Posts with tag mythbusters

J'mie likes a big boom, and this video by Bullworth has quite a bit of big boom in it. The Wowbusters team, previously featured in Epic Fall, have returned in Wowbusters: Big boom! to test the Mine Sweeper achievement.

I loved this video. Bullworth showed off his love of both WoW and the incomparable Mythbusters by blending the two in an endearing, fun video. I also appreciate that Bullworth isn't releasing these videos so quickly that they become commonplace. He seems to be taking time and care to make each video unique and amazing; that careful effort shows in the final product.

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Bullworth is back with the release of Wowbusters: Epic Fall. This installment of Bullworth's material is an obvious parody of that perennial geek favorite: MythBusters. While Bullworth stands in for Adam Savage, the creator wisely chose a Kaluak to take the place of Jamie. (Really, what other Azerothian creature could pull off that moustache?)

The pair of Wowbusters are testing the myth that if you're falling to certain doom but manage to dismount right before hitting the ground, you might somehow survive the fall. Bullworth used a lot of standard techniques from the original show, so this video comes across as a loving and detailed homage to Adam and Jamie. It's great work and a lot of fun.

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When I woke up this morning I was greeted to two things: a fist full of WoW news to report on, and my daily dose of MythBusters. Interestingly I found that our chummy Blizzard PTR forum poster Hortus has taken up dispelling some myths of his own. This myth is so epic that I think it would make for a good computer nerd edition of MythBusters.

The myth is this: every time the PTR goes up, my server slows down.

I play mainly in two different servers, Anvilmar and Eldre'Thalas. I've heard it claimed often enough on both servers that the PTR seriously effects stability. Most people claim this is because the PTR and the server hardware are on the same "rack." Most servers are just a small gray box with a few blinking lights on the front of them, and lots of connection ports in the back. When making a server farm, like Blizzard has scattered throughout the country, they physically put the servers in clusters, called racks (no, not that kind of cluster, well kind of, but that's beside the point).