August 13, 2017 Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST (UTC/GMT - 5)
AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace
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Transcript work by Arien, Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (5)
AIM:
Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda
(presiding)
Discord:
Arien, Irmo, Varda
Before-meeting
Meeting begins
Membership
Ar-Pharazon's computer is repaired.
Web:
New art
Gaming:
General gaming report by Eonwe
Tolkien:
Topic: Who were some
of the characters who were not all that "good" but were on the good
side, at least more or less?
After-meeting:
A lot more on the Tolkien topic.
Tolkien tangent: dragons
Tolkien tangent: entwives
Flashgaming Reviews by
Ar-Pharazon
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Before-meeting
Chat History for Valar Guild Meetingplace
ArPharazon-V: Stardust pet got from Algalon!
Aug 13, 2017 2:34 AM EonweValar: Heya and Congrats :}
The Doomsayers in Dalaran have shown me the light! It is the treants we
must fear, not the Legion!
Sunday, August 13, 2017 (times for Ar-Pharazon)
Ar-Pharazon-V (17:53:31): hehe yes, saw that one,
reminded me of http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0150.html
Ar-Pharazon-V (17:53:42): can't trust the trees
Eonwe Valar (23:00:54): hehe
Varda Valar (23:01:29): *hides the transcript from
Fangorn*
Eonwe Valar (23:02:40): And heya everyone :}
Varda Valar (23:02:46): Hey there :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:02:52): Aiya!
Varda Valar (23:03:23): So, do we need to do some
pokage?
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:03:49): sunshine poked
Varda Valar (23:04:05): Thanks. :)
Arien V (23:04:08): nshine appeared !
Varda Valar (23:04:19): Brightness! Huzzah
Arien V (23:04:25): Sunshine even appered!
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:05:14): Aiya!
Varda Valar (23:06:58): Irmo and Miriel poked :)
Arien V (23:09:02): aiya ]
Eonwe Valar (23:11:35): Heya :}
Varda Valar (23:13:40): Ok, my clones are all over
the place. Withdrawing from some now.
Arien V (23:13:43): aiya Eonw :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:13:56): that your way of saying
you're closing games?
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Varda Valar (23:14:03): Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!
Varda Valar (23:14:06): Aye :)
Varda Valar (23:14:19): Jumped in to do pokes and
check the role
Varda Valar (23:14:44): Haven't been gaming today, a
pity, but hoping later. :)
Arien V (23:14:49): got out about an hour ago .. Ted
and Anya wanted me to rp a bit :)
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Varda Valar (23:14:51): Membership:
Varda Valar (23:14:58): Still in rp?
Arien V (23:15:18): yeah lurking in background wirth
an eye here as usual :)
Arien V (23:15:24): i can multitask
Varda Valar (23:15:29): okie dokie
Varda Valar (23:15:49): Checking to see who's here
for the AIM attending list. Please type Aule
Varda Valar (23:15:50): Aule
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:15:53): Aule
Eonwe Valar (23:16:01): Aulë
Arien V (23:16:02): Aule
Varda Valar (23:17:06): Irmo and Arien and I are also
present in the meeting part of Discord.
Varda Valar (23:17:35): Gorlim and Miriel are around
but in a gaming section, might show for Tolkien.
Varda Valar (23:17:57): Any membership news you'd
like to share?
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:18:11): I'm still in WoW, about to
finish clearing Mount Hyjal, then I think I'll fish a bit for Nomi (and
the fishing pole artifact I got yesterday)
Ar-Pharazon-V
(23:18:18): Sure! My pc's fixed :D
Varda Valar (23:18:28): Woot!
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:18:27): New videocard and all.
Arien V (23:18:35): cool :D
Eonwe Valar (23:18:38): Congrats :}
Arien V (23:18:43): congratulations :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:18:50): Been working hard on
catching up on stuff, after about 2 weeks doing virtually nothing.
Varda Valar (23:19:07): Super-game-time
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:19:11): Yep! And forums, and
webcomics..
Varda Valar (23:19:39): Kind of nice to let the
webcomics stack a short time. :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:19:49): True, but it gets more
interesting if you're also in the habit of reading the comments.
Varda Valar (23:20:09): Unfortunately I am. Makes it
take a long time.
