelas:
At the top of east peak of The Twin Colossals is Kalin Windflight (lvl 60 humanoid) who you can buy a Colossal Parachute from for 20 silver. Then you base jump off the cliff and pray you don't land on they elite dragonkin below. There's not point to it. It's just fun as hell.
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So I emailed the Texas Department of Transportation to see if WOW4LIFE was available to use as my license plate.
This is the formal response:
Personalized license plates combinations may consist of no more than 6 letters and/or numbers. One letter or number is the required minimum. Selections with six characters are limited to two symbols or spaces. We cannot reserve a combination and all requests are first-come, first served when completed applications accompanied by the appropriate fee are received.
oh well.
what about this?
hahahahaha.. LAME!
I guess I should have expected it to happen. Back when AQ opened up and raiding sparked a whole new life to the game, our ques were sometimes 10 minutes long. We're a medium pop server so we're just not used to having ques. After the raiding game kind of died, the ques died with it.
Now that BC is only 12 days away, the ques are starting back up. This Saturday when we tried to log in, I remember hearing Taint yell "WTF!!!??? There's a que!!!" Since then, every time I have logged in, there has been a que. Luckily at this point, they don't last longer than a 3 minute wait. I suspect this number will grow as the day between now and BC grow shorter.
I don't blame the renewal of log-ins and account activations. I'm already getting that headrush I got in November back when we all thought it was coming out Nov 28. It's odd really. I used to kind of have this feeling before Christmas when I was a kid. That subtle stir of excitement in your heart..the anticipation...the last time I felt something like this was waiting in line to see Star Wars Episode I, Phantom Menace. AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT TURNED OUT! :P
I'm hoping I won't be disspaointed like that ever again.
So, how many of us will be standing in lines (late for work or class) at the Game Stop, Best Buy, or Fry's on the morning of the 16th because we all PRE-ORDERED our copes of BC? :D I know I will.
Oh, and don't try to fool yourself into thinking you won't be waiting in a 400 que to get on your server that day. This is going to be huge!
12 more days!!!
This weekend, Taint, Sadin, and I hit level 40. (we're 44-45 as of tonight). It was about 4am when we finally arrived at Menethil Harbor to buy them. I remember the first time I ever saw someone riding a black stallion (hold the jokes) in Ironforge. I was like NO SHIT!??? I spam asked the person where they got the black horse until they told me. I was like, Hey guys! Did you know you can get a black horse???? They were shocked too.. this was over a year go btw. Felix and I have a thing for the color black.
Ever since then, I've been dying to finally get one. Now we all finally ride in black!
Felix will too since he'll have the dreadstead cuz he's a warlock. 
Hmmm...now I just have to find an all black outfit to go with it.. too bad the priest gear is all white and turquoise.
sweeeeet! thanks for the link Sangai!
There was a time between the waning age of enchantment and the dawning age of logic when dragons flew the sky free and unincumbered....
The week we spent in Boremont was same as usual. A lot of the whole family holiday shuffle and a lot of wondering around with nothing to do. I mean, there's only so many excuses you can come up with to go to Best Buy.
Thursday, we (felix, taint, sadin, and i) were so bored. We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant and talked about old cartoons. Sadin got Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon series) for xmas. We were talking about upcoming movies this year. Transformers was definitely a big one...and that's how we got into talking about old cartoons. Some of the favorites mentioned were Transformers, He-Man, Shera, G.I. Joe, Mask, Silver Hawks, D&D, The Adventures of Johnny Quest, etc.... And I totally go stuck on one that I couldn't remember. But thanks to cool websites like http://www.80scartoons.net/, I was able to figure out it was called Jayce and the Monster Minds....
It was funny. I was like... "it had something to do with plants, just lots of plants and everything was organic....man...something to do with plant like monsters....what is it?! i know it! what is it?"
The plot goes like this: The plot concerns Jayce, son of Audric, and his quest to rejoin him. The backstory is that Audric was a botanist who did several experiments with biotechnology, one of which blossomed and became a young humanoid girl named Flora. Audric had also created a miracle crop that could thrive in any environment and end galactic hunger....---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayce_and_the_Wheeled_Warriors
Anyhow, when we got back to my parents house, we were still pretty bored. So we did what all people do when there is no computer around, the dreaded "OUTDOOR ACTIVITY"!!! lol. yeah. we tossed around a nerf football in the back yard. I actually have a pretty good arm. If i had been a guy, I would have been the QB. LOL. Anyhow, playing both the offensive and defensive team at the same time only lasts so long....After all, we're geeks. we normally only excercise our mouse hand. (save the jokes). 
so we went inside and that old movie Krull was on tv so we started watching that. it's a classic fantasy movie incase you guys have never seen it. pretty kick ass for its time. Back in the 80s, a couple of really good fantasy movies came out....and then nothing again until Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy. (i'm praying for the hobbit). Anyhow, I remember totally drooling over the Glaive (weapon) when I first saw it. I even made my GM put it in the game when we were playing Earthdawn just so I could have it in some sense.
After that, we went out to eat and came back and started watching the Dungeons & Dragons cartoons. Remember Uni and Dungeon Master? LOL. It's pretty cool. The dvd came with a booklet with all the characters and their stats.
Needless to say, when we got back to Austin this weekend, we began our WoW expedition. The big push to 60 before BC. I'm playing a shadow priest. It's awesome. The power of the mage but I can also heal myself. mwhahahaha. This weekend we pushed from 36-43.5. Hopefully tonight we'll be 44.25. heh.
I'm just so glad to have my black stallion!! Mounts FTW! Now I just need to get Felix to put my spurs on.
