This week we have Aprillian guesting from Ctrl Alt WoW to talk Warcraft, Canine Diabetes, Washing up liquids, Ink (twitter @Aprillian with your favorite thing about ink, ie. it’s colour, it’s superiority over pencils… to win a FREE code for the movie Ink) and True Blood.

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Episode 57 – Fairy Liquid

This week on the show…:

• Cypher goes to town
• Hyp talks dirty
• We are once again joined by a special guest.

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• Went in to Boston to poke around and take some pictures
• 310 speed flying.

Hypknotoad:

• Weather has been terrible all summer, maybe we had a week of sun.

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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[08/18/2010]

00:52 [Gingah]: are you single?

00:54 [Purplevein]: in game? no i have many relationships on moonguard

00:55 [Gingah]: but are you single here?

00:55 [Purplevein]: yes _

00:57 [Gingah]: so we could be bf/gf?’

00:58 [Purplevein]: oh sure, though i’m named purple vein for a reason!

00:59 [Gingah]: oh good, can we start now?

01:00 [Purplevein]: YES!! what are you wearing?

01:00 [Gingah]: [Polished Spaulders of Valor]

01:01 [Gingah]: [Polished Breastplate of Valor]

01:01 [Gingah]: doesn’t that make you hot

01:01 [Purplevein]: … Well it does say breast in there…

01:02 [Gingah]: so can you buy me a mechanohog

01:02 [Purplevein]: …for a handjob… maybe

01:03 [Gingah]: [Butcher's Slicer] [Commander's Crest]

01:03 [Gingah]: that’s in my hand

01:03 [Gingah]: you do know who this is right?

01:04 [Purplevein]: lol yes april, i remember your guild name

01:04 [Gingah]: LOL, oh good

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

• Ran Ruby Sanctum
• Did the weekly raid Boss. Sartharion. attemted with 3 drakes up, but kept getting killed by the 1st drake add. Also didn’t know which door to go in. Some smart ass said just look at the door color.

Tassi

• Dinged 38 -woot

Hypknotoad:

Crooked

• Another bad pug experiance: PoS tank was afk to begin with got up to Garfrost finally. Tank brought Garfrost down to the stairs.. beside all the stones kept los me (the healer) we all died. Second attempt he did not turn Garfrost away I got one shotted by the blue spikeies we all died. When ressed the tank asked if WE new the fight. I asked do you? Third attempt the other pug pulled aggro to start and was one shotted. We took him down thankfully started to move on and the tank said ‘O Man Ive got to go to bed’ ….. We all ‘lol’d’ he left.

Frail

• Got a shield from Sindragosa gear score increased to almost 5.6k

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Ruby Sanctum

Run was pretty good, but still not successful at taking down Halion. One shotted all the mini- bosses but wiped twice on the patrolling trash. Made a bunch of attempts on Hal. Consistantly getting to the final phase of the fight. Down to ~12%

ICC #1:

Took down 10/12 one shotted Prof P

ICC #2:

On the day of the raid I decided despite having <1000 gold to start selling shit, begging etc to get my i264 legs made. I did this leaving myself with 56g total.

[Oni announces at the start of the raid he has 60k gold through playing the AH. Later he is asking about a bracer upgrade to an item lvl 226, I asked what the hell do you have now if your upgrading to a 226? Oni links an ilvl 200 blue. On futher inspection he has a ton of blue 200's where he could have the boe neck from the AH and the two craftable 264's. Oni's reasoning as we prepare to engage the Lich King... All the shit he upgrades is prob gonna drop now.]

Apart from that we got the LK down further than ever, to 53%.

I got caught out a couple of times with defile, both didn’t cause huge issues because thankfully not many were near me.

Got my focus set the LK but it’s still hard to keep an eye on it while watching healbot moving into position and stunning the valk .

We had a lot of trouble later in the night with silly wipes on the transition ie. not getting the orbs down on time.

Guild Event:

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News:

WoW News:

• The Worgen creation screen now displays both Worgens and Human appearances of your character.
• New Guild System- More info

Guild experience can be earned in any of four ways:

1. Completing quests / daily quests that reward experience

2. Killing any dungeon / raid boss with a guild group/raid

3. Winning a rated battleground with a guild group/raid

4. Earning a guild achievement (these are nice, fat chunks of experience so they feel great when you get em)

A guild group/raid is 4/5, 8/10, 12/15 or 20/25 members of the group/raid being guild members. (Source)

Guild Heirlooms

The heirlooms on the guild vendor are just like other heirlooms in the game except that these must be unlocked via a guild achievement and you must have the required guild faction to purchase them. After that, you can use them just like normal heirloom items.

We did have thoughts of making these items guild bound a long time ago but we came to the conclusion that that was just too limiting of a design. Imagine leaving a guild and losing all the guild rewards that you worked so hard to get? Taking items away from players is something that we would like to avoid at all costs. (Source)

Dark Phoenix Mount Reward

The guild rewards you guys are seeing in game are not hooked up yet. Guild rewards have 3 requirements that must be be met before you can use them. First and foremost, they must be unlocked via a guild achievement. Let’s just say, that for example, you need to complete the new guild achievement “We are Legendary” in order to unlock the Dark Phoenix. That achievement requires the guild to gain access to all 6 legendary weapons currently available in the game. (note that all guild achievements start on Cataclysm launch, so anything you have now will not matter, it must be done with your guild after launch)

So, let’s say that your guild get’s this achievement and thereby unlocks the Dark Phoenix on the guild vendor. At this point anyone in the guild can see the item on the vendor, but they will need a specific amount of guild faction to be able to purchase it. In this case, let’s say exalted. Now, once you have the guild faction, you can purchase the item for its gold price. (prices will vary based on the reward)

I am using the Dark Phoenix and the We are Legendary guild achievement as examples here but you should get the idea. Don’t worry, we wont be handing out all the goodies so easily. =)

Other News:

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Eve Online:

A few people including Zooe and new5thpants / nonrepoblue have expressed interest in joining the game. Cyklar said us talking about it has almost made him reactivate his old account.