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:20:10): Yep.
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:20:33): And for other news, going
out tomorrow to meet WoW people!
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:20:38): Gonna be fun.
Varda Valar (23:20:44): Very good :)
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Varda Valar (23:21:16): Web:
Varda Valar (23:21:22): Artwork:
Varda Valar (23:22:42): DeepGroover-(T) is giving us a
sneak preview of a bust that he is about to start painting. You guys
can comment on if it can fit in our Tolkien site.
Varda Valar (23:22:59): http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/art/gallery/DeepGroover/Baerkrom/Baerkrom.htm
Varda Valar (23:23:49): The Bohemian Weasel-(T) has new
paintings for us, now online.
Varda Valar (23:24:18): Elf
of the House of Gil-galad; face
detail (under the Gil-galad
section)
Varda Valar (23:25:15): original
sepia version of Fëanor; face
detail. (under the Fëanor
section)
Arien V (23:25:54): very nice .. i like the gleam and
light visible in his eyes :) despite not colored
Varda Valar (23:27:20): It's actually a sepia
version, not quite black and white. She also has colored and moving
color versions.
Arien V (23:27:30): and i like Feanor .. i think it
shows the duplicity of the character
Varda Valar (23:27:37): http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/art/gallery/BohemianWeasel/characters/Feanor/Feanor.htm
Arien V (23:27:59): yeah i ve noticed now .. just
notr quite right worded apologies
Varda Valar (23:28:28): No worries. I'm running back
and forth between here and Discord and the site, could miss something
very easily.
Varda Valar (23:28:39): Depending on y'all to keep me
straight!
Varda Valar (23:29:12): New section for Nienor, also
called Niniel by Turin when she had amnesia.
Varda Valar (23:29:57): http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/art/gallery/BohemianWeasel/characters/Nienor/Nienor.jpg
Varda Valar (23:30:16): Face detail:
Varda Valar (23:30:19): http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/art/gallery/BohemianWeasel/characters/Nienor/Nienor-face.jpg
Varda Valar (23:30:31): Phar, are the links or images
showing up for you?
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:30:31): They are.
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:30:38): Interesting to see a human
in that art style.
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:30:52): She reminds me of... who
was it...
Varda Valar (23:31:09): and this is the new section
link:
Varda Valar (23:31:11): http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/art/gallery/BohemianWeasel/characters/Nienor/Nienor-Niniel.htm
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:31:11): Natasha in that War and
Peace miniseries :)
Varda Valar (23:31:58): And that's where most of my
day went instead of gaming, so far. :)
Varda Valar (23:34:52): Any interesting Tolkien news
from anyone else? Links. hah, that one from earlier from Giant in the
Playground about the moving trees. :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:34:49): (yay, pvp season 2 set
complete, achievement got, thanks Archimonde)
Varda Valar (23:34:58): Congrats :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:34:59): thanks!
Arien V (23:35:49): congrats :)
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Varda Valar (23:36:17): Gaming:
Varda Valar (23:36:30): Eonwe, are you able to give
the Games Report today?
Eonwe Valar (23:36:35): Aye.
Eonwe Valar (23:36:58): Lord of the Rings Online:
Eonwe Valar (23:37:39): A new Dev Interview is out: Leveling and
Difficulty in Mordor.
Update
21.0.2 was released Wednesday after some downtime.
Eonwe Valar (23:38:04): World of Warcraft:
Eonwe Valar (23:38:39): This week's bonus event is battlegrounds.
Legion PvP Season 4 is ending
soon.
The final Raid Finder wing, Deceiver's
Fall, is open.
Eonwe Valar (23:38:55): More
hotfixes this week.
Eonwe Valar (23:39:11): Starcraft 2:
Eonwe Valar (23:39:27): For those interested in AI
development, Blizzard has made available the Starcraft
2 API.
Eonwe Valar (23:39:41): Starcraft:
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:39:38): I went through that entire
blog and I still have no idea what they're talking about.
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:39:44): I'm no programmer :D
Eonwe Valar (23:40:05): Coming Tuesday, August 14th: Starcraft: Remastered. If
you're interested in getting those pre-order goodies, time is running
out.
