I hate to single out one song in a whole year but since i heard this song a week a go in my sisters place in dublin along with that new “Girls Aloud” song theyve been in my head ever since.  But the Killers song is just awesome and its like they made another “Mr Brightside” all over again. The song from there new album “Day & Night” is just awesome, “Human”.

When i came back to Wow about a week and half ago for the new big pre-WOTLK patch i was disapointed in the little content there was. Sure a few Hair-cuts and the new talents and of course the achievements make things interesting while the vast majority of Azeroth is bored stupid.

Anyway i had my level 34 Female Dwarf Paladin who i gave up on ever leveling after level 34 due to how bloody slow it was to kill anything after the patch this all changed it was super fast and easy to level and i started to level due to the fact that there was nothing else to do in Wow and ive almost given up on Warhammer Online.

So yesterday i got to level 60 which i never intended or thought i would get to so i set myself the task of getting the Paladin Epic mount which has to be one of the coolest looking mounts in WoW. This of course meant a long quest to do and some gold and luckily i had the gold and eventually got to the last part in the quest where you need to go to Scholomance. I was luckily able to get some kind guildies to help with the Dire Maul and Stratholme parts (Boya,Pikel,Kristina and kayza).

It was difficult to get any help for the Scholomance part which to be honest is a horrable place anyway. So after a few shouts in the guild chat i gave up and relogged with another toon for a while. Then this is where Wow really shines, i flew to the Western Plaguelands to be near Scholomance and i relogged back in. I noticed a level 60 Paladin near by looking bored and i asked just on the off-chance that they were having the same problem getting the last part done as me, if they were doing the Paladin Mount Quest and would you know it by complete luck or faith they were! I was amazed so we teamed up and this player had a few people in the group already so we were all set to go.

Of course luck wasnt too kind and our Druid healer had some Diconnection problems. Anyway we had another problem as we all got outside Scholo, we had no key! So luckily my old reliable Gnome Warlock ‘Chuckie’ was there to save the day, so i relogged with my warlock and rejoined my Guild and we all entered Scholo and started to clear the way to cellar. It was a bit chaotic as id never even re-specced my warlock after the patch and hadnt a clue what spec to pick. Anyway we cleared to the room with all the whelps and we wiped. Two people left the group and we got a level 70 paladin to help who seemed to not know where Scholo was or what the Paladin mount quest consisted off. Anyway we managed to summon the boss you need to kill for the mount and we killed it.

The funny thing is that the other Paladin in the group looted the item you needed and left. My heart sank and thought for a few seconds that the item you loot was only for one paladin and not two. Then i realised that i needed to use the item i looted on the dead horse and hey presto there was my Achievement and my Epic Paladin mount.

I cant name any other game that has that kind of amazing events and people who come to help you like that. Wow really is an amazing game.

The pile of UK TV shows getting “Translated” to “US” is growing faster than ever it seems.  Currently “Little Britain” is running in its “US” version which i can understand as the original is very “British” which of course is the point of the show. Ive seen a few episodes of the “US” version and its still got the same shocking disturbing comedy to it. Some of the characters are quite poor and not funny really the “Lady with the Dog” for one.

The “US” version of “The Office” is very good it keeps the idea of the original and adds some great ideas and characters to it and it works. Another show ive seen thats made the transition is a show called “Life on Mars”. Ive never watched it and know nothing about it but it another example of how americans need things dumbed-down or translated for them. I cant quite understand why the americans need there own special versions of these TV shows? There are a number of reasons which i can guess at;

• Accents and “British/European Sence of Humour”
• Regional problems like city names etc
• or the plain old stupid fact that americans wouldnt understand it

An Irish bloke goes to the doctor, “Dactor, it’s me rear end. I’d loik ya ta teyhk a look, if ya woot”.

So the doctor gets him to drop his pants and takes a look. “Incredible” he says, “there is a $20 note lodged up here”

Tentatively he eases the twenty out of the man’s bottom, and then a $10 note appears. “This is amazing” exclaims the Doctor. “What do you want me to do?.”

“Well fur gadness sake teyhk it out man,” shrieks the patient.

The doctor pulls out the tenner and another twenty appears, and another and another etc…

Finally the last note comes out and no more appear.

“Ah Dactor, tank ya koindly, dat’s moch batter, how moch is dare den?”

The Doctor counts the pile of cash. “$1990 exactly.”

“Ah, dat’d be roit amount. I knew I wasn’t feeling two grand.”

When Half-Life 2 came out back in 2005 i think, i couldnt wait to play it and the game at the time was being “Pre-Loaded” via Valves superb Steam service. It was the first game that i bought online as a “Digital Download” and it sure wasnt the last. Valves Steam is just such a great example of how to make games available to the customer.

Its just the fact that Steam allows you download the games you want when you want them but it allows you once central location to get a huge selection of games. More and more games companies are signing up to steam.  The recent addition of Cryteks “Crysis” game made me cancel my “EA Downloader” order and any idea i had of buying the game on Disc and get it via steam. Now thats a huge endorsement of Steam, id rather have the game on Steam than;

1) Purchase the game in a shop and install it.
2) Use the “EA Downloader” service which in my experience is complete crap.

The reasons are that you dont need to install the game if you get the game via Steam. Having both Vista 32 and Vista 64 and messing around with the two things can get very messy when it comes to installing games but with steam its no problem.  In contrast to this “EA’s Downloader” service is the complete opposite of this in the fact that you will need to reinstall the game.

This makes Valves Steam the number one choice without any doubt when it comes to buying new games for me.  In fact it makes “Pirating Games” via the usual websites a real “No, No” as why end up installing games all over the place when you can just let Steam download the games you want and they “Just work” no messing around with installation progams and folders, its a one click process and its simple. Ive purchases a few games on Steam such as Bioshock,Grid,Crysis Warhead,Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and of course the Half-Life 2 game and Episodes 1 and 2. They always work auto-update and theres not much else any gamer wants. Long Live steam.

I was looking for info and some tips on the game “Stalker:Shadow of chernobyl” and i found some amazing posts. Actually the first post was some amazing pictures that some guy took on a trip to chernobyl. The pictures are really high quality and well worth a look of all the places to find pictures like these i found em on a games forum.

click here

Of course the original and best known pictures are from the kidofspeed.com website which when i first seen was just amazing. Seing stuff as it was in 1986 is just scary.

Another site i found was “Lost City of Chernobyl” from englishrussia.com more great pictures;
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=293