Postboxes for the undead

Hey

Well quickly noting this whilst I have a moment. Most people in my guild already know my fave instance is Stratholme. Either the current one or that of the one in Caverns of Time. I wander it regularly and despite having exhausted the gear and probably screenshots I seem to find something new most times.

This weeks was the revelations that Postmaster Malown might well have moved in AFTER the culling and why? Well I was wandering around and heading to collect a Stratholme Lily. I thought I would visit Fras Siabi's shop, his little robot is quite helpful but suddenly I realised, there is no post box!

Well how then did they get the post in there from before? I suspect a conspiracy, Malown engineered them to look like that, tempting foolish adventurers hoping for vintage items from Stratholme to sell but were in fact killed by his undead mob.

Or maybe, just maybe Blizzard had overlooked putting them in but either way I noticed and I had to share it.

Cheers!

Archard.

Death Knights cannot fish

Well mine certainly can't.

Reading up on the lore it says that if they are not inflicting pain they end up in pain? Since fishing is not likely to inflict any great pain I mean.. half of the fish I get are already sickly... there's no point is there?

Which brings me on to the Frost Spec, what a forgiving spec! I redesigned him out of his unholy build because to be frank I never used it. (You don't have to be Frank, you can stay as you are...) and thought the icy chill of the grave would make more sense to follow him around. He doesn't care for ghouls and naming one means he'd have to pretend to give a crap.

Tryztan is my death knight, an ex-pirate that is Malliuss' brother, Malliuss as the guild master takes all dk's he just won't accept the worgen kind. (I find that in lore purposes the curse of the shift should be removed even if they were Gilnean meaning they are restored as a human but at the cost of being undead, of course this is just my interpretation.) He serves the Ebon Hold and he is a loyal follower of Thassarian. He is in conflict with his loyalties at times but usually Malliuss makes it easy and defers his needs to that of the Holds, and this is how he justifies his position as a member of a guild.

It's taken a while for me to decide on a Death Knight, and the use I would have for it. I have made several but now with Transmog and a story I'm happy to have one.

Archie ><

Transmogging for goodness!

Hey

Well it's no secret my mage is one of those annoyances in role play that needs some serious hard work, every comment, every motion he makes is dedicated to his persona.

The hardest bit I find is maintaining the characteristics of someone that dour when some of the missions and rewards are cute or just amusing! The frying pan mace for instance, my rogue loves it, plans to fry eggs at the Molten Core whilst poisoning any idiotic beast that shuld disturb his fun... however my mage being very serious and all into the necromancy etc (his history is long and convoluted) a frying pan for a weapon doesn't really suit.

What's REALLY made a difference is the transmog goodies! I was so lucky that I collected exactly what I wanted straight away. My mage has his tirisfal set, the staff of the plaguehound also works with his worgen looks. It's been fun listening to the guild getting their rp gear sorted, even down to just being able to change one thing to stop the hideous nature of the odd part looking out of place.

I remember when I was playing my main (hunter) in Wrath and the one thing that really annoyed me was my shoulders. The tiered shoulder piece looked like my character had stolen them from a Chinese take out or something. It never really sat well with the whole set I had. Problem was when you are looking to raid or get the right numbers the aesthetics went out of the window.

Now you can worry about both and the nice thing is people aren't going to look at your gear and go "oh bad player" he/she doesn't have the clone of every other person that level. I like it as role players can keep to their characters more and their gear will reflect that.

Anyways enough from me! Over and out and all that.

Archard

Tanking and the pains over joys

I would say joys over pains but if you have ever pugged you will know this is likely not an option.

Tanks don't like to pug if they are genuinely the nice guys, the ones that are determined to

succeed and the type that love to have a community of players. This is just a shortened set of the

most popular comments I hear directed at tanks.

"OMG aggro!!!"

