I am so not a morning person.
My normal mornings go something like this
0530 – alarm goes off and i slap it to shut it up
0545 to 0600 – somewhere in here i finally can string coherent syllables together to make words. If i’m lucky, I’ve already gotten in the shower and usually will be finishing up.
0600 to 0630 – sneak quietly past the children and spouse to the computer, I like my quiet time in the mornings, great for quiet reflection.. (in my terms blowing stuff up wearing headphones)
0630 to 0730 – on a quiet day, i can continue… reflecting. but sometime in this hour the baby will usually wake up, or I have to wake up the children needing to go to school.
0730 to 0745 – run around like headless chicken looking for my clothes, eating breakfast and whatever else i have to do. and Then leave for work.
This morning, I changed things up a bit, I kickstarted the computer when i got out of the shower and found I couldn’t get logged into EVE. I went and ate giving them time to finish the patch installation downtime. It was still down when i finished so i logged into katt 4.0 and quested for a while. when I made it to work, I eventually realized that I had put on two different style black work shoes. I didn’t want to wander around work today wearing mismatched shoes. then I found out we have an auditor coming today, and I had worn jeans.. The boss tells me to go change clothes, and I am grateful.. I get a chance to change my shoes at the same time. Yeah… I just love mornings..
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Just when you thought.
it was safe to come back to the blogosphere. I have a new post.
It feels like ages since i last dropped in to say hello, absolutely nothing has been going on, so I haven’t had any game related material to write about. I’ve been catching the occasional blurbs from Grimmtooth, BRK, BBB and Pike. But the muses have been off elsewhere leaving me to shift for myself.
I have been playing around with Katt 4.0, (1.0 is on Kul-Tiras, 2.0 was on BBB’s Server, 3.0 on Pike’s server, 4.0 is on Argent Dawn where I got to join in with the Single Abstract Noun folks.)
Katt is doing good so far, she’s still early on in her career, and for some reason has a hard time blending in with the spacegoats on bloodmyst isle.. it must be the ears, or lack of hooves.
I did have one interesting run lately, which promptly led to respecing to full balance with my whole 9 talent points…
I had been loading the feral tree planning on doing a wee bit of tanking right out of the gate at 15. and i did manage RFC (had no swipe but managed anyway) the groups held back and managed their agro.. mostly.
The other night, I pulled Wailing Caverns. which is a horrible random.. at lvl 17, I was the lowest of the group, ranging up to a mid run ding to 21. luckily, we had a warrior at 19 who COULD have taken over tanking and did for a time, till he quit because we wouldn’t boot him. But… Seriously, at these levels the tanks just don’t have their stuff together yet. I actually had to ask the group to hold up and let me at least hit the things a few times before they would unload. (i’m talking to you mage, and hunter.. you know who you are)
the group ended up dissolving due to it’s inadequacies, the warrior left after only one boss and the turtle.. and needed on everything that popped up. I might see about getting one of my new SAN guildies to run me through there a few times for the caster leather that drops (or deadmines for the defias stuff so i have feral gear when i get kitty at 20).. then again, i’ll be out of that into better stuff in no time.
In other news, I’m really starting to get the hang of EVE online, I like that there’s no requirement to buy the program or any of the upgrade/expansions.. ever.. and some of my RL friends play it and we get together like old times in college.
For those of you not familiar with EVE, it is a space based MMORPG where your character is actually whichever ship you decide to leave the station in. You can do pretty much anything you want from mining, to exploring, to trading on the markets, to outright high seas.. er deep space piracy. That said, the game has a steep learning curve. And you script kiddies out there might as well look elsewhere, it’s not moddable like WOW, and you have to actually Read The (f)Blinking Mission to figure out what to do.. there is no giant green arrow telling you what way to go. Therefore, the player base in general is a lot less jittery and trigger happy, and doesn’t sharply increase at 330 pm monday-friday..
I’m still undecided if i’m going to subscribe to EVE or not. I know that I won’t have the time for WOW and EVE.. one will have to go.. my friend gave me a 21day free trial, so i have a few more days to decide..
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Pike’s MEME – Geek Wars
So, I was reading the clockwork hare, and started going through this post and this post and instead of leaving a Long comment, wanted to post it here for all to see.
