nine naked men

Being on the verge of throwing up but not actually being able to throw up is the worst part of being ill for me. D:

Two new mounts: Raven Lord and Fossilized Raptor. Whee. Now Fossil digsites are the most pointless thing ever. I wish that if you got every solve for a certain kind of digsite, the chance of getting that type of digsite dropped a fair amount.

Implosionatic, by Hot Hot Heat.

Downed Magmaw and the Defense system in BWD tonight. I don't find healing all that fun anymore, it's too tedious for my liking. Altogether our guild's downed Halfus in BoT, the guys I just mentioned, and Argaloth. And not a single piece of spellplate has dropped for me. Sigh. ._.

Still no solid release date for PC. Sigh. ._.

Dust Bowl Dance, by Mumford And Sons. <3 these guys.

That... sounds about right. I'm a healer, so all I can really go on is what I've seen in Recount and stuff, but you pull more DPS than most people I random into Heroics with. They usually sit on 10k most of the time. Erudax kinda sucks for DPS, though, doesn't it? There's target switching and stuff, IIRC. And ofc, you are a warlock, so you can lock down 3 mobs most of the time. Warlocks that are decent at CC can pull like 5k DPS and I wouldn't mind, har. Finally completed Stonecore fully. Got cockblocked by the server downtime a while ago while we were working on Ozruk. It's probably one of the hardest Heroics I've completed, but everything is nice when it works. Ozruk was the worst fight as a Holy Paladin. I had to either switch out one of my major glyphs for the Exo one to put a dot on myself, or Hand of Sacrifice the tank at a good time. I mean I can live through the shatter easily, but it does like 50k damage that I have to heal. : < Most embarassing moment in there: on Corborus after wiping a few times due to tank failing at picking up adds, tank getting hit by the burrow thing, etc (the tank was kinda awful), we get into the burrow phase with everyone alive. Me over vent: "See, this is easy when everyone pays attention and doesn't suck." Burrow comes up under me, instead of running out the side I try running the full length of it, and die. ._. Luckily I get a brez from the moonkin and we finish the fight. No shoulders though. ._.

You really don't have a rotation, you're based pretty heavily around the RNG of Holy Power, which is why Ret is kinda lacklustre atm. Crusader Strike whenever it's off cooldown, Hammer of Wrath when they're low, either use Templar's Verdict for some damage or Word of Glory to heal yourself at 3 Holy Power. Judge, I think Seal of Truth is the Ret seal now, but Righteousness might be better. I think there's a Talent/glyph that turns it more into what Seal of Command used to be. Divine Storm should be used when there's a lot of enemies around, like... 6-7, I think, because it shares the cooldown w/Crusader Strike. When... Art of War procs, I think it is, your Exorcism is instant and does double damage. And of course there's Zealotry and Inquisition and Avenging Wrath, your Cooldown kinda things, so use them when you think is necessary. Holy Wrath does pretty decent damage now, and it hits everything, but I'm not sure if Consecration is worth the mana hit. Of course, at 85, you can download the addon CLCRet, which is like a suggestion mod, it tells you what the best move would be to use.

The New World, by In Flames.

X renewed my interest in Minecraft, so I'm playing that atm. Also downloaded Dead Rising 2. It annoys me because with so many Singleplayer games I download them, either play them for a couple hours and then just stop, or I don't install them at all. It's not that I don't want to play them, because I enjoy it once I get it running and everything, but... Iunno, I'm just rambling. ._. Also playing Fallout New Vegas. I stopped playing the first time once I got to Novac for the first time, and didn't touch it for like... months, but then I came back and spent like hours on it, haha.

