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Haha, very good! In other news, this is what my car needs:

I've never been a cat person but this? Wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggsy3Cxg4U

This is fucking tragic. I often laugh at our H&S over here but once you see something like this, it does widen your eyes a bit. My condolences go to the families of these people, can't imagine how hard it must be for them.

Looking forward to this weekend's slaughterfest. A few questions: To qualify, I simply attack someone in the days running up the the event, right? During the event, I could only attack twice last time. Is that correct? And how do I donate stuff?

Mkay, we need to sort this out. First off, I work from 07:00 to 19:00 or 19:00 to 07:00 depending on my shifts. This means that I won't be able to attend many raids but such is life unfortunately. Secondly, we need to establish raiding days and times. What times would suit you guys, and what days? Thirdly, please post here who you are, your main spec, and when you'd be available. Fourth, and this is the most important one, I need people to step up to the plate. If I can't make it, then pull your finger out and organize something. I'm making Klax and Erux raid leaders so if they're on and it's raid night, you will need to listen to them. If anyone else wants to be a raid leader, please let me know. Fifth, START RECRUITING!!!! I've done ALL the recruiting on my own except for when Sven brought Druidi into the guild, and it's getting tiresome that I'm the only one. If you raid with someone and they seem nice, extend them an invite. It's not hard guys. Also, please get others to sign up here so we can organize this stuff outside of the game. That way anyone can read our stuff wheneve rthey want, and nobody will miss anything. Tl;DR: Pull your fingers out and get busy recruiting and organizing raids. Let's start off with raid days and times though. I want to move up to normal as quick as we can as that little green text saying "flex" on my gear is pissing me off.

When I first heard about these, I thought "excellent", the ability to buy cosmetic goodies for a few pence or a pound here or there would be excellent. Whether it was a hat in TF2, a camo pack in BO2, or a shortcut kit in BF4, it just made perfect sense. The only downfall it would have is that some folks wouldn't be able to afford them, but that goes with the territory. When WoW started with "microtransactions" I thought it was awful. It started off with a pet or a mount for the game, which although I disagreed with and never paid for, was definitely a success for Blizzard as everyone seemed to have one eventually. They must've made a killing. The mount was I think... £15? Something like that. Now that on it's own is taking the "micro" away from transaction. You could buy the base game for that price, or even an expansion pack. Hell, you could buy multiple games for that price. Yet here you paid £15 for a horse. And that's the point I started disliking microtransactions. The problem with them is that gamers will fork out cash for anything. I can guarantee you that if Blizzard released a gold covered horse for £1000 tomorrow, you'd see them all over the place within a month. Now there's nothing wrong with that, if someone wants to spend a grand of mommy & daddy's hard earned on a horse that's up to them, but what about the rest of us, who can't be bothered paying so much but want might also want something nice on the cheap? Well, that's where the cheaper stuff comes in. There are loads of other mounts and pets on the store, which are great. The problem is that once people start spending larger amounts of in-game items, some companies take this as "oh they will pay, charge more then" which gradually filters down to the rest of the playerbase, so many of us end up paying much more than we should for something which is effectively just a horse with a different colour. Now you can also buy a character boost to max level for $60. Yes, sixty dollars. This is somehow marketed as a "microtransaction". I'd like to know how they class a sum which can feed a family for a week as "micro". These are great in theory, but as usual once greed starts settling in it all goes pete tong very fast.

I wish MS would just sack the lot of their PR and marketing department and start fresh. Consoles should be "for gamers, by gamers" no "for gamers, by greedy suits". If MS sacked off the number crunchers, hired in some people who actually have a vested interest in gamers, their sales would double overnight. Ever since their delusional "always on, always watching, no used games or lending games, always online" nonsense people have caught on, and as much as I hate to say it, but only three people buy Xbones: Those who have been so far under a rock they have no idea what went on. Those who are such devout fanbois that MS can do no evil. The uneducated who have bought one as a gift. That's it. Anyone who reads the odd forum / blog / tech article will know what a stink that caused, and the only way of fixing this is to start from scratch with a whole new team. There is hope, but MS seems so dedicated to raising a sinking ship that they're completely blind to what the gamers want, and at the end of the day, without us, their product is a very expensive excursion into Dreamcast territory. Which is sad really. The Xbone is a good machine, make no mistake. The hardware is powerful, the interface is lovely, it has loads of extra features which are quite simply a pleasure to use, but unfortunately it was let down by the morons heading up the Xbox team. One quote says it all: "We have a product for those who don't have internet access, it's called the Xbox 360". That quote right there just shows how distanced they are from a gamer's wants and needs. Literally no clue. "Ah, that number is bigger so that's the one we're going with". Yes, but that number is also the final nail in the coffin, and now nobody wants your console. What now Mr. Numbers? I don't want to see Xbox go. I really don't. At this point in time it's all we have keeping Sony honest and if Xbox goes, who's going to fulfill that role? Nintendo? I very much doubt it. So please MS, there is still hope. Grab your marketing team by the scruff of the neck, throw them all out the door and get a fresh team in. Give them more generous budget constraints (still turn a profit, just a bit slower) and let them market the machine as it should have been marketed from day one: "By gamers, for gamers". Either that or have fun digging your own grave.

