Ninjas Are Bad Babysitters

You know this guy gets teased constantly back at the ninja academy.

Bad Day At the Tatooine Health Fair

Doc: Uh… It looks like you got something in your eye.
Vry: Rawrrawrsnarlrawr!
Doc: I’m going to take that as “No, I don’t need help Doc. Go wait on the ship.”

Blizz Meme Monday #3

What’s that? It’s Monday, you say? Well, how about another Blizz Meme Monday… WITH PONIES?!

Behold! The Secret of Warlock POWAH!

“We can’t call it ‘The Warlock Manual’!  Think of the negative press! Think of the angry letters! Think of all the ticked off mages!”

“Well, how about we add some of that time travel stuff those dumb mages like, and call it ‘DoT training’ instead?”

“That’ll work. No book-burning angry protestor ever looks past the cover anyway.”

The Thing With the Sixes?

In case this is the only gaming/cartoon/WoW/SWTOR/I like cookies/rant blog you ever read (and we are very thankful for that. See! You even get the royal ‘We’ for it!) you may have not noticed this new fangled meme involving the number ‘six’ going around.  As far as I can tell it was originally started by Gnomeaggedon.  It goes something like this:

• Go into your image folder
• Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
• Publish the image! (and a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couln’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own).
• Challenge six new bloggers.
• Link to them.

Simple, yes?  I have no clue where the idea to use the number six came from.  Maybe someone is hoping that all these related posts will grow and become sentient becoming Six from Battlestar Galactica? Or my personal favorite six: Cybersix!  Ah who knows. Let’s just kick this thing off.  Let’s see here, ‘Go into your image folder’.  Well, dangit. Which one?  I have one for WoW screenshot and one for SWTOR screenshots. So I guess I’ll just post one from each? That can’t hurt, right?

From the WoW folder…

Well… uh… that’s pretty uninteresting. Isn’t it?  It’s just a pretty picture of Deepholm.  I took this picture to use as a wallpaper on my computer actually.  There’s just something about the textures for the environment in Deepholm that just made it look gorgeous.  I actually have quite a few pictures from down there, and it is hands down my favorite looking zone from Cataclysm.  I would routinely just fly loops around it while chatting with my guild, just for the great visuals the zone provides.  The story there wasn’t bad either.  It definitely served as a good follow-up to Hyjal in terms of ‘heroic deeds’.  First, you become the Herald of the Ancients (That would have been a nice title, Blizz.) and usher their return to the world to push back the forces of the Firelands, and then you descend into the Plane of Earth, to gather the various forces against the Twilight Cultists and rebuild the World Pillar.  If they had opened up the order you can do all the pieces in, it would have probably been my favorite zone of the expansion.

From the SWTOR folder…

This image is probably the first “odd” from SW:TOR that I stumbled upon.  If you can’t gather the subtext from the text box, essentially one of the customers is in on the hustle and their duping the other customer into buying the adrenals he’s trying to sell.  Honestly, what really sold me on this little scene (one of MANY you can find in the game if you just wait around for them) is that it’s never made explicitly clear that one of the customers is in on the scam, unless you have seen or heard about this kind of scam before.  Not that it’s exactly rare.  It’s been played out in dozens of films, TV shows, etc.  But I do like that it’s not explicit, it just makes it feel more… I dunno. Real?

Also, you may now point and laugh at my keybindings.  My secret-not-really-shameful-shame hast been revealed!

From my Pictures Folder…

Oh! Finally something that actually has sub-folders!  Now let’s see.  This photo is… oh.  Oh no.  Oh science, this is gonna be painful.

