Dollhouse

Ok last night I finished season two of Joss Whedon's f doll house. And wow. I had thought the first season was brilliant with some really interesting ideas and concepts, but this one surpasses it by far!

A lot of the twists I didn't see coming, for example the senator. And in the run up too the end with the identity of the co-founder of Rossum, had so many little misleading clues it took me longer than normal to work out who it was.

At the end I was left thinking wow, plus I got to see my current favourite red headed actress, Felicia Day, in the last episode. (Hair colour is a requirement to qualify as current favourite actress btw). To me I thing that the second season of dollhouse is the best of Joss Whedon's work I've seen. Better than buffy and angel, even better than firefly!

Wisp

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Bubble Gums Journal - Entries 5 to 7

Day 5, Entry 5.
So today we had a red BPN, Some intruders had broken into a reactor substation and needed to be removed. Not the best of jobs for our team but no one else seemed to be around. We got needles to inject ourselves every ten minutes. That took some courage to do! Inside we where attacked by tank breed dogs, they died but we got a few bites! Searching the place we found some bombs and a black pool of energy between for pyramids, Arny or Luna said it was ebb related. Then the bombs started beeping rapidly so it was die or jump into the energy so I jumped.
We landed in a cave! Down a tunnel was a pool of blue ebb stuff dripping upwards so I touched it with my finger tip! My finger and death suit turned blue, permanently! Arny reckons it's a good thing which can't be good a he refuses to acknowledge Brainwaster's are a step up on the evolutionary chain from Ebons. Why else would we breed true? Any way it appears that the flow of ebb in the tip of my right index now flows differently. Then we all passed out probably from the radiation which is not a good thing as my flux has been impaired by it a bit.

Day ??, Entry 6.
We woke up sometime later still in the cave but our uni's had been taken by someone. Outside the cave was a sky with three planets floating above! No rain so we weren't on Mort anymore. Arny found tracks which we followed across a barren desert wasteland. Arriving in another cave the others got attacked by flying things that drained their flux. In this cave was a red pool of ebb stuff. Opposite to the blue so I touched it with my left index finger and got blown across the cover and all my flux went! Ouch is all I can say. Bit further in we found a SLA orbit to surface shuttle.
Nearby was a room with a starmap and another with a red pool of energy between triangle black pyramids bigger than in the reactor room. So after eating the food in the landing bay we called the void ship on the shuttles's com. The pilot seemed to be really fascinated with the word - interesting - as he said it repeatedly. Any way we are to tell no one about this place as it was classified. He said to put a little 1 inch black pyramid on our suits, go touch the black pyramid to make the pool black and jump in to get back to Mort. It was a bit more complicated but I worked it out first and left this strange world.

Day 42, Entry 7.
We woke up in a room belonging to the department if ebb. How we got there was classified and all our electronic gear was gone. But the end of my index fingers where still blue and red and the pyramid is still attached to the back of my right hand. After we left we got pulled in by cloak division they wanted to know what happened in the reactor and how we appeared over a month later! I won't lie to 'em so I told them every thing that had happened except what had been classified. Still feel a bit sick from the dog bites...

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The PATCH!

And so the pre-cataclysm patch has arrived and it did come to pass that the nutter (that's me by the way!) Returned once more to Azeroth.

I spent several hours yesterday sorting out my interface. Pretty much rebuilding it up from scratch, changing where I put my bars and ui elements on the screen. Rewriting my power auras procs. Still not happy but a few heroics should help me tidy up better!

Next came the playing with the target dummies and the full impact of the fundamental change to my class now hits home! Its going to take some time to get used managing focus rather than mana, a task made harder by having to learn new hot key sequences. It amazes me that after all this down time from the game I still remember what my old hot keys did! This problem will be helped out with a judicious use of heroics over the next few weeks.

So what else has happened and what are my plans upto the 7th of December, well thanks for asking me that me as it's a question I can answer!

1) I plan to hit the five man heroics pretty hard, just because I can build up on the justice points to improve my a but and to hit the hard cap going into cata, I'm pretty sure that there is a cap.

