there'd be no distance that could hold us back

Oh man, I already geeked about Cataclysm in my last post, but I'm still starry-eyed for it :) I haven't been playing beta much, mostly because the recent patches have resulted in a lot of lag and graphical heavy lifting that my laptop isn't prepared for until I turn down settings, but the lag mostly happens in new areas like Uldum and Twilight Highlands.

From what instances I've done, I appreciate the fact that the DPS actually has to do crowd control. And it'll kill the masses of impatient players who want to rush through and AoE everything down. I'll stand still and let my healers recover mana, and I will sit idly by as idiot DPS go forth and pull. They will wonder why I don't pull the mobs off them, and as they eat dirt I will smile to myself. Farewell, GOGOGOGOGO player, we won't miss ya ;)


Another one I've got preordered, and my brother will go half and half on it with me, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood looks absolutely amazing, with the new solo campaign and multiplayer. The guys at Giant Bomb did a preview of the multiplayer assassination mode, and there's also an official walkthrough gameplay vid ( under here )


I'm loving the second especially because A) they aren't done with Ezio omgyay, and B) seems random, but I'm getting all tingly from the soundtrack. Jesper Kyd took Dreams of Venice and reworked it into another gorgeous variation, using more percussion and cellos and chorus, hnnggg.


*is a happy clam*

New OST stuff has been leaked for WoW: Cataclysm. I'm a HUGEHUGE dork for this alone, but there's a mishmash of nerdy references on top of that. An NPC named Horatio Laine, who wears sunglasses and, I assume, makes extremely bad one liners, is investigating the death of a beloved horse in Westfall. The theme music for (what I assume to be) the Who Killed Old Blanchy? questline has, well, some rather close instrumental similarities to a movie about a certain Victorian consulting detective. Also, the track is called Mysterious (a Mystery is afoot!) Blizzard, you cheeky bastards.

But yeah, the new music is IMMENSE. Even if you have no interest in Warcraft whatsoever, it's totally worth a listen :D A few of my favorites from the new expansion:

The Shattering, wherein WoW lets its Lord of the Rings show.
The Night Elves
Cold Mountain, which is far too beautiful to just be generic music for areas like Alterac and other mountainous regions.
Nordrassil
The Skywall

Real names on Battlenet forums: CANCELLED


And the world (of warcraft) breathed a sigh of relief :P

Very quickly, I've been messing with my WoW UI once again, and this time I'm testing out TukUI. At the behest of Nikki (firedragon9), a screenshot!

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Not sure if I'm taking it over Pitbull just yet (have to test it on my main first) but it is rather pretty :)

Doctor Who todayyyy, yeaaahhhh!



Of course I'll have to wait another couple hours than my British friends, being on entirely the wrong side of the world, but Twitter will be active, therefore I shall be entertained in the meantime :)



I promised firedragon9 AAAAAGESSSS ago that I'd do some screenies to show her my UI, and finally I have been not-lazy enough to upload and post, though since I got my new sparkle pony (ie Celestial Steed), I feel like I'm going to end up having a screenshot-palooza of the WoW variety coming up :3

( UI pics for Nikki! )

So, Doctor Who this afternoon, catching on up my politics, Icecrown Citadel raid tonight, everything is shiny all around :) Hope everyone is doing well!

WHY DO JOURNALS WHICH I CAN'T FREAKING READ KEEP FRIENDING ME? I can;t even figure out what language it is (guessing Eastern European/Russia or thereabouts), but all I know is there's symbols I can't read and I've got like three friending me which I have not friended back, because I'm worried about journal security after those issues last year. HALP.


It's spring break! :) Obvs I'm not the type to got out to Cancun and flash my boobs at Joe Rogan's cameras, so I'm probably just going to end up hanging out with my friends more and work on the SERIOUSLY WONDERFUL new Final Fantasy ^__^ The story is completely engrossing, new revamped battle system rocks the house, there are beautiful, kickass ladies hey there, surging number of girlcrushes *__* My Warcraft account is feeling kind of neglected because of it, but there's very little I can do other than raise my baby shaman anyway >.>


Another small update on the will situation: basically, will says house that Papa lived in and his car go to my dad, Chester says Paul should get both because "He's not getting anything" from the will, Dad calls bullshit, has a lawyer check out the will, finds they both legally belong to Dad, so his brothers can suck it. At best, Dad will let Paul stay there and make him pay rent, but Paul's got too much pride to end up paying my dad anything, so I don't know! Things are looking quite bright :)

And now for something completely different.


My guild buddy got his WoW account hacked yesterday D: Poor guy got most of his gear sold to vendors, his bank cleared out of all the old tier gear, bc he's sentimental like that, enchanting and leatherworking and jewelcrafting supplies stolen from the guild bank and sent off/sold, frost and triumph badges spent. Most likely the frost was used to buy primordial saronite and sold for ridiculous gold, but only about 60 gold was left of his almost 600. Thankfully, he picked up that something was wrong real fast when he checked out his gear score on wow-heroes.com, then found he couldn't log onto his account bc the hacker used an AUTHENTICATOR.


