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by Adam Holisky 
Feb 3rd 2011 at 11:00AM
NSFW warning for the video above. Beyond that, tell me you don't like Katy Perry. Prove it to me, dear WoW Insider audience, and I never will show another music video of hers again.
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When will 4.0.6 drop?
My sources at Blizzard have said that if everything goes as planned, it should drop next week. The standard disclaimer here is necessary -- there could be delays, so we won't know for 100% certain until Monday evening. Don't come crying if things change, and don't base your Tuesday plans around what you read here.
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Blizzard has left the old Argent Dawn turn-ins (such as Crypt Fiend Parts or Cores of Elements) white. However, there doesn't seem to be anybody you turn them in to anymore. Do these serve a purpose yet besides being vendor trash?
They're worthless. Vendor 'em.
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What does "SI:7" stand for? I've wondered this for years.
Stormwind Intelligence 7. It's a take on the MI6, the British secret intelligence agency place thingy, like the CIA. American Dad. Seth McFarlane. Peter Griffen. The Angry Bird. A headline regarding mass awareness of an avian variety. The Bird is the Word. (Really, Fox, how could that not be linked in yesterday's The Queue? I had to take seven steps to get there; you could have done it in one, my friend.)
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 11)
MusedMoose Feb 3rd 2011 7:58PM
http://totallylookslike.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/11/17/katy-perry-rosie-odonnell/
:P
Zenry Feb 3rd 2011 9:40PM
I'm in Audio Production and I hate when people hold a double standard to singers and musicians when they are enhanced, but no other medium. Everyone is enhanced nowadays, from Photoshop to Autotune. You think actresses really look that good? Or that they don't do 100 takes with just the perfect angle and just the perfect lighting to get just the perfect shot? It takes more than just being able to sing decently to be a star, so cut them some slack.
Hampster Feb 4th 2011 12:18AM
"Your music's bad and you should feel bad!" -Dr. Z
Tribunal Feb 4th 2011 3:11PM
@Zenry
That's why most people who talk about respecting actors actually talk about, well, acting.
Granted, acting can be written for and edited perfectly, but really, if that line isn't there it isn't there.. we haven't gotten to the point where we can 100% computer generate an actor quite yet... at least not without having it turn out shitty and sound pasted together like Terminator.
I can say I don't respect Katy Perry's singing... it's making something out of almost nothing, thanks to autotune and over-manipulation. Acting may be enhanced, but there is something there to begin with.
Celebrity appearances and modeling are the same way. With makeup, lighting and photoshop you can simply create the look you want out of the plainest canvas. And even if it's real life, that celebrity being a better 'starting point' to be made gorgeous than you or I isn't an accomplishment.
She may be able to carry a tune. She may sing quite well. I don't know, because that's not what I'm hearing and she allowed herself to be produced that way. Hence, I don't respect her 'talent' since I have absolutely zero idea if she has any.
Neofox Feb 5th 2011 1:13AM
I hate Katy Perry! More so what she does than her specifically, but it's all the same.
She spreads idiotic immorality through the minds of young people, causing humanity to fail harder and spiral further down the pit it has thrown itself into.
Diavola Feb 3rd 2011 1:08AM
Hello, 12 hours from now!
Riley Feb 3rd 2011 1:45AM
The future, Conan?
Poleleboo Feb 3rd 2011 11:26AM
The FUTURE Andy!
Znodis Feb 3rd 2011 3:46PM
All the way to the year 2000!
Orkchop Feb 3rd 2011 1:43AM
On the podcast I heard them talking about some guy named Came Clark doing the voice of Malygos and Medivh. But doesn't Chris Metzen do the voices for ALL of the lore characters in WoW? Even Jaina and Sylvanas?
MrJackSauce Feb 3rd 2011 2:47AM
Ok this made me laugh. Not at you personally. Just the thought if Chris Metzen doing Sindragosa. Oh hahahahahahahaha
MattKrotzer Feb 3rd 2011 11:05AM
No, it only SEEMS like Chris Metzen does all the voices in WoW. There's a few that he doesn't provide. (Though really... dude... get over yourself. Hire some outside talent.)
MikeLive Feb 3rd 2011 11:12AM
Cam Clarke is an excellent voice actor, perhaps best known for Leonardo from the old TMNT cartoon and Liquid Snake in Metal Gear. He also voiced the Blood Elf males.
Grovinofdarkhour Feb 3rd 2011 11:20AM
Christopher Vincent Metzen has done every single voice for every single product produced by Blizzard and every known affiliate dating back to the exact moment of his own birth, and possibly earlier.
Anyone who tells you different is not your real friend.
Aaron Feb 3rd 2011 11:54AM
I just KNEW when Jaina says "All I ever wanted was to study" it was Metzen. LOL
Drakkenfyre Feb 3rd 2011 12:33PM
Before he left Blizzard, Bill Roper did alot of voices for Diablo and WarCraft.
Cam Clarke does ALOT of voices. Like someone said, he was the voice of Leonardo on the Ninja Turtles. Liquid Snake, and tons more.
Here's him singing "I Will Survive", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPskVz2MfQ
And while on the subject of voice actors, here is something that might blow your mind.
In TF2, the voice actor for the Pyro and the Spy is the same guy. The voice actor for the Heavy and the Demo are the same guy. The voice actor for the Solider did Wolf in Star Fox 64, the voice actor for the Engineer did the voice for Wolf in Star Fox Assault, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The voice actor for the Scout actually resembles the Scout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpynvzHP0Y (some language there.)
And the voice actor for the Sniper is married to Ellen McLain, the voice actor of the Administrator, who also provided the voices for GLaDOS, the turrents in Portal, and the Overwatch dispatch in Half-Life 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlfMdwFUTg
Jugzwei Feb 3rd 2011 2:05PM
Who does the VO for Character intros when you create a new character and it is giving the race background.
Ruana Feb 3rd 2011 2:18PM
The character intro voiceovers are not done by Tony Jay, as I has assumed, but instead, by Sarah Connor's favorite psychologist, Dr. Silberman, aka Earl Boen. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091286/
Itanius Feb 3rd 2011 2:26PM
@Jugzwei
The actor's name is Earl Boen. He also does the voices for Magtheridon and King Terenas Menethil.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091286/
Itanius Feb 3rd 2011 2:27PM
Ahhh... finding the link took too long. Well done, Ruana. :)