"U r hard to heal"

"Gogogogogo"

"tank r u even a real tank"

"I could tank better on my mage" (usually the person that has ran off and died as said mage

several times as they are too stupid to wait a few seconds)

Considerations that people just don't bother to take in:

Rage/Runes etc all rely on being hit, on cool-downs and tank management, not DPS pulling and

letting them pick them up with nothing to actually do that

You're NOT the tank, you took the easy option of huntard or arcane mage, your choice but you

know what? There's thousands of clones of the DPS alts and less of tanks

Healers - don't blame the healers for your lack of aggro management. The tank can't do

everything; you get these abilities for a reason

Tanks take the most abuse for the smallest reward. DPS can be seen by numbers, the only

measure of a tank is who is alive. You can't let them manage it you are not letting them play their

part

DPS can be selfish, they want high numbers, and they cost people trying to get them. We've all

done it, we should all learn to stop and think of the tank

Tanking has to be learnt, how do you learn if you don't have the patience to let someone? No one

came out the womb yelling I AM MAXIMUS THE TANKADIN... now give me my armour.

Things that tanks can help with -

Check the healer is ready (or dps even)

Mark your order, it really can help

Please learn a little CC love, CC is fun for dps to do and it makes mobs easier

If the DPS is too low instead of being an asshat with FFS and OMG type comments, point out that

the numbers are not adding up, give it a go and if not then decide it's time to go... or for dps to go.

If you are farming and only after one piece warn the dungeon. They will then expect you to leave,

not just be left hanging around angry at you

Here of course is the best way - DO NOT PUG

The Dungeon finder tool winds me up, the people that use it are either completely incapable or in

many instances totally elitist and rude. The number of bad runs vs good runs I have had now only

succeeded in putting me off trying.

Gearing up when you are not getting drops is a massive ball ache, the guild runs and friend

runs means you can at least get something out of them without some nobhead ninja going “os”

at everything. It’s probably only worth 5gold but it could be worth a lot in gear to other people.

Selfish idiots ruin games, so the best way to avoid getting angry is to avoid them where you can.

If you do pug, think of other people.

Raiding and role players

It has been a while but here we go, I don't think there really is such a thing as casual raiding if you are looking at end game content. Our guild has ventured into the Firelands of late and it has required a lot of effort learning about gear, stat weightings and role contributions.

The really impressive part is that it is a guild thing, we have borrowed other friends and made some new ones button the whole a committed team have been involved. Our guild is now in progression, we took down Shannox this week and it was a amazing feeling to thinks bunch of rag tag role players could pull this off.

How does this fit into role play? Well for my main (hunter) this is a continuation on her long journey to break I to forbidden old god knowlodge. Putting aside her time team-esque digging she has returned to the fight.

Sulfuron Keep is the stronghold of Ragnaros, 300 years ago he was summoned to take part in the dwarves civil war, the war of the three hammers. Blackrock Mountaints were formed and at the bottom was Ragnaros, who a bunch of adventurers fought back. They thought they had killed him, my hunter thought that was great, she'd beaten a force to be reckoned with. Over time this has been shown to be untrue, all they had done was freed him.

With rumours that the old Gods are again at the back of the machinations unfolding my hunter has a new incentive to go out. Of course despite liking her own company, and that of her pets, it's time she faced the fact that just like the missions to Icecrown, you can't do everything on your own (well until another expansion and more levels allowing you to outgear it).

So the Embers were called together, each one of them having a personal reason to go, be it glory, fame or other interests. Jenesis (my hunter) and her trusted pets Cthulhu and Miskatonic are both part of the excursion into the Firelands, first mission to take out the warring princes and then find Ragnaros.

It's a race though, coupled with this she is hearing yet more strange voices, a puzzle box buried under the Nerubian holds seems to be within grasp, a blessing from the old god has sent her a little unhinged and Naxrammas too has left it's imprint... instead of moving into Azjol-Nerub itself or laying down her arms and being committed, it's the answers that will keep her going.

Until the next time...

