Need Oinkment

The Unliving Swine of Borean Tundra seem to have a very interesting ability:

Swine Flu - Spell - World of Warcraft

Nothing to fear, just make sure you have plenty of oinkment.

Of course, hilarious as it is, this is by no means an attempt by Blizzard to poke fun at a potentially deadly disease. This spell has been in game since the first beta version of WotLK came out about a year ago. Besides, there has been Swine Flu cases in humans as early as 1976.

More eggs of the Easter kind

I am sure this is nothing new to people who scout out for such stuff but a guildie just found out that in the Dalaran sewers’ arena circles the later to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are receiving training from a wizened rat:

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If you leveled any character in vanilla WoW I am sure you remember fondly of the Darrowshire questline, that started by the ghost of little Pamela Redpath. The inventory icon of her doll must have been the single creepiest drawing in game at that time. Now with the Culling of Statholme event in the Caverns of Time you can find the whole Redpath family, all of them alive still, on the second story of the inn. Pamela even has the infamous doll on the bed:

little-pamela

While browsing wowhead.com for links I also stumbled upon this masterpiece; a player named Cranius was so inspired by the Darrowshire questline that he made a music video with an original song telling the tale of the Redpaths. Now seriously, you can claim that most MMO players are mindless addicts, but gems like this video prove that it’s not all about wasting time in front of a computer screen… if you ask me.

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pvc – return

One of the guild members in pvc is studying films. He set out to make a movie, and just recently shared this teaser with us. I think it’s quite epic. Only if I was his editor I’d change the taglines a bit. Nevertheless, pjn‘s pvc – return (teaser):

Sidenotes: That Patchwerk kill was quite epic, half the raid dead and Alice, our healer, moonfiring PW to death. And we worked quite hard to finally see Malygos drop to the void like that.

WotLK

This post holds little information for non-WoW players.

The reason I haven’t posted in more than a week is that the expansion to World of Warcraft came out. I have spent enough time in front of the computer as it was, and didn’t have the motivation to blog really.

It’s also the fact that I kind of like the changes and improvements WotLK brought. The new areas are breathtaking, instances included. Just flying around and observing is great fun. Also the new quests and places to explore are a welcome change from the umpteenth dungeon run or raid.

I started off with Silq, my warrior. However what begun as checking out the new hero class, evolved into a complete change of plans and now I’m leveling my death knight, Milq, instead. To be honest I was caught right on the character selection screen when I saw the looks…

Other than playing a bit more than usual there really is nothing happening around here. Same classes, same boredom, same frustrations.

Redshift: Pursuit

A BlizzCon nominee for Best Drama. I really like the creativity and the ingenious use of game resources behind the movie. It feels like a real one. If you’ve ever played WoW, it’s worth to check out.

The Passively Multiplayer Online Game

Igazából csak a neve miatt vicces a Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG). A dolog arról szól, hogy egy Firefox-addon telepítésével az amúgy monoton és unalmas böngészgetést játékká alakíthatjuk. Már aki unatkozik netezés közben.

A weboldalakon kincseket találhatunk, megtréfálhatjuk a következő látogatót csapdák elrejtésével, és küldetéseket adhatunk a többi játékosnak. Valamint minden meglátogatott site két adatpontot ér, mely pontokat a játék boltjában különféle felszerelésekre válthatunk be.

Nem mellesleg profil épül a netezési szokásainkból, amellyel aztán ki tudja mit kezd a játékot kitaláló cég.

ima the new there?

I used to blog about the they’re/their/there problem, and now I got to the point where sentences like “get there towers u nub” in AV don’t even make me wince. Alas, grammar is dead.

However, something that is quite new – at least to me – piqued my interest. Anyone who saw at least one Hollywood movie knows about “gonna” as a shorter form of going to. Recently I noticed people saying “ima go n get there towers” and such. Now this might be because of the server being Oceanic, nevertheless I’m guessing it’s a global trend. To use “ima” instead of “I’m gonna” (I’m going to) that is.

The real horror is when they start putting the “a” after other personal pronouns like: “hesa go n kill u nub” :evil:

Anyway, some googling turned up this gem I can’t really trump:

R.I.P. Modern English Grammar (1600s to December 9, 1991)

He is survived by his son, Lolzgrammer, and his spouse, Web 2.0.

His son issued the following statement:

Wut r u talkin bout? Lol, my dad aint ded, gtfo scrub, or ima go 133754|_|(3 on ur @$$!

Web 2.0 issued the following statement:

We feel heartfelt sorrow at the loss of Mr. M.E. Grammar, but we feel that we can now move on to a world with quicker communications where even the simplest of users can now share their thoughts and opinions through blogs, social networking sites, and wikis. We hope you join us in this new golden age of the Internet.