Better than the shittastic week this past week in entertainment, it's "I hope I can do more than one entry a week" with me, xSmootx

So last week we saw what was possibly the return of Tuesday Updates or something that just happened on a Tuesday. As stale as the game has gotten, something the return of TU would be great. However like many great things, the creative team steers away from it. So my bet it was just something that they had lined up and "oh look, it falls on a Tuesday" type of deal. Nonetheless, the update itself was crap to contain the already self-infested shit pile of content better known as the Sea so I wasn't expecting much to come out of this. The cleverness that was supposedly attributed to this was the fact that you could just cook the 3rd tier advance ingridient skill for myst classes with itself. Meaning that if you cooked the pressurized whatever sphere by itself and the tempura batter by itself, you'd get some kind of "Oh we're air in a container" which you can use to breathe underwater for 20 turns. A little late for this don't ya think? Maybe if this came out when the 3rd tier skills debuted, it would've been bettter Noitwouldn't. Another thing, I don't like the whole 3rd skill thing. I mean what's the point of reagents and dry noodles if you're just going to implement basically the same things only geared towards underwater. It seems like to me the whole point of the level 15 skills for myst classes is that you're all-knowing with potion crafting or noodle making and then the Sea comes along and is all "Your may be good but ours are better because we're underrrrwaterrrrrr *wavy arm motions*" Anyway, I'm losing sight here, the update isn't all that great nor is it that clever.

Speaking of lacking in cleverness, that brings us to July's IotM. And my oh my, we're about 6 hours until downtime in the game and there's no speculation thread as I'm currenly typing this. However I probably just jinxed it by saying it that. The only thing remotely close to a speculation thread is something how July's IotM should reference Michael Jackson in some fashion followed by a bunch of typical MJ jokes. If I'd venture a guess, I'd say it would have to be something that would be the next piece for the weak '09 gear if the Elvish Sunglasses are any indication of what has yet to come for this year's outfit. Then again could be the usual...:

Fam A + Fam B + Some typical shitty ability that's supposedly worth $10 = Familiar of the Month

...formula. We could see crap thrown against a wall with another familiar equip 2nd straight year in a row or another piece to the clan dungeon, though the latter of which I doubt will happen because Mr. A's haven't been below 5 mil in awhile. Could be the next tome where it falls flat on its face to oust the snowcones a la, like how the stickers did. So after thinking outloud to you here, my money's on either an equip or the next tome. They seem like the most likely vectors at this point in time to disappoint me for the month of July.

Let's check out the "Hey, I remembered this week" poll results:

COMMENTS:

Will said on Jun 28 2009, 05:08 PM:
Would any changes to this game actually please you, or at this point are you simply too enamored with the fame you get from complaining about anything to allow yourself to enjoy anything new?

JohnDoe244 said on Jun 26 2009, 10:40 AM:
@Anonamedude: Because the Hobopolis price tag was perfectly balanced, and the fact that the next dungeon was a quarter of the price was just a co-incidence. Now Hobopolis for 250k is a bargain. But it's not like you've gotta pay to play Spookyraven or adventure on the Peak. Balance isn't really an issue here.

Anonamedude said on Jun 23 2009, 12:31 AM:
So, you want as much content as Hobopolis for the pricetag of the Slime Tube? The poll as usual is all about you wanting to get something which is out-of-balance with regards to other things in the game.

Smoot's Input: First off, explain to me how if there was a "250k Hobopolis" clan dungeon how it would somehow throw the ascension game into turmoil when neither of Hobopolis nor the Slime Tube have provided practically anything ascension relevant. Second off to answer Will's question, yeah, how bout changes to the Pirate's Cove and the Level 11-12 quests to make them not shitty for starters, let alone ascension. Or how bout getting rid of consumable caps so I don't have to be stuck with 39 different flavors of ASSkins Robbins when I'm level 3 and need something eat. Yeah those would be nice changes for starters. Look, when Hobopolis hit the content for the most part was pretty decent. Has it flaws but hey, no one's perfect. The one thing that held it down was the price tag, you just don't get your money's worth. With the Slime Tube, the price tag was great but the content sucks. If we could have some kind of middle ground where there's Hobopolis type content (fuck that sewer BS) but had the cost of a Slime Tube, I for one would be happy. That doesn't seem that unreasonable.

That's it for me today. Again, slooooooooow news going on in the game and lack of radio show last night so no new ICYMI til thrusday-esq. I'll try to have something up later in the week so that you're not too deprived from me. Before I go, I'd like to give a shout out Gemelli. I believe I said he was like one of the newest cocksuckers to join the dev team or something to that extent. Recently I discovered that he keeps track of all the equips at the Well Tempered Anvil site and that disturbing fanfic was left off. With a little spading of my own, I was able to send him some information which by the way, the Disturbing Fanfic smashes into complete shit! How exciting is that!? Anyway, if he did see anything that I said when he joined the other devster alumni I may have been a little harsh in hindsight but then again....he's on the dev team, so he's not TOO bad.  . Anyway, I'm outta here. Be sure to check me out on Twitter (it's like this generation's second hand smoking) and I'll have a new poll up AFTER ROLLOVER tonight.