This is the ending Cinematic for the Fall of the Lich King, after you kill him. Blizzard has been pushing really hard to get this video off of YouTube. I really have no idea why. They included it as part of the download in the last patch. Any fanboi can see this without completing the dungeon.
(Warning: This does contain MASSIVE spoilers, if you do not wish to be spoiled do not watch.)
(Note: doesn’t seem to work in Chrome, Or some version of Firefox not sure why, but if you have WoW installed and updated, you already have this video.)
My little sister works for an office assigning doctors to do… something… I honestly have no idea. But today she sent out this email to her siblings because she wanted to share the funny; with her permission (and by removing identifying information) she said I could post it.
The background on this is this was written by one of my physicians and I have no idea HOW he comes up with this stuff. I have scheduled him a few times to work in our Oakland, Ca office and he had written me an email about how he would prefer to not work there anymore and included this paragraph to back up his point……..I think he made his point, don’t you 
If you look favorably on my application to not work in Oakland, I will bring many attributes to my absence. First there is experience. I have a long, successful history of not going to Oakland. Then there is commitment. I am not just using an avoidance of Oakland as a stepping-stone to avoid other disagreeable places. I am into avoiding Oakland for the long run. I can always be counted on, come rain or come shine, to be elsewhere. There are many others who would like to be in the forget-Oakland position, but I should be considered the front-runner, because, even back in college, I made it a point to spend as much time as possible far from Oakland. I had this early insight because my father told me when I was on his knee “Son, you can do anything you want to do, be anything you want to be, and you can make this world a better place than you found it – - but not in Oakland.”
–Name of Doctor removed
The best part of this video is at 3:17 seconds.
It was announced today that Interplay and Masthead Studios confirmed the rumors of a Fallout MMO to be true. Not only that they slated a Beta time frame, sometime in 2012.
A game about post apocalyptic America, set in a year that’s supposed to bring on the apocalypse, the irony is to too great to pass up. I will laugh with joy if they decide to do the beta in January, and the release on Dec 21th 2012. Not to mention there will be much giggling of me and several of the men of my office… I like that it would be much to the sounds of which will be similar to that of small school aged children of the female persuasion.
“Here” The text message said when I picked up my phone.
I gathered my belongings and headed out the door like I did everyday at that time. I exit through the fire escape. it’s closer to my desk, and it’s easier to get out to my wife who was waiting in the car in the parking lot by now. Today was like most days, this was routine. I exited the fire escape and left the building. Off to my left are series of windows that have never had the blinds pulled up. I’m sure there is people in those offices but I’ve never seen anyone. Except for one. One window always had its blind pulled up. There was a dark haired fair skinned lady she had prominent cheeks and interesting eyes. It was her eyes alone that got me to pay attention. They were dark, and normally I pay no heed to dark eyed women, but hers was different. I never could figure out why. She was there nearly every day sitting at her desk at this time, focusing so intently on her computer monitor working that I hardly think that she noticed me.
Today was different.
Today as I walked by her window I looked in as I always did to see tears in her eyes and running down her face. She looked up, saw me and hid her face. Sadness ripped through me like a seamstress ripping out threads of a garment that is in need of repair. It was slow, pricking, but painful. This woman who wasn’t particularly attractive to me, not to say that she wasn’t attractive… Just that she wasn’t my type, was in pain, in tears. And I felt for her. She hide her eyes then turned her head to the man in the standing in her door. He had a genuine look of sadness and upmost concern on his face. You could tell that the man cared deeply about what was troubling the mysterious woman at the desk. A part of me wanted to know what was wrong. Seeing her face so happily focused on her work affected me in a way that I didn’t understand. Now seeing her in tears I realized it was a far more personal thing. A fleeting glance that I occasionally got was something I looked forward too. Her eyes were one of the few in my office that looked at me non judgingly. I dress different, and have long hair. I don’t fit in the demographic of the society of the state that I lived in. Her eyes made it seem okay. Divorce was the first thought I had in my head when I saw those tears and the pain. Divorce was something so extremely common in the state that I lived in. Statistics stated that 65% of all couple’s divorce in the first 5-6 years. Her eyes have not been the same since. Although her face has returned back to the highly focused that it once was, her eyes are filled with sorrow and sadness.
I hope this women, who I will likely never meet, nor know the name of, finds happiness again one day. I hope that somehow she knows that I wish her well.
SOPRANO (LEAD) VOCAL
Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right.
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!
They will return: mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here.
They will reclaim all in their name;
Hopes turn to black when they come back.
