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So March 17th is Whiney Post Day according to Klepsacovic so here is my whine.

Mwhahahaha    I get to Whine 1st ( or get to be one of the first whiners.) See international time difference  has it’s advantages.

Whine #1  Why does everything interesting happen when I am asleep!

I have a list of things I could whine about, and  they are not about WOW – feel free to tune out.

Beer – a pub with no Guinness on St Patrick’s day .  ( They serve only Aussie beer,  but their Food is awesome and well worth the hill to walk up.. )

Edit! – They had Guiness!   ( in cans though..  beggers can’t be choosers.. )  and Blood Sausage

The state of the Internet censorship in Oz, and like Cassandri from Hots & Dots  I worry about what it will do to my gaming,   plus there is the Lack of 18+ rating on games and that stuff like  Facebook shut down the Grow Up Australia –  Pro-R18 Game rating group with almost 37k Members happens and really makes you wonder what the definition of democracy and free speech really is, and that I agree with Tobold that the internet is getting less “inter“  as people try and control  the internet to protect people from what is ‘bad’  but really what is damaging to their individual profits, and I worry that the advancement of human civilisation will become stunted as what is supposed to be a tool to share our ideas &  culture, the tool that  connects people world-wide will die as countries put their citizens behind electronic fences.

That Gamers for Croydon  our Political party with a Gamer friendly platform are running in our SA state elections, and I really hope that they get someone in,  and then consider running a candidate for  our Federal election next year.  However the Politician they are running against,  Atkinson said  ” “I assume the Gamers4Croydon campaign will involve criminal activities and dirty tricks, which is what I’ve come to expect from gamers,” and  I feel he is really out of touch with Gamers,  and people in general to have made such a narrow-minded statement.

 That a Gamer themed bar  Mana Bar  is in another state  – Bring one to Sydney! and traveling interstate just to go to a bar might be a little silly. But they have gamer themed cocktails…

That  Books are expensive if you buy them in Australia. So I <3 Book Depository  ( Free postage!)  Except they come in single white packages and if I do a bulk order I have to collect a  pile of packages from the post office. That they can sell paperbacks of Australian Authors in  Australian Stores for $26 Aus – and wonder why more people don’t buy books or we are looking overseas for our reading pleasures.

 That I keep finding new music I like on Itunes and because I belive in paying for my music  It’s putting holes in my credit card -   Leafshine ! Thankyou for Introducing me to Marina and the Diamonds – so friends are being subjected to my outbursts of ” I am not a robot”    Though I suspect Marina’s song Rootless would apply more to Leafshine being a druid and such. “Running with my Roots pulled up”  is my favourite line from that song and every time I hear it I think of a Druid in tree form holding it’s roots running.  ( Wow on brain even when listening to music  /Sigh)

Other people recommending music to me is important because  I do not subject myself to what counts as radio anymore.

That I don’t sing as much as I used to ><  I miss my singing lessons but it became a toss-up between putting money into more productive places. I don’t miss the breathing exercises,  or putting pieces of icky red wine cork in my mouth to get the space right in my jaw  – it does make the sound quality a lot better though.

I can whine about my mother being on facebook - My mother Pm’s me to  ask me about my Status.  There are several reasons why parentals should not be on Social Media sites ( hides photos of my fishnet stockings)  I had to explain said Pseudo Pop Cultural reference status update refered to.

Of course I friended my mother.  I mean If I can friend some random from childhood who on her last day of school in year 3  said to me “  I’m not your friend anymore”  ( yes I remember…  )  I can friend my own mother and family , but they aren’t supposed to read into the mental state of my facebook statuses,  It’s like people reading my blog to understand my brain.   I should be grateful she didn’t comment on the post or it’s possible to have ended up on Failbooking

So what constitutes a whine? Long rambling thoughts? – Over sharing of feelings and real life stuff? Did I have enough material to whine about?  I blog to perpetually whine.

Whine:

1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch

Ohhh I might have to record a Whine so you can get the full effect. Whining with an Aussie Twang shall not be pleasant.

* breathes…

thankyou for listening  Lasting

There is the running joke in most guilds about people who play pantless/shirtless while gaming/raiding.   I would hope that they are still in underwear at least. The idea of flying free in the breeze – well – In my head you are all clothed – lets keep it that way. But your home, your family, your neighbours.

I can’t very well write a post like this without revealing what I do or don’t wear.

Pauses.

Yes I can.  All I will say is Aussie Summer  – no Air con. Nuff said.

I will say what I won’t wear.. 

The Slanket (R)  Pic and Product Page  from Think Geek.