Lost ore

43 Million for the +3 implants.

35 Million for the Transport ships.

Thanks to Andro for the 5mil loan.

Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher: Ink

Directed by: Jamin Winans

“As the light fades and the city goes to sleep, two forces emerge. They are invisible except for the power they exert over us in our sleep, battling for our souls through dreams. One force delivers hope and strength through good dreams; the other infuses the subconscious with desperation through nightmares.” -via imdb

Difficult to find reviews:

ink review

Hypknotoad:

TV Shows:

TrueBlood

ep 34: I smell a rat

• Bill tells sookie what she is. -A farie . And warns her about Vampires hunting her kind. He does not tell her about the temporary fire resistance
• Jesus and Laffette use V to heal Crystal’s Dad… He’s not happy he’s been contaminated. Says its her duty to mate with the other guy to preserve the blood line. Especially since his has now been tainted.
• Jesus is amazed by the powers of V and pushes Laffette to use with him. They take a “trip” through Jesus’s past and see his ancestors- all playing with magic in one form or another.
• Eric prepares for the worst and makes out a will leaving Pam everything. He goes to say good bye to Sookie and warns her once more not to trust Bill. Later Sookie shows up at Fangtasia and asks why he was saying goodbye. Pam urges Eric to use Sookie to get out of trouble. Eric locks up Sookie in the basement.
• Jason and Tara have a moment. Till Jason Blerts out that he killed Eggs.
• Bill is pissed at Jason for losing Sook. Crystal shows up in Jasons bathroom- in the form of a panther. -
• Sam is disturbed by ghosts from his past- He was a con man and ended up killing 2 people when they tried to double cross him.
• Jessica has a brief moment with Tommy, but loves Hoyt. Tommy attacks Hoyt and Jessica saves him with her blood.
• Russell hires a prostitute to pretend to be Talbot so he can say goodbye. Vows to get vengence.

Cypher:

Weeds: Season opener. Not bad, not great.

Burn Notice: Caught a few more episodes.

Arrested Development: Started watching season one. Very funny. Sometimes the other characters seem too rediculous.

Hypknotoad:

Games:

Cypher:

More Alan Wake, The Difficulty has ramped up a bit.

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 56- Tax Free Edition

This week on the show…:

• Cypher Dodges the Tax Man
• Hyp Gets Alarmed
• And we discuss F T

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• Tax Free Weekend

Hypknotoad:

• Alarm story / clip.
• Website Issues.
• Ginger Wine

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Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Hey guys,

Great stuff. I love your podcast, and just wanted to let you know.

I’m sure you have heard all the bad PUG stories you can take, but his

one was real weird for me. I spent some time trying to figure it out,

but for the life of me I can’t figure out what the fuck happened.

Anyway, I pugged into FoS for my daily frosties on my Cho’gall DK as

DPS. We go through with no problems, etc. We get to Bronjam, and

there is some drama between a mage and the tank/leader about whether

the mage should have needed on some item. The debate continues while

we move through the instance.

We finally get to the Devourer of Souls, and the mage and tank finally

resove their issues. The tank then says “that’s ok, we’re kickin’ the

DK anyway”, and BAM I’m out.

I looked recount, and I had the top damage spot consistently through

the the dungeon. I hadn’t won anything, nor did I need anything from

FoS anyway. I didn’t even engage in any of the loot drama between the

others. I have no idea why the fuck I was kicked. Just another weird

PUG story.

Oak (Oakspawn of PoH)

‘elo Cy & Hyp

Dreams are weird, aren’t they? Take for instance last night I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that my son had been born. You see, I had a dream where my wife went into labor 4 months early because my son deemed he was ready. That in of itself would be weird enough to make me boggle, but it gets stranger.

We get to the hospital & before the doctor can even examine my wife’s dialation, my sons head is already crowning. Even more perplexing is how unconcerned everyone is with this fact.

So it continues on with my son being born without much trouble other than a slight delay before he starts crying. No worries though because before it becomes serious, my son opens his mouth & begins speaking as if he was 4 years old.

And guess what? He appears to be somewhere between 3 & 4. Even stranger is that apparently he decided his name would be Nathan, not Nolan.

And end scene. Weird huh?

Anyhoo, just thought I’d share. September is going to be a pretty packed month with Civ 5, Halo: Reach & Final Fantasy XIV. I’ll be picking 2 of the 3 for sure.

Nevik

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Tassi:

• Dinged 37
• Still questing in
• Completed step [Snake] of achievement [Pest Control].

Cypher:

• Weekly raid boss: Noth the Plaguebringer kills (Naxxramas 10 player)
• Couldn’t make it to Ruby Sanctum this week. Had to work.

Hypknotoad:

Healbot scroll trick.

Frail

• Bad Pug :/ Occ

Guild News:

Grats to Kylee who hit 80 last night on her shammy and welcome back to Lealah

Population:

E-Peen:

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News:

New raid group ‘Ozz Fest’ started. Led by Pird. Please contact him if you are interested.

Paranoid:

Ruby Scrotum: 1.5hr run, not great.

ICC #1: Not too bad, spent all night on Sindy finally got her on the last attempt. Only Prof P and LK to go tomorrow!

ICC #2: Took down Prof P after a couple of attempts and for the first time in a long time progressed to face Arthas.

Only had time for maybe 5 attempts the best of which we got to the second phase first defile. Not bad at all.

Guild Event:

ICC #25 Cancelled due to lack of sign ups.

