Diddums

logged on to Flamelash for a bit tonight with the sole intention of farming some elemental fires to bring over to Nethergarde Keep when I transfer. These are rather valuable but very heavily farmed items so there's always fierce competition at the zone where the mobs spawn which drop them. Within minutes there were a few Hordies around me, one of which killed me once but when I made it clear that I was just there for farming, he left me to it. Three other hordies were completely the opposite, dancing with me, helping me kill mobs, etc. Then a mage turned up and made it his priority to highlight why the server is dead and just kept killing me over and over. He was level 60, I was level 36. He gained absolutely nothing from killing me, not a single honor point, not a single rep, not even a single copper. I was a completely honorless target yet he still kept killing me. The others were telling him to stop and one of them even figured out a way to cross the game's language barrier and kept saying "no go no go no go". Obviously these guys know what's up and are trying to look after the few Allies they have left, perhaps in the hope that the Alliance will grow back again, but the mage was having none of it. Well, to those who helped, I salute you, but please send my thanks to the mage for highlighting why that server is dead in the first place and wish him all the best on his empty PVE server. I'll transfer tomorrow.

Such a ridiculous car. Even just looking at the thumbnail, if you look a bit closely you can literally see the F1 wing under the bodywork. I'm intrigued to see if the AMG 1 ever makes it in to production, that'll certainly bring the fight to the Valkyrie.

HA HA HA! I FINDED MY ANTHEM ON TEH INTERNETZ LAWLZORZ

I was chatting to the caveman about this last night, but the tl;dr is that I've got an epic gym at work and have free unlimited use as often and as long as I want. Not using it is a waste. The problem is mine, which is quite simple. I've no idea where to start or what to do. When I worked nights at BT I used to go to the gym on nights for a few months but I had no clue what I was doing. I would literally just hop on whatever machine looked good that day, and go until I was knackered. I had no goals, no plan, nothing. Just go. This of course made me lose interest as I was just wasting time effectively. That needs to change. I don't want to pay for a personal trainer, but I want all the benefits of a personal trainer. We have 2x Peloton bikes, 2x regular training bikes, 2x Crossfits, 2x Treadmills, 2x Rowing machines, shitloads of weights, punching bag, medicine balls, kettlebells, you name it, we have it. This gym is seriously kitted out. Now I want to be fit, and I want to bulk up a bit. I've done some googling and I might as well have googled "what's your favourite colour" as everyone has different opinions and approaches, almost as if everyone has different bodies and different strokes work for different folks or something, it's weird. So, halp! Where do I begin?

I find that watching Doug DeMuro on Youtube makes me fall asleep in minutes. And no, I'm not joking. I'm weird ok? Leave me alone.

yeah but you can bench press a dwarf, you don’t know your own strength innit.

Let's get the small print out the way first: This won't lead to anything, it'll be blocked in the house, the republicans will make sure of it. Despite this only being the third impeachment in US history, it's a bit watered down by the fact that the last one was as recent as Bill Clinton, and the fact that people have been trying to achieve this for his entire presidency. That all said, TRUMP HAS BEEN IMPEACHED

Fuck sakes james.

Here's my count .txt. Keep in mind that the counter only goes to 50, hence the need to break it down as much as possible. The count for level 60s had to be broken down in to classes, and even then every single class still maxed out the counter at 50, so it's anyone's guess how many 60s are actually online. The total count, bare minimum, is 1998. I'd say it's easily close to double that. Utgarde Alliance count 830pm 18.12.2019.txt

So I've actually been quite interested in this whole saga, so I wanted to keep an eye on it, and also add some context for those who don't understand the numbers. So I went on to Flamelash and did my /who commands, and these are the results: This, for reference, is at 8pm this (Wednesday) evening. Total players: 75. Now the context part. The server we moved to, Nethergarde Keep, is bustling. How bustling? Well, I /who'd every level and added them up: 1998 players. For those of you who are stupid like me and needed a calculator, let me save you the hassle. Flamelash is 3.75% the population of Nethergarde Keep. On a Wednesday evening. That should drive home the point of how dead that server is. It's awful.