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One of the people in the picture is Sennex. The other is me. You guess who is who.

This is what I'd like to know. Also, please don't go poking bears. I'm looking at you Tam.

Crap, I'm skint at the mo

I gave up in the end. It's also not only Windows but systems integrators not having the budget / resources to adapt.

Windows 8 is a bit.... it's fucking shit. Have you tried running in 64 bit mode? http://www.quero.at/news.php?id=79

This is a pain in the ass and one I've just gone through with Kyla for her distance learning stuff. First off, can you connect to anything at all, or is it just your Logmein that's not working?

Try disabling all your addons.

No, Sven is a new face. You enjoying having other actual real people on the server? I logged on to fw a while ago. 8pm on a Saturday night. Middle of Stormwind, one other player. One. On a Saturday. Terrible.

YAY! LEON'S BACK!

TOMORROW NIGHT! 8pm Server Time. Woooo. We have another Rdruid too. Competition Druidi! (no pressure)

Just make sure you get it from a legit source. Remember that something that presses keys for you is the perfect base for a keylogger. http://www.autohotkey.com/

Tommy I dunno exactly what you need, but I use Autohotkey quite a bit. Here's what I use it for: In WoW, you can "prospect" ore from mining. This yields gems, which can be cut and used or sold. Now prospecting is a second and a half cast, plus about half a second to loot the gems. I often have a few hundred ore at a time so as you can imagine, hitting the same buttons over and over for half an hour can get tedious. This is where Autohotkey comes in I've got a script which presses the macro button in-game, whether or not I'm in the game, browsing, watching shit on YOutube, whatever. It takes any input on the PC, whether it be moving the mouse or hitting a button, and translates it into pressing the number 1 on WoW, so as long as I'm doing something on my PC, the script makes sure I'm prospecting in the background. Very handy and saves a TON of time.

Started grinding honor last night so I can start dishing out the pain in PVP. Now warriors have eleventy million abilities and buttons and my keyboard isn't cutting it, so I need to emply my Razer Nostromo which I've never really bothered setting up properly. It seems very easy with Bartender, but my one question is how do I swap between UIs? I would like three different UIs all with different binds on the Nostromo: Tanking, DPS, PvP. Is there a way to do this?

They're members of our new guild, Ethereal Brothership in World of Warcraft. All great people really. //Klax u just jelly I'm better than you. I also got some more goodies recently so my tanking ilvl is 506. On a side note, I hit the point where I need to gather 3k valor points for the legendary quest. I stacked them all ready to go but unfortunately I need to collect them with the quest active, so that's put me back three weeks. Meh. Still, glad I'm done with those damn sigils.

Yep, great fun to be at it again. It's still no the regular raids I used to love, but I think the only thing holding us back from that is gear. Still, 3 bosses down with some pugs who were seriously questionable in their lack of gems and enchants and I think we did well killing three big boys. We still need a backup tank, a healer or two and some deeps to fill our rota but hopefully that warrior who joined us last night proves decent. Felt really bad getting phat lewtz on all three bosses and my co-tank getting nothing. That personal loot system is rubbish and another reason to move up to 10 mans as soon as possible. My dbm wasn't working for some reason last night (only just installed it) but when I hopped on an lfr earlier today the timers all popped up so that should help as well. I've also just paid for another three months on the Team speak server which will no doubt come in very handy, as proven last night. All in all a great first night especially considering it was basically just on a whim but I see only good things coming from this. Thank you all for your excellent performance, and see you all in game!

Witch hunt. They're accusing him of racism for comments made years ago. Why now? Has India just discovered telly? I'd like to know what's really going on. This feels like a distraction.