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Introduction (aka about this journal)
Hello and welcome. This is, fairly obviously, my online journal / blog / whathaveyou. Come, put up your metaphorical webtravelling shoes; won't you have a read for a while?

I also, like 11 million other people, play World of Warcraft. My main characters are:

  • Shukeralle, unguilded level 80 night elf druid (server: Aggramar)
  • Donda, level 72 tauren druid, also on Aggramar. Is in the "Hordes of Hell" giuld.
  • ...and an army of alts

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Aug. 5th, 2009 @ 05:48 pm The puntability of taurens
For some reason people look at World of Warcraft gnomes, say they are way too silly and small and that there's no way such an itty bitty teensy thing such as a gnome can realistically hope to fight *them*. After all, they're giant taurens who are like 30 times the size of a gnome, or 8 foot tall trolls, or savage orcs with axes bigger than the gnomes. How on earth is a 2.5 foot tall gnome supposed to fight back?

Yet nobody ever complains when their tauren downs a Un'goro devilsaur that's more than 30 times their size.

So! Clearly there needs to be a campaign to allow the devilsaurs to punt Taurens.
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Aug. 5th, 2009 @ 05:31 pm In which I hold a conversation with a magazine
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Hyper article on Tekken 6: Tekken has always been known as a technical series!
Me: WHAT
Hyper article on Tekken 6: It also has multi-leveled stages taken from Mortal Kombat!
Me: Actually, Mortal Kombat's multi-leveled stages were taken from Dead or Alive 2, and the Mortal Kombat team freely acknolwedged this, and - oh, this is just stupid. I can't believe I once liked this magazine. (Puts Hyper back on shelf) I'm sticking with Edge.
Hyper: ;_; Don't leeeeave me! WAAAAAAH!
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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 07:56 pm ...wha?
Current Mood: random
Lately I've been poking around a few World of Warcraft-related blogs, and been wondering if I should do one of my own... probably not. There are certainly more than enough WoW-related blogs around the place, so why should I inflict yet another one on the world? Would I really have anything interesting to say?

In my perusal of WoW-related blogs, was a blog piece someone wrote about why on earth should it be that sneaky thieves have a greater chance to critically hit opponents, which naturally led to me composing a LJ entry about the nature of hit points. However, lots of people have written about hit points and what they really mean in-game, so why should I, and anyway, I thought of something weird and went off on a tangent again...

...I recently managed to really wallop my toes into a hibachi, made of quite solid wood. Ow. I used my one or two skill points in First Aid and quickly determined I hadn't broken anything but that my toes were really stinging. This was roughly equivalent to lightly hitting my toes with an improvised blunt weapon, so I took maybe 1 or 2 hit points of damage. A couple of days later my toe was *still* sore. I hadn't even healed one or two measly hit points.
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Jul. 23rd, 2008 @ 04:50 pm Gravity doesn't work that way
So, uh, according to Wookiepedia, Naboo does not have a molten core but a porous, plasma-rich interior.

I'm just an IT guy, not an astromacrogeologist (ooh, a big fancy word (that I probably got wrong)), but I'm pretty sure that gravity doesn't work that way.

But then again, this is Star Wars, so I really should just roll with the punches. Or just ignore its punches altogether. It's probably easier that way.

Come to think about it, what about the Death Star? It had a lot of hollow space, but surely it had the mass of a small moon. Its own gravity should have crunched it up into a small moon (with interesting biological deposits) as well.
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Jul. 22nd, 2008 @ 12:54 pm Silly spam
Here's the title of a spam email I just got:

Obama is Anorexic Over-Excerciser

They're not even *trying* anymore.
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Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 07:57 am Weird thought on werewolves
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A weird thought I just had - if a werewolf accidentally cuts himself while shaving, does the smell of his own blood drive him mad? The cut is on his face and practically under his nose, or might even be under his nose.

(Apologies to the girl werewolves for leaving them out.)
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Jun. 19th, 2008 @ 01:25 pm (no subject)
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Very amusing: If all stories were written like science fiction stories
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Apr. 3rd, 2008 @ 09:11 am (no subject)
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To be vaguely topical I'd just like to point out that the internet occasionally gives me up, lets me down, and turns around and deserts me.
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Mar. 2nd, 2008 @ 02:52 am Seixsm in Anime, part the millionth
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Tonight (well, yesterday night, to be more accurate) at the anime club I saw episodes 4 to 9 of Heroic Age. Which meant we first saw the ridiculous and sexist character design that is Nilbar Nephew.

(No, I did not make that name up.)

Here is a Wikipedia image of her. Catch it while you can. As you can see, not only does she have impossibly large tracts of land, her clothes are barely adequate.

The show has had plenty of annoying features so far already (such as B, the gruff captain's cutesy PDA type thing; and the helium-voiced twins), but this is the most blatant. Which is annoying, because I want to like this show, with all its influences from Greek myth. It's just that so many bits of it annoy me.
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