Archives, eh
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# Please sir
Further World of Warcraft commercials I would like to see:
- David Hasselhoff and KITT, plays a Human Paladin and his black, strobing-red-eyed horse
- Gary Coleman, plays a Troll. Or a Draenei. Something tall, anyway.
- Alf. Both the alien and Summer Bay identity.
- Mark Harmon. “Hi, I’m an Elflord…but don’t tell McGee.”
- Mark Hamill. Wizard. Plays up the casting of sword enchantments.
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# Another online conversation
Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments.
All right, so here is the plan. I’ll be tanking. I’ll start in Battle Stance, Charge John Howard, switch to Defensive and start stacking Sunders. I want Harakor on crowd control, so look after Downer – since he is a paladin he should match Downer for petulance – and Costello. I want Flor handling the right wing columnists Howard will be summoning. Ilandra, you’re main healer, so watch my health. Vecna, you’re DPS but watch the nukes or else I’ll lose aggro. As soon as I get the sunders stacked, I’ll switch to alternating between Devastate and Shield Slam until you guys deal with the hanger-on mobs. I’m equipping the Warglave of Azzinoth that we bought from the Iranians and my Tier 6 set.
As soon as they all drop we need to summon our Epic Gryphons and fly them into Centrepoint Tower. Don’t worry about the loot, the 72 virgins will be giving that to us. Allah, I hope the epic shield drops for Hara, I’m so sick of listening to him whine about it.
Hawt Sects For the Wi..
Shit! Did you hear that. Fuck, it’s ASIO! everybody, get ou..#$&%*&SIGNAL LOST.
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# The Triumph of Laziness over Adversity
In late February my desktop computer started failing – to be precise it started rebooting spontaneously. I am pretty sure it started while I was out of town for a couple of days; I remember getting home, turning on the monitor and thinking “I didn’t log out, did I?”.
The desktop has since become unusable which I believe I have mentioned before. Allow me to then catalog the tasks that result directly from this that I am just too lazy to do.
- Memtest the ram chips. As a friend has already told me, if I can’t even motivate to do this simple task, there is no hope for me at all.
- Install win 2k on a spare box I have (Pentium 333 I think) and use it as a print server. It should be noted that this is already a lazier solution than my original plan to work out how to run the printer in linux.
- Even lazier, move the printer from my computer to Ds
- Extract my mail archives from the old hard drive and copy them to my notebook, so that I can access a variety of important emails.
To date, every time I think of doing one of these things, somehow my brain takes over and starts up World of Warcraft.
I…I am going to have a problem with the second step; don’t even get me started on the ludicrousness of steps 3, 5-7, and 11.
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# WoW
D has a much-remarked upon pink credit card.
Possibly I would be able to go one better with a World of Warcraft branded card
I’d particularly like my guild name embossed on it, like Joi Ito’s mock-up…Hawt Sects.
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# What I did on my Four Day Weekend
When I started work this morning I pressed 5 to Rend, and then 4 a few times to stack up some Sunders and then 3 a lot to Devastate till death.
I may have played too much World of Warcraft over the loooong weekend.
Meanwhile, Pre linked me to this game, Lineage 2 which would appear fantastic to me if I wasn’t already playing WoW. Not because of the game – it is even more derivative than WoW, which is leans more towards the punkish Warhammer than the blandness of homogenised Tolkien – but because the selling point for me, that it is pure subscription, is a tad negated by the $150-odd dollars I paid just for the WoW CDs, not to mention the hours invested in sundry characters. If it weren’t for those though, I’d be sure to still not play Lineage and just go back to the source and find a D&D group.
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# Burning Crusade
That principled stand I was making? Well, it would probably have been a little more intellectually honest if I had owned up to the fact that D had undermined me by buying the goddamn expansion that very day. It was sitting next to my computer waiting to be installed even as I was ranting about it and denying that I would ever buy it.
Although, technically I didn’t buy it; I didn’t remove money from my pocket and hand it over for the right to get to Level 70. It was all D.
And technically I guess Pre was right ; I did have it before a week had passed.
I’d say more, except I have cramp in the tendon of my right thumb from cleaning the oven on Friday night.
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# Locke will be extremely disappointed with me
I fell off the wagon. I re-activated my WoW(World of Warcraft) account.
However, there seems to have been a mass exodus from the server I was on to a new server – which means I get to decide if I want to pay US$25 per character (!) to have Blizzard execute a single command to move a small collection of bits from one server to another. Maybe my Level 60. Maybe.
Lucky the Ashes is on during the day.
