Given it’s been over a month since the last update, I’m pretty sure you figured that one out for yourself.

I just feel I should make it explicit – I no longer play WoW, and have no intention of picking the game back up in the near future. I may or may not start playing again at some point in the further future, but frankly, not only is there too much going on in my life right now, but I’m also just bored, bored, bored with the game anyway.

Also, while I’d toyed with the idea of just making this a “gaming” blog, budgetary constraints mean I’ve not been playing any other games either, because I can’t afford any new ones, so this blog is officially in hibernation.

Thanks to all those other bloggers who commented on and linked to this blog and it’s predecessors, to all those who were subscribed to or otherwise read the blog and to Soul Haven, my first and final “real” raiding guild, for making blogging such an enjoyable experience.

I’ll still be hanging around in BA Chat and on Twitter (though I pay less attention to both of those than I used to), so I’m not completely gone! That’s right, you can’t get rid of me that easily. I make it my business to torment you.

It was a relatively easy fight. I one shot it. I had a brief omgomg moment with whelps, but that’s what Earth Elemental Totem is for. The flight phase took absolutely ages, as I had to try and regen mana with Water Shield (I had a flame resist totem up, so no mana spring) and the occasional hit on Onyxia when I wasn’t healing/smacking a whelp.

Also, it’s not fun that she’s fire immune. Lava Lash was useless, but as you can see… I still used it. I couldn’t not use it. I’m wired to use Lava Lash!

So hey! Solo’d Onyxia just before she gets buffed. Took me long enough to get round to doing!

Sometimes, some really, really silly stuff is said in BA chat. I occasionally capture them, to look back on and giggle at later. But hey, I have this blog, so… I think I’ll share them here!

Warning – wall of Text crit time!

TJ Blogs Azeroth

Temerity Jane: I acually write about 95% of the wow blogs on the internet now
Temerity Jane: I keep the real bloggers in the basement
Aertimus: ha ha
Nibuca: TJ is the new Fararro.. only hotter and less attainable.
Llanion: She really does, it’s true (send help)Temerity Jane: Care to join them?
Temerity Jane: Punch and pie.
Llanion: *cough*don’tdrinkthepunch*hack cough*

Sleeve Lettuce (Following from last piece):

Nibuca: .. Is it sad.. that I got a salad for lunch.. and only at half.. and am now picking the candied nuts and apple bits out of said salad as dessert?
Temerity Jane: WHO LET YOU GET A SALAD IN THE BASEMENT?
Ratshag: does it have sleeve lettuce in it?
Ratshag: (TJ really hates sleeve lettuce)
Temerity Jane: Dont even act like sleeve lettuce has never happened to you
Nibuca: um.. unfamiliar with sleeve lettuce.. does it "hang down like sleeve of wizard"?
Nibuca: (veiled Borat reference FTW)
Temerity Jane: I don’t veil my borat reference in this house, I am always threatening to smack Phil with my wizard sleeve
Temerity Jane: anyway, no
Temerity Jane: sleeve lettuce is when you’re eating a sandwich
Temerity Jane: and wearing long sleeves
Nibuca: L. O. L.
Temerity Jane: and some lettuce falls out and falls in your sleeve
Llanion: I’ve… never heard of such a thing, honestly.
Temerity Jane: and gets way up there by the elbow
Temerity Jane: IT HAPPENS
Ratshag: AC gchat never was the same after you left TJ
Aertimus: you must eat a lot of lettuce 
Nibuca: .. then .. No.. this would rightly be termed "bosom lettuce"… the only lettuce dropped perched on bosom until retrieved
Faulsey: I’m not sure any chat would be the same after TJ leaves it o.O
Aertimus: now THAT I can believe
Temerity Jane: No, see, Nib, that’s tooooo common of an occurrance, so it has an over arching title
Temerity Jane: Boob Food
Temerity Jane: As in "When I stood up after dinner, all my boob food fell onto the floor"
Nibuca: or on men.. "moob Food"

Matron Hydra:

