Brewfest is over, and no I didn’t get my Kodo Mount, but I did end up with a bag full of goodies. Other than the Kodo, what I also wanted was the [Direbrew's Remote], which I got. I also picked up one of every trinket that drops from the boss, including both Beerwench trinkets. Gotta wait til next year for the Kodo Mount now.

I also got my proof of a C’thun kill ready for the upcoming Achievement system which will come out with Wrath. The only ways Blizzard can track if you have cleared an instance before the Achievement system is out, is by tracking your quests (if it has something to do with the death of, or a drop off the last boss), or by seeing of you have obtain loot off the last boss.

With the expansion just around the corner, you will be seeing more and more players doing old instances such as Naxxramas and Ahn’Qiraj. Naxx for a chance at Tier 3 loot which will be lost forever with the expansion, and AQ for mounts and achievements. Now I wish I didn’t throw away my collection of AQ mounts. At least I kept my Blue one.

Kil’jaeden at 30% last week! Will we have what it takes to kill him before the next patch? I sure hope so.

Gaming:

A local arcade in Philadelphia has happen to get a Street Fighter 4 arcade machine, and I got to finally play it. My first impression is: Very fast, and very fun. Anyone in the Philadelphia Area, University Pinball – gogoogog!

Movies:

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, great movie. If you enjoyed last year’s hit movie, Juno, then you will definitely enjoy Nick and Norah’s. Michael Cera starring as the only type of character he knows how to play, himself.

Why is it that every time I have to take a short break from WoW that all the cool things happen during that time? This time I missed the Harvest Festival, Pirates’ Day, and Brewfest (which is currently still going on).

Gaming:

I am currently a little over 45 hours into Spectral Force 3 for the Xbox360, and reached what I’m guessing is 75% done mark. I’m guessing that because I just got a little over half of the game’s Achievements, so I should be close to finishing the game.

Great game if you enjoy Tactical RPGs. My only gripe is that the voice acting is HORRIBLE (with no option to switch to original Japanese voices), and the game has PS2-esque graphics. I do wish more import games include the option to switch the voices.

Abandoned games I need to go back and finish:

• Final Fantasy IV (close to final dungeon)
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (2 hrs in)
• Lost Odyssey (on disc four)
• Persona 3: FES (64+ hrs in, maybe halfway through the game?)
• Final Fantasy XII (15 hrs in)

Anime:

I just finished watching the 2nd Bleach Movie: The Diamond Dust Rebellion ~The Other Hyourinmaru~, and it was a rather good movie. Probably because it starred one of my favorite characters in the anime, Hitsugaya Toushirou. Oh and his zanpakutou (living sword) has the power of Ice, coincidence?

Real Life:

One wedding down, and one more to go this coming weekend. After that I can go back to WoW and raiding again.

Biggest news is the release date for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion has been set by Blizzard. The release date is November 13th, 2008! Onward to Northrend!

The PTR is open for patch 3.0.2. This patch would be similar to the patch which came out right before the release of the Burning Crusade expansion. The patch will allow you to use the new talent trees, and some of the new features which will be coming out with the WotLK expansion.

Then general consensus of the PTR: “Everyone is doing way too much damage”

Gaming:

Rock Band 2: If you enjoyed the first, you will enjoy the 2nd. No huge upgrades other than online World Tour mode. It is pretty much $60 for 80 new songs to play with. With the prices of the songs you can download at around $2-5, this a bargain. Another huge plus is that you can import all the songs from the first Rock Band too!

Star Wars: Force Unleashed: Pretty much is Ninja Gaiden with Star Wars characters- minus the difficulty and refined combat system. A high fun factor, and great storyline. Though I am a bit biased towards anything Star Wars.

Self explanatory. Yay!

Real Life:

Football season started! My beloved Eagles are off to a great start with a big win over the Rams, 38-3. Next up, the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football.

Had a really bad Arena week. What started off looking promising, ended up a disaster. Me and my Warlock partner for 2v2s, managed to get our rating up to 1672, then I got greedy. I had over 2k Arena Points saved up, so when I saw that we were only two winning games away, I decided to make that push to 1700 in order to get the Season 4 Helm. Due to my greediness, we ended up dropping to like 1550ish… sorry Serena!

Gaming:

Got my copy of Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox360 the day it came out! I have been looking forward to this game for a long time now, and so far I love every bit of it. This is the game that caused the Xbox360 to sell out in Japan, and that means something!

If you enjoyed Eternal Sonata or Tales of Symphonia (or pretty much any of the Namco “Tales” series), then you will most likely enjoy this game as well. It has all the JRPG elements, and a very unique combat system. A nice change of pace in my usual turn-based RPGs.

Real Life:

During the weekend, I took a trip down to Virginia to visit some friends and relatives. I drove down with my cousin and had a great time there (thanks Barry and Serena!). There are a few things I’ve learned from this trip:

• The VTech mascot, the Hokie, looks like a turducken
• All golf balls I hit, veers to the right
• Same with bowling
• Red Robin is delicious
• There are no WaWa in VA
• A wrong turn in VA can take you through towns which reminds me of Children of the Corn, House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, and Silent Hill… all put together.

