Felmyst Down

Warning, geeky Warcraft-related post follows:

Reforged continues the assault on the Sunwell by downing Felmyst. I was unfortunately sitting out for this fight, so Mstree's not in the kill shot and I forgot note the loot that dropped (other than the druid boot token Kowchoo won ;) ).
My excitement came later in the night when we decided to go back to Black Temple and take down Illidan again, just for grins (thanks to another guild's ID, we didn't have to clear any other trash or bosses.)
Only one of our normal druid fireproof bear tanks was online, and two are needed, so I had to spend some of those badges I'd been saving for my new DPS staff and instead get some epic fire resist gear. For my 100 badges, I got the Inferno Hardened Boots, Chestguard, Gloves and Leggings. Together with some random FR pieces I already had, I was good to go.
Thankfully the fight was a one-shot. I don't ever want to be the guy that wipes a raid, and it's pretty easy to do that when tanking the Flames of Azzinoth in the Illidan encounter. Luckily I normally get to watch the fireproof bears do their thing up close and I got to watch as Navid learned the encounter a couple of weeks ago, so I was able to stumble my way through without noobing it up too badly.
So, long story short, I've already got my FR gear for the Eredar Twins fight, but now I need a few more badges before I can get the new weapon I've been saving up for.

Test of Email Blogger Posting

Sent from email to check out Blogger's Post by email feature. Including a picture and using the end statement to see how it works.

RIP Michael Turner

Sad news. One of my favorite comic book artists passed away this weekend. Michael Turner died of cancer at the age of 37. Tragic to think how many more fantastic covers/books he might have gone on to create.

I think he was best know for co-creating Witchblade and creating Fathom, but he also did so much work for both DC and Marvel that people that don't recognize his name would still probably be familiar with some of his work. In 2003 he founded his own company, Aspen Comics.

Comic Book Resources is reporting that anyone wishing to send their condolences to Michael Turner's family is encouraged to send them to:

Aspen MLT, Inc.
C/O Michael Turner
5855 Green Valley Circle, Suite 111
Culver City, CA, 90230

and anyone wishing to make a donation in Turner's name to his preferred charities can do so to either The American Cancer Society or the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Xbox Gamerscore Cheats reset to Zero

Major Nelson is reporting that they've caught a bunch of Gamerscore (the meta score for completing Xbox 360 games) cheaters and reset their Gamerscores to zero. Even better, they've put a note on their profiles labeling them as cheaters. I guess that StripClubDJ will be rerolling.



Of course the first thing I did when I read this was check my friends list to see if anyone had a new zero score, but apparently none of my friends are cheaters (or haven't been caught yet?)

Illidan Down - Game Over Insert Coin

I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but Reforged finally took down the final boss in World of Warcraft. Now we just have to kill him 50 or 60 more times to get everyone the loot they want off of him ;)

(Also, with today's 2.4 patch, he's not really the final boss anymore, but for a few fleeting days, we were actually done with Warcrack.)

The best thing about being a certified Illidan killer(tm) is the Blessed Medallion of Karabor that gives you another teleport back to Outlands.

Olivia Munn IS the Lesbionic Woman

Unopened rebate requests found in San Jose dumpster

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6814729

...I am staring at more than 1,300 rebate requests sent to Vastech on Bonaventura Drive in San Jose. The envelopes were tossed - unopened - into a garbage dumpster near Vastech. I have two boxes of envelopes that were thrown out without being processed. In all of my years of reporting, I have never encountered such outrageous behavior against consumers.

Come on, isn't that where we imagine EVERY rebate mail in request ends up? I hate mail in rebates and it's gotten to the point where I won't even figure them into the price of something I'm buying because half the time they never show up or get wrongly denied.

via Brian Cantoni