Beta's Beta's Beta's

Right now I am in three different beta's. To say that I am busy would be an understatement. I take beta's as priviledges to ensure quality releases for games I love, as well as getting a sneak peak before having to drop coin and buy a game.

I have been writing bug reports, and giving feedback as much a possible, all while trying to have fun.

Once the NDAs are up I'll post pictures.

Matron Down - Permafrost Server First

Last night we gathered and took down Matron in about two kills after the right folks logged on. We did have two new members last night as well and they made all the difference. Not to mention a World Wide 1st!!!!!11111 of FoH all being on Ventrilo.

WoW Expedition #3

I played in Beta WoW then EQ2 and ended up choosing EQ2. Since release after pretty much maxxing my EQ2 character we have given various games a try. We are back giving WoW try #3 this time just before The Burning Crusade. Today's MMOs simply don't take up all your time like EQ1 or FFXI did unless you make alts or attempt to do every quest in game or something like that. So here are my cleric, druid and rogue. (Please note how elite my rogue is).

The marked difference this time is that we are trying to play with friends. I know sometimes it doesn't work out but we have hooked up with our old friends from Paragon (Hi Julie, Lola, Butters and Baruach!) on our old FFXI server, Sylph. We are all playing on the PvP server Frostmane in League of Trouble. They are all uber 60's in AQ40 headed to Naxx and we are all newb, but so far everyone has been nice to us and helping us level and what not. (Thanks all for making us feel at home!)

Some Screens From the New PC

So now that I have the new PC I have been turning up the graphics fairly high on raids. I took all these in at least Balanced settings. (Keep in mind I forgot to turn up the screenshot quality.) Its a large improvement from the old box with regards to lighting etc. I'll try to take some on extreme quality as well, as the new rig can pretty much run around all of Norrath in that quality as long as I'm not on raids. Balanced is the new raid setting.

Tarique in all his glory!

Off topic

I am a good cook, and I would go so far as to say a great one...but I cannot compete with Tarique whatsover in the plating/creativity department. (Terrible photo skills not withstanding.)

I'm sorry Tarique, but if I cook its not gonna look like this!

Computer go ~*BOOM*~!

So in the last two months, all my precious hard drives and beautiful screenshots are now sitting on my desk. But now I have a really nice new PC:


Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz 4MB Cache 1066MHz FSB
Power Supply: 650 Watt Alienware® Multi-GPU Approved
Motherboard: Alienware® Approved NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Motherboard
Memory: 2GB DDR2 Performance SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Graphics Processor: 1024MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7950 GX2L

Sure its Alienware, sure its commercial, but I got it in ~2 weeks and didn't have any issues. I'm happy with my purchase. Next time I'll probably go to a more indie computer builder, but this was all definitely not planned.