happy tuesday! we went to see monsters vs. aliens in 3d at columbiana grande on wednesday of last week. 6.5/10 snaps - the movie was cute. if you've got kids i think this'd be a great one to go see with them. lots of famous actors/actresses - reese witherspoon as susan, hugh laurie as dr. cockroach, seth rogan as bob, kiefer sutherland as general monger, rainn wilson as gallaxhar, will arnett as the missing link, paul rudd as derek, and stephen colbert as the president [anyone think there was a little undertone to that ha ha?]... if you've seen the previews then you've basically got the entire plot. i do NOT recommend going to see this in 3d as there are maybe 4 scenes that actually appear to be in 3d. granted they were 4 great 3d scenes but it's not worth an extra $6 per person to tack onto an already outrageous movie ticket price and it doesn't really add much to the film. after watching it, i find myself with an urge to review all the episodes of invader zim which i am sure to do in the near future.
eq2 news. happy 10th anniversary everquest! sometime recently everquest celebrated its 10th anniversary which is rather exciting. if you play eq or eq2 you could pick up a copy of beckett massive online gamer and there is an in-game item code to celebrate. the eq2 one is pretty bitching in that it's a statue of nagafen [bad ass dragon] that gives you 1,000 rent status reduction on your housing - huzzah! i'd personally like to thank the creators of everquest because i thoroughly enjoy your products and have ever since i started playing everquest online adventures when i was in high school. all four members of my family owned their own ps2 so that we could play together. i also thoroughly enjoyed champions of norrath when it was available on the ps2 and have been playing everquest 2 on the pc almost since it was released [my poor computer at the time couldn't run the darn thing]. no matter what other mmorpgs i have tried [lotro, wow, chronicles of spellborn, d&d, swg, vanguard, etc] i always end up returning back to everquest 2 as it is just the game for me. i personally love being a ratonga and a warden [lotro is about to adopt this class but in researching it further, they don't appear to be making it a healer]. my raid force cleared veeshan's peak for the first time last night and it was an awesome feeling. the raid wasn't even full...it was just excellent. thanks for the many ways in which you manage to keep me amused almost on a daily basis everquest 2 - i look forward to many more years of fun with the many friends i've made and those that i already knew!
on another sad note on eq2 [hopefully getting fixed in the hot fix as i type] my mythical weapon was broken last tuesday when they uploaded the new x2 raid zone and lavastorm content. this was how my badass weapon used to work - it had this neato effect called nature's restoration. here's the quote on what nature's restoration does off the weapon itself 'When target castes a critical healing spell this spell has a 50% chance to cast Nature's Restoration on caster...Increases power of caster by 349-523'...what does this mean? this means that every time i critically heal someone i get a nice chunk of mana back. what is my main job? healing...how often do i currently critically heal? about 80% of the time...so i NEVER run out of power. this comes in handy all the time, for example, in groups, in really long fights where other healers are out of mana, whenever a manadrain occurs i can use my manastone then pop a coupla level 10 heals and be back up to 50% power in no time to save the day...so what happened to my weapon with the update??? well now instead of it giving ME the power after i've been trained since july of 2008 to not have to worry about power it accidentally gives the power to whoever i critically heal. this means that for a week i've been power feeding my group like i'm a troubador, dirge, illusionist, or coercer, yet barely able to keep power to continue healing myself. i actually fed more power to my group than an illusionist i was playing with the other day. this could be great for the group and main tank but it's absolutely awful for me. i didn't roll a power regen class, i rolled a healer. that happens to be the bonus to getting my epic weapon and i want to be able to reap the benefits. hopefully it's getting fixed today ALONG with tortoise shell which was also broken with the new update. i'll save trying to explain tortoise shell for another day.
anywho, i've got work to do.
invaders don't dance! errr, enjoy the silence...
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