Well I had some extremely good fortune today! I was going about my business on the Elemental Plateau grinding my days worth of Primals for my Might Transmute, it something I try to do at least once every other day to make up for not doing my dailies as much as I should.
I did my Air first, the most difficult because the drop rate is so poor. Followed by Fire then over to water where I got 5 just from fishing the pools and the last five from kills. I had an Earth in my bag from Dreadmoore so I figured “Fuckit” and just picked up a Primal Mana for 20g. That still leaves a nice tidy 130g profit.
I grabbed it out of the Mailbox and switched to Ghost wolf (good luck rituals and all that) when all of a sudden GOD revealed himself to me and gave me not one, not two … but Five Primal Mights.
The total amount of money put on to the AH was 750g (top of post) … Not bad for about 30 minutes work. The AH will take a nasty cut though.
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And if you have an hour and 15 to listen to an inspirational man who is actually dying then:
So I just spent the last 30 minutes attempting the do the “More” juggling quest in WoW for some great little gimmick items and I came to the conclusion that whoever designed it is a fucking retard.
Literally, you throw the torch up the air and it’ll go about 15 feet up allowing you to maneuver into position and it has to land within a few inches of you to count … Then, your character will throw it back up, in a random direction and you have to sucessfuly catch it another 9 times.
The problem is, when your screen is ridiculously busy with all the idiots on their fucking Kodos griefing you and the torch is so unpredictable it is nearly impossible to navigate your character underneath it. The easiest thing to do in my opinion is go to first person view, but then when the torch comes through your camera … It still freaking counts as a miss. It’s obscene.
So here is a video I think fans of Garry’s Mod and those who aren’t will enjoy alike.
Regards, JamesR.
At what point does “Garry’s Mod” stop being Garry’s Mod.
The posts on NRT seem to be getting further apart but longer perhaps as karmic payback for them getting smaller and more regular over on Mark’s Impotence blog - So I apologize if this sometimes degrades into nothing but a wall of Zzzz worthy text.
Last night I ventured back into Karazhan for the first time in a fair few months - First time since before Christmas at least since thats when NI moved their raid schedule to days I couldn’t do and forced me to raid Mags and Gruuls instead - and I’m glad to report it went really very well. We followed a somewhat less than typical path of [Attum -> Moroes -> Maiden -> Opera (Oz) -> Nightbane -> Curator] before calling it a night.
Oh yes, I said Nightbane! The whole experience was much smoother than I was expecting with no wipes and most people well within the gear margins for such a run. Kudos have to go to our two tanks who - even though the Paladin was somewhat under-geared Spell Damage wise - did a top notch job of keeping me alive. That is not to say I didn’t nearly die once or twice, with no-one HoT’ing me for Maiden until about 50% and me tanking the Shadow Priest and then the Ret Paladin on Moroes it could have gone far worse.
My only two rewards for the night were my T4 gloves (that now makes 3/5 needing the head and Shoulders so I’m going to both Gruuls and Kara again soon as much as my current helm is actually better) and a fist full of badges which I turned in for an Epic relic which I felt was probably the best upgrade for me since there is only one other relic in the game worth considering but impossible to get. Although bizarrely my new Relic is proc based granting 100~ Attack Power on chance of casting a shock (Approximately 30-50%) … But the proc animation is the Blessing of Wisdom.
On other news I just finished watching a fascinating lecture approximately an hour and a half long on YouTube that I recommend checking out, you can find the first episode here (or watch below) and you’ll have to get the rest for yourself! It’s an interesting discussion about how the Bible as the inspired word of God has been altered many thousands of times, a quote from the videos approximates to: “There are more inconsistencies in the New Testament translations, than there are words.” Of course Theists are quick to say that he’s wrong and everything he says is either misleading or irrelevant, in fact I watched a Theist response to his book that in the course of a few minutes both said the book intentionally misleaded people and stated that it was O.k. for the church to make additions to the Bible.
It’s not misleading to CHANGE THE WORD OF GOD, but it is to talk about how scribes make mistakes and intentional changes over the course of thousands of years?
Sheer brilliance.
I have also spent some time on the Official Wrath forums in a few threads which illustrate perfectly how they don’t understand the implications of the changes they suggest. One of the things I truly despise is the idea that the Bard would be a viable new class. Yes, it would and could work but these people are ignoring the big picture! As soon as you put in a class who’s primary role is buffing (and they have described buffs for everything from Haste to Regen) Blizzard will then start making instances more difficult to scale with these buffs and ultimately all you end up with is a Raid that effectively requires a Bard and possibly several.
How is this a Good thing? There is no space in WoW for a pure buffing class … When told that he says that they will also have some DPS so the statement is effectively changed to There is no room in WoW for a required Buffing class let alone another DPS-Buff Hybrid.
Just to illustrate to you the general intelligence level of a WoW Forum poster there is also a thread asking if we will finally discover “Quel’thalas” in Wrath of the Lich King.
