World of Warcraft/Matrix joke

Tigole – The first raid I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. An unending triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of progression is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying epic-ness of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the need for subscribers. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of marine life.

Raider – Ghostcrawler.

Tigole – Please. As I was saying, he stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted raiding, as long as they were given a difficulty choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at the zone in. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory term “easy progression”, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused to do hard modes, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.

Raider – This is about achievements.

Tigole – You are here because the proto-drake is about to be removed. Its every user immortalized, its means of acquisition eradicated.

Raider – Bull@@!#.

Tigole – Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the second time we have removed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

Tigole – The function of the raider is to return to the zone-in, allowing a temporary dissemination of the epics you carry, disbanding your guild. After which you will be required to select from the server 24 individuals to sign a guild charter. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing every raider on the server, which coupled with the extermination of raiding will ultimately result in the extinction of World of Warcraft.

Raider – You won’t let it happen, you can’t. You need human beings to subscribe.

Tigole – There are levels of subscription we are prepared to accept.

Counter-Strike 1.6 voice commands.

Radio Responses/Reports
Name (RADIO): Roger that.
Name (RADIO): Enemy spotted.
Name (RADIO): Need backup.
Name (RADIO): Sector clear.
Name (RADIO): I’m in position.
Name (RADIO): Reporting in.
Name (RADIO): Get out of there, it’s gonna blow!
Name (RADIO): Negative.
Name (RADIO): Enemy down.

Radio Group Commands
Name (RADIO): Go go go!
Name (RADIO): Team, fall back!
Name (RADIO): Stick together, team.
Name (RADIO): Get in position and wait for my go.
Name (RADIO): Storm the Front!
Name (RADIO): Report in, team.

Radio Commands
Name (RADIO): Cover me!
Name (RADIO): You Take the Point.
Name (RADIO): Hold This Position.
Name (RADIO): Regroup Team.
Name (RADIO): Follow Me.
Name (RADIO): Taking Fire…Need Assistance!

World of Warcraft smart mount macro

I was unsatisfied with my complicated smart mount macro; one that would mount me on my flying mount if possible, and my ground mount if not.
I discovered something immensely simple that seems to work great. For example:

/cast Swift Blue Gryphon
/cast Swift Yellow Mechanostrider

You can use any mounts, as long as the flying mount is first. Of course you do get an error message when you use the macro, but it doesn’t bother me and doesn’t cause any problems.

World of Warcraft test realm madness

So you’re trying to buy emblems of triumph from Usuri Brightcoin in Dalaran but can’t because people are spamming it.

Bind “interact with target” to a key, or shift+v and right click her name.
Then use this macro since you’ll probably get “That object is busy”:

/script local function buy (n,q) for i=1,100 do if n==GetMerchantItemInfo(i) then BuyMerchantItem(i,q) end end end buy("Emblem of Triumph",1000)

Also you can use a simpler one

/script BuyMerchantItem(4, 250)

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Eddie “fixes” his guitar

 

Web browser character encoding priority

Note: Most people are not affected by this. On Firefox 3 and IE7 I noticed a strange behavior. This isn’t exactly a bug, but it would be wise for web browser designers to look in to. The HTTP character set headers take priority over the HTML meta http-equiv pseudo headers. Continue reading ‘Web browser character encoding priority’ »

GameSurge proxy G-Line

Today I tried to log onto the GameSurge IRC server to get a scrim for Counter-Strike. When I logged on, however, I was greeted with a one hour G-Line (Global ban) for having an open proxy server. I have a web server but no proxy server. Continue reading ‘GameSurge proxy G-Line’ »

Vuze isn’t evil.

Some people might think that Azureus has “sold out”. In reality, the entire program is still open source. The new Vuze UI is completely optional. Continue reading ‘Vuze isn’t evil.’ »

Valve’s Portal

Portal is a first person action puzzle game. If you haven’t already seen the trailer, here’s a link. Most things about the game are positive. The story, the characters, the concept, the portal gun, the seamless portals, the puzzles, the music, and the creepiness are great. Continue reading ‘Valve’s Portal’ »