WoW TiP: Gift of the Narru is Awesome

…In lower level PVE, at least.

I recently rolled a Draenei Mage, currently 32 and loving it. I had already rolled a Draenei Hunter and loved him and especially their racial “Gift of the Narru”, a HoT, mana-free spell. I don’t know how well it works at the higher levels (it scales automatically), but it works GREAT 1-50 at least.

The first thing I noticed was that GotN great for healing pets. I was healing my pet by at least 3/4 of his health coupled with mend pet in hairy situations, and I find it a great alternative (or even great in addition) to bandages. Since I don’t PVP, I’m not constantly healing my pet in battle so it’s really just a fail-safe.

Something that I found a few days ago is that GotN+Ice Block=Win. I was in a hairy situation – I’m frost specced, specifically to AoE (and I picked it up fairly fast, I’m pulling upwards of 6 of my own level and taking them down) – and I had a bad pull. I hit GotN, then Ice Block, and I was healed to 50% of my health by the time it broke, allowing me to continue and take down the rest of the group.

GotN is really awesome for Magi and if you’re planning to roll an alliance mage, I strongly recommend rolling Draenei if only for a little extra survivability.

On a side note, I’m really pissed to hear that Fear Ward is being given to all Priests in the next patch, because I rolled a Dwarven Priest specifically for that racial. It’s also being nerfed down to a 3 minute cooldown/duration, so it’s not viable to put it on an entire party. I wouldn’t have minded as much if it weren’t being replaced with a shitty Damage-related spell and/or Draenei and Dwarves still had the 30sec cooldown/10 minute duration. I wouldn’t have minded at all if they just gave the racial to one or two races on the horde to balance it out, either.

All in all, though, still having fun in WoW.

20 Things I Learned From My NES

Fusion Ring has a pretty hilarious (and true) list of NES-related teachings. My personal favorite?

If at first it doesn’t load, blow.

So true.

The NES was such an awesome system (as I’ve written about in the past) and I still have it to this day (top loader), but it had some problems, the main being the pin connector being a piece of crap. Luckily people are now selling replacements which apparently at least improve the chances of not getting a Blue/Gray/Scrambled Screen of Death. I’m considering buying a refurbished push-down NES with the new pins.

Cause I’m a Blonde!

Video of the Moment

Well, not ME, but…

Internet People!

Video of the Moment

Ah yes, the internet fad age.

OMFG LEIK 4RELZ?

Warning: Rant

I am getting tired of this shortening of words crap. I just saw a texting commercial doing the “awww, they’re talking like they’re typing” joke. I’m just sick of seeing it everywhere.

Sure, there are times when it’s appropriate. Playing an online game, for instance, where timing is crucial, shorting everything can be acceptable. And I can understand shortening messages while using something other than a full keyboard, like a cell phone or a point-and-click gaming controller. But it’s getting ridiculous.

Personally, whenever I can, I use proper English while typing. I think the only time I’ll ever use an acronym is when I’m playing an online game and in the middle of something/in a hurry or typing on a cell. Almost in every other situation I use proper English with full sentences. There is no reason to shorten and/or butcher the English (or God forbid another) language on an internet forum, an e-mail, on MySpace, etc.

Of course, there are a few that I don’t mind, namely the ‘LOL’ and common shortenings, like ‘WPM’ or ‘etc’. Other than that, you will rarely, if ever, see me use ‘OMG’, ‘ICU’, etc in a serious manner.

Unfortunately, the Internet has also rubbed off onto other, proper words. While it’s called “L33T SP33K”, everyone and their dog uses it, and 99% of those users are far from elite (yes, believe it or not ‘L33T’ comes from a real word). Misspellings have become the norm all over the internet. I cringe every time I see ‘like’ spelled ‘liek’ MULTIPLE times. It’s an easy mistype, I’ve done it myself, but people use it as if it’s a real word.

The main purpose to these ‘misspellings’ are to make things go faster, I understand that, but people even use ‘words’ that are the same keystrokes or MORE than the word (or words) they’re trying to ‘Netify’. The lengths of which people will go to be lazy is amazing.

My point is, people, learn to spell. Then learn to type. If you’re typing at 60+ WPM (last time I checked I was around 63 WPM non-touch type), there really is no reason to shorten everything. Just, please, use proper language on the internet (and in everyday life) whenever possible, if only to make it a more aesthetically pleasing place to be.

Bob Ross – Happy Little Outtakes

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This is pretty damn hilarious.

OMFG HAX #2: HAMSTER HAX!!!

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