Truthiness is recruiting!

WE:

Need 3-4 ranged DPS.
Provide all flasks, pots, consumables, repairs, vent, a kickass group and great leadership.
Raid ICC10 on Saturdays from 8:00pm to 1:00am and on Mondays 8:00pm to 12:00am.

YOU:

Need an awesome mature guild of like-minded adults who want to see end-game content and pursue hard modes and heroic encounters.
Provide a punctual raiding toon (enchanted/gemmed properly) rigged with Ventrilo and can pull 5k dps on a single target, by yourself.
Raid some ICC10 experience and want to see the Lich King dead.

Please mail lolotov@truthinessguild.net in the real world or Salovia in the game. Also feel free to whisper Salovia.

Ok, technically not hacked, but that’s what everyone calls it.

This morning we had an account compromised and in turn most things from the gold vault were taken and presumably sold or mailed out. They left some pygmy suckerfish, some army knives, some flares, and about a tab’s worth of misc. food stuffs (except feasts). Our first hacked account in 2 years (ever)!

We were on to it pretty quickly, but it took only minutes before the vault damage was done. Mizz and I have tickets in to the GMs to start the restoration process, but there’s no word on how long it will take (and really we’re not guaranteed to have it all restored). So we’re on top of it.

Our guildy is in need of some TLC so to speak. Being hacked just sucks in all sorts of ways. There’s no word yet on if her gear on her toons or her bank items will be restored. I’m sure her day is going to be pretty chaotic trying to get her WoW-life back into order, so we’ll need to be there to make sure we can help her with whatever she needs.

For now all access to the vault has been removed in an over-zealous attempt and minimizing further damage. I want to keep the logs clean until we get things back in order. I’ll update with more details as they come.

Salovia has basically been idling along in WoW lately. I hop on every day to cycle auctions and run HTOC for Neiran, but that’s about it. I mainly play to raid since we’re at the top of our game (though we’re far from end game). So what’s a bored tank to do? I have a bajillion badges and don’t need any more tank or holy pieces so there’s no need to grind badges. I got my red proto drake a while ago, so I’m not really gunning for heroics like I used to be. Well, what else could I do?
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The Truthiness Gear Utility (yes, it still works) has been updated to reflect all of the current Northrend dungeons and raids. I’ve also added accounts for members that have joined since we stopped using it a while ago. See the Member’s Area of the forum if you’re not sure what your password is. Go appreciate Tov’s hard work =P

We came back tonight to finish the Military Quarter and give Sapphiron a try. We ended up steam-rolling the military quarter (except for that one triple-pat-pull with the added shade, my bad) and then stomping Sapphiron pretty easily. We two shot the icey-dragon, but it only took two tries because he ice-blocked two people that were ridiculously far away from half the raid because we weren’t moving in tandem. Anyway, the second time we killed him with ease (really, it was easy).

Then Kel’Thuzad. This guy is a pain. We had to swap our awesome DK, Ashaba with his druid, Feldegast, in order to clear up the melee area and get some backup heals for ice-blocks. Melee frost blasts were chaining four or so people into ice blocks and there’s just no way our healers could have covered it. We wiped a few times and put in two *really* solid hours. 19 minutes before we were scheduled to call it, we gave it one last try and ended up pulling off a win. Clicky for bigger screen cap.

Yesterday after Obsidy and Archavon we went into Naxx. When we got inside, WoW started going very slow and being laggy. My computer ended up crashing hard, during which something called WMI corrupted which made my wireless stuff stop working. I ended up running a cable across the house to finish the raid, but it was irritating none-the-less. Today after trying to repair the issue, Windows complained and I resolved to just format and reinstall.

I hate Windows, but I love TinyXP. These are some screens of a fresh install, taken right after booting up the first time. Formatting my OS drive took 18 minutes (none of that quick format business for me, thank you) and the actual OS install took less than 6 (yes, six). This is with TinyXP Rev09 (Option 8):

Note, 15 processes. 50mb of ram being used.

Screw you OEM crap! Screw you internationalization junk! IE, Windows Media Player - you’re outta there! I’ve been using TinyXP for a while and re-installing Windows has become a cinch. I get the base functionality and can put all my own things over the shell. It’s lovely. Also, thank you Blizzard for making WoW so portable - since all my crap is installed and residing on another drive, reinstalling the OS doesn’t mean reinstalling WoW. Yippee! Once my audio driver is installed, I’ll be back in the game.

updated!

Though not quite finished, I want to go ahead and release the forum to you all. Go sign up (use your main toon’s name so that I can moderate properly), click around, make posts, and do other forum-like things. If you have any problems or suggestions: let me know in game, by email (mizzle@truthinessguild.net), or post in the “Halp!” section of the forum!

This is worth a look because it is so clever.