OMG. I'm so jealous! Someone said they got this for xmas!
heheh. That's what every WoW player should ask for Christmas.
Well. I tried to log into WoW on my laptop but it couldn't handle it, so I have no idea what phat lootz Greatfather Winter dropped under the tree this year! I need my gaming comp!!! I'll probably stop by felix's place today and see if he'll let me log in for a few.
When we get back to Austin this week, we begin our big push to level 60 and tier 0 gear. The goal is to have the characters ready for BC. Good timing too because after all this holiday food I've been eating, I could use the WoW diet. lol!
Well, I don't know about you guys but I had a kick ass Christmas.
My Phat Lootz included:
A WoW game card - from Felix
A Green Linen Shirt - from Sad (Sadin)
Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard - from Tai (Shadowtaint)
Shure Sound Isolating Earphones - from Tai
First and Second Season of Grey's Anatomy - from Sadin's Mom and Dad
Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle - from Traxxas and Thaedin
Sony Digital Recording Mic - from Sadin
Razer Exact Mat Mouse Pad - fom Tai
Soundforge Audio Software for the Podcast - from Sadin
Cool Box-Frame Decor for my room - from Sadin
WoWcast Custom Pens (four unique colors)- from Sadin
Royal Blue Pearl Honda CRV 2WD EX 2007- from Sadin
Yeah, that last one totally threw me off too! I got totally tricked into thinking I was getting a new computer for xmas (which he knew I'd hate cuz I was supposed to be getting one anyhow). I opened up a huge box full of old computer part boxes. In the midst of the boxes was a small box. I opened it up and it was a WoW Game Card Box. He was like "yup, you get one free year of WoW!"
I laughed and opened up the box. Inside was a car key. I was like WTF?!!! ZOMG!
So they told me to check the front drive way and there was my new Honda CRV!!!
woot!! woot! I was totally suprised and shocked. Should I be worried that Taint and Sadin can lie so well as to trick me? hehe.
So, about the WoWcast pens. I think I'm going to send them out to all the people who requested a physical Christmas card! It'll require me going to get larger envelopes than I brought with me. And I also got a few more requests for cards than I printed out and brought along ...so I'll mail those out as well when I get back to Austin.
If you guys want a WoWcast pen, lemme know! I have a huge box full of red, green, pink, and blue ones! Tres Chic!
I also tested out the cool Sony Digital Mic I got with my IAudio U3 and it kicks ass. I'm totally kicking myself for not bringing the usb chord for my IAudio to upload what I recorded! I totally did not come prepared. I even forgot my digital cam cord to upload my pics. The pics below are from Tai's digital cam he got for xmas.
And don't worry Tai, Felix, and Sadin also got major phat lootz...stay tuned for when I can upload the audio file! :D
Hope everyone stuffed themselves silly! Now I must go log in to Ironforge and see what presents Greatfater Winter left under the tree this year! Hopefully new pets!
WoWcast Pens!
Green Linen Shirt
Digital Mic
Alachia and Sadin
Alachia and Tai
Howl's Moving Castle - I <3 Hayao Miyazaki
Alachia being tricked - Notice the out dated video card? I didn't! sheesh
Alachia and the CRV
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I stopped by Fry's last week to look for a new keyboard for a mac for the office. I know I know.. I hate having to use macs while I'm at work but...my initial attempts to convert the office has failed. Plus, the way these guys use computers, it's probably for the best. If you ever want to come see people triple and quadruple click applications, I can schedule you a tour through my office. hehehe. I always used to wonder who those idiots were that clicked those pop up windows that say "CLICK HERE to blah blah blah"
Anyhow, while I was at Fry's Electronics, I decided to pick up a Girls of Gaming magazine Volume 4 for a friend for Christmas. It's bascially a gaming magazine that features all the hot chicks from all the video games out there. And FYI, Webzen does the best job on women characters..gorgeous!
So I went to go check out, and the dude at the counter was like.."Girls of Gaming??? You a gamer?"
"Yeah and the magazine is for a friend" -me
"Oh yeah? What games do you play?" -Fry's Guy
"Right now? World of Warcraft and BF2142" -me
"cool! I play World of Warcraft! I just started a few months ago. I play horde. I'm a tauren shaman" - Fry's Guy
*I flinch and roll my eyes*
"of course you are" -me
"yeah, totally can't wait till BC comes out! I'm going to make a Draenai Shaman" - Fry's Guy
*flinch again*
"I want to have every posssible Shaman combination" -Fry's Guy
*flinch again*
"I see, you want to cover all your bases" -me (with a nervous laughter)
"Have a Happy Holidays! Frost Shock!!!" -Fry's Guy
Okay. he didn't say Frost Shock but he might as well have!
so yeah! Lucky me, my check out clerk was a 3x shaman hopeful. LOL.
sheesh! They're everywhere. Shaman are invading the world!
Yeah, I can't believe it either. I got another one out before the years end!
Again, appologies on the low editing. I cleared out an extra gig or so and the software still crashed on me once, I got scared, and decided not to try to edit too much.
Also, my parents cat has this annoying habbit of coming to me while I'm recording and trying to get on the podcast. heheh.. she's annoying.. I tried to edit her out as best I could.
Here are the links mentioned!
Warcraft Lexicon
Second Skin Documentary
US Congress Steps into Cyberspace
Does the IRS really want your World of Warcraft gold?
WowDetox.com
...and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sing along with me so I don't feel so dorky.
