Boo

You kids be safe out there tonight. And if you must drink, invite a nerd along as a designated driver. Believe me, that's win/win for everyone.

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My AV Weekend

So this was probably the last holiday weekend for World of Warcraft's Alterac Valley battleground, as we recently knew it. Version 3, we may come to call the current AV. (Version 1, the long-queue long-battles. Version 2, the removal of 2908902 NPCs. And Version 3, …

Oh. No.

That was an interesting story, lemmetellya.
And COMPLETELY not my fault.
That, and more, from my very WoW AV weekend ... tomorrow.
EDIT: Did I say Tuesday? I meant Wednesday.

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Where in the WoW?

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Come! Come! Turtle these mangy Frostwolf dogs!

A screenshot from a recent (could be any) Alterac Valley, and like always, the Alliance General Vanndar Stormpike calls for a turtle. What a moron.
(For those who are WoW-free, a turtled PVP battleground is 100% defense -- either forced or voluntary.)
Here's some …

Where in the WoW?

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Hallow's End 2007

Let the overcamping of the Headless Horseman begin!
Because, apparently, we are people of very little ambition, my guild spent an hour of our pre-work/school time running the Headless Horseman script in the graveyard wing of the Scarlet Monastery.
Here's the Pumpkin …

Only in My Guild

So on the weekend, I'm in a World of Warcraft guild group leveling up alts to cover some holes in our raiding roster. One of our sloppier raiders logged on and told the guild he was having a GREAT day!
Thought me: please don't ask .. please don't ask .. please don't …

Beowulf

The latest in the marketing campaigns by World of Warcraft for others, the upcoming movie, Beowulf:
We are happy to announce our latest contest, Legendary Tales, inspired by the upcoming Paramount Pictures movie Beowulf. In the style of a graphic novel, tell us your …

About a Girl

Here's an interesting story from this past summer about a girl and a guild and the kind of passion only phatty lewt and nudie pics can inspire: Project X.
Author Tockaray introduces us to druid Elluna, destroyer of guilds:
In retrospect, she literally destroyed the …

You're Pro or You're a Noob

The best paladin in the world shares some of his pro PVP skills with the world. (NSFW: language and monitor humping.)

Oh how I hope this is just the first of a series.
(Athene's Blog)

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Where in the WoW?

(Screenshot by emailer Brian.)
Site note: AFK Gamer is being moved to a different server over the weekend so if you come here to waste productive working hours and I'm gone: no, I didn't die and no, you can't have my stuff. The move should be completed by Monday …

All in the Family

A World of Warcraft, Illidan-realm poster demonstrates the importance of self-editing: Is this game good for family boning?

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Gone Fishin'

I found a superb World of Warcraft fishing guide, updated for Burning Crusade angling: El's Extreme Anglin'. The guide includes the basics plus advanced information including maps, the rares, equipment advice and details about MR. PINCHY, the magical crawdad ... and …

Noooooooooo!

For those of you waiting breathlessly for Warhammer Online beta invites, you will not like this: Warhammer Online to Close Beta Servers for Two Months.
Basically, EA Mythic is closing down the beta servers on October 10, 2007 and they won't be reopened for pleasure …

The WoW Patch 2.3 Leveling Changes

Nethaera, Blizzard poster, announced the "Leveling Improvements for Patch 2.3" today on the World of Warcraft forums.
Summarized and clipped:
The first notable change was to simply reduce the amount of experience needed each level by approximately 15% between levels 20 …

The Lawgiver

World of Warcraft shills for Toyota trucks.
(via Curse)

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Where in the WoW?

(As screenshot by Fraxx of Psycho E-bitch)

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A Change in the Alterac Valley Winds

The proposed changes to Alterac Valley were posted this afternoon on ye olde World of Warcraft forums.
We all love background flavor, but let's get down to it. Nethaera said (clipped by me at will):
Each team will have a starting reinforcement count. Reinforcements can …

Brewfest 2007

There were some hotfixes applied to the world event Brewfest, namely they disabled the Dark Iron Dirf script because of lag issues.
I ran some of the nonsense quests for this event last night while the guild was whiteboarding tonight's raid. Here's my review of …