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Cute guy at the Dalaran North Bank – w4m – 24 (Dalaran)

Cute guy at the Dalaran North Bank – w4m
I’ll reproduce the post below this. Any idea who wrote this? The “you” sure sounds like me!
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Hi! I saw you at the Dalaran North bank last night. I forgot my ATM card, so I had to run in really quick. You were at a different teller, and I thought about saying hi, but by the time I was done and out of line, you were already gone.
You: Tall guy with a blue mohawk. I think I remember seeing you with the Hammer of Purified Flame, but I couldn’t make it out clearly.
Me: Pretty average height girl wearing my red hair in a ponytail. I had my 2pT10 on and gold hoop earrings.
I know that chances are you’ll never see this, but you looked like the kind of guy who’d shield me from anything.

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

While I’m not even two hours into Desperate Struggle yet, I have to say I’m already pleased with it and excited to continue. It takes place three years after the first in a Santa Destroy that’s now a larger city, filled with large corporations. There seems to be more cut-scenes, but that might just be early in the game. The graphics are still great, and the little bits of breaking the fourth wall are amusing while not annoying. The first fight was fun but simple. It was a tutorial after all.
But let me tell you about the two things that made me fall extra in love with the game. First, Travis’ cat is back, but now she’s fat! You can play with her to make her lose weight, but exercising makes her unhappy. Then you give her treats to make her happy! She’s fat and cute! Second, Desperate Struggle has awesome minigames! There’s a video game Travis owns in his house. It’s called Bizarre Jelly 5, and it’s a vertical shoot ’em up in which you control a magical girl who can shoot with her hand. On the harder difficulty, it’s like a (mild) bullet hell. Bizarre Jelly is based on the anime that Travis Touchdown loves. After I played it, it unlocked a video that allowed me to watch an anime clip of Bizarre Jelly, complete with the second and third panty shots in Desperate Struggle (the game’s not for kids). The side jobs all play as simple games that feel like they would have been right at home on the NES. They’re fantastic!
All in all, the main gameplay is still awesome, and the minigames are great. I love how aware Desperate Struggle is that it’s a game. It’s like an homage to the medium as a whole.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Capcom has once again created an awesomely fun Vs. title. It’s true that I don’t know any of the Tatsunoko characters, but that doesn’t stop them from being interesting characters. I prefer the graphics over SF4 with it’s simpler backgrounds and 3D models with a bit of cel-shading. Street Fighter IV, which does have an interesting graphical style, consists of characters bulging all over the place with muscles and gross eyes. TvC is a 2v2 fighting game with 3D models on a 2D field.
It can be played with Wiimote and nunchuck (although I wouldn’t want to use an analog stick for a fighter), Classic Controller, or Wiimote held sideways, which is how I always play. It’s nice to see a simple control system. For the most part, you use two buttons for fighting with a third to call your partner. Just like with Marvel vs. Capcom, the characters are a lot of fun to use, and I’m looking forward to unlocking Frank West (from Dead Rising) and Zero (from Mega Man X).
Ultimate All-Stars gained an online mode after being localized from Cross Generation of Heroes. The game also has really great music and sound effects. I’m glad they didn’t put in some hip-hop music in an attempt to localize. The music sounds very… early DDR. I like it.
If I get around to it, I’ll write a full review later! But for now, I really recommend Tatsunoko vs. Capcom if you like fighting games.

Comments on Gearing

There are some obvious generalizations to be made from my last post. First, any role in which I’m going to be using Flash Heal benefits from me having two pieces of healing-T10. This is pretty obvious. The 2-piece bonus from healing-T10 is to have Flash Heal have a chance to place a HOT. If my role is tank healing with Greater Heal, the 2-piece healing-T10 set bonus is worthless, so it would be better for me to go for additional throughput by taking the DPS-T10. For raid healing, I want Prayer of Mending to be stronger, so I should keep 2 pieces of T9 for the 2-piece set bonus. The T10 facts came as no surprise to me, but I hadn’t thought of keeping the T9 pieces. Maybe I’ll keep two pieces of T9 on me in case there’s a fight in which I think having the Prayer of Mending bonus would be beneficial.

T10 Gear

I’ve been trying to decide how to spend my frost emblems. Here’s what I’m buying:
Crimson Acolyte Hood (healing)
Crimson Acolyte Shoulderpads (healing)
Volde’s Cloak of the Night Sky
Ermine Coronation Robes
Gloves of False Gestures
Circle of Ossus
Crimson Acolyte Leggings (healing
Spark of Light -> Purified Lunar Dust

 
For my own reference, here’s what Rawr came up with when optimizing under different conditions.
tank – penance/pw:s/prom/fh, overall, with Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Hood (healing)
Crimson Acolyte Shoulderpads (healing)
Ermine Coronation Robes
Gloves of Ambivalence
Lightweave Leggings
Sandals of Consecration
16305.77 -> 17873.88
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tank – penance/pw:s/prom/gh, overall, with Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Cowl (dps)
Crimson Acolyte Mantle (dps)
Meteor Chaser’s Raiment
Gloves of False Gestures
Leggings of Woven Death
Sandals of Consecration
Score: 16277 -> 17904.91
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raid – pw:s/penance/fh, overall, with Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Hood (healing)
Crimson Acolyte Shoulderpads (healing)
keep current T9 chest
keep current T9 gloves
Lightweave Leggings
Sandals of Consecration
Score: 24465.8 -> 26152.38
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tank – penance/pw:s/prom/fh, overall, without Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Hood (healing)
Crimson Acolyte Mantle (dps)
Ermine Coronation Robes
Gloves of False Gestures
Crimson Acolyte Leggings (healing)
keep current shoes
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tank – penance/pw:s/prom/gh, overall, without Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Cowl (dps)
Crimson Acolyte Mantle (dps)
Meteor Chaser’s Raiment
Gloves of False Gestures
Crimson Acolyte Leggings (healing)
keep current shoes
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raid – pw:s/penance/fh, overall, without Ashen Verdict craftables, max thoroughness
Crimson Acolyte Hood (healing)
Crimson Acolyte Shoulderpads (healing)
Ermine Coronation Robes
keep current T9 gloves
keep current T9 pants
Keep current shoes
Score: 24465.8 -> 25467.19

iPhone Best of 2009

My Best of 2009 was posted over at Game-Boyz. It was actually posted almost a week ago, but I missed it. There’s no normal link to the article. I had to click a small “Recent posts” link in the bottom right and then look through a table of posts to find it.
My list includes Space Invaders Infinity Gene, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, Atsumari, Rat on the Run, World of Warcraft: Mobile Armory, and GameCenter.
Atsumari was the only game that I received for free as a review copy, but I assure you, it deserved to be on the list.

King of Your Mother

I noticed something interesting while watching How I Met Your Mother today. This will spoil one episode from King of Queens and one episode of How I Met Your Mother, but I doubt anyone really cares.
“Damned Yanky” is the 16th episode of season 6 of King of Queens, airing on February 18, 2004.
“Double Date” is the 2nd episode of season 5 of How I Met Your Mother, airing on September 28, 2009.
Both of these shows are from CBS, and both have the same plot.
Marshall/Doug likes to fantasize about other women but feels guilty doing it. There’s only way he can rationalize it; in Marshall/Doug’s fantasies, Lily/Carrie always dies a tragic death. Years later in the fantasies, after an appropriate amount of grieving, Marshall/Doug goes after another woman, knowing it’s what Lily/Carrie would want. In actuality, Lily/Carrie is fine with Marshall/Doug fantasizing about other women but is pretty pissed off about being killed off in fantasies.