88 posts tagged “random”

This post is a shout-out to all dem menz out thur playing girl characters in WoW that have really, really horrible girly names.. most recently, my newest guildmate Sparkleyes.

So as I sit here and purposely call you "she" repeatedly, hold steadfast. You leveled that character to 70, a few more weeks/months of me harassing you about it isn't going to kill you. Represent, weirdos.

You role-players though, I'll never cut you slack. You're so weird, they had to give you your own server type.

(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

Martha and the Vandellas

We're having a crazy heat wave in San Francisco, or so the news headlines lead me to believe. This means sexy time free transit. I was completely unaware of this and was ready to board the bus today, towing nickels and dimes in my pocket to pay the 1.50$ fare, so I was pleasantly surprised. These Spare the Air days are awesomely timed as I am broke. Hello 3 dollars saved and spent on Java Monster drinks instead! I suggest trying 'em: Loca Mocha tastes like creamy iced coffee (it's my favourite), Big Black is a less creamy coffee flavour, and Mean Bean tastes like it has a subtle hint of egg nog even though my boyfriend doesn't agree.

In regards to WoW, I'm currently on my continued quest to find a new server. I've applied to one guild on Aerie Peak and am eagerly awaiting a reply. If they give me a big fat no before AV holiday weekend is over, I will start my search on other servers as Dalaran and Khaz Modan, my other two choices, seem to have no organised guild websites nor five-days-a-week raiding guilds. I'm hopeful though still distraught over the derailment of my previous guild.

After being drunk for three days straight and an unceremonious /gquit, I am searching for servers to transfer to for the purpose of raiding and PVP. The process happened like so:

What I want:
- decent battleground and arena action
- emphasis on mid-Karazhan and motivation to progress
- generally friendly people and proper economy

Step #1: I figured the easiest way I could narrow the field of servers was by looking at Battlegroup forums. Sifting through twink posts, I got a general feeling for how the battlegrounds and arena teams were. Once I had gone through the list of Battlegroups, I came up with three that were acceptable. From this list, I compiled 20 PVE servers I would evaluate for transfer to.

Step #2: I rated the 20 servers by first forum page results, guild progression, and amount of guilds (Y/N). The forums and progression were graded from 1 to 10, 1 being absolutely drab and depressing, and 10 being an exact fit for me. None of them ranked 10, and actually the highest ranked one came up at a 15 (adding progression score with forum score.) I picked the top four graded servers from my list and continued..

Step #3: For the last four servers, I checked their realm census and the first five pages of their forums. Forum results were graded 1-10, and the realm census either garnered a yes or no. Going through the first five pages gives a good idea of what guilds are/were recruiting, what the forum posters said to most people wondering if they should transfer, and the general attitude of the most active people on the server. After marking off one server, I'm left with three.

Step #4: Perhaps one of the most time consuming, it involves creating a throw away character to troll the capital cities of these servers. I haven't completed my tour yet, but the last three servers are: Aerie Peak, Dalaran, and Khaz Modan.

My boyfriend laughed at my process, and keeps on telling me to "transfer to Turalyon" or whatever, even though that was one of the lowest scored servers on my second step. I think I'm being thorough. :( I had to do this for me, since my guild recruitment post basically got laughed at because I'm a mid-Karazhan healer decked out in non-heroic (read: 70 PVP blues) gear. My feelings are hurt.. but I'll just kill people to make myself feel better.

Good day, sir.

My boyfriend's WoW account was hacked. We had an inkling when he signed on a few weeks ago (he doesn't play WoW anymore but still has an active account) and signed off quickly before I could whisper sexy greetings to him. I called him up on the telephone and was like, "sups?" to which he said he was napping and couldn't possibly have signed on. That should have raised a big red flag and he should have changed his password right then but he was probably too busy and didn't pay much mind.

So today, I saw him logged on while I was on the phone with him. I asked him what he was doing and of course, it wasn't him. I tracked down his doppelganger in the Auction House and emote poked and greeted him. This person on my boyfriend's account actually had the gall to whisper me and I figured this the best time to talk it up. He had put all of my boyfriend's banked herbs up on the Auction House, at actually surprisingly unreasonable prices!

Plot: Do not let this person know who I am, be specific yet vague, and force them to either admit something that is a lie and trip them up or talk them up so much that they cannot stand the pressure and log off. After the sick mother angle failed, I decided to go the college detail route with this as I could be utterly specific while not giving everything away. This whole time I was tracking this fellow, making him so uncomfortable in Ironforge that he actually FLEW and boated it to Darnassus to finish up his Auction House work, then went to Azshara to pick herbs. I have an add-on that logs ALL of my whisper chats so I was able to copy and paste WORD FOR WORD. Enjoy!

