Archive For February, 2012
Today is he first time I’ve ever live stream Rift, now while I didn’t have anyone on to watch the stream when it went on, I did at least get the video done and I think it came out alright. Nothing crazy awesome, the video came out from Twitch.TV in two parts, the first being 15min which I think now is the limit of how long a video can be and the other is over 10 so 35min of playing isn’t too bad.
What you’ll see here is me talking professions both related to World of Warcraft and Rift. Now please keep in mind that these where live streams, the format was different so there are times I’m sort of talking to myself. However the case I’m going to be uploading them all over from Twitch.TV to YouTube and posting about them. I really thought about just linking to them like I did the first one, however.. I don’t like the player for Twitch and I have a plug-in for YouTube install already so it makes perfect sense to me to do it this way.
If you have any questions, comments or just want tell me what the fuck was this? You can email me or you can sent me a tweet @NeckarUrnivald thank you for watch and you’ve just been Trolled!
Part 1
Part 2
It’s been a while from the last time I’ve posted something, been working pretty hard on some projects like Majin Planet and working on a design site XfireSystems. So what is this livestreaming I speak of? Well for starters I’ve wanted to do it for a while but you know things like this you really can’t just jump into them and go with it. So over the last month I’ve been working to build up a good setup, software, hardware, and what I would stream. I got my webcam on my laptop working again and I set up a program called Xsplit.
Would like to thank everyone who stop by to watch my live stream, trolls or not I had fun and I know I was pretty nervous doing it. Everyone was really cool and nice about my speak issues as well as how badly my sound was running. It was chopping and some times is hard to understand and the video isn’t that good, not as good as I would like. I also wanted to get the chat box to show, but I simply couldn’t get it to show the way I want.
Thanks to Jim from Power Word Gold for his great tips in helping me get my livestream working. For those who watch it later on, the whole thing is three parts, even know I only recall restarting the stream once. You can check it out on Twitch.TV here. Below is the main part which is about 2 hours long. Mainly just me talking to those in the chat room, doing some dailies and pvp on my hunter.
[UPDATE: The livestream was removed and for the time being they are on hold until I figure out a better setup]
So the new The Amazing Spider-Man full trailer has been released and I must say that the movie sort of looks like it’ll be a good popcorn flick… and nothing more. Seriously I’m still sort of in this mind state shock that they are ‘rebooting’ the Spider-Man movies so soon. I mean normally it’s a good ten plus years before they do something like this.
One of the more reasons for me to sort of not care of the movie is that I know Sony is only pushing to do this because well seeing how the last one went, no one really is gonna want to see what comes next in that movie universe. Even if they where to recast roles. The sad point to this is why they held off doing a spider-man 4 and 5 to start with. One word; Marvel.
If they don’t keep making them within a set timeline of years, the rights revert back to the owners, in this case Marvel. In the past it wasn’t a big deal, now it is because Marvel makes their own movies now. This is why we’re getting a Fantasy Four Reboot too so soon after just two movies.
You wonder why they bother, watching the trailer, yeah it’s pretty epic.. yeah I kind of like some of the way they did some things, but in the end it’ll be the same thing, I’m super tired of them taking off the hero’s masks to give the actors ‘face time’ Or whatever the reasons are, it’s stupid and seriously leave the mask on. When I got to a movie, I go to see the characters there, yeah it’s all great you can play and look and I believe you said character when he’s not in his suit, but if the suit covers the face, I want to see that not your face.
There are a number of scenes shown already where either he himself or someone removes his mask. There is even a small part where he is being attacked by the SWAT Team, where they pull his mask off and he starts to fight to get away form them, which is silly because it’s Spider-Man and SWAT shouldn’t be able to pin him down to do that (that is unless something in the story prevents him and causes him to ‘give up’ or ‘turn himself in’) They seem to have taken a new turn on things here and maybe while some think they are following the comics closer.. I doubt it.
If nothing short it simply looks like one crazy ride and nothing more than that. I’m not say it’ll be a bad movie and likely will make a whole lot of money and I’m sure it’ll “break” the first ones weekend take in (even know ticket prices are way higher than they where in 2002). You might ask me why I say this doesn’t follow the comics as close as people are hoping for. Well there are a number of things they say and do in the trailer. The first one is the whole Hero creating the bad guy issue All the old Batman movies had this issue, most comic book and ‘hero’ movies have this where the hero some how creates the villain he must now stop. When in most cases in the comics is rarely the case. Such as a shot in the trailer when they say, I created him.. So they are going off the whole Spider-Man/Peter Parker ‘created’ the Lizard? No just no.
