This week we contemplate our fiftieth episode (well technically our forty-ninth), Hyp puts stuff in the wrong segment, Paranoid raids for 1.5 hours and once again we discuss the most recent episode of True Blood.
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The Addicted
Episode 49 – Red Wines with Hypknotoad!
This week on the show…:
Cypher gets fiber
Hyp gets tanked
Hellos and RL:
Cypher:
Gets Fiber! (not for breakfast) -long install, guy has a meltdown, Didn’t get the right tier of service. Huge network box.
Went to Salem Willows. -they have an arcade there with a bunch of classic cabinets and pinball machines.
Hypknotoad:
Xbox Returns! (I want a new one)
2 map packs behind on MW2 
1200 points each.
Drinks too much.
Lots more Howard Stern including the movie.
Sasha Baren Cohen interviews
911 shows
Tiger Woods Mistress Press Conference
Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.
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Corrections Box / Mailbox:
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Metacritic Score: 84!
Metacritic Score 67
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In Game:
Teo mentioned that he started listening to A Life Well Wasted on my recommendation.
Mail:
Donations:
ITunes Reviews:
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Our weeks in WoW:
Cypher:
Got Tassi to 28. Ran a bit with the Fire festival Buff which helps speed it along.
Speaking of Fire Festival. Started hunting around for the fires to Honor/Desacrate. Been seeing areas of the game that I havent been to in years.
Missed the Alt run due to work.
Hypknotoad:
Listening to Hunting Party Podcast this week, they talked about pet tanking Cyndragosa. They also talked about the Ruby Scrotum being a pug killer.
Frail:
Ganked repeatedly trying to get the fires in the night elf starting area.
Lots of nice XP from the evil fire festival. Do you think they put the most addictive world event at this time of the year for a reason? (did I ask this same question a year ago? (Is that a question I’m going to be asking constantly?))
Doing the Wrathgate chain again
Dinged 77, fell behind the group who have all progressed to 80.
Purplevein:
Purplevein has now completed [Sindragosa kills (Icecrown 10 player)] 2 times.
Guild News:
Population:
E-Peen:
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Paranoid:
Alt Run Canceled.
Main Run #1: Ran for 1.5hrs, disappointing.
Main Run #2: Cancelled :/
Guild Event:
Zombie Run – I missed it
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News:
WoW News:
Loot design
There’s a bit of art to the design. On one extreme, you make weapons for each unique spec — Frost and Fire mages might want different weapons. On the other extreme, you make say 4 types of weapons (as we often do with trinkets) and make them usable by lots of characters. It comes down to there being a sweet spot to loot design (and I don’t pretend we always nail it), where you can be lucky or unlucky or you can want an item for which there is lots of competition or an item which nobody else but you really wants. If loot is too predictable then it gets boring and if it’s too random then it gets frustrating. (Source)
Proto-Drake and Rare Mounts in Cataclysm
This is all tentative and could change, but we don’t really have a problem with protodrake farming. What we will probably do with really unusual mounts like Mimiron’s Head and Invincible is make them a rare drop. The 100% drop rate won’t make sense when you can overpower the content.
If you want to overpower the content for a drake though, go for it. Players who did it “legit” had the benefit of having the achievement and mount earlier than anyone else. The most prestigious mounts will change in Cataclysm. (Source)
If there is a quest item you really love, you might want to grab it now.”
Almost every quest reward in the 1-60 content will be changing. If there is a quest item you really love, you might want to grab it now. (Source)
Inspection Throttle / Gearscore
It’s important to understand that this wasn’t really the fault of addon authors. This needed to be fixed because we were allowing something we really shouldn’t have. Many addons pull Inspect data when mousing over characters and there was nothing on our end to throttle the rate at which that data could be pulled. So if you’re standing in Dalaran with one of these mods and slide your mouse across the screen and over several characters within a very small amount of time, your client is spamming the database with Inspect queries. We’re correcting that issue on our end.
[...] We’re starting by capping the number of Inspects that can be sent in a 10-second time frame. It’ll likely be 5 Inspects, but that could change in either direction.
Keep in mind that this change is intended to help those using addons which are sending a lot of these requests from lagging or disconnecting. If you’re not actually using such addons, and therefore not sending a large number of queries to our database, the change won’t affect you either way. You’re not lagging or disconnecting because someone else in a raid or major city is unknowingly spamming such requests. (Source)
Other News:
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Entertainment:
Movies:
Cypher:
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009)
Director:Paul Weitz
Cast:
The movie is based on a series of books geared towards children. Based on that I wasn’t sure what to expect. Over all I thought it was ok- Not great but not a waste of time either. Did’nt think the friendship between the two main boys was all that believable which meant the ending conflict didn’t have the impact it was supposed to. The adults in the film were great.
Metacritic :43
67 Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It’s more fun than a poke in the heart with a sharp stick.
50 Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Cirque is a harmless bit of fluff with a very cool look, but there’s just never enough bite.
12 New York Post Kyle Smith
Calls to mind Grandpa taking out his dentures and trying to put on a comedy monster show for little kids at Halloween: When he tries to be scary, he’s goofy, but when he tries to be goofy, he’s scary.
Hypknotoad:
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TV Shows:
True Blood:
Sookie gets a werewolf guardian from Eric to go with her to jacksonville to look for bill. Finds a wolf who was at the kidnapping but cant question him.
Eric buys Laffette a car.
Bill pledges loyalty to the king to protect sookie.
Tara makes friends with the new Vamp in town.
Sam’s family comes for a visit. -They’re looking to cash in on Sam’s success.
Weird ending- Bill has sex with his maker and spins her head around so he doesn’t have to look at her face.
Futurama Returns, have you seen it yet?
Cypher:
Fringe: Saw 2-3 more episodes. Funny we talked about the observer a few shows ago. The very next episode I watched featured him.
Hypknotoad:
Explosive episode in which the gang get caught up in a hostage situation.
Meh episode, uncanny how similar Tom Hank’s son is to the father.
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Games:
Square Enix in talks with Microsoft for FFXIV on Xbox 360
Cypher: Got Netflix Up and running on the PS3. Nice to have it on a quiet system, but it sucks that you need an extra disc to make it work.
Not too much time- but I played a bit more RDR this week.
Also played a bit of the crackdown 2 demo.
Hypknotoad:
Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.
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