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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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Corrections Box / 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/

Donations:

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Addicted to food: (RIP)

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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News:

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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Pants On Head

Bind on Equip

Cable Wasteland Podcast

Ctrl Alt WoW

Ctrl Alt Trek

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Ladies of Leet

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Syn’s Family Gamer Podcast

Outro with contact info etc.

Lots of the music from recent shows including this one is from the band ‘I come to Shanghai’ check out (and download) their album for free from their website www.icometoshanghai.com

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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

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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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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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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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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Episode 45 – Did you say… HuntWych?

This week on the addicted Cypher calls the Wych a hunt… We talk sectarianism in Northern Ireland, butcher a couple of emails, go a bit crazy during the epeen section and finally turn it up another notch in entertainment for the lost finale. Come join us for all that and less.. in episode 45.

This week on the show…:

Cypher finally gets a drop from the egg.

Hyp wants to raid

Music:

EVE Online | Download | Music

The Slackers | Rude. Reckless.

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

I’m Taking a vacation. Heading to the Vine to visit the folks.

Hypknotoad:

Thanks for all the birthday wishes

Didn’t make the gig

Guested on Cable Wastelands Fringeathon episode

AppMiner — the best way to browse the App Store

App recommendation.

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Corrections Box / Mailbox:

Music:

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In Game:

Mail:

Hi Hyp and Cypher,

Loved the podcast this week. I’m going for the weekend, and thought I’d just drop a line, since we won’t be able to communicate in-game.

–Please keep the e-peen segment! Hyp, I love hearing you kvetch about the ups and downs.

–The documentary you were thinking of regarding Terry Gilliam’s never-finished movie was “Lost in La Mancha.” Great movie. I think I like it more than I would have liked Gilliam’s movie had he finished it.

–It was fun hearing you talk a bit about “Archer,” though I swear I never heard you guys actually refer to the name of the show directly. Anyway, if you start with James Bond and mix it with the movie “Office Space,” and animate it, you might get something close.

Cypher was right in that there aren’t a lot of big actors in it. However, the title character is played by H Jon Benjamin, who played Dr. Katz’s son on “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,” as well as having roles on “Home Movies” and “Family Guy.” For “Family Guy” fans, he plays Carl, the store clerk who sometimes gives Chris advice, as well as Yoda in the special “Something Something Something Dark Side.” I always love his manic-depressive delivery–usually he sounds very subdued, but when his character gets angry he starts almost screeching.

Anyway, have fun, and I look forward to hearing more next week!

–Chill

I’m sorry … Cyph-o and Hyp-o,

Many many apologies for taking a month off from writing in. It’s not you, it’s me. Seriously! Okay, joking aside, I haven’t really had much to contribute to the show over the past month. Hopefully you can forgive me!

So yah, I’ve been playing lots of Torchlight in large part due to my 2nd Xbox 360 “red ringing.” My wife bought it for me as an early Christmas present and only recently did I truly dig into the game and discover just how fantastic it really is.

If anyone has played it, they’ll instantly think “Diablo” and for good reason. Torchlight’s development was led by Travis Baldree (Fate & Mythos), Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer (Diablo & Diablo II). So it’s no accident that Torchlight feels just like Diablo, because it is Diablo.

Torchlight has filled that hole in my life as I wait for Diablo III. If any of your listeners have been itching for D3, they should immediately pick up Torchlight for $20 (although it goes on sale for $10 fairly frequently).

Anyhoo, I know neither of you have kept up the exploits of Jack Bauer, but I wanted to share that the final 3 hours of season 8 were incredible and salvaged the season for me. Until Jack went all “Darth Jack” season 8 was pretty “meh” and I was worried that 24 was going to go out on a very sour note. Needless to say the possibilty of naming my forth-coming child “Jack Bauer” is back on the table.

Okay, I kid. But wouldn’t that make for an awesome first name?

I’ll end my email with a movie suggestion for you and your listeners. Last night my wife and I watched “Moon” which was directed by Duncan Jones, (David Bowie’s son). Awesome, awesome flic.