Archie

A brief note on our guild and raiding

Well I finally bit the bullet and organised our first Cataclysm raid evening. We downed Magmaw, and I am sure that a ton of people could tell me this is nothing impressive they have raided firelands blah blah

But here goes - we're a small role play guild. We're a friendly guild and we don't enforce gear, roles or anything else on to the guild members. On Friday there were ten people on, ten people went. We didn't have the best gear, we weren't amazingly geared up but we were determined.

Those of us that could overgear the raid filled in the bits that others could not. Those that would normally have been outright refused a place were not in fear of that. So okay we only went to one boss, it took a few hours and we didn't manage to faceroll it but you know h0w much more rewarding it was?

It meant OUR friends, OUR fun and OUR evening was spent very damned pleasantly. Magmaw was downed, we had people that had never gone to raids at the right level enjoying it and tonight we're going to try again.

So here's to the undergeared, underappreciated value of damn good team work and friends.

Treasure!

Okay small but energetic post.

I love the little hidden secrets around the World of Warcraft and this picture isn't the most hidden of them all but I did think it was cute.

I always think one of the nice things about the world of Warcraft (even when I am yelling at my screen at a boss) is the scenery and time they have taken to give everyone something to look at on the way around.

Here is one of them from my travels.. the Tirisfal Circle...

Are you a friendly player?

I hope I am... I mean that quite sincerely and in terms of running a guild I really hope I am fair without being too leniant.

I run a role play guild which in itself can be a hard job not because of the idea of it but because you have to expect very varied reactions.

If someone wants to raid but casually role play they might consider an alt going into your guild, you see a lowish level person on there but that doesn't equate to them not knowing the game. So it's always nice to chat to people on the OOC (out of character) level so you get to know more, I think it also helps people to step aside from their character and not allow arguments In Character to come to the OOC life.

If you have a wealth of experience and you have ways to assist then that should be something you do and are encouraged with. What I don't think you need to do as a player is belittle the fact others have to learn or to belittle mistakes, not everyone was born to live on PTR and design sites. Many players are not end game raiders, they learn as they go along and this is part of the game that I really think can be enjoyable.

An impatient player can quickly ruin the entire balance of a party, it's attitude and confidence can be destroyed all because someone cannot show maturity or even consider that the entire world (and the MMO world) do not evolve around them.

Things that get you banned from my guild and why...
The GOGOGO attitude - we get it, you know what you are doing, you're pro, you're the elite of the elite. Well how about instead of whining and bouncing around hitting the space bar, try to explain things to people! If they seem to be stalling ask if they know the tactics don't become abussive.
Expecting the guild to be at your beck and call - Ask for help, we all will help but if it's a group quest or a dungeon please understand it's not always convenient for a player to completely drop their work. You're request is not the same as dialling 911 or 999, you must understand it may be something you have to wait for, maybe until another day but it is a game and it's not going to affect your health if you cannot get your group quest there and then.
Ranting and raving in the OOC - Now let's be fair, we all do it, we all want to whine about a bad pug, a terrible rp'er, the stupid guy at the bank that made a night elf female naked so he can watch her boobs. All good so far, but if you are in the custom channel shouting about your own guild, "OMFG you are all shit and should have helped when I asked" or "at least ONE of you f*cking helped me" expect a ban. You're not the only person, you may also be sounding off in front of younger players who really don't need to be exposed to it. Think before you yell...
Bitching about a no show - I will put up events, sometimes they go brilliant, other times they don't happen. But hey you know what? That's life. If there aren't enough to do something we will just try again, don't get angry, don't complain, accept that it's not always going to go ahead because you know what? People have a life. Let them have it without making them feel guilty.

