My late great uncle was a film maker out west, and was regarded as a reliable, competent producer. He would back in the day get a request for x number of movies running y length to act as fillers between feature films. Some of his best works actually grew a cult following. Here are a few of his best, should anyone like the old classic B movies. (not all of his movies are monster related tho.)
Mars Needs Women
Zontar: The thing from Venus
Goodbye, Norma Jean
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Missed it by that much….
For all the agent 52’s out there, We missed the optional boss in heroic strat by… That much.
He was within sight when the timer ran out. 
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Sorry for my absense folks
It’s been busy around here since we got our early christmas present. I hope to get back to playing and making posts soon. There just hasn’t been much time for sleep or playing lately.
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A Baby Boomkin is Born
Today friends is a happy day, My lovely wife gave birth to a beautiful little girl. It will be many moons before she is ready to take up arms in azeroth with me, but till then, y’all fight the good fight.
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Murder most fowl
Yay a new holiday, centered around eating food.. gotta love it. It’s a great chance for the lazy among us to finally get that cooking skill up to 300+…
I went from about 180 to 300 in mere minutes last night, now i’m ready to tackle outland foods and eventually northrend foods/feasts. A quick run down on where to find your ingredients should you not know.. (sorry my friends in red, i don’t know your side of it, but wowwiki does.)
Sweet potatoes – Vendor in Darnassus
Cranberries – Vendor just outside Ironforge
Punkins – Vendor just outside Stormwind
Turkeys – gotta kill em all… er.. all over elwynn forrest.
According to wowwiki you can cook your way 1-355 with the pilgrim’s bounty foods.
Leveling
Participating in this event and cooking these items is an excellent way of raising your cooking skill to 300 or above quickly and at low cost. The materials are inexpensive and available in practically unlimited quantities. The minimal required level starts at 1, and the recipes stay orange over a long range. Each recipe turns yellow only 10 levels below the requirement of the next level.
Make 70 of the Spice Bread Stuffing (including 70 of the Spice Bread as an ingredient) and 70 of the Pumpkin Pie, and 65 of the other recipes, Sweet Potato, Chutney, and Turkey in turn, learning each next recipe when it becomes available. While you are at it, the production will be enough for the event quests and three sets of the dailies.
The Turkey recipe is still orange at 329 cooking skill, but you will need to go to Outland or Northrend to train Master level cooking before or at 300. The Turkey recipe doesn’t turn gray until level 355 so it is an easy way to get your cooking all the way to Grand Master level.
There are daily quests to do as well, the wiki page gives you some sage advice on how to save thyme doing them all. Well guys, I better sign off before someone beats the stuffing out of me for all these puns.
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Just a minute dear
Have you ever had that one more quest and i’m done moment? Yesterday, I was logging in my characters to collect the whelpling pet from the 5th anniversary. It’s very cute, but logging in that many characters to pick up one piece of mail is annoying. After finishing that task I thought I would spend a little time finishing up a project left abandoned for months. Katt is my achievement sponge, I still want the 50 mount achievement. (at 29 mounts right now, with 41 pets) I was looking at my reputation levels, and i’m a scant 6k rep from getting my netherdrakes. So I logged Katt in planning to go do those netherwing dailys or at least hunt for some eggs. Instead, my new guild invited me to join a nexus run for one of the toons still leveling up.
So the LVL 80 crit chicken goes back to regular nexus. sounds fun at least, it’s mostly a guild run, we have one guy that was just picked up. In the group, we have a lowbie warrior (the pug), a lowbie DK (the guildie), a pally in training, a mage, and myself. I was thinking, awesome, warrior tank, pally healing, i’m free to rain down the pain and see about showing up the mage on the meter… slight hitch.. the warrior isn’t a tank. That means the pally has to tank. which means… i have to branch out and heal. Well, my bark isn’t worse than my bite in small groups.. so i Tree out and we are ready to go.
