News Mar-29-06 

OMFG

Could BioWare be making a Star Wars MMORPG?! Penny Arcade and some other sources seem to think so! Holy shit I'm so excited!

I am a GEEK.

KA

 

  News Mar-26-06 

Screenshots!

Rose bought an iPod Nano on Friday; it's pretty neat, though I'm not sure I like the whole iTunes integration thing. I wish it could just work as an extra drive, like my own MP3 player does; it'd feel less like I'm part of some scam. At any rate, with all the peripherals and everything it cost her 400$ (CDN), which is a teeny bit pricey but not too bad (in my humble opinion). If it came in other colors besides black and white, maybe I'd get one as well; they (like just about every other Apple product, recently) are pretty fashionable.

I promised you some WoW screenshots, so here you go:

This is Rose's main (Meeks the cute little gnome) and my main (Aumana the undead chicky) sitting around doing jack in Tirisfal Glades. I think we were level, like 30 or something at this point. Meeks the gnome actually has a sister, who used to be my Alliance alt but isn't any longer. My new Alliance alt is Mezzen, who hangs out with Rose's paladin Detta while I try my best to get him up to Meeks' level. Rose is afraid of partying with other people (she's had terrible luck with parties, unlike me), so her quest log is currently full of instance quests -- which she can't do alone (unless they're lowbie instances, like Blackfathom Deeps, which we farmed over and over again 'cause it was fun as Hell) -- hence the reason for creating Mezzen. I find the Alliance boring as shit (despite the fact that it's admittedly pretty), so after some whining I managed to get Rose to jump over to the Horde. She runs an orc there that looks awesome and is totally the poster child for girl power, as well as a troll priestess (it's funny, 'cause in the screenshot the human girl standing beside Neph is actually my main in a Halloween costume; my main doesn't look like that at all...like, at all). I usually play rogues 'cause, well...I'm cheap, but two weeks ago I decided to try a playing a priest; it' actually pretty fun; Rose made a pally to support my sorry Alliance ass, and we named the two of them after a Sith Lord from KotOR and a dark side Jedi (go figure). We kinda participated in the recent Ahn'Kiraj event, and by that I mean that we had our unique kills stolen from us by a player 20 levels too high for the area he was 'poaching' in. We managed to waste one monster, though, after the guy got his ass handed to him (ha ha!) and got a crapload of good items for it. Besides that:

- these pants are painful to look at but oh so wicked
- the goblins are the embodiment of capitalism
- Rose promised me a dragon here but we got ripped off
- Blizzard has no dignity
- I <3 my mount

In other news, yesterday my D&D character got mind switched during a semi-botched assassination attempt. I'm pretty fucking pissed about it, to say the least. I'd go on, but it would only degenerate into a pointless and embarassing rant.

And finally, on Friday, I went out and bought Mao Tse-Tung's biography. Once I'm through with Ellul's Propaganda, I'll jump into that.

KA