This came to me from Floyd, who MADE it himself! What a cool thing! Now if I could only find an 8 track player to play it! hehe. Click the image to see it bigger.
Thanks, Floyd!!!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Instance #134 – Lake Wintergrasp Sounds Vaguely Canadian (5 Comments)
Big News Of The Week
Patch 3.0.8 Trips And Falls Through The Door
As we record tonight, The United States Of America has a new President who has only been in office for a few hours and Blizzard has a bit of a mess on their hands that started a few hours ago with the release of patch 3.0.8 for World Of Warcraft. We’re experiencing and hearing about two big issues at this time:
-Lake Wintergrasp is crashing all of Northrend on some realms.
-Some players can now make a Death Knight on any realm, some cannot.
Last week, we discussed the potential impact of new Death Knights on any realm, so this week, we decided to go in depth on changes to Lake Wintergrasp.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Don’t Forget That The Patch Wants To Improve Your Reputation
One of the most-overlooked aspects of patch 3.0.8 may be just what the doctor ordered, if you’re at level 80 and looking to increase your reputation with lower-level factions. And you’re ill. Otherwise, why would you go to the doctor? Anyhow, taking down mobs that are grey to you now awards full reputation gains with an applicable faction, rather than a depreciated amount. So for those of you grinding out Argent Dawn rep or trying to save face with every goblin in the world because you just HAD to HAVE the title “Bloodsail Admiral”, your time to make amends has come.
Yeah, That +75 Stamina Enchant You Heard About? We Axed That.
The rumor for the last couple of months was that Blizzard was introducing a weapon enchant to the game called Titanguard, with +75 stamina for those of you who need a whole sackfull more health on your… main hand. We can confirm that the Titanguard enchant was not added to the game with 3.0.8.
Town Cryer
All calls, and our scariest mashup ever, thanks to Darrell.
Drop Of The Week
Get Some More Experience Points
We finally get around to highlighting Scott’s latest comic project.
Additional show content provided by Mean Gene, Patrick from France, Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to DogHouse Systems, TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.
The Instance #133 – Reverse Hydrocution (16 Comments)
Big News Of The Week
Patch 3.0.8 To WoW Is Imminent
Blizzard updated the patch notes for the next code change to the game yesterday, and it looks to us like we’re only a week or two away from seeing some useful, as well as some questionable changes to Azeroth, Outland and Northrend. We talk about a few of those that we skipped, or only touched on in episode 131 of The Instance.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Are You Authentically Playing WoW?
Authenticators are back. Or are they? You can only know by checking for yourself.
Logitech To Raise The Bar, Hopefully
Over at Engadget this week, we noticed this story about new hardware coming for WoW players and other PC gamers from Logitech. They described four new peripherals that will represent the top of their lines when they arrive later this year – a keyboard, a mouse, a headset and a gameboard, called the G13. The gameboard is available in the U.S. now, but coming to Europe at the end of March. Now what about prices? Here are the MSRPs for the four devices:
-G19 Keyboard $199
-G35 Headset $129
-G9 Mouse $99
-G13 Gamerboard $79
Looking Back On 2008
To close out the year, Massively.com and GamerDNA published a huge analysis of the players and playtime statistics that they collected throughout 2008. It’s a big article, but we break out the highlights for you here, and you can follow this link for more.
Town Cryer
Gurkan writes:
I found a rather interesting movie on youtube, one of the thousands of WOW criticizers, that tries to get a message to mostly “christian” families. A message that WOW is infested with demonic activity and it is the work of Satan. Of course i dont ridicule these people, they believe whatever they want to believe. And they feel that it is their own responsibility to warn their loved ones. Here is the link to the movie. “World Of Warcraft, is it killing you? It will!”
Willy W. writes:
I was wondering if there was a mod that would check you spelling in game. I am dysgraphic and have very poor spelling do to my learning disability and I am often mis-spelling words and being made fun of in game.
Check out the Eloquence mod here.
Drop Of The Week
The Craft of War: BLIND
By far, the most submitted link to our inbox the last two weeks has been this re-animated machinima by a fellow who calls himself Percula. It is, indeed, a must-see.
Additional show content provided by Mean Gene, Patrick from France, Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to DogHouse Systems, TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.