Jan 30
JasonWoW problem, Windows, world of warcraft
It’s fixed! The dreaded #134 Error is no more! And for the most part the Blizzard tech support people are completely worthless.. But I get ahead of myself.
Firstly, what it’s not;
The blizzard folks over at their forums, as well as those you get ahold of on the phone.. and via email will try to blame everything on you. The reason for this will come clear shortly, but in a way they are right and in a way wrong.
The World of Warcraft #134 error is so vague and broad in scope that it is the support equivalent to, “It broke!”… It could be any number of things, but the thing they just about always tell you it is, is memory. Read the forums and you’ll always see some asshat chiming in that it must be your memory.. The issue I had with that response is that I had run tests against my 4 gigs of memory both in linux, and in windows using multiple tools as well as testing each stick individually.. My memory was flawless every time.. even using the test blizzard suggested I use.
Once I proved that, they suddenly tried to blame some other facet of my hardware.. Long story short, everything they suggested WAS WRONG. Period..
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Jan 18
JasonWoW bullshit, lag, server, world of warcraft
Not Malygos, but cool
So we have been playing a LOT of World of Warcraft of late. I must admit I’m very much enjoying it for the most part. But we have gotten to the point where we are farming the end game content because by and large, it’s way too easy.
All that is except Malygos. We have beaten Malygos before but for whatever reason our guild can’t seem to pull it’s collective head out 9 times out of 10. Things just go wrong.
That’s fine and acceptable except they all seem to think we are going to one shot him and move on. Over confidence is our down fall, but not our only one. The real issue isn’t our guild or our game play, but rather the fucking lag!
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Jul 26
JasonGames 40k, CoH, daoc, everquest, Games, world of warcraft
I play Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy table top games. I also used to play the Warhammer fantasy role playing game when I was in highschool.. Right now I’m doing my damnedest to assemble and paint models for my new Warhammer 40k Orks Army.
I love those little green bastards but I have a billion of them to paint.. (Okay, a billion might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.) Over the years I have had Necron, Tau and Orks as my 40K armies, and Orcs & Goblins, Skaven and Tomb Kings as my Fantasy armies. I played the role playing game for years and really preferred it to D&D or any of the other traditional role playing systems..
I tell you this so that you will come away with the understanding that I have a pretty good idea about the Warhammer universe and to convey to you how absolutely excited I was about Warhammer Online, Age of Reckoning. I had long thought this universe was ripe for computer games.
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Jun 17
JasonCity of Heroes Age of Conan, everquest, Games, merchant, MMO, world of warcraft
City of Heroes (and thus City of Villains) is one of those sleeper games that has a lot of hidden depth. I played CoH for almost a year starting back in Feb. 2005 when it first came out. I like to refer to it as MMO Lite.
It’s a good game, and a good starter game for those who aren’t really sure about the whole MMO scene. It’s very simple to play and enjoy, and doesn’t bog you down with many of the more complex MMO aspects. For new comers to the market, its perfect. It’s how I got my wife into MMO’s and now I can’t get her away from the computer.. heh (“I just have this one last quest to do..” “Uh huh.. sure honey.. ” heh) More
Apr 22
JasonRandomStrings 40k, call of duty 4, computers, hobby, IBM, MMO, ork, programming, world of warcraft
I was asked the other day why I don’t update my website more often.. A fine question, and I can only offer one answer.. I just don’t want to..
Er let me amend that.. I do want to.. I mean I enjoy doing this stuff, but I do it all day long! I’m one of those lucky guys who managed to turn a hobby into a career, but in so doing; I lost my hobby.
I program and work on computers, all.. day.. long.. I don’t much care to come home and do it some more. Its the main reason some of my online projects are suffering. It’s not that I don’t wish to make something of them, I just can’t get in the mood to do it. More
Jan 20
JasonRandomStrings, WoW linux, ubuntu, windows xp, wine, world of warcraft
I am far from a linux “fanboi”, in fact until recently I didn’t really use linux all that much at all.. All of my games are played in WindowsXP simply because there really is no other option… or is there?
I have been using linux quite a lot at work, and really like where Ubuntu is going. Pretty much everything about it leads me to think that Microsoft should be worried. (Apple has nothing to fear, simply because they are a hardware company..)
Anyway, after having XP tell me for the umpteenth time that I had “unused icons on my desktop”.. (Yes I know.. I PUT THEM THERE..) I decided to install Ubuntu on my game machine and try to get WoW working. I figured I’d be in a long and protracted fight, an impossible up hill battle with a colossal fight at the end! I couldn’t have been more wrong — but I get ahead of myself.
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