Land of the Lost and Found

AggroChat #38 – New Year, New Season

I have to say it has felt a little strange to take an entire week off from recording AggroChat.  Before Christmas we recorded roughly three hours of audio, that then got edited down into two episodes.  As such we took last Saturday off, and it felt a bit odd coming back and recording this week.  When you are on break you live in this strange time where the days don’t really have the same meaning that they do normally.  I found it funny that mid day yesterday Tam asked what we were going to talk about last night…  because we never really have a plan.  In truth since he has been moving across country over the break, he didn’t get in much play time at anything…  so questioned if he had anything to add to the conversation.  However like always once the conversation started we seemed to be able to come up with plenty to talk about.

The funniest theme of last night was that apparently Kodra played nothing but sad games over the break.  So each game he talked about… Tam gave it a rating of like 6 Sads out of 10.  Not unsurprising Ashgar played a lot of Pokemon as did Tam and I.  There was much Final Fantasy XIV to be had, and I talked about my conversion to a semi serious raider again in World of Warcraft.  Once again we ran significantly longer than normal, but I think in part that is because the mega 3 hour show threw our timing off.  After editing it clocks in around an hour and a half, and I think there is some really good conversation in there.  Of course there are still some references that no one but the five of us will ever really get… but when I realize one of these has happened I try and make some measure of explanation.  This is what happens when you get long time friends in a room and have a conversation.

Land of the Lost and Found

One of my downtime activities while recording our podcast has been going out to the Isle of Giants in Pandaria and farming dinosaur bones.  At this point I have 7007 of the needed 9999 to get the Bone-White Primal Raptor.  For weeks after dinging 100, it was just me out there dinking away at killing the dinosaurs.  However it seems as though everyone else in the world has gotten that idea.  While wandering around last night I was fighting for spawns with no less than a dozen other farmers after dinosaur bones.  I opted to bring my hunter, who is a leatherworker… because I always feel like it is a sin to let so much leather go to waste.  With all the competition for spawns… I spent more time running around and skinning the corpses than actually killing anything for dinosaur bones.  Now for a public service announcement:  There is a special place in hell for people who kill skinnable/herbable/mineable/engineerable mobs but do not completely loot the corpse, don’t be one of those people.

While wandering around and farming I picked up the Ancient Tome of Dinomancy and immediately turned around and tamed a Direhorn.  I got a green one of course… because the green ones are always the coolest regardless of whatever the thing happens to be.  I think “Cera” will end up replacing “Daedalus” as my current tanky pet, because it just feels awesome to be running around with a Direhorn.  I went through a phase where I tamed a Devilsaur from Ungoro crater and ran around with it… but this feels much more my style.  It feels like the perfect pet for a dwarven hunter.  While I was wandering around last night waiting on the podcast to finish edits, I also picked up a Hydra from Spires of Arak, which I think is going to replace my spirit beast as my current dps pet of choice as well.  Not sure why, be it nostalgia or what but I am kinda getting into this whole hunter thing again.  Yesterday I streamed some faffing about trying to farm a set of tier 6 gear for transmog purposes…  and man… farming stuff as a hunter is easy.

Another Rough Night

I had all intent upon getting a good nights sleep last night.  However various factors conspired against me, not the least of which was that we ran so late last night recording…  which ultimately pushed my editing session further and further back.  I wrapped up my edits about 1 am last night and went to bed.  The problem being that we also had a massive wind storm last night.  So everytime I almost got to sleep, the wind would pick back up and cause all sorts of horrible and catastrophic sounding noises outside.  By the sound of it you would have thought that the very side of our house was being peeled away.  In all honesty I have no clue what half of the sounds were, but this morning when I ran to get breakfast everything looked “normal” and by normal I mean our back gate is still screwed up.  I am guessing much of the noise was that banging open and shut.

What made matters worse is the storm seemed to stir all of our animals into a frenzy…  all except for Chloe which seems to do nothing but her very best impersonation of a dust mop.  Kenzie the kitten and Allie the “older but still has moments of kitten “ cat kept going tearing through the house as they chased each other, either that or were running from some imaginary force.  At one point during the night I heard a loud crash, that I had to get up and investigate.  Mind you that this happened about 3 am… after finally getting to sleep.  Far as I can tell they knocked over some stuff in my wife’s office, but nothing nearly as tragic as it sounded.  I finally woke up this morning about 9:30, and at which point I figured I really should get up and around.  Now I am in somewhat of a daze and finding it extremely hard to focus on writing anything.  It is going to be a long day, but hopefully tonight I can get some sleep and maybe not have an absolutely horrible first day back from the break.