misfitmonkey

Vorpil:


Murmur:

Blizzard, you make me really really mad. This video is in response to the following threads:

Thread, thread, and thread.

Etc., etc...

LISTEN, Blizzard. Your Mac support forums are total crap. :(

Wow... so today marks my first day of Christmas break with no internship, no school, and for today, no work. I happily logged on to WoW after getting some laundry started and BAM.

Complete anxiety attack.

In the past five months, my mailbox contents have expired (ouch... no shards, no potions, no herbs, no alt storage wares period), I am not keyed for Kara or hardly any of the heroics, and I don't even know where I am on my rep grind.

Welllll... sh*t.

Now I'm stressed and feeling like a n00b and not having any fun. I honestly miss when WoW was simply questing and instancing... I'm not cut out for this hardcore raiding and rep grinding. :( I'm going to make a game plan for catching up at my own pace and then I'm going to go play with my baby hunter to de-stress.

/sigh

As someone who plays a Night Elf as their main, I got a kick out of this...

Mr. T:


There's a William Shatner commercial too, but I can't stand him, so I refuse to link to it. Mr. T is awesome though... I want to roll a mohawk!

LOL. Last night's Nano meeting was nuts, and it ran so late at the Denny's after-write-in that Di and I left at 7:00 a.m. I just woke up two hours ago... whoops.

I'm finally downloading BC to my MacBook so that I can have a full WoW install again, but I'm not sure how much gaming I'll be doing until this semester is over. I've been a bit overwhelmed with everything this semester. It's not as much actually work, but it feels like a higher stress environment, which an internship that requires actual skill, a job in social work, and classes that are a little more useful, even if they're driving me nuts.

I've been glad for the break from Warcraft, honestly, but now I'm jealous when listening to the social worker and psychiatrist on the psych unit at internship talking about WoW and the new patch, so I have to get back into things.

Nano is going really well... over 30k as of 7 a.m., so I'm pretty psyched about that. :) Viddler group exploded, the NanoVideo page at Nanowrimo.org has been amazing and I just can't wait until next year, when I'll only have work and I can really give Nano media content my all. :) It'll be awesome.

The Google Group for PodCamp Ohio (http://podcampohio.com) is in the baby stages, but it's fun to talk about actually having a local unconference about something I'm *interested* in. June 28th is the tentative date.

Family stuff is still a mess... apparently my mother won't be working with me on this situation until after the holidays, so I guess I'm just going to Jim's parents' house for Thanksgiving. I'm really disappointed in how unsuccessful I've been in my efforts to simply get my mother on the phone. I think I've made the efforts I can, and I just don't know what else I can realistically do, so I'm just going to move forward with my life and accept that things are this way right now.

Okay, I need to do eight million things, and some video editing especially. :) Happy Sunday!

Driving to work to Modern English and OK Go, had a meeting to go to that got cancelled, did a group home inspection, missed Twitter because I left my cell phone at home, ended up at Panera unexpectedly, and finished off the day with WoW guild night, downing Caverns of Time : Durnholde (TWICE!). W00t, good day. :)

Synopsis - So You Think You Can Dance, and I won the entire game of WoW and am uber l33t. :)

I have to work today, yippee.

I really want to get a review done for Harry Potter and work on my TBP books that I have to have reviewed and turned in by 8/15, so that's the plan for tomorrow.

Busted through Mana Tombs with the guild last night... was surprisingly easy compared to last time. I'm about 1/5 of the way to lvl 70. *anxious*

MeToday from yesterday will be coming when I have time to edit it all. Pbbblth.

I've been unbelievably lazy today, except for spending a couple of diligent hours on the new Frantic guild site. Need to make a couple videos, still haven't showered yet, and am wondering if I'm going to get brain deterioration from watching "10.5" on USA (uggh).

The Harry Potter book shipped yesterday from Amazon, with an estimated delivery of tomorrow, w00t!! If it definitely comes, I will be avoiding all internet reading so that no one spoils the ending for me, and I'll be spending a lot of spare time reading it. :) 

I have an awesome idea for a challenge video for Viddler.  Ohhhhhh, hawesomeness.

This movie is seriously awful.

Up too early, stick bandit (wtf), Maroon 5, took a nap, woke up and re-did my MeToday because I forgot I'd started it that morning. Also, marzipan9 came to my house to play WoW on guild night, since she's now a guild member! :) w00t!