Faulsey: I sigh a little every time I see a Patron/Matron Warlock.
Ratshag: lol
Faulsey: You guys are meant to steal souls and eat babies! Not lead children around and give them candy and be all heroic!
Ratshag: "Home Alone" isn’t very heroic
TheStoppableForce: Nope
Faulsey: This is true.
Faulsey: But it’s hardly evil.
Ratshag: depends on where you hearth from
Faulsey: -ponders-
Faulsey: Heigan’s room? :3
TheStoppableForce: Possibly!
TheStoppableForce: I left mine hanging out with the Frost trainer in Acherus
TheStoppableForce: He’s a lich, maybe he liked kids in his former life, I dunno.
Hydra entered the room.
Ratshag: hey Hydra
Hydra: *wave* Hello
Faulsey: WhyhellotharrHydra
TheStoppableForce: hi Hy
Hydra: D-less. I am Matron Hydra. and it makes me giggle. I feel like handing out candy to lure children and push them into a furnace.
Hydra: like the one in UK
Ratshag: rofl
TheStoppableForce: … I like you, Hydra.
Faulsey: Well, that’s a devilish use of the Matron title… so I suppose these locks are actually very clever then
TheStoppableForce: <3

 

BRK’s Brain

Faulsey: BRK’s brain brings all the visitors to the blog -sings poorly-
Saresa: ‘damn right, it’s smarter than yours’?
Faulsey: Ooh, genius
LadyJess: LMAO
Saresa: ‘I will teach you, if you’re a huntard’?
Faulsey: Win.
Saresa: thus clearly proving MY brain only functions within 30min of getting out of bed any other time my response would be ‘uuuurrrrgh….’

Soufflé

Nibuca: you know.. a good souffle wiggles like the breast of a woman…
Faulsey: -jiggles-
Nibuca: (random things heard on airplanes)
Faulsey: Actually, I’m far to skinny to jiggly at all. :\
*I was jiggling with excitement before. I am a man, honest. Not testing breast jiggle.
Ratshag: which woman?
Ratshag: ’cause, there’s variation
Nibuca: mighty fine woman with eyecatching rack wearing low cut blouse.. picking a pencil up off the floor
Ratshag: and I’d hate to ruin the souffle
Ratshag: thankee
Nibuca: .. straight legged.. in high heels
Nibuca: and.. a mini skirt…
Nibuca: dang slippery pencil
Ratshag: what color skirt?
Nibuca: duh, red
Faulsey: So.
Nibuca: you know.. I really hope this mental image pokes you in the mental eye the next time you hear the word "souffle"
Ratshag: hee hee
Faulsey: A good souffle jiggles like the eyecatching rack displayed via a low cut blouse of a woman who is picking a pencil up off the floor in a straight legged position, wearing high heels and a red miniskirt?
Nibuca: indeed

Night Elf Eyebrows

trizophenie: you sure there’s no barber in darnassus?
Faulsey: There isn’t.
Faulsey: SW and IF are where they are.
Faulsey: Though given the length of Night Elf eyebrows, I’m not surprised there isn’t one there. 
Ratshag: elf eyebrows cannot be cut
Faulsey: Why? Are they the source of their power?  
Ratshag: they are made of the hardest material in the universe 
Ratshag: punch right through epic plate helmets
Faulsey: Those would make some epic rogue daggers…
TheStoppableForce: The difficulty comes in severing them from the elf’s face.
Boize: Or just lope off the head, and use it as a spiked mace?
Faulsey: easy.
Faulsey: Cut the entire eyebrow off – flesh included.
Ratshag: ooh, elf head on a stick!
Faulsey: The attatched flesh would serve as a comfortable grip!
Boize: True. You wouldn’t want to cut your hand while wielding the razor-sharp eyebrows of doom.

You may have noticed a distinct lack of updates to the blog recently. I’ve really not been playing WoW much. I’m at that stage where all I really want to do in it is raid or do stuff with friends, but life hasn’t been co-operating recently.

I usually end up having shifts coincide with raid nights, and this week, I’m working almost every day. Hopefully, that will continue, since I really need the money. In addition, I’m starting University in two months, after a lazy year, and have no intention of playing WoW seriously whilst at University. So, basically, my raiding career is over.

When it comes to doing stuff with friends, I enjoy even things like leveling Horde alts, but alas, Kazura gets really bored of that really fast!

I’m not quite done with WoW though – I’m still eagerly awaiting 3.2, so I can level my druid. Really looking forward to new forms, and then trying my hand at tanking. Hopefully the patch hits within the next month, so that I’ve got a month to level the Druid and play about with tanking before I quit WoW.