What do you think? Do you plan on going and seeing the movie this summer? What do you think of the changes? I loved to hear what you have to say good or bad, feel free to leave a comment down below or you can hit me up in IRC or send a tweet @NeckarUnrivaled.
I wouldn’t say I’m a big fan of the Super Bowl, in fact I would have to go out and say that I’m totally not and I didn’t even watch the game (nor did I even know it was Super Bowl Weekend this last Sunday) with that being said the one thing I generally DO like about the Super Bowl are the funny ads they play.
Past Super Bowls I would have watched them simply for that, but in the last few years you simply can find them online at YouTube. So you might guess, last night I found out Super Bowl was going on. I watched a few ads and some trainers that played.. the one that cough my eye was the one for The Avengers.
As you may or may not know about the Avengers, the movie is a first of its kind. You have Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America. Each movies base on those characters, and now we have the Avengers which is a movie bring them together. Same Actors (mostly, Hulk was Recast) and universe there for you get a real feel. Other then having all those movies and the Avengers using the same characters but different actors playing them.
I’ve talked about the Avengers a little bit but not in great detail yet. I don’t really want to spoil too much of the story for myself. Below I’ll link the two trailers, the first one I believe is what played on TV. The other is what show up online as a longer version with a bit more footage, what cough me and made me laugh was the last bit, I have an Army.. oh yeah? We have a Hulk.
So what do you think? Are you looking forward to going and seeing the Avengers on May 4th? Your more than welcome to leave us a comment down blow or drop in the IRC or send us a tweet @NeckarUnrivaled and I’d be happy to answer your questions.
The Avengers Super Bowl 2012 TV Spot (FULL VERSION)
As I’ve talked about before with another podcast called Call To Auction, which I review not too long ago in fact. I must re-track a statement I made in that post stating that there where no other WoW Gold making podcasts out there. Well just as I made the post about a day after it was published, I found out about another pod cast called Power Word Gold.
So as you may guess, I found the website, which you can visit here, I must say not the greatest of looking websites but this isn’t about the web site design, this is about the podcast. Now at the time of writing this the pod cast has been out a few days and I’ve listen to it about 4 times already. One of the things I really enjoy doing is listening to WoW related content while I’m playing, as such either when I’m making gold myself or simply just leveling or farming.
Today I’m gonna be looking at Episode 27, I had planned to do the last episode first but sadly didn’t find the time to write it. So let me first start off with a few things, the show has one central host, named Jim Younkin who is the owner of Power Word Gold itself as well as all things. In a way this guy reminds me of myself and I’ll tell yeah what.. listening to him really gave me a kick in the ass. Pretty much he’s doing what I’ve been doing myself on and off for years but for whatever reason have never found a voice.
Anyways, he’s had different co-host here and their from the older podcasts I’ve listened, but none is my favorite more then Faid who I just started to follow on twitter as well not long ago. She is really an interpretation if there ever was on. I pretty much feel like we do the same things, other that she has a million gold and I run up to 100k and fall back down to 50K every time. Listening to what they talk about gold wise, I’ve been doing this and that. But the two major things they talked about in this podcast was the new Power Word Gold Guide and transmogrification.
I wont spend too much time spoiling the podcast for you but as I posted on their blog post on episode 27, about transmogrification, that is my thoughts about it. As for the gold guide, I have a bit of a split up easiness about it. First off I’m not a fan of buying gold guides. Main reason is it should be free. I sort of get putting it together in some sort of easy format for people to read and search, but that could simply be done for free with Google Ads attached in pairs of 3 per page.
My feeling on it, in the way Jim has gone about it, seems to be the best way, a pay what you want from 1 to 10 dollars. I haven’t personally looked at it yet, and he states that all the information is on the website for free, he had simply put it together in number of formats you can look at offline basically. In the end, I can’t say I recommend the guide, maybe I’ll take a look at it and write a review as well. Seems to be something I’ve enjoy doing more of as of late (Or at least been thinking more about).
If I have to compare this gold making podcast to others, I would say this is the best one I’ve listen too. They talk about Gold Making, they are both clear and easy to understand. They make you laugh, the make you think and you can really feel the energy between the two host and how they connect and bring the information they do. It really puts a fire in your backside and makes you want to get going I’ll say. Be sure to check it out, you wont regret it. I look forward to them doing another one soon and hope they spread their topics out some more. And I know it’s late Jim, but Happy Birthday.