Yeeeaaa… this is gonna require A LOT of explanation I imagine. This is actually an old project from college.  It was supposed to be a “metaphorical self-portrait”.  Cheesy as that sounds, I had fun doing it.  Although now that I’m looking at it, I can’t really recall what I was going for with most of this.  I dunno the face card style figure with the happy & death faces is supposed to be a reference to me being bipolar.  The words in the background are…  barely readable. No clue.  I’m pretty sure most of this probably had a deep significance to me seven years ago, when I was back in college and still cared about things having a deep significance. (Film school & Shakespeare classes killed that. I don’t care about what deep metaphorical message Orson Welles was going for by putting the moon in the upper-right corner, or why Shakespeare used more p’s & g’s in one half of a sentence than the other.)  Still, in the end, I think it’s a pretty cool picture for messing around in Photoshop for a few hours.

Well, those are my images for this thing going around.  Now my task is tag some more to pass this crazy thing along.  I have no idea who has already been tagged or not, so I’m just gonna tag people who I haven’t seen post one of these things yet.  So pardon me for any redundancies! Regardless, these are some awesome people. Definitely check out their stuff!

• The Snark Side
• Hawtpants of the Old Republic
• Inquisitor’s Roadhouse
• Dora’s Log
• Aaaand anyone else who wants to do it.  Really, at this point, this thing has been so spread out I don’t have a clue who has and hasn’t done it.  So just go for it. Feel free to link your ‘Sixth Meme’ post in the comments here if you want! I’d love to see them!

 

Blizz Meme Monday #2

Time for another…  Blizz Meme Mondays!  Yaaaaaay!

Blizz Meme Monday #1

Blizz Meme Mondays!

Princess to Emperor’s Knight 8

Is it just me, or does Alderaan turning out to be a giant chessboard make a bit too much sense?

Ironforge Has Terrible Firefighters

The Ironforge Mountaineers: Protectors of the Innocent, Guardians of Dun Morogh, Slayers of Wild Beasts, and apparently were never told that fire was bad.

Best. Glitch. Ever.

Recently, I’ve been indulging in my alt-itis and playing lots of alts up to level 10 to leave their starter planets in SW:TOR.  It gives me a bit of fun in exploring each classes nuance, checking out new servers where potential new guilds reside, and generally exploring the different options in dialogues.  It’s interesting how some choices are purely superficial and others can actually add or skip additional objectives.  It’s neat to find out that ‘Hey, if I choose the Light side option here I won’t have to fight those guys’ or ‘If choose light side I have to go report this to a guy way back there or if I do dark side I get to run around and collect some doodads really quick’. Mostly, I’ve just been going with whatever my character does.  I don’t think I’ve played a single character thus far that hasn’t racked up some mix of dark or light points.  Most lean one way or the other, with a dash of the opposite tossed in for flavor.

Back to the point! I recently started leveling a trooper.  She’s a bald, Asian cyborg with a huge gun.  I love that I can say that with a straight face. It’s like an utter indulgence of my love of cyberpunk gushing out through ever slider on the character select screen. Early on in the trooper’s story – the second class quest I believe – you are quickly introduced to Aric Jorgan.  He’s one of the guys ordering you around.  He’s a big bald Cathar.  Which are cat people.  So if  you hear “Tough-as-Nails Cat Person Named Jorgan” and immediately think of this:

I like the way you think! But sadly, he instead looks more this:

Anyway, he’s one bad ass kitty and channels a serious Panthro vibe.  He doesn’t mess around when the safety of the Galactic Republic is at stake.  But when I first met Mr. Jorgan, I got a slightly different version instead.  Apparently, the game glitched during the cut scene and instead I got introduce to Mini-Aric instead:

The whole cut scene was like that.  It was AWESOME.  I couldn’t stop laughing.  The best part is when my trooper is supposed to look at Aric in the cut scene, she actually looked down at the ground.  So apparently the animation was designed to lock on to him or something.  Even the cameras repositioned themselves to include Tiny Jorgan!

Sadly, after the cut scene ended he returned to his regular size and has stayed that way since.  Still, for one glorious and hilarious moment I got to watch Chibi Jorgie try to be an imposing bad ass superior officer.  I will never be able to respect him.  EVER.