I have also recently watched two new movies, Planet Terror and The Happening. Planet Terror is a great Grindhouse flick which may not appeal to everyone but is still pretty funny. The key is to not take it seriously and you probably shouldn’t eat meat whilst watching
The Happening is shit. Do not watch it. I’ll give you five reasons:
Mark Wahlberg is one of the worst actors in the world
Zooey Deschanel (you might remember her as that annoying bitch who couldn’t act in Frasier) is absolutely terrible.
This movie might actually have the worst script ever made.
It’s not scary. It’s not even remotely entertaining.
It was the trees that dunnit.
I will sum up the movie with my favourite sequence:
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Women on Phone: Honey, are you near the Window with the tree? What can you see?
Wahlberg has shocked expression
Wahlberg: Tell her to get away from the window with the tree!
Women on Phone: Honey, get away from the Window with the tree!
Women puts Girl on Speaker phone
Girl is speaking jibberish
Women on Phone: Are you ok? What’s the matter?
Sound of Girl smashing through window Women previously on phone hands Wahlberg the phone and runs away crying
Wahlberg puts the phone his ear
Wahlberg: Don’t go outside
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Don’t … Go outside? You have to see his face and the whole scene to really feel how stupid that is but my God people laughed at parts of that movie they shouldn’t have. Two people left at about the hour mark.
That is about all I can be bothered to write, nobody has submitted their 5 Tracks for my last post challenge so I will give you another chance.
Regards, JamesR.
The Happening annoys me, because it’s a perfectly solid premise that M. Night managed to completely ruin.
You may or may not have heard that the demo creature maker (possibly the one they were releasing soon and/or as part of some bundles) leaked onto the net yesterday and frankly not a day too soon.
I have been waiting FUCKING YEARS to do this:
One creature I made shortly after but i’m completely in love with I called the “Partius Animus” … Because all he’s good for is partying.
I’ll cut a video of him and some others later. In fact … if it wants to list properly:
Partius Animus
Rockpinchy
Longeye
And the rest are in the video Sorry, this is the size the game saves the pics in … Nice idea though right?
Anyway … It’s 8:20 am apparently so I should sleep.
Regards, JamesR.
By the way, if you do download it … See what happens when you use your mouse to spin the galaxy behind the main menu
I owe you a post and a post you shall have! First let me tell you about my experience the night after my last post. I got hit by a pretty nasty fever starting around when that post was made and clearing up about 2pm the next day.
Which means my night was a barrel of laughs. When I went to go to sleep I was shivering and got out of bed and got fully clothed, put on a hoodie and zipped it right up. I was still cold. Then when I started to drift off I had some vivid dreams which turned out not to be dreams at all, but hallucinations. It was not fun.
The whole experience was actually psychologically draining because, although I don’t remember that much, I do remember having to calculate things constantly for hours and hours writhing pretty much the whole time. Morale of the story: Fevers are bad. I’m still not feeling great, but it’s just mild flu symptoms at the moment.
WoW Update: I left Disciples of Arthas to trial a Guild who regularly clears Kara. Tbh I’m looking for a short-term commitment with the maximum reward. I plan on hitting them up for a few badge runs and hopefully replacing my crappy blues with the epics that they no doubt skip.
I’m happy to announce I finally specialized my Shaman as a Transmute Mastery which I arguably get the least practical use out of, but potentially the biggest financial gain for fairly minimal effort. For example - 20 minutes farming an Air, Fire and Water primal - then getting a primal Mana whilst doing the Sentries and Mana Battery daily - is worth 150g transmuted. That means when mastery procs … I get 150 x the number of procs (up to 5 I think). I got my Alchemist stone to!
Besides WoW I decided to try Eve online again which works beautifully on this laptop. You know … Ignoring the Blue screens I get. Fuck. So thats the end of the that dream for now.
Awesome Video: Credit goes to Mark over on his blog Impotent Fuckbag for finding this awesome Star Trek related rap that I hope you will enjoy. The YouTube video is below and you can download the Mp3 from here. Although I do recommend checking out their site to, they’ve got a lot of videos to check out.
More Awesome Tracks: Mark also linked to me the very awesome track titled Act on Instinct from Tiberium Sun which I had totally forgotten about! Check the youtube video out here and as much as I loathe the idea of linking to a website called “Final Fantasy Shrine” there’s a great list of links for some good music including this track there.
Working from the list of links provided thus far from my patient readers and fellow bloggers alike, lets put together a list of the best in-game tracks and theme musics ever. Top 10?
Yes, the list is very cluttered like that but who cares? You get the idea … So lets put on a best set of ears and try to work out what the best tracks are! Pick your 5 absolute favourite game songs ever - they have to have featured in the game (intro videos count) and we’ll do something magical with them! MAGICAL I SAY!
Last but not least my review of Monster Jam went live and I am currently reviewing Aces of the Galaxy. If you have the time go check out the demo.
Partius Animus
Rockpinchy
Longeye
Sorry, this is the size the game saves the pics in … Nice idea though right?