2) Relearn how to play my class obviously.

3) Pick up one of each pet useful for raiding and dungeons.

4) Get my guild sorted out, in our private channel we are thinking of just putting together for ten man raiding, which is actually fine by me.

5) See what events there atte running up to release date! I have already noticed the earth rumbling in Ironforge.

And that's about it for now!

Wisp

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Civ 5

Installed the game on sunday at 11:30, bad mistake as it meant I didn't get any sleep that night! Fortunately my decision to cut down on caffeine a few months ago paid off, two cans of redbull kept me awake all day at work.

Not really played a civ game since three, largely due to my wow obsession! And I actually am enjoying this version. The city states are a cool addition and won me my first game, as it turns out they get to vote on diplomatic victory! I was expecting the vote between the only remaining two sides to be pointless.

Now we move on to the problems. The game had to be installed via steam. Barely noticed the first time but as I had to reinstall it once this was painful due to stupidly slow download speed. Then it turns out the game is seriously unstable on my machine, hence the reinstall. Too get it working almost reliably I have to play in windows mode using the direct-x 9 version rather than 11.

So many hours into my current game as the English on a archipelago map (almost feels like cheating) I am still enjoying the game, and hex grid rather than squares is another cool improvement.

As this is my first entry from my new phone I am really curious how it's going to format!

Wisp

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Woot - Winterspring Frostsabre!

An hour and a half this morning from 5ish and the last vanilla rep I could complete pre-cataclysm is cleared :)

So I got to buy the Frostsabre, which came with an unexpected bonus!

 

 Wisp

Bubble Gums Journal – Entries 2 - 4

Day 2, Entry 2.
Our First BPN was to go clean some trains. The maintenance staff had been eaten by something. Cool! For some reason the others seemed to think that cleaning trains for 50 credits, split four ways, is beneath them. Morons don’t they understand we have to proof our worth to the great SLA Industries before we start getting better jobs. Well the eaters turned out to be baby carrion, now carrion jigsaw pieces. A nut job frother threw a grenade at the carrion while we were in combat, so Luna shot him – she really hates frothers! He hurt the healer so had to die! Looks like we were allowed to kill this one...

Day 3, Entry 3.
Today we got a job to protect some guy for 4 hours. So he starts a few fights by being a jerk and then a group come along and shot him! Even in ebb beast form I couldn’t do more than scratch em! They left and then Arny fixed him. He had a phone call and then all hell broke loose two people entered the club and opened up with the assault rifles. We got the jerk out and a car turned up with Black Night Opps, The jerks escort turned out to be an ebb user and killed him, we killed the scum. That’s all there was to it. BPN failed but 5 dead Black Night scum, so I can live with that!

Day 4, Entry 4.
I was on telly!!!! We got an execution warrant for a Stormer who’d done something bad to the company. In a downtown waste land we crossed paths, with barney blasting him and Luna shooting him, and me performing a perfect “Bubble Pirouette” for the killing blow live on TV! Afterwards Barny invited us all around for dinner. He’s weird, while my rage bubbles just beneath my bubbly attitude, his is buried deep beneath an ice-cold surface. So once we’d eaten I had to get out of there leaving him with the two ebons who were talking crap. After all I hadn’t been laid for almost 24 hours!

A HORRIFIC Realisation!

Ok while doing stuff on Thursday I started thinking about wow and the pressure I'm getting to hop over to the horde side. Something that’s highly unlikely to happen because on the one hand I have no intention of creating a new main, having put way to much time, effort, heart and soul into Wispcat to replace her. And I have no idea what horror a faction move will do to my reputations and alliance only things like my mounts!

Anyway (I start way to many paragraphs and sentences with that word! I wonder why?) I was thinking about what I would lose by degenerating Wispcat from a night elf into a blood elf. In fact a double degeneration cus high elves are a degenerated night elf as well... And it hit me I would not be able to get my Wintersabre mount... SHIT! My Wintersabre mount, with the mass vanilla wow changes due in cataclysm, some of which may even happen in the upcoming patch, means Blizzard might remove the faction from the game...