12 Days of The Feast of Winter's Veil lyrics
By SPURLOCK
On the first day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
and an epic that is a boe
On the second day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the third day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the fourth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the fifth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the sixth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the seventh day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the eighth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
8 Domos guards
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the ninth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
9 night elves stripping
8 Domos guards
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the tenth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
10 man warsong gulch
9 night elves stripping
8 Domos guards
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the eleventh day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
11 days no bathing
10 man warsong gulch
9 night elves stripping
8 Domos guards
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
On the twelfth day of The Feast of Winter¹s Veil
my true love sent to me:
12 hours playing
11 days no bathing
10 man warsong gulch
9 night elves stripping
8 Domos guards
7 mining nodes
6 goblins selling
5 man static parties
4 minute cooldowns
3 set piece bonus
2 battling factions
and an epic that is a boe
Ho Ho Ho!!!
Dear Greatfather Winter,
What I want for Christmas....
1. Formula-Enchant Gloves: Frost Power
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=52955
2. Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=52486
3. Gavel of Infinite Wisdom
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=52575
4. Riding Turtle
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=53987
5. Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw)
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=15524
6. Panda Collar
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=961
sigh.. well I can want anything....
What do YOU want for xmas???
Thanks Gaz for the link!
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=362
16,340 cumulitive kills= lvl 59
woot. only 10,000 more to go! Pretty interesting way to look at it....and also depressing. heh.
This kicks ass!!!! Check out the sheep!! Gonna go watch it 10 more times now.
go here to download the avi for a visual orgasm: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html
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Episode 21: Alachia goes to the WSVG is up. Sorry for those of you who aren't into pro gaming.. it won't mean much to you but it meant a whole lot to me! :D
Here are the pics from the trip!
HOLY mother of god. Best fucking trip evAR!!!!!
Even though it ended it kinda rocky, it was such an amazing experience.
I worked my ass off to the bone, starved, got next to no sleep, but you couldn't have paid me a million dollars not to have had the experience that I did. There's so much to talk about, I could spend the next two days talking someone's ear off about it. But I'm gonna save it for the podcast. :D
The Basics:
I got to admin the Quake 4 and Warcraft 3 tournaments. I got to meet all of the players. I got to learn all of their faces. I got to see every aspect of their game play. I got to see every behind the scenes shit you will NEVER EVER see or hear about.
The best part, I never signed a NDA. hehehe.
I got to meet all the people who make the show possible, who work their asses off to the core to make what you will see air on CBS (CSTV) the kick ass show that it's gonna be.
What I got out of it:
A picture with Fatality, seeing some awesome fps and rts strategies, getting to be around some of the best gaming equpiment ever. Making friends with some of the coolest guys from TSN and GMP. Watching gamers cry (yes they do). And the strongest desire I've ever had to atttempt to go Pro!! I wish I was about 10 years younger.
Thank you Scott Valencia for making this weekend possible. You made this gamer's world! It was beyond amazing.
And thank you Starman for helping me get back home (super long story that involves an evil bitch coordinator which will be in the podcast)....
Scott Valencia is GOD!
He's hooked me up with this kick ass gig in NYC this weekend being an ADMIN at the World series of Video Games FINALS!!!
I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!!!
Check out these people I get to spend all Weekend checking out! (game play that is).
Taint is so jealous he keeps calling me a "poser". I will try to steal one of Fatality's used napkins for him. hehehe.
http://www.thewsvg.com/events/finals/tournaments/
I've always wanted to go to NYC. It's been my dream! I won't get much time to see NYC but I'll sure get a glimpse. I fly out tomorrow morning. I shall have my new digital recorder with me to capture the journey.
Check List
1. Tooth Brush/Tooth Paste
2. Soap/Shampoo/Perfume
3. Nighties
4. Socks/Undies
5. Yellies (security blanket, yup, i'm still 5 years old)
6. Black Pants/Shirt (required uniform for this weekend, i have to blend into the background since it's being televised)
7. Coat/Scarf/Gloves (for any wether below 60 degrees hehehe)
8. Gossip Magazines (to read during my two hour layover in Chicago)
9. Alarm Clock (I have to be up by 6am Saturday OUCH!)
10. Digital Cam
11. IAudio U3 Digital Recorder (for a special episode)
12. Courage to travel by myself
okay. Episode 21 has been under works for some time now. I have spent over 5 hours now on editing it. EACH time I near completion of the editing, my program goes ballistic, crashes, and ERASES all my data files! I want to scream!!!!
Is this an omen!?? oooh! maybe it's a sign! Maybe it means I should do an entire wowcast episode of me screaming for 20 minutes?!
:P
It's just so frustrating. This isn't the first time my recordings have gotten completely fucked up. I lost two hours of recording with Kitch last time and now I will probably have to re-record this one as well. :P
suckity suck suck suck!
so. now that I'm totally bummed. I will leave you with this. It's a compilation of random recordings from last week during my big office move using my newest favorite toy...my IAudio U3. I wanted to thank Brent from Virgin Worlds for recommending the recorder to me!
Warning. It's pretty boring, sound quality was being tested so it's not too good..and there may be some Spice Girls involved!
onthego.mp3
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In-game unique mount vs RL unique mount
Taint, Sadin, and I were at Chipotle on a Saturday afternoon getting some lunch. Along comes this sleek yellow Ferrari pulling up into the parking lot outside. And of course every male over the age of 10 turn their heads. I swear it felt like slow mow. So out struts this 30-something year old male, wavy brown hair, bright eyes, tall, and built. And immediately, Taint and I go into this huge speculation of how someone that young can afford a Ferrari. He could be in debt out to his ears, he have come from a very rich family, he could have inherited, or perhaps he made it big turning houses?? In the end, we went with the "inherited" story. It was easier to justify why someone like him could afford to spend 250k+ on a car. Through out the rest of the meal, people kept stopping by his car to peek inside and a couple of kids even took pictures with the car. I don't honestly know what the fuss is about a Ferrari but then again I don't have testicles.
