Tagged: geek

Apparently times are tough for everyone in Team Fortress 2. The Scout was seen selling the Slap Chop, and now the Heavy has started selling Kaboom! I am waiting for the Pyro to sell Jimmy Dean Smoked Sausages

Kaboom!


Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

via Common Craft.

You can download the song from the UK iTunes store. Not sure why I have to change nations to get music, but that is how Apple rolls.

Stop-motion Papercraft

I was trying to clean up some space on my hard drive, and I found a bunch of old screenshots I took back when I played World of Warcraft. It made me a little nostalgic… It is touch, since I really like MMOs, but I just do not have the time to invest in them to make it worthwhile.

Enjoy this peak in to my nerdy past:

use-this

Looking back… le sigh.

As I mentioned on Twitter a few days ago, I had forgotten to cancel a subscription to World of  Warcraft. I hopped on to the Blizzard account management site, and started filling out the forms necessary to stop the recurring charges to my credit card.

One of the things that I always liked about Blizzard was that they never took themselves too seriously. Take a look at what my leaving did to some peons:

First Peon

Second Peon

Extra geeky moment:

Apparently a nerf to WoTF was such a popular reason for quitting (or QQing if you will) that they had to add it to the drop-down box:
WoTF QQ

They Don’t Make Quitting Easy

When life’s troubles have you down, remember that you can always look upon The Trilogy to make everything right in the world.

All images from http://www.dayofthejedi.com/articles/2008/05/motivators.html

Geeking Out

If you don’t remember, I had made mention to Justin.tv a while ago, and in bringing up that site I started remembering one of my favorite “lifecasters” (the cute term Justin.tv uses to describe people that sit infront of their webcam). Sadly, when I went back to check up on this person’s activities, I found that they seemed to have been banned from the site. This was suprising to me, seeing as the topics of conversation rarely strayed from that of Geekdom.

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