Moon’s basic premise involves the astronaut Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, who is employed by Lunar and stationed on the moon to oversee operations of harvesting an energy resource discovered on the moon.

Sam’s only companion on the station for the past 3 years is an AI named GERTY, voiced by Kevin Spacey, and as you might expect the isolation from human contact begins to drive Sam into hallucinations and that’s where the movie really builds momentum.

I don’t won’t to divulge anything else about the plot, because it would completely spoil the movie for you and your listeners. If you’re hankering for a smart sci-fi movie, give Moon a shot. It’s currently available via instant queue on Netflix for those of us in the States.

Take care guys, and I can’t wait for the 1 year anniversary of the show. I have something I’m working on for you guys *smirk*

Your bud, Nevik

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Addicted to food: (RIP)

Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Got Tassi to 24 1/2- Cleared quest log and headed to thousand needles.

Earned the achievement 100 Quests Completed for 20 points.

Finally had the green proto drake drop from the oracle egg.

Ran COS with Temp, Sharp, Wemb, and Ashayo. Good run. Nobody needed the drake.

Earned enough frosties to get my next upgrade. – Trinket?

Ran the Friday Alt run.

Hypknotoad:

Sick of not raiding. We are on the Lich King and due to different circumstances haven’t gone back to him. Worried that the patch will come out this week, which will wipe our saved instance and force us to start from the beginning.

BRK brought up an interesting idea on Hunting Party Podcast that hunters should use Eyes of the Beast to jump their pets down from ledges and hit stay. Have not had the chance to try this yet.

Diaries of a Marksman Hunter

Frailgina:

Moved to LBRS and on to Ramps

Still working on professions.

Crooked:

Got new hands

Pearlneck:

Nothin.

Purplevein:

Thinking about shelling out for the 264 feet. To attempt to hold onto the top 15.

Guild News:

Population: 440

E-Peen:

News:

Paranoid:

Friday Alt Run: Had a good time. Cleared through Rotfail. zzzzz Thought I performed better this week. Still hate the gunship battle. 1. it’s buggy- Still see my health drop as I jump into the gun. Jump out and I’m at 100%. WTF. 2. got killed by bronsbeard’s axe dispite Teo tanking him.

Saturday Alt run continues:

Cancelled due to no shows :/

Guild Event:

Nada

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News:

WoW News:

Re: Operation Gnomergan/echo isles

The events themselves are not currently scheduled to go live with patch 3.3.5. We’re simply taking the opportunity on the PTRs to test these events while they’re up and running in case we do not have another opportunity to do so before marking these events live.

The release of the events will be contingent upon the development of other features leading up to Cataclysm, but their release will likely not coincide directly with a patch. They’re events that simply need to be “turned on” when we’re ready.

Other News:

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Entertainment:

Music:

Podcasts:

The Tolkien Professor

Recommended by Teo

Movies:

Dennis Hopper dies ageD 74

Cypher:

Zombieland

Director:Rubin Fleisher

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Loved it. Great opening. Awesome rules. Why’d they use a Hummer- Possibly the worst gas milage around. Great Cameo. Reminds me of a film version of Dead Rising. Definately a movie to own.

Reviews: Metacritic 73%

Hypknotoad:

From Paris with Love

Director: Pierre Morel

Actors: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers etc

Trivia: When Caroline enters James’s appartment you can clearly see the book ‘Nikita’ which was written and directed by Luc Besson, who wrote ‘From Paris with Love’.

Reviews: Metacritic 42%

TV Shows:

Cypher:

Dr. Who The Vampires of Venice

Dr brings Amy’s boyfriend along for the ride in an effort to save their relationship. They go on a date to Venice and find that there is a vampire problem.

Firefly Objects in Space

A bounty hunter boards the ship and River saves them.

Hypknotoad:

Lost

‘The End’

13.5 million viewers

Fell far short of matching the viewership numbers posted by the finales of such shows as M*A*S*H (well over 100 million), Seinfeld (76 million), Friends (52 million), and even ALF (21.7 million)

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_End

“Breaking Bad” – Return to a Season 1 type show, featuring just Jesse and Walt.