So later that night, we were in ironforge and I spot this short red headed human female parked next to the bridge between the AH and bank on a turtle mount. I immediately start gaping and checking her ride out...as were about 30 other people. And I immediately start speculating on ventrilo how he/she may have gotten it. "So how much do you think he paid on ebay for that?" "Do you think he was lucky and scored a card on the first pack?" "no way, probably paid out the ass for it" "it doesn't increase any movement speed you know" "yeah, I know but it looks bad ass"...
After gawking for awhile, I took a screenshot of it and went about my day. It just seemed strange that I would find myself more in awe of an in-game bad ass ride rather than a RL one.
LMAO! Thanks Spurlock. Ya made my day!
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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Alachia gives thanks to the hard working slackers of Westfall. | |
I've been sitting here at my computer for like an hour staring at the audio I need to edit. I can't get myself to move. I think I need a muse. I need inspiration or motivation. I started reading up on muses online as part of my procrastination.....that's how uninspired I am.... sigh.
fuck it. gonna log in. maybe leveling will inspire me. :D
EDIT (11/21/06): I figured out what my problem is. I don't get inspired until after 1am. lol.
So speaking of muses, I got this email from Marco Garcia last week:
> Hey Alachia, attached you will find a song I made for your show. I've been aI was completely floored. I spam listened to it over and over again...the full version is close to two minutes long trying to think of how to do a new intro. It was also a great opportunity for me to revamp the intro so that I wasn't completely cribbing off the matrix...even though I LOVE that line.
> listener for some time now and I thought I could contribute by making you a
> theme intro.
because we have convos like this:
(incase you can't tell, it's extremely laced with sarcasm)
(background: he's pissed at me for not lvling our alts this weekend. he blames the podcast.)
(he would be livid if he saw I posted this so shhhhhh)
Taint says: (5:54:06 PM) ^^
alachia says: (5:55:26 PM) no cheesecake mom says
alachia says: (5:55:32 PM) we're going to have dessert covered
Taint says: (5:56:05 PM) ok
alachia says: (5:57:52 PM) i think my email is slow.
alachia says: (5:58:03 PM) i just got that email like 15 minutes ago
alachia says: (5:58:15 PM) and sometimes, i don't get emails for 2-3 days
Taint says: (5:58:32 PM) yeah
Taint says: (5:59:28 PM) poor fans
alachia says: (5:59:53 PM) whatever dude. i answer all emails sent
Taint says: (6:00:45 PM) uh huh
alachia says: (6:00:55 PM) my signature looks like this:
alachia says: (6:01:08 PM) alachia wow4life tai hates you all
Taint says: (6:01:39 PM) its ok i log on your character and ignore everybody that /tells u
Taint says: (6:01:41 PM) just like u do
alachia says: (6:01:52 PM) lmao...riiiight.
alachia says: (6:01:57 PM) thanks. that's a good brother :P
Taint says: (6:02:16 PM) except i usually put an afk msg, those who can't like retards listen to those who can on podcasts
alachia says: (6:02:44 PM) uh huh
Taint says: (6:02:45 PM) you should do those who can't play listen to podcast
alachia says: (6:03:12 PM) lol. yeah. good idea. one of the major goals of the podcast is to piss every wow player off.
alachia says: (6:03:13 PM) :P
Taint says: (6:03:22 PM) haha
alachia says: (6:03:29 PM) you're so arrogant. i listen to podcasts.
Taint says: (6:03:30 PM) REAL wow players play wow
Taint says: (6:03:41 PM) i.e. not my sister cuz she refuses to lvl with us
Taint says: (6:03:47 PM) uh huh got ditched this weekend
alachia says: (6:03:56 PM) i don't want to leave sadin behind. you know how he is
alachia says: (6:04:05 PM) you ditched me to play starcraft!
Taint says: (6:04:29 PM) w/e. i said come get me when u want to play
Taint says: (6:04:36 PM) i was lvling pali
Taint says: (6:04:42 PM) 13 thank you very much
alachia says: (6:04:57 PM) at least you didn't fucking reroll her 20 times like your priest
Taint says: (6:04:57 PM) i see how it is, free trip to new york > than playing with family
alachia says: (6:05:12 PM) tell me you wouldn't do the same
Taint says: (6:05:12 PM) yeah you remember this!
alachia says: (6:05:41 PM) meet fatality > waiting for sadin to log on
Taint says: (6:05:47 PM) uh huh
Taint says: (6:06:00 PM) felix is like lvl 45
Taint says: (6:06:03 PM) with his warrior
alachia says: (6:06:09 PM) i see. you're ready to just smoke him..and then we lose our 4th!
Taint says: (6:06:16 PM) smoke who
alachia says: (6:06:19 PM) sadin
Taint says: (6:06:20 PM) i asked sadin
Taint says: (6:06:23 PM) he said u would lvl him
Taint says: (6:06:28 PM) and you would grind off xp
Taint says: (6:06:29 PM) so we could lvl while he was gone
alachia says: (6:06:30 PM) he won't play if we out-level him
Taint says: (6:06:38 PM) yeah he said u would lvl him
alachia says: (6:06:38 PM) i would level him?
alachia says: (6:06:41 PM) are you smoking crack?
alachia says: (6:06:50 PM) i'm not leveling him
alachia says: (6:07:08 PM) you can level him
Thanks Aaron for sending me this link! It's great.
World of Warcraft Dances
So tonight was pretty fun....