Star Wars V Star Trek – Both, Favorite iteration of Trek is Voyager, I just can’t really decide why I like it better…
Kirk V. Picard – I would go with kirk, but Janeway beats both of them.
DC V. Marvel – batman — meh.. superman is cool, xmen and iron man rock. so.. Marvel.
KDE v. Gnome – I don’t use enough linux to have an opinion.
Emacs v. Vi – When I was at A&M, took a programming class. the instructor had an infatuation with emacs/lisp. lisp stands for Lots of Infuriating Silly Parentheses. Was the worst programming class I ever took. He didn’t teach the language, he taught “structured programming/pseudocoding”. So we had to learn a foreign language on our own and bend it to fit the rules imposed by lisp. Emacs was the editor of the instructor’s choice so that is what we had to use.. therefore… I hates it, my precious…
Open Source V. Free software – the Gnu should be everyone’s mascot. no?
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Part 2
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Coke V. Pepsi – Coke or Mtn Dew (regular, code red, and blue)
Asimov vs. Heinlein vs. Clarke: Heinlein – I love double star, and red planet
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additional questions in the comments
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Pokemon Red V. Blue – I’m not big on pokemon, bought red so I could play around with my nephew way back when. Grew outta that pretty quick.
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was just looking on my steam client, it ran an update. the complete final fantasy 11 game w/all addons is 4.99
makes it very tempting to give it a test run.
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heatwave
Welcome to Texas in the summer.
It is 100 degrees out right now, we are under a heat advisory for the weekend, 102 Saturday and 104 Sunday.
My car has no working AC, (barring the good Ole 260 ac.. 2 windows down going 60mph.)
Where’s a frost mage when you need him?
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Taking a look at th new beta information released, and I’ve cobbled together what I think would be a decent boomkin build.
I took all of the balance talents except for owlkin frenzy, (you shouldn’t be taking much damage if you have a competent tank,) and Genesis (dots and hots are not my focus.) I picked up Blessing of the grove, (buff moonfire direct damage by 6%), Furor (6% more int=more mana&more crit), and lastly perseverance (6% spell damage mitigation, tanks can’t stop that..)
For solo play, I might swap owlkin and perseverance as I WOULD be getting pounded on more.
HERE is my initial thoughts on a feral tank build.
I skipped the following talents: Brutal Impact, Nurturing Instinct, Endless Carnage, and Nom Nom Nom.
Brutal Impact – bash isn’t one of my frequently used skills in bear form (pounce is cat form of course.)
Nurturing Instinct – I’m da tank, not da healer.
Endless Carnage – Rake is for cats, Savage roar and pulverize are good skills, but I think i need the 6% magic damage redux more.
nom nom nom – cat form..
I picked up the following talents: Blessing of the grove, Furor, and Perseverance
Blessing of the grove – gives me 4% bonus to claw and shred (not useful for bear, but opens next tier)
Furor – gives me 60% chance for 10 rage on shifting to bear (useful, but needed to open next tier)
perseverance – 6% reduction of spell damage – finally some magic defense.
HERE is my thoughts on a kitteh build.
Skipped these : Primal Fury, Nurturing Instinct, Natural Reaction, and Survival Instincts
Primal Fury – rage = bear, this is a kitteh build.
Nurturing Instinct – again, we are not heals
Natural Reaction – dodge for bear, we are kitteh.
Survival Instincts – I don’t worry that much about OS buttons, kitties should be behind the target, not getting pounded on. If I am, then the fight has wierd mechanics or the tank stinks.
I picked up these: Blessing of the Grove, Furor, Natural Shapeshifter (1/3)
Blessing of the Grove – 4% buff to claw/shred
Furor – keep 60 energy shifting to cat
Natural Shape shifter 1/3 – only had one point left, was either cheaper shape shift or survival instincts, figured i would shift more than panic.
don’t worry healers, i haven’t forgotten you.
HERE is my build.
I skipped 2 resto talents : Furor and Natural Protection
Furor doesn’t buff resto at all
Natural protection requires you getting crit which shouldn’t be happening.
I picked up 3 balance talents : Natures grace, Genesis, and Moonglow
Natures Grace – spell crit = 20% haste
Genesis – swiftmend and hots improved by 3%
Moonglow (1/3) – had one left over, moonglow helps reduce mana cost slightly
I welcome any questions or comments.
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