WRUP: "Hello from the past" says the time traveler from the future
by Fox Van Allen 
Dec 16th 2011 at 10:00PM
Greetings, humans! I am a time traveler from the near-distant future. Three hours in the future, exactly! I'd give you news and tidings of the future, but I arrived over three hours ago, so all my unique knowledge is already outdated. Sorry about that. Bad planning.
Time travelers such as me have unique needs. We are subject to terrible bouts of time sickness. And, of course, we need gobs of mammoth chunks and delicious powdered horse milk. (100% horse -- no ponies!) Thankfully, there's a store in Los Angeles that caters to these needs, the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. It seriously exists, and it seriously sells stuff like Robot Milk. There are pictures after the break to prove it.
The store is actually a front for 826LA, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for city kids. So if you're hungry for horse milk, you can get some while supporting the youth of Los Angeles. Which is a pretty awesome thing. I mean, we need to start nurturing the next Fox Van Allen now. I can't keep this WRUP thing up forever.
Which reminds me: We should probably get this WRUP rolling. So, everyone, What aRe yoU Playing this week?
Alex Ziebart (@alexziebart) Arkham City! The Arkham games are a blast, I just wish Detective Vision didn't make me nauseous for some reason I'm unable to explain. Also? I want more play time as Catwoman. She's kind of awesome.Allison Robert (@AllisonRobert) I'll be doing an awful lot of writing this weekend in the hope of avoiding a mad rush over the holidays. Apart from that, lots of cleaning and, if I get the chance, more forlorn archaeology in Kalimdor. That Crawling Claw is never going to show.
Anne Stickney (@Shadesogrey) Sadly, the real world has lots in store for me over the next few days -- I have a bookcase to stain and a wall to stencil and a room to rearrange! Then I have one last Christmas present to go nab, and a tree to decorate, too, and possibly some cookies to bake for incoming company next week. When I am done with all that (or possibly in between all that), I'll be raiding Dragon Soul -- either that, or absorbing dragon souls so I can continue gleefully murdering dragons. Maybe I'll finally finish that errand for that talking dog, too ...
Chase Christian (@madsushi) I am playing the hell out of SW:TOR. My love for Jedi lore knows no bounds. Also, starting work on heroic Dragon Soul.
Daniel Desmond (@hazmacewillraid) Chaining the Raid Finder on my paladin to try to get my last piece of new tier and a shot at that awesomesauce tentacle sword, Gurthalak. Also, possibly humiliating myself on my disc priest in the new heroics. Healing is hard when you're constantly OOM.
Daniel Whitcomb (@DanielWhitcomb) It's AV weekend, and I have two level 70ish characters who want to avoid leveling in Northrend as much as possible. Hopefully, I'll be able to score a ton of AV wins so as to oblige them.
Fox Van Allen (@foxvanallen) (gplus.to/foxvanallen) This weekend, I'll spending six hours sitting on a plane bound for Boston. If the wireless internet isn't working on the flight, I don't think I'll make it home with my sanity intact. So, if you're in Dungeon Finder this weekend, you might be running End Time with a dude from 30,000 feet. With the most atrocious lag possible.
There's one thing I definitely won't be doing: Playing SW:TOR. Because Star Wars is silly and dumb and I don't like it. There. I said it.
Joe Perez (@Lodurzj) Owning face as Snowmerdinger, whenever I'm not collecting bounties and ears in a galaxy far far away. I must hunt the most dangerous game, Jedi. The risks will be great, but the rewards and renown greater. Soon, the name Lodur Kravhenn will be respected and despised throughout the galaxy.Kelly Aarons (@Cadistra) I'll be playing the last weekend push at my job before Christmas. If I have time to, then I'll be leveling my straight-laced, by-the-book Republic Trooper in SW:TOR.
Matt Low (@matticus) CAN'T RESPOND, FOX! BUSY KILLING WHOMP RATS AND JEDI SCUM!
Mathew McCurley (@gomatgo) SW:TOR and WoW all weekend for me. Writing, games, and chillin' out.
Matthew Walsh (@Rhidach) Leveling my Bounty Hunter in TOR. I love that game, like whoa.
Michael Gray (@writegray) This weekend I'm finishing the first draft of my novel, doing some Christmas shopping, and brewing a round of oatmeal stout suitable for Christmas gifts. I'm nearly finished a Scotch ale I made a bit back and want something with weight to get through the long, winter months.
Olivia Grace (@oliviadgrace) Last time I was in Hollywood, I crashed a hire car into a wheelie bin. The bin was fine. I'll be doing some PvP and putting too much tinsel on a Christmas tree while my brother complains it's tasteless.
Tyler Caraway (@murmursofadruid) All the whomp rats must die! Jedi are nerf herders ...
