There was a time in America when it was acceptable, even expected, for a man to be a completely juvenile asshole. It was considered commonplace not to just drink at work but to drink heavily. There was a time in this, the greatest of all nations that you could bang your secretary without getting fired and getting your firm sued for every last liquid asset on their balance sheet. It was in this golden age where women would dutifully be waiting at home for their man with a properly built drink and a four course dinner in the oven. But it was not to last.Continue Reading...
I just finished watching the new Star Wars Old Republic trailer that was presented at E3 this week and I have to say it looks pretty good. For something that was announced almost three years ago it probably should look pretty awesome. Considering they’re shooting for late 2011 release and they’re not in wide spread beta yet, I am going out on a limb and saying they won’t be releasing till early to mid 2012. Granted, it took like seven years to develop WoW but not to fill Blizzard’s head with anymore delusions of grandeur but, WoW was really groundbreaking. We look at WoW today and think it isn’t cutting-edge but when it came out it was pretty bad ass.Continue Reading...
Pop quiz, hot shot:
So it’s your birthday. You’re out at the bar taking shots of tequila and pounding back vodka and sodas like you were trying put out a fire in the nether regions of your upper-G.I. tract. Then it hits you, you have to raid in 15 minutes and you’ve been going at it at this pace for the last 6 hours.
What do you do?
Well, if you’re like me, which you’re probably not, you go home and log on. Which is just what I did.
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Yesterday Blizzard announced that they were going to try and bribe tanks to queue up for the punishment that I call: “random dungeon finder roulette”.
Before I get into rubbing your fat faces in all the extra loot I am going to score, or the high probability that I am going to delete a superfluous rare mount, I want to take a minute to address the reason why Blizzard has to bribe me to tank for you slack-jawed morons.
In an effort to take a class that was working perfectly fine and turn into a prom night dumpster baby, Blizzard decided to make Paladins dependent upon holy power and mana. Their reasoning behind this was because Ret was too easy and Holy didn’t run out of mana.
Is it true that Ret was easy and devoid of any thoughtful rotation? Yes. Of course it was. I don’t think there is anything wrong with an easy rotation. If that’s what people want to play, then so be it. Honestly, I thought it was kind of fun when I got to spec Ret for a fight or two and blast away on shit in Lich King. Could I do it for an entire expansion? Probably, but I can see where it would get boring.