Jason takes a tumble….

When sister visits….., originally uploaded by Jason O’Leary.

Jason

The proof they say is in the pudding

I am not going to get gushy, no tell a lie, I am! This game has lived up to the hype (for me at least) and I can see me playing it for a very long time. 

As you can see it can get weird at times, but I must say my poker skills were top. Of course as you’ll see below things turned nasty afterwards.

The intertubes have been playing up lately in and around Ballinalsoe, nothing wrong according to Eircom, not sure say UTVinternet (my ISP). I got UTV to post me out a new router, so that I could have the make and model they recommend (and support) to replace my Asus one, which has worked perfectly right up until the recent broadband upgrade.

Strange test results with the new router though.

Here is from the UTV supplied Netgear DG834G

and my old Asus AM604g

The brief joy I had at downloading @ 700+ K has evaporated and the ‘net seems to have slowed to a crawl at times.

Probably better off if neither of my boys see this one, especially Alex as he is really into trying out new words at the moment.

Of course I should also get a better control of my own vocabulary, at times I descend into a cross between a guttersnipe and a drunken squaddie. Which probably just goes to show you can take the boy from Brixton but you can’t take Brixton from the boy (erm. old fart)

This says it all really
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Black uniformed, faceless police  preventing a peaceful rally at  the Democrat convention, surely the Democrats are supposed to be the good guys? Come to think off it so are the police.

I cannot remember ever buying a limited edition game, let alone pre-ordering one and for an MMO, not a hope. Well up until recently, when I slapped my €15 down on a pre-order of Warhammer Age of Reckoning (WAR).

The limited edition promise me access to the Open Beta, although as I have been playing the closed beta for months was not really a bonus. It also allows me early access to the game, giving me a few days head start on the great unwashed masses. To further aid this head start I get an in game item that provides some XP bonuses. Other in game bonuses include a portable campsite and the option to choose character head models only available to pre-order customers. The real reason I jumped at the pre-order was the free Games Workshop miniture and the books, as I have been nuts about Warhammer since the age of 13 (oh so long ago), when I went to the very first Games Workshop in Hammersmith.

You can view or download a better quality version at Warhammer Age of Reckoning website here.

What do I like about the game that I am planning to dump most of my free time during the winter on?

Well it is World of Warcraft , but with better graphics, for me a better art style (it’s original Warhammer style for crying out loud).

I find (so far) the gameplay much more enjoyable than in Warcraft, the Public Quests are natural meeting places for players to join up ad hoc without having to form parties and usually you are completing personal quests whilst doing the public quests. Even in the Beta there is a vibrancy and a certain urgency to what you are doing.

People band together naturally to take on the PvE stuff and can suddenly find themselves choosing to take things to a PvP level (RvR in WAR speak).

The actual RvR areas I have wandered around but have not been able to get time to carry out the big RvR

battle (looking forward to this) and I really can’t wait to get stuck into some seige warfare.

To top it off I can even dye my Dwarf engineers boots purple, oh the joy, roll on my exam so I am free to spend my evenings battling in the Warhammer World for hours on end.

YouTube – Jeb’s Job “Technical Support”.

My life on film! From Tech Support to the user, we love you.

Apple is more of an innovator. Thinking about side the box. They can do things that have never been done

Digg – Apple vs. Google: How Will They Stack Up in the Future?.

God bless this guy for his misunderstanding of the phrase, it’s worse than “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” (oh look it up)