There is an excellent post by the Mental Shaman on the various issues around sexism in wow, generally I can’t find anything to disagree with though there are a few points which I don’t disagree with I do have a differing viewpoint, this is probably not surprising. However it did get me thinking a bit…

We managed to pull together a full team.. ok 24 after a hunter D/C’d and didn’t return and after about 90 minutes of wiping those of us who weren’t in on the first kill got our Kingslayer titles. Hurrah! OCD is happy again.

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A rather interesting announcement from the blues in the US, they will be randomly patrolling Goldshire on Moon Guard to crack down on ERP, or at least overt ERP and all it’s associated problems.  Unless they’re willing to perma-ban players or cancel accounts I’m not convinced they’re going to achieve anything.  ‘Sensible’ ERPers are already…

From the “how the hell does he do that files”… http://www.buzzfeed.com/cybergata/pencil-tip-sculptures-by-dalton-ghetti-1h9y

So I’m back into my levelling comfort zone, bringing a baby tank into the world but with all the experience I’ve built on a raiding tankadin and what I’ve picked up from tanking with both my DK and furball of doom.  It’s certainly less painful than it used to be, partly thanks to knowing that…

You know what, I’m going to argue for standing in the fire / void / green / directly in front of the dragon. No, my inner tank or healer has not taken leave of their senses. So, go stand in something bad,and learn from the pain, how much pain are you taking, does it interfere…

Gear score (GS) def: An attempt by programmers to resolve a social / meatspace problem. This I think pretty much boils down the reasoning behind GS. The Problem PUG Raid leaders particularly have a difficult job for the current tier of content ensuring that those wishing to join have levels of gear and experience are…

Right, firstly this is not the classic Harryhausen from 1981, the plot and story have been changed, I would need to go off and do some research to see which is the most faithful to the underlying mythology. This is not an epic retelling which will replace the stop-motion version in the hearts of geeks…

Another day, another information horror story of sorts. Someone has stuck a bot crawling Facebook for public information, collated it into a nicely presented format and slapped it up on a torrent for downloading.  Let’s look at the impact of this.  Fundamentally it changes very little, this is all information which users of Facebook have…