Homeland of the week

[thistlechaser]

I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!

That was my first reaction, anyway. I knew Brody wasn't a terrorist! HA! Unfortunately I don't believe this is the end of things, I think it could still swing back the other way. But for a moment I sure did have that 'I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG! NO ONE ELSE BELIEVED ME! HA!' feeling.

It's funny, this ep almost makes me feel the other way now, that he really might be a terrorist. It feel like it fits more now. I understand that he feels he's not a hero, but people often have something in them that they don't know about. Kindness in a time of great pain and stress can be soul-shaping thing, now I can understand how the connection was made. I mean, I suppose I should have before, we got clips of the terrorist guy holding/patting his head and such, but hearing it in his own words now...

I feel so strange, I'm always feeling the opposite of how the show wants us to. Everyone was convinced that Brody was a terrorist, but I thought he wasn't. Now the show tells us that he's not one, and NOW I start suspecting he is. (Maybe I need to join the CIA, maybe I have a nose for this! :P Ha!)



Arg, no Walking Dead for me! My copy is just audio, no video. D:

WoW yesterday was a quiet day. Reed and Clove both got to 26 (5 levels for Reed, 1 for Clove, both done with one instance). It's strange leveling two alts at once, generally I focus on only one until they're done, then move on to the next.

I'm liking playing a paladin more and more. When I'm bad and play Let's Turn The Mob From The Tank*, there's no penalty -- I don't have to wait and hope the healer notices me, I can heal myself just fine. Tank drops from the group? I can take over. (Tanking is scary, frantic fun!) Heals out of mana? Well hello there, would you like me to help out?

(* I'm not serious, that's not a game I play. I know it's best to let tanks tank, the needs of the group always come before the amusement of any one person. But sometimes as I'm going through my rotation a mob will turn towards me, and it makes me smile.)

Other than that, had some RP and did a crapton of busywork. My AH work expands to fill what free time I have. There's always something to make, always more things to sell than I have time to deal with. I still dabble in flipping, but I continue to not like it that much. I bought some level 60 Darkmoon card for 20 gold (1% of usual cost, my addon told me), but it took forever to sell. Eventually it moved for 160, which was good even with the 3 gold/24 hour listing fee. Problem is, the addon is easily fooled as to what the value of an item really is.

I still kick myself for passing up on the 2 42K crimson deathchargers. I still kick myself for buying the magic rooster to flip. When it comes to judging myself, clearly I can't win! :P (I really should have bought the horses though...)

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Man, I was about to go into my "This is why tanking is so hard! It's because of people like YOU!" rant but I suppose that won't be necessary in this case. Just don't let it become a habit or else...

Plus at low level pretty much any class that can tank in some fashion can tank in dungeons. Especially with heirlooms.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I learned my lesson on that in FFXI. I think I make up for my occasional failings on being good with aggro in other ways though! Like I always stick with the tank, always behind them, so I won't pull things even by mistake. And if the healer stops and sits, I wait with them!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I guess I'll forgive you this time.

Ya, the accidentally pulling things is another one of my peeves. Eventually though I realized that the people who continually "accidentally" pull tend to go straight into a group after they get aggro. The rest of the group are usually behind me. I just take a couple steps back and be ready to grab threat on everything after it's done killing the other guy who wanted to pull.

It's astounding how many people can't manage threat in WoW. I mean, if you didn't have stuff like Omen or the ability to make the screen turn red and flash when you get close to pull threat then I could understand it. But you have those options, so it just boggles the mind.

Bad enough I still have to explain how hate works in XI to people who have been playing for 8 years o.O

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I mean, if you didn't have stuff like Omen or the ability to make the screen turn red and flash when you get close to pull threat then I could understand it.

It boggles me how many people not only don't use addons, but are anti-addon. Why? Especially for something like that?

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

I thought that tanking looked hard because everyone seems to blame everything either on you or on the healer.

The healer and the tank, however, blame everything on me, as near as I can tell. All I can say is, if I tell you I have NEVER done this dungeon, I mean it.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Tanking is one of those things were it's easy and relaxing if everyone else is doing their jobs (DPS not taking threat, healers healing right) but gets ridiculously frustrating when you get DPS who just steal threat all the time and healers who just can't heal.

Not talking about DPS who like to press the threat line, they are fine. Even fun because it means that if I improve my tanking their DPS will increase even more. Plus a challenge is always nice and it makes me preform a bit better then normal. Also important to know when a healer isn't healing well because they suck, are having an off day, DPS are standing in shit, or they are simply undergeared.

I generally try not to blame anyone out loud but I always keep an internal list of shit other people are doing wrong just in case they want to try and call me on things that aren't my fault.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

play Let's Turn The Mob From The Tank

Someone played FFXI :P. I still have trouble with the MMO crap because of that - I'm used to what is a comparatively dynamic combat system. Most games with Tank/DD/Heal formula stays that way. FFXI was the first I played where no, sometimes you want to bounce hate, and you want the mob to turn so someone can turn it back to the tank with bonus hate, etc etc...WoW combat always felt mindless.

I bought some level 60 Darkmoon card
Wow! Something I actually know! My warlock main had inscription, and most of my money was made on those! Although my AH PvP foo is quite weak. I did pretty well in EVE b/c I'd be making a run to a hub system to buy crafting materials...and it seemed silly to not take a load of stuff to sell once I'm there, so I found stuff that i could buy at home & sell @ hub for a significant profit. The time factor is what always screws me. I want thing to sell NOW, even if I don't make as much profit as I could. Which is bizarre as all hell - I'm a swing trader for RL income aside from my salary job. I made my 100% of salary in trading income, and will be about the same this year (effectively doubling my income for 2 years). I have no problem buying and waiting. I just can't do it in a game though.

Methinks Thistle needs to gather up $5k and look into the stock market.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

. FFXI was the first I played where no, sometimes you want to bounce hate, and you want the mob to turn so someone can turn it back to the tank with bonus hate, etc etc..

I miss so much about FFXI. I still think of WoW tanking as blood tanking. Not that shadow tanking would be hard in WoW, there would be addons to deal with it for you. :/

I have no problem buying and waiting. I just can't do it in a game though.
Methinks Thistle needs to gather up $5k and look into the stock market.

We're opposites! I could never do this stuff RL. I wouldn't want to. I find playing with and making RL money boring. I want enough to feed my cat and I and keep a roof over our heads. But in game? I can be ruthless!