World of Warcraft

Initial reviews of Final Fantasy XII look really good. This is the one that uses a FFXI Online-like world map. If they could let me make my own characters and use them, instead of pre-generated ones, this would be anything I could ever want in a console RPG. And it still may be. Devices based upon Microsoft’s Origami project come out tomorrow. We’re already seeing a lot of Origami machines coming out of CEBit, the German consumer electronics trade show. It looks to be a small, handheld, wireless, tablet PC running Windows XP. The geek in me (get out of me, you GEEK) wants one just to have… but I am not sure what I would really do with it. , made a year ago, has it doing just about everything. EVERYTHING. The buzz is that it will be sort of a super video iPod, with an online store likely called Alexandria. ...

The Prophetic Fate Pokemon League followed rumors of a legendary fire Pokemon to a deep, lava-lit cavern. It took us three hours just to roll the giant-sized Pokeball down through Molten Core to capture him. Each member of Team Fate readied their favorite Pokemon; I took Nohielfoyu’s pokeball from my belt; got ready to throw it in. The beast roared; forty pokeballs rained down on him; and in the end, the giant pokeball rocked back and forth as the monster captured within struggled to get free. ...

Bugs. I HATE bugs! Especially HUGE bugs. These insects swarmed from one of the many hives in Silithus; and they were the heralds of a darker power, the dog-headed Emissary Roman’Khan. They all deeply craved death; and some of them even achieved it. We (meaning my WoW guild, not me personally) defeated Lucifron; in Molten Core; I posted some of the screenshots from others over at the Prophetic Fate website.

Yes, I still play WoW :P We had a wonderful turnout at our first Molten Core run last Saturday, with guests accompanying us to fill out the raid. Things went very, very well for a first time in an end-game dungeon… but over half those attending had done this many times on other characters. Well, it was a first time for me, anyway. We side-stepped a number of wipes through trollish skill (we trolls really carry the Horde… it’s true…) and soon came to the first boss, Lucifron. He’s a big sweety, but apparently they had fiddled with his AE so our uber strats needed some adjustments. ...

Someone posted a long description of a guild he was starting, that separated the classes into three categories, Seers, Sages and Champions. Then he followed it up with a next post which said, simply, “A Seer, a Sage, and a Champion walk into a bar….” Dunno. Sounded like a challenge to me! So I wrote a joke to go along with it… A undead Sage, a troll Seer and a tauren Champion walked into a bar and ordered a flagon of ale and three glasses. The bartender set them up and went about his business as the three sat quietly for a moment. ...

I’m building up my leatherworking and I need LOTS of leather. Wetlands seemed like a good place, so I went to the excavation site and decided to thin the raptor population. Sometimes a night elf would come up to me and say something. It took me awhile, but I finally realized from the way they were pointing out of the excavation while looking at me, that they were inviting me back to their home city. ...

Prosthetic Feet will require Ventrilo for major raids from now on. So, my challenge is to get this working with Linux. I used to use Cedega, but that stopped working for me. It was one of the many oddities I faced with Ubuntu. It worked, then it stopped working. Nothing I did could make it come back to life - so I let my subscription run out. Cedega was previously known as WineX - the Direct-X version of WINE, the open source Windows-compatible libraries. (I don’t know offhand what WINE stands for, but considering the source (geeks), it’s probably something like WINE Is Not an Emulator. Acronyms have this great need to be recursive, in Unix.) ...

Kanda turned 60 a few weeks ago, but I didn’t post about it until now. There’s the Truefaith Vestments that took ages to make. Those shoulders are Devout Mantle, part of the tier 1 priest set. I have the gloves, bracers and boots for that set, but another guildie has the robe, and those shoulders are all he wanted. I won the roll. And ever since, I’ve been whining that they don’t match MY robe, vendors won’t give me enough for them, they look weird…. ...

We gathered togethter in the Gurubashi Arena, those of us who would rule the world. Nummie Gigglepie, cruel mistress of demonology. Jenchenzi, her deadly enemy. Yunkndatwunk (not pictured, sadly), the young upstart with a smile, a wink, and a heart of pure evil. And Hosenfeffer and I to see which warlock would earn our blades! Jenchenzi, spurred by the dread thought of becoming the guild dishwasher if he lost, defeated Gigglepie and the Yunk, and is the new secret master of the world. I handily won against the other melees, but then, at 30, I was the highest there, so it wasn’t quite fair….

Snacks for the Horde are a reality! Our tabard is the Sacred Sign of the Snack! But can compassion be found in the Alliance? Sadly, not in Redridge…