So rather than wait till the patch I'm back to playing wow early! My interface is a mess as a lot of my mods no longer work, being a good 6 month out of date, I can't remember most of my skills but I'm back. Doing almost nothing but running from Wintersabre Trainer -> White Furball Village -> Chasm full of Giants -> Wintersabre Trainer. I don't need to fix anything in order to do that! Just another 27 more trips to go at an average of 3-4 an hour (depending on other people being around).

As a distraction from this farming a friend who is hunting northrend rares for the Achievement Frostbitten did locate the spirit bear which I went and tamed. Adding GhostBubbles to my stable.



To finish off the patch with NO MORE MANA is likely to hit 6th or 13th of October and I'll be back posting stuff about the game then. Because I know all my imaginary readers have missed me talking about wow :p

Wisp

Bubble Gums Journal – Entry 1

Day 1, Entry 1.
Finished training and now an operative! Gauss train to Mort got derailed by mancheens. We killed some then checked cabins found 3 wraithraiders and 2 stormers. More mancheens came and we killed stealthy ones while raiders snipped others. In the end they retreated. Luna had to hit Barnaby and Arny with kickstart as flux sort of ran out with them. Medkit belonged to dead frother and Arny accidently got hit with Rush. He’s a little bit pissed off. We got debriefed and it turns out that we shouldn’t have killed the insane frother. Made 20c and 150c team bounty.

SLA Industries

Last weekend, that’s not the one that ended yesterday but the one the week before, just felt the strange need to clarify! But if this sits in a word document for more than a day that statement is now a load of rubbish.

Any way the last gaming weekend (I won’t be so slack this also becomes false) we did, we started a new campaign of SLA. A very interesting game, all happiness and fun! (If you’re off you head on drugs, a very real possibility in this setting). It’s a very dark and gritty game with strong elements of horror and desperation. More info can be found here . The game is also quite old btw.

So my new character is a Brainwaster called Bubble Gum. Her cheerful name, the addition of neon pink highlights to her black hair, her toned figure, amazing good looks, and neon pink colours to her equipment belie a media seeking, bloodthirsty psychopath.

My character is the melee combat specialist of our group with a customised chain axe, and enhancement as one of her primary ebon skills. She will gradually improve her ranged combat skills as well for when you just can’t or really shouldn’t get close to your target.

The rest of the team is another Brainwaster called Barnaby who specialises in the Blast power. Bubble Gum has given him the designation of Ranged Support (AOE Capable). Then there is an Ebon called Luna who has investigative based skills along with a good rifle skill. Her designation is therefore Ranged Support. Finally there is a second Ebon called Arny whose areas of expertise are scouting and Ebb Healing. Bubble Gum’s designation for him is obviously Healer!

For those who know the system this is a bit of an unusual group! As Ebon’s and Brainwasters really don’t like each other. But from Bubble Gum’s point of view Luna and Arny may be a couple of wimpy fairies but they’re her wimpy fairies! And if any one dares to hurt the healer they can expect to be meeting her chain axe very shortly!

This should be an interesting game and I’m even writing a journal for bubble gum in the game. The first entry will be copied to a subsequent post.

Bubble Gum’s starting character sheet can be found here – we used 350 rather than 300 points for initial character creation. And where cruelly limited to a maximum starting Protect skill of 4!

Wisp

Midgard at War - DAY1 Report

Logged onto Castle of Heroes last night before going to bed with the intention of just making sure something was happening in each of my castles only to discover we are at war.

Looks like Narayan from Harem got fed up with some of us refusing to either join his guild – with a name like that??? As if!, Or become a training guild for harem! So he went to war with us instead!

Then I noticed I was down 3 castles which got me a little bit annoyed (at the same time it restored some of my interest in the game!) So I went on a quick scout and attack run to reclaim what is mine! After which I cashed in every resource outside of my home castle and brought about 9 combat scrolls including a cheaper one I’ll never use just to empty the castle of gold!

