gdp's Comments

Jaded Alt : I'm Doing It Wrong, and I'm OK With That

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:07:36 +0000

Doing it wrong! Capped week one because I was bored with my husband out of town and needed something to do. Not capped week two because my husband came back into town and I had better things to do. Won't be even close to cap this week before my sister is getting married and we're going out of town. After that? Hopefully we start downing bosses and I don't have to worry about it. My recent post Helpful Hint for Druid of the Talon Dailies

Bubble Hearth : The Ethical Alt

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:43:29 +0000

Hmm, could be very interesting, could spare some real discussions about "ethics" as you apply them to chains. I'll be interested to watch. Does this limit your choice of class and race at all?

Kiss My Alas : Infinite loops

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:14:55 +0000

Oh my gosh, I just thought of something that is not actually poetry that I'm going to submit anyway, if I get it done.

Kiss My Alas : Monday Haiku: Back at work after vacation (also some thanks)

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:55:03 +0000

Drowning would be part of the dark side of a vacation but I'd rate it higher than 'getting back'. Ditto for 'buried'.

Kiss My Alas : Guest Post: Alas, the GM

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:36:23 +0000

Oh good, I've been wondering where you guys were.

Kiss My Alas : Blizzard heard us?

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:16:17 +0000

Yes, Constant Vigilance is our watchword but - temporarily, this is good news. Yay!

Kiss My Alas : Bits and pieces

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:16:41 +0000

Glad your brother's ok but yeah, scary. Makes me really glad my brother is a chairwarmer in Iraq and almost done at that.

Kiss My Alas : Random and nonsensical

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:24:17 +0000

It needs to be a radio-play type version with raid noises as appropriate. Mwahahaha.

Kiss My Alas : Update on the Horde side

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:47:35 +0000

All I'm gonna say about house sales is... the house doesn't have to be perfect, but the ONE time you leave something out that you really don't want people seeing is the time the realtor calls and says "we'll be there in five minutes!" Yeah they didn't buy the house. But someone else did later so it's all good.

Kiss My Alas : Something Wickham this way comes

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:03:17 +0000

Excellent, Wickham the Death Knight works really well. The next few chapters should be excellent....

Kiss My Alas : Chance and Circumstance

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:10:35 +0000

Aww... sweet! I met my husband online too and it's just one of those things - very little chance we would ever have met in "real" life, but I can't imagine what would have been different otherwise. Quantum theory suggests the possibility that any possible outcome of a decision or moment in time spawns its own parallel universe - that every possible outcome exists somewhere in the multiverse. I hope not; I'm awfully happy with how things came out in this one and I feel sorry for myself in most of the others.

Kiss My Alas : Fluffy Friday

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:05:39 +0000

Had a moonkin get so stick-up-his-tail about buffs (a ten man raid with three pallies, we had to discuss buffs for a whole two minutes) that he, having cleared all the way to Marrowgar with us, dropped group. His loss, that pug downed 7 bosses. He said something about "WTF you have a buff just buff everyone" and when we tried to explain that no, it didn't work that way with three paladins in raid, he ragequit... Nerd rage is never pretty.

Kiss My Alas : Letter of the Law vs Spirit of the Law

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:40:22 +0000

Make a rule that you can only use the guild money to repair damage taken on guild runs. If you find anyone abusing that rule, demote 'em. Personally I'm not a fan of "guild paying for personal repairs" ever anyway but I understand why they do. It's not that hard to get a few hundre gold a week for repairs and if you're expecting raiders to pay for their flasks and such, it's not a big deal. But obviously you already have guild-paid repairs, it's just a matter of who gets to use them. Or just make a rank called "freeloader" that can get into the bank/pay for repairs and assign whiny little not-raiding funsuckers to that rank ;-p There is a reason I'll never be a guild leader. Ever.

Kiss My Alas : Pinning my hopes on June (and murlocs)

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:08:17 +0000

That's so awesome! How fun! Sigh, I need a guild with raid times I can maybe do... not good enough/hardcore enough to ever become a main raider in my current guild but it's hard to think about leaving...

Kiss My Alas : Five things I would ask Blizzard to change

Sun, 30 May 2010 13:33:16 +0000

Gnome druid, yes please. Been wanting that for ages. I think it should be Shrub Form, actually... just a cute little round bush the size of a gnome. And the bear cub form should be the little Baby Blizzard Bear model.

Kiss My Alas : Insert awesome title here

Thu, 27 May 2010 19:15:37 +0000

My husband plays almost all female characters. I play nothing but female characters. For guys playing female characters I think it is about the aestetics. For me, it's identity - I don't identify with a male character. Yes, I have space goat females and gnome girls and even a long abandoned dwarf female, but the psychological barrier of "male" is not one I can get past. What I find amusing is how often the one other female in a pug raid will be the other healer. If there's ten people, and one woman, she's almost always the healer. I do wonder when you mention personality types if there are more women INTJs that play games like WoW. I am one and I've met several...

Aurdon's World of Warcraft Mage Blog : The VuhDo Solution That Evaded Me for Ages that I Think You Should Know About Too

Mon, 17 May 2010 22:06:17 +0000

I <3 VuhDo too. I have it set to randomly fire my trinkets on some characters where I never remember to use them, but never my Resto druid or mage. Mage trinkets are in the "Arcane Cooldown Blow Everything" macro and Resto trinkets were (before I replaced them with "equip" procs) in the "NS + HT" macro. My VuhDo error is that every now and then when setting it up on a character I forget to set left mouse click to "Select" instead of whatever spell VuhDo wants it to be. And then go "Ahhhh why can't I select anyone with Vuhdo ahhhhh" for a while.

Kiss My Alas : The saga continues

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:45:25 +0000

A lot of female-outfit-problems can be fixed by putting a shirt under whatever terrible chest piece you've got. But that outfit wouldn't look good on anyone so why are those things even in the game? Ack... you can tell WoW doesn't have many female devs...

Kiss My Alas : I'm not a nanny

Wed, 5 May 2010 17:50:41 +0000

By the way, congratulations to At and to you (don't tell me you don't get a few 'grats' on THIS achievement too) on the gradumacating. That's a big one.

Kiss My Alas : Pocket Rocket!

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:57:39 +0000

No fair, I want one! But I got the Zhevra so Reversion is calling dibs on the rocket. Grrr...