Torture Quest in WOW

So I read this about a week ago on several sites about a torture quest in Northrend. I thought it was surprising but it seems someone was 'not impressed' with it because there was no option to have an alternative means of extracting the information from the guy (you use a non-lethal weapon to hurt someone to get some info). Well I finally did the quest myself and I thought it was cool.

Blizzard revamped their quests this time in the new expansion. Sure you still have those kill 10 X and return to me, but stuff that surprises you in game is what I look for nowadays. When I want to read the quest text, or explore around the area instead of just finding the quest on wowhead...that is..awesome. So what if I'm torturing the guy? The game is about war, (World of WARcraft)and most of the game is about killing anyways. Hey, at least you weren't allowed the option to kill him afterwards right? Or how about torturing him by cutting off limbs? Yea, I think I've seen too many movies =P

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Heroes so far

Im a fan of heroes, I loved the first season, 2nd was pretty good and now we're at the 3rd: VILLIANS! Very interesting start- we see glimpses of the future where there are 2 sides, obviously evil and good and where the characters in the middle fit in, switching sides, lying, finding their identity, all good stuff. But here's where I get annoyed, Claire is really stupid. I think if they took her out of the show, a lot more people would watch because they wouldnt get so turned off. I'm not judging her acting, we dont watch the show because the wonderful acting right? We watch it because of the cool powers and the plot. Whats annoying is she keeps trying to fit in and fight but what makes a girl who cant die interesting? It could be done better like that one dude who was in Alias too but well, he's gone now also.

What else am I pissed about? Peter loses his powers. He's one of my favorite characters and yea, I guess it was getting annoying seeing him w/ the hunger for power (since he took Sylar's ability) but man, people are so whiny when they dont have their power. At lease Hiro is still happy-go-lucky, he keeps me entertained. And Arthur Petrelli is pretty cool too. He makes an awesome bad guy although I fail to see the point of what he's doing, he wants to create the formula and give everyone powers? I don't get it and the writers need to drive the point home with him or else he'll fade into the background at the end of the season. If he goes, at lease give Peter his powers back please

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Happy Birthday to WOW!

Thanks to them, I have my newest and cutest looking pet =) Seems that if you logged in yesterday on WOW's 4th bday, they give you an achievement and a baby blizzard bear to say thank you. I thought it was pretty cool and ended up getting the bear on my rogue, shaman, and Death Knight of course. Little surprises like this always make me happy to play these games. It sets apart the experience from any other game I'm currently playing and I'm sure a ton of others would feel the same.

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What I thought of 007

Umm, so I dunno if I'm the only one here but this wasn't a great bond movie at all. Ok, it was ok for me, but it wasn't anywhere near the last one. I guess I should announce a spoiler warning, there.


So first scene w/ the car chase, awesome! I expected to see a lot of cool action scenes and this one was pretty impressive, but what happened to showcasing the car like the rest of the bond movies? I get to see the car get beat up and thats it? My problem with this movie is that they took away a lot of elements that make these movies a "Bond" movie. I get that they may have wanted to go a different direction and not be so typical (Bond girl, show gadgets, be smoothe). I mean I get it, but if you're going to take away these things, then you should add something to make compensate correct? Well, they didn't. Bond girl had her own story going on and the closest he got was a kiss w/ her. I was waiting for that scene where they give bond some really cool gadgets, but no, he just had a tracking device on that stupid business card. What if they threw that away? He'd be screwed, the whole movie wouldve been screwed because he wouldn't know where to go.

I think what they tried to do is show a more human side to bond so they wanted him to kill people, be rough, have his clothes torn, get some some blood on him - ok, I dig that but I think the execution was a little poor. Maybe he needed to kill some more people?

I'm sure the next bond movie will have elements from the first one (Casino Royal) where he can be very smoothe, show some cool gadgets, meet a new girl who will play a more major role. I would give Casino Royal a 5/5, Quantum gets a 3/5. I'd say its pretty generous but I'm a fan of this new installment of Bond.

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