World of Warcraft

[Spriggan]

you can even get trophy fish that let you "equip" them and carry them around to show off.  So basicaly your character is carrying a big fish around.  I hope they put in a special one that you can actualy attack with.  

[Spriggan]

I was running through a low-mid level zone to get to another one when I ran into a large group of alliance people that were comming to gank the horde town there.  It's overly easy for lvl 40-50 alliance people to get into low level horde areas and nearly impossible for the horde to get into low lvl alliance areas.  Anyway, I don't think there were expecting that many hore people to come to the aid of the mid level town, as we easly had 2-3x the number (around 25-30).  Took some fun pictures, enjoy.

www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/xr-raid1.jpg
www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/xr-raid2.jpg
www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/xr-raid36.jpg
www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/xr-raid4.jpg

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ah... gotta love names like Smaksudown and Smaxor. tres medieval fantasy.

There was a guy who wanted to join AORP once and call his character NoTePaD.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Dino-mount? What the heck is that thing in the 3rd picture?  

[Spriggan]

it's a raptor.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Oh, my bad, guess Raptors don't classify under "Sprig's Big Book of Dinosaurs."

But so, I have an account for WoW. And so I now see that the file to be downloaded is 2 GBs. That's about 2000 MBs, or roughly 200,000,000 KB, and an even more ridiculous number when put into bytes. My friend figured it'd take about 84 days to finish on dial-up, without taking into consideration that the speed will go up and down. Hurrah.

[JP Dogberry]

See, I could pull that down in about an hour.

[Spriggan]

na, not useing blizz's bittorrent.  The fastest I could get it was 120 k/sec and it still took 2 1/2 hours.  And once you download that you need to download a 200meg patch that will take at least an hour since no one runs that one's torrent (they're seppreret torrent clients for each patch), and have at least 5 gigs free to run to patch.


Gemm I beleave that Blizz offeres a CD that you can send away for.  I think you can contact [email protected] for that.

[Prometheus]

Actually, that 1000 bytes to a Kilobyte thing is a fib:

8 bits in a byte - 8 bits
1024 bytes in a kilobyte - 8192 bits
1024 kilobytes in a megabyte - 8,388,608 bits in a megabyte
1024 megabytes in a gigabyte - 8,589,934,592 bits in a gigabyte
2 gigabytes = 17,179,869,184 bits

Of course, the file isn't exactly 2 gigabytes, but you get the general idea. That's still a lot of bits.

It seems small, but those last 24 of the 1024 makes a difference. Without it, you're off by 1,179,869,184 bits by the time you hit two gigabytes, or 6.8% of the real total.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

it's not a fib, it's a simplification. For a discussion like this, 1000 is close enough.

You don't believe me? Trying explaining to your non-techie wife WHY it's 1024 instead of 1000. I spent an entire afternoon once. Once you go through that, you'll realize that "close enough is good enough"

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

e-mailed them, said they don't provide them.

[Spriggan]

Blizz is doing a stress test over sometime next month.  It's only for 7 days and, much to the delight of closed beta people, on seperate servers then the beta.  This isn't the open Beta Blizz is planning which will probaly be in october or november.

You can check out the FAQ here:
http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/wow/stress_test/wowfaq.shtml

EDIT: Just thought I'd note that chances are that the server(s) will be increadably laggy 24/7, that's why they want all these people.  So if you cannot deal with the lag-mania involved then don't sign up.

[Spriggan]

So I just ran into a Tage in WoW today.  Guess that name is more common then I thought.

[Gemm_at_a_school]

All two of them?

[Spriggan]

Well for those of you that got into the Stress test it's starting tomorrow at 12 noon pst.  Enjoy your lag, I'll be playing Street Fighter 3.