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then: it’s theirs again
Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bode a returning season of doom
Scary scary scary scary solstice
Very very very scary solstice
Up from the sea, from underground
Down from the sky, they’re all around
They will return: mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here
Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right.
Eons have passed: now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake!
Madness will reign, terror and pain
Woes without end where they extend.
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then: it’s theirs again
Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bode a returning season of doom
Scary scary scary scary solstice
Very very very scary solstice
Up from the sea, from underground
Down from the sky, they’re all around.
Fear
(Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars now are right)
They will return.
I love Developers with a sense of humor, This was posted on Turbines website about the Christmas holiday event they are doing
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The glorious beer is drawing quite a crowd to the Inn in Thorin’s Hall this year, and why should it not? It is boasting to be the finest brew in all of Middle-earth this season…but before you get excited and run over there with an empty flask (or five,) I should warn you that there is a sliiiiight problem. There is nowhere near enough of this delectable drink to go around. The beer is in perilously short supply at the Ale Hall, and this has made many festival patrons rather furious.
Luckily, they may vent their frustration as they scramble to pick up this rare treat before their fellows. Rare beer is not something to be taken lightly, after all. Yule may be a time for peace and good cheer, but there are some things worth fighting for.
This shameless content was first conceived by Raskolnikov, my shameless co-worker, who said “By gosh, it sure would be fun to make a festival event in which players can hit each other with the . If you make it, I’ll make the bat for you. And the effects. And the hotspots. I’ll make it safe, I swear. No one will get hurt….” He bet his job on this, by the way. A spot on the Systems team might be opening up soon at Turbine.
There’s this bat, you see. We devs feel powerful when we use it, but it’s supposed to be a secret. Why a secret? Because it’s mean to use the bat on fellow players. Unleashing the power of the bat would be a terrible thing indeed; it would be like giving The One Ring as a reward for completing the Epic storyline. But Rask promised that if I unleashed the beast, he would do his best to contain it.
I mulled on it for a few minutes and realized that this would not be all that difficult to implement, so we brought our cause before some people with far, far better judgment than ours. After many inter-departmental exchanges of hopes, fears, eye-rolling, nightmares, unicorn wishes, and doubts as to the logistics of an event like this, we are pleased to present you with the Glorious Beer-fight. I hope you enjoy your concussions and broken legs. May your sprained ankle bear you to glory!
10. Don’t try that at home. They are what you WOULD call ”experts” … but not really.
9. When all else fails… C4
8. Never make fun of a walrus
7. To separate phone books, you need a couple of tanks.
6. The only thing you need to get through life is, Duct tape, Detcord and blast shields.
5. Believe it or not, a powder non-dairy coffee creamer is a high explosive.
4. Double Dipping is okay.
3. Inertia x Mass + Velocity = a nice big crash.
2. Anything worth doing, is worth over doing.
1. Failure is always an option
I don’t read many books, probably much to my detriment. But the ones I read most of the time I end up enjoying a lot. I find that I have to have a particular interest in the content of the book for me to read it.
The current one I’ve picked up is a WoW novel Written by Christine Golden. I have to say I like this womans writing style. This book is called Rise of the Lich King. It goes into detail into Arthas’s childhood into adulthood life. His training with Muradin, his Friendship with Varain. It’s a fascinating look at the now looming Big bad evil that is currently in play on the WoW Servers. I thought I’d be disappointed, as some of the comics written are inconsistent to the storyline that is built into the game. I was afraid that this would go into those depths, but must to my pleasure I must say it doesn’t. What I don’t like is that this book covers the first 3 wars on azeroth. And it covers the first two wars in the first 25 pages. There are details there that I would like to have explored a little more. I understand why it wasn’t though, this book is about arthas not about the Land of Azeroth.
Either way this book has been worth reading, and if you’re a WoW Lore junkie you’ll kick a huge kick out of it.
Looks like Tiger isn’t discriminatory to one gender. Props for him.
Seriously, I don’t know what’s wrong with people. As it turns out the Blogging plug-in I was using on Joomla had an exploit. Where someone could do a php/SQL injection and get your password and take over the website. So I became the victim of an unfortunate Exploit. The real problem with the plug in is several time over. There were date issues and posting issues and tag issues, and despite the functionality and how nice the plug in is otherwise it was crap because it took a lot of alterations to get the damn thing to work correct. The hack into Joomla was so severe that I Could not figure out how to fix it and I was forced to wipe it out.
The worst part of the whole thing is the development team has refused to acknowledge any of the problems including this one and has refused to fix any of it. A fix was produced by someone else, which I found after I had wiped out my Joomla, but even if I had applied it, it would fix the problem, it wouldn’t fix the web page and how it loaded.