Games:

Cypher:

Played a bit of Portal on Mac

Finished the main story for Assasins Creed

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 44 – Mazel tov

This week both the show and Hypknotoad celebrate their birthdays and Cypher goes for a walk… Apart from that we’ve got reports from the Fail king and loads of news you’ve heard on 30 podcasts prior to this.

This week on the show…:

Our audio quality decreases

1st and 25th birthdays approaching.

And we get a little Guidance from Brann

Hellos and RL:

Music:

Tenacious D Official Site

Tenacious D – The Metal

Junoes Intro

Cypher:

Had a walk, and an ice cream.

Hypknotoad:

25th Birthday next week

Working :/ (a little)

96kb instead of 128kb reduces the file from 100mb to 80mb

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Corrections Box / Mailbox:

Music:

Twitter:

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In Game:

Mail:

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Addicted to food: (RIP)

Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Doing a little UI refining. Small details like making the cast bar more visible.

Quartz – Addons – Curse

Got Tassy the BOA trinket and leveled him to 23. almost to 24.

Ran a few heroics on Cyph- nothing special.

Got the weekly raid boss on the friday night alt run.

Working on getting new gloves or trinket.

Ran VOA with the crazy train crew this morning. Only did one boss.

Hypknotoad:

The Pally:

Installed PallyPower to replace ZOMGBuffs. I was having some issues with the latter.

Got Avengers Shield. Unfortunatly it does not work as a ranged silence until you put points in it.

Moved past BRD to Dire Maul part 1 and 2.

Last boss Dire Maul North

The DK:

Moved to outlands

Thanks to Reg for sending me five stacks of mithril ore, need about 320 more. Considering just buying it from the AH :S

Impossible to mine without flying so I decided to level to 60.

The Priest:

Really been slacking with Crooked, haven’t done many dalies on him never mind anything else.

No upgrades from ICC

The Hunter:

Pretty much the same as Crooked.

Did try to complete the EoE quest but did something wrong.

EoE Quest

Didn’t get the bis bow from Deathwhisper 25

Guild News:

Population: 441

E-Peen:

News:

Welcome in particular to ‘Nonreproblue’ who survived the quiz and said he found BoE though the addicted!?

Paranoid:

May be losing Oni’s brother Max (spite) due to girlfriend enrage.

Hope Cleo’s doing ok. His wife works in an animal shelter that burned down. He could not make the raids.

Alt Run:

Same again, got to Rotface did the 1 frost mob.

Some issues on Rotface fur and I got the debuff at the same time causing a wipe.

Thought my healing was shit until i figured out Recount was broken, switched back to Skada, healing back on parr again

Cy- Dont think my performance was up to par. Really like to see the rest of the dungeon.

Main Run:

Rubb missing

Zooe filling in

Tried a couple of different strats with different positions including Might vs The Lich King 10man Normal

Oni had problems dispeling the noxious something or other. Decursive fail.

Main Run #2:

Ditched the Might strat and moved to the back again.

Furthest we got was the third phase

Had trouble slowing the Val’k

Did manage to get one done

Best attempt got to 63%

Funny Disengage bug.jpg

Guild Event:

ICC 25:

25 DPS

Poor attempt, didn’t get past Deathwhisper.

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News:

WoW News:

Wow Mobile Armory- The Remote Auction House beta test is now available to players on all U.S. realms

Is Remote AH an ingame advantage?

First off, no correlation can be made here between the idea of releasing a Remote Auction House feature and that of releasing epic equipment for sale. The ground is still quite firm on that slope.

Second, a player who has more time in a week to play the game than you has an advantage over you by this same standard. Someone that has an hour or more a day to use the Auction House than you do has an advantage, and they’re not even charged extra for it. The Remote Auction House provides no in-game functionality that isn’t already available to every single player as often as they can or want to use it. The only difference now is that, for an additional monthly fee, players can use the Auction House in a remote fashion without having to log into the game client.

