Tuesday, January 31, 2006

WoW! Remarks (and link to new Alliance Race)

I kept a little sticky note today of all the thoughts I had on WoW news. So instead of getting my overly verbal formatted thoughts, you get the cliff notes version.

- The new Transendence armor set looks like stained glass
-The Stormrage set is = teh PIMP
-I still need to read the Weekly notes on Priest revamp
-Mooncloth bags in 1.10 will take only one mooncloth (I haven't even got that pattern :P)
-I'm still trying to see if they have released any more previews of the 1.10 armor sets
-Snow looks like a great addition, it can fall heavy or in a drifting manner
-Rain is just as nice and it looks like they even added bounce to raindrops over water planes that I observed
-Burning Crusade infos for Deadwind Pass - Karazhan and lore

Off topic, today I was reminded that Americans built the internet. Had to teach some poor middle aged British couple about emailing on AOL away from home. This is after I typed up a four page correspondance for the wife because she uses the slow method of hunt-and-peck typing. I then explained how to copy and paste to them. This took many tries. I think hotkeys to some people could mean that the keyboard might burn you. This lady was taping the CTRL key then the "c" and would wonder why the text would go bye-bye. Doh!

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Fighting the WoW Addiction

So my husband went back to World of Warcraft about a week ago. Past three days its been a little bit more difficult to resist. But the yearning to create art is greater, and the apartment threatens to either smother me or maim me if I do not regularly administer it with cleaning solvents and firm pressure. I've concluded one of two things must eventually occur for this to be off of my mind:

A) I get the ATI TV Wonder card so I can wtfpwn in Soul Calibur 2 and Fable on the XBOX supplemented with reinstalling Unreal Tournament GOTY after I get finished with Frozen Throne.

B) I capitulate to my weakness and resub under the discipline of limiting my play time. Not just for when I'm not doing housework or stuff, because that doesn't amount to any creative output in me. It just doesn't work that way.

I'm not sure which is going to happen, but I'm trying to get a grasp for how much time I need daily to keep up with housework and how long I normally stay on focus to sketch out new ideas. I miss Solaresa and Mayoke, but I know that I have an overwhelming tendency to obsess/tunnel-vision to the exclusion of all else when I play this game. And I can't really afford to do that right now. No rush anyway, neither of them are geared up for raid or keyed up or level 60. I think Solar was the one closest to that goal.