Eonwe Valar (23:40:48): (ignore the link,
I don't have the right one in there it seems)
Eonwe Valar (23:41:06): Heroes of the Storm:
Eonwe Valar (23:41:41): A new
patch came out, and with it a new hero, Garrosh.
A new blog is also out: Core
Concepts: Your Role in the Fight.
Eonwe Valar (23:41:55): Hearthstone:
Eonwe Valar (23:42:25): The new expansion, Knights of
the Frozen Throne, launches today.
Check out the Hearthstone
Update and also the Hearthside
Chat on Death Knight Hero cards.
Icecrown
Tours - Part 3 is out.
Eonwe Valar (23:42:43): Overwatch:
Eonwe Valar (23:42:58): The official preview is out
for the Los
Angeles Group Stage.
Eonwe Valar (23:43:10): The PTR is now available.
Eonwe Valar (23:43:38): Thus ends my report.
Varda Valar (23:45:15): Thank you, Eonwe. :)
Varda Valar (23:45:28): For gamers seen this past
week:
Varda Valar (23:45:34): In LotRO, we had:
Varda Valar (23:45:36):
Arien
Bregalad
Dis
Eonwe
Falco
Fangorn
Gil-galad
Gorlim
Hamson
Hurin
Irmo
Maedhros
Miriel
Nar
Nimrodel
Varda
Varda Valar (23:45:50): StarCraft/Broodwar had
Fangorn
Varda
Varda Valar (23:46:00): StarCraft 2:
Ar-Pharazon [Note: added
from info below.]
Eowyn
Fangorn
Faramir
Varda Valar (23:46:22): Any additions?
Eonwe Valar (23:46:37): WoW Lothar:
Arien
Bofur
Eonwë
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:46:46): I was in Starcraft 2 ;)
Arien V (23:47:07): Note here to WoW report :)
Arien V (23:48:07): i got my Legion Pathfinder
complete which was the reason why i kept the subscription for the US
servers up
Ar-Pharazon-V (23:48:13): Grats!
Varda Valar (23:48:26): Congrats :)
Eonwe Valar (23:48:26): Congrats :}
Arien V (23:49:34): :) unfortunately the subscription
renewed the day after i got the achievement and so to save it i
cancelled it then instead of carrying it through to the next month ..
but it saves me the trouble of chasing after it for free promotrion
weeks :)
Eonwe Valar (23:50:20): :}
Varda Valar (23:54:52): Pardon, had a bunch of
friends coming through. :)
Varda Valar (23:54:55): real life
Arien V (23:55:14): ah silly thing sometimes :)
Eonwe Valar (23:55:17): No worries :}
Varda Valar (23:55:24): that ol' real life ;)
Arien V (23:55:34): hehe
Varda Valar (23:55:40): Anyway, we've had Pathfinder tabletop games and others going.
Varda Valar (23:55:52): Sauron and I with friends
you'd probably enjoy. :)
Varda Valar (23:56:30): Maedhros runs games too. You
can read some of what's happening there on his site, and read the webcomics he
writes. Link at our Membership page and his art cave.
Varda Valar (23:56:55): Any further business,
comments, suggestions, jokes?
Arien V (23:57:06): i am sure :) enjoy :)
Varda Valar (23:58:05): Sauron is leaving with some
of them to a game in another town nearby. I skip it to be here. Let's
Sauron have some time away from me, too. ;)
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Varda Valar (23:58:23): Tolkien:
Varda Valar (23:58:47): If anyone has a suggestion,
feel free to mention. Otherwise you get mine. :)
Varda Valar (23:58:54): to quote Eonwe.
Varda Valar (23:59:30): The picture of Nienor made me
think of this one.
Varda Valar (00:00:02): Who were
some of the characters who were not all that "good" but were on the
good side, at least more or less?
Monday, August 14, 2017
Varda Valar (00:00:40): What made them seem less like
good guys even though they may have fought against Sauron or Melkor?
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:01:15): If we're going by that
definition, the house of Feanor
comes to mind.
Varda Valar (00:01:29): Aye. I had them very much in
mind.
Varda Valar (00:02:04): There were others too.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:02:05): The oath, the kinslayings,
often lacking the will to join up with the other good sides...
