Wired.com has a nice (fictional) write-up on the shooting of the upcoming world of warcraft movie. The idea is that the extra’s in the movie are actual WoW-players… sooo… here’s what you get when you release a group of wow-players into the real world of movie shooting. Very recognizable (and funny).

There are extras goofing off everywhere, but it takes an hour of asking around to get a group of 10 of them together to shoot a scene. And then, just when we’re about to start filming, one of them suddenly has to leave because his mother needs him to clean his room or something.

My World of Warcraft character “Creamfudge” was bored out of his mind from fishing northern sculpin to fulfill his everlasting hunger for fish feasts… My bobber was bobbing so time to pull up my fishing rod and catch the loot… and there it was. The glorious sound of another achievement I’d won. What was it? Caught 10.000 fish? Is there such an achievement? Then I read the achievement notification and it said “Turtles All the Way Down”. Oh my goodness!! The sea turtle mount… Oh boy. Had to try it immediately…. walks slow on land but swims like a speedboat.

Update: Since patch 3.1 the Sea Turtle is no longer soulbound!
Here’s a video of the turtle.. it’s neat.
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Some news from Azeroth (World of Warcraft). Creamfudge got his fast flying mount last saturday. When the server was back up Creamfudge saved up around 5200 gold before setting of on his last trip in the slow flying mount to the riding trainer in Shadowmoon Valley. Here’s an image of the Turbo Charged Flying Machine including the dancing Hula Girl Doll on the dashboard (one of the materials needed to craft such a machine). The Hula Girl Doll is mounted on a spring and moves and bops around as you fly. Rumor has it that the contra-movement of the bouncing Hula Doll keeps the Flying Machine stable while flying top-speed.

Halloween in Azeroth!

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I play World of Warcraft on the Bloodhoof realm. My brave warrior, called Creamfudge, is saving up 5000 gold (which is really a lot) to learn the artisan riding skill. This will allow Creamfudge to use his helicopter at full speed. So today I was grinding gold when all of a sudden a message appeared that the server would be restarted. Unfortunately the server did not just reboot but stayed down. This status message appeared when trying to logon:

The Bloodhoof server is one of the realms of the Blackout Battlegroup. What’s in a name? Calling the Battlegroup ‘blackout’ is asking for trouble… like…  eeeehhh… blackouts… sigh…

Need… to… grind… gold…  I’m almost there. I have 4900 gold. Just another 100 gold…

Zoals sommigen wellicht weten ben ik een World of Warcraft speler. Ik heb een trage start gehad met mijn gnoom (Creamfudge op realm Bloodhoof). Sinds enige tijd is Creamfudge eindelijk op het hoogste level (70 op dit moment) en voorzien van voornamelijk epic uitrusting. Wat dat betreft ben ik klaar voor de volgende uitbreiding op World of Warcraft “Wrath of the Lich King”. Het enige dat ontbrak is een epic pet die vrolijk achter je aan huppelt terwijl je zelf bloed en verderf aan het zaaien bent.

Afgelopen weekend heeft Creamfudge een zeldzame kreeft (Mr. Pinchy) gevangen (ja, je kunt zelfs vissen in World of Warcraft) die je drie wensen geeft. Na iedere wens moet je Mr. Pinchy twee dagen met rust laten. Als je om een wens verzoekt kan er een aantal zaken gebeuren:

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