I got tech support on my lifecast (http://live.brandice.net), which is about the coolest thing ever! Seriously, thank you to the random viewer who helped me update the computer, figure out what was wrong and spent unnecessary hours assisting a random internet lifecaster. I'm awed and grateful. :)

Dude. I have accomplished HAWESOMENESS in WoW today.

Here is my list of utter and complete geek greatness:

1. I hit level 68 and obtained druid flight form, which enables me to turn into an awesome bird and fly anywhere I please. I am l33t.

2. I purchased my epic land mount. FINALLY.

3. I am only 125 rep points away from being Honored with Lower City in Shattrath.

4. I upgraded both my shoulders and my helm for my tanking set.

5. I upgraded my fishing pole and have hit 300 in fishing (holy looooong grind, batman!).

6. I completed an 8-step chain of quests that left me with a super sweet little bird pet named Miniwing, through an escort quest I did while working on the last step of this chain.
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Oh. MY. GOD. I am beside myself with geek pride. Totally beside myself.

WoW Insider : WoW UI Updater (AddOn Spotlight Article)

This is a tool for automatically updating your add-on all at once or the like. I'm currently downloading it.

*Update : Following the directions in the article helped a lot. Currently updating my addons that were found automatically.


*Final opinion : This is a GREAT program, a huge help for those who don't want to manually look for updates to all 49 of their game addons every time there's a game patch, and I'm incredibly happy with it. Game worked flawlessly after I was done and I did a third of the work to get it all working properly. w00t!!

If you're going to install it, make sure that you read the article and thoroughly follow the FAQs that are linked to in the article. Those sites were very helpful during the setup and now that everything is setup for me, it will be much easier to update in the future. :)

The Simpsons make fun of WoW:


I love "my jewels!!!!" and Marge's character creation. Totally hilarious! Haha. :)

*Edit:

LOLOLOLOL.

HAHAHAHAHA...

1. Suprisingly, Deanna Troi's Twitter account is much more popular than Bob Dylan's as of today.  Curious.

2. Some people paint trucks to look really cool, like things are falling out of them or they are large bookshelves.

3. How fast can you tranquilize a sheep?  I am a Bobbing Bobcat.

4. Randomly, I was browsing player screenshots and had a chuckle at this WoW priest.

5. If you are worried about putting boring cliches in your writing (which you should be), you can check your verbage for just that.

6. I'm at my limit today.  I'll just leave it at that.

7. Someone brought tasty chili in to share with us at work today and it was perfect since I forgot to pack a lunch.

From WoW Insider:

Without any official word, who's to say whether these patch notes, posted on MMO-CHAMPION are legit or not. However, they include a number of features that we know are planned for 2.1.0, such as:

• The release of the Black Temple
• A battlegrounds matching system
• The re-valuing of sockets on items
• The change to warlock's succubus pet's seduce ability
• An engineering revamp
• A new LFG system

This adds some reliability to these patch notes, but, there are some quite unexpected things in these notes, as well -- read on for more details.

• Druid buffs:
• The talent Nature's Reach now also reduces balance spell threat by 5/10%
• Faerie Fire now castable in cat, bear, and dire bear form
• Barkskin now reduces threat generated by spells for the duration
• Tree of Life form now grants a 200% armor bonus
• The talent Improved Faerie Fire replaces Faerie Fire (Feral) in the feral tree and has been reduced to one rank for a 3% bonus
• New balance talent Improved Moonkin Aura (tier 7) causes all players with Moonkin Aura to also regain 15/30% of the mana cost of their spell when they get a critical hit

Pretty nice. :)

It's of course unofficial and could change, but I like the few things that will affect me (bold), and a new LFG system will hopefully eliminate the spammers in the Trade channel who irritate the living crap out of me with group requests.  *ponders*

I post these two shirts the other day at Hot Topic:

Murloco's : Best Fish Tacos in Azeroth!

Bloodsail Buccaneers: Crew Member

What I covet next:



*covets*

Why do I want that?  Because it instantly turns me into a questgiver NPC who is waiting for players all over the land to give her things to turn in quests. 

What does that mean?  People randomly giving me presents!  All I need is that hat and I will be stopped randomly on the street and given randomly delightful things, like keys or 10 chunks of meat or some monster's head!  Then I will sparkle the people with glitter dust and give them rep points with my new faction - Druidus Dorkus.

Ha!!!  That hat will be the making of my greatness.  GREATNESS, I tell you!  

Photographic evidence that I exist and that I own an adorably happy and beautiful cat: