Two More Things

So, there's been a lack of content as of late. A lot of this was due to the fact that I agreed to do the interview with Jasi and I didn't want to repeat what I said to him on this site as well. That being said, there's a lot of stuff we didn't talk about that's been on my mind, so expect some tangential topics over the next week.

And the second thing...

I've extended the teaser to include about 8 minutes of totally random clips all in the same style. Version 1 is currently being uploaded to filefront, it's 220 megs, pretty HQ. A medium quality will follow tomorrow. Streams will follow whenever I figure out how to use one of the free streaming sites that are still HQ. It's sort of in between a teaser and a video -- I'm not sure it's really a "PvP" video at all, it's most just chaos...

It's not really what I wanted to originally do, and the editing is a bit slacker. (There's a few pretty big fuckups LOL) But, I decided to make it out of clips I had lying around only about 12 hours ago, so suck a d, k?

This article will be updated with links as they come available.

FILEFRONT HQ

Vimeo (Terrible Quality)

Two Things

Okay, first of all:



Just watch the hunter, please. How can that not make you smile?

I've been convinced to render and upload what would have been the trailer to Raddy IV -- it's just a trailer with not much PvP and the editing is unfinished, but it's kind of neat and I probably will be going in a totally different direction for my next vid, so think of it as a stupid one off if you wish. It's kinda fun at least. I'll update this probably tomorrow morning with a download link; anyone know of any place that'll let me post streaming at high quality? It's a lot sexier in HQ. =\

Quick Link for Now: Filefront

Minor Site Updates

Going to update the layout a bit so that PvP Links point to independent sites while there's a separate sidebar for links to the Gameriot blogs I read/enjoy. I removed the super outdated stuff that's never updated anymore.

::cough::eks::cough

I've got some hardcore scheming going on for 2.4; I probably won't be playing any till patch hits, but should resume my normal regimen of mixing in theorycraft/strategy BS at least once a while after it hits. New 1TB HD installed for frapsing!

It seems like a lot of the initial excitement over the patch has faded; largely, I think that we all hoped for more extensive changes that never really came, but things have been undeniably shaken up a bit. Still seems likely to me that cleave teams have a few more weeks as the reigning FOTM, but I'm sort of anticipating a rise in 3DPS in 3s which should generally farm the cleave teams but lose to the previously popular drain/outlast setups. Also, someone explain to me why double rogue + AP mage isn't awesome. (No, I won't be running it, but still!)

P.S. Fuck David Schwimmer

Quick Question

If you could just log in to WoW, pick your char/class when you login and have default PvP gear and items available for all players exclusive to Arena, would you still play WoW? Take away everything MMO and just make it an arena game, would it be a game we'd want to play?

I'm not really sure. I'd like to be able to log in and play any class I want without going through the pain in the ass process of gearing up multiple characters to be arena ready. Want to try that stupid War/War/War/Dru/Dru team? No problem. But I still like the sense of having a 'main' that ties you to the community more strongly, can the two co-exist? I get that WoW is an MMO and it's not that type of game blah blah.

I know a lot of people will say WoW lacks the depth to be fun if played this way; I'm not really sure if it does or not. However the TTR experience has to at least make you think WoW could be fun, at least a little bit, if played this way. Being able to play a few games as a different character without investing hundreds of hours isn't so unreasonable, is it?

(I'm not asking for any game changes just talking GOD)

But It's Not Between Any Nets

Ready up, because I'm bringing it today. By it, I mean fire. As in the heat. With the bringing and the burning and the WTFISTHIS: "Raddy is a baller though. Even if he likes the one eye snake too much." - Darkeblue

Erroneous! What's too much anyways. To prove it to you, and the rest of the world, that I, Radikalus Maximus, am not obsessed with dicks, I'm going to defend my honor against Gameriot's recent slander without a single reference to penii.

Let me begin
by first briefly noting that Ming's repeated mentions of my personal RL
along with his repeated and contrasting commentary on the relevance of
real world success with WoW success makes somewhere between little
and no sense. Kind of like that sentence. But I think by now you might
be catching on to what I'm trying to
do here and this joke is
so terrible and obvious
but fuck, let's just say
that Ming won't see
this one coming.