Varda Valar (00:03:50): If a silmaril came into the
picture, all other considerations went over the cliff.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:03:53): Pretty much.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:04:23): Thingol wasn't always a nice fellow.
Varda Valar (00:04:32): Some of them seemed just
plain unpleasant as personalities, too. Other Feanorians seemed pretty
decent, just caught up in circumstance.
Varda Valar (00:04:51): True. He sure didn't want a
smelly wild human carrying off his daughter.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:05:05): He wasn't happy about
paying dwarves either.
Varda Valar (00:05:31): When it came to the Nauglamir
with the silmaril that was his in it, that got bad.
Varda Valar (00:06:00): But the dwarves had a large part in that
problem. They didn't want to give it back after putting the silmaril in
the necklace.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:06:07): Hmm, indeed.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:06:24): Well, the dwarves
themselves would fall under this category.
Varda Valar (00:06:29): Both sides had blame there.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:06:55): They faced Morgoth in
battle at points, and were happy to work with the sons of Feanor, but
had no problems with making war on Thingol.
Varda Valar (00:07:05): The dwarves tended to be
insular, but were often helpful. They worked well with Thingol early on.
Varda Valar (00:07:49): That's why he was willing to
go to them for such an important job, the earlier earned trust.
Varda Valar (00:08:47): Turin was one of those good guys in
most of the war that might not be good to be around personally.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:09:14): People around Turin
personally tended to die.
Varda Valar (00:10:01): Even his best friends and
loved ones.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:10:32): Especially does. But part
of that was because of Morgoth who was having an argument with Turin's
dad.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:10:35): *those
Varda Valar (00:10:42): Eol was an odd one. He had both good
and bad. He lived alone a lot, worked with dwarves a lot.
Varda Valar (00:10:56): Aye. A major part was
Morgoth's meddling.
Varda Valar (00:11:14): Turin's ego added to that,
his stubborness, his running over others.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:11:25): Agreed.
Varda Valar (00:13:29): Denethor.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:14:19): Considered him, but he did
kinda play into Sauron's hand later on.
Varda Valar (00:15:40): I'm not calling these people
evil, but they weren't pure as the driven snow, the way some critics
say Tolkien's characters are either pure good or pure evil.
Arien V (00:15:55): hmm there was also this Gwindor in Finduilas story .. who
became very jealous of Turin and so destoyed part of her happiness and
contributed to the curse on the children of Hurin
Arien V (00:16:18): in the Silmarillion version at
least
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:16:36): while we're on the Turin
story, I'll add Saeros.
Varda Valar (00:17:01): Turin was taking over
Gwindor's kingdom, people, and fiance, so he had some reason to be
upset.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:17:02): The bully who Turin ended
up killing in several different versions...
Varda Valar (00:17:10): Saeros, that's a good example.
Varda Valar (00:18:19): A number of the Numenornean kings meant well for
their people, but became blinded to what they should have seen, ending
in the destruction of many of the people and their gifted land.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:18:34): ...Yes, how could I forget
those...
Varda Valar (00:18:53): Just haven't gotten around to
them. :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:19:02): I actually did not think of
them, but there's such a large time scale to go over :)
Varda Valar (00:19:23): True
Varda Valar (00:19:32): Saruman meant well, but despaired.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:19:52): Same can be said for Boromir.
Varda Valar (00:20:01): He went with if you can't
beat them, join them.
Varda Valar (00:20:28): Boromir, like the Numenorean
kings? He might have liked that comparison. :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:21:25): like Saruman, actually :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:21:29): meant well, but despaired
Varda Valar (00:26:12): The outlaw groups: Turin's and Beren's.
I'd consider Beren's pretty good folk, really, guerrilla fighters.
Varda Valar (00:26:22): but still human.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:26:43): It had a sorta-traitor,
though, I think?
Varda Valar (00:27:16): Right. Not really evil,
desperate to be with his wife again.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:27:20): Yep.
Varda Valar (00:30:40): *picks up a hammer from the
shelf*
Varda Valar (00:30:52): *who made this one, I wonder?*
Varda Valar (00:31:05): *hits it down on the
hammerpad*
Varda Valar (00:31:12): *fwooooommmm!*
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:31:15): Technically it could be
Sauron's, as he was originally an assistant of Morgoth.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:31:18): ehrr
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:31:19): of Aule
Varda Valar (00:31:34): *darkness spills aorund the
room, peacefully, but inexorably*
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:31:44): peacefully? maybe not...