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News:

WoW News:

• Guild Rewards on Beta: Include BOA Helms and capes. Also Non-combat pets and Mounts like the dark phoenix mount

• Mounts and companion pet is getting a new interface and moving to the spell book.
• 310% Speed Flying Mount

The new 310% Speed Flying Mount skill costs 5000 gold to train. People who already own a 310% flying mount get it for free.

Other News:

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Eve Online:

• Some retard lost 27 PLEX undocking in Jita.
• Grats to Bull who won the 320,000,000 ISK ‘helpmymission’ lottery, he bought 5 tickets costing 5,000,000 ISK
• Only three days away from picking up my retriver:

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• The long road ahead:

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• My First Can Flipper:

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Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher:Inception – Hoping to get Bugger on at some point to talk about it.

Everybody’s Fine

Directed by: Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine)

Staring: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell.

After his wife passes, De Niro’s character takes a road trip to see his kids who he only knew through his wife. He finds out that things are not the way he thought they were. Good Cast and well acted. Sad story that ends well.

88 New York Post Kyle Smith

After seeing Everybody’s Fine, Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.

75 Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

De Niro’s minimalist performance has maximum emotional impact and succeeds in unifying the episodic film.

30 Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody’s Fine – a movie about the lies grown children tell their parents – is, ironically, one of the most disingenuous movies to come out of Hollywood in a while.

Hypknotoad:

In the Loop (2009)

TV Shows:

True Blood : Everythings Broken

• The Vampire Rights Amendment is close to being signed, Nan Flanagan Goes to Fangtasia to question Eric about the Magister’s disappearance. Eric confesses the whole story. The Authority washes their hands of the whole situation.
• Russel shows up at Fangtasia with a bowl of talbert to vow vengence.
• Bill visits sookies secret garden and learns what she is.
• Jason gets help from Andy and Sam against Felton and Calvin.
• Sam is irritated by Tommy’s attitude- beats the piss outta crystals dad.
• Tara gets cornered by… Franklin (who called it) and Franklin gets liquified by Jason
• Hadley introduces Sookie to her son, Wants to see if he has Sookies “gift”
• Arlene worries about the future – Talks to the creepy new server. Tara also confided to the new server.
• Hoyt confronts his true feelings.

Cypher:

• Watched Rubicon. Think it was a few shows in. Very hard to follow, May give it another go if I can find the Pilot.
• Weeds starts Aug 16th at 10p

Hypknotoad:

• Spartacus News:

When last viewers saw Lucy Lawless’ Lucretia, the scheming character appeared to be in a mighty bad place, seemingly mortally wounded by Crixus, her gladiator lover, in the season’s climactic ludus rebellion.

Many an observer assumed that the frequently naked “Xena” star was simply on her way out of the popular Starz drama, a reasonable assumption since both Lawless and John Hannah were only on one-season contracts.

Not so fast, “Spartacus” series creator Steve S. DeKnight told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour.

“I was thinking she was still twitching at the end of Season 1, if you look,” DeKnight said coyly.

He continued, “[T]he original plan with Lucy and that character was to kill her at the end of the season. Basically we had John Hannah and Lucy Lawless for only one season. That’s what we could get them for. Towards the end of Season 1 Lucy was having such a great time, and we all loved her so much, there was interest in bringing her back. And I got a call from Rob Tapert saying, ‘Starz called, and they’d really like Lucy to come back, and you know, Lucy really wants to come back’ and I said, ‘Absolutely not. She’s got to die. That’s the way the story goes.’ And then the next day I called him up and said, ‘Rob, I got an idea.’ And we’re thrilled to have — Lucy will be back in Season 2. And where the story goes with her is really something special. I’m very excited about that.”

We have no idea what that means, but we’re curious.Source: http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-8-8-seemingly-dead-spartacus-character-may-live-on

• HBO made it official: “Entourage” will end next summer.
• In the Star Trek universe, Jenolan Caves was first immortalized in the Next Generation episode ‘Relics’, through the naming of a ‘Sydney Class’ Starship – the USS Jenolan. Now, this relationship will be developed further, when Jenolan Caves adds the language of Star Trek’s great warrior race to a tour of their most popular cave.

Opened on Stardate 60358.1 (December 2006) Jenolan Caves’ Self-Guided tour takes visitors through “The Nettle Cave”, and is seen by 150,000 – 200,000 visitors annually, making it the most visited cave in Australia.

Visitors take the tour with a digital audio device, provided by ‘Acoustiguide of Australia’. The tour is currently available in 8 languages. However, as of August 22, it will be available in 11 languages, one of which will be Klingon – the first genuine tour available on Planet Earth for Klingon speakers.

• V Spoilers (as if anyone cares)

What is the real purpose of the red sky?

The red sky is later revealed to be a “gift for humanity” spreading life on earth making deserts green. The true purpose behind the red sky is to improve human fertility and prepare them for mass breeding with the visitors.

Games:

Cypher: Alan Wake. Made it to the 3rd episode. Still not sure about the fighting mechanic, but I’m enjoying the story.

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 55 – Too Long for Wych featuring Aprillian

Top Gun intro, ode to BoE

This week on the show…:

• Cypher eats crow
• Hyp ruins another keyboard… no! not like that.
• We’re kickin’ the tires and lightin fires
• I feel the need… the need for speed.

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• [comment on Rubb]
• Had a nice relaxing Birthday.
• Finally saw inception at the Imax theater. Sat far to close for an 8 story tall screen. (110ft~33.5M) 12,000 watt surround sound system.

Hypknotoad:

• Keyboard…
• Lots of people thought last weeks house pic was my house
• Spilled paint all over my carpet :/
• Ginger Wine

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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¿Cómo estás Cypher y Hyp?

