Archive for September, 2017

World Of Warcast Episode 260, “Stoned Charlie Brown”

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Special guest Christy (@christylou) joins us!

Ren:

No, the Starlight Beacon does not work in Argus, but decent for Magic of Flight

Mike:

Siege of Orgrimmar is eternally long (w/Ali)

Mount farming

This week – 0

Trying to finish up achievements in old raids…..for mounts 😀

Did ⅘ of the MoP dungeons – forgot to do the fifth.

This week in WoW

Brewfest continues

Tomorrow starts Harvest Festival – honor a fallen hero (NOT the Pilgrim festival)

News:

New Battle.net app on the Apple/Android stores.

Chat with your friends!

Argus unlocks on your alts!!

“Appear Offline” coming “soon”

Audio dramas – “1000 Years of War”

Will be an expansion announcement at Blizzcon

New project for Blizzard — announcement of a job opening for Senior Client Engineer for a MMO real time strategy game on the Unity engine — probably an iOS/Android game from the job description

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This Week in Trek Episode 309, “They’re all Tauren!”

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News

Discovery happened. 9.6 million viewers

Discovery episode 15 started filming yesterday.

No technobabble. Yay!!

Anovos DSC uniforms $425 thru Oct 1. $500 after that. Ship in summer 2018.

Orville: They just keep getting better & better.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Who do u think is the most intimidating captain in Trek? For me, it is Sisko.

Star Trek in pop culture:

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me – NPR, Sep 9. Discussing badly named gov’t programs

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: TNG, S7: Dark Page

Character insight – Alice and the white rabbit

Subspace communications

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This Week in Trek Episode 308-Discovery Edition, “It was always Burnham since the world was turnin'”

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Our thoughts on Episodes 1 and 2 of Star Trek: Discovery

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World Of Warcast Episode 259, “Need more coffee”

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Special guest Cara (@Xanadara) joins us!

Mike:

Finished Argus storyline

Completely forgot about the new dungeon, will have to do that tonight.

Yaaarrrr! Talk like a pirate day.

New item – insult book

If you’re wondering how to get Steamwheedle rep back – Silk cloth turn-ins

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/6994-Celebrate-Pirate-s-Day-September-19

Spent some time this week playing Fortnite

Cara:

OOPS I wiped my addons

map error caused by Mappy “Large gathering nodes” checkbox

lost my weakauras. mogit outfits. pet battle teams. adibags custom filters 😩

remember to save your Interface and WTF folders every so often

Raiding – the balance between casual and progression between beating normals and new raids coming out; hadn’t had to do that yet in Legion but we did in Warlords

My team got 3 heroics down! Woot! Goroth, Demonic Inquisition, and Harjatan

Worked on Misstress Sass’zine for an hour, oy

I’m trying to enjoy the new stuff and not rush through it, but I find myself having to be in the right mindset to focus and get really sucked in… vs just playing with audio/video on 2nd monitor – I want to learn the lore and pay attention to details but my perfectionism is sneaking up and keeping me from doing it because if it’s not perfect why bother

How’s your digital declutter going with old bank mats?

News:

Mists of Pandaria timewalking is out

Brewfest is out – til October 6th

i880 gear from Coren Direbrew

Stout Alemental

Brewfest Keg Pony! (I still don’t have it….or the Headless Horseman)

And who doesn’t want a sausage hat?

2hr exp buff! Level your alts!

Holiday mogs

http://www.wowhead.com/news=272222/brewfest-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide

Hearthstone innkeeper’s tavern cookbook out Nov. 7

Massive spoilers in 7.3.2. Why isn’t it 7.3.5?

PTR Datamined ilevel 1000 legendary upgrade tokens

http://ptr.wowhead.com/item=154879/awoken-titan-essence

CHRISTIE GOLDEN IS WRITING A NEW WOW NOVEL OMG

“Book #54, a World of Warcraft novel, has been sent to the editor!”

https://twitter.com/christiegolden/status/910630264606302208

Junkertown is out in Overwatch, along with the changes to heroes.

Eric is excited to take out Pharah with Mercy

Volskaya on the Heroes PTR

Blizzcon Virtual Ticket videos before Blizzcon!

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This Week in Trek Episode 308, “Zoom and enhance”

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News

Discovery will have a mirror universe episode (directed by Frakes?)

Disc First 4 episode titles:

“The Vulcan Hello”

“Battle at the Binary Stars”

“Context is for Kings”

“The butcher’s knife cares not for the lamb’s cry”

First 2 hours shown tonight at 5pm.

50th anniversary TOS Polar Lights 1/350 model has amazing decals where originals were crappy.

Orville: Better than last week.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Is it unfair to try to apply today’s moral standards to a show that was made in the 60’s?

Star Trek in pop culture:

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, 2009.

00:26

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: DS9, S5: Rapture

Character insight – Admiral Gregory Quinn and Dexter Remmick

Subspace communications

World Of Warcast Episode 257, “Turtle Ring Toss Time”

Mike:

Farmed for the recipe. Took about 20m.

I had 72 Shadow Silk in my inventory (ha! pack rat!)

Make 8 Shadoweave Masks. Farmed more silk. Total at the end of the day, over 80k gold.

Finished chapter 2 of Argus

Bug in a invasion point Naigtal – Spores give 1M damage/tick, kept getting it on rez.

Problem – skull mobs walk around, can really hurt you.

Spore bug

Not a lot of room to move

Very hard to do solo unless you know how to maneuver

Got my Sulfuras – Hand of Ragnaros Legendary on my DK

Ren:

Arena Skirmish Bonus Event

Darkmoon Faire r

Stupid dirgible is 1000 tickets

News:

Argus won’t have flying (but we knew that)

The Flying on Argus debate: the tl;dr version

Argussian Emissary Quests should now require 3 WQs

Fel lava on Argus no longer damages pets

http://www.wowhead.com/news=271115/lucid-nightmare-mount-discovered-by-secret-finding-discord

Invasion points

Available after finishing the second chapter of Argus in Mac’aree

Starts with a quest from Ilidan, “Where They Least Expect It” to enter an invasion point to kill the legion commander

Followup quest: recover 15 Argus Waystones to unlock Greater Invasion Points

Invasion Points repeatable – you don’t need to be in a party to enter it. Will get credit just from zoning in. Finishing grants Artifact Power tokens, Argus Waystones and Veiled Aranite.

Each lasts 6 hours

Include Environmental hazards (watch your feet) and one unique objective

Three stages: fill a bar by killing trash, more mobs spawn, LEgion Commander spawns

If you wipe on Legion Commander, health will not reset

Greater Invasion Points – can do once per week – Argus world bosses drop 930 loot

Bring a Seal of Broken Fate for bonus rolls

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This Week in Trek Episode 306, “Traveler Mystery Tour”

News

“The blue that dominates the Federation interface designs on Discovery will apparently evolve to something more TOS-like and colorful”

New trailer mentions “You are explorers” and “fortune favors the bold”.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Compared to the first two seasons of TOS, do u feel the acting dropped significantly in the 3rd season?

Star Trek in pop culture:

TV Show: Ground Floor S1, E3

Part1: Guy explains how he is going to sit in a chair a certain way to impress the boss

00:22

Part2: The actual chair is very wide with arm rests, so he jumps over the back, ending up doing the splits on top of the arm rests.

00:18

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: TNG: S7 Journey’s End

Character insight – Dr. Lewis Zimmerman

Subspace communications

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