The Guild - Episodes 1 - 3

This is for all my gaming buddies:

The Guild - Episode 1: Wake-Up Call


The Guild - Episode 2: Zaboo'd


The Guild - Episode 3: The Macro Problem


Yes, that is Felicia Day, Vi from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A couple others look vaguely familiar, but none of their names (from the credits) ring a bell.

Anyhow, funny stuff!

And eerily familiar overtones. o.O

The Ballad of the Noob

This was hilarious! And, yes, according to the video's creators, they are aware alliance and Horde cannot actually talk to each other, let alone trade items.

You may want to turn this up a little, as a few spots get kinda hard to hear.

The Brothers Tauren 2

Meh, not nearly as funny as Red Sky Foundry's first one, but humorous enough. This was posted to YouTube on November 8, 2006. Being that was almost a year ago, the chances of The Brothers Tauren 3 being made are not looking so good.

Red Sky Foundry also did a SIMS machinima (movies made from video game captures). It can be found at their woefully un-updated website. It's pretty funny, and the SIMS game seems well suited to making your own movies in it.

Wonder what a WoW SIMS game would be like? Hmmmmm ...

The Brothers Tauren

Created by Red Sky Foundry. This is one of the funniest, and most professional, WoW movies I've seen. I'll post the sequel tomorrow.

WoW - Just As Long As Me

Jonathan Coulton's song put to WoW video by spiffworld.com.

WoW - I'm Too Sexy ...

Not the greatest video ever made, but I found it amusing.

WoW - Big Blue Dress

I thought this was hilarious! I also liked the music. ^.^

Amish Paradise - Weird Al and WoW

One of my favorite Weird Al songs (a parody of Coolio's Gangster Paradise). The video is well done, and the thought of an Amish Night Elf is too funny. I like how the author even used original Warcraft screens for the barn-building sequence. hehe

WoW and Weird Al

After a brief Transformers interlude yesterday, we're back with more WoW music videos! This next one is a paordy of Weird Al's original "That's Your Horoscope for Today". (Ironic, isn't it?)

Obviously the video was created before the Burning Crusade expansion pack. Still, hilarious! For those of you who would like to hear Weird Al's original song ... here you go!

WoW - Gadetzan Hardware Store

Great WoW video done to the song, "Hardware Store" by Weird Al Yankovich!

WoW - A Pirate I Was Meant to Be!

World of Warcraft ... Pirates ... Funny Video ... ???

Enjoy

WoW, Farts -- Raivynn Has No Post Again!

The actual fart tune was ripped from Family Guy which was parodying the song "Dueling Banjos", which is an iconic song from the movie "Deliverance".

Yeah, I'm bored. I have no real stuff to blog about today. The WoW Anvilmar server was buggy, so I came to drop this on you.

Sorry, Bruiser. I know I promised no more farts on Sunday, but ... WoW deserved it!

And that one dwarf sure had a purty mouth. ~.^

re: Your Brains

Grab a gun! Run! Hide! Zombies are on the rampage. Brains on the menu!

I love this music video created by Jonathan Coulton using World of Warcraft as his visual media. The parody nature of the song, as well as his vocals, remind me of Weird Al. You can find more of Jonathan's work at www.spiffworld.com.

The video combines three things I love: Funny Songs, WoW and Zombies.

They aren't called zombies in WoW, though. Undead is their general term; Forsaken and Scourge are the two factions of Undead. Players basically play Forsaken with Scourge being the "enemy".

Forsaken are real nasty pieces of work. They are tenuously allied with the brutal Horde. An alliance of convenience only. While they dupe their Horde allies into fighting the Lich King and the Scourge, they secretly (okay, sorta secretly) are developing a plague which will destroy humanity.

They don't eat brains, per se. But Undead do get a skill called Cannibalize. Players can induce this skill to "eat" a slain humanoid or other undead foe, thus restoring a portion of their own life force (health).

The game models of Undead are great, too. Bones and withered muscle tissue showing through pasty, necrotic flesh. Wild hair styles. Quick, yet jerky movements.

Surprisingly, I only have one Undead toon: Dropdeadhot, female mage. (On the Anvilmar server if you want to drop by and say hello! ~.^)

Hmmm, now I'm in the mood to watch one of my zombie movies ... Dawn of the Dead, perhaps?

Boring Stuff You Probably Don't Want to Read

No real post today. I'm taking the day off. I'm not sick (more than usual). I'm not depressed (more than usual). I do have a sort of pressure headache from allergies (more than usual).

I finally got level 40 on my WoW Druid, Moolasses.

I spent literally all day grinding out the level yesterday. I must have played about 10 hours. Level 40 brings new dimension to your toon ... you can get a mount. This allows you to go much faster than if on foot. Level 40 mounts go 60% faster than normal run speed.