Wow, Hyp. Just wow. You’ve never heard of a burrito? Seriously? I’m gonna have to set the record straight since Cypher didn’t do that great of a job explaining what a burrito is. (There are more differences between an enchilada and a burrito that Cypher led on)

A burrito can consist of pretty much anything, though the traditional mexican filling is beans, rice and meat. The main thing that defines a burrito is the larger flour tortilla that is wrapped and folded around the filling. Both ends of a burrito should be folded in as to contain the filling and to allow it to be picked up and eaten with the hands.

An enchilada is a wrap that uses a sauce that is mixed with the filling and is then drizzled over the top of the tortillas and then baked. Enchiladas are meant to be eaten with a fork and a knife.

Damn, now I’m making myself hungry … let’s change the subject.

I’m still working on the “Best of” show. I’ve been pulled in a million directions and have been punched in the face by work this past week, so while it’s still a little bit off, it *will* be happening. But you’re welcome to call me out on it on a weekly basis if that’s the prodding I need to get it out sooner than later

Also as far as my Stitch impression goes, I did that in honor of episode

#50 and was unrelated to the anniversary of the show. I know you were just ribbing me, but you did get things mixed up to the point where newer listeners may get confused.

Anyhoo …

I just want to remind everyone that Avatar: The Last Airbender (books 1,2,3) are still available on Netflix’s instant queue and I highly suggest that everyone watches the series. The wife unit and I have gotten up to the middle of season 2 and she is /hooked/. Avatar has the perfect mix of character development, involving storyline, and light-hearted humor to keep things from getting too heavy (*Looks in Shymallamadingdong’s direction*)

We also got a chance to have a date night and saw Inception, the same night that Cypher and his g-unit did. (I swear it was just a happy coincidence) What an incredible movie. It lived up to all of the hype that it has been receiving and is a movie that you cannot let pass you by. Go see it in IMAX if you can as Cypher did, I’m wishing I had.

I also had the chance to watch the documentary Beer Wars today with my wife. Wow. This documentary would have been more appropriately named “Call to Arms: Down with Anheuser-Busch.” Holy fuck there was a ton of anti-Budweiser propaganda throughout.

Despite the stilt of the documentary, it does give some insight on to how the “beer industry” works and highlights two smaller breweries and the trials and tribulations they’ve experienced in trying to “break into the market.” A worthwhile watch if you’re at all a fan of beer.

And for the record: I’m sorry if any of your listeners like piss-water, errr I mean Budweiser, there are much much better beers out there worth the money.

Adiós!

Nevik

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Cypher

• Earned the achievement Consumption Junction for 10 points.(drak’theren Keep?)
• Raun VOA 10
• Our good friend “Rubb- the saint” has made me a nice set of 264 legs as a thanks for doing the show and as a birthday gift.
• Obtained [Legplates of Painful Death]. (Equipped)
• Obtained [Gatecrasher's Gauntlets]. (Equipped)
• Ran Ruby Sanc.

Tassi

• Obtained [Truesilver Commander's Ring]. (Equipped) in game mail.
• Dinged 36.
• Questing in Dustwallow Marsh now. Lots of good quests and Mob to kill for xp.

Hypknotoad:

Cata music lost tribute?

Zooe filled the t

Frail:

• Got Voa 25 achv on Frail.

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Ruby Sanc Fridays: Made good progress, kinda. Had more trouble with the mini bosses then usual. Got Halion well into the 3rd phase.

Guild Event:

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News:

WoW News:

• Blizzard to patrol Goldshire on the Moon Guard (US) server to protect against erotic role play: http://bit.ly/a62Ze6 Nooooooooooooooooo
• Lots of cata news: Did you see the cute Mini Deathwing?

Other News:

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Eve Online:

Lost my Maller and all its fittings.

Started down the mining path again.

Bad standings story.

Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher:Kick Ass

Really enjoyed this film. Starts one way, does a zig then a zag, then finishes with a bang.

90 Time Richard Corliss

Kick-Ass moves with such bloody assurance that you’d be forgiven for not seeing how smart it is. But smart it is. Smart, important and deadly.

90 Variety Joe Leydon

Equal parts audacious dark comedy, wish-fulfillment fantasy and over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek action-adventure.

25 Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Will I seem hopelessly square if I find Kick-Ass morally reprehensible and will I appear to have missed the point? Let’s say you’re a big fan of the original comic book, and you think the move does it justice. You know what? You inhabit a world I am so very not interested in.

Hypknotoad: Kick Ass

TV Shows:

True Blood:

Sookie and Bill break up: Sookie gets out of the hospital, Alcide takes her home… but gets called away when debbie burns down his sisters beauty parlour

Bill goes home and tries to get Jessica to go away… she says no. He owes her some training on how to be a Vamp. Bill teaches her how to fight a Werewolf.

The king moves the queen in. Eric sends Sookies cousin with a message. The Kings mate is not happy about the queen and Eric agrees to keep him company.

The king goes to collect sookie.

Bill and Jess defend her. Sook and Deb have a fight upstairs. Jess gets caught by the king when she leaves the house. Bill taunts him into releasing her. Eric kills the Kings Mate.

Sookie and Bill Make up.

Crystal runs to Jasons house for help. Shes got a black eye and says its because she broke up with her fiance. Jason goes looking for trouble. What the hell are they?

Sam gets rid of his mom… “do you have any money? I wouldn’t ask but Jo lee spent every last cent at the track?” – “Here, now get out.” – “Well this isn’t going to get us very far!” – “I don’t give a damn where it gets you as long as its away from here.” His bro has some violent tendencies.

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Games:

Cypher:Alan Wake. Played the first episode. Good fun. Like the plot so far. Not sure about the fighting mechanic.

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 54 – WTB Keyboard

This week on the show…:

• Cypher gets whooly
• Hyp gets a “Mark” from Wych
• and Paranoid is back

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• Taking an extra day off this week. Looking forward to it.
• Beard?

Hypknotoad:

• Helping fit new kitchen counters :/ may be going on during the show.
• Still fixing the chimney and painting.