I lost a number of Blog entries and some other misc stuff but nothing serious.
There are protection schemes available.
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/8384
And here is the fix for it
http://jeffchannell.com/Joomla/lyften-bloggie-sql-injection-fix.html
If you’re running Lyften and you’ve not applied this fix or taken these steps I highly suggest you do so.
Actually I’ve been playing DDO, its very Diablo Esq. but let’s clear up a few misconceptions. The D&D Franchise is Owned by WOTC (Wizards of the coast.) not Atari. Atari is the managing company that is in charge do doing distribution.
Now seeing that DDO is using WOTC’s Licensing, and they (Being Turbine) had to get approval for it. And WOTC controlled EVERY aspect of the creative process, the game itself suffered a lot because WOTC played Big brother the entire time until 2 years after the game had been live.
For example, WOTC Demanded that Turbine make combat D&D type format. (I.E. More sterilized than Neverwinter Nights was.) Turbine argued and said “Not a good idea, it won’t’ translate well.” WOTC said “do it anyway.” So Turbine did. WOTC came out to visit to see how the game was going they put them on a server and said “This combat sucks… Why does it suck?” Turbine again told them “You told us to do it this way, and we told you it wouldn’t translate well.” and WOTC responded with “oh.. Then do it this way…” Turbine again told them “That’s better.. But it still doesn’t translate well; it’s going to bomb out if that’s what you want.” WOTC Said “Do it anyway ”
6 months later…
repeat the above situation.
Turbine had VERY little control over how the creative process was completed.
2 years after DDO when live Atari/WOTC backed out of their agreement and said “Meh whatever you want… but you have to pay us royalties.” Atari’s contract promised a certain amount of monetary support and Distribution for 5 years (I think, trying to remember details) they backed out 2 years into it. Turbine is actually in the Right on this one. The Fact that DDO is kind of a flop, the interface and user tools suck is because they didn’t get a chance to do them correctly, WOTC micromanaged everything.
Let’s take DDO and compare it to LOTRO. Turbine got creative freedom and rights from Tolkien enterprises in 2004, as a result. Lotro is doing phenomenally. Second biggest MMO on the market at the moment, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun to play. If Turbine was given the OPPORTUNITY to do what they felt was best in the first place, it wouldn’t be in the sorry state that it is in fact in.
This is the EXACT same situation that AC2 Got thrown into. MS micromanaged everything, ‘cept MS tried to shut down AC2 in 2003, and they were ORDERED by MS to stop development until contracts were fixed and turbine had Capital to purchase Ms’s rights away. That’s why we had 3 months which nearly NO content, they had about 2 weeks to do 6 weeks of work.
Saying this is turbines fault. is 50/50 – they got in bed with the wrong person for the right reasons… but they didn’t know it was the wrong person at the time until they came home with an STD, and a Tattoo that says “I love Bertha”
In the case of Atari, They went to Turbine and said “we need money or we’re going to have to shut down” Money that Turbine was finally making. They lent the money to Atari to keep them alive and kicking in the industry with the promise that Atari would repay it via contract agreement.
Atari NEVER upheld that agreement, then bailed on the process.
Now the Micro Transactions makes a shit ton of sense doesn’t it? With Atari not paying back the Debt, Lotro Subsidizing DDO (AC1 is paying for itself from my understanding… just fucking barely… but they are breaking even.) they needed income to keep their own heads above water. Does it bring down the level of the game? Sort of. But Micro transactions are not part of the rights they setup with Atari and WOTC; I believe the contract was only for SUBSCRIPTIONS. Therefore this goes back into Turbines pocket to keep them afloat. A Lot of people bitched, but it makes sense in order to keep going, and keep very smart, very intelligent people employed. I don’t think that Turbine fucked up DDO. IMO, it’s not their fault. It’s Atari’s/WOTC that DDO is in the state that it is in.
Dear, Bill, Kerry, Richie T.
In today’s debate over education and partially making Fun of Richie T about some of his marriage requirements I found myself heavily offended and insulted. I called in and was quickly blown off and then disconnected. The fact remains that you as the DJ who was asking for people to call in with opinions weren’t allowing many, myself included a chance to actually give them. But people you know you allowed plenty of air time to discuss them. This is your radio show and this is your right, but in my opinion you were practicing a form of favoritism if not discrimination.
That being said my opinion on the topic of education matter is as follows. While I will not debate that education is critically important, I do feel that having a degree doesn’t guarantee any form of higher intelligence. There are lots of benefits from having one, additional Income, an example to your kids, something to fall back on while the economy continues to tank. However, this doesn’t mean you should pigeon hole yourself either. Both my wife and I are constantly learning new things, I have several certifications; some that I invested 150+ hours in, which in many cases is the equivalent of a college education. The experience I’ve gained from self taught courses has been to me, more valuable than spending 4-6 years in college. The point is that everyone should strive to continue their education, wither or not they have a degree or even went to college in the first place. I think you (Richie T)should find a women who you can meet with on an intellectual level regardless of her college status.
This is also something you need to pass on to your kids. For example: My kids are exposed to Mythbusters, Time warp, and the History Channel, we’ve taken them to Clarks Planetarium, Thanksgiving Point, and The Living Planet Aquarium to expose them to things that aren’t being taught in the school system anymore. This list is a very short list of things we have done. There is a desperate need to teach them things that promote science and history, these are things that are severely lacking in today’s education system. In 5-10 years it might be something else that is severely lacking. The “no child left behind” program has stunted the education system in a way that has determinable effects on the education system as a whole, the long term effects we have not yet seen, but when it hits people will wonder what happened. As parents we recognized that we needed to pick up the slack, not only in ourselves but in our children.
Do my wife and I have college degrees? No, we don’t. But this doesn’t make us less valuable members of society.
To the program as a whole. I’ve been a listener for nearly 20 years, this is the first time that I’ve had my intelligence insulted. I’ve been in complete agreement and support for many of the things you’ve said and done. (such as the Gay Marriage Billboard in 2002ish.) I view myself as a very open minded and intelligent person. I don’t think that I’ve ever had a desire to not listen to your program anymore until today. Needless to say you’ve left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and a more than a little disappointed.
Still a loyal (with some trepidation) Listener.
So Apparently there is a Chinese gaming company who runs an MMO, who has declared a new policy. If you roll a Female character must prove that you are female! By Via Web cam conference. But heck if you’re a chick you can run around as a guy all you want, but if you want to be a chick you have to prove your gender.. which I think is stupid. Anyway I read about this on MMORPG.com, and Jon Wood wrote a column about it. His last two paragraphs (to me) summed up the whole issue with this policy.
“Now, I always like to follow up a good, long tirade about sexual identity up with a little bit of cold, hard logic. We’re talking about a freaking role playing game here. I mean, I’m allowed to ponce around the woods pretending I’m some kind of wizard or knight, whacking at things with my sword or wand. No one seems to have any issue with this concept. Nobody has any issue with me pretending to be any ridiculous thing that I like so long as that ridiculous things doesn’t have curves and boobies? Shenanigans! I call shenanigans on this foolishness.
Whatever your own personal politics might be about homosexual rights, cross dressing, transgendered persons or a host of other topics, I hope that we can all agree that taking these steps in a role-playing game is unnecessary and a little bit absurd. We’re not talking about real life here, we’re talking about a game. What’s next? Am I going to have to prove that I’m short and fat in order to play a Halfling? Give me a break”
And this right here fully illustrates why china is the worldwide leader in cause of death due to MMOs. The players are so fanatical they refuse to eat, or sleep, and probably bathe. It’s a huge problem in Asia as a whole. Hell Square-Enix has got a warning on FFXI when you log in that in essence says: Yes this game is fun and involving, we know, but don’t be an idiot and go outside once in a while. There is a whole other place out there called ‘real world’. It’s a screen that you are required to see EVERY time you log in. They don’t want to be the blame of some fanatical people killing themselves by not taking care of themselves.
And seriously what kind of person stays up and plays a game for 3 straight days without eating? Sleeping? Drinking?
So Apparently there is a Chinese gaming company who runs an MMO, who has declared a new policy. If you roll a Female character must prove that you are female! By Via Web cam conference. But heck if you’re a chick you can run around as a guy all you want, but if you want to be a chick you have to prove your gender.. which I think is stupid. Anyway I read about this on MMORPG.com, and Jon Wood wrote a column about it. His last two paragraphs (to me) summed up the whole issue with this policy.
“Now, I always like to follow up a good, long tirade about sexual identity up with a little bit of cold, hard logic. We’re talking about a freaking role playing game here. I mean, I’m allowed to ponce around the woods pretending I’m some kind of wizard or knight, whacking at things with my sword or wand. No one seems to have any issue with this concept. Nobody has any issue with me pretending to be any ridiculous thing that I like so long as that ridiculous things doesn’t have curves and boobies? Shenanigans! I call shenanigans on this foolishness.