Varda Valar (00:31:58): *it pulls back into the
hammer, when it is ready*
Varda Valar (00:32:11): *I place it verrrry carefully
back on the shelf*
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Varda Valar (00:32:19): After-meeting!
Varda Valar (00:32:27): *room is still a bit chilled*
[Note: Mandos' effects.]
Eonwe Valar (00:32:38): As Tolkien put it in one of
his letters: "...I have not made any of the peoples on the 'right'
side, Hobbits, Rohirrim, Men of Dale or of Gondor, any better than men
have been or are, or can be."
Varda Valar (00:32:50): Well put.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:33:09): Bit of a selective group,
though, all human or related to.
Eonwe Valar (00:33:47): He was using examples, he
wasn't making an all-inclusive list :}
Varda Valar (00:34:00): Aye. :)
Arien V (00:34:18): :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:34:19): Yes, of course, I'm just
saying it wasn't very random in the sampling :)
Eonwe Valar (00:34:33): Probably listing off some of
the examples he heard the most complaints about at the time.
Eonwe Valar (00:35:06): For a little more context,
because context is fun :} :
Varda Valar (00:35:59): Aye again :)
Eonwe Valar (00:37:26): After a long letter in
response to a review, in which he goes into discussions on good and
evil, how they apply to his story, discussion on the sides, etc., he
ends with the following paragraph...
Eonwe Valar (00:39:17): "So I feel that the
fiddle-faddle in reviews, and correspondence about them, as to whether
my 'good people' were kind and merciful and gave quarter (in fact they
do), or not, is quite beside the point. Some critics seem determined to
represent me as a simple-minded adolescent, inspired with, say, a
With-the-flag-to-Pretoria spiritm and it does not appear in the story.
Eonwe Valar (00:41:14): The figure of Denethor alone
is enough to show this; but I have not made any of the peoples on the
'right' side, Hobbits, Rohirrim, Men of Dale, or of Gondor, any better
than men have been or are, or can be. Mine is not an 'imaginary' world,
but an imaginary historical moment on 'Middle-earth' - which is our
habitation."
Eonwe Valar (00:41:43): Arg, I apologize
Eonwe Valar (00:41:55): I cut a large portion out of
that without noticing. Let me try again.
Eonwe Valar (00:42:58): start at
"With-the-flag-to-Pretoria spirit"
Eonwe Valar (00:43:08): continue here:
Eonwe Valar (00:44:06): ",and wilfully distort what
is said in my tale. I have not that spirit, and it does not appear in
the story." Then pick up with the sentence above starting with "The
figure of Denethor..."
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:45:07): I think there's some
historical context I'm missing here, what's the flag to pretoria stand
for?
Eonwe Valar (00:46:38): Not familiar with it myself
to be honest, and don't have much time to look deeper into it right now.
Eonwe Valar (00:46:54): But this is what I found with
a quick wikipedia search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Pretoria
Eonwe Valar (00:47:08): May or may not be helpful.
Eonwe Valar (00:47:40): If I have time later tonight,
I'll see if I can't get some better context on that phrase.
Eonwe Valar (00:48:06): For now though, I must say
take care all, good night, sleep well, and have fun :}
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:48:18): namarie!
Arien V (00:48:38): Namarie Eonwe and have a good day
:) and night
Varda Valar (00:50:23): Namarie!
Varda Valar (00:55:03): Started poking around in the
Letters, thanks to Eonwe. :) Found a spot where JRRT tells that dragons
were still around, just not of full primeval stature that could have
burned a ring.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:55:18): heh
Varda Valar (00:55:22): way into letter 144
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:55:49): komodo?
Varda Valar (00:56:02): He said "they were active in
far later times, close to our own".
Varda Valar (00:56:19): That question has come up a
few times. Nice seeing a definitive answer.
Varda Valar (00:56:56): He's not as hopeful as I was
about the entwives.
Varda Valar (00:57:49): He said if any had survived,
they may have been enslaved in the East, as they need agriculture for
food too.
Ar-Pharazon-V (00:58:19): ..bonsai trees are entlings!
