drunkenpandaren

Ladies and gentlemen my name is TotalbiscuitShaun with another short.

It's been six months since the release of World of Warcraft Cataclysm. Actually seven now that we're now in June. And quite properly it's causing some concern. Our commentator Totalbiscuit has left the scene, disgusted with the lack of Abyssal Maw and I really don't blame him. I myself have no idea what the hell I am doing and just farming out Justice Points. Hell I could just simply top out and let myself have tons of it for when the new Tier 12 comes out, and Tier 11 gets bumped down.

I've settled into my new routine of weekends being absolute garbage for my RP drive, as well as games and other assorted media. In this I am a mixed bag cause I really like my weekends, but I also like MONEY which is said for a lot of things. Still, the work isn't hard and downright relaxing at times. Just me and the road and a little "Here's your pizza".

After procrastinating due to the fact of said money issues, I have recently come into the price range for Pokemon Black. Does anyone ANYONE wonder just how much stuff they put into this game? It's well paced, beautifully made, lots of bells, whistles and charm put into it. Though the free win from the first gym battle is slightly questionable but hell I am not complaining about that.

Duke Nukem Forever is coming out soon. I dunno what to think about that. It's been 12 frickin years since the last one came out and as much as I loved blowing up pigcops and vicious rounds of 2v2 being put down, I have to admit that I am on the fence for this one. It looks fantastic and the gameplay of the demo seems fine enough. Still, dunno.

Finally some fanfic stuff. I've been debating on how to proceed with RPM StrikerS as well as several other projects. I've quit the TV Tropes Negima Forum cause I was really not getting any decent feedback there. Also, I think my Rider love is just as strong as ever. I'll have to incorporate more of that into my fics. Also I'd like to somehow get a Frontier/Den-O crossover going.

As a last note, I've been RPing and I might want to try for Taichi. I have him, but I haven't done anything with him. Which is the problem. I downloaded the movies and the anime, so we'll see what comes up.

We'll see you all next time.

My Shaman and my Paladin are now 85. Seems to be about right. Feels good to be that level too.

Maybe now I can actually RP without it getting in the way.

Woke up this morning with a grade-a ache in my head. It's a headache but it's more of an ache-ache than anything else, like I slept wrong with my mouth open so my mouth has this terrible dryness to it.

As it stands, I'm looking forward to Keyblade Order and by damn I need to really make up the revisions on my app since it's a sample one.

Leveling up my Death Knight on Gnomeregan and it's a joy to see a furry angry ball of mean coming at you.

EDIT: Sigh. What a day. Kyle revealed he wasn't studying. He met a few failures and now he's all D: at studying and passing. Why doesn't he TRY HARDER? Well, forget that. I'm not holding his hand this time.

Day 1: 3:05 am. Went to Hyjal. NEVER AGAIN. I am waiting out the storm as everyone and their DOG is there. Tempted to go to Vashj'ir.

4:05 am. Said screw it. Went and excavated a pile of things. Listening to my brother complain on Skype about a helmet not spawning. Quite amused. Eating Shipao. Mouth burning from spicy sauce ogod need milk. Almost to max level in Archeology. Half through lv 80 to 81. Does anyone else see a pattern here?

4:13 am. Almost to max 75 Archeology. Should stop by and get my professions up a notch again. Harrison Jones is teaching it. I love Blizzard for combining Harrison Ford and Dr. Indy Jones. Kyle was previously freaking about helmet. Helmet found.

Man I need coffee. It's cold.

4;17 am. Going back to SW in order to get next level Archeology. Not getting skill ups at ALL wtf. Apparently my gathers are all greened out now. That makes Shaun a sad panda. Flying in Azeroth does help. And it only cost 200 gold for me. This is much more relaxing too.

5;17 am. Archeology continues. At lv 95ish already but at the same time, I've stopped skilling up since I hit 70. However I'm mining out stuff like Troll Tablets which exponentially add to the artifacts needed. I'm getting closer to more awesome stuff, I can TASTE it.