As a Druid, I have a Travel form (a cheetah) that allows me to travel at 40% faster than normal foot speed. Technically, I didn't need the mount, as my Travel Form is actually more versatile, if slower, than using a mount. I can quickly change back and forth between forms, even in combat, which allows me to make speedy get-aways when things go bad. (And, they do go bad). Mounts require several seconds to summon, and you cannot do it in combat, let alone fight while mounted.

The mount is more of a status thing as it requires 90 to 100 gold to get the riding training and mount.

Here is Moolasses on her shiny, new Kodo mount. The only thing big enough for the huge Tauren race to ride around on.Other notes of interest:

• The Penny Doubled Daily amount is in the decillions. This is mathematically notated as 10³³.
  
• After 4 months online, the Roost has had 3,825 visits with 5,757 pageviews.
  
• 1,104 (or 28.86%) are Return Visitors. (That's you guys ^.^)
  
• The most popular page (aside from the main page) is the Penny Doubled Daily page
  
• The top 5 search phrases that bring people to the Roost are:
  
  
  

  1. "penny doubled" - There are numerous variations on this, all wanting to know how much a penny doubled daily for 30 days (or longer) is. I've no way to accurately gauge the specific number of hits for those phrases, but it is significant.

     
     
  2. "jesus remains" - This one is from people who were interested in James Cameron's documentary about the supposed physical remains of Jesus.
     
  3. "raivynn" - What can I say? People love to Google me. ~.^ (I know I'm not the only Raivynn out there in cyberland ... but the proliferation of my previous 'Net name, Vixenkitty, astounds me. Used ot be my old 'Net debris was the only stuff you found searching under that name. Now there are dozens of vixenkittys, even a clothing brand. But I coined the name back in early '93 and consider myself the true, original owner of it. So there. Mmmph!).
     
  4. "gasparilla boobs" - I did an article about Gasparilla as my 18th blog post. In it, I briefly mentioned how, like Marti Gras, many women expose their breasts for beads and trinkets. Somehow, have the words Gasparilla and boobs in the same article spawned dozens of hits from people looking for such images (which there are none on my blog, so stop looking!!!). This little blurb will likely get me another few dozen hits for saying gasparilla boobs. Oops, I did it again! ~.^
     
  5. "dog phrases" & "chicken eating cow" were tied with several dozen hits. The first leads to my Sick as a Dog article and the latter to my post about the cow in India that eats live chickens. That one sparked the infamous Cow Week on the Roost.
     
  
  

Now, I imagine if I went through all 2,047 search engine phrases that led to my site, I could compile a really accurate description of what people typed in to get her.But, I'm lazy and ain't gonna. =P

Okay, so I made a fairly long, and involved, post. And it likely bored you to tears. I thought you might need a break from the uber-cute Ninja kitty posts, though. Did it help?

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Today's Penny Doubled Daily Cumulative Amount for 32 days is:

$13,292,279,957,849,158,729,038,070,602,803,363.83

Gypsum, Dwarven Priest(ess)

Here is a render of my dwarf priest(ess) from the Rebel Dragon guild on the Alliance side of World of Warcraft. Nobody asked to see it, nobody probably wants to, but here it is anyway. Be nice, or she'll whack you with her purple moon stick .. but she'll heal you after. she's nice that way. ~.^

Top 10 Clues That You May Be Addicted To WoW

Top 10 Clues That You May Be Addicted To WoW

#10 - You see a retention pond and wonder what sort of fish are there and if they will raise your Fishing skill.

#9 - You call Corvettes, Mustangs, and other sports cars Epic Mounts.

#8 - When you go out to eat you order Heavy Kodo Stew and Sweet Nectar for the stat boosts and mana regen.

#7 - If a friend says "Let's do KFC for lunch!" and you rack your brain trying to remember what instance that is.

#6 - You try to convert real world item prices into Gold, Silver, and Copper equivalents.

#5 - You can remember every guild members main toon, their alts, their classes, levels, and professions, but forget family birthdays, anniversaries, and special holidays.

#4 - You call backyard barbecues "Burning Crusades".

#3 - You take personal days/call in sick/play hooky so you can make the guild raid.

#2 - You know the history of Azeroth better than the history of your own country.

#1 - You can think of several more Clues your addicted to Wow.

If you come up with any, drop them in the comments section for all of us to read!

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Today's Penny Doubled Daily Cumulative Amount for 94 days is:

$198,070,406,285,660,843,983,859,875.83

The Cat, the Cow, and the Corpse

I took the kids to go see TMNT today, so no time for a real blog. (The movie was really good, go see it!) Instead, I will share a screenshot of two of my good online friends and myself celebrating after the slaughter of dozens of pink and purple dinosaurs who had stolen somebody's silver. (No, none of the dino's were Barney, more's the pity.)

I'm the Cat (Tauren shape-shifted Druid), Pam is the Cow (Tauren non-shape-shifted Druid), and Bruce is the Corpse (Undead Warlock). The confused blue guy is Bruce's minion; basically a big, blue wall of "beat on me and not them".

