Azaroth

Do you have something you want to discuss with people on this blog?

Pick a topic and I’ll share my opinion, then allowing open discussion by the readers of this website.

It’s like having a forum, but without the gay porn spam.

What was your favourite gift?

Personally, my favourite gift was one I gave.

This year, I got my parents a Nintendo Wii. It was a hell of a lot of fun playing it with them.

It certainly can be better to give than to receive. Especially when giving the girlfriend jewelry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXRiCko8OU&feature=related

If you don’t like it you can suck my dick!!!!!

I wonder if that’ll be their most used official response when the game releases.

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I’m curious as to what this image conjures up in people.

Do you see it, disregard it, and go about your day? Something else?

In recent conversation, the latest season of Top Chef has come up. After the last few episodes, the question of whether the show has jumped the shark has been raised.

My opinion, after being guarded, was definitely negative after the Thanksgiving epsiode and the awful TV spot routine. Serving mediocre thanksgiving dinners from microwaves and toaster ovens to the Foo Fighters in Rochester, New York was one thing. Ripping off the awful, awful Next Food Network Star series was even worse, frankly. It just seems like they had run out of ideas, and what’s worse, run out of chefs. Very, very little of the food presented so far as been inspiring or interesting. All in all, I’ve found myself forgetting the majority of the epsiode a few hours after I had watched it.

That all being said, I really WANT to like Top Chef. It’s been one of my favourite shows in the past, and I had been looking forward to this season. So I gave it another chance tonight.

Again, the food was generally uninspiring. The quickfire was less than I had come to expect out of Top Chef, but better than much of this season (after the very first of the season seemed exciting and left me with the hope that things would only be upward and onward from there on in).

However, I went in with the decision to pass judgement on the season and the series.

All I can say for the episode is that it wasn’t as bad as the preview two or three, but it wasn’t anywhere near good either. The series is certainly holding my interest on an episode by episode basis at this point, and I’m really hoping things improve really, really soon. But without as many interesting personalities as usual, and with the quality of food seemingly lower than ever - I’m not sure that’ll happen.

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Do they called the Atlanta arena “Blueland” because the empty seats are painted blue?

I mean, holy fuck. The Penguins are in town and the arena is half full?

And the place is so fucking quiet. It’s as if it were (half) full of people who got their tickets for free outside of Home Depot from a guy in a fucking bird suit.

Do these people understand that “large market” doesn’t necessarily mean “good market” for your particular product?

I mean, Jesus. Jerusalem is a big city, but I’m not going to go set up a fucking cheesedog stand.

Okay, so, yes I’ve been playing WoW again.

Yes, I vowed never to play WoW again.

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Well, the servers being down for 18 hours was certainly epic.

Everyone’s mail disappearing was pretty epic.

Free pvp items was kind of epic, too.

Leveling from 70-80 when 71 takes about three times as much experience as 70 did? Yeah, I can imagine having to get 5.5 million XP to ding 80 would be a bit epic.

What was really epic was logging into a 50-59 WSG with my old Rogue to discover, much to my complete UNsurprise and nevertheless amusement, that every single person on my team aside from myself and one single other rogue was a Death Knight…

Then realizing that the other team was pretty much the same way, and getting thrown in the air 5 times in a row across the battleground..

Yeah, pretty epic.

Epically fucking stupid.

Thank you Jan. Your beer is exceptional. From the Pale Ale all the way to the Cherry Porter. I enjoyed them all on my tour around your beautiful silver tanks of joy.

And to your beautiful German hostess, Daniella - who cheerfully informed me that I could in fact not be sold a bottle of beer, or give her tips… but also zat zere was absolutely no laws about ze refills, with a bright smile.

I actually had several funny things to post, and some entertaining ways to post about them. But I just woke up from my nap.
A visit to a beautiful place where money could not be spent, only beer could be drank. Many, many types of beer.

Look alive boys, two stewed prunes coming your way.

-Scorpio

(He loves German beer)

Because it really matters.

But please vote for McCain/Palin. In fact, I am officially endorsing that duo.

Why?

Well, there’ll still be bailouts, corruption, and the mass murder of brown people whenever possible. Your vote obviously means shit in that regard.

But if you elect McCain, I get to have more hot fantasies about Sarah Palin whenever I turn on the TV for four more years.

Quick! Go vote! It means more than ever this time.

So, while I’ve declined the invitation to actually speak (that it was even suggested that I might do so was kind of funny, I thought) at the upcoming IMGDC 3.0 for the sake of the conference’s respectability, I thought I’d mention that I will actually likely be headed there.

April 17-19 in Las Vegas. Breaking up the crappy weather around here with a quick trip to lose money playing poker and get drunk with people who actually enjoy talking about video games sounds like a good time.

So if you’re so inclined, go check it out with me.

A funny thing happened at one point. I stopped believing in Ultima Online.
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In the comments section of a previous post, I explained that the difficulty some are having related to IPY right now mimics the difficulty I was having with EA way back when.

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Get in touch. I’d like to see what’s out there.
Azaroth@gmail.com

It’s been around 48 hours since I put up a few polls related to reopening a UO shard.

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Okay. I want to see the results of some poll questions here.

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HELL, YOU’RE LUCKY YOU’RE EVEN ALLOWED TO BUY WOTLK WITHOUT HAVING A PERSONAL RATING OF 2200.

My only reaction was “What.. the.. fuck…” when I stumbled across a thread on a forum announcing the news of Jeff’s death. I had a hard time believing it, actually. But more and more confirmation rolled in as the thread got longer. Then, a link to Lum’s blog where he was confirming it as well. It sunk in, and disbelief turned to sadness.

No, I didn’t know Jeff. Not in real life, and barely online. He read my blog sometimes, and I read his.

I have no idea what he thought of my blog, but I know what I thought of his. Or more, what I thought of him.

Any time he posted here, or any time I read his blog, one main thought would come to mind.

“Wow, this is a smart cookie.”

Whenever he wrote, his intelligence and wit came through vividly. He was unique in his ability to force me to read something twice, and then crack a smile. Because of that, his is one of the few blogs I read on a regular basis.

Talk to ya later, Jeff.

Phase 2… nerd tears?

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