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Twitter:

Got a Suggestion to watch Rubicon from Mohalen.

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Tassi:

• Leveled to 35- Got to find a new area. All the quests are Red Lvl 39-40.
• Still liking the subtly

Cypher:

• Ran the Ruby Sanctum
• Earned the achievement Wooly Mammoth for 10 points

Hypknotoad:

Purple:

• Ran Molten Core with Oni etc

• Made another Mechano-Hog for Kealer.

Frailgina:

• Ran ToC 10 with the guild, got Epic. Trinket dropped, still having mana issues. Didn’t realise arcane torrent regens mana also.
• Thanks to Rubb who made me the 245 chest and gems!
• Finally levelled both JC and BC to the point I can put sockets and gems in. Big Thanks to Agi from the guild who flooded me with mats!

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Friday Night Ruby Run: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/h9gwn8fmxunik5zk/

Had a good time. We cleared the trash with no problems except the mini boss the splits- Wiped on him a few times. Halion: we are consistantly making it well into the 3rd phase of the fight. Just a few issues with positioning as we enter the third phase.

ICC #1: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/h9gwn8fmxunik5zk/

Good night, took down BPC, BQ and Val.

BoE DPS ring dropped, not needed so we’re selling it for the paranoid tab.

BPC took a couple of attempts with Chill (paw) on the purp balls.

BQ took maybe 3 attempts, some bite fuck ups. Got through it eventually.

Val took 3 attempts as well, collecting the balls not a problem, found it was easier to hit them with the camera zoomed in rather than futher back.

ICC #2: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/j4oyghlggwjmd2mf/

Another decent night, went straight to Rotface and Fester. Got the quest and had a little trouble getting both essences. Did it on the second attempt. Moved to Prof P, this took 5 attempts but we got him and moved to Sindy. Only had 2 shots, the last I messed up, didn’t move too busy healing.

Guild Event:

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/q90e6gbdkzj13vi6/

Lots of fun, more organised than last time.

Did heroic loot ship thanks to Wingy who has the Kingslayer title (randomly the load screen apprears for a split second when switching between modes and the door looks cool.) Took two attempts. Nice loot, grats to double, chill and vyv.

cool door

Neither the bow or the trinket dropped, two marks did, wych was going for one, I outbid at the last second at which point wych exclaimed you mother fucker g kick! In the end I got the mark. EDIT traded the mark to Wych this morning, figured he could use it more than me.

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News:

WoW News:

So Much of the news is about small changes that are being made during the beta. No point in talking about these as nothing is set in stone and will most likely change.

• Mastery System: The latest beta build reintroduced class masteries in-game! Masteries are affected by the Mastery Rating on your gear.

For example, a level 82 player will get 1 Mastery point for each 93 Mastery Rating he has. This mastery point will increase the mastery bonus differently depending on the class, +1 Mastery Point doesn’t necessarily means a +1% increase to the bonus.

• Some examples:

Death Knight

• Blood – Each time you heal yourself via Death Strike, you gain 50% of the amount healed as a damage absorption shield. Absorb increased further by mastery rating.
• Frost – Increases all frost damage done by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating.
• Unholy – Increases the damage done by your diseases by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating.

Hunter

• Beast Mastery – Increases the damage done by your pets by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating.
• Marksmanship – Grants a 16% chance for your ranged attacks to also instantly fire an additional ranged shot for 80% normal damage. Chance increased further by mastery rating.
• Survival – Increases all elemental damage you deal by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating.

Starcraft 2 is in stores now.

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Eve Online:

Learned about quality of missions.

Sad about increased xp that I didn’t know about.

Thanks to bull who donated 4million isk to my maller.

Ship I want has 6 guns 5 mil each…

Bought Maller and 1 gun so far..

Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher: Youth in Revolt

Sucked. Had potential.

Metacritic 63

50 The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

In Youth in Revolt , Cera bellies up to the same table once too often. His fresh-faced act is starting to look really stale.

Hypknotoad:

TV Shows:

True Blood:

Sookie is being bit by Lorana – Bill holds her down so sookie can stake her. Alcide and Tara show up as do Deb and Coot. Alcide shoots Coot and the escape in the van.

Bill drinks too much of sookies Blood and she ends up in the Hospital.

Tara kicks Bill out of the truck… He doesn’t burn right away.

Sookie has no blood type. Is in a coma. Dreams of people playing near a pond. – Her real family? Warns her to stay away from bill.

Bill gives her a transfusion. She wakes up see’s him and screams.

Eric and the king rescue Pam. Get the magistrate to wed the King and Queen. King kills the magistrate.

Cypher:Breaking Bad S1 Ep3

A bit slow compared to the last 2 episodes.

Hypknotoad:

Rush:

Another explosive episode.

Games:

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 53 – The REAL anniversary!

This week on the show…:

• Cypher gets into the level grind
• Hyp gets intimate with foreign bodies
• And we discuss the merits of center pivot irrigation

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• Glad for a few days off.
• Went to see inception at the imax… but it was sold out.
• Birthday is coming: Game sugestions? Alan Wake or something else…

Hypknotoad:

• Foreign Bodies
• Another free month from Rubb in eve!
• We’re now part of WoWCentric – A World of Warcraft Blog and Podcast Community Portal

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Center pivot irrigation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called circle irrigation, is a method of cropirrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot.[1] A circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed from above.

Spotted at Comicon:

sent you the link on twitter but here it is again. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/ explaining the westboro baptist dumb-asses to an irishman is as vexing for me as you trying to explain ‘orangefest’ to us americans. suffice to say, the comic nerds above really zinged those westboro turds. peace in belfast. dan

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Hi guys,

Love the show and have been listeneing since the beginning, i just listened to episode 51, and i heard the eve woes and i thought i would give you guys some advice, i have been playing eve for a few years now (having a break atm).

