As of last Monday it’s become the former, not latter. No new news beyond that, just income and whatnot.
I’ve got a slew of WoW stuff I just never pushed, I’ll get to that at some point. I’m still struggling with a good and simple way to manage graphics. I’ve got the wow stuff in a folder with the perl album scripts ran against them and it works ok to generate blog-sized thumbs for posting, but the size of everything is kind of a pain. Stuff I’m posting nowhere but in the blog are actually going in the WordPress uploader thing which seems to be working fine. At least those will be “easily” portable.
Maybe Picasa web albums or Flikr or somesuch would work. Bleh.
I covered our antics on the Sunday following the patch, but neglected to mention TK on Thursday. For those of you playing our home game yes, Void Reaver with invisible orbs does, in fact, suck ass. We diverted to Solarian who I was promised was “easy”. Yeah, so they were right. Welcome to the 1st 1st kill of the streak.
Nothing overly amazing lewt-wise, we had some shards and some equippers, same old song and dance. So fast-forward past Sunday’s Magtheridon 1st and to the Tuesday Serpentshrine raid. What? What you say? Is that our 1st Morogrim Tidewalker kill? Yeap.
A nice surprise in the cracker-jack box for our 1st – grats me. Talon of Azshara
The WoW 2.4 patch hit, launching the Isle of Quel’Danas content and a slew of fixes/nerfs/bugs/etc. More on that stuff later, but for now, I’ll lead off with our first Magtheridon kill. Why yes, yes he is EZ-mode trivial now, we know. We could have killed him before, we just couldn’t get the bodies in front of him. At any rate, he’s dead now – suck it.
From what I’ve read and/or heard, Blizzard noticed the people just plain weren’t doing Mag anymore or (as in our case) never had done him and wanted to encourage more kills. I get that, I really do. As we enter the home stretch towards Lich King the mighty bliz wants to make sure there’s not a repeat of Burning Crusade with the vast majority of their players never seeing what had been described as some of their very best work. Works for us. I got me a Pit Lord’s Satchel with a natural 100.
The upgrade is done, but some plugins and theme crap have to be updated/fixed. Also, I seem to have deleted something, somewhere. Not sure what, yet. The new version has a much-improved (and non-plugin) media manager thing so I’m slowly converting some of the blog-only graphics to that so some links may be toast while I complete the move.
Greetings and salutations, I am associate awesome.
1st Tempest Keep raid last night, 1st Void Reaver kill on our 2nd try. Not much more to say about it than that as it was a solid effort from start to finish. Grats to us.
I love it when a plan comes together. — John “Hannibal” Smith
Another weekend, another Zul’Aman run. I know, I know, when will we ever learn, right?
Things did not start well. Something like 5 wipes on Nalorakk? I was about ready to just cut and run. For whatever reason, starting stumbles made for a rock-solid finish. We rolled up to Akil’zon and dropped him in two and did the same thing to Halazzi! The guild first Halazzi kill is in the books!
Shitty loot though. I’m cursed. We’ve seen either a Fury or the Bloodstained Elven Battlevest (or both) the last 3 runs. Still no sword. :sigh:
edit: Fixed the ItemStats link above. No idea why it can’t find the thing by name when it’s a) correct and b) obviously available. edit 2:ItemStats is buggy and no longer in dev. Ret-conned everything to the powered-by-wowhead stuffs. What a pain in the ass.
Before the holiday break I managed to herd enough kittens together to drop Akil’zon for the first time. A few days later we managed to do it a second time. Unfortunately that’s where shit takes a bit of a turn. I had arguably the top 5 DPS in the guild and we just got mauled over the weekend.
Oh well, just further proof that the fight is about doing the right thing, no matter how hard you can hit.
PS: We’ve been on a roll vs Gruul lately – had a 1-shot this week and should continue to carry that through going forward. Grats us and whatnot.
Tell me again how playoffs in college football would be bad?
Blowouts are not good football. Blowouts are clear indications that one of the two teams was in the WRONG FUCKING GAME.
Of all the games I could stand to watch the only one that was an actual game was the Outback Bowl wherein my Wisconsin Badgers and the Tennessee Volunteers were actually a good match-up. Wisconsin lost (21-17), unfortunately, but it was at least an appropriate game. Those two teams were in the right game together and the game was still up for grabs until the 2nd-to-last play.
Illinois had no business being in the Rose Bowl against USC. Period. It was embarrassing to the program and to the Big 10 and only fuels that idiotic “we can’t compete” nonsense.
Georgia vs Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. Another what the fuck? Having an undefeated season in a glorified high school conference doesn’t put you in the same league as a team that probably SHOULD have been in fighting for the Championship.
Fiesta Bowl. WVU completely outclassed an Oklahoma team that is, in and of itself, quite good. Doesn’t that just mean that the BCS works and 2 good teams played and one was just better? No, actually. It means that the math behind the BCS selections has very little to do with quality of the team that shows up on gameday.
The Virginia/Kansas game is tonight, it SHOULD be ok. I’ll buck the trend and pick Kansas in a 20-point victory. And yes, 3 TDs is a blowout.
Why are playoffs better?
Simple. You win, you advance. The best teams in football, the true champions, are champions from top to bottom. Part of being a champion is showing up on gameday! Part of being a champion is doing your homework and preparing for each and every new opponent properly!
Example a: The NFL Playoffs + Super Bowl.
On Sunday (or whatever day) I watch the Packer game. If it doesn’t conflict with said Packer game I watch the Colts and Pats play. I like Peyton Manning. In 5 or 6 years he’ll be what Brett Favre is today and probably breaking all of his new shiny records. I watch the Pats (this season) because it’s history in the making. That’s not that many games, really. When the playoffs start (this weekend!) I’ll watch just about every game that’s on. It’s GREAT football.
The NFL players frequently say that once they’re in the playoffs everyone starts at 0-0. May be the best team of the day win.
Example b: March Madness.
I don’t enjoy college basketball, but I watch a TON of it during March. The games during the playoffs are just plain great.
There are 12 conferences and (this year) there were 32 bowl games. There is PLENTY of time and teams that could play. Even something simply like a 3-week playoff would be tolerable. You still get to have the $$$ games, but in the end you actually have a real champion.
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