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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!
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Well I suppose it’s not really a shock when I think about it, reading over on MMO Champion today I saw a news post from today, that we wont be getting BlizzCon in 2012, which sort of sucks. I recall last year October having this discussion with my brother about going and we both decided that this year we would go.
I guess the reason is you know this whole ’2012′ ordeal, the end of the world. The truth about it is simply a matter if I believe that the world will come to an end in December of this year.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, basically the 2012 Phenomenon can be best stated from the Wikipedia page.
Here is a quote:
The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012.This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae have been proposed as pertaining to this date, though none have been accepted by mainstream scholarship.
A New Age interpretation of this transition is that this date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world as we know it or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, or Earth’s collision with a black hole, passing asteroid or a planet called “Nibiru”.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012. Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar “ends” in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture. Astronomers and other scientists have rejected the proposed events as pseudoscience, stating that they are contradicted by simple astronomical observations.
So basically that’s what it is, that all will come to an end, simply because our current calendar is supposed to end, but in all truth of what I believe, I believe it’ll be a sign of new beginning and nothing more. Does this pan out to why Blizzard isn’t having their CON this year? I doubt it, but you know how people are with stuff like this.
Personally it sucks, I really wanted to go finally and I feel like this year, finally I’m in a good place in my life where I can head out there and do the things I want to do. Well no BlizzCon for me this year, maybe I’ll try to go to Comic-Con or another CON or something. We’ll have to see, but I thought it was worth bring up.
I really do like talking about stuff like this, ghosts, spirits, demons and aliens. I really don’t talk about it very much on here, perhaps I need to start doing that more often now. I like to however hear from the fans on what you wish to see, is this something you want to see posted? Let me know, send me an email or twitter me at @NeckarUnrivaled or leave a comment below.
I didn’t get to test out Diablo III at all before its release coming next year. I really wished I would have gotten a Beta Invite, but we can’t always get what we want. I really want to play Diablo III, given I was a big fan of Diablo II. I tell you now I have like five copies of that game.. Given I played, my brother played and his friend played with us. Then I end up losing the copy of the game and after months of not playing, you want play. I don’t know where it’s at? I just pick up another copy of it.
So lets look at this, shall we? Diablo III, whats gonna be new in Diablo 3? Well I can tell you from what I’ve seem read and heard it’s not gonna be very much different from Diablo II. The biggest thing I think is gonna be the Auction House. Something that I play in other games, sort of as a mini-game to the main game itself. I really enjoy it and the one thing that stands out here is you can make money!
The game takes place in Sanctuary, the dark fantasy world of the Diablo series. This world was saved twenty years earlier by a handful of unnamed heroes in Diablo II, heroes who, having survived the onslaught brought by the armies of the Burning Hells, have gone mad from their ordeals. It is up to a new generation of heroes to face the forces of evil threatening the world of Sanctuary.
Players will have the opportunity to explore familiar settings such as Tristram.
Yeah you heard that right.. you’re gonna be able to trade in-game items for real cash. This is gonna be fantastic for me and for you. What this means, is I can make money playing a video game, which I truly believe is gonna change the way we play games. Also I’m gonna be able to trade items with you. If you play Diablo III, I can run contests (Sort of like I’m doing now) and give away rare items or cash.
Contests Giveaways
The best way I think will be that, if you can post an item on the Auction house, sell it to another player I see no reason you can’t trade items in-game for money outside of the Auction house. This on itself just seems like a good idea to me now. At first I thought it wasn’t and really got turned off from the game, but the fun part and what I released, same with the cub pet. Is I don’t have to use it if I want.
There are a few items floating around in my head on how I could give away cash prices or give away just items in-game. I’m not 100% how it’ll be, everything’s done using PayPal so if your planning on picking up Diablo III or if your like me and gonna be getting a free copy.
In any case, I’m gonna try to offer you some in-game items or maybe $5 or $10 bucks for maybe collecting a really rare item in-game. There will be PVP in Diablo III and I look forward to that as well.
What Class?
Well seeing as I generally like to play long-range classes or support/pet classes I think I’m gonna lead out starting with the new class they added in Diablo III, The demon hunter. I don’t know about you, but reading the info about The demon hunter just seems.. that is gonna me. For those of you wondering what the class is here is a short list.
- Combines elements of Diablo II’s amazon and assassin classes.
- Uses crossbows as their main weapon and throw small bombs at enemies.
- Can use arrow skills such as Chain Arrow.
Not too much end up being revealed on the demon hunter or that I can find. In any case, the video they released really got me hooked and this was a bit I think before the talked about the auction house which as I said turn me off. I’m really gearing up to play next year and I think it’ll be fun and different from what I’m doing now.