It looks rather like a Snuggie to me.   The prime Gamer orientated features of the Slanket (r)  ( Sl-eeves+ Bl-anket = The Slanket(R) Blanket ) are as directly from the product page  ”Large sleeves let your arms be warm, yet free for video gaming or laptopping”

Well winter is fast approaching  – nights are getting cooler,  and I do have a little  blanket with cute little puppies I sometimes wrap myself in, and a skull and xbones Slanket (r) would be more becoming of a Shadow Priest.

Uh No.

But the skull and xbones print makes it just a liiiiitle bit more appealing….

FTC Disclosure thing – No endorcement recieved. ( Am I supposed to say when I don’t get something?  I get confused )

Seriously.  1st pull.

I survived..   quite possibly because his dps was bad anyway.

Pic from Wikimedia Commons user Alexanderino

1 There is always someone running late for the Raid  Train.

2. In the mornings there is a boss at the end of the run.

3. You have to clear through trash mobs to get in the door.

4. If your lucky a seat might drop.

5. You need to avoid standing/sitting  in bad stuff

6. There may be a Heat debuff ( no Aircon in summer)  or a Raid wide Frost debuff ( Air con wayyyy to high )

7.  There is an Announcer instead of a raid leader.   Except the Announcer is usually more polite and perkier then a raid leader.

8. People cast  Spells Smells

9. Dodge is invaluable during peak hour enrage  

Finally  – Like a real raid there is a forum discussion after the  fight  – Shitty Rail a play on  the actual name  City Rail    

and on occasion while traveling on Trains we like to Raid Rave Naked

Picture from Michael Schubarts Weblog

Drink all day
Play all night
Let’s get it poppin
I’m in LFG Trick
Drink all day
Play all night
Let’s get it poppin I’m in LFG Trick

I told a LFG Random group  in party chat that if they wanted to kick the whiney ass healer in a random I was DPSing on my Shadow Priest in, that I would quite happily heal for them.

“You think I need badges”   Scoffs the druid who had been rousing on the tank. 

“Omg Guys..   The tank doesn’t even have offspec”

“Omg Tank .. Hold agro much…”

“He is doing fine” I said. ( and he was)

Healer pee’d ed me off. So I left group.   Yeah was not in the mood to be pee’d off.

Log off, to wait for my debuff to fall off, and

Enter My Holy Priest healing  a Random LFG

Me: to Dps Pally :  Did you know your missing a talent point.

Dps Pally:  Yes.

Me to Dps Pally: and that your also completely in tanking gear.

Dps Pally: Thankyou for your observations

I had turned into the rousing healer. Kinda funny given how I defended the so called ’underdog’ in the last run,  and yet as a healer I became the person giving crap.   Give the Pally his due he still managed to out dps a similarly geared Hunter and a bad warlock – baddies died. We lived and I got my frosts.  

I think it’s role that causes people to be angsty -  you look at the over all picture of the party – because you need to worry about more than getting 2k+ Dps - Your trying to work out how good/bad the tank is – how much damage is the Dps going to take, because of a good/bad tank and then if they pull agro because they are good/bad players.  Can they kill it quick enough and not  stand in bad stuff = longer damage and so on.   

If I DPS on my main.  I really don’t care how good/bad anyone else is.  Bad healer.  I have my DP and VE healing me anyway and a shield and dispersion – likelihood of me surviving is awesome. Bad tank – I stop dps. Fade Meld, Disperse.  Bad Dps: I do my own thing,  dot stuff up and kill it.  No wukkas..  ( Aussie for no worries.. )

If I’m healing I want to know how hard you’re going to make me work.

and  oh

It’s always the lowest dps though that wants to the party to go faster.

Dk Dps -  Can we make this run a fast one?

Me:  Depends on if your dps gets any better.

This blog wasn’t meant for confessions – if that were so I would be telling you all about my alledged thing for Pallys.

But firstly on GM request – I confess on that I DPS’d  our 3 attempts on Putricide last night in my healing set.  I had swapped into it to see if a piece of loot was an upgrade of my healing set – and never swapped back.  I should have picked up that I didn’t have a spikey black thing on my head – but being shadow form and all that  – it’s a bit hard to tell if your in the wrong gear.  We one shot all the bosses before which is pretty awesome,  he shall die tonight and throw mallable ooze at me no more.   ( Well at least this week)

But yeah…   I made 500.

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It’s been a hoot  A ride – a thrill  So far, and  BIG THANKYOU to you all – cause  there is no better motivation then an Audience, and it’s not because I’ve been dancing on tables at the Goldshire Inn 

Mushy stuff over. I shall be Pugnacious once again.   I promise. Your responses on my Child bearing years post was humbling  Much <3