Post Comment - Blue's News

Out of the Blue

[Mar 12, 2013, 09:29 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Well now I understand more completely why those of you who know better were so taken aback by my stupidity when I recently confessed to having caused a bathroom flood by absent-mindedly flushing a pair of chicken wings. After I cleared the clogged toilet, the other shoe dropped, so to speak, when the basement started flooding with, yes, sewage, as I managed to clog the sewer trap. And while this wasn't actually as horrible as it sounds, it was pretty damned awful. We got someone in to clear the clog, and I got to spend hours dealing with cleaning it up, which, again wasn't as horrible as it sounds, but still pretty damned awful. Needless to say, this serves as a lesson learned... to the extent that when the plumber warned against repeating my mistake I admitted at this point I was going to be wary of flushing toilet tissue.

Clogged Links:	Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play:	Star Squadrons.
Links:	Unready for takeoff- The five worst PC game launches (that aren’t SimCity). Stressful jobs that pay badly.
Stories:	Michael Vick's book-signing tour axed after threats for dogfighting ring.
Science:	Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem. New wave of 'superbugs' poses dire threat, says chief medical officer. Growing New Teeth, With a Little Help From Mice. Thanks Slashdot.
Images:	Deus Ex: Human Revolution Logic.
Media:	SoundWorks Collection - Epic Trailer Music. Street Fighter VS Call of Duty Black Ops 2 - Combat Axe & Blade Montage.
The Funnies:	Brevity.
Follow-up:	SpaceX Minute-by-Minute Replay on Saving Dragon Spacecraft. Thanks Boing Boing. LucasFilm Cancels Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Delays Star Wars: Detours.

Post Comment
Enter the details of the comment you'd like to post in the boxes below and click the button at the bottom of the form.

13.

Re: Out of the Blue

Mar 12, 2013, 13:37

PropheT

SimplyMonk wrote on Mar 12, 2013, 13:14: Meh. WoW really shouldn't of been on there. Personally, it was one of the smoother launches that I ever participated in. Wait Queues were the only thing annoying that came to mind. Loot lag, Captain Placeholder, server queues, server outages. You don't remember bending down to loot a corpse of something you killed and being stuck there for a couple of minutes because the database servers had to catch up? That didn't get fixed until well into spring of the year after WoW launched. The boats broke, and were eventually replaced with Captain Placeholder so that people could get across the sea. Queues were huge, and annoying isn't what I'd call them; they were 2-3 hours in length most days for months, making the game completely unplayable if you were a day-shift person who could only play at night. People were also finding ways to crash zones on a regular basis, causing "world server unavailable" problems if you were frequenting populated areas like Ironforge. The number of MMO's with a good and clean launch can probably be counted on one hand, but WoW's problems extended for much of its first six months in existence.

Subject

Comment Enter your comment here, but please respect the forum rules (below).

;) :( :o %) :) :| ;P X| :D More

If you have a signature set up, it will be automatically appended to your comment.
If you don't already have a Blue's News user account, you can sign up here.
Forgotten your password? Click here.

Email me when this topic is updated.

Special Codes

b[bold text]b
i[italic text]i
u[underline text]u
-[~~strikethrough text~~]-
c[code text]c
+[bullet point]+
q[quote text (indented)]q
[quote="Author"]quote text (indented)[/quote]
[url=Link]text[/url]
r{red text}r
g{green text}g
b{blue text}b
m{maroon text}m
s{secret text (shows in the background colour)}s

Forum Rules

Disagree all you want but attacks of a personal nature will not be tolerated.
Ethnic slurs and homophobic language will not be tolerated.
Do not post spam, links to warez sites, or instructions on how to obtain pirated software.
Abusing the forums in any manner that could be construed as 'griefing' will not be tolerated.