Vhairi

While this site is largely devoted to words, most of which are either euphemisms for depraved sexual acts or just synonyms for penis, I can't deny that I've got a bit of a number fetish.



Moving on from that, I actually have been always mildly fascinated by arena statistics in WoW. Not just to make emo-whine posts about class balance either. If you recall, I'd occasionally manually dig up and post some remedial statistics on class representation with respect to bracket; Vhairi's work shits all over that. Check it out. Or notice the sidebar link.

No, I would not have added his site if Ming had been beating me in the poll. Are you satisfied now? YOU FUCKING JUDGMENTAL ASSHOLES. (Please vote for me)

I'm hoping that Vhairi can/will move from static posts of representation to dynamic charts that show how representation changes over time. It'd be pretty cool to notice paradigm shifts and theorycraft or bullshit about what caused them. Often, it's going to be class changes, but I bet we can pinpoint pretty big shifts to just a few players pimping new matrices and the corresponding emulation that inevitably follows after. It's pretty fucking shocking how quickly things can become flavor-of-the-month in WoW. In season 2, caster 4DPS went from rare to ubiquitous in a week. At the tail end, the same can be said for 2346. In season three, the same phenomenon was true for Euro comp. Certainly, there were some gameplay changes, but a lot of the trends in WoW are derived more from this innovation-emulation effect -- or so I think.

Tell Me, Why Are We

So blind to see
That the ones we hurt
Are you and me

I have no idea. It's all up in my head.

I've been trying to rinse it with Nas - The Cross on repeat the past hour. It's sort of working. <3 Atlas. (Ridicilous evil beat)

I haven't pimped any vids in a while, but if you actually care, check Shyou's vid. Noone3 is similarly pretty hot. Shyou has pretty wicked movement and it's pretty fun to watch. Seems like the ante has been upped a bit as of late in the whole fancy-BG-WE type vids.

I specced back to WE to do some ganking on The Isle and was frustrated at how mediocre I've become at playing WE well outside of arena (OR INSIDE LOL FUCK YOU HATERS). It's not exactly a demanding spec to play, but I'm not used to being proactive on cooldown use, as with 33/28 you have a lot of leniency in how/when you use CDs. Also, found mana problems to be pretty severe in sustained chains of fights, which is to some degree also true for 33/28, but not to quite the same extent. Either way, camping the intersection of the paths between Magister's Terrace and Greengill Coast is pretty satisfying and satisfies a little of the old school WoW ganking nostalgia.

I'd like to try WE with a haste setup; this has been suggested by a few people over the past few weeks, and I never thought it was terribly interesting, but I'm starting to second guess that initial reaction a bit. Dropping a fuckton of honor and gold to test it out isn't too appealing, so I think I'll let somebody else be the guinea pig; too bad there's no PTR up.

Tournament realm is still retarded fun. I wish I could play in the tournament more seriously, but I'm out of the country most of May. No, I'm not going to Ming's wedding. fuck you in the peehole. It is fucking fantastic to be able to play the race/class setup you desire whenever you want. The gear limitations are certainly better than the fuckshow that live has become, but even with S2 itemization, there's still some faggotry in how certain classes can gear themselves. HAI2U SS ROGUES.

By the way, Triple Rogue is the new FOTM. You just don't know it yet.

One More Aids

Okay, last one I promise. AIDSVERTISING.

Aids

Because this deserves a repost here:






Don't worry, I'm not getting political. You can see more of such stupidity @ aidsvertising. Basically, they rape a horse, then beat it, then kill it, then defibulate it back to life, then eat it, then vomit it back up, then beat the vomit into the soil of the earth, then plant oats in said soil, then feed those oats to new horses, and then restart the cycle of horse beating. Epic stupidity. Okay, that was big and not funny but I'm not going back now.

Besides, I was a Ron Paul fan. But The Poors keep trying to keep the white man down. Well, it could be worse -- I could be European.


Ignore the fact that the US dollar is worthless and even fucking Jehova (jay-z nubs) has been repping Euros. Okay, maybe it was Skateboard's idea. I'm a hustler baby, I just wanted you to know. It ain't where I been, it's where I'm 'bout to go. God, Pharrell should contemplate suicide. Yes, two R's and two L's. Please say Fair-L, not Fa-Real -- that shit is gayer than gay.

God this article is so educational. You can now spell Pharrell correctly and can see that Europe is bad unless you're a communist-hippie.

And please, these lows are hardly new.