In tree form, i’m sitting at about 1800 bonus healz, nothing to sneeze at but, not truly epic healing. From the first pull i can tell we are going to have trouble. The warrior’s health is dropping faster than the tanks.. which means.. someone’s not doing something right. I told the group, that i’m not that used to healing, and my job is to keep the tank alive, and if you pull agro you will probably die. the warning received we proceed. as we are going along, i keep looking at my meters now set to healing received, the warrior is consistently higher than the tank, meaning he’s getting the agro instead of the tank. We start checking over our tank’s setup and he’s missing a major threat generating skill. (i don’t play one as a tank, so i don’t know which.) but once that’s in place threat becomes a non-issue.
and thanks to Vuhdo i’m happily playing whack a mole and keeping everyone alive without breaking a sweat. nobody died, and as a whole everyone had fun. Even me. More than half of my healing done was through the AOE heal.
Somewhere in the midst of this my other half had finally awoken (this being very late sunday morning) and beckoned to the kitchen for some culinary adventuring. When the run finished, I was asked to join them for a heroic. I decided to decline since others were awake finally. I’m lucky to have such a patient spouse.
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Home at last
After the drama surrounding the implosion of my last guild, I’m happy to say that Katt and company have a new guild home. Some friends that were also left adrift from the implosion formed up a guild and are bent on having fun.. novel concept for a game.. If we can raid we might, but it won’t be the focus of the guild’s attention. So I leave you with an appropriate link for a T-Shirt from Jinx.
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RFTC Screenshots
Well folks the Raid for the cure event was great, I know at one point it was commented that there were over 100 people in the chat channel on the alliance side. I have some screenshots to share with y’all. see below.
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How to handle guild drama
I have been a contributing member of 3 guilds on my server, I accepted control of one and ran it for a while. I joined another to experience raiding. I moved to another raiding guild after some bad experiences made me leave the second.
My first guild was and it was a great group of guys and gals. I wasn’t anybody important in the guild (other than a contributing member) this was in the days of wow vanilla. We didn’t raid, but we were moderately active, usually about 10-15 people on any given afternoon/evening/weekend. I was just coming off a divorce, and in RL a bit antisocial so it was great to have people that I could portray one side of myself to the way i wanted with no judgement on my shape/size/RL acheivements (or lack of). My most common toon at the time was a dwarf hunter (miner/gnome engineer) who’s favorite pet was a loch modan crocolisk named Chomp.
I started working on a pally and had just finished the big hammer questline when a baby pally joined the guild. knowing a little bit about the class I took this baby pally under my wing and helped him get on his feet. I ended up running deadmines with this guy so many times that I couldn’t look at the instance for about 2 years. The guild leadership noticed how much i was helping folks (not just baby pally) and eventually invited me to be one of their officers. I was stunned and deeply honored. A couple months later, the then GM held an officer meeting to determine the course of the guild for the coming months. He announced he was going to be taking an extended leave from the game and wanted to name a successor. Oddly enough, nobody wanted to step forward and lead. I whispered him that if nobody else will I would and so I got landed in the drivers seat of a 100 account 200 member guild. Some time after this the baby pally was all grown up, and tried to splinter off the guild and form his own. HOLYCLEAVE i’m happy to say has not been heard from in some time.
In time, BC came out, and we got a few people up to 70 and keyed to try to tackle kara. Time and again, my evening would amount to sitting at the summoning stone waiting for the people to show up that said they would. and Never did. One week I lost it, a half hour past start time, and one person (other than me) had shown of 15 people that said they wanted to go.
I started training up my druid Kattrinsaa to be a test/basket case with this raiding guild we had been told was looking for more people. I figgured, why not? I can get some raid experience in and learn the fights so that when I cooled off I could try to bring my guild up to speed. Nice in theory, bad in practice..
Raiding was fun, getting (and I quote the raid leader from guild #2) “Phat lootz” was fun Kara was… Fun! I didn’t want to go back to dragging people kicking and screaming to the stone and never getting anything started. So i did the inexcusable as a guild leader. I didn’t show up often enough. Eventually I handed control of what was left of the guild back to the old owner who had returned. Pretty much everyone had left it and I think it became a private guild bank for him.