Blizz works to break AVR in patch 3.3.5

This is a notice that we’re making changes in 3.3.5 in attempts to break the ability for the AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) mod to continue functioning. For those unaware, this mod allows players to draw in the 3D space of the game world, which can then be shared with others who are also using the mod. In some cases this manifests itself through drawing/tagging/defacing the game world, but more popularly is used to give visual guides for dungeon and raid encounters.

We’re making this change for two reasons. The invasive nature of a mod altering and/or interacting with the game world (virtually or directly) is not intended and not something we will allow. World of Warcraft UI addons are never intended to interact with the game world itself. This is mirrored in our stance and restriction of model and texture alterations. The second reason is that it removes too much player reaction and decision-making while facing dungeon and raid encounters. While some other mods also work to this end, we find that AVR and the act of visualizing strategy within the game world simply goes beyond what we’re willing to allow.

The change we’re making in attempts to break the functionality is light in its touch and approach. When blocking any functionality we run the risk of affecting other mods, but we’ve targeted the changes as carefully as possible. If we find that the AVR mod (or any mod attempting to replicate its functions) are usable after 3.3.5 we will take further, more drastic steps.

Ruby Sanctum PTR Testing

10-man – 258 ilvl gear

25-man -271 iLvl gear -trinkets

Blizzcon Tickets on sale June 2nd and 5th.

Tickets to the convention will be priced at $150 USD each and will be available for purchase from the official BlizzCon website at www.blizzcon.com.

Blizzard supports Multi-Boxing gameplay?

I recently received a response about the use of third party software to facilitate multi-boxed characters. This style of gameplay gives players an unfair advantage over single account users in pvp competitons. If you don’t believe me, try fighting 5 tethered shaman by yourself. The bottom line is Blizzard supports this style of gameplay. What do you think?

Triton

05/21/2010 16:13:02 PDT

Re: Blizzard supports Multi-Boxing gameplay?

There’s no support for multi-boxing on our end. We tolerate it. For now.

Other News:

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Playing for Keeps

by Mur Lafferty

Science Fiction

Playing for Keeps tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren’t strong enough to make a difference. Or that’s what they’ve been told. As the city begins to melt down, it’s hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Here’s the link For Murs story Playing for Keeps

Entertainment:

Music:

Movies:

Cypher:

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus:

Directed and written by Terry Gilliam

Christopher Plummer (dr), Lilly Cole (Valentina), Heath Ledger (Tony), Verne Troyer (Percy), Tom Waits (Mr. Nick-the devil), Johny Deep, Judd Law, Colin Farrell (Tony)

Wild Movie- Similar to many gilliam movies where they jump between the real world and fantasy.

Trivia:

Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law gave all the income they received for this movie to Heath Ledger‘s daughter Matilda so that her economic future would be secure.

The film contains various references to the classic staging of Samuel Beckett‘s play Waiting For Godot including Tom Waits‘ black suit and bowler hat and Jude Law dragging a rope noosed around his neck (as does Lucky in the play)

Heath Ledger improvised half of his comedic dialogue on set.

Critics:

62% ROTTEN TOMATOES

BBC:

There’s no doubt that the imaginary world [Gilliam has] created is awe-inspiring, but it’s ultimately designed for an art house audience.

Times UK:

It’s mad and beautiful and bewildering; it represents a unique vision; it’s a peek into the treasure trove of oddities that is Terry Gilliam’s head.

Other podcasts:

Not sure where to put this but I would like to bring up some great shows I have been listening to:

BBC – Podcasts – Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s Film Reviews Just about the best film podcast out there.

Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave – Tell ‘Em Steve Dave! – SModcast.com The most recent two episodes about the flee market are priceless!

Hypknotoad:

TV Shows:

Cypher:

Archer: Recommended a while back by a listener. Showed up on netflix so I gave it a try. Pretty funny show, bit of a take off on a disfunctional MI5 type agency. Very adult humour.

Fire Fly:

An old army buddy mails his dead body to Mal and Zoey so they can bring him back to his family.

Hypknotoad:

V: Was actually pretty good this week, lots happened.

FBI women (can’t remember name) goes up to the ship under the guise of visiting for ‘dinner’.