6:08 am. Still at Archeology. Gonna take a break soon for coffee. Already had something to eat so I should be good on that end. Amazing what going to bed early will do for your gaming drive.

7:58 am. After coffee and breakfast, I'm re-energized. I've hit 81 after my break of questing and I figure getting to 85 will be a walk in the park. The new gear makes my old stuff look like childrens toys at best, but it's still not that bad at all. The new 272's aren't as tough as my epic 251/264. I won't be outgrowing those till I get some blues. Gone back to Archeology.

3:56 pm. Took a long long nap to make up for my erratic sleeping today. Waiting in queue for getting onto Moon Guard. All my progression is there dagnabit!

Nomming on cold pizza and coffee this morning while being put to work doing, whatever. I have to mop today which I should do before the afternoon. Last night in RP in WoW was interesting to say the least, between a few riots and a attempted IC mugging. Which I thwarted and it was awesome. I discovered Rein is very quick to violence when roused.

Grandma is watching The Sound of Music again, and I fear she will have it blasting today. But at least the music is good. Though lately Goldshire people are coming into the city and I'm surprised that they're actually leveling up now. It's actually kind of refreshing.

I should work on some alts today. I could get my mage to at least Northrend.

I received my copy of Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R in the mail today.

My Cataclysm is downloaded and installed.

Birthday/Christmas Gift to me is completed as of the 30th. WOOOOO.

It has finally happened. Deathwing has arisen from his prison beneath the Maelstrom. And he just gave Azeroth a facelift for good or for bad.

I'm going to immortalize it with a Element EU post and a bit of fanfiction. ^_^

Since I wasn't woken up at the crack of dawn for cleaning the house, I can only assume that we're not going to have to worry about cleaning house today, even though I should vaccum it; it really needs it.

Mom's not around which means her friends must have dragged her out for coffee which is a good thing. It means her back is getting better now.

I've been thinking about my money situation and I guess I'll do what I can to repay everything I have. It won't be much per month but it's a start.

Finally, I've been thinking about getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh officially, the 5Ds TV show. But I'll have to hunt down torrents for about 30 episodes. What I have seen is pretty good mind you.

Sitting in Goldshire reading RSPs this morning. Then I'll get to tags later. Wearing my vanguard set. I'd like to see if there's a matching tier on the horde. I doubt it'd look just as good but eh.

Thinking about that WITCH fic to make it self-contained and what not. Might give that a go today.

Before I even think of sitting down and playing a video game, I need to vacuum the house. It's kind of dusty and I also should do some spot cleaning for the floor since I see spots everywhere. Done and Done. Woo.

Grandma's taken over the cooking which is a double edged sword in it's own right. On one hand, it's not BAD food, but at the same time, she has a penchant for way too much oil, onion and garlic. Talk about missing the point to eating healthy.

I didn't get a chance to read The Lost Hero again yesterday, too tired to do so. I'm tired today too, but at least I have a steady stream of coffee right now.

Need to pick up the truck from Fastlane Ford. Hopefully Kyle'll pop into the house before work time, so I can go get him to bring me to pick it up.

I need to decide which game I'm gonna focus on, WoW for holiday junk and meta achieves, Cross Edge or Atelier Rorona.

Also, found a direction for Ed. He's open an Atelier in T9, and it's a workshop to make little things here and there to big things. He'll probably leave clothing and blacksmithing to the actual professionals.

Still exhausted from the last couple of days, but I'm in a better mood. A little rambly though so that makes up for it.

My left leg still hurts a lot. But not as bad as before.

Been playing WoW and gearing my paladin for Shockadin. Why not? It's like seeing death coming at you in Northrend. It doesn't do too badly in PVP either.

On the state of RP tags, I'm still on an unannounced slowatus right now for all characters. Because well, my mom is in the hospital and I'd like to make sure to devote my time to waiting for her release and keeping the house clean.