Varda Valar (00:59:02): They might have picked up
experience of industrialized and militarized agriculture. It could have
made them more anarchic, maybe enough so they could get along with ents.
Arien V (00:59:16): :) Thats what they are i wondered
:)
Varda Valar (00:59:53): The most hopeful bit is that
some may have fled east, or have been enslaved.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:00:21): Well, I'll start a bit of
personal gaming before I dive into Storm.
Varda Valar (01:00:28): If so, maybe they would not
have been as far away as the ents feared. I figured some of the moving
trees around the Shire would have been entwives.
Varda Valar (01:00:43): Since they would have liked
the farming area of the Shire, the peace.
Varda Valar (01:00:47): Ok, fire away!
Arien V (01:01:00): .. thinking of the war machines
.. land air missiles .. mortars where the rapid fire from afare might
look indeed like dragon fire
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Ar-Pharazon-V (01:03:46): Flashgaming!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:04:02): I could link some I've
checked from the past few weeks, but I'll stick to this week.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:04:19): http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/the_sun__moon
is the first game! A platformer where you can shift to move and jump
through the ground, but be careful not to fall through!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:05:51): http://www.kongregate.com/games/GoodyPundit/sword-spoon
is a defense and upgrade game, defend your castle from incoming waves
by building barracks and stuff for soldiers of various kinds, as well
as farms and servants to keep them fed and restocked.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:06:53): http://www.kongregate.com/games/Crescentyr/rullo
is the third, a puzzle and math game, figure out what numbers to
eliminate to reach the right totals for every row and column!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:07:01): All 3 are quite fun, so
enjoy :D
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:15:47): Storm time, giving blizzard
report after. There's a lot to tell!
Arien V (01:18:38): bed time for me now i fear :
Varda Valar (01:18:52): Sleep well!
Arien V (01:19:00): but i ll read the report or the
script here f:)
Arien V (01:19:22): you too all when you get to it :)
Namarie!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:20:29): namarie!
Varda Valar (01:28:53): I will have to say the
discussion was in AIM, and nowhere else, today, for our "vote with the
feet" between AIM and Discord.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:51:38): Blizzard gaming!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:51:49): Where to begin!
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:52:54): Heroes of the Storm: Level 206 now,
few new skins gotten through brawl and level reward. This week's brawl
was the Hanamura map again, escorting or attacking a payload, trying to
get it to the target on time or preventing it from doing so.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:53:16): That got me my extra level,
as well as my first experience playing Chromie. Fun hero, but a bit
squishy :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:53:56): Hearthstone: Interesting random
brawl, pick a class, get a deck full of spells and shifters, giving a
random unit every turn.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:54:37): Over halfway with nearly
all my classes now (priest a bit behind) so getting there.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:54:55): Also started opening packs
again,now that the legendary change is in place. Got a new one already,
the warrior quest from Un'goro.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:55:04): No, wait, not warrior. The
rogue one.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:55:11): Supposedly the most
overpowered :D
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:57:25): Diablo 3: Really started getting
into the season, neglecting bounties this time for rifts. Later on I
need to get jewelcrafting recipes anyway so I might as well wait before
I do the bounties.
Ar-Pharazon-V (01:58:01): Took some difficulty advice
from a WoW friend and it's going well, gotten to level 37 I think. Over
halfway to level 70!
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:00:26): Starcraft II: Working on the war
chest, through quick training missions! Finished the first 2 stages of
phase 1 already, giving me new skins for marine, marauder, zergling,
hydralisk, zealot and adept.
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:02:00): Phase 2 unlocks in 3 days,
which means I can roll on straight through phase 2 without having to
wait. There will be a gap before phase 3 opens, though. During this
time I plan to leave SCII for a bit and work on the Icecrown Citadel
missions in Hearthstone. I plan to get the Arthas hero eventually, but
at least work through the story at least once :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:02:23): WoW:
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:03:03): Got my last pet from the
Northrend raids for the meta achievement, the Drudge Ghoul. Still
missing the optional Snobold, but that's not required for the ach, or
the reward for it.
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:03:16): Which was a queststarter to
do a pet battle with Algalon in front of the Ulduar raid!