She has to kill the fifth column dude who has helped them to ward off suspicion.

Crap scene when she kills the eggs with some stupid quote.

All very CGI looking.

Ryan goes up to the ship to see his wife who was kidnapped.

Anna allows him to enter hoping to turn him back to her ‘bliss’

Anna kills his wife after the baby is delivered

Final scene shows Ryan holding his baby and a tenticle (shoutout to Cable Wasteland) pops out and circles his finger.

The terrorist bad actor dude sells information to Marcus and finds out he has been helping the V’s unknowingly.

Lost:`

More sideways universe stuff where Desmond seems to be rounding up the troops who are all conveniently together in prison..

Jacob appears to Hurley, Sawyer, Jack and Kate and tells them one of them has to take his place to protect ‘the light’ in the middle of the island. Jack agrees to do it, at the end of the episode he drinks from the water just like Jacob did and Jacob says ‘You are like me now’

Ben sides with Unlocke and kills for him.

“Justified” (2010)(new show):

Heard ScoJo mention this and checked it out.

Thought it had something to do with the director of ‘The Shield’ but can’t confirm that on IMDB.

Stars everybodies favourite wooden actor Timothy Olyphant who plays basically the same roll as Deadwood and The Crazies.

Trivia:

The character Raylan Givens was created by novelist Elmore Leonard, and has appeared in two of his novels, Pronto (1997) (TV) and Riding the Rap. Givens also appeared in Leonard’s short story Fire in the Hole, which was the basis of the pilot episode of “Justified” (2010).

“FlashForward” (2009):

Cancelled :/

Not the greatest show but they could at least wait until the season finishes before announcing they’re axing it.

Games:

Cypher:

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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Episode 43 – Dispels > DPS

YouTube – The Levellers – Liberty song

This week on the show…:

Cypher fails the raid

Hyp Meets the Lich King

Hellos and RL:

Cypher:

Pretty normal week. Didn’t get to see ironman at the imax before it left.

Hypknotoad:

Guested on Cable Wasteland Podcast

Blocked on twitter by a healer

Let’s check out the Corrections / Mailbox.

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Corrections Box / Mailbox:

I’m gonna try the Starcraft code myself before the show.

Lots of spam this week.

Twitter:

In Game:

Mail:

I have a feeling we may not be recieving our mail.

Donations:

ITunes Reviews:

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Addicted to food:

Our weeks in WoW:

Cypher:

Obtained [Ashen Band of Unmatched Might]

Obtained [Castle Breaker's Battleplate]

Ran the POH Paranoid Alt run friday.

Ran trial of champion. Several times.

Huge Huge huge Thanks to Regime. Gave me 2 primordial Saronite to complete the mats for my [Hellfrozen Bonegrinders]

Ran several Heroics

Won a 2nd Nighttime. Too bad I cant use it anymore.

Earned the achievement Looking For Many for 20 points.

Earned the achievement Split Personality for 10 points.

Did the weekly raidboss. Patchwork. Died 10 sec in. Nobody mentioned the 2 tank strat.

Hypknotoad:

The Pally:

Almost level 50.

Spent the week in one of my favorite instances Zul’Farrak

Chill was able to share all five quests with me, all completed on the first run.

Wish we had tried this when we initally 3 manned it:

After the Pyramid battle, if you talk to the goblin before you talk to Sergeant Bly, then there is a timer that begins (approximately 2 minutes). If you do not talk to Sergeant Bly before that timer runs out, Sergeant Bly (and party) will hearth out of the instance preventing the completion of Divino-matic Rod quest. But if you speak with Bly just before the hearthstone is over, the other NPC will hearth out but Bly will stay in. This is useful if your group is not strong, because you can fight Bly on his own. That way you can complete your rod quest an easy way. http://www.wowwiki.com/Zul’Farrak

Moved on to Sunken Temple (Fur’s fav instance) which is a bit of a bitch.

Despite doing the instance twice and consulting Wowwiki we had problems hitting the serpent statues in the correct order to activate the optional boss in the basement.

