Don't Get Up, You're Banned

Chances are, if you aren't currently banned, you will be soon. Otherwise, you're bad. Or lazy. We ran into some point buyers last night and had to actually stop queueing for fear of repercussions. I wasn't afraid personally. I fear nothing. Except loneliness. It's cold and dark without you. Damp. Reeks of urine. I can hear Adama's voice -- he's unhappy with me. I swear I did nothing wrong!

Regardless of your state of banned-ness, I bet you're excited for today's patch. The Scare Beast patch. The end of the no-hunter era. Or not, who knows. Too bad the instacast version didn't make it live. Kind of like, "Too bad I don't have syphilis." With season 4 items patched in, the season cannot be far off. A month, maybe? With Blizzcon set for October 10th, we can probably assume that the tournaments there will come at the new season's conclusion. Fives or threes? I'm betting they'll try fives again. Remember when I said that I thought you'd be excited about today's patch? That was sarcasm.

On the Blizzcon topic, I don't get what the point is this year. I would hope that WotLK will be well into it's Beta by October -- of course, Blizzard does miraculously disappoint with its lack of rapidity in accomplishing anything. Are they going to show off more SC2? Is the plan to begin promoting the retail release of WotLK while providing some more SC2 info before that beta starts? Diablo III? I don't really care. I'll go and blog and make fun of people. Because I need the attention. Because of the aforementioned loneliness.

Stormstrike has long been the battlegroup of Cleave. Season one, in fives, we had the highest number of high ranked double warrior teams. Season two saw similar double warrior success. Season three has tons of high ranked tripple melee teams in fives, and there's a significant number of double physical deeps in 3s. In BG5, we embrace the cleave. Can't kick or pummel a poly but think you still deserve to win? BG5 could be your new home. Right click and dream. I can't picture how cleave will become less dominant in the foreseeable future. With season four gear and weapons from the end bosses in Sunwell coming to an arena near you (well S4 weapons actually, not so much the Sunwell weapons), the future doesn't look bright for cloth. Hi2u warlocks and shadow priests. You like dying during intercept stun? OUTPLAYED. Haste gear will probably help a tiny bit, and RMP is generally strong against physical teams, so who knows what the end result will be.

For whoever was asking me via in-game mail how I used to spec for 33/28: Here. Sorry for the delay. ^^

FairKnight

Well, I'm back. Dubai was tall. Full of sort-of cute girls and bankers. With tie bars. Smashing Pumpkins was playing at every bar and club. And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues.

I spent more time in the air than on the ground. Quite literally. That's not some metaphor for being high. It's a simple statement about time spent. Too much flying. Not enough boozing. This isn't a travel fucking blog though so I'll go no further.

I'm not sure how many of you care or are aware that CNN has wisely decided to start printing T-Shirts with some of their headlines upon them. The shirts are pretty simple AA shirts; I'm still waiting for the "right" headline. Can't get mad -- it was on the news!* This one isn't bad though.

* I don't mean to imply that what's on CNN is, any fucking way, actual news. And that isn't some hippie anti-media bullshit; it's just how it is.

I wish my prom night involved hand cuffs. I actually didn't go to prom. Well, my prom at least. True story. No, it's not because I was fat. My whore girlfriend at the time broke up with me last second and I was too emo to find a replacement. Scarred for life.

Has anyone checked out Bai Ling's left nipple? Scary. NSFW if you aren't allowed to look at nipples at your job. Thank god I don't have your job. How's Nazi Germany working out for you?** Yes, she was already in playboy. Very stereotypically furry. Still, there's something about laser beam nipples.

I came back to read that all of my complaints about WoW PvP had been addressed. Into one class. The FairKnight. Yeah, that's right. I'm complaining about it already. Imagine the fucking cleave possibilities! In other WoW news, Ming-a-ling is supposed to be back. I can't wait for the GameRiot wedding night play-by-play.

I have not much else to say besides "Hi, I'm back now." So, "Hi, I'm back now."

Blizzcon in October?

I. Coke
II. Hookers
III. Hotel Room Poker

A) Only I
B) Only II
C) I and II
D) II and III
E) I, II, and III *

* Yes, I just put that comma before the and. I fucking do that shit, so what. Harvard comma like I know you love, bitch.

Oh, and I learned this:

321

It means retarded. Three chromosome twenty-ones. Win.

** I'm not saying that you are a Nazi -- I'm just comparing your distaste for nipples to that of a mammary-hating Nazi.