I’ve been on and off World of Warcraft for a bit now. The regular raid I was running with my Warlock went kaput, which pretty much began my WoW vacation. Well sort of vacation, since I have been getting on sporadically to finish up some achievements, like Glory of The Cataclysm Hero.
Last night, during said achievement run, one of the guys brought his priest, who happens to be in full Tier 13 gear. I have never before coveted a look quite as much as this one. The whole set together is incredibly awesome looking. Almost seems like an homage to V for Vendetta. Anyway that’s what it made me think of.
I have always played with my helmet graphic off. In general, my character’s pony tail is far preferable to look at, then any of the helm graphics. But bolstered by the priest T13 look, I turned helm graphics on, just too see what my Warlocks T13 helm graphic looked like. Couldn’t be too bad right? Wrong.
Tentacle coming out of my face. Yeah. So wrong. Warlocks get screwed again. ~sigh~
Hey Munchkin husbands everywhere, you are in luck. Play Prime World with your wife and get bonus stats!
The developers are trying to support mixed gender groups, yet are relying on Facebook account information to determine actual gender. Laughable and unreliable. Susana Polo of the Mary Sue summed it up best:
…the potential to incentivize seeing the players of the opposite gender as a statistic that needs to be maintained, rather than a basic fact of life (not to mention insensitivity to a spectrum of trans players). While that wouldn’t necessarily create an unequal situation in a population with equal gender ratios, in one with an admitted majority of men it has the potential to lead to players treating female players as a numerical advantage rather than fellow players, if the game’s balance favors these gender-based talents.
All the negative reviews of John Carter have left me a rather disappointed. I view see this movie as an homage to the history of Science Fiction, a genre that is near and dear to my heart.
I could go on, but the point I’m trying to get at, for the purpose of this post, is that some feel the marketing of the movie failed. The folks over at thejohncarterfiles.com discuss this ad nauseum, but what they also did was create this incredible and compelling fan trailer.
For anyone still confused and conflicted about going to see this movie, watch this trailer. Then go see the movie.
I’m always a little slow to get on the bandwagon with things. As nearly the last person in the USA to finally have a Facebook account, it shouldn’t be surprising that I hadn’t really heard of tumblr before.
Turns out it’s really twitter, but more. Twitter never really seemed to make sense to me. Facebook already has a ton of inane one sentence updates, why bother with something as limiting as Twitter.
Tumblr on the other hand allows for all sorts of fabulous media, yet like Twitter, encourages brevity.
So I thought I would try Tumblr. Might be shortlived, but it seems fun so far. =D
Take note that I my Tumblr account is about ten hours old at the time of this posting.
There is nothing quite as rejuvenating as a fabulously large comic book (and more) convention only thirty minutes from my house. WonderCon is so close I don’t have to fly anywhere, stay in expensive hotels, and curb spending because my carrying capacity on the plane is limited. All the fun without any of the drawbacks. Certainly one of the huge perks of city living, one that I would be remiss in not enjoying to the fullest.
I find myself in snow ski land with only WoW to play at night, but no one wants to hear about WoW anymore. (My guild made level 6 and we have been going through all the old content getting heroic achievements plus guild achievements, lalalala!)
I might think of Facebook as a rather pointless time sink, but it does have some great features, like finding age old friends and keeping track of said friends. But what I enjoy the most is all the random stuff people share. Its a little window into strange and new webstuffs. =)
