Chronicles of Xxyyhl

wowsoundtrack: Nightsong (Extended) Cata time! These are...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:16:16 -0500

Nightsong (Extended)

Cata time! These are various versions of the Nightsong found in the game combined into one long song. You can hear part of this in Temple of the Moon in Darnassus.

Very cool Wow tunes

New word: Co-tank.

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:51:37 -0500

Co-tank (koh tan k) n. A player in an MMO PUG who is playing the official role of DPS but acts as if he/she is the tank. In this case, the person is acting cotankerously.

TwentyFour: D-FENCE: An Anecdote

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:42:04 -0500

TwentyFour: D-FENCE: An Anecdote:

twentyfour-ewcp:

Very few FRC teams come close to undefeated seasons. Even if you build exceptional robots, the random nature of qualifying matches will occasionally just stack the deck against you. For example, 2056 OP Robotics has won every single regional they have attended (for the bean counters in the…

I was there that night!

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:08:19 -0400

I was there that night!

Kahlith brings it epic style!

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:06:08 -0400

Kahlith brings it epic style!

New word: Sclizoinched.

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:39:00 -0400

Sclizoinched: n. (skli-zoyn-cht).The sound that is made when a weak PUG enters a high level dungeon and the characters get ownt by the bosses. Example: Oh man, this is a weak group, we are going to get sclizoinched!

Xyyl brings it! Xyyl is my High Elven healer in Tera.

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:38:08 -0400

Xyyl brings it! Xyyl is my High Elven healer in Tera.

The next step in progressive rock. A dub step?

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:19:29 -0400

I’ve started composing using loops created in the dub step style. This accomplishes a number of things. 1) It’s truly progressive in the sense that I’m taking the amalgam of rock, classical and jazz, what is known traditionally as progressive rock and adding a new style, dub step and hard style to create something new. This is the essence of progressive music, not sounding like the progressive greats like Yes, Genesis and Kansas, et. al. did forty years ago as so many so called progressive groups do today. Not only is the music new but the loops themselves are created entirely in software. Something that was impossible forty years ago and thus takes a new step in the creation of music. 2) This approach gives me a template to work with that is simple enough to have broad appeal, is popular in music today and allows for creativity in song writing. I’ve often cringed at the idea of writing simple songs to make them accessible and marketable and hated the idea of writing music I didn’t like. Using the dub step style is actually not far from what progressive rock has always been. The drums are heavy and simple, reminding me often of what Terry Bozzio often does and the keyboard parts are creative and interesting. 3) This meshes perfectly with the concept of geek rock. Using loops or music created exclusively with software falls squarely in the purview of geekery as do most computer related products.

New word:noobtorial

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:20:01 -0400

noobtorial: n. A series of quests in an MMO that teach the new players about the game but offer little else in terms of interest or value.

Example: Man these quests are so boring I can’t wait to hit max level and get out of this noobtorial.

Life is just a fantasy…

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:22:38 -0400

Life is just a fantasy…

How Progressive rock became Geek rock: Lyrical content.

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:00:00 -0400

I was listening to a band called 3d6 and in the lyrics of one of their songs called Robot Overlords, they have a line that says “binary break down 00101001.” I immediately thought of Rush and their song Body Electric which has the line “100001 SOS.” I thought, how interesting, what’s old is new again.

This is not the first similarity I’ve seen with Progressive rock and Geek rock. Rush was one of the first “Geek rock” bands with their 1975 songs The Necromancer and By Tor and the Snow Dog. By-Tor is divided into 4 chapters: I) At the Tobes of Hades, II) Across the Styx, III) Of the Battle, IV) Epilogue. Chapter 3 (Of the Battle) is divided into 4 chapters in and of itself: i) Challenge and Defiance, ii) 7/4 War Furor, iii) Aftermath, iv) Hymn of Triumph. - Rush Facts. By-Tor “Centers on a wizard-like tale about a battle between the title characters” - Serene Musings. The Necromancer is broken into three partsI. Into Darkness II. Under the Shadow III. Return of the Prince. By-Tor is not evil here and he battles for freedom.^[1] By-Tor slays the Necromancer. The Necromancer then becomes a wraith seeking another land to rule with his “evil prism eye”. The men are freed from the labyrinth after his departure. Both are essentially fantasy adventures that one might play in a Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. Peart takes it even farther with references to Lord of the Rings by writing songs such as Rivendell and The Trees. Rivendell is an Elven outpost in Middle-earth, a fictional realm created by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Trees refers to living trees that can talk and organize such as the Ents in Lord of the Rings.

Gaming terms: Nerf Hammer.

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:28:09 -0400

Nerf Hammer: n. When a character class is suddenly nerfed by a game producer because the class has become, “op,” in an MMO.

Game chat grammar.

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:25:52 -0400

I love it in game chat when people use > or < to say something is better. Who said algebra wouldn’t be useful one day?

The best doctor! From the Party like a Time Lord party at PHX...

Sun, 27 May 2012 18:09:58 -0400

The best doctor! From the Party like a Time Lord party at PHX Comic Con 2012.

Space X Station dock

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:24:03 -0400

Space X Station dock

How Progressive rock became Geek rock: Back when Yes, Genesis...

Sun, 13 May 2012 02:22:00 -0400

How Progressive rock became Geek rock: Back when Yes, Genesis and Jethro Tull were popular, fans would have been overjoyed to have an album cover like the image shown. It’s one of the many screen shots I’ve taken from World of Warcraft. Back in the days of Yes, all you had was an interesting art rock album cover, usually a Roger Dean was the most evocative. You’d set up the album cover, play the album, stare at the cover and let your imagination do the rest. One image was all you had to help your mind travel to distant lands implied by creative and imaginative progressive rock. Now, you can take as many screen shot as you’d like from environments that were inspired by the worlds suggested by Roger Dean and other creative album cover artists.

In fact the way I listen to progressive rock now is by setting the screensaver option on my Mac to slideshow. I’ve got a folder of screen shots I’ve taken from Wow, Tera and Aion that I let whisk my away into distant worlds that blend perfectly with the music of Yes. Instead of just one image, now many images flash past my eyes as I listen to Jon Anderson and Steve Howe. Progressive rock dovetails perfectly with Geek rock.

My onstage performances can now transport the listener not just with music but with a montage of images that play on a projector on the stage. This makes the experience more immersive and also allows the artist to tell a story with images as well as music -drawing the fan into the artist’s vision, mind body and soul.

Gamer joyz!

Sun, 13 May 2012 02:19:54 -0400

In SWTOR and in Tera higher level players challenged me to a dual. They BOTH lost. They immediately demanded a rematch but I declined and said I’d let that LOSS “simmer” for awhile. That’s what you get when play with fire, casual gamer fire!

coryscrappycinema: Supergirl 57 by...

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:54:30 -0400

coryscrappycinema:

Supergirl 57 by ~ChillyPlasma

Rockin’!

The first MMOs? How to make a Text Adventure

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:41:43 -0400

williamedwardscoder:

Text Adventures are excellent mental exercise to write! They are useful for learning to program; they are equally useful for seasoned programmers to refresh and recuperate on! They can fit anywhere on a sliding scale between straightforward and high-end CS-research, and the programmer can slide their game anywhere up and down that scale at whim. And they are fun :)

Text Adventures are out of fashion though. This Ludum Dare we decided to resurrect the Text Adventure and this is a description of the approach we took.

So after tiring of this blog post please do play our illustrated Text Adventure The Small World of Professor Strange - we hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it!

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Failure is definitely an option!

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:31:00 -0400

Failure is definitely an option!