The Addicted #48: The Late Late Show

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Jun 262010

Sorry we’re late this week, blame tequila, rum and red wine.. On the show this week we talk throwing puppies, Northern Ireland gangsta’ rap, some warcraft, our now weekly dose of True Blood and lots of e3!

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The Addicted

Episode 48 – The Late Late Show

This week on the show…:

Cypher draws a blank

Hyp gets fatigued

We look at E3

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Teaser Trailer for a game of thrones.

http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones

BBC News – Puppy thrown at German biker gang

A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

After making his getaway on the bulldozer, he had driven so slowly that a 5km tailback built up behind him on the motorway.

After driving about 1km, he had abandoned the bulldozer in the middle of the motorway, near Allershausen. He continued his journey by hitchhiking.

Temps ‘Hyp noob comment of the week’ (did I get that right?)

Started listening to Howard Stern and despite knowing your feelings about him. I don’t think he’s nearly as obnioxious as Total Crusket.

E3! Wii rip offs galore!

Mac mini (mid 2010) review

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Corrections Box / Mailbox:

Twitter:

In Game:

Mail:

Donations:

ITunes Reviews:

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Addicted to food: (RIP)

Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Cypher

Earned the achievement 1000 Stone Keeper’s Shards for 50 points

Working on the Brunhilder Village dailies. Possible reward: White Polar bear mount.

Ran Forge of souls: Nightime axe has dropped every time after I didn’t need it.

XT-002 Deconstructor kill for the Weekly raid boss.

Earned the achievement Unbroken (10 player) for 10 points.

Earned the achievement Nerf Engineering (10 player) for 10 points.

Ran Pit of Saron with Wemb, Temp, and Ashayo… Temp was working on the Battered Hilt Quest.

Hypknotoad:

Lots more banking this week, trying to keep track of the random mail on bank toons a bit more.

Frail:

Fatigued story.

Pushed to 73 (Saturday)

Started the Wrathgate quest chain

Ice Trolls in Grizzly Hills have a low drop rate.

Been picking up all dungeon quests and doing chains to get them, nice xp 40k sometimes 50k.

Mostly levelling with Teo, Chill ocassionally Bull and Act whose toons we have caught up with.

Finding AN easier now that I’m at level.

About to unlock Gundrak.

Purple:

Semi Interesting Stats:

Purplevein has now completed [Toravon the Ice Watcher kills (Wintergrasp 25 player)] 7 times.

Purplevein has now completed [Rotface kills (Icecrown 10 player)] 8 times.

Purplevein has now completed [Blood Queen Lana'thel kills (Icecrown 10 player)] 3 times.

Crooked:

Paid twice to untrain Elixer mastery :/

Crookedpnus obtained [Crimson Acolyte Hood].

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

News:

Shoutout to Grizz and Onihate for dinging. We missed them plus we’ve been missing loads…

Pants on Head Zombie Run coming up, I’ll be there my toon is created ‘Hypknotoad’ undead rogue. Give Instructions.

25 man coming up next week. Sign up in the calander or on the forums.

Follow up from last week with Mega’s balls… Turns out the two tank strat does require three healers or two really good healers which I for one am not.

Paranoid:

Friday night Alt Run… Took down the Blood Prince Council. Woot! Used the two Tanks 3 Heals stratagy. Took Most of the night. We ended on Valithria Dreamwalker. Kept bumping up against the soft timer of adds. Reseting the raid ID next week. I have to work though.

Main Run #1: Reset / Retreted from the Lich King. One shotted the LS and moved onto BPC and Blood Queen. BQ gave us a little trouble, got her on the second attempt. Went across to ROFLstomp Festergut and Rotfail. finished with an attempt on Prof P. Rubbs first time in there doing the mecanical dude. Thanks to Bear who stepped in again this week. Notible things that night were Oni saying the shadow DPS was immense and Snow crying about his mage self-destructing.

Guild Event:

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News:

WoW News:

Midsummer Festival – Lord Ahune Loot Table (via MMO-Champion.com)

The Midsummer Festival is here and players can now fight Lord Ahune for super easy epics, because we all like super easy epics. You will be teleported to the instance instantly, you then get to kill Lord Ahune once. You will get an epic item from his chest (see the loot table) and all the members of the group will be rewarded with 2 x Emblem of Frost from the Satchet of Chilled Goods.

Leveling Curve in Cataclysm

As you mentioned, the leveling curve all the way from 1-70 was adjusted in the past. We feel those changes coupled with heirloom experience bonuses make for a reasonable leveling experience up to 70. Since we’re making major changes to the 1-60 Azeroth zones in Cataclysm, it isn’t likely we’ll be making further adjustments to the leveling curve there. The goal is to encourage new and old players alike to try out a new race or class and experience all of the new content and environment changes in the “old world.”

