The days when you just can't get anything going when you're playing games, for example like going negative, getting matched with bad teams, and not winning matches? Today was one of those days for me... just terrible. I wanted to flip my desk so bad.

Should I get it?
http://gear.blizzard.com/index.php/default/starcraft/starcraft-ii-license-plate-frame.html

Another computer on this network has the same IP address as this computer. Contact your network administrator for help resolving this issue. More details are available in the Windows System event log.

This is the only computer I have so there's no way any other computer can have this. Also, my phone has been having trouble connecting to my WiFi, even though I keep uplugging/plugging in my modem to try to fix it.

I have never gotten this message on my computer either.

Does anyone know what could be the problem here?

Looks pretty good. Will definitely watch this when it releases.

Fucking mexican shows I swear.


Discuss dumb shows

I decided to take pics from my recent trip and decided to share them with you guys:

Driving near Lost Hills, CA which is a small town next to a huge oil field and Interstate 5. Lost Hills is a cool town because its a major place in the Fallout universe. This is what you see when you drive there, just big empty fields. I didn't take pictures of the town because there's nothing to see.

Lost Hills is along Highway 46. Highway 46 is infamous for car accidents and deaths that happen all the time. The locals nicknamed it "Blood Alley" because of all the death that happens. James Dean who was a famous actor and racer during the 1950s died on this highway while driving to Salinas, CA for a race. The gas station here has a cutout of him to remember him by. Also if you keep going about 30 miles along 46, it combines with Highway 41. That intersection is named after James Dean.

The wide open road of Highway 46 before you enter the mountains. That mountain is the biggest mountain you see for awhile. On a good day when the air is clean, you can see this mountain from miles away all the way from Bakersfield even.

Passing over which I assume is the San Andreas fault near Cholame, CA. This is by the James Dean Intersection. You can take a road here that will take you to Parkfield, CA which runs right alongside the San Andreas fault and nicknamed "The Earthquake Capital of the World."

Eventually you'll make it to Highway 101, an iconic highway which runs all up along the west coast. These are pics from the Cuesta Pass near San Luis Obispo. The highest driving elevation here is at around 1700ft, but that is nothing compared when driving to Los Angeles where it gets to 4000ft.

In San Luis Obispo all the way towards Morro Bay are special types of mountains. There are 7 of these mountains and they are extinct volcanoes that were active millions of years ago. The mountains are easily recognizable because of their vegetation color and rock formations. The first mountain is right in the middle of San Luis Obispo and the final sits right on the edge of land at Morro Bay. These are probably the coolest looking mountains you will see while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Here are some of them:
This is my favorite mountain because it just looks so intimidating and could be in like some fantasy universe or some shit like that. There is a close up pic and a pic from behind the mountain.

A pic from the campsite. My family has been coming here for years and its a pretty nice place. The people that come here are really friendly and respect your stuff. We've never had anything stolen from us while we've camped here. The campsite is in a perfect spot too weather wise and location wise. The beaches aren't that far, San Luis Obispo is right around the corner in case you need to go to the stores, and the weather here is perfect.

Here is Morro Rock at Morro Bay Beach, right on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and the last of the 7 extinct volcanoes. Hundreds of seagulls live on this rock and climbing it is illegal unless you get some sort of special permission from the city. There is also a pic I took while on the beach.

While I was on the beach, there were these 2 girls who were probably a few years older than me walking along the water's edge in their swimsuits. Behind them was a older guy probably in his 50s dressed like a creep and he was stalking them. I was thinking about recording the guy stalking the girls and going over to them and tell them what's going on but I didn't. They walked a fair distance then they came back and told a guy who I presume was their dad about everything. I didn't see that creeper guy again. He disappeared into the fog that was on the beach.

Must have been Camnator scoping out dat booty.

This is the only pic I took while I was at Pismo Beach, about 12 miles south of San Luis Obispo. Its the only picture I have because my phone died on me so I was unable to take more pictures. This was where I spent all day on the 4th of July waiting for the fireworks show. The beach that day was packed as dicks. There were more people here this year than last year. I have never seen so many niggers at the beach in my whole life.