The dance club,Vicci, Ren and I went to was SUPER LAME. The DJ was a joke. He played shit like "hey mickey" and "humpty hump". Enough said. Dance clubs in Austin need help.
The real fun began after we left the dance club at 2am to head to Walmart to pick up WoW for Ren. We had way more fun dancing in the car to the radio (my ipod broke). Shakin' to some weird 50s music medley, mocking the love balad boy band moves to boyz2men, and new waving to depeche mode. /dance ftw! I told him that now that he'll be playing WoW, we won't have to go to lame dance clubs anymore and can just dance in the game. He was like, "What? You can dance in the game??? Is this like the SIMS?" I was like "Sort of, but not really. lol. You'll see."
At Walmart, I picked up toothpaste, a new furry friend I'm calling WoW moose, and World of Warcraft!!!
When we got back to my place, I marched him straight to my computer, had him create an account and then the real fun began. This is his first MMO. We spent like an hour at the character creation screen with me going through all the race and class combinations. He was like "I want to be horde." I was like "Sorry, not an option."
mwahahhaha. I didn't even tell him about Shamans.
After much debating and trying to explain mana vs rage vs energy, he finally settled on a male NightElf Rogue and YES, I told him about the +5 swords human racial ability. It'll be 3 months before he's any the wiser anyhow! heh.
I then gave him tips on combo points and what items mean in this game and how to play with the user interface a bit. But just like all mmo starters, he seemed to get the most kick out of the player interaction more than anything else. /say /silly /kiss /dance.
pointing to another night elf killing boars...
Ren: "Are those real people??"
Me: "yes"
Ren: "Can they see me?"
Me: "yes"
Ren: "So that other night elf can see me right now?"
Me: "yes"
LOL.
Ren: "can I kill that rabbit?"
Me: "yes"
Ren: "does that make me turn evil?"
Me: "no"
During the entire crash course, the hardest thing to explain by far was rested XP. For someone who XP doesn't mean anything to yet, rested XP makes even far less sense. But believe me, he'll be parking it in an inn before he logs out.
I then showed off all my characters. My druid was in Ironforge and he was like "oh look! a person on a horse!" And I thought to myself how awesome it is to be able to see someone enjoying the game with fresh eyes. Just how amazing all the aspects of the MMO are.
So I would have to say the drug deal went as planned. WoWcrack FTW.
And the last of my non-WoW friends is converted! You know what? I'm not a WoWcrack dealer. I'm a WoW Evangalist. Preaching wow4life to the whole world!
/AMEN!
woot! going out tonight with my friend ren. we're going dancing. I haven't been RL /dancing in forever. I miss it.
anyhow, I have an alterior motive. mwahahahha. He recently got a job and started getting a stable lifestyle. Steady income, own apartment. You know what that means??? He's a perfect candidate to get hooked onto WoW!!! The dealer is on a mission. Might try to stop by Walmart and have him pick up a trial cd. I know WoW. And seriously, it only takes one hit. I have no doubt by next week, he'll be hooked.
These are the times I wish I had a digital recorder so I could capture the experience.
In other news, I'm very proud of myself today. I finally convinced myself to sell my full Twill Set. Yeah, I know, I'm a packrat. I don't know why I became obsessed with having a full Twill Set but I did and it's been killing my bag space for forever. It's basically a yellow and brown armor set that looks like you're a poor peasant from a local village...but it was cool aquiring the whole set. Aquiring a full set of grey gear isn't quite as easy as it sounds. :P
World of Warcraft Screenshot
EverQuest II Screenshot
Because I'm so in luv with Starman, I'll pretty much do anything he says. So after hearing Episode 20, he told me to try out the trial version of EQ II to see how their crafting system works. He says it is far more advanced than WoW.
To be honest, I've always wanted to do a hit of Evercrack...ever since I was in college.
So I reluctantly went to the website and downloaded the free trial. I then spent the rest of the night downloading it only to run out of space on my hard drive. WHY I only have 80 gigs on my gaming machine, I DO NOT KNOW! In any case, my new main comp has been delayed due to a newegg/UPS fuckup so I have to deal with this situation for now.
I cleared out some fraps videos and got about 10gigs free...that and all the tauren on troll porn I've been downloading. lol.
OKAY.
So, first major thing I noticed. EQ II has like a billion more races to choose from or so it seemed. They also seemed to have a shit ton more classes. I picked a high elf troubadour.
I log in and it zones you into this island right away. From what I hear, this is kind of the starting ground where you kind of learn how to play before you ship yourself off the island. This seemed familiar to me.
However, as my screen loaded up, everything around me was SUPER SUPER dark. Apparently in EQ II, at night time, you have a limited visibility range. This made for a super disorienting start. I couldn't see where to go. I kept looking for an exclamation mark or something. I didn't know who to talk to, where to go. There's no mini map on the screen.
I quickly msged Starman and was like "I'm lost!" and he was like "how can you be lost? it's an island!" A few quick tips on short commands and I was sort of feeling my way around the game.
One thing I really liked about the game was that the quest givers and NPCs actually have voice automation. But still, it took me about 10x as long in EQ II to find the first quest giver than it did in WoW. It wasn't until it was 7am game-time when the sun was coming up that I was able to find who I needed to talk to. That's another thing, time or days goes by faster in EQ II than in WoW. I think WoW is far more comprable to RL time. EQ II time moves a lot like FFXI where within 30 mins, the sun rises and sets. Not being able to see 20 yards in front of you in the dark sucks though but I like the reality aspect of it.
The graphics were a little hard to get used to as well. I'm used to the much softer tones of WoW. WoW graphics kind of have a more guassian blur to it, whereas EverQuest II has very rigid hard sharp lines. Even the terrain mapping looked a little off in EQ. Like the patterns repeated too often and became noticable or something. Maybe it's only a trial version thing.. I don't know.