Whatever your own personal politics might be about homosexual rights, cross dressing, transgendered persons or a host of other topics, I hope that we can all agree that taking these steps in a role-playing game is unnecessary and a little bit absurd. We’re not talking about real life here, we’re talking about a game. What’s next? Am I going to have to prove that I’m short and fat in order to play a Halfling? Give me a break”
And this right here fully illustrates why china is the worldwide leader in cause of death due to MMOs. The players are so fanatical they refuse to eat, or sleep, and probably bathe. It’s a huge problem in Asia as a whole. Hell Square-Enix has got a warning on FFXI when you log in that in essence says: Yes this game is fun and involving, we know, but don’t be an idiot and go outside once in a while. There is a whole other place out there called ‘real world’. It’s a screen that you are required to see EVERY time you log in. They don’t want to be the blame of some fanatical people killing themselves by not taking care of themselves.
And seriously what kind of person stays up and plays a game for 3 straight days without eating? Sleeping? Drinking?
So yesterday Explained that my son was sent home due to that fact that he was sick. While my wife was in the school office, standing in line to check him out. She overheard the staff talking about 100 students called in sick and another 80-90 were sent home. We were all told that papers would be sent home with students explaining the District opinion.
My Daughter finished out the school day, The paper that she was sent home said “if you child has had or current has a fever AND one of the listed symptoms do not send them to school.”
Symptoms were listed as Sniffling, Runny nose, coughing, fever, sneezing, watery eyes, and a whole list of additional things. And they even went as far as to say that unless you know for a FACT that your child has an allergy to dust, then don’t send them. But if they have an allergy to anything else you have to keep them home apparently. Nearly every one of them could be caused because of a reaction to an allergy.
I have two issues with this:
First of all, what parent in their right mind would send their kid to school running a fever? Seriously, if your a parent, and you give a rats ass about your kids, you WOULD NOT send your kid to school running a fever. This has been practiced since the beginning of time. Unless you grew up in the ice age, and was just recently thawed from a block of ice, you should know to keep your kid home, if he’s running a fever.
Second since when does a sneeze or the sniffles constitute as part of swine flu?
Here is a list from the CDC’s (center for disease control) website
Symptoms of swine flu:
If you or a member of your family has a fever or high temperature (over 38°C/100.4°F) and two or more of the following symptoms, you may have swine flu:
- unusual tiredness,
- headache,
- runny nose,
- sore throat,
- shortness of breath or cough,
- loss of appetite,
- aching muscles,
- diarrhea or vomiting
Symptoms of seasonal flu:
Symptoms of seasonal flu include:
- fever (often high)
- headache
- extreme tiredness
- dry cough
- sore throat
- runny or stuffy nose
- muscle aches
- Stomach symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, also can occur but are more common in children than adults. Some people who have been infected with the new H1N1 flu virus have reported diarrhea and vomiting.
I Love that first of all the CDC itself says a fever PLUS TWO OR MORE of the following.. and you MAY… May is only might and might is only maybe and there is nothing in absolution in this, there is a fine line between Caution and paranoia. It’s the same line that exists between being a aware of something, and being obsessive compulsive. It’s the same Damn line. It’s the flu people, Look at the lists, the symptoms are 100% identical. If this was a normal season people would not be reacting this way. This is utter bullshit. Complete and total panic mode panic stricken oh-my-god-get-me-some-Xanax! People get the regular flu and die every year, This isn’t much different. People need to deal! Chaos doesn’t help anyone.
As for my boys who are both at home right now. They’re Peachey. Running around the house like a couple of healthy active kids.
eff you Alpine and your paranoia.
So today, is my oldest 11th birthday. He was excited to go to school today, he knew that his mom was coming with cupcakes. It’s a happy thing for him, for an autistic child, moments where he’s up before the crack of dawn, dressed and ready to go before the rest of us are awake are rare. We shipped him off to school. An hour later, My wife gets a call.
She has to go pick him up.
Because, he has the sniffles. No fever, no rash, no headache, he was happy and excited. He proceeds to be in a good mood bouncing all over hell despite his disappointment of being required to leave.
The School district has decided that ANY child, regardless of the illness, is not allowed in school if they are sick. Do they realize that this means some kids will spend the ENTIRETY of the school winter semester year at home? It snowed today, it’s cold, you spend 10 minutes in the cold, an you’ll sniffle for a few minutes, it’s the nature of a natural body reaction. How freaking lame. I understand, and even sympathize that some parents have had child die, and it’s sad. it really is, but at what point to you draw the line? They are furthering the panic. Unnecessary panic. our bodies will not learn to fight off infections if we don’t get sick once in a while.
Alpine school district, Yes, you. In utah. I hope every one of you people who made this decision turns into a vampire robot nazi that is also a zombie.