I had a fun time with family and got to enjoy a pretty epic firework show. The weather was fantastic the whole time I was here. Getting away from the 100+ degree weather was amazing.

See you guys on July 6!

Try not to do anything crazy while I'm gone.

Mengsk's inauguration speech is damn good and makes me feel proud to be human.
 

Chairman Prescott's speech was pretty inspirational. I wish Obama would make speeches like this towards ISIS.


Sovereign's speech when it talks to Shepard sends chills down my spine. It doesn't care what Shepard or anyone else says because It knows that the Reapers will destroy everything.

Lmfao how can you fuck that up

The struggles of trying to not piss all over the toilet and floor

This past month and a half I've been playing the hell outta this game, and now I'm going to tell you how it is and see if you should give it a try for yourselves.

The game: Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA made by Blizzard Entertainment. The game entered closed beta on January 13, 2015 and the full version of the game was released on June 2, 2015. The game features all the iconic characters from Blizzard’s most popular games: Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft.


Gameplay:
- The game currently has 7 playable maps with a new map called Battlefield of Eternity being added on June 30, I believe. The maps are:
1. Blackheart’s Bay
2. Garden of Terror
3. Sky Temple
4. Tomb of the Spider Queen
5. Haunted Mines
6. Dragon Shire
7. Cursed Hollow


All of these maps have their own unique objective to them to help you win against the other team. For example, on Blackheart’s Bay you need to destroy treasure chests and collect doubloons. You bring enough doubloons to Captain Blackheart and he will use his pirate ship on your enemy’s forts and turrets. On Sky Temple, temples randomly activate and you need to stand in them in order for the temple’s power to be used on the enemy’s forts.

I kinda like having the idea of having objectives on these maps but I also feel like the game sometimes depends a little too much on them. On some of these maps you can win without even fully engaging the other team’s buildings. I hope that the frequency of the objectives on these maps will get toned down a little bit.

Also the maps that are currently available are all Warcraft themed which is nice and all but I want more variety. Battlefield of Eternity is a heavily Diablo themed map which is cool but I want more love towards Starcraft. Maybe when Legacy of the Void comes out, some Starcraft themed maps will be released for this game. Having a Terran, Zerg, and Protoss themed map with their own unique objective to them would be really nice.

- Right now, the Hero roster consists of 37 playable characters with more being added soon. When Battlefield of Eternity releases, they are also releasing 2 more Diablo Heroes which will be a total of 39 playable Heroes. Some of them are original characters like Sgt. Hammer, which is a Terran Siege Tank. Out of all Terran vehicles they could have chosen, they pick the Siege Tank which is an annoying unit in Starcraft. A Viking or Goliath would have been cooler and much more interesting to play as in Heroes of the Storm. Also, Blizzard brought back The Lost Vikings for Heroes of the Storm. The Lost Vikings are from of their much earlier games way before the very first Warcraft game. There are also rumors of them adding some characters from their new game Overwatch too.


The current roster consists of:
- Abathur (Starcraft)              - Valla (Diablo)                - Rehgar (Warcraft)
- Anub Arak (Warcraft)          - Sonya (Diablo)              - Falstad (Warcraft)
- Azmodan (Diablo)               - Zeratul (Starcraft)         - The Lost Vikings (Classic)
- Arthas (Warcraft)                - Tassadar (Starcraft)      - Murky (Warcraft)
- Brightwing (Warcraft)           - Johanna (Diablo           - Thrall (Warcraft)
- Diablo (Diablo)                    - Kael 'thas (Warcraft)     - Zagara (Starcraft)
- Illidan (Warcraft)                 - Muradin (Warcraft)        - Jim Raynor (Starcraft)
- Jaina (Warcraft)                  - Nazeebo (Diablo)          - Tyrael (Diablo)
- Uther (Warcraft)                  - Tyrande (Warcraft)        - E.T.C. (Warcraft)
- Sylvanas (Warcraft)            - Sgt. Hammer (Starcraft) - Stitches (Warcraft)
- Kerrigan (Starcraft)              - Tychus (Starcraft)         - Gazlowe (Warcraft)
- Nova (Starcraft)                  - Chen (Warcraft)
- Malfurion (Warcraft)             - Li Li (Warcraft)


- There are 4 classes of Heroes: Assassin, Specialist, Warrior, and Support. I mainly play Assassin and Support and the characters I mainly play as are Nova, Jaina, Tassadar, and Valla. If you’re familiar with the Heroes of this game and how they played in their own game, more than likely they will play the same and have a similar role in Heroes of the Storm.