But the body, face, and hair customization is a lot more involved in EQ II. You get a lot more choices. Unfortunatley, I'm not sure any of them lead to a good looking character.
Starman kept telling me to pick up all the quests and start clicking on all the items on the ground like the timber, schools of fish, and shrubs. So I did, apparently, you can gather all this random stuff without needing a profession. Probably lesson one of the crafting experiment I'm doing. I didn't get very far. I just know I gathered a bunch of random stuff off the ground. More to learn, I'm sure.
Fighting styles are similar. You get way more spells in the first 4 levels of EQ II though. I got at least 8. And apparently mobs with white text but slightly glowing red agro. I just walked right up to the mob thinking I hadn't reached agro-able mobs yet. That was my first EQ death.
Over all, everything is far less scripted it seemed. There was a lot more of feeling-your-way-around. Once I started to get the hang of things, I felt way more comfortable with the game and a lot more confident about my character than I do when starting a character in WoW. My guess is that there's a ton more autonomy in EQ II than in WoW...not positive though. Even visiting the first vendor was kind of daunting. Half the items in my inventory right now leave me with a blank stare. I have yet to sell or buy anything. First time I've felt like a total noob in a long time. heh. okay, save the jokes. :D
I'll keep feeling it out. I def. want to get a better grasp on the professions and crafting so I can really compare them to WoW. There is much to learn :)
But don't worry, I'm not switching drugs yet!
Here's my new desk area. Notice I got the desk furthest away from my psychotic bosses.
Today I have spent half the day cleaning out my work area for the big office move. We're moving to the 20th floor of a building in downtown Austin.
So far I have found a lot of epic loot under the piles of software and drawings at my desk. An AOL free trial CD, my clear no stickers that go over the W on your keyboard, and a you win 1 liter coke cap!
My Trip to Exodar was pretty fun. I can't wait to do it with my main characters.
The "away-team" aspect of the entire area around it is wonderful. Ten times dreamier and richer than Elwynn Forest.
so. i've been on my FPS sabatical from WoW for 3 weeks. Yesterday marked my official return to Azeroth. I spent all of last night burning off rested XP in STV with taint and felix. Two Shadow Priests and a Warlock. It was sick and I mean in the best way.
The best thing about the night was trying to run distractions for each other from the horde at Nessingway's camp. There were like 2 level 60 rogues camping the place and not allowing people to turn in their quests. We each took turns being decoys. lol.
PvP servers aren't for people with little patience but it's never dull for sure.
You just have to have the stomach for it.
So anyhow, I log online and the first thing I notice is that we have a guild webpage. LOL. I'm like When did this happen? hahhahaha. Taint said they put it together so we would have a way to communicate while at work through forums and chat.
Then of course, people had to give me a hard time too. Part of being in JAE, we all engage in the verbal slaughtering of each other. it's awesome. again, it requires the stomach for it as well as a huge sense of humor. but anyhow, it felt good to be home.
And I was happy to see that my account wasn't part of the 23,000 that got banned by Blizzard this past week. PHEW!
So I'm beyond bored at work. I don't have anything to work on at the moment. That's usually how it goes at my company. One week, you'll work 85 hours and the next week, you're lucky if you have more than 20 hours of work to do.
So, I've been researching Digital Voice Recorders. I've been wanting one for the longest time. I'd love to be able to record on the go as well as be able to keep track of some of my more random thoughts and ideas for the podcast.
Can anyone recommend a really good one? I've checked amazon, new egg, overstock, and all the reviews on the internet. Seems like Olympus has the highest rating so far.
Some of these are also pretty expensive. I don't want to spend like over 150 if I can help it. The M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 looks delicous but it's 400 dollars.
The VN-3100PC Olympus looks promising and its only 70.00, plus the noise canceling mic is only 20.
Yesterday evening, Boozefort and I were joking about having money trees in our backyards. Time to do some yard work and rake up some benjamins. hahahah.
Sigh. So bored. I wish I was playing WoW.
The Burning Crusade Exposed Part 1 is up.
Here are the links we discussed in Part 1 and 2.
Official WoW Burning Crusade info page
Dances: The Videos
Male Blood Elves/Napolean Dynamite
Original Blood Elf Dances
Male Draenei Dance Tunak Tunak Tun
Yes, I realize this is not a blood elf. But the chic dancing is super cute! I'm intoxicated! anyhow. It's the same dance as the female blood elf.
Draenei mount. DROOOOL!
Feral Druid Staff
Hard Mode Token rewards
Tier 4 gear stats
Official Forum Post about +healing nurf
What we drooled over in Part 2:
Gladiator Weapons DROOOL
Tier 5 gear
Sam was right,
Healing Power Weapon is dropped in MC. It's the bracers that you get from Argent Dawn Rep.
Remember. Part 2 can be found at World of Podcast. I'm not sure when he's releasing it. But he has an edited version. So it should be out. Go bug him if it's not out by the morning.
Appologies for the occasional sound fade. Skype has a way of fading ALL the essential words out of our conversation. lol.
Special thanks to Scott Valencia for hooking me up with a Beta Account to play on.
Most of the background music in this episode is from the Burning Crusade. Enjoy!
I went home for lunch and did more editing. 50% complete now.
More inside information for those of you who read the blog: Britney Spears finally makes it into a WoWcast episode. yeah! Okay okay. not Britney in person. But seriously, who would want that?
You guys would be proud of me, I only dicked around on the Net for 1 hour yesterday before I started the editing of the 4.5 hours of audio I had. :D
I was looking up spoilers for The Office Season 3, the US version.
