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Irradiated by LabRat
*peers* Are you there? We’re not. Blizzcon started today. We’re alternately playing with Tank*, eating popcorn, and making fun of Chris Metzen.
So here’s someone else’s snark to fill your time:
A: What do you think of Ron Paul’s budget plan to gut all research?
B: We’ve all played Civ IV. Sure, you’re strapped for cash now, but cutting back will kill your tech tree, and the next thing you know “China has completed Space Ship Stasis Chamber” and Julius Caesar is trying to eat your face.
New blogger, old friend. Not much there yet but there will be.
*One of the things that cemented his name was friend and guildmate Vertel commenting, on hearing of the wasp attack, “Bear tanks with his FACE. …. Actually that kinda works.” He always has resembled a polar bear cub more than anything else…
October 22nd, 2011 at 10:44 am
Durid Bares R 4 tank.
October 22nd, 2011 at 10:53 am
He always has resembled a polar bear cub more than anything else…
Maybe there was a mix-up in the gene pool and he really is.
Won’t that be a tremendous surprise some day!
October 22nd, 2011 at 5:30 pm
perlhaqr: Now I have this image of Stingray driving along a highway outside Los Alamos, passing a cyclist on the shoulder, and *CHOMP* a polar bear head darts out of the passenger-side window and the cyclist’s torso disappears.
October 22nd, 2011 at 7:29 pm
“…and they say that as the truck went on down the highway, among the screams of the other cyclists, a voice was heard jubilantly saying ‘Good Tank! Good boy! Who’s a good Tank?'”
October 22nd, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I thought it was those female dwarf hunters that were supposed to be killing tards with bears and guns ….
October 23rd, 2011 at 9:11 am
He DOES look like a polar bear cub. He’s a lovely boy!
October 23rd, 2011 at 9:45 am
So does this mean we get to hear Pandaren snark from you?
October 23rd, 2011 at 11:02 am
The only snark I have on Pandaren is on the people who think that, after years of cow-people, Carribean voodoo trolls, gnomes in general, werewolves, goblins period, murlocs, chicken emotes, and a super-intelligent raptor that ends the quest line by building a rocket and colonizing space, that pandas mean WoW has become silly… yeah. Just yeah. Game’s been as silly as serious since launch, people.
The only additional snark I will have is if they attempt to make the Pandaren women as skinny and lithe as the Worgen women. That would just be fucking stupid.
October 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Thanks for the shout out!
(And some day I will find a less cumbersome handle.)
October 23rd, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Wait….I’ve been out of the WoW loop for about 6 months now due to lack of funds to fund the addiction. What’s going on with the Pandaren?
October 24th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Robert: The next expansion adds a panda race that appeared as an april fools joke one in one of the original warcraft games.
Nothing about new content was mentioned, just pandas.
I do hope they have some content besides another race for the furries.
October 24th, 2011 at 11:24 am
No new content besides new continent, raids, dungeons, class, and two new types of valor-granting PvE, anyway.
October 24th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
My issue with the Pandaren is not that they are being brought in. Originally they were supposed to be used in BC, however the Chinese government pitched a bitch fit at the thought of drunken samurai pandas and so pretty much Blizzards entire storyline and models for the Pandaren had to be scrapped. The Draenei were then whipped into place, either because they didn’t have anything else and made them up on the fly or because they were meant to be a plot race to get lore behind them and possibly used as a player race in the future. Instead we get Kung Fu Pandaren, with an utterly uninteresting setting which was apparently untouched by Deathwing(Pandaria is just another Continent right? I’m not quite sure about that part.).
October 25th, 2011 at 4:58 am
…that pandas mean WoW has become silly
Now, I don’t cotton to all this magepunk stuff the kids are into these days. I like my fantasy low and my high fantasy Tolkienian, the day TSR stopped using Keith Parkinson for their covers was the day my childhood died, get off my lawn, etc.
…
But Caribbean voodoo trolls sound _awesome_.
October 25th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Parkinson? Wow! There’s a name that brings up a lot of old memories. Like a half-elf fighter/mage with a pseudo dragon familiar that once adorned a prized copy of Dragon magazine. Bore a passing resemblance to Stevie Nicks.
Not that I ever spent a lot of time studying it closely, mind you…
October 25th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
The continent is just the Pandaran starting area.
No more significant that the Goblin or DK starting area, since you can’t visit it as a non-race member. And the Monk class is Pandaran only.
The raids and five mans might keep some interest, I hope.
October 25th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Uh, no. Pandaria, outside of the Wandering Isle, is its own new continent. They showed a map of each new zone at Blizzcon. And the Monk class isn’t Pandaren only, most of the Horde and Alliance races will be able to play it.
Dude, look at the official previews before you trash it.
October 25th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I wasn’t aware of the official preview on blizz’s site. Just saw bits and pieces on wowhead.
I’ll assume the new continent is where the 85-90th level content will be.
I was still hoping for Emerald Dream content. The Pandaren were still not exactly a major ( or even a minor ) player in the original work. Oh well, we’ll see how it turns out. ( I will be surprised if they are able to release this in China. )
And what is it with the pokemon ripoff?
October 26th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Ravenshrike: That would explain much.
If the work to add them as a player race has been done already, and their starting zone is already finished and in the can, then doing so would save them a bundle on development costs.
And the PRC’s actions re WoTLK showed them that Blizz market share in China can survive PRC snottiness about releasing new content.