Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can). When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday February 26th at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time [...]]]>

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

• When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday February 26th at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
• Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
• Some general ground rules:
  1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
  2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

I was lying in bed the other day, thinking…. and I wondered what [...]]]> Tired of boring, repetitive raid bosses? I know I am! This week’s Shared Topic encouraged our imaginations to run wild as we design our own, personalized boss fights. Sephrenia from Guild Mum is the one to thank for this very creative topic:

I was lying in bed the other day, thinking…. and I wondered what sort of boss I would be if I was a boss in WOW. Would I be an easy loot giving boss like Loot Reaver, Chess Event, Gunship, or would I be a really hard one, like STUPID ROTFACE who is driving us crazy at the moment, or Shade of Aran was in Karazhan for our guild many moons ago? What would my special abilities be? What loot would I drop?

Sharing their takes are:

Sephrenia from Guild Mum

Pheadra from DI the Tank

Exanna from OMG…Priest!

TwilliK from Arcane Envoy

Zan from Altoholic Anonymous

Dristanel from The Physician’s Log

Windsoar from Jaded Alt

Ophelie from The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon

Next week’s Shared Topic has a more futuristic flavor as we stop to think about the effect Cataclysm will have on our gameplay as well as the game changes we’d like to see.

To be part of any of the Shared Topics, stop by the forum at Blog Azeroth and take your pick from the many upcoming and past topics!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can). When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday February 5th at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time [...]]]> Join us as we chat with Miss Medicina from Miss Medicina.

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

• When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday February 5th at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
• Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
• Some general ground rules:
  1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
  2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can). When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday January 7th at 8pm [...]]]>

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

• When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday January 7th at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
• Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
• Some general ground rules:
  1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
  2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Today, I’ll be highlighting a forum for warcraft economics. The JMTC forums are hosted by Marco, from the Just My Two Copper blog, and is a place for people to talk about making money on the WOW auction house. It’s one of the larger such communities, and as such has a wealth of information to [...]]]>

Today, I’ll be highlighting a forum for warcraft economics. The JMTC forums are hosted by Marco, from the Just My Two Copper blog, and is a place for people to talk about making money on the WOW auction house. It’s one of the larger such communities, and as such has a wealth of information to get people started on using the auction house to make gold.

Please note- some of the ads on the site are for services that break the game’s terms of service, and I have to say that the TNB does not suggest you do anything that would break the game rules, but the info in the forums themselves are all fair game.

They have quite a few guides for different professions, so if you’re trying to figure out how to make money with, say, leatherworking and enchanting, go take a look!

The resource site spotlight (aka wiki tiki utility posts) should happen every week, but is written by Euripides from outdps.com, and endeavors to fill your favorites bar with an unmanageably large quantity of WOW resource sites. So much knowledge that it hurts. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can). When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday [...]]]>
Join us at our new night and time on Friday evening at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Spooner of Spooncraft. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

• When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday September 25th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
• Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
• Some general ground rules:
  1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
  2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Oh my goodness, this is cool! Some frood named Fitzcairn coded an awesome site called macroexplain.com that allows you to paste a macro into it, and then it explains what it does, line by line! Here’s an example of the site at it’s finest: a link to its explanation of a hunter misdirect macro I [...]]]>

Oh my goodness, this is cool! Some frood named Fitzcairn coded an awesome site called macroexplain.com that allows you to paste a macro into it, and then it explains what it does, line by line! Here’s an example of the site at it’s finest: a link to its explanation of a hunter misdirect macro I use. I can add a title, a class, tags, comments, and attribute it to an author if I want.

The tool is dead easy to use. One warning- it doesn’t speak LUA (the wow scripting language) so if you tell it to explain a complex script you use to, say, mail all your greens to another character, it’s explanation will run something along the lines of  “Run LUA” and then the code after the “/run” command. Still, for those complex non-LUA macros, this is a godsend. No more trying to parse the code in your head and remember how conditionals work (wait, will holding shift while pressing this macro shoot or feign death?).

On behalf of the internet, thank you Fitzcairn. Thank you.