What you can expect- good bits
Help - I am not an expert, I am not the best player eva! I don't spam l33t and I don't worry about my wowprogress rating. But! If you ask my help or my guilds and we can provide it you can bet your bottom dollar we'll pull together for you.
Want something making? You got it. Want to try a dungeon to get a particular item etc? You got it.
Want rp? Sure thing...!
Patience - there is absolutely no reason under the sun to be angry about something that is a game. Sure we cuss, swear and yell at pvp, get frustrated by the party not getting a boss but here's how it works. We disband the raid or whatever, we take time out, book in another night, if some of us can swap alts we will. If we wipe 1 or 100 times that's okay if you are patient then you're perfect for us. Gold is not real money, bank repairs and other things are there at our disposal.
Learning as a team - never played a healer? Want to try but scared you might be getting it wrong? Who cares, we'll come along with you. If you want a hand with the equipment, rotations etc then ask. I encourage a very open guild approach, I don't run the guild I organise it, I give everyone a chance to do what they want, so ask and we shall attempt to provide.

It's how you say it, not what you say

In summary I think that the difference between the people that I have around me as friends and the people that I avoid is the attitude they bring with them.

Instead of OMFG you noob with shit gear, no idea. Why you tanking? if I saw something like "would you mind if I helped or suggested something?" I'd think you were a good player. You've spotted something wrong and you've offered to assist. There's nothing wrong there but calling someone out, being rude and insulting gets you a /ignore.

Don't condemn someone for a mistake, a rogue pull by accident or for missing a spell, simply ask if they knew that it would help in that situation. If you can't help your friends and you can't be friendly then you're not welcome in my little world.

So yeah I guess that about sums it up for me, be nice, I'll be nice too.

Cheers.
Archard

Not wow related - the riots...

The rioting? No doubt if you have been on the news you'd have seen the "youths" of England are attacking shops, police stations and destroying city centres.

I am never a fan of this type if mindless violence, and this is insane. If people are sitting there critising police let me tell you, the only freaking people to blame are the do-gooders that didn't want police arresting criminals. You've condemned all their powers, you've told us not to interfere with helping communities by caring for or managing the behaviour of these kids.

We're not ALLOWED to stop these things, the police are limited because YOU wanted them to be so fecking nice that you took away the power and authority (oh and fear, cos we used to shit ourselves if the police came around). If you're against the police arresting people before they kick the crap out of someone and you want them to wait until it's done, congratulations this is the result.

We're not American's, we don't have guns to protect ourselves. Hells in most cases you're not allowed to have anything so when someone comes and trashes your join apparently you get to watch but not act.

Little known personal moment here:
When I was younger and in my first full time job I was attacked by three people around my age. Thing is you don't really want to step to the wrong side of a biker with a temper and chain, even if they look a bit pathetic like me hehe. I fought them off, I was severely shocked by it though.

The police told me that it was not in my best interest to press charges and why? Because I won! They attacked me, they picked on a lone person and yet their lawyers would be advising THEM to press charges! And this is the "improved" state of affairs... this is why people film themselves on youtube rioting and looting without fear.

I'm disappointed that humans have the audacity to consider themselves an evolved race. The scenes on English TV look like an extract from the new Planet of the Apes film... and I am sorry to have ranted so long, and apologise if you are not really interested but I felt so incensed I wrote about it.

Murder Mystery in Tirisfal

Time for another blog!

So there I was happily wandering around thinking mmm before I never go to wander around and take a look a locked off little lake. Now..see it seems that perhaps someone wanted to try and avoid a rather suspicious scene being found!

The chap definitely got a problem with a sword to the chest, there he was happily fishing away and some git has come and stuck it to him good. I mean how unlucky is that? And look the umbrella and all the little bits show you he was just a little fisherman... unless of course that was a rouse eh!

So anyway there is a long old chance that more unreported murders lie around, I shall have to keep taking a look...

Archard

Touring, entertaining...

Hey

Well here goes! 1st of the month seems like a good time to update. Lots going on but not all of it Wow related.

I've got to try and get my act together for our table top game. I have too many ideas to fit into one campaign so will need to streamline it. I can't say too much as they could read this haha!

In gaming life:
I built someone the Mekgineer's Chopper on Jenesis. It was for my partner's char who would only have that mount. Isn't it strange that even though it was not for me, and by the way I paid, it was just so much fun making it. Delivered by my own char on her bike she was even able to see the achievement first hand.