- The games are two teams of 5 players each and every match will last you around 20-25 minutes, shorter if you completely destroy the other team or lose really bad. The longest match I had was about 27 minutes and it was really intense throughout.

- Unlike other MOBAs, both teams in this game share an XP system. This can be good and bad at the same time. When I say bad it means that a crappy player can literally do nothing on a good team and be successful stat-wise. It can be good for people who are new to the game so they can get the idea of what the game is really all about and help them be better. So in this game, it’s better to leave a Specialist hero or any hero that gains bonuses from killing minions push a lane by themselves to help gain XP for the team. Sylvanas and Zagara are made specifically for these roles as their abilities favor against minions and forts rather than other Heroes.

- There’s no Item Shop which is kind of a shame. Instead, there are Talents. Every few levels, you get to select Talents for your hero. You can keep building Talents to make one ability better or make all other of your abilities stronger rather than focusing on one. At Level 10, your hero can choose between 2 Ultimate abilities and these are different and unique for each character. Some examples are, Raynor can choose between calling the Hyperion to do a strafe run and bombard an area or have 2 Terran Banshees follow him and attack any enemy he orders them to. Jaina can either summon her Water Elemental to help attack or choose to have the Ring of Frost to root/stun enemies for a long time. Either way, both Ultimates are relatively good and I have yet to see a Hero whos Ultimate ability sucks.


- Each map has recruitable mercenaries. There are Warriors, Siege Walkers, and Bosses. Warriors are the basic mercenaries and are tougher and do more damage than normal minions. Siege Walkers are 2 giants that shoot at forts from far range. And finally, Bosses are the toughest mercenaries and only spawn on some maps. In order to recruit the mercenaries, you have to defeat them and when you stand on their Spawn ring, the bar fills up with your team’s color and the mercenaries will spawn, now on your side and will push the nearest lane until they die. Mercenaries are extremely effective and can dish out tons of damage if left alone by Heroes.

- Mounts allow you to get to locations faster. It’s a really good way to get to key locations much faster to help your allies. I also think it’s hilarious like how you can get the giant, evil Diablo to ride a little unicorn for his mount. Mounts consist of a horse, battle beast, cyber wolves/regular wolves, a pig, a unicorn, and a magic carpet. All of these Mounts have their own unique skins to them that you can either buy in-game with gold or money. Also if you’ve beat 100 people in the Play mode in Hearthstone, you unlock the Hearthstone Card mount which is probably the coolest looking mount in the game. It’s like your character is riding a hoverboard.


Graphics/Perfomance:

As expected, the graphics for this game are pretty damn good. I run the game on Medium and the textures, lighting, and Heroes still look top notch. I don’t know if this is the Default setting but when I first booted up the game, everything was automatically set to High and the menus were extremely laggy. I then switched it to Medium and everything ran smoother. When the Beta went Open, I played the game with friends and some of them had technical issues such as really low FPS drops and they have better PCs than me. It has gotten better since its official release but every once in a while it will happen again.

And for some reason, some of the Heroes when they talk, their mouth won’t move. I don’t know if this only happens on my end but I just find it strange how some Heroes mouths won’t move when they talk.


Audio/Soundtrack:
Most of the Heroes retain the same voice actors that they are accustomed to which is nice. I remember watching early Beta footage and Zeratul had a much different voice than his Starcraft 2 voice. It just didn’t fit him and the way his character is. The overall audio from the game also sounds nice.

Each map also has its own announcer that will comment on your progress through the match, alert you when you can select new Talents, and make fun of both teams at times.

All the songs in the soundtrack are a mix between Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo. It has the guitars from Starcraft, the horns from Warcraft, and the chants from Diablo. If there is one thing that Blizzard never fails at, it’s definitely the music.

