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Pretty sure I've got all the heirlooms all on my account but I'll be shunning those to enjoy the game with the noobs if I decide to play. It would be really ace if we could get this off the ground, I know @GazzaGarratt would take to it like a duck to water.

World of Warcraft has been popping up in our Whatsapp group and in various random spots around the forum, I'd like to create a new character and give it a go again but given how addictive it was last time, I will tread lightly and see how it goes. Anyway, WoW has been without the most amazing game I have ever played, no game has ever encapsulated the feeling of freedom, awe, curiosity and dedication as World of Warcraft. It all started when I lived in Holland. I was about 20 at the time and a friend of mine disappeared off the map. He wasn't enough of a friend to go hunting for but enough to notice his absence in our social circles. He'd pop up now and again looking all scruffy and like a textbook basement dwelling gamer, probably living off Mountain Spew and Doritos. He was always very cagey about his activities and most of us put it down to drug addiction. One night he turned up at a party and had a few drinks, when he eventually said "I need to go home, my raidee is starting soon". That sentence marked the start of my WoW career. My curiosity piqued, I asked him what he meant and he said he played WoW and that his raid with his guild was starting in half an hour and he needed to be there. We all put this down to things like NERD and all the shite but in reality it always sat in the back of my mind, how someone could leave a party, with booze and weed and chicks and people and music and all the cool stuff to go home to play a video game. It made no sense to me but it did get my curiosity going and the seed was planted. A few years later I was living in London when this game made an appearance on South Park. This was another seed planted, another moment of wondering what it was all about and more progress towards me playing the game. After a few appearances in pop culture, on various TV shows, films, and magazines I could take it no more: I had to know why this game had the reputation it did. I downloaded the trial and that was that. Before I knew it I'd bought the Battlechest which contained the vanilla game, the Burning Crusade expansion and some guide books. I added some game time and I was set. I remember my first character like it was yesterday: A human warrior, fresh in the breeze of Elwynn Forest and no stranger to Northsire Abbey. This is where a half decade long adventure would begin, an adventure I will never forget, with highs, lows and everything in between. More politics than a Trump campaign and more drama than a Kardashian after a sex change. Not long after killing the wolves, putting out fires, killing some thieves and other naughty people, I levelled up a few times. This brought me to Goldshire, or as many know it, the Duel capital of Azeroth. This is where I saw my first level 60 player. I was a wee little warrior wearing all the wrong stuff, all his talent points all over the place, staring at what was very clearly an end-game hero. Mounted upon a horse which looked like it came from another universe and in armour which was more brightly coloured than the RGB keyboard upon which I now type, this guy just stood there, so all us lesser mortals could admire the amazing power this guy had. He didn't move, he didn't accept any duels, he just stood there being amazing. In hindsight he probably went for a shit or something but I like to think that old Spotty McSpottyface on the other end of the internet was basking in the glory of being stood amongst us peons like a god. Anyway, this was my first taste of the real game and what I wanted: I wanted a character like Spotty McSpottyface. There and then I grabbed all the quests I could and ventured out, eventually killing Hogger which any WoW vet will know was the hardest boss in the game, often requiring multiple 40 man raids to kill. I eventually solo'd him and that was the end of that. Slowly I made my way through all the world zones in the game, venturing off the beaten path and getting absolutely buttfucked in the process by creatures I had no chance of defeating. I eventually started making a few friends, joined a guild, got some professions, learned how the auction house worked, farmed loads of materials, killed loads of Chinese gold farmers, and became a bit of a vet myself, albeit with Kronenbourg rather than Mountain Spew. I started doing dungeons, one of which I will never forget, it was with Leonvegas, MK_Ul7tra and a few others from our guild at the time. It took us longer to kill the first boss of that dungeon than it took most guilds to clear an entire raid but we did it, and man were we proud. I'm not joking when I say it probably took us two hours to kill a boss that an end game character could kill with one shot. We laughed, we absolutely hosed ourselves but in the end we got there. I eventually inherited a guild called Proud Guardians, and single handedly grew this guild to over 1000 members, some of which I became good friends with. This adventure goes on and on, I'll leave it at this for now but if there's enough interest I'll type out the next one. I genuinely hope we can make a group of folks who want to give it a go as it's genuinely one of the most relaxing, chilled out games around, until you hit the arena. For some arena action, Swifty was always my go to guy, I love this dude. And trust me, Arena is srs bznz. Watch this for a taster: @GazzaGarratt @crispymorgan @Bluebear Someone tag Hamish please. @phil bottle @tronic44 @Sennex

Might hop on tonight, will see. I'm up at 4:30 every day this week and next week (yes, even bank hols Monday) so early nights are fairly beneficial. Will see.