I didn’t get a chance to log on last night after my Ring ordeal, but I did receive an email from a GM stating that my [Vindicator's Band of Subjugation] has been removed, and they have refunded my the Honor Points and the 10 x [Alterac Valley Mark of Honor]. This time I will be more careful when I make my purchase.

Games:

I’ve been playing a new Tactical RPG now for the Xbox360 called Spectral Force 3. It had just been recently ported over from Japan, and is a very solid game (if you like tactical rpg games that is). The only downside for me that even though it has HD support, the graphics still look like it is a PS2 game. Other than that, I’ve been enjoying this game.

I still have been playing a lot of Final Fantasy Tactics A2 during the week. Since it is for the Nintendo DS though, I’m going to save my playing time for the upcoming trips I have planned.

Anime:

With recommendations from some of the readers, and some of my friends, I started watching D-Gray Man, Full Moon o Sagashite, and Chrno Crusade.

I blame these series for my sudden lack of sleep lately, but so far, they are all really good. Thanks for the recommendations!

Website:

Patch Notes: Spicytuna Client Patch 2.5.1 (2008-08-26)

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.spicytunas.com/test

General Design:

• Changed the color scheme of the polls to match new layout
• Started adding more links to the Blog Roll
• Added the Badges to the right Side Bar

Theme:

• Added the Gaming Theme

I am almost done with the new design, and just need to make minor changes to some of the coding. I will also need to totally redo my Categories in order to take advantage of the theme, and that will take me a whole lot of time.

Also, with the new layout making navigation a lot easier, it also takes away a good amount of space where I would normally have Blog Rolls, and RSS feeds I currently have now. So I am planning on making a separate page dedicated to my blog list.

Thanks again to everyone who has been providing me feedback with the new layout!

New waves of Beta Keys were given out recently, so check your emails to see if you were lucky enough to get one! Sadly I still haven’t gotten one yet. Also be careful of fake emails or scam mails. There is a nice post on the EU WoW Forums that will help you tell the difference between a real and fake email.

Also Blizzard has updated their WotLK Talent Calculator. As of right now, the calculator is up to date with the WotLK Beta Build 8719. You can find the talent calculators here at: WotLK Beta Talent Calculators

PvE Frost: 11/0/60

Right now my new Talent Build for WotLK would be something like THIS. 11 Points into Arcane for Focus Magic, and the rest into Frost.

Video Games:

I’m still tearing it up on Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online on the PS3. I rose up in ranks, and currently at rank 4th Dan. I am surprised there are still many players out there who still play. A lot of really good players too!

Ling Xiaoyu is still my character of choice

I am hovering just above 55% for my win to loss ratio. It is getting more and more difficult as I start playing higher ranked players. I hate Eddy and Christie players.

I took a break from Person 3: FES and started playing Final Fantasy IV on the Nintendo DS. Great game too! The upgraded graphics and added voice made this old NES classic even better.

I kinda wished that my characters would let me know ahead of time when they feel like sacrificing themselves for the greater good. The advance warnings would be nice so I know to unequip some of the good pieces of armor they were wearing.

I also purchased Geometry Wars 2 when it came out a couple of days ago. It is a huge upgrade from the previous version, and it is even more chaotic. The game pushes my concentration and reaction time to the limit, and I find myself not even blinking for long periods of time.

So much stuff going on the screen, it gets difficult to survive.

Real Life:

Spicytunas.com has hit a great milestone in its blog life. We’ve reached to 100,000 marker on the number of hits (according to sitemeter) for the blog. It’s a pretty big step from when I made this blog public and moved it over to a self hosting service back in February of this year. Thanks to magi for pointing it out for me that it was approaching the mark.

Some other bloggers who also hit this milestone recently too. Ratshag of Need More Rage, and Megan of Out of Mana both hit their 100,000 mark just two weeks ago. Hrmm… on the same day, and their blog names are similar too, what a coincidence! Anyways, grats to the both of them.

Thanks again for visiting. It gives me more reason to keep doing what I enjoy doing, and hopefully you will still stick around for more.

Episode 16 continues where the last episode left off, Death the Kid vs Chrona and Ragnarok!

Summary:

After Chrona and Ragnarok shows up on the ship and absorbs all the souls on the ship, Ragnarok becomes stronger and sprouts wings. Kid engages in battle with Chrona, and manages to land successful attack on Chrona. Chrona who was being pushed back by Kid, destroys the ship and tries to escape from Kid by flying away.

Kid summons his flying skateboard, and flies after Chrona. He manages to catch up to Chrona and continues firing at them. That is until the Sun shows up! Upon seeing the Sun, Kid sees how symmetrical the sky is, and is stopped in his tracks. As a result of this, Chrona and Ragnarok manages to escape without any further trouble.

Meanwhile, Maka is in the nurse’s office with Medusa. Maka was troubled by the black blood she saw after the battle with Free, and came for advice. Medusa gives Maka some pills, and Maka leaves. Moments later, Dr. Stein shows up, and questions Medusa about the pills she gave Maka, and confronts her about being a witch.

