◊ Eej

Yeah, there wasn't one last week because I came back on a Monday afternoon extremely tired and jet lagged. This one is "late" because today is Victoria Day so it's still the weekend for me. This thread, therefore, is created for people going back to work on Tuesday to read.

Also some things I've noted from my Italian cruise experience.

• The Italians are terrible at customer service (i.e. asking a waiter for some tea at the buffet gives the response, "You can go get some tea yourself outside at the bar."). Also, Italians are very disorganized.
• Greek food from Greece is amazing.
• Apparently bad things happen when I travel. For example, the day I leave Rome, one of the old walls collapse. The day after we leave İzmir, it gets bombed by terrorists.

Miscellaneous PTR Stuff

Patch tomorrow. 'Nuff said.

WoW Developer Interview

Since it failed terribly last week, they rescheduled it for today. Basically, the purpose of the interview was to announce that 2.1.0 is being released tomorrow. Oh, and Ret Paladin + Hunter DPS is not going to be fixed anytime soon.

• EJ Discussion Thread with Transcript

Vashj drops SSC attunement item

Sweet, when my guild gets her on farm status that means I get a free SSC attunement on my alt should I ever choose to level her. Either that or we'll start making big bucks selling attunements to random people, ala BWL gold runs.

• World of Raids summary thread

Kael'Thas has 5 phases, much like the moon

At phase 5, he makes everyone start swimming in the air (think of the poly+fn+fb+coc exploit to make you swim in the air) and he himself explodes and reincarnates at twice the size. Sounds fairly ridiculous and fairly awesome but then I just realized that roughly 1% of those who play WoW will ever see this (actually I don't think 80,000 people will ever see the Kael'Thas fight, because I don't think 80,000 people have ever done Kel'thuzad).

• World of Raids summary thread

Starcraft 2

It's Starcraft 2 guys. I don't care what you say, the opening cinematic is beautiful.

On a side note, I just saw someone else with an Infested Kerrigan screencap for an avatar and am now quickly changing to avoid confusion. Probably a bad idea to do that in the first place but oh well.

• EJ Discussion Thread
• Starcraft 2 Official Website

Tseric's Gone

So after two years, the Tseric Raid Encounter has finally been done by the collective populace of the WoW forums. Instrumental in this world first was the efforts of the Shaman community, of which I'm sure most of them were lolenhancement.

On a personal note, I'm sad to see him go, because I just realized that's pretty much what would have happened to me but in a much shorter time period.

• Bar Thread

Praetorian writes a strongly-worded post towards EJ posters

• I agree wholeheartedly.

Apate indeed does have a hot sister

• Here.

Let's play some DotA

• I love BassHunter.

 

Lyta

I just want you to know that this had me burst out laughing at work, much to the (lack of) amusement of my coworkers. [YOU try setting up this joke after explaining first what WoW is.]

 

Malan

Speaking of Gurgs post on stupid posting... What does Tseric's pink slip say about WoW?
What the hell was this guy thinking?

Shitting up every single thread on EJ since '06

 

Kazanir

Your question commits me to a particular assumption -- if I answer your question I'd be admitting that he was, in fact, thinking. I'm not sure that's a step I'm prepared to take.

More seriously, I think the problems with that thread are that he makes a bunch of big assumptions (notably that Tseric was fired) and turns it into a huge drama bomb that can illuminate for us all the flawed facets of the WoW raiding game. It's an easy trap to fall into (come in pot, this is kettle, over!) and at least the discussion has gone in a good direction from the original post.

'War' is too small a word for what I'm fighting. Like a candle in front of the whole burning Sun. I told you. This is bigger than a war. Now, I am not going to die today. I have other projects, and other options.

You can come with me. I can protect you.

 

Apate

EDIT: At least the thread had nowhhere to go but up?

See you, auntie.

 

Alcyon

Regarding the Kael having 5 phases thing, that link goes to a thread on the Black Temple which doesn't contain any info about Kael that I can see (at least on that page). Anyone have the correct link? The fight sounds interesting.

 

◊ Eej

My bad, I fixed it.

 

◊ Wraithlin

I cant give you more rep.... yet.

 

◊ Boethius

Yeah, I am going to try and figure out something to do with these. Like this week.

 

thejdawg

Sticky until next weeks, in which case you sticky that one, then unsticky this one, then...

You get the idea.

 

◊ Boethius

Yeah, I really want to publish it site-wide though. I have some ideas knocking around. They just need to solidify.