First of all the walking in stations is called incarna and is set to come out this year, which will allow all characters to walk in stations and interact with npc’s for things like getting missions, there will also be clubs and bars in stations for chilling.

I also heard the insurance confusions, if you lose your ship and dock at a station in your pod at a station where you have no ship, you will then get a the rookie ship that has 1 civilian miner and 1 gun loaded, and 1 veldspar in the cargohold.

Cypher i know the mission where you got blown up, and there is nothing in there that i can think of that could insta pop you, so im thinking a player came in and ganked you for lol’s as it is currently hulkageddon (well finished by the time you read this), this is a player run ingame event where people fly around suicide ganking mining ships, some people take it too far and gank anything they see.

Also Cypher i recomend you do all 10 missions for all the career paths as it will give you around 5 mill isk and alot of skillbooks and ships and modules to play with, once there done you will be directed to an epic arc where you can earn around 10 mill, but you need a destroyer to do those missions.

Also i recomend both of you get a program called evemon if you don’t already have it, as it will create skill plans for you, so your not wasting time, it can also add learning skills to make the cue as small as possible. This will help you alot Cypher to train for ships and modules. This is a must for all eve players.

atm the way the market is, running missions is most profitable, as ore prices are quite low, and if you want to mine, you should mine scordite and refine it, as that is most profitable.

I also recomend neither of you go into lowsec or 0.0, as the pvpers there will eat you alive.

Hyp when you described warping with no power so you drop into empty space then bookmark a can, thats called a safe spot and theres a much easier way of doing this. if you warp from a an object to another object for example a stargate to a planet and drop a bookmark in the middle while warping, that will create a bookmark in the middle of space, where a scanner will be needed to find you, there is also a way of making safe spots out of scan range, but thats a bit more tricky and can’t explain over email.

I recomend both of you look in the eve forums, and most people are realy helpfull, you can ask questions in the appropriate sections and will always get a helpfull response.

Sorry for the wall of text, but then eve is complex. if you guys ever need any advice, help in ship fittings etc, feel free to ask. Also if your serious about playing i recomend joining the eve university corporation, its the biggest corp in eve dedicated to teaching new players.

Dylex

Hi guys,

Dylex here again with some more tips, on episode 52 i heard you ask how to open a chat window, there is a little gear button in the top right hand corner of your chat window, so in the local chat, corp etc, click that, and then search pants on head, and that will open the pants on head chat window, when it asks for the pw, save it.

In regards to the something awful forum, that makes you eligible to join goonswarm federation alliance, if it was a year ago i would say join definitely, but goonswarm have recently gotten there asses kicked by IT alliance and friends and the goons are in a downward spiral, just a few months ago they finished a civil war, and there pretty fail atm.

The epic questline starts in the arnon system with the sisters of eve corporation.

Cypher in regards to your question in flying all over the universe there are 4 trade hubs, 1 in each races space were everything is, the biggest is in jita in the forge in caldari space, thats the one hyp told you about, second is in dodixe in gallente space, third is amarr in amarr space (ccp got bored when naming that system) and finally rens in minmatar space. however alot of suicide gankers hang outside the main station in those systems, but as long as you’ve got nothing super expensive you should be fine

In regards to making alot of money, mission running is the way to go, if you was to run level 4 missions in a golem, you could make on average 2 bill isk a month, however thats alot of training.

Alliances buy station using moon goo money, industry member fees etc, a big alliances rakes in hundreds of billions isk a month.

Titans are quite hard to kill, takes massive fleets to kill em, and they can insta pop anything except another titan or mothership, only around 10 titans have been killed since they first came to eve.

Dylex

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Tassi:

• Caught the leveling bug again. Thanks to nevik, Hearing about his adventures on his pair of new rogues inspired me to jump in.
• Dinged 32. Been working on quests much higher lvl than I should be.
• Switched spec to subtlety. Feels more like what a rogue should be.. sneaky.
• Hoping to get out of tarren Mill soon.
• What is with the alliance? Group of 5-6 well geared 80′s griefing tarren mill for 30 min. All had the title kingslayer… maybe they had nothing better to do.

Cypher:

• Weekly run into ruby sanctum was cancelled. Boo.

Hypknotoad:

• Oni’s lack of enchants as he’s being ‘cheap’ on that toon causing a fail tide.
• Maybe the 30% buff should apply to more than just damage and healing.

Frailgina:

• Successfully healed HoR, some mana issues but with two druids and a couple of inervates all was good.
• Ventured into ICC on the Paranoid weekend run.
• More skills levelling, got JC from 300 – 420 and blacksmithing from 250 – 350.
• Hours (seemed like) disenchanting the shit from above:

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Friday night Scrotum run cancelled.

ICC #1: Better than last week. I got to bring Frail along, didn’t do too badly apart from mana issues.

Guild Event:

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News:

WoW News:

• Icecrown Citadel Buff increased to 30%

The highest Icecrown Citadel Buff is now available, Strength of Wrynn and Hellscream’s Warsong spells now increase your health, healing, damage, and damage absorption by 30%.

Other News:

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Eve Online:

• Concentrating on mining on Purple
• Wanted to refer myself for a trial but have to wait until next month.
• Currently doing a lot of AFK mining, using an industrial ship with a fucking huge hold and one mining laser. Takes about two hours to fill.
• Using Evemon is depressing. 95d for a fitted Battlecruser.

Mega Suggests:

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Escape Artists

Entertainment:

Movies:

Cypher:Pirate Radio

Director:Richard Curtis -Love actually

Stars: Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Bill Nighy

Good Film about the early days of Rock and Roll on british radio and the governments schemes to shut them down.

Meta Critic: 58

75ReelViews James Berardinelli

The result, although uneven, is generally enjoyable, especially for those who attend with the right mindset. Character and narrative are secondary concerns for a movie primarily driven to provide a Valentine to ’60s rock-and-roll.

70Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Pirate Radio, the new rock-saturated comedy that proves life really is better when it’s set to a ’60s soundtrack, is, to borrow from the Stones, “a gas! gas! gas!”

8Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Witless, tasteless, toothless, pointless, garish, repetitive, obvious, and painfully dull, Pirate Radio is that exceedingly rare film that never, but never puts a foot right.

42The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams

Do you like montages, but grow bored with the tedious plot bits in between? Then Pirate Radio is the movie for you.

My Name is Bruce

Very campy and cheeky film directed and staring Bruce Campbell.

MetaCritic: 36

Hypknotoad:

TV Shows:

True Blood:

Bill Tries to kill the king. Gets sentenced to death by lorana.

The king questions sookie.

Eric tells sookie to stay out of his way.

Eric and the king visit the queen. Good scene where Eric pins her down and tells her how it is.

Tara Convinces franklin not to tie her up. Bites his neck. Bashes his head in. rescues sookie.

Lorana tourtures Bill… lets coot and tramp feed on him.

Tara finds Alcide on the mansions grounds looking for sookie.

Sookie finds Bill.

Cypher:

Fringe Midnight: The team tracks down a woman who is killing men and feeding on their spinal fluid. Clues to William Bells involvement. Curious conversation with the suspect and Walter.

Finished out season 1: Not as climatic as I had hoped. (mostly due to being spoiled on the big reveals. )

Hypknotoad:

Games:

Cypher:

Limbo- Xbox arcade title. Great look and deceptively simple gameplay.

Hypknotoad:

Alan Wake – Best played at night.

Lots of potential to scare with the dream riddled story.

Beautiful game, pity it’s mostly going to be set at night by the looks of things.

Not sure about the damage method.

Splinter Cell – Fun, difficult.

Maybe a little too much shooting compared to stealth, at least at the beginning.

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 52 -Our Anniversary (Sort of)

This week on the show…:

• Cypher’s looking for some burn
• Hyp’s still painting
• And we celebrate our 1 year anniversary

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

• Extra ginger ginger beer.
• Long work week. -Seven days in a row.
• Lot’s of heat

Hypknotoad:

• Is it really the anniversary?
• Lots of nice comments about last weeks show.
• Still painting :/

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Felix cumpleaños Cypher & Hyp!

Congratulations on an awesome year of podcasting! My weeks just wouldn’t be the same without your show to keep me entertained while I drive all over the state of California, or while I’m doing the dishes. Speaking of which, I almost had to send you two a bill for the dishes I nearly broke during the Ariel’s Grotto discussion.

Gold, pure gold.

I wish I would have been able to come on and sit in with you two while recording episode 52, but my wife and I will be attending a parent-orientation while our daughter attends her first day of kindergarten. Crazy, I know, especially with how early school is starting for her, but her elementary school is on a year-round program: 3 months on, 1 month off.

Tomorrow should also solve the mystery of whether my second will be a boy or girl, that is if the baby is cooperative. While I would like to have a boy to carry on my name, I am finding myself wanting to have another girl. They have much cuter clothing and I would love to have another “daddy’s girl.”

Anyhoo, I’ll close out with a brief report on my triumphant return to Azeroth. Instead of picking up on where my main left off, I’ve decided to scratch the itch of leveling two brand new rogues with absolutely no twinkage and blog about it. I’m mad for doing it the hard way, but at least I’ll be a more frequent visitor of Jubjub.

Congratulations one last time on a damn fine year of podcasting and here’s to many more!

Nevik

http://neviksnotebook.com/

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Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

• Ran Black Wing Lair

Earned the achievement Blackwing Lair for 10 points

1 Nefarian kills (Blackwing Lair)

• Did VOA 10

Earned the achievement Emalon the Storm Watcher (10 player) for 10 points

Earned the achievement Archavon the Stone Watcher (10 player) for 10 points

4 Toravon the Ice Watcher kills (Wintergrasp 10 player).

3 Koralon the Flame Watcher kills (Wintergrasp 10 player).

6 Cyanigosa kills (Heroic Violet Hold)

• Ran Violet Hold with Hyp healing. Wiped because we didn’t kite one of the bosses and had to start over.

Earned the achievement Dehydration for 10 points.

Hypknotoad:

Frail:

• Still trying to get her JC and BS up, tis a long process.

Guild News:

Population: 401

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Paranoid is recruiting RDPS and heals.

Rik, the following link is to the forum post I did for Paranoid recruiting:

http://pantsonhead.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19782042&gid=97551#19782042

RS Run:

Had a little trouble clearing the trash bosses.

Got Hallion down to 31% (I think)

ICC Run #1:

FAIL

ICC Run #2:

Downed BPC and BQ…

Guild Event:

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WoW News:

• 31 Point talent trees:

The goal for Cataclysm remains to remove a lot of the passive or lame talents, but we don’t think that’s possible with the current size of the trees. So to resolve this we’re reducing each tree to 31-point talents.

As a result, we can keep the unique talents in each tree, particularly those which provide new spells, abilities or mechanics. We’ll still have room for extra flavorful talents and room for player customization, but we can trim a great deal of fat from each tree. The idea isn’t to give players fewer choices, but to make those choices feel more meaningful. Your rotations won’t change and you won’t lose any cool talents. What will change are all of the filler talents you had to pick up to get to the next fun talent, as well as most talents which required 5 of your hard-earned points.

• The Rise of Specialization

In addition, we want to focus the talent trees even more towards your chosen style of gameplay right away. We want that first point you spend in a tree to be very meaningful. If you choose Enhancement, we want you to feel like an Enhancement shaman right away, not thirty talent points later. When talent trees are unlocked at level 10, you will be asked to choose your specialization (e.g. whether you want to be an Arms, Fury, or Protection warrior) before spending that first point. Making this choice comes with certain benefits, including whatever passive bonuses you need to be effective in that role, and a signature ability that used to be buried deeper in the talent trees.