Medusa, who looked like she was about to attack, starts acting like it was a bad joke. Dr. Stein laughs it off and leaves the room. Dr. Stein later meets up with Sid and his weapon Knives. Dr. Stein said that his suspicions about Medusa has been confirmed, and Sid said that he has found Medusa’s hidout.

Sid and Knives leave to infiltrate Medusa’s hideout. What they didn’t know was that Medusa has contacted Eruka ahead of time to have something prepared.

Sid manages to break in with ease, and finds Medusa’s journal. He reads something shocking in the journal, and states that he must warn Shinigami-sama at once. At that moment, he was ambushed from behind by Eruka’s bombs. The bombs detonate, and destroys the entire building.

Meanwhile, Kid confronts Shinigami-sama about what he had heard during his investigation of the Black Dragon. He asks Shinigami-sama about the “Kinshin closest to them” and if it is tied with the reason why Shinigami-sama is unable to leave Shibusen.

Preview:

The next episode takes a break from the action, and is another Excalibur episode. Looks like another wierd and funny episode.

Thoughts:

Same reaction I got after seeing the preview for the next episode…

Judging from the fight, we can see that Kid is a step above Chrona and Ragnarok, so we can safely say that Kid is a few steps ahead of Maka and Soul. That is if he doesn’t let his obsessions get in his way. Also we find out that Shinigami-sama is somehow unable to leave Shibusen (which is why he sends out Meisters to do his dirty work), and we may find out why pretty soon.

Also now that Medusa’s cover is blown, looks like she will start making her move pretty soon too. Although we will be seeing a break in the action next episode, we will be getting some good action soon after.

Public Beta is out and no, I haven’t gotten my beta key yet. It is alright though, as much as I want to test out the new stuff, there are still a lot to accomplish in our current expansion. Still, it would be nice if I were to get one! WTB [Beta Key] PST!

We finally got M’uru to phase 2, and got Entropius down to 45% (our best attempt). M’uru kill this week? Hopefully we can get him/her/it down so we can take a look at Kil’jaeden for ourselves.

Mounts and vanity pets no longer taking up bag space in WotLK? That would be so awesome, and would free up like 30 slots for me. [Source]

Movies:

The Dark Knight, go watch it now if you haven’t already. If you have, go watch it again! Yes it was that good. I had already planned to watch it on Saturday, on like Wednesday and Thursday, some of my friends had already watched it.

From then on, everywhere I went, I kept hearing how awesome the movie was. Even the waitress at the Sushi restaurant I went to before going to the theater was tell me how good it was!

Next movie on my list: Tropic Thunder

Video Games:

Ever since my roommate got NCAA 2009 for the Xbox360, I have grown to hate Notre Dame and their fight songs. Ahh the song got stuck in my head from just thinking about it. I also get urges to punch Leprechauns in the face too.

Anime:

Otakon 2008 is coming up! I’ve been to the last couple, and they were a lot of fun. I’m taking my little sister with me this year, so hopefully she’ll enjoy it too. I was contemplating on having her cos-play, but then I pictured myself fighting off mobs of Otakus trying to take pictures. Maybe not a good idea…

Sports:

Phillies are tied with the Mets for first place in the NL East. Our next three games? All against the Mets on their home turf. Couldn’t get anymore exciting.

Episode 15, Death the Kid, along with Liz and Patty, travel to a village which had been attacked by a mysterious monster.

Summary:

They reach the village to find out from a surviving villager, that they have been attacked by a Black Dragon. After a bit of researching, Kid, Liz, and Patty row off to find this Black Dragon. They manage to find this boat and board it. After a bit of investigating, they find a room full of souls.

Liz gets separated from the group when she falls down a trap. With out Liz, Kid is unable to use only Patty as a weapon (it throws off his symmetry), and they can’t do anything but run.

Meanwhile, Liz is slowly finding her way to the surface of the ship with the help of some friends. During this time, we find out a bit about the origins of Liz and Patty, and how they ended up with Kid.

When Liz finally makes it to the surface of the ship, she is met up with Kid and Patty. They are now ready to confront their enemy. All of a sudden, they’re enemy is sliced up in an instant. It was done by Chrona and Ragnarok. Ragnarok then absorbs all the souls that were hidden inside the ship, and gets stronger. He transforms and now has wings. Kid, Liz and Patty are in for a big fight.

Preview:

Next episode will begin (and hopefully end) the fight against Chrona and Ragnarok. Looks like there will be an aerial battle too!

Thoughts:

Crazy Patty is crazy?!

Another good episode. We find out more about Liz and Patty and how they ended up with Kid. Not only is Patty hilarious, Liz is also funny with her cowardly antics. Kid is worthless when it comes to symmetry as usual, but they all go together so well.

Next episode looks like it will be all action. We’ve seen what Chrona and Ragnarok can do to Maka and Soul, lets see how well Kid and company does against Chrona and upgraded Ragnarok.