by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Nov 30th 2010 at 10:00AM
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| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Love Is In the Air | 2/2 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic open | 2/3 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 2/8 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Mythic opens | 2/10 |
| Lunar Festival | 2/16 - 3/2 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 1 opens | 2/17 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 2 opens | 2/24 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 3/1 - 3/8 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 3 opens | 3/10 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 4 opens | 3/24 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
pancakes Nov 30th 2010 1:18AM
My screenshot folder is full of screenshots from before the shattering. I'd submit them to Around Azeroth, but I wanna keep them for a few years so the increase in value, & I'm worried you guys would steal them, or at least grease them up.
Also, Warrior T10: Damn sexy.
No Quarter Nov 30th 2010 10:11AM
My baby moves at midnight,
Goes right on 'till the dawn...
Knob Nov 30th 2010 10:16AM
Here I was thinking he was dancing close to her just to cop a feel.
Buran Nov 30th 2010 10:18AM
Ahah. "Tidal waves" is a term that bugs me, too. Science geek time:
"Tidal waves" (tsunamis) aren't generated by the tides at all but originate in the water column above displaced seabed. In other words, if there's an earthquake and the ocean floor moves, so does the water above -- and the waves ripple outward from that spot.
They also don't look like huge breaking waves as depicted in the cinematic -- but that wouldn't be as dramatic-looking, would it? Instead, you'd see the sea retreat, ships lying on the bottom of harbors, and (unfortunately) shocked and curious people going to the beach to stare at all the flopping fish, beached boats, and the like. They'll be standing there scratching their heads trying to figure out what happened -- and be the first to die when the water comes rushing back in the form of a huge "wall of water" that actually just looks like a big lump.
Also, a seafloor displacement as big as the one we're talking about here would almost certainly create tsunamis big enough to surge many kilometers inland, so the devastation seen in-game is actually us getting off easy! It takes years to fully recover from a catastrophe this big, especially when the ripples literally spread around the world.
Side note: I've seen a number of people on my server express shock and confusion at seeing ships perched high on cliffs, intact, or in other places far inland -- and it seems unrealistic, but this happened when Krakatoa exploded in 1883, and at least one ship was left high and dry and intact far down a river channel. (Clive Cussler used this as a plot point in one of his recent novels, too).
Saeadame Nov 30th 2010 11:12AM
Tsunami just means "overflowing surf" or something anyway, so I think it could technically apply to any kind of larger-than-average wave, even though conventionally we've used it to mean "big wave caused by offshore earthquake".
Either way, technicalities are something not a lot of people pay attention to. It's like spelling errors, people don't care if they used the wrong "your" or "there" most of the time, and if you correct them they'll just be annoyed.
Buran Nov 30th 2010 12:14PM
Tsunami actually means "divine wind" and the waves are so named because an invasion fleet was turned back from the Japanese Home Islands by storms and nasty weather. The Japanese, believing that they had been saved by supernatural powers, dubbed the storms the Divine Wind. And the name stuck.
And if people don't like mistakes being pointed out, they shouldn't make them. That's the comment the original post was making -- people get this wrong all the time. But if the response to a polite pointing out of the error is to throw bad attitude at the correcter who points out the mistake and explains the mistake, who's the immature one? The polite "Hey, that's not quite correct, here's the actual facts" or the one who resorts to personal attacks?
Saeadame Nov 30th 2010 12:39PM
@Buran - Thanks for the info. Both characters have the water radical, though, so I thought they would have more to do with water. Even today most places list the literal translation as "harbour wave". Depending on the time period when the word come into the Japanese language the characters might not be reflective of its original meaning, I suppose. The "tsu" character when combined with "ten" seems to occasionally have something to do with divinity, but that's more than likely because of the "ten" (heaven) than the "tsu".
Just looked some stuff up, the incident you're speaking of is the origins of the word "kamikaze", not tsunami. A typhoon saved Japan Mongol invasion, and was dubbed "kamikaze", or "divine wind".
Saeadame Nov 30th 2010 12:40PM
*saved Japan from Mongol invasion*
(cutaia) Nov 30th 2010 3:09PM
I'm confused...
"And if people don't like mistakes being pointed out, they shouldn't make them."
What mistake were you pointing out again?
"who's the immature one? The polite 'Hey, that's not quite correct, here's the actual facts' or the one who resorts to personal attacks?"
Who resorted to personal attacks?
Buran Nov 30th 2010 3:41PM
Sorry, got my stories backward, I stand (graciously) corrected. ;)
No personal attacks here -- just a generalization overall. It happens way too often on the anonymous internet - someone corrects someone else and gets snubbed/attacked for it.
rkaliski Nov 30th 2010 12:03PM
The warrior was actually trying to claim that the ship at the end of the dock was his personal yacht given to him by the king of Stormwind for his service in Northrend.
She was so drunk she kept saying "Boat? What boat?
I-man Nov 30th 2010 10:39AM
all i see is a blood elf with a shake-weight.
for reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgpQSStEwk
Garshinalnor Nov 30th 2010 10:55AM
yup i was thinking the same thing
Tom Nov 30th 2010 10:52AM
"Alts.
Alts everywhere."
No Quarter Nov 30th 2010 10:58AM
"80s (in my 1-60 zones, ruining my leveling experience),
80s everywhere"
Josin Nov 30th 2010 10:47AM
Awesome captioning. :D
Drakkenfyre Nov 30th 2010 11:23AM
I stopped by, and did For Love Eternal one last time.
http://www.wowhead.com/quest=963
zweitblom Nov 30th 2010 1:44PM
That quest is still there, you know...
Drakkenfyre Nov 30th 2010 2:05PM
Found out after this post.
Technically, the old one is gone. The new one is a copy of it, and is available after doing another quest. The quest rewards are also different.
Erthshade Nov 30th 2010 11:52AM
For a moment, then moved on. o/~