Trust me, with a 3 year old kidlet in the house, it's hard.

Thus being said, if you don't get a tag from me... just wait longer.

On Tuesday, patch 4.0.1 for World of Warcraft dropped to live. This made me very happy.

The super extended maintanance didn't but who can really expect Blizz to get a product out quick?

I've been puttering around on all sorts of characters, and lately I leveled a shaman to 35. That was a lot of fun. I should do the same for another class, like maybe Warrior. Yes, the dreaded warrior. I have one kicking around Moon Guard right now, an elf. But I dunno, maybe? Should I? It's always up in the air with me.

Shamans are fantastic from 1 to 35 in two days so that entertained me a lot.

Just moving my hunter over to Northrend before I change characters.

Ladies and Gentlemen my name is Shaun of the Gamer Podcast This is my Gaming Life WTF coming to you live on livejournal dot com with another ranty rant disguised as a tldr short.

Okay, so I found the configurations menu for FF14 and with that being said, I turned down all of the settings to the absolute lowest detail, shadow resolution, etc.

Is it really necessary for FF to run at beautiful polygons even at the lowest possible setting? It doesn't make the game smoother, just choppier. I am rather disappointed in that considering my computer is about ten years old.

I'd love to play this at it's full intensity, but I fear I need way more RAM to play this properly, and I'm maxed out at 3. Looks like Square, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make the game beautiful and not simply functional like say Warcraft.

Although what gameplay I do get out of it is a lot of fun. Crafting items is especially rewarding, but I shouldn't roll a pure trade skill character anymore, not if I want to sate my need for blowing shit up.

Some people might note that I seem to be gripey this morning well there's a good reason for that. Last night I went to bed round 2 and woke up at 3:45 believing there was someone lurking in my room. After ten minutes of sheer panic and hoping they'd go away, I fumbled for my glasses like a sightless kitten and turns out it was just a shadow. a really convincing shadow no less.

So I went down, babbled to Ketsu a little on the comp, and got my mage up a little more on WoW. Seriously. Worst Night Ever. And here I am caffinated just to stay awake and alive cause I'm afraid the gruelies'll get me. Like having something stalking you from the fifth dimension.

Yes it is 10:50 in the morning I GET THAT. doesn't do much for panic though.

Ever notice old movies where people are driving vehicles, they're always mindlessly waggling the steering wheel back and forth? Or when people play video games on television or movies, they're just hammering at the controller, not even really doing much of anything. I find that odd because real gamers don't jump and roll with their character like how it was believed in Nintendo where you'd swing the rectangle controller up Mario would make that jump. No it doesn't work. Still, it's a shade better than playing a game and discovering that all you have for offensive capabilities is Throw Rock and by god I am not joking about that. A level 4 Culinist, thats food makers for short people, has the ability to throw ROCKS at things. Oh, and just to not put a fine point onto it, you can learn "Wrist Flick" which will throw, wait for it, ANOTHER rock. But this time so hard it stuns.

Or misses.

Or does 2 points of damage.

Basically put Culinists are NOT good for fighting, I learned this the hard way, and I rerolled a Thurmagist. Wasn't too impressed either, not with the nancy Umbra and Luna spells. Give me FIRE yon Final Fantasy of worth! Flames for the flame god!

I'd be playing WoW right now but it's down for the count till after noon. Maybe I should poke FF again once I'm done mucking with the settings. Really, I have to turn FF OFF in order to change the settings. How bloody fantastic is that, really. Like forcefeeding a gnome till they grow big as an Ogre.

Oh speaking of that, I made a character on WoW, a fire mage in anticipation of the patch which won't drop today I'd imagine. I FINALLY got my bloody pyroblast and I know that once I login somehow I will have lost that ability. Don't ask me how but at least I macroed Dragon Slave to it. With some modifications. What rhymes with Set the Tank on Fire and send him into the mobs. Hey, it works for Binwin Bronzebottom and Jim Darkmagic, why not in WoW.