So yeah, after watching lots of that X guy's Let's Play videos, it inspired me to start playing Minecraft again, with mobs this time. So, I started a new world, Hard difficulty. Went pretty well, I made myself a little base, got some iron weapons/tools cowhide armour, food. Then I ventured into a massive cave I discovered under my base. Oh god. I came out with lots of iron, some redstone, four diamonds and emotional scarring. I guess the audio of my copy is messed up too, because I can only hear the mobs walking, no groans or anything. Skeletons are awful, awful creatures. And I don't make any noise when I get hit. So I'm like walking around, placing torches and stuff when there's a shuffling noise and bam I'm down like 2 hearts and freaking out. >_> Playing with monsters and stuff is much more enjoyable than on Peaceful, however nervewracking it is. Before I was just doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff, but now I have a purpose. I still wish there were like boss mobs, similar to the dungeon/mob spawner places, but with a single tough monster that has special abilities, and he actually gives useful loot (special armour with bonuses, weapons, food). I cleared out a Skeleton dungeon and got a saddle. What. Oh and can you make Diamond Armour? That would be cool.

March of the Latin Zombies, by Five Alarm Funk. Aw yeah.

Welcome to the club. You can try and do the million of fixes but it probably wouldn't do anything. Have you tried them? I used pretty much all of the ones that were listed in a Node thread (messing with some values in the config_mp file, turning off Steam sync, turning down Steams's priority/turning up Black Ops priority) and they really improved my MP stuff. Not sure if it was just me being impatient, but switching Steam into Offline Mode and disabling the overlay thing fixed my SP lag problems, but they only disappeared after the first level (the night one w/the cops), so I'm not sure if it was just the first mission which lagged me or if it was the things I changed. Now it's just a very mediocre campaign that I have to deal with, har. Also - Tomahawks are so cool.

So-o, just picked this up today. Singleplayer is unplayable, I stutter ridiculously whenever I try to move. MP is better though, pretty much fine, though I've run into a couple of stuttery bits. Anything I can do to fix these, settings-wise? I mean, would it kill Treyarch to put tooltips next to the graphics settings? What in the hell is Shader Warming? Does it help reduce my lag if I turn it on/off? So many questions. D:

The Wretched, by Nine Inch Nails.

That's helpful, I seriously can't keep track of all these Stone Drakes, they all look the same to me. >_> Not really actively going for mounts beyond Anzu and the White Hawkstrider atm. I hope they add in like... a 150 mount achievement, that would be something nice to work towards. I only know like... two people with 150 mounts. Maybe that's too high, then. Would be a nice FoS, I guess. ._. And the new battlegrounds are great. Gilneas is much more concentrated than AB, so the battles are a lot larger, and even the people who fight on the roads help out, since the roads are all pretty heavily trafficked. Not much to say for Twin Peaks except that the aesthetics are a great change from seeing WSG over and over and over. WTB more CTF maps. Hopefully they'll distill all the BGs into just modes with different maps, but then you'd get people whining about certain maps favouring factions and etc (to a greater degree than people whine now).

After doing some Heroics I realise the new Holy Paladin thing isn't any worse, it's just more boring. /sigh ._.

Holy Paladins got nerfed. >_> Holy Light no longer generates HP on our Bacon, and Light of Dawn is now pathetic. I understand that LoD was ridiculously overpowered (3stack LoD on the group, tank gets 50% of the heals, loooool) but now it's barely worth using. ._> And Forgemaster Throngus on heroic is [developmentally delayed]ed. He bugged out, so that when he popped his shield, everyone got hit by the fire, from any direction. We fixed that because if everyone stands under him noone gets hit. And then he drops a cave in on us. What. And that's added to the fact that people are stupid and stand in fire, and the tank can't kite properly, and he can't manage his cooldowns. Healing isn't fun anymore. :< Well, that's my QQ over. Time to find something new to roll. It makes me sad to think how broken other healers are if Paladins are the best by a long shot. AND WHY DOES NOBODY CARRY FOOD. I'M DRINKING AFTER PULLS SO NO I CAN'T HEAL YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE STUPID AUGH. Okay now my QQ is really over. Man that felt good.