I had a little issues with posting today and for whatever reason the posts that I made became locked where I couldn’t edited them. So I’m just making a new one. Over just listing a whole crap load of information I’ll talk about some key points that are important to me that I care about. So here is the latest and best form Blizzcon 2011.
Mists of Pandaria
What a shock this is.. well not really. It was known for some time that this was gonna happen once the name had been trademarked after all. What was kind of shocking was not much if anything was leaked this year about Mists of Pandaria. In fact I remember last year when I watched Blizzcon live stream I pretty much knew what the next expansion was gonna be about, the zones, the bad guy, even the new races. Plus the trailer for it was leak a few days before hand.
This year however no such leaks happened that I know of. Form what news that came out, there are a few things that got me really jumping up and going HOLY SHIT!
- New Talent System
- Pet Battle System
- Valor Points for Questing
- Pve Scenarios (PVE Battlegrounds)
- New PVP Battlegrounds
There was a host of other cool things, as I’ve slowly learn in 4.2. I simply am not a raider… I really hate the whole 10/25 man deal. I hate the whole you need to be on X number of days each week and be able to play for X hours on those days. Sure it kind of sucks that Raids will reward the best loot in the game. But then again they are adding Challenge Mode Dungeons which so far form what I gather are just time runs.
One thing that I kind of find cool about them is they are scaling your gear to match the dungeon. So lets say the Dungeon was made for ilvl 365 but your current gear is ilvl 391. When you enter, your gear will scale back down to be as if it was 365. I saw and read people complaining saying they didn’t want that. Most I know simply miss the point, the gear only is going to be scaled down if you enter to do a Challenge Mode Dungeon. If you enter say a normal one or heroic version, your gear wont change. Some people just get a kick out of being able to overpower a dungeon like bath in wrath. I personally feel like if what the dungeon drops is no longer useful to you other then just to DE and get the points at the end, you should be able to blast through it in less then 20mins. Making a person spend 30+ in a 5-man simply to get 120 valor points at the end is down right bad IMO.
Over the week as more information comes out I’m gonna be talking more about each new things, starting with the talent system. Mostly gonna focus on my hunter for now. I will tell you that just seeing what they have plan for it.. made me want to level ALL my characters to max level which I might do. The one thing I always hated about being max level on more then one character is, if you went to do a raid.. and they knew you had a toon that could tank or heal.. you sometimes get force to run on them.
Which is kind of the reason why I A) try to keep most of my toons in my own person guild so only really close friends know I have other toons. B) I don’t try to gear them more anything more then just PVP. The big annoying part of it now, is they made it so much about the whole guild leveling crap that it does kind of force you to be in a level 25 guild. And leveling your own personal guild is down right not happening. Unless you get a crap load of low levels in to level it for you and given them no bank access. (Something I might end up doing anyways soon again)
Below is the trailer for the new Expansion; do enjoy and more information will be posted soon about day 2 of Bizzcon later today as well as post on the new Pet Battle System the new talents and The new ways to get gear form questing, PVE bgs and Challenge mode as well as PVP.
Well for a few days now and on and off over the last 12 months I’ve been doing the WiiSports as my sort of go-to workout program. You can find all kinds of stuff online about it. That you can really lose some weight doing it. Well I’m trying really hard to lose weight now. I’m not playing around. However I weight a good 384lb (as of the last time I check). So going to the gym and doing any hardcore workout can be rather hard on me.
That is why I want to try and do something that will take me down at least to 320 where then I’ll feel like I’ve lost some good amount of weight where I can start doing some harder workouts. Do I believe WiiSports can replace any of those workout videos out there on the market? No not really. Can it be something to do that will lose weight? I’m not sure but it is rather fun.
For a good example; Form what I read the boxing is the #1 way to lose weight. I would have to agree, its really hard to do. Right now I’ve been doing the training, mostly the back punching because that can really give you a sweat. Which is what I need to do. My arms feel dead and I go for about 20-30mins on it as much as I can. You have to take into account you can’t simply keep going and going.. the game stops and you have to click through menus.
I’m thinking about getting the WiiFit I read about. It looks like its more design to help you lose weight and have fun while your doing it. I am also gonna think about getting the DDR for the Wii as well. I think dancing or at least giving that a try will really really help me lose. Dancing is a good way to lose weight.
My question to you, have you every try the WiiSports, WiiFit or DDR for the Wii to lose weight? Let me know and please leave a comment. Also if you want check my progress you can check the BlogRoll on the right and see my personal page on SparkPeople.com.