2008 July

Omnitech Flexible Keyboard [Review]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Not Posting Enough

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Look forward to tomorrow, I should have some kind of content for you!
Sorry I have not been feeling well that past two weeks.

Jumping Ship

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Yes I am finally going to jump ship. I wanted a Wii for a long time and the only thing that stopped me is I didn’t want to line camp to get one. Now I am at a point where I don’t want a Wii anymore cause it only has two games I want to play and then here comes Wii Music plus the fact that Nintendo says they will not be feeding us Core Gamers anymore. I am done, I am no longer going to be part of the Nintendo Club.

On top of that for a long time I watched the 360 but everything boils down to the fact that I hate Microsoft and don’t like having a reason to deal with them for any reason. Wait… that means I’ll have to join and be a Sony Fan-boy? Since I already have started to jump ship in other places, *cough* I use a Mac now *cough*, why should I not do some more.

Thanks E3 now I know who’s club to join.

Retro?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Retro, not as in the website, but soon the podcast will be retro. When we start recording again, and I will not record without a co-host cause I am boring. We will talking about games of the past but not limited to. I was pretty ill last week and efforts on the website were put on tottal hold as you might have noticed I have not posted since Wednesday. However I ended up playing a while bunch of old games while I was covered in my blaket in my room while not feeling well. So I got the classic gaming flu.

Check out my Playlist to see what I am currently playing.

World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.3

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

General

Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.

Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.

Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!

Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.

Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.

Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.

Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter, and tiny sporebat.

Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.

Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.

Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.

When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Co-Host

Monday, July 14th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

I was hoping to have a co-host for the podcast already today. Though he hasn’t answered his phone at all so I don’t know what is going to happen. I’ve been keeping an eye on the E3 coverage and waiting for some amazing news, though I am happy with what I’ve heard so far. Some FF13 news, new Wii-mote addon, Fallout 3 Tech Demo.

I wonder if I can make it to the bank before it closes.

If I cannot find a co-host for the podcast today there will be none.

Up To Something

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

I’ve been a little busy recently. More so that I’ve been doing other things. One of those things has been organizing things in my life and getting other things setup up. Yes, I will be continuing everything here shortly as I get a few glitches out of my podcast and my art slash website setup I got here.

Here is a little clue of what I am doing.

Fly With Missing Laptop Air

Monday, July 7th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

10,000 missing laptops a day. What runs through your mind when you hear that? What ran through my mind is, anything that would cause that many missing laptops a day is something I won’t be doing any time soon.

If you plan to fly on an airplane I would handcuff your laptop to you. I don’t fly that often and now I want to fly even less. I can deal with the extra security and the rectal searches but you tell me there is a 2% chance I may never see my laptop again and I’ll turn right around and walk where I need to be.

According to the Ponemon Institute, more than 10,000 laptops are reported lost at the 36 largest airports in the US each week and, of those, 65 percent are not reclaimed. They also reported a further 2,000 laptops lost at medium-sized airports, with 69 percent of those not reclaimed.

Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airports each week - Engadget

Excellent Weekend

Monday, July 7th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

I hope you all enjoyed your 4th. I was busy since I got home on Friday with various things. First of all was finally fixing my computer! Yes I learned a lot about Journaled Case Sensitive and Time Machine and I love Time Machine even more now. Even though I now have to redo all my work for GarageBand for my podcasts, figures that would be the only file I did not back up.

You would of though with all that time I would of been able to get one photo of fireworks. Nope I didn’t bring my camera with me anywhere cause of the amount of rum I was equipped with on my journey on the 4th. No accidents to my baby.

My next move is to install XP back on my computer, and not to download any more viruses.

Planing on writing a review for Elfen Lied once I get my missed news tamed, I still have at least 130 items still to review.

Let There Be Light

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

Follow up to the post Diablo III Not Dark Enough? over at MTV Muliplayer they received a response to the petition directed towards the new art style in Diablo III.

So this is what Lee had to say about the art direction when we spoke in Paris: “One of the things that we considered when we were working on the visuals for ‘Diablo III’ is the fact that color is your friend. We feel that color actually helps to create a lot of highlights in the game so that there is contrast. A great analogy is like in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — not everything is dark. It allows you to see what a creepy dungeon can be like but if everything is dark it doesn’t allow you to have a lot of contrast.”