Just Window Shopping

Stuff to get for when I’m all grown up and one terrifying frosty mage. Is that a cold wind blowing? Are the ravens shrieking in the trees? Do your bones ache from the cold?

Hide yourself, for the Rabbit is a-coming!!!

Chester: /yawn

DeadRabbit: Wait and see, little rodent, wait and see….

Chester: Ha!

DeadRabbit: Jealous much? Don’t worry my rat-tailed friend, I will hook you up too. I’m looking into purchasing whatever spell will make you into the Squirrel-beast-a-zoid in SquirrelBane.

Chester: Ohhhh. With the lazer bolts even????

DeadRabbit: You betcha!

Chester: Is that a cold wind blowing? Are the ravens shrieking in the trees? Fear the Rabbit and her squirrel!!!

DeadRabbit: There ya go, little guy!

Anyone else throwing a variety show?

I gotcha. Stay silent…you wouldn’t want Thrall to think you were interested in participating.

But, IF there’s anyone out there who just wants to practice their WoW dance moves, I have a link for you. WOW DDR otherwise known as World of Warcraft Dance Dance Revolution

My First Love…/sigh

My fellow Poxer, Raven, recently gave a shout-out to Massively’s visual history of MMOs Part I. Massively’s slideshow might be a nice trip down memory lane for some or make the rest of ya shudder at the pixelated “eye-strain inducing” graphics. And frankly, although I loved me my Pac-Man, those graphics didn’t allow me to lose myself in the early games. Great fun but I was always aware that I was playing a game. WoW’s environments are another matter. I can lose myself in the game. Start to care about my character and what they are doing (and I don’t even need Molyneaux’s puppy dogging my heels for that to happen).

However, Raven did remind me that my first online MMO (actually, I think it was a MOO and not in the Tauren sense) was a text-based game. I got online ’round-about 1997 via AOL. AOL took me in and let me play in their walled garden before I knew that they sucked. Forgive me, I was young, easily impressionable and the garden sure was purty. And at that time, AOL supported Modus Operandi, an online MMO (MOO?) that let you play around in a Miami-Vice meets hard-boiled film-noir kind of world. But it wasn’t the vibe that got me so much but the lack of visuals. Yup, I said it, the lack of visuals rocked my gamer socks off. You had to imagine everything. I can still “see” the city streets in that game. It combined the immersive quality of reading coupled with an online community. Oooh I thought it was so cool.

And do you know, Modus Operandi is still around? Well I didn’t. I thought it had died out about the same time AOL had to dismantle its walls. I’m a bit afraid to venture in. Don’t want to ruin a good memory. Can you go back to puppy love after you are all grown up and in Outland? I don’t think so. Plus they charge $14.95 a month to play. I like my nostalgia served up a bit cheaper…as in free.

But thanks Raven for sparking my look back and getting all stupidly sentimental.

A clean-slate

I just read this great post over at newly legit*** Gun Lovin’ Dwarf Chick…you can read it here. Okay, yes I have my secrets. Don’t we all? I’m going to join the GL’DC and lay ‘em out on the line.

DeadRabbit’s Secretary’s Laundry List:

I had a Leif Garret album. I bought it. And I listened to it. And I don’t care that he looks like a mopey-assed Blood Elf…I still was made for dancing

I use to make fun of computer gamers. I considered myself a console gamer dyed-in-the-wool and disparaged what I saw as the “tip tapping” mincing game play of computer games. And look at me now /grin. I love WoW.

I’m an English major and a rotten speller. And, here’s the worst part, I don’t care. “Correct” spelling is a fairly new invention. English is an evolving language…and a little incorrect spelling helps that process in my book. Plus I consider it a huge social faux-pas to correct grammar and spelling mistakes. Especially, if it’s obvious that it was a mistype.

DeadRabbit’s List of Shame:

I’m kind of excited about the variety show. Anybody tells Thrall and I will deny, deny, deny. And then sheep the ba$#t@d who told him.

I didn’t just skinny dip once in the Ogrimmar lake but many times.

Sometimes, as I’m getting dressed in the morning, I sing “Dem Bones” in front of the mirror:

Chester comes clean:

I’m not that fond of acorns. They are just so “nutty.” Now a good steak with mashed potatoes on the side? That’s good eating.

I read Watership Down and Animal Farm and hated them. I know that DR’s secretary is all about the books and LOVES those two in particular. But blah, blah, blah…talking animals…blah, blah, blah. Give me a Tom Clancy novel any day of the week.

**newly legit? what???

Nobody here but us stage shy mice

Thrall: Rabbit?

Deadrabbit: ………….

Thrall: Oh come on, throwing a team building variety show that cheers up a bunch of habitually pissed off orcs is *not* that hard.

Deadrabbit: …………

Thrall: hmmm, well here’s some inspiration:

Team Building Exercise

2:00 pm Valley of Wisdom, Orgrimmar

Thrall: DeadRabbit, Employee #317Un-Ma….may I call you Rabbit?

DeadRabbit: um, sure

Thrall: I’ll make this brief, dear. I’ve been thinking that a bit of workplace cheer is in order. The orcs have been looking a little more green around the edges…more than usual….hahaha.

DeadRabbit: ok?

Thrall: Come on Rabbit, let’s show some go-get-em spirit. Think of this as a fantastic team-building opportunity!

DeadRabbit: Couldn’t we do that by raiding Stormwind?

Thrall: It’s been done.