The soundtrack will sometimes play different music whether during gameplay or in the main menus. Here are some examples:


This one especially captures the Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo themes and puts them all into one song



Extra Content:

- Every Hero has their own skins to them. Each have about 4-5 skins to buy with gold or pay with money. You get gold from winning matches, doing daily challenges, and ranking up a Heroe’s level. Some skins give the Hero altered abilities to match the skin’s purpose and will sometimes change the Hero’s voice. I think these are cool but some of them can be a little pricey. $10 for just 1 skin? Come on man. Most of the mounts are only unlockable via real money and that’s kind of sad really.

- Before a match starts, Heroes will often comment about each other, sometimes throwing insults or compliments back and forth. For example, most Heroes would say bad stuff towards Diablo and Diablo would tell them back “If I could destroy you now I would do it!” Also throughout a match when you kill other Heroes, your Hero would insult them saying how bad they are. I thought this was a funny and clever touch to the game as it adds more life to it.

Here are all the Heroes interactions towards others


- Also if you keep clicking on your Hero, they will say their “Pissed” quotes and its hilarious. Blizzard is known for referencing just about everything in existence and it continues in this game. You have things like Star Wars references, music references, other game references, and hell they even managed put a few Frozen references in this game. My favorite Pissed quotes would have to be Tassadar’s because his are hilarious. Thrall’s are good too as he says he misses RTS games, possibly hinting at a Warcraft 4? Who knows.

Here are all of the Heroes "Pissed" quotes




Final Verdict:
Heroes of the Storm is a fun game and adds a breath of fresh air to the MOBA genre, but it does have its fair share of issues and lack of certain features which I explained above. I’m a Blizzard fanboy and I fully support anything that Blizzard does but I think they could have shown more love towards Heroes of the Storm and focused less on getting money from skins and stuff.

If you’re looking for a MOBA that’s more laid back and easier to get into, then this is the MOBA for you. Its not as competitive or difficult to understand like other MOBAs as its more pretty straight forward.

Heroes of the Storm gets a 7.5/10, fun game but could be so much better. Hopefully future updates will improve the game and make it even better than it is now.

I'll pick Keith David's voice and go around yelling "RAMIREZ!" and Arbiter quotes.

Or the guy that does this voice:

These are my dogs. The big Pyrenees and the pomeranian are both boys and other dog in the back is a golden retriever mixed, I forgot what other mix she is but she's the oldest of the 3. The pomeranian stays inside the house but my mom wants him to go in the backyard with these dogs.

Should I let him in the back? I'm afraid my pyrenees would hurt him... or worse. He gives me an evil look sometimes and I don't know why he does that :/

here they are:

I'm hungry as fuck and there's nothing else to eat

Well now that its the 16th of June here on the west coast, I have now been officially apart of this community for 6 years now.

Back in the day before I made a profile, I would skim through Bnet and look up information about Halo 3 and whatnot. I was young and a noob at the internet back then so I didn't know how to make a profile. Then I started to play Halo 3 online and I wanted to make a profile so I could have the Septagon logo next to my name. June 16, 2009 was when I made my profile and have been using the same one ever since.

Then I started to go on Bnet more and use my profile and browse the forums. This was my very first thread and post on Bnet. Eventually I would find my way to The Flood and remained there, attempting to be known within the community.

It worked and I ended up knowing some pretty cool people, some of which I still talk to and play games with to this very day. We had our own group on Bnet called "The Catalyst." Our group was getting big and we were causing alot of trouble and attention with a rival group called WAY, which was filled with tryhard Reach players such as Cossssta and Gamesagers who would always talk shit to others on the Reach Forum. We challenged them to a BTB match and it was getting hyped and talked about all over Bnet. The match ended up not happening. I doubt anyone here will remember that and if you don't, I don't blame you. Looking back, it was kinda stupid to be honest.

Our group stayed together until Bnext launched and that's when everything went downhill. A ton of our people left, even the ones I was closest too. I was the only one left from our group that stayed on Bnext. I wanted to leave because of the site update, but I couldn't do it. I always kept coming back.

If would have left Bnet when the site update happened I probably wouldn't have met a lot of cool people from Bnext or join Sep7agon. Some of those people are here on this site but some of them are still on Bnet. I wish they came here too.

Well anyways, here's to 6 years of staying with this community and cheers to another 6 years or even more!