I can’t remember how many forces I had in those other castle but it was approximately 1000 elite archers in the elven one and 2000 direwolfs in the orcish castle. The undead castle had no troops as it was just a castellian training facility. Serves me right for not shifting them back to the capital I suppose!

In re-claiming my castles I perma-lost 74 Fairy Dragons and 4 Elite Archers, while members of Harem perma-lost – 421 Unicorns, 229 Elite Archers, 92 Elven Archers, 600 Lichkings, 720 Ghost Dragons.

This morning I was going to log in an throw down an 8 hour diplomacy card to cover my time at work but I had a really bad night and was running late! So my plan of making raiding attacks may be delayed as I once again retake 1-4 of my secondary castles!

O and the blackie’s also declared on us as well...

Wisp

In the weirdest Places

Why wandering around Newgrounds today I came across a game called Alice is Dead and its following two parts. Was actually really impressed with these :)

But what I was really really impressed with was the song "Alice is Dead" in part three, and unknown to me - cus I'm more interested in games I suppose - it turns out Newgrounds has music on it too!!!! And the song was by an aussie called hania. And there is tonnes of it - I know I like two songs but its time to see what else their is.

Wisp

WOW and Stuff

Before I begin, I will admit I am currenly very very drunk!!!
I am a gamer, a roleplayer, hey a nerd, a geek and proud of it!
Tonight I have been thinking about my time playing world or warcraft! And I have some things to say!
I miss  the friends I made years ago! Vagar who was on my first ever instance in blackthathom deaps - we 3 man'd it with a rogue over several hours and many many deaths, and then Tsuabasa and Taylar who I see screen shots of in my archive when we where leveling upto 60 so long ago! I always regret leaving our guild Twilight Talons for a startup raiding guild while you where on holiday Taylar. I love you hon and always will even tho you will probably never read this!
Moving on I found a couple of weeks ago my Drunken Dragons T-Shirt!!!! And it reminds me that of every guild since twilight talon I have ever been in this is the one that most felt like home! I so regret the disband and recreate where I was asked to sit in judgement of who should be allowed back in.
From my DD days I miss so many people! Especially Oona (Isabella) I remember our runs in Strat and Scholomance where my comment on teamspeak of "opps" was always handled with humour and fun! I also miss you babe and tho I'm crap at sending messages I really hope you are doing well! Of course from then I missed loads of other people :)
So since Eylisum and Eureka where murdered - no other word is justified - I've only really been on the game to finally get my "insane in the membrane" achievement!!! 6month overdue when I got it but I got it :)
Now I'm waiting for patch 3.9 when hunter ditch mana! Something which would make Kersenka soooo happy if he was still around! WHere did you go my friend??? I miss you too! Then I shall be back to WoW again - my addiction, my pleasure. my fun! And I have to decide what to do!!!! Will my friends Avid (where did you go you dwarfen twat!), Akuru (the priest of wiping!), Dhark (who has had so many chars since the rogure) and Avin - (whose name I have forgotten in my very drunken stat- real id don't show char names.....) All come back to the Alliance or will Drunken Dragons be willing to take back a huner who left years ago? Addy? what do you say??
While checking stuff on wow - I saw a message for Kers a week ago :D :D makes me smile :)

Ok now enough about wow - despite it once being my life and come cataclysm will possible again! I have one final drunken though to say - WHY O WHY do I constantly obsese about an ex who I will never hold again?

God I need help! Some one to get me out of my rut! - So looking for a slightly bossy women (red hair a major plus!!! - see Looking back at women in tv I've fancies their is a trend - Gillian Anderson, Alison Hanagan [willow], Leta Alexandra [babylon 5], and rencently Felicia Day - Red heads all (even if died in the shows that was the colour!!!!) - And fun, gamer a bonus, into rock, metal, synphonic rock, nu metal ect also a plus!!!

Going to shut up now as I may be sobering up!!!!!!

Wisp

The Guild - Game On

Latest music video from the guild - absolutly awsome.