As it is, Cataclysm will bring about a much better quest flow, both in terms of the way quests are given in individual zones, as well as the way in which players will be directed from zone to zone. It will be completely reasonable in Cataclysm to level from 1-60 in Azeroth solely on Kalimdor, or solely on Eastern Kingdoms. In general, there will be much less need to jump from continent to continent because you hit dry spots while questing and need to find somewhere else to go in order to find level-appropriate quests. The goal is to make sure players are given the choice to go to the zones they want to while leveling, rather than force them to the other end of the world for a level or two.

Whether or not any changes are going to be made to the leveling curve in Northrend, or additional changes made to leveling in Outland, remains to be seen. We do want to ensure that the leveling experience from 1-85 isn’t too daunting. That is a lot of levels after all. Once we have the Cataclysm leveling zones from 1-60 and 78-85 fleshed out, we’ll more closely evaluate the full leveling experience during our beta test. (Source)

WoW Movie – Not really “soon”

Apparently we will have to wait a while before there is anything new about the World of Warcraft Movie. Deadline.com reports that Sam Raimi will direct the Wizard of Oz prequel for Disney.

Assuming that Sam Raimi is still the director for the World of Warcraft movie as previously announced by Blizzard, it looks like it will have to wait a little longer.

Other News:

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Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher:

Law Abiding Citizen

Director: F. Gary Grey -the italian job, A man apart

Actors:Jamie Fox, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney

My Take:

Critics: Metacritic -34

75 Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

One of those movies you like more at the time than in retrospect.

25New York Post Kyle Smith

At last, the missing link be tween “Phantom of the Opera” and “Saw.” Welcome to the gonzo revenge saga Law Abiding Citizen.

25San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Vigilante movies hold a firm place in cinematic history, but for them to work, the vigilante needs to be a sympathetic anti-hero.

Hypknotoad:

TV Shows:

True Blood

Bills kidnapper- The king of Mississippi. -The wolfs were working for him and were supposed to escort him to the king, not kidnap him. He had a proposal for Bill. Thinks Bill is an important Vampire in the Queens state and wants him to spy on her in return for becoming the sheriff of one of the kings districts.

Sookie discovers more about the Wolfs and Eric has had some dealings with them in the past. Thw wolfs are a highly organized group that did some work for Hitler and Eric and Godric posed as SS to hunt them down at one point.

Jessica’s Mistaken kill has disapeared.

A new Vampire is on the scene. Investigating Sookie and meet Tara. Helped Tara beat up some rednecks.

Tara is saved from her suicide attempt by Lafette and he takes her to visit his Mother in the loony bin.

Eric is protecting Sookie and making some moves on her. The wolves have been sent to bring Sookie back the the King for leverage, but she’s not going to go quietly.

Cypher:

Lie to me.

Still good. more of the same.

Hypknotoad:

“Persons Unknown” (2010)

Mostly written by Christopher McQuarrie who wrote The Usual Suspects

Directed by different people notably Michael Rymer who directed loads of BSG episodes and Jonathan Frakes aka ‘Number 1′

Metascore of 50

EW Review

La Times Review

Breaking Bad:

Awesome Season Finale, don’t want to spoil anything but the last scene was fantastic! You were wrong about the ending though.

Games:

E3!

New XBox 360 250gb: Looks nice, same price. “Whisper quiet” -Awesome. my xbox sounds like a jet taking off, with engine trouble. It’d be nice to run netflix on it. Don’t feel the need to upgrade though.

xbox vs ps3

Portal 2 Looks awesome. Saw some gameplay demos with new mechanics. Cant wait for this game. Glados is back. New side kick.

Assassins Creed 3: Brotherhood. A bit underwhelmed. Pick up with the same character from the last one. More of the same with multiplayer. ugh

Grand Tourismo 5 – Sort of turning around having seen these screens Take a spin through a scenic Gran Turismo 5 gallery

gt5

gt52

Starwars The force unleashed II- Awesome trailer- Hope the gameplay holds up

SW MMORPG another awesome trailer. Excited?

MS anounce the Kinect- no price point listed. A bit meh on the idea. The games look like rehashed concepts from the Wii. Don’t make me get off my couch. The control of Multimedia looks ok. Video chat? who cares. Does not look as good as full screen skype. Microsoft confirms: $199 new Xbox 360 coming soon, as well as Kinect bundles

Halo Reach: Underwhelmed by the gameplay demo. It looked alot like Halo one.

Fable 3: Meh Fable 3 launches on October 26

Battle star Glactica MMO Teaser. Preview: Battlestar Galactica Online