2 Sleep or 2 Podcast, that is the question. It's 12:30am here. I just finished editing down Part 2 of the Sam & Alachia podcast extravagnza. I have to do Part 1 now (my part). Should I stay up an do it or go to sleep.
Pros
1. You wouldn't have to worry about editing tomorrow and could play WoW instead
Cons
1. You're trying to get better and needs lots of sleep.
hmmmmm. health vs WoW aye?
Guess we'll find out which one prevailed.
EDIT: 1:40am. Darn. I only made it 25% of the way. I'm a failure! damnit. Okay. tomorrow then.
Yo Mopster, I'll take that Flask of Major Health Recovery. WTB! How much? 10g?
Had a relapse Sunday. I couldn't even sit up. I was so tired. Which means (sorry sam) I didn't get to edit all Sunday like I planned. I'll do my best tonight.
Do me a favor please all you cool peeps??? please!?
Send me audio of you explaining a best moment in WoW.
I need it or the Sickness Fairy is goign to curse me with another fever and soar throat. :D
/cough
Aint No LAN Party Unless There's A Stripper - Kotaku
The dudes in this photo are real gamers. :D
LMAO
Just got done recording with Sam from WorldofPodCast. He's helping this lonely podcaster out and we decided to do a two part show together. Part one will be brought to you by WoWcast (me!) and Part two will be brought to you by WOP (World of Podcast).
It's all about the Burning Crusade. And yes, somehow, miraculously, we got through the entire show without going off about guy on guy porn. (reference to my guest appearance on his show a few months back).
I have a lot of editing to do.
The plan is to have it out by Tuesday morning.
Wish me luck.
I think a warlock is trying to gank me. Someone keeps soul draining me.
And a priest must be shadow word paining me. cuz every couple of seconds i find myself coughing and my throat burning.
And of course there's shammy on my ass... frostshock! frostshock! brrrrrr...shiver...
i don't want to play anymore /logout
i wish.
/cough! ouch!!!
Club & Chedder Sandwich Cracker Snack Pack
Slim Jim Stick
Trolli Classic Gummi Bear
Big Gulp Diet Coke/Diet Dr. Pepper
All purchased at my local 7 Eleven
Dsesert? Another shot of Dayquil of course.
What is the one thing that trumps gaming in my world??
Health.
It's funny how we take our health for granted all the time. I've been sick. and it sucks and not in a good way.
I should be home and in bed right now but there is a stack of work on my desk. I've been working extra late hours too trying to help a project get out the door.
There's nothing like taking 3 shots of dayquil. It'll mess your brain up something good. But it helps me cope at work during the day. I should do a podcast while i'm still high. heh. I had actually intended to get one out this week but then health collapsed.
anyhow, i sound like a dying horse. (shit, just opened myself up to a lot of bad jokes)
please donate all your pharmacuticals my way.
thanks.
/cough
Miss Video Game - Now accepting Contestants
Thanks Jdun for posting this. I don't want to know how you know about this.
lol.
so I started to respond with a smart ass commment and decided to blog it instead.
"If I were Miss Video Game, no warrior would go without agro, no spell caster would ever be without water!! Portals will always be free. My hope is that no child will ever be without a 23" flat screen monitor. And that all people no matter how poorly they game, will be able to equally afford the experience of a intel 2 core duo. /kisss /wave /wow4life"
LOL.
Mopster,
http://www.cafepress.com/jaeguild
The JAE official shirt.
It's part of my official WoW uniform. :D
Day 2 started off by me waking up at noon. heh. I love sleeping in.
We all went to eat the Texas Road House and then headed back to the lan party.
Everything is so much clearer in the light of day. The goats were still there. heh. It actually felt refreshing to be in such a secluded outdoor field. I'm so used to concrete and pavement. The fresh air surroundings and the plush amount of green was really nice.
When we walked in, almost everyone was playing company of heroes and a few people were watching football.
I was a little shocked to say the least. I had no idea RTS games had come so far. The reason I hated RTS games so much in the past was the 2-d graphic component of the game. I didn't really feel it was as engaging. But looking at COH, I was like WoW.
So I pestered Sanghari (WoW pal druid) and he let me do the tutorial for the game on his machine while I installed it on mine. It was pretty interesting. The only other RTS game I ever sat down to play before was Warcraft III.
I might have to try them out a bit more now.
Although I got Company of Heroes installed on my machine, we pretty much just played BF2142 for the rest of the day. Did you know that you can get a hazardous road kill award in the game if you kill 5 people with your vehicle?? heh. It only awards you 5 points but still, a pretty interesting award to have on your record. Sadin got one last night. It cost Felix and I a death too because we were holding back to wait for him to run some dude over and got fragged in the process.
So we joined some ranked server and were playing against some pretty bad ass groups of people. At first, they were completely pwning us into oblivion. One of our greatest weaknesses is heavy vehicle maps. We've learned how to handle mechs but tanks just destroy us. The only way we every stand a chance against them is by flanking to their back, EMPing and rocketing. But that's not as easy as it may sound.
Anyhow, after two maps of being pwned, we finally got our shit together and came through. But let me tell you, nothing beats being creamed by some guy named PooPoo.
For dinner, Telson (the host of the LAN party) got some hamburger and hotdogs grilled up. There was even a cake that had writing on it. I can't remember what it said but something like "Let the beat down begin"...It was a good cake. yummm..
Over all, it was a nice LAN party because we got to meet a lot of people from JAE (WoW). And it's nice to hang with people who share your same interests. I was little dissapointed we couldn't get an 8 v 8 going but perhaps we'll form a team in the future and join a ladder.
