Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Rap with Big Swords, Blood

5Cap's lyrics are sometimes hard to hear but the beat and machinima very good.
http://myndflame.gameriot.com/videos/5Cap-Abandonation#play

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How Instances Work

WOW Insider's "WOW Rookie" column talks about how 5 man instances work. Next week they promise to talk about the 10+ man instances.
http://www.wow.com/2009/07/15/wow-rookie-the-inner-workings-of-instances/#continued

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Headsets for Raiding

I've been researching headsets for Macs. Here are two which are highly rated. Note that Macs need an adapter to use a headset microphone in many cases. This is explained in the first link. http://www.macworld.com/article/133360/2008/05/beyerdynamic_mmx2.html http://www.cnet.com.au/logitech-premium-usb-headset-350-240064145.htm

This website explains how to set up a Mac client for Ventrilo. Ventrilo (also called Vent) is one of the two most used programs that allow in-raid chat. Teamspeak is the other. Note that your guild's server may need tweeking of its Ventrilo codec.
http://mdpull.blogspot.com/2008/06/ventrilo-on-mac-setting-it-up.html

This site compares Teamspeak and Ventrilo. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/963538.html

Many thanks to CD and King J for help.

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Guildwatch Wednesday Set to Music

The horde guild Fail is recruiting via a song. With banjo music. "Looking for the best [musical] players in the world...."
http://failguild.net/songs/failsong.mp3

This week there are lots of temper tantrums over bad loot rolls, guild officers who lose their mind over a bit of insubordination, and of course guild officers claiming loot someone else won in the raid. Guilds are dissolving, reassembling and then vanishing again at record speed. Good times for the soap opera fan!
http://www.wow.com/2009/07/14/guildwatch-that-little-extra-something/

As usual there is a lot of recruiting and instance running, none of which happended on the Solo MMO Player's realm. As usual.

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