Along with making her purely fire I also added a profile. And being a short stacked tiny chested fire mage with pyromatic tendencies, I named her Tillywink Explodia Inverse. The Pink. Yes I am hitting on all of the cylinders this morning shut the fuck up. One of the moments I included was she likes to eat, which is a basic concept amidst spellcasters. You cast spells, you burn calories, you eat until you are full and you burn things with searing immolation AGAIN, it's like a vicious cycle that doesn't end when you hit 80. Well in any case, some weirdo Draenei Priest whispered me while I was running out of Goldshire, or as I like to call it the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy, and never more often has that been appropriate in WoW. Don't ask for details, they're probably horrifying and filled with horse****ed women. Yes, it's weird don't ask don't tell.

Getting back to that, the priest wanted to quote "feed me until I was big as an ogre". Apparently he has some kind of food based fetish or fat girl or something. I'm sorry but mages DO NOT GET FAT. We burn CALORIES. We blow up shit. Our daily food intake is directly proportional to how much stuff is set on fire, looted and set on fire again to make sure it doesn't reincarnate as an Elite Mob. That and the entire concept was just disturbing to me. At least I can be rude OOCly and ICly because Tilly has no remorse if she pisses someone off. She'll just laugh at their character sheet.

At least I'm in the Draenei starting zone now, so I can immolate to my hearts content. Although My fireball does NOT do enough damage over time damage. Twelve bloody points oh woo freakin hoo. I should go pick up the glyph that lowers my fireball cast spell by .15 but removes the tick. They'll be dead anyhow, or already on fire from Ignite. It's a toss up.

Can't wait for that, Ignite I mean. The talent's been retooled and I find it really very easy to pull a lot of mobs with a single Fire Blast. It turns your Blast from a single target into an AOE damage ability. Hits the target, and then hits everything ELSE around it at the same time. Coupled with instant Flamestrike we are looking at a lot of damage. And I just know that somehow I will feel emasculated once the patch hits because I worked SO damn hard for level 20 for my portal and blink and evocation and most importantly Pyroblast, and when I get my new talents, it'll just respec and they'll hand it to me on a silver platter. With a 3 second cast time no less. Yes, that's a lot of fun. Down from 6 which is RIDICULOUS. Why would anyone even USE pyroblast unless it was for the proc. Honestly.

This has been Shaun with the last of my short. I'll see you next time.

I think it's about time I start taking a slight break from WoW, Raiding in general to be sure of. I do love it, but I don't have the time or patience to headwall vs Sindragosa for the next few days/weeks/etc. Work and RL getting in the way. So I'll just putter around a little later on.

On a note of things, we just got a Raine Sage. Godfreakindamn I want to app Estelle but that's the fabled 8th slot talking now. Probably will not, and will never happen unless Ed, well, fades away into musespace.

I'm thinking I could do a better job with Estelle when she has no impetuous to sleep around.

So, you know what they say, "When you PTR, you never go back". I think that's true. We're still looking at adjustments to the game, but since the data is available now, it's a good sign.

Trying out my new premade Gnome Warlock named Gnorlin, and I'm hoping to see what kind of madness we're looking at so far.

People are saying one thing and another on different classes, but they're still testing. I've submitted numerous bug fixes lately too.

Well, we'll see how Gnorlin performs with the new Soul Shard Mechanic.

While not a literal good Friday holiday, it's a good Friday. Played some BBS, hurdled a couple of worlds. Powered up Terra like whoa but he needs more HPs.

Also, I got my Shaman Tier 10 4set bonus. While it's not spectacular, there's a hidden stat that I find amazing.

Set (2): Your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells reduce the remaining cooldown on your Elemental Mastery talen by 2 sec.

That first set is amazing because it makes me pew pew harder.

Set (4): Your Lava Burst spell causes your Flame Shock effect on the target to deal at least two additional periodic damage ticks before expiring.

