Archive | January, 2010

[WoW] Pug pug pugging pug…

Posted on January 27, 2010 in Adventures in Azeroth (and other worlds)

Patch 3.3 brought us the automatic dungeon finder, and we saw it was good.

The dungeon instances are my most favourite things in World of Warcraft. Five people against the nasty enemies? Sign me up! So it comes to no surprise that the dungeon finder added in patch 3.3 has a very special place in my dark little heart.

Now, my main is a beastmaster orc huntress 1, so I have to wait for a bit to play with her, although that’s nothing that can’t be solved by slaughtering the native wildlife or some zealots on behalf of a quest giver or something.  But all my alts (but for one rarely played exception) are low level tanks or healers.

Dungeon finder + tank/healer shortage = BAMF instant dungeon! It’s the BESTEST THING EVAR.

…

Yeah. Unfortionally I now know WHY there’s a tank and healer shortage.

People are ideots.

It’s the tanks and healers that have to save their asses from their own stupidity. Hence, this new category.

Footnotes:

  1. myam. The orc gals are musclebound women! With abs! And I can tame all kind of kitties to chew other peoples faces off! Oh Blizzard, I love you! ↩
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Dear Traces of Chaos,

Posted on January 20, 2010 in On Traces of Chaos

I’m afraid this is our last chance together.

If you aren’t up and running and most importantly *reliable updating* till mid June this year, we two are going to divorce. Yes, Traces of Chaos, I love you. You are beautiful. Witty. And in many ways exactly what I’ve been looking for all my life. And yet I can’t stand our current situation anymore.

I know I have my faults. I’m flaky, easily distracted and I often don’t pay enough attention to you. That’s why I’m working on myself, and that’s why I installed the rule to draw every damn day. And I’m pretty good at keeping it, even if it’s not always you that I draw. And yes,  I’m not the ideal artist for you. Yes. You’re not the ideal story for me. You despair at my inability to draw non-swooshy technical stuff, I despair at your desire to be a worlds-spanning epic. Yet I’m still commited to you. How many ideal pairs do you know? I still believe we can make this work, together. I still believe in *us*.

So, dear Traces of Chaos, please stop acting so passive-agressive! Let me work; let the muse do it’s magic and you will grow into something great. I love you and I can’t stand the thought that we continue to hurt each other like that. We both are unhappy right now. So this situation has to change, even if it means you have to look for another author. And I for another story. Either way, I wish you the best.

Thank you for listening,

Your author.

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Note to self and all other artists out there.

Posted on January 19, 2010 in On Words and Pictures

Yes, my dears, if you find the time to make that page juuuuust right… then you SPENT WAY TO MUCH TIME ON IT.

One would think I’d have learned that by now. Stupid perfectionismn.

Remember, production, not perfection! Nobody’s gonna read or view something that never got done.

*mutter*

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Screw bilingual blogging.

Posted on January 14, 2010 in Administrativa

I like writing. I like blogging.

But I dislike translating.

So I won’t.

Novel concept, hm? Stop laughing, it’s at least novel to me.

Having to translate a post from one language into the other is the biggest time drain, but until now I always felt I kind of had to have a German version. Why? I don’t know. Propably perfectionism. Either way, having to write two versions of the same post is the main reason I post so rarely.

Well, Traces of Chaos will stay bilingual, simply because because the story and dialoge is written in German – and I like having a German translation around. But here in the blog? It doesn’t matter. I doubt I have a single reader who does not understand English. I might revise this decision later, but for now I’ll blog in English only.

But in other news? I have a much wider choice in blog templates now!

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