Gitr

How many of you are pre-IBM PCs? I am of the Commodore upbringing. We got a Commodore 64 when I was in kindergarten. It had 2 funny looking symbols on the fronts, not the tops, of each key. The funky thing was that you HAD to use them to do ANYTHING with the computer because there was no mouse. It was all keyboard controlled. (you youngin’s listen up)

I’m dating myself here, not as much as someone like my dad, but… I remember having this one game called Shadow of the Beast that came on cassettes. Three of them, I think. I would put in a tape while Mom was making dinner, change it during dinner, and then it would be ready to play when we were done eating. When you died, you had to put the first tape back in to reload some stuff. Needless to say, I never made it to the third tape.

Just think how many cassettes WoW would take up and how long it would take to load. OMG!!

Here are the top 5 improvements that Blizzard needs to incorporate, if they knew about them:

1. Top Boss Summon – Summon a boss, any boss, into Orgrimmar or Ironforge.
2. Mount Eject Button – Ever get called to a instance or accidently hit a path that takes 5-13 minutes with no way to get off?
3. /goldkick – The moment a gold farmer whispers you, they have their account deleted.
4. TV/Movie Costumes – Sims-like outfits for the most outrageous YouTube.com videos ever.
5. Tame Ony – If you are not a member of a raiding guild, WoW will allow hunters to rappel down and tame Ony for the coolest pet ever.

Gitr got bored at 60 and took up fishing and cooking. It’s been a nice way to get a little extra cash, and the extra stamina gained with some food is nice. Now, with Deadr, 3 professions seem a bit silly: First Aid, Fishing, and Cooking.

I can heal myself, and the time and money spent on fishing for some extra cash seems extreme when I’m trying to level him in under 15 days. Cooking also appears to be a complete waste of time because I have Fortitude that outranks almost any, if not all, food recipes. Are there any Priests out there that have bothered with these professions while leveling that see a real purpose to them?

It seems like a lot of people are getting depressed playing WoW right now, just waiting for Burning Crusade to come out. Then the news/rumor hit that it won’t be released until January. I’m seeing more and more posts about the leaks and videos about the expansion. I was just checking out the Daedalus Project again for his psychological studies of MMORPGs and saw the subject of playing with people you know in real life (RL). That was the category I fell under until my big fall-out with Fellowship of Azeroth and my flaky roommate moving out. You can read the whole article here:

Playing with Someone

Now my reasons for playing have changed. I play with people who all know each other, yet I don’t know any of them in RL. Josh Dura and his friends from Dallas are my new gang, but we have yet to meet face to face, hear each other on TeamSpeak, or call each other on the phone. I know he’s a year younger than me and also married, where he works, and that he’s a much better computer geek than I am. What I like about Teen Girl Squad is that they all get along. No one demands anything of anyone. Some of them are pretty hard-core players, but also appear at times to be gone from the game during peak hours. I’m a lot more casual now, but I plan on hitting 34 some time this week or weekend.

I am getting the sense that we all play because we like the game in general, enjoy chatting with other geeks while having something to do between responses, and feel better after a long day at work by sitting in front of our home computers. I like my computer at work a lot more than the one at home, but I can do whatever I want on my home PC.

Now, stop being depressed about the expansion, find your friends, get them to play WoW, and start all over again. It’s fun!

I remember back in the day, when subwoofers were the newest craze, that I got a 3 speaker system. It had 2 small satellite speakers and an 8″ subwoofer.

I was all excited hooking it up and went to play my favorite game at the time: Warcraft 2. My parents were in the living room watching a movie with the sound up pretty loud, and my subwoofer took over the entire house… on volume setting 1. I LOVED THAT BASS!!… my dad made me return it the next day 🙁

Blizzard has incredible soundtracks and the movies have always played on any system I have, no matter how out-of-date it has been.

For those of you who are staying up late, far past when your wives (or husbands) go to bed, what are you thinking? WoW does not even compare. This is one WoW’er that will at no time compromise that for new bracers, a ding, or even taking down Rag. Never. 

I got some good play time in yesterday during a very miserable NY/TB game with winds so high that there wasn’t any offense. No offense is fine, if the defense is good, but geesh, make something happen on the ground if your arm is too pansy to throw the ball in the wind. Then to make matters worse, they pulled my Tiki Barber out to let someone else score on the ground when they decided to take my advice and start running the ball.

So, with a game like that, it’s easy to get distracted and play WoW. Granted, I was doing it on my laptop, so I didn’t partake in any killing or anything that might get me killed when the hard drive decides to chew on new landscape data at the most inopportune time. I got some shellfish to get some Bloodbelly fish to go back to the tauren by the Kodo Graveyard in Desolace. Then I delivered a letter to a tauren at the Great Lift.

I think Deadr is up to about 40% through level 33 now, and I’m sure he has the full 30 bars of rest built up from my honeymoon. The only thing I did most of the week was mail and auction hall. I’ve got over 120G in auctions right now, and I suspect I’ll have a lot of mail when I get home from expired auctions.