Pat there schooling very single one of us at once. Pat I love you man, you have such a powerful but calm tone about you, a real Canadian. Always a pleasure to see you pop up online.

I need to do the raid sans booze so I can actually know what the fuck is going on.

It sucks. So does the heavy shotgun. I'd rather a grey tac than an orange heavy.

This is why automation and robots are cunts, putting people like me out of a job.

I've committed to becoming a hermit this weekend, literally gonna be playing games all weekend long so if you need a run hit me up. I'm already booked with @techno and @GazzaGarratt and whoever else for Saturday night and Friday night is obviously GTA races night so Saturday and Sunday all day, let's do it!

And Jessica Chastain. Wanking.gif

No. Amd vs Nvidia = graphics cards. Any card will slot in any motherboard provided it has space, which it will unless you're an awkward fucker like Lee who has to have his PC made out of fucking origami. Amd vs Intel = CPU choice. AMD = AMD motherboard, Intel = Intel motherboard. AMD is future compatible, Intel isn't.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/spec-a-mate-a-pc.18828450/

Whatcha doing this weekend?

You can redo quests as often as you want. There are as of last count, over 15000 quests in the game. There are side quests and missions for every race, class, area, city, faction, skill, profession, etc. If questing is your thing, WoW is your game. Even then, if you are sad enough to complete all the quests available to you then you can start another character and do all his quests, it's ridiculous how much there is to do in that game. Maybe I should download it and see what happens.

You want an i5, 16gb of RAM and a 1070 or 1070ti graphics card. The rest is gravy. PC hardware far, far outstrips the demand in most games nowadays apart from the usual "hurrr we maked a game which is so intense it'll kill your pc" games which have three levels.

Funny you should post this, just the other day I was thinking how cool it'd look to have some artwork depicting the places we go before all this war started. There are such nice areas in D2 but they're all messed up due to the war, imagine seeing some nice artwork from before the war, with kids walking around playing, people doing their thing, etc. That'd be awesome and could really be fleshed out in terms of lore.

Signed up. I'm dragging @GazzaGarratt along too, even if it's kicking and screaming.

You can land a fucking jumbo jet in there Tyrone! That's honestly one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in a film. @Sennex get on it. Pronto.

I think this is one most of us can enjoy, it's a classic full of one liners and absolutely hilarious moments. I've chosen this one because it's old and very famous so it's an easy one for us to try out the new film club format. IMDB Link Trailer: Get to it my lovelies!

Something I've been pondering about and think it's time to put it in to action. We all love talking shit about films and stuff so why not watch a film a week and have a dedicated thread to discuss it. This is how it'll work: Someone suggests a film for the week. This same person starts a new thread and many others can watch the film. The film can then be discussed within the thread, and each week we make a new thread (but still keep the old ones in case anyone wants to catch up or whatevs). The thread will be full of spoilers so keep that in mind. The films must be at least a year old, this way it'll be on all the various sources for streaming / downloading / buying / whatever. This makes the film accessible to all. I'll start this week's thread and we'll take it from there. EDIT: HERE'S OUR FIRST FILM CLUB THREAD.

Whatcha complaining about then?

Don't stop there! Tell all 20 odd of us more ways to play the game you haven't touch in forever!

Dropped this last night. I should probably buy shares in Sony, I predict their controller sales are about to go through the roof

Well those to fellas definitely deserve it, no doubt about it. Congrats dudes, your combined efforts over the last few weeks to help people with the raid and Whisper has been fantastic, thank you ❤️