While it doesn't sound quite as amazing, it has a hidden stat as it REFRESHES that tick damage, letting me not have to fire a flame shock. And if I need to, I let it run out and it deals tons of damage.

I'm pretty happy today. And such, off hiatus.

WoW RP is similar to RP on Livejournal. You have your actions, turns, conversations but with more macros and gear to represent who you are.

Lately I've encountered a druid who Rein and Yue call Mr. Chicken who wants to change the very core of Rein into something suiting himself. How do I tell them that I don't like this? It's too creepy, and to be honest, I'm kinda worried that I have a bit of a stalker. I mean, everywhere I go, people are going "OMG your outfit's so great", "Holy crap what a great RSP profile!".

But there's a comfort zone thing happening here. I dislike Family RP with a passion rivaling Supergate explosions. Some situations it's fine, if you build to it. This is all at once, and it's creeping me out.

Sigh.

24 hours without Moon Guard come tomorrow. I'm sure I'll survive considering I'm going to Edmonton for the day, but still, it's going to be 24 hours without really good RP.

I guess I could just play Sisters for a while...

I redid a few icons and made one.



EDIT: Sisters is one of the ones being overhauled. GAO.

EDIT EDIT: Remember, not here. Edmonton.

So I noticed I was steadily declining in actual RP in Planeocracy and Never Was, so I decided to take a few personal days to clear my mind and enjoy gaming and other such stuff for a bit without tags to worry about. Also, it's to focus more on Corinth than it is on anything else. With Trans9 having a few problems right at the moment I'd hiatus from it too, but that'd just make me feel like a quitter.

Got some nice stuff in ICC last night though. Two runs back to back oi vey hehe.

I've been mulling PBs over. Anyone know of a good red haired young female who could play the part of Elohika Rein? My paladin.

Lately I've been seriously getting neck-deep into rpgthatneverwas as a real outlet for my insanity. Having one sane character (Terra) and two semi-crack ones (Stitch and Organization Moogle), I finally found a place that I can settle into without fail.

Also, atlantus_taonas is starting to pick up which is good. Though trans_9 is just, I dunno, it feels like HOME. Especially since Fletcher-mun from P_W is apping there now. That alone makes me feel good.

However, I'm just not feeling it at permanent_way I just dunno what it is really. For some reason, I can't get into the game. And I'm sure everyone's heard me griping that pokeology_rp and thepraxeum are almost totally dead right now save for some brief bursts of activity. In Praxeum's case, Mags and I are waiting to see what's going on. I don't have any of the mods' AIM's though so... yeah.

The first major snowfall of the year hit, and it was a big one. We had a fairly large dump of snow in October but this was the first major blizzard of the year. So strong in fact that it disrupted my internet connection so much that I was Disconnecting from WoW yesterday. It never happens to me so I can only blame the storm.

I missed the roll on Shaman Boots which was a shame really to a pug. But aw well. It's a pug.

On a note, I think the the_love_hotel has really worn me down. I think I'll post again later in the next week. I just can't deal with that place right now cause for some strange reason I'm bored of it.

And on a final statement, I redid Matt's icons lackofdarkwings and they look great.

Kinda feels weird not having an active subscription to World of Warcraft. Got on today briefly, told Dyna to let Yrok know what's up and then ported my brother. While the game still handles awesome, I'm still kinda tired of it right now.

On the upside, I've been playing Phantom Brave and it's just as awesome as it used to be. Should give Another Marona a try too.

Dissidia is kicking my ass but I'm swapping story modes from Warrior of Light to Cloud. Seriously Ultimecia? Go fuck yourself. Stop raping the Warrior.

Finally, I think Prinny's going to inherit the sheer awesome that is Dissidia-type fighting. It's not like Netherworld_RPG will put a stop to it anyhow: it's based on NIS. Everything they DO is over the top.

Now to continue playing Legendia so I can develop that Chloe muse.