He got a hold of Blizzard, who unlocked it and he changed his password/e-mail to make sure the hacker couldn't get in again, but man, he's pretty devastated. He'd been saving up to get the crazy good frost badge libram for Ret paladins, and he JUST GOT this weapon he'd been waiting for, but now he's pretty much cleaned out and the bastard hacker was continuing to use the toon to farm for more stuff to sell. It wouldn't cost Blizzard anything to refund the lost items and badges, and I just hope my friend remembers all the gear he had. Blizz has to have some way of tracking in-game mail, right? Right?


It's terrible of me to try and benefit from this, but lesson learned, Blizzard authenticator ordered and being shipped to me in 2-3 biz days >.> They're only about seven bucks, Blizzard's waiving shipping costs in lieu of the current financial weather, and I'll soon be the proud owner of a Corehound Puppy (who are beyond cute. I'm not even a hardcore pet collector, but they're SO CUTE.) Pictures forthcoming.


But some good news too: my resto shaman buddy got his first tier 10 (shoulders, woot!). My Death Knight has got her tier 10 shoulders and frost badge cloak, which my guild leader enchanted to the hilt ^__^ So she's now ICC10 ready, and with the money I'm getting back from taxes this year, I can finally afford to change her name so that dumb symbol isn't there anymore (which I only put there in the first place because on my old server, the non-whacked version was already taken). My prot paladin has her tier 10 shoulders as well, but the next batch of badges are going toward a new trinket, since I only hang onto that blue because of the nice stamina boost, even though it's dragging down my gear score D:

Gear score, btw, is the most inane, rage-inducing addon ever created, but I'm forced to care about it bc people running raid PuGs care about it. FML.

Also considering dropping Retribution from my pally and picking up Holy, since we have so many people already covering the dps spec in my guild and only one healer-specced. I'll still be a main tank, but maybe I'll get the opportunity to play around with healing in heroics :3


EDIT: oh and Sanctified Scourgelord Gauntlets dropped for me in VoA 25 and I won them ^__^ gogo, suped-up tier 10 drops

Just a quick series of announcements:

-Nikki! I am officially back on World of Warcrack! If you're down to playing on Saturdays again, that would be most excellent :D

-Sarah! I've sent you something, fufufufufu...

-I don't really have a third point, I just wanted to gloat that I have a download of the David Tennant-headlined broadcast of Hamlet played on Boxing Day ASDFJKL;

I love Matt Damon XD I don't even watch Entourage, but this is amazing.


Moar WoW progression! I finally completed all the (required) Hallow's End achievements (for serious, screw collecting all those racial masks, I am SO glad that wasn't part of the process) and I got my title! (no, I don't really have a blank ring space, btw, just for some reason my Ring of Ghoulish Glee isn't showing.)

I'm am excited to get this on my death knight ^__^ They're already pretty Halloween, with the big blue glowy zombie eyes XD Now gonna work on getting the Headless Horseman's mount, but I haven't even seen it drop yet :(

Meanwhile I look longingly at the old tier 6 Lightbringer paladin armor sets (here's the Retribution set, plus the draenei version, drooool) and lament the fact that A) I'd have to get together several raid groups (ten AND 25 man) if I even wanted this set, B) they've been outclassed by the Wrath of the Lich King sets, and C) it'd just be for vanity because it looks so freaking cool. The little crown/halo helm is ASDFJKL; I am a TOTAL geek by admitting I love that :D Ask me again why paladins > all, why don't you?


Thanks for all the messages I've been getting guys, you really are the best ♥

So I finally got fed the fuck up with PvP shenanigans and I'm switching two of my toons over to the Durotan PvE server :| I ADORED the rare occasions wherein a Hordie would help me out with a quest rather than electing to gank me (a favor which I returned) and afterward we'd exchange a little /nod or /bow and be on our merry ways. But (and this is something I probably knew from the beginning) having a personal set of PvP rules, having principles about who I gank (read: people who are actually worth honor points to me, not lowbies, people who aren't questing so as I don't screw up their quest, people who aren't totally being douches) has done me very little good as, let's face it, this is the internet and as long as people have the opportunity to be anonymous dicks, they will take it. Actually functioning on honor doesn't mean very much at all.

So if anyone is on Durotan US (Alliance side), look up my 39 paladin Anaan, or soon my 80 Death Knight Dähaka is going to be transferring over, as soon as I tie up some loose ends. Or if you run across me, just give me a /poke and I'll help you kill mobs :)



I reminded myself of why I love visiting ontd_political today with this article wherein the "author" is the illustration of what Stephen Colbert is parodying while berating Stephen for apparently representing one of the most dangerous trends in America right next to Islamic terrorism. I...have no words. Stephen couldn't have written this. At first I



but then I




In less wanktastic/lulzy news, someone made an Andrew Bird picspam that outlines his constant state of pure awesome, and my eyes are HUGE HEARTS ^____^ Do yourself are favor and check it out!