Old Skool - a few of us decided that a little old school runs through old content could be a fun way to have guild evenings. I think I might have to set some of them up as role play ones so that we go in, in character and take costumes or something. Ideas would be welcomed on that point.

I am thinking of more in character stuff to try and mix up around heroics, raid attempts etc and I hope it will get people to log in more. One of the things I don't want for Embers is that we end up with our guild only feeling they should do things if I am around. I might have the Guild Master label but I want everyone to feel that it's their guild, their home and their input that influences what we do.

One of the guild members last night surprised the heck out of me, we were GIVEN a 7th bank tab slot by the kind mage. Doesn't that just fill you with happy? It did me, someone in our guild was so generous as to give this to us. I'm going to make this my prize tab, put in all the high level presents and whatnots, pets etc to use for rewards and buff foods and potions for our group runs.

My little character Archie, he's 79th level and he's a frost mage. I never thought I'd get on so well with something that was so utterly arcane based but now I find myself logging on and just loving questing again. Archie will be my 5th to get into the Cataclysm level.

I love to level and quest, I also love role play and the biggest problem I find is that I just cannot, cannot! work out which alt I love the most. I love them all... I can't help but want them all to get into the content. The only one I don't mind loosing out on is little Kzarr. Kzarr is my gatherer and Jenesis' dad, he's a little mellowed out and since his transfer from Horde to Alliance is better off keeping a low profile eh?

Oh and the picture? One of many I have collected on my travels. One day I might make a nice long bog about my favourite secret places. For now the Forgotten Soldier stays in my mind, a little respect for all the fallen warriors of Azeroth.

Cheers for now.

Proud of OUR Guild

Embers of Lordaeron (www.eofl.wowstead.com)

I've been skeptical of putting myself into the position of Guild Leader for sometime but that's I believe due to the fact that I did this in DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) for about four years and after a lengthy break from MMO I came back wanting something without responsibility. But eventually it seemed to me to be a good idea to try again.

The Embers was originally not my guild but my long term partners, however when I pulled all my characters into the guild, (due to the unfortunate demise of my friends guild) I took the guild on. We started off much like the DDO days, just mates and their mates. Slowly that's taken on a life of it's own and more and more people joined.

87 members today, that's a fair whack in the numbers value but it's a lot of alts too. I don't put caps on these things, I also don't care about how often people log, what they do when they log or how they go about having the fun they pay for.

This is my point, World of Warcraft should not be a job. It should not be required for people to log in, be active, sign up to raids... be involved or be kicked. I get monitored at work I really disagree with it at home on my time. Hence as a Guild Master you might think I am lapse but I firmly believe that people shouldn't feel constrained to do things by another. We all pay our money and want the time to enjoy ourselves, so I don't get mad if people don't log on for events.

Why am I so proud of Embers? Because we might not have a massive number of players but we do have a very friendly group, we have people that log in to chat, be social and if there is a group of us around to do something that's a brilliant bonus.

We will try raids, we will try heroics but there is such a great feeling that you log in and the people there are of a like mind. We have the ability to role play and organise ourselves to do so.

I don't like QQ and Ragequit, I don't like people who log in to complain they can't instantly get what THEY need from a guild. The guild is there for people who enjoy helping each other, chatting and relaxing. Last night showed that perfectly, groups of us going into dungeons at a leisurely pace, helping gear one another. A little happy banter and some silly trinkets later it was a log out with a very positive feel to it.

So today my pride is my friends, like minded people and a chance to enjoy things without pressure and conformity. Here's to you fellow members!

Arty outburst

My little Rayflo (WOW Character's butler) has an vision in his head of how he'd like to be. It's like this pretty much.

This is one of my favourite characters from Anime/Manga and so I took a few moments to sketch him up.

"I do believe sirs that the Darjeeling would be sufficient for today's elevenses."

"Thank you Rayflo."

L33t

Now I am not fan of the massive wave of iliterate speak but I appreciate acronym's can be useful, fun and in the case of mass online gaming they are a sort of universal language.