DeadRabbit: Or Alterac Valley, we could go as a group for training exercises?

Thrall: That is so Patch 2.4. I want to do something different. Something unexpected. A variety show Rabbit…it’s what the orcs want.

DeadRabbit: Oh….hahahahhah….this is an April Fool’s joke right? Some sort of “new kid on the block” hazing. I got ya …wink, wink…you want me to thrash out bard style while sporting a Hello Kitty kilt, right? Good one!

Thrall: ……………………….

DeadRabbit: It’s not a joke?

Thrall: No. So snap to it, Rabbit. Round up the crew and lets see a show. I’m counting on ya.

What???

EDITED: the picture wasn’t showing. So those of you who have been here before have seen this and can skip this. But those of you who are new might not have seen Thrall’s request that DeadRabbit visit the executive suite:

Oh no! This was in my mail box when I punched in for work today. Chester thinks it’s because I was skinny dipping in the Valley of Orgrimmar pond. I think Chester can be a bit of rodent sometimes and should remember who buys the acorns around here. But do you think he’s right? Why would Thrall care about a bit o’ swimming? Biting my nails here folks….biting my nails.

Seems Appropriate After Previous Post

Have you seen this yet? Zendulo, thank you for strapping on the angry pants:

It’s a response to this video…which is pretty damn funny….but does lay a smack down. There are no hawt nerd gurls? What?:

Okay, I’ve already proven that DeadRabbit is dead sexy. But I’m gonna back up my girl Zendulo. And put on the angry pants:

Hawt in a post-Victorian, mournful English major, MLS student nerd-o-rific kind of way, no?

My nerd credentials?

Saw Star Wars (original release) in the theaters 14 times.

Saw Indiana Jones (original release) in the theaters 8 times. The last time, crammed into one seat WITH my brother because there weren’t two seats free.

Collected Star Wars cards: full set of the blue and the red

1978, I’m eleven. My brother is six. For Halloween, I was Princess Leia and my bro was R2D2. My mom, an artist, recreated the costumes from my Star Wars cards. People were dumping bowls of candy into our halloween bags because we looked so damn cool.

Sheesh, let’s cut to the present. Love R.O.D., finished Halo on Legendary and then replayed it on Hero using just the M6D pistol, play WoW, gave my spouse a written explanation of what it means to be a gamer pre-marriage (just wanted to make sure we wuz clear), read urban fantasy, quote LOTR (movies and books) and Monty Python with my best friend.

My ace in the hole? I can quote (in Middle English) the first 18 lines of the prologue from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales from memory. Boo-ya!

Probably not uber-nerd but not so shabby.

Separated at Birth #3

A bit of cheesecake for ya….

(c) All Images of DeadRabbit “Sexy as She Wants To Be” can be distributed freely to any and all with a need for some eye candy. Put the poster on the wall. Dream at night. It’s okay. Just don’t ask for autographs. DeadRabbit needs her personal space.

It’s not yet Wednesday but here’s O-Z

The Order of the Stick: Stick figures battling it out D&D style. Not WoW but again feels like it should be. (Anybody else think that Dark Legacy Comic’s artwork is kinda like Order of the Stick’s?)

Oxhorn’s moovies: Oxhorn doth speak the truth, ya chakin blit.

Penny Arcade: All bow before the brilliance that is Penny Arcade: gaming commentary with integrity.

Planet Fargo: Better Gnomes and Gardens The Orcish Martha Stewart. However I’m not sure if I should take the following as a compliment or not: “But let’s talk bones, ‘cuz that’s the good stuff/Hang ‘em everywhere! Too many’s not enough.” He ain’t talkin’ ’bout the undead is he?, the chakin blit!!

PvP online: Bringing you gaming humor since 1998. Plus there is a panda…what’s not to love?

The Scout Report: Ratshag put a spot light on this comic and we should all thank the funny mugger fugger.

Shakes & Fidget: Why, you ask, does it start with episode 23? Because originally this baby was put out in german, kids. Get buffed is hosting the english version. But, we can haz translation 1-22, plz?

Sockpuppet Asylum: a group of college age gamers. Some WoW content.

Socks and Barney: is “is a daily online comic strip looking at the presidential nomination and election process through the most appropriate lens available: buttsniffing, dumb animals.” Doesn’t sound very WoW does it? HA! I got your WoW content right here. Plus he calls Mary Lincoln Todd a steampunk cyborg. Biting political commentary, old school comic style, historical references and a bit of WoW…you can take me now, I’m happy.

Tales from the Lion’s Pride Inn: High epic D&D crossed with film noir WoW adventure comic.

That’s the World of Warcraft that you play: Put out by Beckman Movie Productions. The kid is damn clever, he’s also the brains behind Azerothian Super Villians.

teh Gladiators: A Horde WoW Arena Comic.

World of Fellowship of the Ringcraft: Oh gosh, I cried this made me laugh so hard. From You’re the Man Now, Dog, they have more WoW stuff here.

World of Warcraft Community Comic page: Here be an index of the World of Warcraft submissions to the monthly comic contest, yea verily.

World of Zach: lots of promises on his blog. No content yet but let’s choose to believe him. Come on guys, do you believe? Let’s all clap our hands and save Zach. /pleased with self at Peter Pan reference.

WowBash: snippets of WoW chat saved for posterity. Plus “Your battle prowess is nothing compared to mine!”

Xkcd: Stick figures making really intelligent funnies. You have been warned: “Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)”