The weekend is the perfect time to kick back, relax and enjoy some game time. Are you an achievement junkie? Can't get enough raiding? Rolling a new alt? Considering taking the leap into roleplaying? Whatever your favorite way to play World of Warcraft, let us know in the comments what you're playing this weekend!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ziis Dec 16th 2011 11:22PM
so when well we be getting a sw:tor insider?
Randomize Dec 16th 2011 11:40PM
I love killing Jedi scum, doing evil for the empire, and causing general mayhem and chaos wherever my sorcerer goes.
Tai Dec 17th 2011 8:10AM
The sorcerer is my favourite too.
Philster043 Dec 17th 2011 12:59AM
I have to admit I'm starting to be drawn to SW:ToR, however, the $80 price tag says no, so for now, I'll continue to work on Merrymaker.
JattTheRogue Dec 17th 2011 6:22AM
$80? Basic edition is just $60, which is pretty standard for any new PC game these days.
Bossy Dec 17th 2011 3:52AM
I played Clone Wars in Beta 2 weekends before the big open beta.
Dead plastic world and avatars.
EA at its best.
It's not so much as "the right to play another game", it is more that EA's sw tor is ONLY developped to hunt for the same kind of subscription money Blizzard got in the past. See WAR, see Rift etc...
The only difference is that Blizzard wanted to make a HELL of a game and stumbled by accident on over 500K players. 5 years of copycats as a result.
While these new games are just made to copy the printing of money. Result: no critters, no seasons, no day/night cycles, no life and cities "painted in the back ground".
Still I find my ease by KNOWING the subscription model will soon come to and end as no living person will want to pay subscriptions anymore when Blizzard will introduce the RMAH in their free to play games.
I hope they do it as soon as possible so Lucas the Hutt can XXX his lost money.
Kaphik Dec 17th 2011 9:03AM
You are assuming a heck of a lot, thinking that the D3 auction house is going to stop the sub model for WoW. Even if it was brought into WoW, there still we be a majority of people who prefer to pay for a sub for many reasons. Eve Online still has a majority of players who pay for the sub instead of playing the economy for "free" time.
Reklisc Dec 17th 2011 4:37AM
I'm done with time travel for a good while now, after all that crap I went through yesterday. Oh, wait! All that stuff I did yesterday is for tomorrow, which means tomorrow I have to do it AGAIN! Man, I hope I help me again, and do that total screw up that had us cleaning the kitchen for an hour...
Also, PLEASE can someone tell me what "OOM" stands for? I've seen it way too much these last two (three?) days, and my lack of abbreviation knowledge has come back (forward?) to grief me (again?).
techno-warrior6 Dec 17th 2011 5:59AM
It means out of mana
Sodin Dec 17th 2011 6:31AM
You don't know what OOM means? I assume you are a tank then......?
Fallara Dec 17th 2011 9:51AM
Pally uses mana...but they've probably forgot about it since Cata...I fondly remember the days where I need to get hit and then healed to gain my mana back...masochist holy protector FTW!
Agony Dec 17th 2011 1:36PM
OOM is the mantra chanted by holy priests and resto druids/shamans. They all sit together in the lotus position around a lightwell and drone, "Oooooommmmmmm" to help raise their spirits and the awareness of those around them otherwise engaged in combat that all is not lost...if you just wait a few moments to ponder WHY you are seeking to extinguish another life force, and whether doing so will make you a better person within the universe.
Failure to give the priest/druid/shaman ample time to engage in such meditative practices will often result in your having to wait patiently for the combat to finish, and then (and only then) have your soul reunited with your war-torn body so you may once again charge, heedless and single-minded, into yet another contest.
It's all very spiritual.
Azzure Dec 17th 2011 5:12PM
@Agony
What is this "oom" you speak of? As a resto shaman I hardly ever go oom.
Jjustaposter Dec 17th 2011 11:24AM
as a progressive raider I don't set foot in fives unless I have to for valor. One time on the main and maybe one more for the achieves. The alts don't even do them as they do normal mode raids.
I used to like fives in TBC, not for the daily heroic quest, but for the server community.
Looking for "whatever" random thing killed that. Meh.
Andrew Dec 17th 2011 12:34PM
There's a store like that in Chicago, except it's all spy themed. Or bad-spy themed, I guess, since it's called The Boring Store with a large sign out front saying "Not a Secret Agent Supply Store."
Ominous Dec 17th 2011 2:59PM
That shop and project sound like a lot of fun.
Bookmarked, for future reference.
Dementron Dec 17th 2011 7:48PM
Oh, that store is so much awesome. I think I may have to get me a can of nanobots.
Apparently, there are several other 826 fronts in other cities, including a Museum of Unnatural History. I'm going to have to look into these.
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