Daily Blogg: Writing for Blizz? (update)

Oh well it was a nice little dream while i had it...

Looks like it was merely a "permission to publish" email asking me to sign over certain publish rites so that it could go in both the new WoW magizine some time in the future and on the website archive after the initial publishing. So no its not a big break and with so many rites signed over as far as use of intelectual property go's the only recognition i will get is as a website contributer and to see my work published on an officially registered Blizz website.

Links will follow on this Blogg as soon as its published so you can all enjoy my ramblings.

Gotta admit to being a tad miffed at them raising my hopes up like that but meh what can you do.

Daily Blogg: Writing for Blizz?

So this may or may not peak your curiosity but it appears i have solicited some interest in Blizz as far as my writing is concerned.
Im not going to blow my own horn but I am presently waiting for a piece of email regarding a short story i threw together for there mock news paper 'The Gadgetzan Times' that brings the somewhat controversial task of name, class & race change into the lore of the game and could potential open up a massive world to Role Play (RP) gamers in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.

Well heres hopeing anyway.
Who knows i may even get some recognition out of this....doubt it though...

Daily Blogg: The monolith has landed

Seven weeks, three days, eleven hours and a quick trip to the local post office and I have FINALLY got my XBOX back...

...well kinda...

I got a shiny new Elite, a black behemoth, a noir nemesis to the PC and PS3 and i gotta tell you, it was worth every damn penny for the upgrade.
So what does this all mean? Well im back on XBL and im playing with my shiny new toy, which in turn mean im neglecting my WoW toons a little for the next couple of days while i attempt to regain & remake some of my now lost XBOX saves while downloading the truly epic amount of downloaded content to the new console (about 16gigs of DLC ) as well as breaking in my shiny new black pad.

So not too interesting i know but thats what im doing.

see you on live folks!

Daily Blogg: Random Poetry time

a little random poetry just because i can...



War on terror?

Whispered voices call shadows from shallow places,
reeking stench of a thousand fettered heaps hum in the wind,
broken voices sing in chorus calling for peace,
deaf ears turn in mumbled silence to a indignant state,

How many times will we be ignored,
our sons and daughters trained for slaughter,
soaked in black gore spewed from an unyielding desert,
sand blasted as they fight for a government that does not care,

Politics and business demand there pound of flesh,
corrupting our world for greed,
gold and favours pass in darkness,
over the mouldering corpses of a dead generation,
as there souls lay twisted in the wreckage of a rich mans wallet.


hope you enjoy my work.

Daily Blogg: Work...still kinda sucks

So im off to do a little freelance work for the Official Xbox magazine's advertising department so that the "real" writers can deal with the Christmas glut of new releases.

no published name (except in microscopic print at the back of the mag)
no real money (about 1/4 of what there paying the in house guys)
but i get to work from home


so its not all bad.

oh well back to work, self motivation sucks too...i could be playing WoW or eating pies dammit

How Too: Be mine Holy Bovine

Meet Maladin a Lv80 "TAUREN" paladin
yep this is a live wow server not a hacked one and YES this is an unedited image shot just moments ago...

...so how can a race incapable of being a paladin (at least until the next expansion) roll this class to Lv80?

well....to be honest they cant and er nor can I and this is just a really cool graphical glitch available on the latest release of the WoW client. Heres how you do it



The WoW.com staff has confirmed it works, though the timing required is very precise. You need to be quick, but being too fast hitting one or the other is just as bad as being too slow. A few of us found that we had to slow down our fingers to do it properly, because "fast" to a hardcore FPS gamer is very different than "fast" to a casual MMO gamer. Click first, hit enter second. Not the other way around.

And there you have it...now be off with you, make yourself a Tauradin or a undead hunter or even a troll druid waaaaay before blizz let you in game.

Source:
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/02/client-bug-allows-you-to-swap-character-models/

Daily Blogg: Doctors Doctors everywhere

Doctors Doctors everywhere (everywhen?) and which one shall i be?



In case your really interested im going to be the 8th Doctor (bottom left) as soon as i shave off the old face fuzz and pretty up my hair a little.
The costume for this year is relatively simple as all i have to do is put on a shirt and frock coat with a silk scarf, a pair of black pants with a pair of shiny black shoe's...


....oh and MY SONIC SCREW DRIVER!



full costume (and if looks good maby a pic this year) and reactions later this week!