Doppelganger: hey
Me: What's up? :) I haven't seen you on in a while.
DG: :)
Me: Is your mother doing okay? :/
DG: no  im  lvler only
Me: What? Well, either way, I hope your mother gets well soon.
DG: I am his friend  oh  tyvm
Me: I'm bored, you need any help running instances?
DG: no ty
Me: It's a pretty tempting deal. :) Besides, it's the least I can do considering all the help Geir's given me.
DG: :) ty
Me: We could run Uldaman.
DG: no i wanna lvling only
Me: You could level in Uldaman! Quests! Surely you have some quests there. Or I suppose we could drudge through Dire Maul.
DG: it is low  lvl
Me: Dire Maul, too low! You're kidding me! .. For you?
DG: its uldaman :)
DG: im farming omly now
Me: Good, I need herbs for Flasks of Mighty Restoration!

- after a few minutes -
Me: So how do you know Geir? You go to school with him?
DG: yes
Me: What's your major? Because I was trying to get some things going.
DG: English
DG: waht do u need?
Me: I don't know, was thinking about getting together to collab on a script at Franz Hall.
( I at this point looked up a map of UCLA and am just making stuff up based on that.)
DG: :)
Me: What professor you have for English this semester? Is it Mott? :( Because I feel bad for you if it is. I had her my first year and gave me nothing but trouble.
DG: :0
DG: :)
Me: Have you met Mott before?
DG: no
Me: That's surprising, she usually emails everyone before class. :/
Me: What dorm are you staying in? We might be dorm neighbours!
Me: Hello?

- a few more minutes pass -
Me: Oh! So I forgot to mention, Sandra from Geir's class, you know her right? She got knocked up!
DG: yes :)
Me: Has she talked to you at all?
Me: You're Richard right?
( I'm totally making everything up. )
Me: I know Richard plays WoW sometimes.
Me: Knowing how things turn out, we could meet up at Sandra's baby shower. It's like, August 14 or something.
Me: Small world around here, ya know.

At this point, he logs off the account. I check my boyfriend's alts. A kind friend from back in ye olden days, who actually use to quest with me and my boyfriend and was in my guild, helped conjure up more whisper-based stories. When all was said and done, and the guy logged off, my friend declared me the Nancy Drew of WoW. And just in case you were wondering, my boyfriend changed his password while I was keeping the WoW leech busy.

Later I logged onto my boyfriend's account with his knowledge and new password, looking to see how much damage was done. This gold farmer had emptied out my boyfriend's bags, filled them completely with ammo and only left space for the herbs he was picking. His bank account was emptied as well, the few things remaining were the Ungoro Crater power crystals I had sent him so long ago, and the single white kitten I had bought for him. However the recipes I had sent to him were gone (placed up on the Auction House) as well as the higher level herbs I had received as drops. The doppelganger had also placed all the cloth my boyfriend was saving for bandages up on Auction House and all the potions that were being saved for a later time. And of course, all of my boyfriend's gold was gone, all being left was 2 gold to be used for listing things to be bid on.

When things like this happen to the ones I love, it really frustrates me. I preach computer security on a regular basis. Have a strong password and change it regularly, don't surf weird sites, check links before clicking (go as far as you need to before you make that commitment depending on the website), don't install suspicious things, have a router and software firewall, never log into your OS as admin and ideally have two anti-virus/anti-spyware programmes. It's not hard. :( Hopefully this has been a lesson to my boyfriend and he will shape up. I wish he was bringing his laptop up with him on this visit, as I could look around and find the keylogger programme. I'm dreadfully curious.

Grace-Monday: Seriously though, I don't have a cellphone for people to call me. I have a cellphone so I can read stuff on the internets while I'm way from home.
Grace-Monday: I read so much random wikipedia goodness while I'm on the bus.
Derek: wiki is the greatest thing to happen to the internet
Grace-Monday: I don't even know what I'm reading most of the time. But just by links, sheer links, it never ends. Because you read something, then you're like, "wtf does that mean? Who is that?" Then wham! You're hooked again!
Derek: yeah pretty much lol
Derek: did you know theres horse flavored ice cream
Grace-Monday: No! I didn't!
Grace-Monday: But surely you found this out on Wikipedia.
Grace-Monday: The best thing since horse flavoured ice-cream.
Derek: i forgot how i got there, i was reading about some food and got linked to horse meat and then to the ice cream
Grace-Monday: Wikipedia is truly awesome.

There's something about Storm Hawks that gives me a slight headache. I like some of the character designs and appreciate how smooth the cel shading is but I think the biggest problem IS the fact that the cel shading is so smooth. It often feels like everything else is running on a faster FPS than all the characters' mouths, giving the effect of some queer slow motion. When I'm watching it, I can look at everything but the character's faces because the different timing makes me ill.

It's become a bit hard to watch kids shows these days because they make everything so fast and seizure-prone. :/ No wonder kids are all messed up.

I like how the only thing that changed with the latest WoW patch, that I've noticed/experienced, is that now my Draenei shaman makes hoof prints in snow/sand. Before, she didn't and the only method in which to track me on foot would be if I were in ghostwolf form, because I'd leave paw prints. While my hoof prints generally amuse me during long Alterac Valley runs, I got so use to not leaving any tracks. :(