Voltron, Transformers, and WoW

[thistlechaser]

Voltron: It's strange to have so many TV channels that you not only don't know all you have, but you have channels that you never even knew existed. I found that I have a station called MYX TV (pronounced 'mix TV'). "Asian-American Music Entertainment & Lifestyle Network". They were showing the original Voltron movie (really just the first four eps), so I checked it out.

It held up surprisingly well. There were some bad/laughable parts (one of the voice actors was just awful, and the whole subplot about the talking super mice was silly), but all in all it was both good and interesting. The 'interesting' part came in in how often the characters prayed. Seems like nearly every ep they did! And it's funny how the idea of robot lions still seems really cool.

Transformers: More than meets-- no wait, wrong transformers. There is something highly odd going on in my neighborhood. For the sixth time since December, they have to shut our electric off for an entire day to replace a transformer. The first time they did it, I filled up a whole bunch of water bottles beforehand to put in the freezer to freeze to hopefully keep everything cold. The second time I somehow had fewer bottles. The third time, even fewer. Last time I was down to three bottles! I hope I have at least that many for this time. Darned electric company...

WoW: Dandelion the worgen druid hit 60. It's funny how WoW becomes a whole new game once you can fly. I barely had Stormwind's layout down, now I have to learn it all again from the air!

Either they made serious and major changes to questing or I've gotten better at it (or both). In previous characters, I could barely get one level finished before I was amazingly annoyed and disgusted with the whole thing. Now? I did 55-60 in one sitting, no rested XP, and it didn't even take all that long (two hours?). And best of all? Not counting my one trip into a PVP BG, I haven't died even once yet. (I think. I seem to remember a falling death, but I can't remember if it was Dandelion or not. Either way, falling doesn't count!)

I do wonder why they made Hellfire the first BC zone you go to. At 59.5 I poked my head in, thinking maybe I could do the first couple quests for easy XP, but I hated it. Hated every second of it. I scurried back out to vanilla lands to finish that last half-level easy-peazy. You'd think they'd pick a pretty, less Hellish zone (questing-wise) for a first experience.

Anyway, now that Dandelion can fly, I took up archaeology on him. I can't say I like it much, but it's good for a little XP here and there. Between that, fishing/cooking dailies, and herb picking, I'm going to get a couple levels before I go back to questing (if I ever do).

Bonus topic: little_details comm is so interesting! Writers go there to get answers to little questions. Everything from poisoning pumas with methanol to how one would address a nun in Spanish. I can't stop reading!

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[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

Bonus topic: [info]little_details comm is so interesting! Writers go there to get answers to little questions. Everything from poisoning pumas with methanol to how one would address a nun in Spanish. I can't stop reading!

HOLY CRAP. Thanks so much for posting this. I failed to bookmark it when someone linked it to me a long, long time ago, and I've been searching for it ever since. I do a lot of my own research for my characters and the various stupid things they get into, but Google just can't provide the more subjective or obscure details. This is my dream comm.

Fffffffffyes, thanks again.

(And apologies for the inbox spam. Still screwing up tags. Damnit.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad to have helped!

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

Hey, plasticchimera and I have started Worgen on WrA. :3 So perhaps we can run into you sometime... once we get out of the starting zone... whenever that will be...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay, that'd be great! I'm Dandelion and Thistle worgen/Alliance-wise. I haven't actually RPed Thistle yet because I can't decide on a personality...

And yeah, the starting zone takes forever!

[giftofarthas.livejournal.com]

Just be on the look out for Allsun and Maelkoth. (I think that's how he spelled it... I could be wrong!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Added you both to my friends list!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Speaking of WoW, your pic is done! Go see!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh my! EEEEE! Thank you so much, that's so cute!

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

My best friend and I have a running joke about that Voltron opening, because of the scene where the space mice skitter on the parapet and knock some rocks off, and Keith looks up and says, "Rocks!"

We believe that ONLY THE MOST BRILLIANT AND POWERFUL OF LEADERS COULD MAKE SUCH AN INCREDIBLE OBSERVATION.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

HA! *is dead* :D

Keith looks at Thistle and says, "Dead!"

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Maybe you didn't notice, but there was this whole big apocalypse and the world is totally different now. :P Yes, they changed the questing /extensively/, to the point where most of the zones don't even resemble what they did before. The only zone with virtually no changes other than removing some really stupid horrible summoning quests was Silithus.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh is THAT what happened! :P :D I've never leveled anything on Alliance side before, so I can't tell new from old! And the neutral zones I've been to (Badlands, Burning Steppes) were really similar (though I did miss doing the 'kill 60 coyotes' one, the wowhead comments on that were amusing 'I can't tell you where to find them, turn any direction and look and you'll see some').

Hmm, not only is it the Alliance/Horde difference, but this is the first time I've leveled only in EK. Usually I barely step foot in it! I'm going to try to get my other worgen to level in Kalimdor, if I can get there easily without moving my hearth from Stormwind (SW is where all the RP is!).

:D

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I haven't done them on Hordeside yet since the change, but even the zones you mentioned are 90-100% different Allianceside now. Quite a few zones seem to have a couple of old quests that are modified (10 of any crocolisk rather than 10 each of two or three specific kinds), but even then, it's just a few and they've been greatly improved. Drop rates have been as well, something that was greatly emphasized by my recent foray in Silithus. Took forever to get stupid twilight documents there with two different quests wanting ten each, but new quests generally have a 50% drop rate at worst (often 75-100%). They put in /3000/ new quests with this expansion, and less than 1000 of them were in the new zones (unless they're counting all the quests that are identical between the factions other than quest text, which I doubt).

At any rate, things are so improved now from 1-60 that it seems like you gain a level from scratching your nose. If you bother to continue leveling, you'll notice a huge change as you move into the now awful BC zones. BC was awesome right after Vanilla, was eh during Wrath, but now is just terrible. I keep getting characters to 60 and then leaving them because I can't bear to go through it yet again.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

At any rate, things are so improved now from 1-60 that it seems like you gain a level from scratching your nose. If you bother to continue leveling

Very very true.

At the moment I'm not questing, but I'm nearly 62 from fishing/cooking dailies, herbing/mining, and archaeology. I don't do much of any of those, but a little of everything adds up. In another level or two I might quest for a bit, just to get better armor so I don't get eaten when I step foot in Northrend.

I'm so torn when it comes to Northrend. I actually like questing there, which means I level faster, which means I leave Northrend faster. I won't turn XP off, I don't like it THAT much, but I hate that every time I level up there it's one step closer to being done with the area.

Oh well! Luckily my worgen are really just RP alts, so it doesn't matter too much how quickly they level. Dandelion needed flying for RP, but other than that it's all good.