Nobody Reads This

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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More of a little tech test, I’ve installed the Powered by WoWhead script into NobodyReadsThis so hopefully any links will show up the Tooltip!

 

Lets try it out… So recently I’ve been doing my jewelcrafting dailies before I go to work in the hopes of facillitating skill-ups (and leaving me one less daily to do [Fishing, Cooking]) and building myself a nice stack of usable epic gems. I dinged 75 and treated myself to the two figurines: Sapphire Owl and Emerald Boar. 

Each of these is pretty good but I treated myself last night and this morning by spending four of my Dalran Jewelcrafter’s Tokens (handily stored as Currency) on the Brilliant Dragon’s Eye Recipe and the two Dragon’s Eye gems I needed. 

I put both into my Sapphire Owl, which now grants me a heinous amount of Intellect altogether.

If you’re reading this can you do me a favour and post some WoW Head links in the comments and see if they work there to? 

Cheers,
James.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Ever notice that Abesnteism is just 6 letters away from Atheist? My creation standards that means they’re probably the same! Yes, rise my children, for I have returned to post yet again on Monday Morning.

Why now? Because I love you? Not likely, because my boss isn’t in? Maybe, or because the coffee machine is borked and I need to do something to wake me up? That’s the deal.

This weekend has been absorbed almost entirely by World of Warcraft which was a bizarre sensation. I decided, for whatever sadistic reason, to level my fishing/cooking on my new Paladin main character. She now sits comfortably in the 380 bracket of cooking and the 280 Fishing. Not very good for a weekend right?

But I did finish Noblegarden at 4am on Saturday night. (Liadrin the Noble, bow down) I also levelled up twice to 66 and did a boat load of instance runs. Liadrin is in good shape after dropping Protection (I fear paladin tanking was a passing fancy) and taking up Ret as the Off-spec to Holy.

Over the weekend I also treated myself to a binge trip to HMV, I came out with:

• RocknRollas
• Some Tartan Extreme Anti-Fast Food thing…
• A Best of Oasis Album (Circus?)
• Royksopp Album
• Johnny Cash Album
• Fightstar’s New Album

This weekend is my Annniversary followed by a friend’s 21st followed by a Fightstar Gig.

Tis going to rock. [Oh, btw.]

Ciao,
JamesR.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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Spotted an awesome quote in my little header gadget:

Furion: If your eternal vigil has hardened you, my love, it must be part of your goddess’ plan.

It’s not surprise the writing quality that comes out of Blizzard is as high as it is! Today’s update shall be a crazy new pseudo-segment called Premature Observation (Best I could come up with :/) where I talk about games and products that I’ve had not had long enough to fairly review! I have three mini-reviews lined up, so sit tight.

• Sennheiser CX 300 In-Ear Headphones (link) 4/5

Moving on from the Skullcandy around-the-ear headphones I had previously I decided I would not make the same mistake twice and realised around the ear headphones are attrocious! These new headphones which I grabbed in the recent (and seemingly neverending …) Play.com sale and they provide a great level of noise cancellation as well as nice performance overall with regards to audio quality and volume. 

They’re vastly more comfortable and don’t feel like they’re constantly going to fall out of my ear, I feel that Skullcandy headphones in general seem to be of a poor quality and really very overpriced for the materials used. The cabling felt consistently shabby and the pivot mechanism that makes the whole around-the-ear system work was just poor.

Whether or not the Sennheiser Headphones manage to survive the gym has yet to be seen.

• King’s Bounty: The Legend (link) 4/5

I bought this game on PCGamer’s recommendation that I’d get a free-roaming RTS/RPG hybrid that was quirky but fun. That is exactly what I appear to have bought. You pick a hero from 3 classes, then roam a map in “Real-time” (as opposed to turn based) which is very reminiscent of Warcraft 3 with sharper visuals. Whilst on the world map you ride around picking up quests, snatching loot and delving into caves. Then when you come accross a mob it starts an encounter and you fight an opposing army in a Hex battle.