The resource site spotlight (aka wiki tiki utility posts) should happen every week, but is written by Euripides from outdps.com, and endeavors to fill your favorites bar with an unmanageably large quantity of WOW resource sites. So much knowledge that it hurts. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Join us on a special Pre-Blizzcon special! We talk getting ready for Blizzcon and about some of the 3.2 changes and we even get a visit from a special guest.. I wonder who it could be…

SPONSORED BY: Buff’D – Player Powered WoW News (Contest Info)

Blizz tells WCRadio, nogo to live-stream Blizzcon. (link)

Blizz announces Ozzy [...]]]>

Join us on a special Pre-Blizzcon special! We talk getting ready for Blizzcon and about some of the 3.2 changes and we even get a visit from a special guest.. I wonder who it could be…

SPONSORED BY: Buff’D – Player Powered WoW News (Contest Info)

General News

Blizz tells WCRadio, nogo to live-stream Blizzcon. (link)

Blizz announces Ozzy comeback raid! I mean Onyxia!. 3.2.2 (link)
- mount
- pet
- 10- and 25-man revamped raids
- EVEN MORE DEEP BREATHS!

End of Arena season 6 coming soon and 3k Honor cap lifted. So get your PVP on.

WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Another security fix. Fixes security issues missed in the 2.8.3 release. Are we done yet?

Hot Topics from the Nether!

Blizzcon FAQ (link)

My recommendations:
Carry a bag, include the following:
- wear comfortable shoes
- Bottle of water
- Source of protein (thinking meat sticks or nuts)
- Notebook and pen
- Jacket
- Gum
- Camera/camcorder (and charger for devices)
- Wear comfortable shoes

Our schedule for the con:
- Thursday night Wow.com meetup at the Tangerine
- Friday morning In line for the con, look TNB Tshirts Say HI! Watch Twitter.
- Friday night 9 @ meetup
- Saturday watch twitter! Live Blogging as @FimBlizzcon and @NibBlizzcon
- Sunday: Raid Disneyland.

Next week…

Next week we’re at Blizzcon. We may release a show from recordings made at Blizzcon. The week after we’ll review Blizzcon and may have special guests.

(Opening song “Monster Techno Blues” is preformed Joe Sibol, additional song credits: Phonecasting – Foggy Monutain Morning, Joe Sibol – Hot Sexy Girls Instrumental, provided by podssafeaudio.com)

Repetitious redundancy is redundantly repetitive, but it’s true, the owners and operators of the blog Sideshow and Syrana are Sideshow, the Undead Rogue, and Syrana, the Blood Elf Warlock. They’re a husband and wife team who have been playing since pre-BC. Though Syrana’s first level 70 character [...]]]> Welcome to Sideshow and Syrana of Sideshow and Syrana!

Repetitious redundancy is redundantly repetitive, but it’s true, the owners and operators of the blog Sideshow and Syrana are Sideshow, the Undead Rogue, and Syrana, the Blood Elf Warlock. They’re a husband and wife team who have been playing since pre-BC. Though Syrana’s first level 70 character was a hunter, the call of the dark side was just too strong. Playing with fel magic was just too addicting for this junky Blood Elf, and she’s been siphoning souls ever since. They’re both officers of the guild OI, and are casual players with some raiding mixed in.

Outside of the game world, Syrana works with people in need of alcohol and/or drug treatment services as a case manager. She’s even written about how WoW helps her with her rather complicated and exhaustive job. Sideshow, being rather mum about his own job, simply reports working as an IT guy, which I take to mean he is an undercover hacker for the secret services. Or something.

The blog is a great place to go for an eclectic mix of RP posts, entertainment, introspection and opinions. From cat-capers to breaking up with Archavon, Part 15 of weekly RP to exploring the (anti)feminism of WoW achievements, there’s plenty to read for all sorts. Definitely entertaining, always intriguing, it’s a blog not to be missed.

Welcome to the blogosphere, Sideshow and Syrana!

Every Friday (and sometimes other days if she needs to make up posts), Bellwether from 4 Haelz is bringing you the Welcome Wagon, introducing new bloggers and great reads. If you know of a new blog to the scene or wish to get your name out there, please send an e-mail to 4haelz AT gmail DOT com with the subject line “Welcome Wagon.” She’ll do her best to highlight as many as possible!

