Gaming

Recommended Video: Priest Mind Control

After seeing this video I created a priest alt called Abzie.

Sulfuras: Basecamp meets WoW meets Awesome

Previously, Sulfuras was a WoW service site. But it’s evolved. What Sulfuras now is and will be is the Basecamp of World of Warcraft. It’s currently in development, and likely will be for a while, but here’s the run-down of what it will be.

• Users will register with a name and realm. Their guild will be extracted from the armory. Guildless users may not register. If their guild exists on Sulfuras, they’ll be redirected to it’s page. If not, they’ll be opted to create it and given admin status on it. They will have the ability to pass it on to another user.
• Guild page will have a calendar of current and upcoming raids. If a raid is scheduled for today, they will be alerted on each page they visit in a non-intrusive message at the top of each page. In a future release, a message board will exist for each guild.
• After a raid, members will submit the loot they got while on the raid. An admin will need to verify each item submitted. On a raid page, loot will be listed in addition to the member who got it.

Some more details:

• From back to front, it will be coded in Ruby on Rails CodeIgniter.
• It will use easily-degradable AJAX for item confirmations etc.

Best yet, a large portion of it including the user-system is already done. I still have a lot of work to do, but hey, it’s the summer. The current website will be up until I am able to take it down, until then you can view the new site at ?gutsy.

Microsoft is Never Gonna Give You Up

Today I switched from my normal Xbox LIVE gamertag ABZ1NTHE to my new MLG custom-games only tag abzinthe OR NOT. In the process, I figured I might as well cancel my brother’s account while I’m at it. He hasn’t played in a few months and only ever uses my Xbox anyway, so I went to live.xbox.com and found out that I need to call Xbox tech support in order to unsubscribe.

I have an odd history of speaking with tech support.

Natalie was easy to talk to. Me, being Canadian, spelled out the “zau” in “zaussome” as zed-aye-you, and she kept asking how I spelled “zed.” I eventually noticed and said “zee” instead. She passed me to some other guy, I didn’t get his name, who would help me cancel.

I know I should have expected this, but while Microsoft is Never Gonna Give You Up, they aren’t at all hesitant about letting you down. He looked at the gamertag and said “Wow, you have plenty of acheivements. Are you sure you want all this work to go to waste?” I told him it was not my concern and neither his. He asked if I had any friends who might like to take control of the account (which is against there terms of service, by the way,) I told him that all of my friends already had a gamertag.

Eventually we actually get somewhere. He keeps twisting my words, but in the end he gives me a confirmation number and says the account will not renew itself after July 8th. After this, he says “okay,” and the line goes silent. I guess Microsoft will never say good bye.

Recommended Video: Ursus’ Montage

With plenty of of awesome multi-kills, snipers and sprees, Ursus’ montage is more than deserving of my first recommended video. Also, take a look at 8:31!

What’s to Come, What’s to Go, and What’s to Change

It’s been a while since I launched Ruby no Rails, (spoiler: it’s dead) but even since it’s release nearly a month ago, there hasn’t been a single legitimate user registration or thread aside from my own or Clooth’s. Worse yet, we were the target of all kinds of porn including gay horse sex. No, I’m serious. As of June 12, RnR will be discontinued. Continue reading »