Impossible is nothing. LMAO. (google it if you don't get it).
Today has been a complete lazy day. I got my over-sized hoodie on and my Born to Frag cap on and dug into the couch to watch both the Texans and the Cowboys get pwned in the 4th quarter. :P
Thought maybe now I'd either work on the podcast, take a nap, or manage my mailbox in WoW. I'm positive I have lost over half my mail inventory.
Time to capitolize on all that rested XP.. AWW YEAH!
hmmmm..actually the nap is sounding good right now.
got to rest my mouse hand. ;D
Okay. Day 1 was bizzare to say the least. Or maybe I just need to get out of the house more often. We arrive in New Braunfels (felix, taint, sadin, and I) around 8ish. We're following the driving directions and curving around this gravel road. I see this lit house in the distance and I'm like, "That must be it". As we approach the house we don't see any cars so we're thinking that this can't be it. As we get closer to where the road takes a sharp left, the head lights of the car shine on about 20 little goats everwhere! All over the road. They are around the house and at the end of the road. And I'm visualizing to myself of this wicked gaming witch who turns gamers into goats. :D
We drive past the goats and see another house. This time, there are a lot of cars. This is it.
We set up our system. The living room of the house we're in is gigantic. I'm looking infront of me and there's a fish tank, a double decker cage with a cat and dog in it. To my left is a boa constrictor. Some tells me not to try to pet the cat cuz it will go psycho on you. The cat was cool though because it was short haired and all white. I have an all black cat.
When I first got into the house, there was a ton of people. I probably came off as a stuck up bitch cuz I'm too shy to introduce myself to people. I did see a couple of familiar faces from WoW so that was comforting. I was happy to see other girls there...at least 4-5. But then none of them played. Instead, they all gathered in front of the television and watched porn. I shit you not!! There was porn in the background while we were playin BF2142. I thought maybe it was some war diversionary tactic.
So we load up the game, joined the local server. All the practice helped. JAE represented!! I think we came a little too prepared was the problem. The other team didn't really have too much of a chance. We ended up having to join up on a real non-local server. I think the whole thing would have been better had we just bought BF2142 that night. I can see how it would be a dissadvantage for people who just picked up the game. I know I would have been a little dissoriented. So I guess if we switch games, things will even out more. Still, I was impressed that his internet connection was able to support like 15+ people piping through to some 2142 server and a few people playing WoW.
Around 3am, I broke down and ate a Krispy Kreme donut from the kitchen. We left the house around 3:30-4am. I was dead tired because of staying up at work from the night before. As we were leaving, we almost ran over two minature horses walking across the road.
Then I watched Spirited Away until I fell asleep..probably around 5am.
Over all, a very surreal experience. Day 2 should be interesting.
wow. i'm really tired. running on 'E' now.
not sure how i'm going to stay awake tonight at the LAN party. Hopefully the other 19 screaming people will keep me up.
also a couple of pills of speed ought to help too. lol.
j/k. Kids, Don't Do Drugs! Do WoW instead.
To Do Checklist for tonight
1. Clip fingernails
2. Chug down diet coke
3. Pocket a couple of poptarts
4 Change into my JAE t-shirt
Scott Valencia
Executive Vice President
Games Media Properties
aka. horde shaman punk
They are EVERYWHERE!
It's 2am. At work still. I missed BF2142 practice tonight. The LAN party is tomorrow...actually tonight.
RL timing always sucks. I really need to stop doing real world architecture and whore myself out to a Second Life Architectural Consulting Company. I know I'd be a lot happier. They could pay me scraps and I'd still be better off.
Anyhow, I better get back to the grind (not XP grind). Turning up my Manson now...time to jamm!
ViewSonic: Products: Desktop Displays: LCD Displays: X Series: VX922
woo! woo! My new gaming monitor came in today! I'm so excited. Kind of hurts my eyes to look at it. heh. The clarity and response time is supurb. It's the most highly recommended monitor to date among the gaming community.
I finally decided to move to the LCD. I was holding onto the old CRT monitor for the resolution. However, I think LCDs are making progress.
In any case, this is going to be a whole lot easier to carry to the LAN party this weekend than my big clunky CRT.
I don't like to mention my sex much. Yes, I'm a girl.
But you'll never here me refer to myself as a GIRL gamer. Just gamer.
But I must admit that there is a divide between the sexes that crosses over from RL to the gaming world. Why men automatically think they're going to be better than a girl at a video game is something I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Okay, I'll allow debates about physical differences between the male and female body type. But seriously, a video game is just about controlling your VR avatar with a keyboard and mouse. And I don't know about you, but I've wooped some dudes in thumb wars. LOL.
But I shit you not, men get so frustrated when a "girl" kicks their ass in an FPS. Also, I find that they tend to target me first either thinking I'll be easier or out of frustration. I DON'T KNOW. but sometimes, being a gamer, it sucks having the extra X chromo instead of the Y.
I'm going to this huge LAN party this weekend. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm also nervous about diving into a sausage fest. I imagine the place will be disgusting by Saturday night. Also nervous about how people will recieve me. I hope they shrug me off. I'm very used to hanging out with men, but men are NOT used to hanging with me.
They see a girl in the room and they are like, "AH man, who brought the girl?? Man, now we can't cuss and be crude, fart, burp, and do MAN-things!"
lol. I get where they are coming from. I do. And usually once guys hang out with me for awhile, they drop the polite act and start being themselves. And that's when it's more fun.
Do you think I should disguise myself for the LAN party? Put my hair in a beanie cap, wear baggy sweaters and sweat pants? And greet everybody with a hefty "SUP, MAN!"
heheh.
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