Merry Christmas, or "You Didn't Think I'd Leave You With Nothing All Week?"

I have the ability to give you posts even without the internet. It's magic! Or, rather, Post Options. I can schedule a post to show up on a certain day and time. :)

I think we've been sorely lacking in fun screenshots. Who else is with me?

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Fun with Names

Seriously?

Sure, why not.

Names you can trust.

Kind of Awesome

Very Awesome

^_^; Heh.

That's a lot of angry!

HOW do you pronounce that, again?

/Reported
/eyeroll

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Fun with Chat

Hanging with My Peeps

Coming up with a guild slogan. Sort of.

Officer Chat

The last two probably need disclaimers. The guy who needed the "Smart Stick" isn't very active in our guild anymore and anyone from IVV doesn't need to worry about it, the raid leaders were just reeeally frustrated that someone wasn't catching on/paying attention/prepared at all, and I thought this exchange was particularly funny -- and representative of the work they have to put into people sometimes. The butt-hugging is a raid leader talking in Vent about staying close behind mobs in Gruul's, the ones that charge. I really couldn't help quoting it just to screenshot. ^_^;

Best and Worst Names of 2007, or "I Don't Know Why I Collect These"

You know my stance on names. These are the old and new names of 2007. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain stupid.

Guild Names

Screenshots of Dumbness, or "Why'd They Have to Change Screenshots to JPEG..."

.... when I don't know how to change them back to the way they were? I had a system going. The ones I couldn't see thumbnails of were the working copies, and the PNG versions were the edited copies. *sigh* Now my screenshots folder is just a mess.

Anyway, on with the show!

Clothing

Nevari made me a White Wedding Dress! Yay!!!

Our resident paladin has the gayest belt ever. Bloodscale Belt. I want one! It has a pink heart, see?!

The 80's Expansion, or "What Nevari and I REALLY Care About"

You have to understand -- Nevari and I play The Sims. We loved Barbies as kids. (Heck, Nev still does.) I have 864 MB of downloaded Sims hairstyles and 468 MB of clothing, and I know Nev likes downloading hair and clothes as much as I do, if not more.

So while we like pwning faces as much as the next player, it should be obvious that character designs are also very important to us.

Now, the Lich King expansion is coming out probably next year. It has level 80 (cap right now is 70), and a new class and profession and all that fun good stuff. It also claims to have new, changeable hairstyles (people have always complained that they can't change their character when they start hating the hair) and brand new dances (girls who play Night Elf Females can now look like non-strippers).

Here's the conversation Nev and I recently had about the expansion, as well as girl vs. boy players in general.

Nevari: Mostly excited for the hair, but dancing is super important too!
Dustfire: Oh yes, the proper hair makes or breaks a character.
Manasseh: (talking to the only other guy in the party) My spell damage goes up based on my pet's stamina/intellect and his stats go up based on my stats... so buffs are the good.
Nevari: (answering me, because who cares about buffs?) Exactly.
Dustfire: And being able to customize dancing makes the player and the character that much more unique.
Dustfire: "I can express myself" will be the new Warcraft battle cry!
Nevari: Yays! :D
Nevari: You know how you can tell that we're real girls? XD
Dustfire: How?
Manasseh: Neither of you are named "Onehotchic"?
Manasseh: Or something similar.
Shenoah: (only other guy in the party) lol
Dustfire: *laugh*
Manasseh: Case in point... Demonlicious right behind me... totally a guy.
Nevari: Our names, pets and sometimes our gear... (we're more likely to hide unsightly cloaks).
Nevari: Shall I ask?
Manasseh: *heh*
Nevari: (after she goes over to whisper Demonlicious) Yep, her cloak doesn't match either. A guy.

Beauty, or "Having Fun with Screenshots"

Here she is, folks, the sexiest girl in Warcraft. PRINCESS! (Boss in Maraudon.) Seriously, though, someone gave me the impression she was supposed to be really pretty. Imagine my confusion...


In other news, I made it through the Dark Portal with Dustfire (level 58 required). Now we're waiting for Manasseh and Nevari to catch up. There was some awesomeness going on the other side, too.

More Names, or "What is a Kitty Butt For?"

Yeah, I know. Level 62, too. But what do you expect from a hunter?

Fun with Chat, or "What a Conversational Montage"

Just a few of the most recent, interesting conversations I've experienced.

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More chatting in front of Alliance while waiting to enter an instance. Nevari was agreeing with the garbled something-or-other one of the Alliance said. I had just used my custom emote "Dustfire has given the Alliance a wedgie."



Waiting in queue for Warsong Gulch, a random guy starts talking.



More discussion about weird names. Here, I'm making a list of all the people who pass me in the bank who have names that couldn't possibly be anything more than banging a fist on the keyboard, adding some vowels to make it pronounceable, and hitting "Accept."



A little more situational. Nevari is teasing Manasseh (warlock) for seducing her sheep -- so the baddie was both polymorphed and seduced, which is overkill. The problem was that her chat bubble seemed to be coming out of the dead body, and I was VERY confused and a little frightened. It took me a minute to realize who was talking.