Had a couple of ‘whooo’ pulls when jumping down into the room below from the balconies.

Still have a quest item for the end of the instance but was too low to use it. Not sure we’ll go back to complete that.

Finally we had our first crack at another favourite instance, BRD.

The DK:

Spent another week leveling mining for the pally.

Just hit 300 now have to go to outlands and level to continue mining. (This is where it gets hard.)

Tripping over thorium in Un’Goro Crater. A farmers dream!

Starting to tire of riding in circles… Luckily now I’ll be flying in circles

The Hunter:

Loving http://www.femaledwarf.com/

Answered my own question about which potion to use.

Decided to make Saronite Bombs (not to try to glitch the encounter) but to increase my DPS on the 2nd phase of the LK assuming we got to it.

Compared my MM to Surv spec, found that MM theoritically should be better.

In practise it is not, still having trouble managing RF and Readiness.

Tried MM a couple of times, always ended up switching back to Surv.

For LK I really do want to learn MM.

Regemmed some items based on the calc.

The Priest:

Not much this week

Got the T10 shoulders from frost.

Guild News:

Population:

E-Peen:

Note: Last week I said Oni had a 4.9k gs. It turns out he is almost 5.7k, meaning he does not really deserve so much praise for doing well on the healing meters.

Act has 2 pieces of Sanctified gear goddamn it!!

News:

Suggestions for an alliance guild on Jubei’thos? Only name I could come up with was ‘Pants on Alliance’

Paranoid:

Alt Run Friday:

Cleared through Rotface. No problems except for the weekly quest, Which I screwed up. Sorry to all. Funny part about the frost Vents.

Day 1:

http://worldoflogs.com/reports/4q0o6eoo7alg0rl8/

Sindragosa goes down!

Got her on the fifth attempt.

Used the stairs to los the missiles and moved to the center with the dragon facing horizontally to the stairs for Phase 2.

Used the front and back legs as the points for the frost tombed target.

I had an aspect of the pack fail during the winning attempt.

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Victory!

On to the Lich King!

Not victorious yet..

Pimp enterance

This was overwhelming!

We explained the first two phases and had a shot at it.

Wern’t sure about the Shambling Horrors.

First Quake we all stayed out and fell to our deaths, funny moment.

Made it to the start of Phase 2, just about.

Using a mouse over tranq shot macro for the Shambling Horror

enrage:

/cast [target=mouseover] Tranquilizing Shot

Works well because it will not cast if there is nothing to tranquilize.

Allows me to keep the Lich King as my target and tranq when needed.

Fur disputes this method saying ‘I’m making it too easy’

I dispute what Fur says.

Day 2:

Missing our main tank.

Sharp filled the spot.

Guild Event:

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News:

WoW News:

Blizzard cracks down on alpha leaks. MMO-Champion have been asked to remove content that has not been officially released by them.

Get those opt-ins ready for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta! The sundering of Azeroth is nigh, and you don’t want to be left out in the cold of Northrend when you could be enjoying the sun-drenched beaches on the goblin isle of Kezan. To ensure you’re opted-in and eligible as a potential candidate, you’ll need a World of Warcraft license attached to your Battle.net account, have your current system specifications uploaded to the Battle.net Beta Profile Settings page, and have expressed interest through the franchise-specific check boxes.

So get your opt-ins set up, updated, and ready; we’re worgen real hard to get the beta going soon!

Ruby Sanctum questline info posted. on mmo champion. Spoilers alert

Other News:

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Entertainment:

Music:

Movies:

Cypher: Couples Retreat Not bad for a RomCom. Good Cast. Funny bits.

Dir: Peter Billingsley (Ralphy from A Christmas Story)

Actors:Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Kristen Bell, Jean Reno, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis.

Hypknotoad: Nada

TV Shows:

Cypher:

Dr Who – The Weeping Angels are back.

Supernatural season finale was good.

Firefly- Mal’s “wife” is back

Hypknotoad:

Fringe

Treme

Lost

Breaking Bad

Games:

Cypher: More Halo Beta.

Hypknotoad:

Wrap up.. Thanks for listening.

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