TV, WoW, plants, cat

[thistlechaser]

How fitting is that sign for my LJ? :P

TV: Confession time! I wasn't in love with the first season of Game of Thrones. Sure I watched it, I even sometimes looked forward to it, but at least once per ep I got bored in the middle of things. I have no idea why, I loved the books, but the show didn't hook me.

I'm happy to say, this season is different. I've been looking forward to the new eps ("Hey, tomorrow is Sunday, yay!"), and they seem to be over in the blink of an eye. Was I expecting less of the show this season, since I didn't really love it last season? Or is it actually better now? I'm not sure.

However, it's not my favorite show currently on TV. That honor goes to Korra. Seems like my entire friends list wrote about it this weekend, so I'll keep this brief: The show is perfect in every way. It's a children's cartoon, yet it treats the audience like an adult. Even just a few eps into the series, and it's endlessly cool and has had honestly creepy moments. So nicely mature.

WoW: I love you, Darkmoon Faire. I bought yet another Crimson Deathcharger yesterday (gotta catch 'em all?), so my money fell below a million again, which made me flail. Stupid, stupid brain, that's no reason to panic. The horses are an investment at this point. With account-bound mounts coming for sure in MoP, I expect the price of mounts to go through the roof (you're basically getting up to 10 of them for the price of one! Or is it across servers, too? Even more, if so!). I'm hoping to sell each of them for at least 500K, when MoP drops.

So anyway. DMF. I had about 300 quest items saved up. I was certain I would never move them all, I stopped buying about two weeks before the faire, but amazingly they're almost all gone now, on the first day. I have no idea how much money I made, but I bought them all for 20 gold or less (with a few exceptions, some of the rarest ones I bought for up to 50), I've sold them all for 50-200 (with the rare ones for 200-300). It boggles me, flat out boggles me, how many people do not buy these items ahead of time. But hey, I'm willing to take advantage of their lack of planning.

I think I need to start adding 'liquid' to my amounts, when I speak of my money: Liquid gold and goods. I easily have a million in mounts, pets, Lich King drops, mats, and other assorted things waiting to sell. (Or in the LK items, just holding onto.)

Plants: Alas, my basil went the way of tersa's. I brought it home, planted it, and right away the adult plants started to die. I saw younger ones were just growing leaves, so I thought maybe the young ones would replace the older ones, but as soon as the young ones got to adult size, they all fell over dead too. No idea why. I guess it just doesn't like growing in this area.

Everything else is growing well, though the poor sunflowers are running flat along the ground. They're still so small and thin, it's really hard to stake them up.

Ellie New Cat: I got her a new carrying case (case #4... sigh). But I finally got one she's not afraid of! As in she's willing to be in the same room with it without fleeing. So I've been working with her, putting her in it (without closing it), then giving her all the pats. It's backfiring though, I'm going too fast, now she's back to being afraid of being picked up by me. :/ Sigh. Poor kitty.

It's got to be hard for her. She wants to be brushed, she seems to very much like it, but she's afraid of both the brush and being in a position where I could easily keep hold of her. She's so clearly torn between wanting to be brushed and afraid.

I feel guilty, but even now, more than a year later, I think about how things would have been if I had gotten a different cat. I'm glad to have given Ellie a home, her foster mother said she wasn't happy living with so many other cats, but a loving, not scared cat would be so nice. I know she's made lightyears of progress, and she'll still keep improving, but... :/

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I'm a little skeptical of this claim, to be honest. The big mount and pet collectors have already been working at this for months and are about done. If anything, the prices might very well go down since people won't feel the need to get the mounts and pets on their alts (I only ever do this stuff on my main, but I know people that do it on 5-10 characters).

Extremely difficult to get mounts and pets like stuff from the TCG? Yeah, I'm sure those are going to go up. Stuff that anyone can get with very little effort? Doubtful. I've got 700 tickets between my alts just from turning in Soothsayer's Runes and doing profession quests most months because it's so easy and I can't figure out what to do with them (since it's pointless to buy multiple versions of the pets and mounts!).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The big mount and pet collectors have already been working at this for months and are about done.

Except the new/returning players who are coming back for MoP. I suspect the new/newly returning people will balance out those who are just finishing up, if not outnumber them.

I've got 700 tickets between my alts just from turning in Soothsayer's Runes

I wish I had thought about turning those in myself. They sold for as low as 4 gold each in past months (this month they're in the 20s). I'm so outside of all parts of the game other than the AH, I sometimes forget all these items have actual use. I know that sounds odd, but I spend probably 98% of my time on WoW in the Dalaran engineering room AH.

[priestpluswolf.livejournal.com]

You vastly underestimate the laziness of even determined pet collectors. It's the end of the expansion and there's a lot of burnout going around. I know an alarming amount of people who've put their accounts on hold til MoP, and some of them are the aforementioned collectors. You might have farmed everything enough to get 700 tickets, but I doubt you're the average player.

Nothing's guaranteed of course - but I suspect, like the occasional BoE mount you can get, the prices are going to rise, and significantly, for the first month or two of MoP as people try to fill out their lists ASAP.