There will certainly be some more posts when that happens, so this blog isn’t dead yet*. And when this one dies, maybe University antics will provide good fodder for an RL blog? I’ve kind of been neglecting it, but I think I’ll start posting to it again.

*It might not even die. It’s quite likely I’ll revive my WoW account over holidays, or even keep it active if Kazura and Yuanjia still play, for the occasional hour of silliness. Certainly wouldn’t write the blog off entirely, yet…

Alternate title: Shut the fuck up and keep your nose out of things you know very little about, you idiotic cunt.

I generally try to keep RL out of the blog, except in very YAY times, or very ARGH times.

Tonight was the latter.

I’m minding my own business at work in the Cereal aisle, stacking shelves, y’know, being bored. It just so happens the cereal aisle gives the best view in the shop of the shop doors. So, I’m minding my own business, when suddenly, a Ned lashes out at the Security Guard, as a tannoy announcement goes out for “All Security report to the front door”, with the Guard fighting to restrain this hooligan.

Now, I’m a skinny guy. I mean underweight skinny, and I have no idea what the fuck I’m meant to do in this situation, so all I can do is watch whilst other, much fitter (but the same age as me –shame-), colleagues arrive, and help the guard pin the struggling shop lifter to the ground. And before anyone says anything, yes, I felt absolutely awful that I wasn’t doing anything to help – but seriously, there is no way I’d have been able to hold this violently writhing guy down.

Of course, the shop has plenty of other customers at this point, all incredibly curious as to what’s happening, since there are staff forcibly restraining someone who’s shouting and bawling about “IT’S NOT SHOPLIFTING UNTIL YOU’VE LEFT THE SHOP” and other such idiotic nonsense that you’d expect from someone so thick to attempt shoplifting. The only reason you didn’t get out the shop with your ill gotten goods is because you were stopped by the guard. You had every intention of leaving, and none of giving up the products when confronted – instead, assaulting him.

Anyway, some guy with his two children takes an excessive amount of interest in what’s going on, telling myself, and the people holding this shoplifter down, that they are being far too heavy handed.

Excuse me?

You didn’t enter our fucking shop until after this guy had, and let me emphasise this, ASSAULTED A MEMBER OF STAFF. Staff were now physically restraining this idiot, so that he couldn’t LASH OUT AT THE STAFF, THE CUSTOMERS, OR, MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR YOU, YOUR FUCKING KIDS WHO COULD GET CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE SINCE YOU WERE BEING CARELESS AND BRINGING THEM WITH YOU RIGHT NEXT TO THE PERSON BEING RESTRAINED.

Do you know what would have been heavy handed? Beating the shoplifter up. That would be heavy handed. Restraining a violent customer? Not heavy handed.

But oh no, after you’ve purchased your stuff, you hung around outside until the police arrived, then interrupted them taking statements from witnesses to tell them you thought people were being heavy handed.

Seriously mate, you didn’t see fucking HALF of what happened – you had absolutely no business making any sort of statement about what happened. Fucking arsehole.

But hey, that’s perfectly normal in today’s society, eh? Sympathise with the felon. Idiot.

Moving away from that imbecile of a customer, I’d like to commend the bravery of the till staff, who continued to cheerfully serve customers throughout the whole ordeal. When I told one of the ladies I was impressed at her serving customers, “calm as you like”, she exclaimed;

Calm? We were shitting it. It was all we could do to say “Thank you” to people without adding “Oh, and mind you don’t step on the shoplifter on the way out.”

For my part, I just kept stacking shelves whilst watching in terrified fascination. Just as the police arrived, and the customer (who had been stealing alcohol in glass bottles) was being allowed to stand up, there was a shattering noise. I absolutely crapped it – I thought one of my colleagues had been bottled. Fortunately, it was just another customer had chose that exact time to drop a bottle.

Of course, despite the assault, the perpetrator will get away with nothing more than a light slap on the wrist, I’m sure, and be free to violently attack other people again within the next week or so. Obviously I’m not expecting much, but a few months imprisonment should certainly be in order. –crosses fingers-

I’d like to post this whilst I’m still relatively close.

5,000 page views, hurray!

Also… Hello tharr WoW Insider! -geekout-

Edit: Yikes, hello 6,000 page views.