Wisp

Mass Effect

Just finished my second run through of Mass Effect - and have to say its an AMAZING game. I'm not in the mood for a review but take my word for it the game is just awsome, a deep story with some amazing cut scenes. I was going to run through the main story twice more on Hardcore and then Insanity mode but Mass Effect 2 arrived in the post yesterday so its currently being installed.

So I'm just going to show the screen shot I took at the end of the game, which is now my new wallpaper :) And finally my character (you can customise appearence) Juliet Shepard is HOT! Must be the rich red hair :)

Wisp

Theme Tune

I had a go at settlers 7 a month or so back and while I enjoyed the game I did think the campaign part was a bit short! Appears to be aimed largely at multiplayer games.

Despite this the theme tune just blew me away! So a bit of looking and here is a version of it I found on You Tube.



And also a link to the artists MySpace page > Here

Wisp

So the results are almost complete....

A jump into real life this afternoon, seeing as I've just got up (my result came in at about 5:02). The election shows to me how unfair and undemocratic a first past the post system is. With about 24 more seats to be declared the number of seats is:-

• Conservative - 294
• Labour - 252
• Liberal Democrates - 53
• Over - 27

But at the same time the percentages of the actual vote go as follows:-

• Conservative - 36.1%
• Labour - 29.3%
• Liberal Democrates - 22.9%

 So at the time of writing this the conservatives have 47% of the seats with 36.1% of the vote and labour have 40% of the seats with 29.3% of the vote. Both parties have a greater percentage of seats than votes.
Now next down you have the Liberal Democrates with only 8% of the seats but with 22.9% of the public vote!

To me that is unfair. Our system is in desperate need of reform. So before I escape this stupid thing called real life here is a very important link- Electorial Reform Society

Wisp

New Look

Well at work I've been learning loads of web technologies because we are finally shifting all our reporting databases to an intranet platform, and will also be moving the in house databases from access (yes... I know but I work in a college... which explains it all) to web based applications.

So on messing with the wonder that is JQuery I began thinking can I tidy up my blog with it, make section hide and grow with mouse overs etc. I tried it but the widgets would not co-operate so instead I remembered an email about blogger in draft. Looked at it and redesigned my blog using that instead. With a bit of my own CSS thrown in to get fine details how I wanted them. (The Firebug plugin for fire fox helped wonders for locating the actual ID's and Classes of the stuff I wanted to style).

The result is my new look blog :)

Wisp

I am INSANE!!!

At long last, 5-6 months later than it should have happened; this did!
And so I have my nice new title of "the Insane" not sure if anything will come up that'll make Wispcat ever use a different title now!.

Also within 30 mins of getting the achivement I ordered a custom mousemat from PrintWarcraft.

The funnyest think about all this is that once I sell my left over cards for making decks as well as the darkmoon cards I have actually made, I would have made a profit on the whole DMF rep part of the achivement!!!

Wisp

So playing wow again

Since just after the new year I've been back playing wow again. Not raiding just playing casual working on my alts and of course catching up on all that time I've not spent working on "The Insane"

So what can I say - my gear is about as good as it can get outside of raiding, with maybe an extra frost emblem peice every month or two! I started off hitting the random dungeon finder pretty hard to the point that I have heirloom shoulders and chests for leveling all my alts current and planned! along with heirloom weapons as well.

For the last month I've slowed down again to just doing the cooking daily - well until I got my chef hat! - the fishing and JC'er ones and all 9 Argent Crusade quests, they are my easy, if slow route to 99 out of 100 mounts.

So thats about it for wow for now. Not got a huge amount to say until I get "The Insane" or join a new raiding guild (which will be when I've finished building the new PC).

Wisp

PRINCE2

On a life issue, after 3 days of some serious hard work I got 80% on the exam for PRINCE2 Foundation so I'm seriously happy :D

Wisp

Bye Bye Aion

Well despite this being a very good game, i gave it up. It was just missing the social side that I'd built up with friends from WoW!

Not posted in ages and this one is about 4 sentences!!! Will get back to posting properly soonish I hope!

Wisp

Another year and decade!

Happy new year my imaginary readers!