The end of humanity as we know it!

To be fair I'm only talking about the end of half of humanity. Overpopulation and a lack of resources are, of course, a big problem these days, but some clever scientists have come up with a solution. I'm not talking about any wishy-washy solutions such as a slow transfer to green energy and more efficient foods in terms of land use, nor am I talking about genetically engineering crops so that they can grow in previously uninhabitable parts of the planet.

In case you haven't heard the details some crazy biologists have managed to produce male sex cells in the lab! Men have long only been useful for helping us pump out babies, and now we have finally mastered technology enough to replace them!

Ladies, our faith in science has been rewarded, it's time to rise up and overthrown the overburdened maleocracy! We don't need them and without men there's enough power for everyone!









Now as you can see the early batch they sent me to study have grown to a slightly larger than normal size and I did have to move them from my Petri dish to my pond, but it is only early days so far and we will master this technology.

If I'm going to be serious at some point in this post, this is great news for infertile men everywhere, as these sperm cells are made from stem cells that means that they retain the parents DNA, which means that once this science is mastered (and if it's made legal to use to create a baby) infertile men will be able to have children that are genetically there's. Actually potentially same-sex female couples could use the process to have children that are genetically both of theirs too, the possibilities of mad science are endless

They so go out on a song: so enjoy! (make sure you right click and save as, for some reason the site doesn't seem to like direct playing)

Last night I saved a life

And yet strangely I'm not a DJ... I suppose like all stories I should start this one at the beginning so here goes:

To set the scene: about 9pm last night I was mid-way through my bath, (for those who just imagined me wet and naked... complimentary sick bags can be found in the overhead compartment) if I'm to be scrupulously honest I was shaving my legs, something which has much in common with deforestation, my brother is quite curious why I sometimes shout "Timber!" while I'm in the bath.

Anyway mid-way through my bath a moth flew in trying to find the moon, seemingly confused by the fact that it actually reached the moon, and even banged into it half a dozen times and yet didn't get a prize (didn't you know that moths that try to reach the moon to win fabulous cash prizes?). Naturally Mr Moth was quite distraught by this turn of events, and also rather tired from flying all the way to the moon and so decided to land on a clearing on one of the great forested isles the the sea down below.

Unfortunately I was rather surprised to find a moth landing on my knee and in a moment of instinct I threw my leg underwater. Now I'm not sure how clued up everyone is on moth biology, so here's a free taster: moths aren't fish, that is to say they can't breathe water and can't swim, this is a slight embuggerance when you've just been dunked into ~100 liters of water at around 50 degrees.

Fortunately for Mr Moth the sea contained a friendly giant who used its giant paws to scoop him out of Davey Jones locker and gently put him upon the side of the bath. Then grabbing some toilet tissue the giant, surprisingly gently, mopped Mr Moth dry.

By the time my bath ended the moth had managed to peel itself off of the side of the bath and was moving a bit, by the time I was cleaning my teeth before going to bed Mr Moth had managed to stand up and walk around a bit and by this morning I saw him resting on the ceiling!

That is all!

So long, farewell, auf wiedesein, goodbye

A picture says a thousand words eh? Goodbye wow, hello 14 gigs of free space on my hard drive! Sure in many ways I'm sorry to see it go, but its for the best, I only wish I'd had the forethought to log in and give away my in game money before my account expired. C'est la vie


Anyhow in other news I'm kinda interested in doing something else game related and rambling about that for a while, but I don't really know what. I tend to prefer games which are quite customizable but I'm really not sure what I should do.So any suggestions? I'd rather not get into another MMO before anyone suggests that, but otherwise I'll consider any suggestions within reason.

Going shopping with mum in a couple of hours, getting house stuff ready for uni, should shopping for plates and such get me exited?

A little bit of closure

Hi peeps, look, look I'm still alive! Special thanks to the people who e-mailed me to check that I was, sorry I didn't reply individually but I thought I would make a post... then I kinda put it off and put it off some more, then I had my exams, then once my exams ended I nobly decided to put off posting a little bit more.

Anyhow I'm posting now and that's what counts right? So are you ready for a huge built up surge of hunter information?

I really hope not because the word hunter is only going to be used 3 times in this post (go on, count if you want!). Instead this post is going to be about boring old me and explaining why I haven't been posting:- so without further stalling for time here comes Lienna's top 5 list of excuses:

1) End of the college year, and good news from it! Exams passed, portfolios finished, qualifications gotten, university placed confirmed.

2) In order to achieve 1) WoW had to be sacrificed... I've very good at getting distracted, as my insistence on playing on roleplaying realms might demonstrate I was able to log into WoW and spend hours just chatting without actually playing. My WoW account has actually ran out now and I'm really not sure if it would be a good idea to start again, I could easily see myself deciding to play for the three months between end of college and start of university, and somehow not managing to give up when uni starts. Suddenly I'm a student who's studying at a high level, spending all her free time playing WoW and spending money she doesn't need to spend on a monthly subscription just so she can keep in touch with her hunter and virtual menagerie.

3) One of the more limited and recent reason:- I'm as pale as a ghost and I actually want to get a tan this summer, to this end I am currently sunburnt all down my back, red is the new brown! On a similar note I'd like to lose weight, I'm not seriously overweight but I'm enough that I want to lose it. Unfortunatley I'm slim enough for all my friends to tell me that I'm slim (I also have a modicum of dress sense, I'm quite good at hiding the wobblier parts of my anatomy). I know they are my friends and trying to be nice, but sometimes the thing you need to tell a fat girl is that she is fat, otherwise she won't stop overeating (Note: I am not responsible for any physical and/or mental damage caused to people who follow this advice and call one of their friends fat to their face)

4) More of a reason why I am posting this morning, and indeed it is morning, 3am to be precise, typing up this post while listening to random Kate Nash songs over youtube. I have to go up to London today for a half hour doctor appointment, getting to London takes 2 hours or so for me, add the time to get to and from the station, delays on the trains, price related restrictions on what trains I can take etc. This 30 minute appointment ends up taking a good 11 hours.