Great success. I feel better now. Maybe a little too much better.

Truth is I haven't had much time for blogging as of late. The finance world has been pretty fucked up with the realization that the American economy is actually worth zero and the freaked-out-ness of the whole sitch (that's short for situation -- I'm a valley girl, suck a D) has stolen precious blogging time. True, I do still have time to read through pages and pages of Gameriot posts looking for mention of my name, but that's top priority. You never know when some random dude out there is going to gay you on the internet.

Getting gayed on the internet is no laughing matter. It means that somewhere, someone is laughing at you. They don't even know you. But they're motherfucking laughing. Not only that, but they're posting words to try to get other dudes* laughing as well. Pretty humiliating? I know.

* I say 'dudes' because there is still no hard evidence confirming women can or want to use the internet

You're probably thinking, or you fucking should be, How Do I Stop Myself From Getting Gayed on the Internet? Well, that's actually the title of my book, so you should go buy it. It's 69.99 after shipping. No, before shipping. Actually, it doesn't matter. There's a 69 joke in there. See what I just did there? It's important. And without further ado, here's my list of how to avoid getting gayed on the internet:

1. Wherever you frequent, there will be people who like to post jokes or silly messages. They do this to be funny, which in turn, will hopefully make people laugh and therefore like them. It's important that you post the exact same type of joke or message as these people as many times as you can. This will feel strange at first, but just go with it. Even if you don't understand the joke or phrase, just keep posting it. The forum community will quickly recognize that you are 'with-it' and will have no choice but to love you when they recognize you speak the same lingo.
2. Remember that even though you are just talking through the interwebs, there are real people behind computers. Fat people.
3. Sometimes you will read something on the internet that you don't understand or doesn't interest you. You must still respond; just repeat whatever the person above you said.
4. The following things are always cool: Cars, DJing, Sneakers, Watches, Jessica Alba, Clubbing, Winning. Try using one or more in a sentence with a lingo-word. See #1. Here's an example. So I was wearing some sneakers and a watch at this club last night in Vegas and I'm totally recking this other DJ in a battle when all of a sudden OMGODZBROSEPH Jessica Alba walks in.
5. Eventually, someone will type some words that are intended to insult and hurt you. Now many professionals in this field will give you lengthy discussions on how to deal with these internet confrontations. Charlattans and phonies every one of them. You can win any confrontation with two words: dicks bro*.

* Don't try to understand 'dicks bro' -- its power lies beyond our mortal comprehension

What happens if you just let yourself get gayed?

Well, if said gaying escalates too much, it moves from just getting gayed (with all that laughing and the words) to what I like to call getting schlappa'd. Once schlappa'd, you've got two options:

1. Kill Yourself. (Recommended)
2. Abandon your internet name and start with a new online 'handle'.

Strategy one is pretty straightforward and is the general all purpose solution I recommend for any life crisis. Low score on an exam? Girl turned you down on a date? Spilled a few Cheerios on the floor fixing your cereal? Eazy peazy. (Didn't 'fixing' sound all debonair and British!)

However, a lot of people, even after becoming schlappa'd, want to continue to participate in the community from which they've been recently ostracized. They know they can only blame themselves. They let themselves get gayed and, through negligence, let this gaying escalate. They think they can do better next time. A new name. A clean state.

Unfortunately, trying to start anew is generally doomed. People will eventually learn who you originally were, at which point, you're instantly back to schlappa status, or, they'll simply come to scorn and hate you again anyways. While no fancy scientist has determined how this complex behavior comes to exist in us humans, I have two theories:

1. Losers will always be losers. God hates you and made you to be ostracized.
2. You have downs.

I know, I know. You're thinking. "It's just not fair. My forum friends turned against me. And now, Radikal says that either God hates me or that I'm retarded. What should I do?"

I think you know. I think you know.

Assasinate

Fish so damn much that I master bait