pa⋅tience
–noun
1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.
I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I do anyway.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Meeting Boss
I like to pretend meetings are raid encounters. My co-worker Tore is awesome and tanks them for me when he can, and the times he can't I make due by myself. What's been fun is when I'm the raid boss, or leading the meetings. Before this week it usually happened by accident but lately I've been 'the boss' by design.
What's annoying is having another 'raid boss' come in and try to take over for you. I wonder how that would work in WoW terms, like you're fighting Malygos and then Arthas pops in. What if they started fighting and killed each other? Does the raid in the instance at the time get loot from BOTH loot tables?
Lol.
What's annoying is having another 'raid boss' come in and try to take over for you. I wonder how that would work in WoW terms, like you're fighting Malygos and then Arthas pops in. What if they started fighting and killed each other? Does the raid in the instance at the time get loot from BOTH loot tables?
Lol.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Annoying
A friend of mine said this the other day and it seriously annoyed me.
"Soon all the car companies will be owned by the Government."
She had a headache so she couldn't debate the facts with me, but that just annoyed me even more. So thanks to the internet and This website I have a handy chart:
So what the hell is Socialism?
Haven't we been doing that sort of thing with Welfare and Social Security for decades now? What is the fear of the horrid 'socialist' movement that everyone is screaming about? Is Obama going to make us all become communists? Fuck no.
How does the top 20% owning over 80% of the wealth make sense? I found a lovely article with all the facts and the figures, but this paragraph made the most sense to me:
Just a lovely little reminder of how this country really works.
Wikipedia
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income and Power
"Soon all the car companies will be owned by the Government."
She had a headache so she couldn't debate the facts with me, but that just annoyed me even more. So thanks to the internet and This website I have a handy chart:
So what the hell is Socialism?
Socialism refers to any one of various theories of economic organization advocating public or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal opportunities/means for all individuals with a more egalitarian method of compensation.
Haven't we been doing that sort of thing with Welfare and Social Security for decades now? What is the fear of the horrid 'socialist' movement that everyone is screaming about? Is Obama going to make us all become communists? Fuck no.
How does the top 20% owning over 80% of the wealth make sense? I found a lovely article with all the facts and the figures, but this paragraph made the most sense to me:
And now we have arrived at the point I want to make. If the top 1% of households have 30-35% of the wealth, that's 30 to 35 times what we would expect by chance, and so we infer they must be powerful. And then we set out to see if the same set of households scores high on other power indicators (it does). Next we study how that power operates, which is what most articles on this site are about. Furthermore, if the top 20% have 84% of the wealth (and recall that 10% have 85% to 90% of the stocks, bonds, trust funds, and business equity), that means that the United States is a power pyramid. It's tough for the bottom 80% -- maybe even the bottom 90% -- to get organized and exercise much power.
Just a lovely little reminder of how this country really works.
Wikipedia
Who Rules America: Wealth, Income and Power
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Main Tankadin
I have never intended to be a tank before. I rolled a paladin to be ret and pwn face. But now my friend is leveling a druid healer (<3 trees) and needs someone to tank instances for her.
*looks around* Umm, anyone else want to take this? I just like to go pew pew and kill things... No? Well I do have this duel spec thing so I guess I could... But only once and a while, ok?
== 3 weeks later ==
I went ret for the first time in weeks last night and still wound up tanking when the tank d/c'ed out in Violet Hold. It's strange going from a Caster to Melee in only a few minutes. As a mage my main focus is staying as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE from the mobs. Now I need to run into them head first? WFT why would I have a death wish... Oh, oh yeah, the tree. <3 trees
*looks around* Umm, anyone else want to take this? I just like to go pew pew and kill things... No? Well I do have this duel spec thing so I guess I could... But only once and a while, ok?
== 3 weeks later ==
I went ret for the first time in weeks last night and still wound up tanking when the tank d/c'ed out in Violet Hold. It's strange going from a Caster to Melee in only a few minutes. As a mage my main focus is staying as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE from the mobs. Now I need to run into them head first? WFT why would I have a death wish... Oh, oh yeah, the tree. <3 trees
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
WSG is Fun
So it's been a little while since I've posted. In WoW news I've taken a liking to PVP again since PVE stuff can't seem to fit on my calendar. I have 4 pieces of hateful, nothing too fancy but I'm sitting on 477 resil which is nice. Explosive shot doesn't hurt as much as it used too.
I would love to get my hands on some Season 7 gear. Mage gear looks BAMF. And I mean BAAAAAMF. Blue glowy shoulders of awesomeness. Finally. As nice as it is to get resiliance the Hateful set is kinda boring. I should have the shoulders pretty soon.
I have to say I'm becoming better at PVP again. I've remembered to sheep people (Flag Carriers in WSG, I am your bane). Staying alive is greater than killing people UNLESS you're death will achieve something.