Hahahaha, they couldn't even mask their greed for a day. If we pull the curtain back a bit, what we see is that there has been no KDR on the scoreboards of this game, ever. Even in the beta there was no KDR. I know this because I noticed it and thought it was a bug. Turns out this whole "here lol free stuffs" attitude was a load of shit from the beginning and they were simply throwing us a bone to appease us. Well, not me, I'm far too cynical for these cunts, I see straight through their bullshit and saw something like this coming from a mile away. Fuck me they're geniuses if you think about it, textbook bait and switch except that they hid their intentions in plain sight. Credit where it's due, they played us and they played us well. Well, those of us who aren't too cynical for our own good anyway. They've literally taken something which has been a staple of CoD since day dot, removed it, thrown us a bone, and then later they want to charge us for the staple again. As much as I detest these practices, there's no denying their craftiness, I raise a glass to them. I just can't believe that people think this is acceptable. Leigh you're an idiot. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and pay £19 to transfer a character from one digital box to another digital box on a game I pay £10 a month to play.

Kicked the hornet's nest for lols. Au revoir hordies! EU.FORUMS.BLIZZARD.COM Just popping in to say that I’m leaving you. I’d love to say that it’s me and not you, but let’s be honest here: It’s you. It’s 100% you and 0% us. I wish you all the best on your dead PVE server, thanks for ruining my gaming...

Well, we all knew it was coming and some of us wanted it to happen sooner given that we missed the free character migrations but here it is finally, for £19 you can move a character from one server to another. It takes 24h, and you can't use that character for that time period. I'll personally be bringing my warrior over from Flamelash once I've sent all my phat lootz to him. This will in turn mean that I will no longer have to level a warrior on Nethergarde Keep, which means that @J&B will have some more warrior lootz to help him level up. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23237902/wow-classic-paid-character-transfers-now-available

This has nothing to do with what we think of the game. What we're seeing here is the result of the shareholders' meetings, someone said "give them free stuff and they will come", and have now given us free stuff, expected us all to flock to the game as if they had put Mila Kunis' norks in the game, yet not much has changed. This is because they think they're doing us a huge favour, whereas our mindset as gamers is more "about fucking time". On top of that their greed over the last decade or so has driven a knife so far between the ribs that for many people it's either too-little-too-late, or people just don't trust Activision to not fuck it up, which is the correct mindset to have. I don't mind this CoD to be honest, the game itself is a good laugh when playing with you lot but the publishers are so far up their own arse that they don't realise that this new-found generosity and ass kissing isn't anything special, it's the industry standard and what's what we as gamers want and have correctly come to expect. These idiots are trying to reach Fortnite levels of success with a completely different business model. Never gonna happen.

I'll do this next year. I'm also doing dry january so this will tie in nicely.

Shop option isn't even there. This is textbook Blizzard tbh. They won't open another one for Alliance, I'll be very surprised to see one, and even then it'll be to transfer Horde off the server, or Alliance on to the server, to try and balance the mess they made.