I'm not too fond of aerial combat, mainly because I'm awful at maneuvring in all possible directions. I usually end up getting shot down easily or going 'hurr durr' and crashing into the ground. I have no spatial awareness. ._. My ideal game based around flight would be one based around exploring. You'd have a gargantuan game world that's very pretty, lots of hidden nooks and like easter eggs and stuff, things to collect, stuff to do, etc. Preferably not in a ship or something rigid like that, a guy with wings would be pretty great. :3

Vash'jir was amaaaaazing. Especially the Ruins of Vash'jir and the Naga Battlemaiden quests. That whole place just looked spectacular. I'm sure they're building the Naga up to something other than just mooks to kill. The obvious thing would be a splinter faction against Azshara in the Nazjatar raid (whatever expansion that comes out in), kinda like the Ashtongue Deathsworn, I guess. It's like they're trying to get you to understand them if not like them. But yeah this is just me being a lorenerd. Got Cataclysm Loremaster, all the zones were pretty enjoyable, some of the bugs in Uldum were awful, though. D: Also, augh, some of the in-game cinematics look absolutely terrible. Particularly the ones in the Twilight Highlands involving dragons and zeppelins.

I've only shoplifted once. I was 10, and unsuccessful. I tried to steal a candy bar, and when I was like halfway to the door the cashier said 'put it back'. I dropped it on the floor and ran home crying. ._.

The only things that require expansions at lower levels are rolling Draenei and Blood Elves (Burning Crusade exp.), Death Knights (level 55, WotLK exp.) and Goblins and Worgen (Cataclysm exp.). Unless you really want to roll one of those four races, I'd just pick up the first game and see if you like it, and when (if?) you hit 60, buy BC, and so on. Or you could just go and pick up the Battlechest for... $40, I think. It has the original game and the BC expansion. Not sure if it has the Wrath one or if they're going to release a Battlechest with both expansions anytime soon. If only you got interested like a couple of weeks ago, it costed $20 for the two old expansions and the original game.

Dislocated a finger punching a guy in the jaw, and then caused myself incredible pain by trying to push it back into place. This was at Schoolies, so I was quite drunk. More recently, I made scones.

I'm pretty sure there was. BC was released at the beginning of 07, IIRC. Have an authenticator, waiting for items to get restored. It's funny, my Horde toons were cleaned out, but my Alliance toons were being used by gold farmers, so now my Death Knight has about 4k gold and a bag full of greens and blues. 32 Arcane Tomes, too, for some reason. I guess they were farming like... the Tempest Keep instances. Decided to try and level him through some of the new zones, which went well for a while. Pretty nervewracking, since I was pretty much one of about 10 Alliance in the entirety of Vash'jir, surrounded by about 15-20 Horde in any questing area at a time. They were surprisingly civil, bar the case of one or two, who I managed to dispatch. Most Horde were just content to quest, as long as we didn't get in each other's ways. I was sure as hell not going to start anything since that would have ended in me becoming a smear on the ocean floor. ._. It all went well up until Nespirah, where I was pretty much corpse camped until I ragequit. Can't wait to bust some skulls once the playing field is a tiny bit more level, since most Horde on Thaurissan are absolutely terrible at PvP. They wanted to be able to do the whole 'hurr we play on a PvP server we are hardcore' without the actual PvP aspect. There are some hilarious Alliance on this server, though. There was this one guy who was the leader of like a group of Rogues, and he posted in full RP style on the forums. He honestly must have spent his entire time on that toon ganking lowbies in Northrend and stuff. He used to talk about how if he managed to stop just one Horde from getting to 80, his job would be complete. Another funny thing he did with about two other Rogues was camp Titanium veins in Sholazar. Horde comes down to mine it -> gets murdered, Rogues go back into stealth and wait for the next victim. Funny stuff.

So has he released the Doomsday file password thing then? It sounds like it'd be a funny read.