Dying in BGs is NOT a big deal. I've noticed this causes a lot of stress and concern from some of my friends. Yeah it sucks, especially after you die to the same rogue for the fourth time in a row. The upside of that is the rogue is not killing someone else, like the flag carrier, or the healer, or whatever.
It doesn't matter. If I die 10x in a BG but we still win? Awesome. If I die once but we lose? Then what the hell did I not do?
I don't mean to equate death with winning, but unless you're VERY VERY good, or have a healer, you're probably going to die a few times. The other side (I call them the Alliance) tends to figure out who's annoying pretty quickly (HI THERE! I'll be sheeping you thing afternoon). And then you get targeted.
It can be flattering.
I tend to start off on D in WSG because no one else will. I'm a wet paper towel when it comes to survivability BUT somehow I can live for a little while depending on who's attacking. Most of the time I can single handedly delay the FC from leaving the building between Spellsteal, Rank 1 Frostbolt (Macro that shit!), Frost Nova, Deep Freeze, Water Elemental, Mirror Image, Ice Barrier, Polymorph (TURTLE!), and Ice Block.
I know I cannot kill the person by myself if there is more than one opponent. Killing the person isn't my goal most of the time. Delaying is.
What usually happens is three people run into our Flag Room. I wait on the roof with Blizzard targeted over the flag. 3/3 Improved Blizzard snares everyone quick, and then a quick polymorph on the FC if they're still within LOS.
Jump down, feather fall at the last second, Nova, Deep Freeze and run down the tunnel ahead of the crowd. I'll usually have a few dots on me by this point but Frost/Fire ward are your friends. Rank 1 Frostbolt and polymorph as much as you can on the FC. Pallys are annoying with HOF but spellsteal is always worth a shot, and polymorphing still works.
Ice block when you get low on health, and hopefully by this time someone will have figured out that we need to get the flag back. If more people show up and you get heals WIN!
If not, you'll eventually be worn down but by this time your side has probably carried the Alliance flag all the way back. If you die now, you're all right.
I would love to get my hands on some Season 7 gear. Mage gear looks BAMF. And I mean BAAAAAMF. Blue glowy shoulders of awesomeness. Finally. As nice as it is to get resiliance the Hateful set is kinda boring. I should have the shoulders pretty soon.
I have to say I'm becoming better at PVP again. I've remembered to sheep people (Flag Carriers in WSG, I am your bane). Staying alive is greater than killing people UNLESS you're death will achieve something.
Dying in BGs is NOT a big deal. I've noticed this causes a lot of stress and concern from some of my friends. Yeah it sucks, especially after you die to the same rogue for the fourth time in a row. The upside of that is the rogue is not killing someone else, like the flag carrier, or the healer, or whatever.
It doesn't matter. If I die 10x in a BG but we still win? Awesome. If I die once but we lose? Then what the hell did I not do?
I don't mean to equate death with winning, but unless you're VERY VERY good, or have a healer, you're probably going to die a few times. The other side (I call them the Alliance) tends to figure out who's annoying pretty quickly (HI THERE! I'll be sheeping you thing afternoon). And then you get targeted.
It can be flattering.
I tend to start off on D in WSG because no one else will. I'm a wet paper towel when it comes to survivability BUT somehow I can live for a little while depending on who's attacking. Most of the time I can single handedly delay the FC from leaving the building between Spellsteal, Rank 1 Frostbolt (Macro that shit!), Frost Nova, Deep Freeze, Water Elemental, Mirror Image, Ice Barrier, Polymorph (TURTLE!), and Ice Block.
I know I cannot kill the person by myself if there is more than one opponent. Killing the person isn't my goal most of the time. Delaying is.
What usually happens is three people run into our Flag Room. I wait on the roof with Blizzard targeted over the flag. 3/3 Improved Blizzard snares everyone quick, and then a quick polymorph on the FC if they're still within LOS.
Jump down, feather fall at the last second, Nova, Deep Freeze and run down the tunnel ahead of the crowd. I'll usually have a few dots on me by this point but Frost/Fire ward are your friends. Rank 1 Frostbolt and polymorph as much as you can on the FC. Pallys are annoying with HOF but spellsteal is always worth a shot, and polymorphing still works.
Ice block when you get low on health, and hopefully by this time someone will have figured out that we need to get the flag back. If more people show up and you get heals WIN!
If not, you'll eventually be worn down but by this time your side has probably carried the Alliance flag all the way back. If you die now, you're all right.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thank you for your patience. We ran into some issues in the testing process which have resulted in delays. We currently do not have a definite estimate on when they will be playable, but we will provide another update at approximately 6:00PM PDT. We are doing the best we can to have the realms available in the next two to three hours.
Lol. I'm still at work but that only makes this a good thing.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
WoW
So 3.1 should be coming out this week (tuesday the 14th). It's about time I say. My guild has had Naxx on farm for way to long, and we've even got Sarth3D on farm too by now. It's a shame that we haven't gotten Immortal or Undying yet, and I doubt we will at this point, but it's not easy.
On with it all I say!
On with it all I say!