Be nice to Nib, she bites

I will still be around the interwebs and if any of you would like to contact me via [...]]]> If you have listened to Ep. 40, You then know I am taking a sabbatical from the show. I leave you in Fim’s and Nib’s excellent hands.

Be nice to Nib, she bites

I will still be around the interwebs and if any of you would like to contact me via email, feel free to drop me a line at Bre@twistednether.net

<3 to each and every one of you.. Thank you all for making this such a wonderful experience.

So long….and thanks for the fish!

Many hugs,
Bre

From the many emails and conversations and forum posts I’ve read and had over the past month on [...]]]> Welcome to one of many regular installments from self acclaimed blogging “guru” Matticus. Learning about blogging techniques is one thing. Actually going through with them and carrying them out is another and that’s where I hope to help!

From the many emails and conversations and forum posts I’ve read and had over the past month on Blog Azeroth and abound, I’ve figured out that there is one aspect common in all bloggers and that is the fear of sucking.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Common blogging fears

• Flames from readers
• Comments saying “You’re wrong!”
• Not enough research done
• Getting facts wrong
• Offending people

And I’m just skimming the surface here. Don’t try to be a perfectionist right off the bat because it’s nearly impossible to write the perfect blog post every time. Blogging has a learning curve to it. Start with the idea, then support for the idea.

That’s it!

As you gradually progress, you’ll notice your blogging will improve. You’ll start receiving feedback. People will start pointing out grammatical mistakes, factual mistakes, and whatever else mistakes. It happens to me all the time. In fact, I had one particular reader who was so adept at pointing out every error I committed that I eventually gave in and brought her onboard so she could help fix my posts after I had already written them =).

Don’t be worried about fixing your mistakes right away. The most important thing is to get the process of writing down regardless of how it looks and how you sound. Get into the habit of writing whether it’s every day, every 2nd day, or right before you to go sleep or during lunch. Whatever time you pick, make sure you stick with it and commit. Otherwise you’ll start to lapse and wane and your discipline will be rendered non-existent.

Once you get your writing habits developed and you start blogging punctually, then you can spend more time on formatting.

This is not to say that fact checking isn’t important. It is. But it’s not something you should obsess over right away as a blogger. The moment you start getting paid to blog is the moment you need to make an effort to get your facts straight in a really obsessive manner. But since you’re starting out, don’t bust your chops with irrelevant things like that right away.

Besides, it’s good comment bait for people to swoop in and say “Hey, you made a mistake here!” and then you respond by saying “Oops! Fixed! Thanks!”. It makes you look good due to the pseudo reader and writer interaction that’s happening .

Exercises

Try this whenever you hit a wall:

A major in game event happens which affects you strongly. Write as sincerely as you can how you feel about the situation and how it will change things. Maybe a friend left the guild or a piece of loot dropped that you really wanted but didn’t get. Don’t worry about the spelling or grammar. Write for 30 minutes on back to back days about it.

Eventually, you’ll get to a point where a blog post will take more than an hour to finalize. I know bloggers who spend a few days crafting one post. I typically spend 90 minutes on average on a post. The process includes conception, raw writing on paper, typing it on the computer, editing it again, formatting it, finding the necessary images to help accent it, and then finally promoting and publishing it.

I highly doubt anyone is born a natural blogger. It’s a craft that takes nothing more than repetition. In fact, blogging should be a form of martial art because it takes an insane amount of practice before it becomes second nature. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Don’t stop writing. Because once you do, it’s going to take a monumental effort to get back into the groove again.

Try asking anyone that’s taken a break from blogging how hard it can be to get back into the swing of things. There’s still a period of adjustment they go through. But if you love blogging, you have to actually blog. Even if the posts are fail, you have to keep pushing. Even on days where you just don’t want to crawl out of bed, you have to keep blogging (a simple I don’t wanna blog because I feel like crap and why you feel like crap would work). Because at the end of the day, bloggers who don’t blog aren’t bloggers.

Don’t ever be afraid to suck.

Remember that.

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