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no it happened today. new news, but boring news. /yawn

lawl I was going to try and get to that this weekend.

where the hell did you get that image, Stang...

Shad told him what they were. He didn't figure out shit.

I wont be playing either by the time it comes out. /mmo-retirement

I doubt it. Did you read the post from Tigoil you posted? They got grief for patching stuff in the way they did pre-BC, so now they just threw it all out on the table at once pretty much and said "here ya go, have at it". BT is like THE instance in BC lore-wise. What else could there be? I just don't think they'll be patching in any more going by all the countless interviews and posts that Blizz Dev's and CM's have done. It's just not fitting with what they said they are trying to do with BC raiding.

Wow, I couldn't disagree more. World firsts/server firsts don't mean shit anymore, and therefore not much of a competition. It use to mean something. Now there are so many instances, so many bosses, that no one really cares. Its like, "oh, another boss dead, meh". Blizz reps have stated repeatedly that they want all of BC raid instances to be completed by all the raiding guilds, there are no more "uber elitist" guild only bosses like Naxx. They knew when making Naxx that only a few people would have time and the skill to finish it, and they've chosen not to do anything like that in BC. So if the encounters are designed to be accessible to guilds like us, then of course to guilds like Nihilum the bosses are going to be cake. That diminishes the value of a "world first" greatly. It isn’t because 25 man raids are easier to manage, and therefore more productive, it’s just that Blizzard has chosen to tune raid encounters in a way that allows all raiding guilds the ability to complete it. And I doubt they’ll be rushing to add new content just for the sake of a few guilds. If those guilds complete shit months before others, then it’s their own fault if they get bored with the game. The only other raid that Blizz has mentioned for BC is Zul’Amon, a 10 man. I doubt they’ll be anymore 25 mans til the next XP, which will be god knows when in ’08.

scandalous rumors!

It's tru!

ahaha Stang pulled a Bib

Good to hear. shitty beer FTL, and smoking, both

No. They raid/farm pretty much 24/7

mmochamp > worldofraids and OMGWTFBBQ Nihilum is already on Illidan?!?! /wrists

wtf how does everyone and their mother have a netherdrake?!

yeah I lost a little respect for Soma when I saw those beers

Soma's beard > all our beards combined

Lies! I did pretty good against you at Guitar Hero! (shhh dont tell them that i was on medium and you were on expert)

Tom, why does that beard look red? Have Todd's pubes been getting stuck in there?

pshhh this is soooo two months ago

how would you know. you slept on top of Alex!

HAHA /agree with Kla. Good start to the morning. And RH, you're soooo getting a body cavity search from the TSA. It's gonna happen. Just you wait. edit: if you were more pale you'd almost look Amish with that stache-less beard

Save as PNG instead then =p but either way, I'd rather convert the raw image to jpg myself then have wow save it as that. Who knows how much they're compressing. I guess I could just compare it for myself though. /lazy

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the stage together for an interview at some tech conference/convention thing yesterday. Some of you might be interested I guess. It's an interesting read, well, I thought so. =) /geek http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-j...ve-from-d-2007/ Also a one on one with Jobs and he shows off some youtube on Apple TV stuff http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-j...ve-from-d-2007/ And boring ol' Steve Balmer doing his interview and showing off the Surface table http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-b...ve-from-d-2007/

I remember seeing videos of a prototype version being displayed at last years TED conference (which to me still looks way cooler than Microsofts rear-projection table). At the time it wasn't owned by Microsoft, though (or at least not presented as a MS product). I assume they opened their Scrooge McDuck style piggy banks to buy it up from the Media Research Laboratory. Kev, you're partially right. This won't be commercially viable any time soon. In 5 to 10 years though I would expect to see it in retail applications, especially in countries like Japan and Korea. In the mean time it will probably be used more for industry use. Cartographers, military, architects, engineers, graphic design, anyone that can afford to spend $10k per unit. Edit: actually MS's table is a different project, just really similar. MRL's table has been in commercial production for a year now. The developer's company, Perceptive Pixel, has been selling them. The CIA's already installed a lot of them. lawl

They were never TIF, Matt TGA is for the win. screw compression. JPG is FTL. Anyone that doesn't have PS to view them in .... well... forget them.