Obviously none of you are noob enough to be up to speed on this story but it's currently taking place and as we were all on the forefront of the whole thing, it's close to home so is most certainly worth sharing. Basically Flamelash is a PVP server, the one we played on. @Middle Class Caveman, @Misneach_, @J&B, @GazzaGarratt, we were all on this. When we joined it was a 60/40 Horde server, with the Horde gaining more members over time, and the Alliance not so. Before I continue this story, let me touch on the PVP system in World of Warcraft. Killing enemy players awards Honorable Kills, which in turn reward Honor Points, and Rank points. Honor points are of course a currency, however the items that can be bought using this currency ranks in Tiers. You start at T1, and make oyur way to T14. It's a very complicated system however, so all I'll say is that you're competing against your own faction for whoever has the most kills, and only the top players are awarded the higher ranks. This is where the images of people with buckets of shit under their chairs come from, because it basically boils down to whoever has the most time, plain and simple. People take months off work for this shit, it's crazy. Now, that said, none of this was implemented when we started playing. That means that whilst we could kill each other, there was zero gain from doing it. No honor, no ranks, no cash, no money, no fuck all. We were getting constantly killed by players 20+ levels higher than us, and generally in groups. It was fast becoming the most inhospitable server in the whole of WoW. Then Blizzard released what we call Phase 2, which is when the Honor system went live, and it basically became a complete and utter wankfest of a bloodbath. When I say it was impossible to play, you couldn't walk more than 100 yards without being killed and having the Horde corpse-camp you to the point that I had multiple characters all over the game world so when I was corpse camped I could log on to a different character to wait for the Horde to lose interested and move on. Blizzard eventually stepped in to try some damage control and eventually gave all Alliance players a free character migration to different servers. Pretty much the entire server upped and left, leaving the Horde with nobody to fight. The server, as it currently stands, is dead as a doornail. It's becoming a bit of a famous thing in the gaming world and people are fascinated by it. I just logged on now, and counted all the players on Alliance. You can search for players using various parameters, which you can see below: Here we have the players from level 1 to level 39. I have discounted all the level 1 players as they're all tourists who have logged on to this server just to see it for themselves: So 49 players, minus the 15 level 1s leaves 34 players. Next I did from 31-59: So 34 players + 45 players = 79 so far. Then the max level of 60: So 79 + 13 = 92 players. That's 92 players on an entire Alliance side of what was one of the busiest WoW servers in the whole EU region. For comparison, I took these screenshots a few minutes ago. This is between the bank and auction house in Ironforge, arguably the busiest hotspot on any Alliance server. This is our current server: And this is Flamelash: Keep in mind that there is only one player on this screenshot who isn't a level 1 tourist, the rest are all visiting to witness an event which we're all gonna be reading about in a few years' time. I suspect it'll be called the Flamelash Exodus. Here's a screenshot of the WoW Flamelash forum: If you search for Flamelash on Youtube, this is the result: As you can see, these events are widely known all over the world at the moment. I'm personally glad we left ages ago, I couldn't even begin to imagine what a clusterfuck it must be right now to try find even a 5 man group. There's a whole element of the way ex-Flamelash players are being treated on their new servers too, so I'm sort of glad I transferred when I did so I avoided all that bollocks too. Interesting times in the WoW universe, that's for sure. Let's see what Blizzard does to fix this!

It'll be the PSU. It's old, it won't even be close to peak efficiency any more. Doesn't mater, just means you need to consider it. Like driving an old car, it'll still work fine, but it won't hit the same MPG as when it was new. You subbed yet?

See? I knew you'd come in handy one day. Fantastic work Leigh, you can stay another week 😂

Yes, but only for the retail version which sucks balls. Seriously, it’s wank. Completely fucked. Classic is where it’s at, but there’s no trial. It only costs a sub however, whereas retail also requires an initial purchase. If you decide to give it a go for a month (highly recommended), you’ll need to decide if you want NA or EU as you can only pick one. EU will allow you to play with us, but the times will be fucked (which becomes much more relevant at endgame with raids n stuff). If you do NA you’ll have no friends but the times will be good. The community is super friendly, the ying to LoL’s yang. You’ll be in a guild in no time. If you play on EU, you’ll want to be on the same server as us, and Alliance side. hit me up if you wanna give it a go, happy to help out with shit 🙂

Play retail then, get everything handed to you on a silver platter.

Sigh. I got excited for a bit, until I saw that Sundial thing, which let's be honest is just gonna be another copy & paste horde event. The mp map is another copy & paste job too. I've fallen out of love with the game. I hope I get it back, but I can confidently say it'll take one hell of a change for it to happen. Something genuinely different. The game plays it far too safe, the classes are all too similar, not enough variation in content. I want a character that transforms in to other shit. One that can heal team mates. Not "here's a little ball, stand in it", I mean actual heals. Like Mercy, or even my priest in WoW. I want legit mechanics in fights, stuff that makes your character needed and wanted. Atm you can have any three random characters in any strike and kick ass. I want tanking to be actual tanking. Much as I loved the game, wow killed it. Comparing the two is like comparing a bicycle to a Veyron. They'll both get you from A to B, and you'll probably enjoy doing it, but the Veyron is in a whole different league. Wow kills everything, but that's me. Cod is on par though, so there's that at least.

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Done, sent you three woolen bags. All I had the mats for at the moment, let me know if I can help with anything else!