In guild 2, I was again a nobody and I kept it that way, other than I was known to all in the guild, I was feral tank specced, in a guild with 3 feral tanks and some super pallytanks. So I was as useful as a library card to a blind man. More and more I found myself in cat form or helping to heal. (my least favorite druidic activity) Eventually I brought my huntard over and without meaning to, created a bit of guild drama on a gruul run… I had the audacity to roll against a rogue on the dragonspine trophy… (and even worse, I won) Eventually that event proved to be the proverbial straw for the equally proberbial camel’s back. Sitting in shatt one day I saw a guild member and said hi, instead of responding in a nice normal friendly manner he spit at me. I asked what was wrong and he started cussing at me about the DST then put me on ignore and flew off.
I spoke with our guild master, told him the situation and that I did not feel comfortable there anymore, sent a /g message out saying i was leaving and wishing them luck and /gquit. In my opinion, that is the only sane/respectable way to do that.
I joined up with guild 3 and changed spec to balance, and started having a great time playing the game. (that is why we are here afterall, no?) Things rocked along till early part of this year when the luvbug bit me.
Now, I’m remarried, and we are expecting a new child, to add to the one I have from my first marriage, and the two my mate has. In a very short time, i’ve gone from a layabout that only had to manage a small household, to a responsible person watching over up to 6 lives. Naturally something had to give, and it was the time on WOW.
I used to raid 3 nights a week usually about 3 hours a night, and was usually on long before raid time, also on about the same on non-raid nights. My life consisted of work/sleep/wow, I would average 5-6 hours a night, and huge chunks of the weekend as well. Now that we are all moved in and getting to a routine, I might pop on for 1-2 hours a night after the kiddies have gone to bed.
Lately, I’ve been playing on other servers for a change of scenery. When you fall behind your guild buddies on gear, you have less opportunities to join in the fun because your behind the gear curve. So I’ve been starting fresh and seeing the old sights. I put a couple toons on silver hand, that perhaps one day I’ll run into pike and can say hi. And recreated Katt over on Kael’Thas so I could join in on the race for the cure. I’m happy to say that Katt mk2 is already up to lvl 20, with katt form and a mount. I cleared bloodmyst isle because i don’t really like the nelf secondary zones that well.
So, I checked back on the original Katt and when I logged in, I noticed something right away, I had no access to the guild tab. I always look to see who’s on when i login. I search for anyone on i know, not only does nobody show up when i search for the guild, the people that I do know who were, all show up under different guilds.
I found out later on from a co-worker/guildmate that there was a coup of sorts, and the new owner of the guild didn’t want to rebuild it after a split that occurred in my absence, they wanted to keep the guild name/banktabs for their private use. So they booted everyone from the guild.
Ok, for those of you considering a change of guild, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. Right way, talk to the guild leadership and let them know why you are moving on. If it is lack of progression/content, I’m sure they will understand that your priorities have changed, and that you want to see stuff they won’t be getting to anytime soon. IF there is guild drama you need to get away from, they will understand that too. If you like the people in the group, consider leaving an alt there so you can play with them and keep informed in what’s going on when you are not raiding on your ubertoon.
Wrong way, steal the items from the guild bank and then /gquit without a word.
Wrong way, announce to the guild that you are forming your own guild and want everyone that can to come join you.
Likewise guild officers/leaders there is a right and wrong way to deal with problem players. You can be a jerk and just /gkick without a word. or you can explain the situation to them privately and ask their cooperation in settling the dispute. depending on their attitude you can always still /gkick but it would be preferrable to solve the problem and get people going in the right direction again. Bad attitudes have a way of permeating the trade chat channel and should you put out a recruitment, people will know. Likewise, good attitudes also lend themselves to free advertising, making it hard to keep your numbers down.
The best thing anyone can do with drama is sit both sides down, talk to them and try to come up with an agreement. or, put in a 50g fine for whining… imagine how fast the guild bank’s account would grow then?
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Raid for the cure
For any of my readers that aren’t already fans of the BBBB, this coming Saturday is the Raid for the cure event to be held at 2pm server time on the Kael’Thas server. I do hope anyone that can will attend, this is a worthy cause. For more information please see the original bearwall at Big Bear Butt Blogger
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