We're a pretty good team.

Pam (Stargazr) heals and uses ranged damaging magic. Bruce (Pheava) sends his minion in to absorb and deal damage, as he casts ranged magic. (I like his green life-sucker ray.) And, Moolasses (my druid) rushes in in cat-form to slice, dice, and cause havoc. Works out well.

We use Teamspeak, an online voice chat system, to communicate most of the time. Saves on typing because our fingers are better used for controlling our 'toons in battle.

Besides, you'd hate to see my typos when I do type in game. =/

We're part of the guild Hanshin (meaning demi-god in Japanese) on the Anvilmar server. Tons of helpful people, including a few more good online friends whom I find myself travelling across Azeroth with more often than not. And, who may very well find themselves depicted in this blog at one point or another. ~.^

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Today's Penny Doubled Daily Cumulative Amount for 82 days is:

$48,357,032,784,585,166,988,247.03

Dash of This, Sprinkle of That

Another pointless post today.

Going out to the mall with the family for lunch in about 30 minutes. Food courts rock. Everyone can get what they want. I'm hitting Chick-Fil-A for a sandwich and Cherry Coke, then hitting Twinz for a Chicago Dog (best hotdogs around). Tyler will likley get some Chik-Fil-A with me, his brother Tim said he wanted Chinese. This boy would rather eat fruits and veges than anything else. It's a good habit, but kind of weird in a kid. My mother is getting egg drop soup at the Chinese place, and an onion and kraut dog at Twinz.

Not sure what is planned for right after. I tried to talk her into going to see a movie ... either "Ghost Rider" or "The Astronaut Farmer." We'll probably come home and watch "Flushed Away" on DVD since we've not even opened it yet, and we bought it last week.

I made a signature image for my World of Warcraft character:


I also found another optical illusion involving vehicles like the ones in my previous post:


I know the county was cutting back on it's public transportation budget, but this is ridiculous!


For those of you keeping up with the Penny Doubled Daily, we are now in the quadrillions as of six days ago. The next stage is quintillion in just a few days.

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Today's Penny Doubled Daily Cumulative Amount for 62 days is:

$46,116,860,184,273,879.03

I've Been WoWed!

I took the plunge today. I held my breath and dove into the MMORPG juggernaut that is World of Warcraft.

A friend in my Guild Wars guild gave me a 10-day free trial code. She did so because several of the Rebel Dragons have been trying it out, a few have defected, and she understood my flagging interest in Guild Wars. Plus, if I sign up, she gets a free month of gameplay.

Pay-to-play is the main detractor to my involvement in WoW. I am unsure if our budget can handle the monthly fees. Not that the fees are staggering ... $14.99 a month is not too over the top. Though, when budgets are tight, any extra cash layout hurts, especially recurring ones.

We don't live frugally. We eat out quite often, go to movies, add to our staggering DVD collection (300+), and do other fun things. (The Bay Area Renaissance Festival, for example). I'll have to make choices on what to cut back on.

Until then, I have 10 days to enjoy the cartoony fantasy world of Orcs, Dwarves, Elves, and Undead.

I spent around 3 hours downloading the game last night. It was 3.14 GB. The download sped wasn't too bad. I think I was getting around 1 MB every 4-5 seconds. WoW uses a peer-to-peer process for their Downloader. My firewall had a little trouble at first, then it began to chug the data through easily enough.

While the game streaming into the hungry computer, I used most of that time to read about the game on the World of Warcraft website. Tons of useful info there. Enough that when I felt comfortable entering the game world without an actual manual. (I'm a firm believer in RTFM). It also was organized very nicely with beginner's sections and in depth FAQs.

After the download was complete, I began the actual install. This took around 20 minutes.

Then I created an Account. Even though it was a Free Trial, Blizzard wanted my credit card info. They claim no charges will be made. I certainly hope not.

Next, it time to Log In!

Whereupon it told me it needed to download an update and closed out of the game.

A 300+ MB update followed, taking about 15 minutes.

I was ready to play! I logged in again.

Another update!

Cripes, you'd think their patcher would read what you needed and send it all at once, much as other games do. But, nope!

A third update followed my subsequent attempt to log in, and thankfully it was the last one, allowing me to get in game and start playing!

I created a Tauren Druid named Moolasses. Sweet, slow, and just a little sticky. ~.^

It's going to take some time for me to get used to the controls. They are not so far off from most other MMORPGs, but they are different. I keep running places i do not want to, or backing off from my foes instead of attacking. There is a nice, in-game tool tip system which has helped quite a bit.

I've played a little over an hour and am enjoying the game. It is very engaging, even at the beginner levels.

So, um ... Expect short posts for the next few days. ^.^;;;

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Today's Penny Doubled Daily Cumulative Amount for 57 days is:

$1,441,151,880,758,558.71