So today I asked my friend at work who is neither a gamer nor an internet person of sorts. As she puts it, she's 60+ and she sees no reason to learn these things. She reminds me of my nan, so I pretty much adore being near her.

Here is her idea of some abbreviations:

gf (girlfriend) - get f*cked
amg - at my grans
rofl - rolex is f*cked
hax - have you any ecstasy
l33t - unlucky for the third time with my benefit application
n00b - dickhead (can't fault her on that)

On other news I have got a third character to level 85, another hunter. This one is the gatherer so it's nice to be in a position where I can put him to use finally haha!

Another note - I hate fishing... I hate that I am addicted, that I cannot fly past pools, that I sit for hours in Ironforge and other places for that one darned fish. Damn you Blizzard for inventing such addictive material, but similarly thank you :)

Archard

Why I rarely pug (mostly never)

Pugs are detrimental on so many levels... (also this applies to healers/dps
by the way as well as tanks). Pugs will not allow you to gear your alts
around each others workings, you cannot guarantee to win something that is
useful so Ninja's and other OS will take what you need.


As you get better you actually impede yourself by tanking in a pug due to
the fact that you have to work around your tanking skills being too good for
the dungeon. EG, a lot of builds are worked around you being hit to generate
abilities, healing etc. If you are actually over geared for the dungeons you
pug you look worse than you are as the bad guys can't hit you, therefore not
healing or generating agg. This makes the healer's life hard work as they
depend on your loss of hit points etc to allow half of their builds to kick
in mass heals... See where this is going?


The other draw backs, you are not using the PVE builds as you should because
if the DPS never get into a situatuon of "oh save me" they do not learn
their utility properly. The tank and healer consider your numbers to be more
important than tactics... So how does this end up making it worse for
everyone? Here goes!


* Raiding is built on tactics, team effort and communication. Part of the
reason you 5 man is to take a miniaturised level of this, to learn your
part. Pugs cannot communicate, or rather refuse to. The elitists do not
consider it worthy of their time, the noobs become scared to ask. Overall
result - silent run, kick over nothing... Never learn your part.


* PVP it's actually easier to gear up with this. You don't need to know
tactics, rewards are instant. You learn sweet fa about your role in PVE but
you look the nuts on the gearscore... Never learn your part.


* Abuse - there's never a reason for it, people are easily offended due to
the complete anonimity of the situation. Had they spoken to you in a bar
like that you'd probably nut them, but as it stands their childish/insecure
ways lead to a superiority that they could never master in life. Result -
you have a brain, you feel like it's your doing... Forget it! They are
obviously socially defective and therefore pug as their guilds don't work
together or they are just in there to collect the rewards.


* Guild - you're in one! Why not work with those people? Encourage the guild
rewards system, use your bank repairs... Whatever you do don't waste the
fact you got a bunch of like minded people in one place. Results - you learn
your part, you communicate, you work out tactics, you therefore are a better
team of people in raids.


Overall - I am not going to care if I come bottom of the foodchain on wow
progress and why? My money is better spent on MY happiness not others, if I
get it when I have worked for it I am a happy person. If I got it by sheer
random luck it's just a cop out I can do without. So I for one choose not to
Pug. I am a person, I will commit my life to enjoying it that way. I will
learn my part!


Cheers
The Random Brain Generator is in the house.