The active abilities unlocked with the initial talent tree selection are abilities that are core to the role being chosen. Our goal is to choose abilities that let the specializations come into their own much earlier than was possible when a specialization-defining talent had to be buried deep enough that other talent trees couldn’t access them. For example, having Lava Lash and Dual-Wield right away lets an Enhancement shaman feel like an Enhancement shaman. Other examples of abilities players can now get immediately by choosing the related talent specialization at level 10 include Mortal Strike, Bloodthirst, Shield Slam, Mutilate, Shadow Step, Thunderstorm, Earth Shield, Water Elemental, and Penance.

• Getting Down to the Grit

We want to keep overall damage, healing and survivability roughly the same while simply providing a lot of the passive bonuses for free based on your specialization choice.

While leveling, you will get 1 talent point about every 2 levels (41 points total at level 85). Our goal is to alternate between gaining a new class spell or ability and gaining a talent point with each level. As another significant change, you will not be able to put points into a different talent tree until you have dedicated 31 talent points to your primary specialization. While leveling, this will be possible at 70.

• A True Mastery

The original passive Mastery bonuses players were to receive according to how they spent points in each tree are being replaced with the automatic passive bonuses earned when a tree specialization is chosen. These passives are flat percentages and we no longer intend for them to scale with the number of talent points spent. The third Mastery bonus which was unique to each tree will now encapsulate the Mastery stat, found on high-level items, and Mastery will be a passive skill learned from class trainers around level 75. In most cases the Mastery stats will be the same as the tree-unique bonuses we announced earlier this year. These stats can be improved solely by stacking Mastery Rating found on high-level items.

Twitter Q&A

Q: Are there any plans to add Ghostcrawler in-game as a critter or elite crab?

A. Ghostcrawler would be very emo were he to gaze down from his Throne of Lies and behold the mass crustacean slaughter that would result in having more manifestations of his persona in the game.

Q: How much of an impact will the new medium glyphs have on the fun factor of choices in the new 31-point talent trees?

A. We hope it adds a lot. Part of the problem is that if there is, say, a Glyph of Mutilate, you feel like you have to take that as an Assassination rogue over anything else. The Medium glyphs are designed to let you customize your character a little more. They are the glyphs you would take if Mutilate didn’t exist.

Incidentally, the new tiers are called Prime, Major, and Minor. Majors are the new Mediums. Glyph of Mutilate would be a Prime.

Q. Will we see these talent changes in Wrath of the Lich King, before the release of Cataclysm, like we did with the last expansion?

A. Yes.

Q. With each expansion boss mechanics become more and more complex. Don’t you think that bosses will be overcomplicated soon?

A. We have a lot of players who have been killing bosses for six years now. We think we need to keep it fresh for them. Having normal vs. Hard modes is our way of making sure the complexity doesn’t make those fights inaccessible for some players.

Eve :

Regarding Eve, some alliance war dec’d Pants on Head. I sent an Eve

mail to everyone, but the bottom line is we should bail on the Corp

until these pricks piss off.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Corporation_wars

I’ve created the “pantsonhead” chat channel, password “boe”, for us to

use instead of Corp chat.

See ya,

Jason.

• Almost finished training ‘Learning #5′ which took a week
• Recruited Bull to help me with an agent 2 mission which resulted in him losing 2 ships :s
• Listening to some new Eve podcasts Lost in Eve being one.

Cy :

• Working to get through the “Epic” questline I’m on.
• Had another dissapointing death. Lost my ship. Had to do 7 Jumps to get to a station to buy a new one. But I couldn’t outfit it. Do I really need to fly to 4 or more different stations all over the universe to buy simple equipment? Really frustraiting that I couldn’t complete the Mission because of this.

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Entertainment:

Music:

Movies:

Cypher:Sparkly Vampires. – don’t bother. I’m trying to block it from my mind.

Hypknotoad:

Greenburg:

A serious Ben Stiller movie!

TV Shows:

True Blood:

Franklin is still torturing Tara… Bill refuses to help her.. she escapes to be recaptured by Coot . Later in the episode Franklin asks her to be his Vampire Bride.

Franklin gives the King his info on Bill… the geneology of the stackhouses . Bill has never seen it before. King thinks Bill has a bigger end game in mind.

Bill learns Sookie is in Jackson and breaks out to go see her and warn her to get away, but is followed by the king and coot. Sookie psychic blasts coot and the King loves it.

Eric arrives at the Kings mansion and confesses the truth about the queen and Bill and asks for help. Later he discovers that the King is the Vampire he has been looking for since his “Birth” for the killing of his family.

Accide Learns his pack master is affraid of the King and won’t do anything about it.

Jason tries his hand at police work. Funny office scene. See’s the mysterious girl again and gets her to meet him at Merlots. They get together in the woods.

Sam is still trying to get his head around whats up with his family.

Cypher:

Fringe Ep15 Inner child- a construction crew find a little boy living in the sealed off sewers. May have been there for a long time. Baby Observer?

Ep 16: Unleashed- Man made Animal gets released from an animal testing facility. Kills lots of people.

Warehouse 13- Episode guest staring the doctor and Kaylee from Firefly.

Hypknotoad:

Burn Notice. Yet another interrogation scene with an art theft side plot.

Games:

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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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

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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

BSG

The new Xbox 360 is here — we go head-to-head with the 360 Original, PS3 Slim, and Wii

E3 launches into space Taikodom-style!

iPhone 4 to have 512MB of RAM, double the 3GS and iPad?

Video Kinect: video chat and stream sharing over Xbox Live and Live Messenger

Have a look at the Rock Band 3 keyboard & MIDI PRO-Adapter

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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