Posts Tagged ‘World of Warcraft’
Posted on April 13, 2008 - by Brian
Faction Confunction
Ok, I know blogging about WoW is kinda geeky, but I needed to write something today.
So a whole bunch of us just rerolled on a US pvp server, Magtheridon to be exact. Now this wasn’t your average reroll, no. We went over to the Horde side. Gasp. Horror. It’s actually pretty good playing the other side, you get to hear their story and Horde do seem to win more battlegrounds… Which had nothing to do with our decision to roll Horde.
So it’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, and Rhys had just called and woken me up from my sleep in. By the time we had finished talking I didn’t feel like sleeping anymore, so since everyone else is either at church or still sleeping, I decide to hop onto WoW. I’m sure most people would agree with me when I say that solo questing is boring, even when you have people to talk to on Vent. After reaching 29 on my belf mage, and finding that no one else from the guild was on, I decided to do Arathi Basin.
Now my troubles began when I got past the loading screen and I appear in the starting area, and my first thought was, “This isn’t Arathi Basin…” Did I accidentally queue for a different BG? Was I the victim of a microsleep where I had teleported to a whole new zone that I had never been to before? Happily neither of those things were true, and the reason that I was so confused was that the view from the Horde starting area looks over the Farm, which is pretty, but looks very different from the Stables.
Another incident that gave me +rep with Silly occurred about halfway through the game. Both sides were on about 1200 points, and I’m sitting at the Gold Mine with a priest and a hunter, when I check the little icons at the top of the screen that indicate how many points either side has. Happily for us, four of those nodes belonged to us. Unfortunately it turned out that I was looking at the Alliance points, and we were in fact losing the BG.
Hopefully the reroll jetlag wears off soon, so that I can actually function in BG’s.
I do have a redeeming story though. In a Warsong Gulch game later on, I managed to capture the flag all three times, with the help of Adam as healer, without whom I would have ended up as a squishy smear on the bottom of a raptor’s foot. Damn hunters.
So now I’m faced with a dilemma, level or do BG’s at 29? Life’s full of tough choices.
Posted on September 19, 2007 - by Brian
My new obsession
Funnily enough, I started writing a post last night, but never got around to finishing it. The title? “Procrastination, let’s begin!…later” A fitting end for a post about putting things off till later.
First there was Gunbound, then there was Myspace, and then World of Warcraft came along. While all of those were fun, they eventually wore off, proving that I do have an addictive personality, but it seems that my addictive personality has an attention span slightly better than that of a goldfish’s.
The latest in this long string of addictions comes in the form of Stickam, one of the 
newest networking sites that have appeared out of nowhere. The words under its logo read “The Live Community” which are a pretty much accurate description of what it does. Stickam lets its users communicate with each other using their webcams, either by having one user host a room which other people can join, or by someone forming a chatroom which anyone can join.
Now I personally like the idea of a web based video conferencing tool, but during the four hours I used it, I felt just a little bit like a creepy old man sitting across from a high school, watching all the kids do stuff as they left school. I mean, sure, it’s fun to sit there and talk to your friends, or make more friends over the net, but wouldn’t you be paranoid that someone was pretending to be something they weren’t while they’re talking to you?
Another thing that I noticed was the amount of people who leave their cams online 24/7. The whole thing feels like a few dozen mini-Big Brothers all squished together for the convenience of all the voyeurs out there who enjoy watching the drama in other people’s lives.
Anyway the whole thing got me to thinking about how the media has been talking about how the latest generation despise the chatroom and email as things of the past. Stickam seems to have given the whole chatroom thing a facelift, since they now have chatrooms open that can hold heaps of people, and stream video at the same time. So maybe the media was a bit hasty in giving chatrooms the “dead” label.
But I have spent way too much time on the computer. (Stickam is my life now) And I should be getting to bed. How weird would it be if I had a Stickam themed dream?