Cockmunch - the analysis

Hi tis me! Of course it’s me, who else was going to write that. Well it is first day back at work and so reality has had to hit me like a jack hammer. Shame really the week out of touch has been wonderful! Not least of all of the good things that happened was that my healing Paladin reached her lich king stripes, the Kingslayer title is not Trizzie’s, and boy is she proud! Trizzie was formally a tank before I re-specked her; gave her some nice clothes and decided that in the interest of the guild my talents would best lay in that field. I also levelled my druid up to 80, now I don’t pug but I was being lazy and decided that I would take the easy ride of dungeons and pugs. I will call this an experiment of some kind, here are my observations – I shall refer to my druid as Subject X, the tank is Subject A, the healer is Subject B and the two other DPS I shall include in my subtext of Subject X. Subject X is level 76, like everyone around that level that has played before they know what gear to get for the level. Subject X has got things from quests, has a few enchantments and the right things for the level. Subject B, being a level 75 healer does what I consider a great job of keeping everyone alive. No wipes, no death, no nothing. Subject A, has been replaced, the previous left or was kicked. I cannot remember but he is replaced, in the way that all expendables are in war. Subject A is now improved and is level 77, he is what I like to call the “cockmunch.” Allow me to explain this phenomenon known only in the world of “never been told to shut the hell up before”. Subject A, level 77 now has access to Cataclysm (or as I call it easycraft) gear and has probably got them off his guildies (I cannot bring myself to say friends), or an alt. Well that’s cool, you uber op your character and spam the old dungeons. You don’t need the gear but the JP’s are a head start etc etc… So we set out on our merry way, Subject A assumes the position and surprise buttsex is committed on pretty much everything there. He is a DK with 4k damage, threat and blitzes it. Nice right? Yeah two things… Subject B is not allowed a mana break, is expected to run along as the whirling dervish of Subject A continues. Subject X? Well let’s just say as a collective on the spawning dish they barely get the creatures down before the next fight starts. Subject A finishes his run of glory and leaves with the parting gold of the “Cockmunch” – ‘your dps was shit guys’. He is gone before the rest of the experiment is given a chance to look at the situation or in one case allow him to get to the boss before the fight ended. Let me explain Cockmunch – Cockmunch has one thing in his life, WOW. He (and she of course) refer to themselves as “pro” they consider the rest of them as “noob” and anyone that outperforms them is “op geared” or some other excuse I care not to bother listing. Cockmunch has also listed himself as the one to tell you how to play the game, obviously everyone but Cockmunch cannot enjoy it because the selfish little charlatan of life has decided he rocks. (Watch the South Park episode to know what these people look like!) So the rest of us chuckle at Subject A, wish each other luck and head off. My conclusion to the experiment? Cockmuncher’s really do munch on cock’s, their own. They sit in their little room with their little toys and an orgasm to them is being the best in a random pug or battleground. I must commend them, they have truly helped the selective breeding process, they have in effect by being jerks in their room on a pc 24/7 removed themselves from the breeding pool. Ta da! Archard

Facerolls and funtimes

Well it's the third day of my holiday and I have sort of been behaving, I've done housework mixed with a little gaming. I spent yesterday having a good old time making my Death Knight macros to the point I think I could sleep on the keyboard haha!

I don't just play WOW by the way, I am a bit of a fanatical Final Fantasy fan and I also adore Full Metal Alchemist not to mention other games and anime I watch. To be honest I probably need twice the hours I get of a day to cram all the things I want to go into them haha!

The irony is that by the time I have retired I bet none of it will be something I'd watch or my kids and grandkids (if I ever have them) would be mocking me to hell. Ah such is life eh?

Today's sad mission amongst many is to clear my study out. I have some serious issues with books being all over the place but I can't get rid of them.

In fact I should probably mention here, my partner has had to put up with me for several years suffering the fact that along with depression I have mild OCD. I am medicated for these things but they still impact the day to day affairs at times. The hardest part of it comes down to work, to proving that it's actually reality depression will affect things I do. It may not stop me from getting out of bed, or even doing bits around the house but some days the idea of facing other people can make me feel physically sick.

Oh well, today however I am going to be meeting up with the postman. I promised my friend a film in the post!

Cheers

Archard

Holidays and lore lawyers

I couldn't be happier! A whole week off to myself to clean up the house, sort out my shit and happily game. Of course I also have some art work to finish, writing to sort. I am happy to get my ass in gear and get on with it. This could be the start of something good... well let's see.

WOW updates... Embers has been slowly growing and all by word of mouth and happiness. I am so proud that everyone in my guild is a nice person and helpful to one another. When we set out to make a guild it was complete reluctance on my part to dedicate more time to something I may not be able to do, however my partner and friends are very supportive.