5) Again not an excuse about lack of blogging but I've started complaining about what I'm doing today so I guess I might as well finish and thus invite all of you, my loyal readers (if any of you still exist, and if you are still loyal then perhaps the word fanatical would be better applied? Or perhaps devoted, that's a nicer way of putting it) into a rather personal part of my life, something I'm always a little torn about whether to be proud of or perhaps to hide. Long story short as a few people guessed, particularly after my interview with Mr. Howell, I'm a Trans girl. My appointment today is another of the quarterly visits to my "local" gender clinic where I'm being supplied hormones and all that jazz.

So why am I sharing this information? Well firstly this is quite possibly my last post on my blog, so I figure if there are any close-minded people out there who want to make my life hell over a fact of my birth then I won't have to deal with them. Truthfully I'm kind of proud of myself, in my youth, while I was forced to live as a boy, I was a failure! I mean it, I was bad at sports, I was bad at socializing and I dropped out during my A-levels twice because my parents had forced me to go to an all-boys school (the irony practically oozes out of my life huh?). Yet now my life has turned around so much, it's only been 1 year since I went "full time" as a woman and in that time I've become much more sociable, my studies are going incredibly well and... I'm still bad at sports. I guess you can't have everything.

So anyway I guess the morale of the story is that people of all walks of life end up playing WoW for as many different reasons. Thanks you blizzard for giving me a place to hide from the world when I was still in denial, and a place where I could reach out and touch people's lives from behind a computer screen while I was too scared to show my face. Finally thank you everyone for making a community, because without every one of you, form the l33t trash talkers to the roleplaying knights, form the bloggers to the huntards without all of you WoW wouldn't be the place it is, a very special place in my memories.


Its 3:52am, good morning everyone, I hope you have a wonderful day, week, year and life!

Amy

This is the reason why he's the best!

Sometime Gc... I actually need to give you the credit you deserve:-

And so, my disciples, I give unto thou the first commandment of our lord and savior Ghostcrawler!

"Calling us poopyheads has not generally proven an effective strategy in getting a nerf undone."

So it was said, so let it be done, amen.

Patch 3.1:- to remember

Edit: This is a public service announcement, after your respeccs remember to visit the trainer for new skill ranks! That is all

These notes are actually from the ptr, as the live servers aren't up yet in Europe, apologies for any of blizzards late changes.

• Black arrow is good, therefore resourcefulness is good, black arrow is around 5k damage unbuffed just from the dot, in a 4 minute fight without resourcefulness that's 8 black arrows, 40000 damage for 2400 mana. Add resourcefulness and you instead get 9 black arrows, 45000 damage for 1080 mana!
• Hunting party now only really needs 1 talent point, if you spend more than one then your paying 1 talent point for 1% agility, not that great.
• Sniper training, learn how to use it! you need to stand still for 6 seconds every 15 seconds to keep it up, so no you can't keep it up during the safety dance, but you can keep it up in most fights with a moderate-high level of movement!
• Sniper training can be active before the fight, stand still for 6 seconds before the pull and you have the 15 second damage buff!
• Steady shot glyph is out, explosive shot glyph is in!
• Other glyphs are the same
• Except that you now have to buy a second set of them for your secondary talent tree!
• Pet stable access anywhere! This is good with a capital GOO!
• The light blue wasps from Sholezar are now the same size as the firefly wasps, strangely the dark blue was is unaffected (not seen the orange one yet)
• I'm thinking of this talent and glyph set up
• I can now carry 28,000 bullets, the ammo vendor is complaining that I never visit him anymore, I think I may need to call off our relationship!

Last but most important of all...

• Baby blizzard bear has a new icon!

Oh and something about Ulduar, the old gods and Varian being a successful diplomat, nothing important though

Nasty Nancy nicked a... aliterations suck

I loaded up wow today, for the first time in ages, I stared at the character screen for a bit... then I stared at the character creation screen for a while, then I loaded petopia and had a browse! And then then it all became... murky, I closed wow, mumbled incoherently about the 3.1 patch downloader coming on, then loaded wowmodelviewer and had a browse on that...

I think I want to be... well... evil, I've never really done it before, all of my characters for RP have been fairly noble, if from their own races viewpoint. I've never roleplayed someone whose spitefull, mean-spirited callous and cruel, and I think I'm missing out. I'm a kind person in real life, I help people, I enjoy it, perhaps I need to make myself an avatar of cruelty anddestruction before I go insane?

The thing is I'm not very good at being nasty, about the most evil thing I'll ever do to people is to ignore them, and thats not really mean... its borderline rude!

I'm kind of stumped for an idea though, I've had a few ideas for potential pets that all look quite mean-spirited, but as for what race to be I'm not sure, probably my favourite choice would be trolls, they used to be very evil (the non-horde ones still are) practicing voodoo, canabalism and worshoping the loa gods who are generally unpleasent.

Anyway I'm just rambling to myself really, only this time I wrote it on my blog... again, you must all think I'm crazy, I do, and so does the lepricorn king, although I don't think he counts, he's an illegal immegrant afterall!