Tuesday Afternoon TAinutia: Screw you, naming convention.

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So, yeah, it's not Monday Morning, but there is still a bit of minutia to be had.  So, here we go:

• This week, the Dragon Soul buff goes to 20%.  We killed Morchok the first week of 10%, and Ultraxion the first week of 15%, so why not kill a new boss this week, eh?


• It's Children's Week, which means people everywhere are hating the School of Hard Knocks.  If you'd like to see my official stance on the achievement, feel free to check out this old post:
  http://www.thecunninglinguists.net/blog/2010/05/09/achievemental-school-of-hard-knocks


• Don't feel like reading a long diatribe?  Instead, Cutaia wrote a song about School of Hard Knocks.  You can listen to that here:
  http://music.cutaia.net/cl/03longstrangetrip.mp3
  (Lyrics can be found here:
  http://music.cutaia.net/cl_files/lyrics/longstrange.php)

See you next Monday morning...or evening...or Wednesday, or I don't fucking know.

Posted 5.01.11

Monday Morning Minutia: Cut and Miyoko Make a Podcast

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There's not a whole lot to report about in-game this week.  We did Firelands last night and did Death from Above, which was hectic, but pretty fun.  We're still 2/8 heroic in Dragon Soul, as well, but cleared that fairly handily on Thursday.  This is probably going to be the last week of Dragon Soul at 15% nerf, so we'll see if we can down another boss, but if not, it should theoretically get even easier soon.

That's enough about WoW...let's get to the important information:

Miyoko and I have finally followed through with our plan to create a weekly podcast.  Saturday night we recorded it, and it is now approved on iTunes.  It can be found here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/untitled-podcast-project/id519524186

It's a bit rough around the edges, of course, but overall I'm proud of it.  I think we did a decent enough job for our first go at it.  So, feel free to support your guildies, subscribe to our podcast and rate it 5 stars, or you're kicked out of the guild and we would really appreciate it.

Posted 4.16.11

Wednesday Worning Winutia?

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So, you guys want a chart, eh?  Well, here!  Here's your chart!  I see that's all I'm good for in your minds.  Next up I'll make a chart of how you guys make me feel.  It'll look like a broken heart, jerks.  (Click for full-size.)

Anyway, this chart also has a little dashed line showing what it will look like if when we kill a new boss this week.

Speaking of killing new bosses.  I've been thinking...since Yor'sahj is just not going very well for us (we generally wipe somewhere between 75-80%), perhaps we should consider attempting a new boss between Morchok and Ultraxion tomorrow.

Warlord Zon'ozz seems like it could be a decent fit for us, so I'll throw some tips together and put them on the forum at some point today.  Technically, Yor'sahj is supposed to be the easier fight -- more guild's have killed him than have killed Ultraxion -- and is supposed to require less gear, but the same could have been said about Beth'tilac back in the day and we still wiped on her week after week when Baleroc would have suited our strengths much better.

So, let's get a good heroic group together tomorrow and see what we can do.

Edit:  Also, check out some ideas for finishing up the 2 Dragon Soul achievements we haven't gotten yet.

Posted 4.04.11

Fun with MS Paint: Cutaia's Red Panda Silhouette Concept

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In order to get us all up in a tizzy for the next 7 days, Blizzard released what is sure to be only the first of a series of Mists of Pandaria teasers.  The silhouette for the female pandaran model can now be seen over at MMO-Champion.

But what is a silhouette?  A miserable little pile of secrets!

So, let's ruin the mystique and slap a little color on this bitch, eh?  I've provided my own version based on the coloring of a red panda:



Got your own version? Send it on over to cutaia@thecunninglinguists.net and we'll get a little gallery put together.

Posted 3.12.11