I am addicted to alts on the game, because I love making stories for them. Sitting at work listening to customers complain is pretty damned stressful so when I get home gaming is a great escape. Not to mention it means I get to think about my ideas whilst sat there listening to someone tell me how inadequate I am without ever having met me.

I won't put his name on this blog but I will tell you that those who know me are gonna either roll their eyes or giggle. Let us refer to him for now as "CO" like Carbon Monoxide he is a poison to the role play server.

CO has decided that he is there for one purpose - "to enforce role play" but he seems to have lost the plot with it. Role players all have their own ideas of things, their own plans for their own characters. Sometimes those ideas and those stories are not completely Canon to the game. Well? Does it REALLY affect you? I mean look at the facts, it's not physically going to harm you, it's not breaking and real life laws and it's NOT going to be a problem if you never interact and role play with them right?

Not to CO our local friendly poisoner, he spends his day around the city of Stormwind waiting for people to role play in a way he doesn't like then tells them. He reports the smilies, OOC chat and then starts a war about general. At the end of the day he single handedly ends up bringing the city role play to a stand still and the irony is he thinks everyone is wrong but him.

Now I have a basic easy rule, if someone is out of character and it's a disruptive level simply put them on ignore, raise a ticket if it is offensive. I simply cannot work out how CO thinks it's productive to be disruptive but having said that... CO is now neutralised and my poison has been cleansed thanks to another burst of /ignore

And now... I shall head off and carry on with my cleaning!

Archard

WTF was I thinking!

I have no excuse but save that my friend in Kentucky loves My Little Pony and this was a present for her...

End of an Era?

Well I am not the only one that logged in to find my lovely original guild had been disbanded. I'm not going to complaint about it because I understand, I just think it's a shame when a guild has to go due to inactivity or such. Then again I remember that was how it was for me years ago when I ran one in another MMO...

Today I am running one called Embers of Lordaeron (website here) which I have to admit was only going to be me and my partner originally. Now it seems I've ended up with so many new, good friends, that the guild is naturally growing.

Aside from gaming, I've been enjoying my book on Haunted America. It's a collection of stories from various States about their ghosts. It then let to me looking for some random Videos... Yes I am subjection myself to the woes of awful fakes.. but some are really clever. Some I don't know how to explain, it's those I really take too.

So if you find any do post them here

Thanks

PK/RenoTurk

Just terrific

Ghost Theory have published a story about a family in Coventry haunted by a ghost, and having read the initial story I admit I was mildly interested however... They said the words Most Haunted. See the post here I could rant for HOURS about how much I hate that show of fakery, whilst I am also aware of the irony I like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures. Anyway I copy my rant here too as I really feel annoyed by them. Honestly I might even consider posting my anti Twilight tirade here hehe! Right I am gonna have sooo a rant here and do feel free to skip this… *sigh* Yvette Fielding and her Most Haunted crap – it’s all crap and we know it. She was never psychic then all of a sudden she is. Her initial video about ghosts in Nottingham is so appalling I wish I’d never got it free anyway! I sat through this inane drivel and then I find out this show is on and it’s popular? HOW! Not aside from the fact it makes English look like tomb robbing morons with no sense of respect for the dead, but they actually manage to make the whole paranormal evidence thing a complete piss take. At least Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures have something worth watching in them. The people have charisma, sometimes things are debunked with some credibility… unlike Most Haunted. That show needs to be taken off the air, alongside the damned re-runs on most every channel desperate to fill time. Ah that feels better. Archard

Soooo

I doubt anyone will stumble across this but here goes!

Taking a bit of time off gaming here, I like to play a lot of various games. World of Warcraft kinda suckered me in. I can happily spend hours on the thing but there's so much else I can do!

I do tend to read a lot, I like supernatural and horror themes. I also like modern crime and thriller books, alongside a decent bit of Sherlock Holmes.

Well not a lot else to add for a first post...