Really this game is closer to a Heroes of Might & Magic clone than anything else but it does it so very well. There are a wealth of baffling quests and ridiculous dialogue: Thus far in my game as a Mage I have already bought a Ship from a Pirate, freed some Ghosts from a Pirate Ship, taken a quest from a talking Rock, Killed the king of the Thornmonsters and … well … the list continues. It’s a massive game that I doubt I’ll ever complete – What with the ragingly unpredictable difficulty curve … But I shall endevour to try.

• Fallout 3 (link) 2/5

The third time I started Fallout 3 I decided that trying to build an original or creative character was asking to get your ass handed to you. So this time I took Small Guns, Science and Lockpicking. Wow, exciting right? I get 3 minutes outside of the Vault and BAM attacked by 6 Mercenaries armed with laser rifles … Yeah … Thanks game.

I’ve clocked a few hours now and reached rivet city (arbitrarily meeting some new unexplained creatures along the way) but the whole place is such a clusterfuck of design I have no idea how to finish my quest… I just don’t get how someone can pour so much heart and soul into a game and get some basic level design elements so very wrong. But then … This IS the company who made Oblivion! It shouldn’t surprise me.

Regards,
///___[[[JamesR ]]]___\\\

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

 

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Anyone who keeps a blog will know this feeling; I do stuff everyday which is probably worthy of a mention, I play games and watch shows which I’d like to share with you … But I just can’t be arsed with articulating it into a post.

 

I’m lucky in the sense I didn’t make this a formal blog and that RoboticOverlord has yet to grow into fruition so really I can write whatever the hell I like in any format unlike those who write formal reviews for submission and the such like.

For now I will talk about the two things I predominantly did yesterday night (That weren’t coursework) being:

• I watched the movie Religulous.
• I played some of the new COH Expansion.

Religulous was a delight to watch but hopefully not just as an Atheist. It spent the majority of the movie frankly discussing the God and the convictions of those who believe. The ultimate message throughout claimed to be “Nobody Knows” which is a fairly agnostic comment but his closing epilogue was staunchly anti-religion.

Ignoring that I enjoyed seeing him give Religion the Expelled treatment where you get people to agree to an interview then trick them into answering difficult or obnoxious questions and then editing it to make them look stupid. It was done very well and cut together to be really obvious but still very amusing.

The movie’s strengths came from it’s ability to draw a quote from the subject which wasn’t favourable and then watch them realise what they just said. The US Senator scene was particularly delicious.

Ultimately it’s a blunt commentary on the state of current Religion’s but also a very amusing depiction of the people in charge of them. Sadly if you’re deeply religious you will probably draw no enjoyment from the movie clips used to twist the comments into jokes.

As for the COH Expansion: Tales of Valour I found the new content really very enjoyable. It comes with some new campaigns which are about a specific group of people – In the case of the first mission (and the only one I’ve completed thus far) Tiger 205 which was a fearsome tank and crew who were the bane of the limey existence. You can now control directly where the tank fires which is far better designed than you might think.

The skirmish mode that Rob and I enjoy on a regular basis was not radically different but felt retuned and using some of the “custom” vehicles was definitely a refreshing twist. After all, who else fucking hates the German Motorbike?

We waged a mini-war as the Germans vs a mixed Ally team, we each took a flank of the map with me taking on a forceful British infantry rush on a small bridge on the left flank which was eventually secured by MG bunkers. Rob rebuilt the bridges to the middle and defended against an early onslaught there. (Which intentional or not deflected focus away from me and our home bases)

Eventually I researched up to .88s and Rob pushed them back out of the middle island giving us total control over 2/3 of the map. The fought hard to retake the middle with repeated joint heavy rushes where Rob with my Registered Artillery prevailed (At repeated high costs). Each time we knocked out the bridge and bought ourselves a few minutes.

Now with the upgrades done and resources in hand I established an .88 battery which more or less killed any possibility of further attack on the middle coupled with the Rocket Barrage skill and the Ammo to use it freely. 

We built up out Panther/Panzer divisions and took the last island from the Allies.

I fucking love that game, we both saved the reply (I keep losing mine though ;p)

Regards,
James.