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:03:37): After winning that, I got
yet another pet, the Stardust bunny :) Very nice looking, and a cool
idle animation as well.
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:10:15): I finally got the rank 3
cooking recipe for faronaar fizz (I think it's called?) which leaves
just fish-based recipes. Since I now need to take up fishing again, i
thought I'd help it along by getting the fishing pole artifact first.
And so I did, last night!
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:11:39): Now I can use the rare fish
I'll get while fishign for Nomi's recipe-discovering to upgrade the
artifact and make fishing even easier :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:11:48): *fishing
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:17:42): Heroic raiding going well,
got a few new things including best-in-slot bracers. Starting to get
Desolate Host and Sass'zine under control, with only 3 bosses to go!
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:24:12): Now working on my fourth
Concordance for druid artifacts, the one for resto... only 4 more
traits, going very nicely :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:25:04): What else... appearances, I
guess!
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:25:35): Making some progress all
around, finished up one of the bosses in Tempest Keep, and finally got
the hatpiece needed to complete the season 2 pvp set, so another
achievement there.
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:27:47): I have a feeling there
should be more, that I've just forgotten... mostly I've just slowly
been trying to build up my routine again.
Ar-Pharazon-V (02:31:11): Ah well, if not, that's my
report for the week :)
Ar-Pharazon-V (04:31:19): namarie, sending transcript
later in the week!
Varda Valar (21:31:34): thanks :) [Central time]
EonweValar: Heya all.
Aug 14, 2017 5:47 AM EonweValar
For the record: Looks like that's With the Flag to Pretoria,
a book by H.W.Wilson.
Aug 14, 2017 5:49 AM EonweValar: It's on the Boer War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
Aug 14, 2017 5:56 AM EonweValar: So sounds like Tolkien was referencing
the way that book was written, or presented its subject matter.
Aug 14, 2017 6:40 AM EonweValar: OK, that's it for me for tonight. Take
care all and have fun :}
Aug 14, 2017 6:44 PM ArPharazon-V: So, Starcraft Remastered launched. I
checked it out, looks pretty good. The old game, but with better
graphics. From what I can tell, even the mission intros are basically
the same but with better resolution, and the intro text comes with
pictures now.
Aug 14, 2017 6:44 PM ArPharazon-V: I haven't yet tried the actual intro
cinematic or the gameplay.
Aug 14, 2017 6:44 PM Arien V: ah nice :)
Aug 14, 2017 6:45 PM ArPharazon-V: I was worried it'd lose some of its
old charm, but from what I can tell so far, it's the same but better in
detail :)
Aug 14, 2017 6:46 PM Arien V: good :)
Aug 14, 2017 6:46 PM Arien V: GW 2 brings out in september a new
expansion , Crystal of Fire, and the graphic there looks pretty nifty
Aug 14, 2017 6:47 PM ArPharazon-V: Guild Wars? Nice!
Aug 14, 2017 6:47 PM Arien V: aye :) playing that sometimes .. the
second one tho
Aug 14, 2017 6:55 PM Arien V: Namarie golden one :)
Aug 14, 2017 6:55 PM ArPharazon-V: namarie!
Aug 14, 2017 6:55 PM ArPharazon-V: and I've only played the first one
Aug 14, 2017 6:55 PM Arien V: i played both actually
Aug 14, 2017 6:56 PM Arien V: such a development betwwen the two
Aug 14, 2017 6:56 PMArien V: o/
Aug 14, 2017 6:56 PMArPharazon-V: From what i heard, it lost a bunch of
the stuff I liked about the first.
Aug 14, 2017 6:56 PMArPharazon-V: o/
1:05 AM EonweValar: Heya to all on and all to come on later :}
1:06 AM EonweValar: Aye, noticed Starcraft in my Battle.net launcher.
Yay :}Now just gotta wait for WC3 Remastered and D2 Remastered, lol :}
1:07 AM EonweValar: Nice that they decided to keep the "Battle.net" as
part of the app name too. To me at least.
1:10 AM EonweValar: Didn't pre-order it, but looks like all I missed
out on was the fancy Command Center/Nexus/Hive graphics. I can live
with that. Had they also applied to SC2, might've been a tougher
decision :}
7:09 AM EonweValar: OK, that's it for me. Take care and have fun :}
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