Der Nerdery

There were no crowds queueing Time Square waiting for some midnight release,  not much media coverage, but a major step in video game consoles was released today.  This black sheep of the gaming community is known as OnLive, and it’s console is simply called the “MicroConsole”.  If you have never heard of OnLive or it’s console you may wonder what makes it so special.  It has no fancy or expensive hardware, no opening ports for game disks nor cartridges.

The how does it work?  The magic power of the Internet.  The hardware and games are hosted in a server farm by OnLive and a stream of the game is broadcast like a television signal to your computer or the console.

The service officially started June 15th of this year for PCs and Macs with some of the best AAA and indie games of the year.

I happen to get one of the first shipments of the MicroConsole and spent the day playing and testing it out.  It works just as well as it did on my PC with no major problems.  Although it does not come with a wireless adapter yet, I manage to bridge my netbook to  act as wireless adapter and it works perfectly.

It comes with one wireless controller, which is a variation of an Xbox 360, where the D-pad and left thumb stick are  switched and a row of video controls for brag clip and in the future for when they release movies or possibly Netflix on the system.

The MicroConsole has the ability to connect up to four OnLive wireless controllers and two USB ports that work easily with any Xbox 360 controller(wireless if you have an adapter)  Also there is the ability to hook up a usb keyboard and mouse if your a die hard PC gamer.  It even worked with my Razer Naga, even though only the 3 main mouse buttons worked.

OnLive has some downsides and an unfair share of criticism. The service requires at least a stable 3Mbps internet connection for uninterrupted gameplay.  The game selection is slim, made worse by the fact a deal with EA games went sour.  The worst is an image problem that OnLive  was a scam and it wasn’t technically possible long before the service came out.  This negative image lead the company to believe that it could not survive without a charging a monthly service fee that added to the problems.

However with a successful launch that help dropped the monthly fee and delivering almost everything they promised is making the image problems go away.

The OnLive Micro-Console is available at their website for $99 including a free game.  There is no retail option, and no option to buy extra controllers and as mentioned above no wireless adapter yet.

Also announced this week is a Playpack Pass, a $10 monthly fee that lets you play all you want for a select number of older games.  They are hoping to release more games for that service to a total of 40 games by the end of January.  All Micro-console owners have free access to this service until January 14.

Of course OnLive is free to sign up for any try out on your PC or Mac and every game lets you play the first 30 minutes absolutely free.

I was sitting flipping through channels and landed on Cartoon Network, in which the network was playing movies all day.  So when the next program came on I thought it was another DC comic animated movie.

Let start off by stating, I not a huge fan of DC comics or shows, but have some knowledge ans seen some of the shows.  It wasn’t a movie, but the first episode of “Young Justice”, a new DC comic series that will be on airing in 2011 on Cartoon Network.

The episode starts out with Batman and Robin, Green Arrow and Red Arrow(Speedy), Flash and Kid Flash, and Aquaman and a new hero Aqua Lad heading to the Justice League Headquarter where Robin, Red Arrow, Kid Flash, and Aqua Lad will take the first step to become members of the Justice League.

However Red Arrow becomes quite upset when all they get is membership passes to the Justice League Library and Gym.  He blurts out that he knows about the Justice League Satellite Station and that the Justice League HQ on earth is just for show to the public.  He storms out.  I have a feeling he is going to be a major villian later in the series.

Meanwhile Batman is hailed by Superman and someone else, two different emergencies at the same time, one is a small fire at Project Cadmus that can be handled by the local authorities and the other is more important, so everyone but Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqua Lad leave telling those three to stay put.

The three realize that Red Arrow was partially right and a little upset they were left behind that they decide to go help with the fire.  At the building they see someone go into an elevator which is not suppose to be working in a fire.  They also become aware that the elevator is a specialized high speed elevator in a two story building.

After dropping several stories into a secret xenobiology laboratory(known by the Justice League), they come to find a pod containing a young clone of Superman that was being educated to take down the Justice League.  After freeing the clone, they convince him to join them.  They eventually find the bad guy go to the surface when they have a final show down and get the building to collapse on him.

Afterward the Justice League shows up quite mad, where Aqua Lad, de facto leader of this new team says “accept us or don’t stand in our way”.  Superman comes face to face and his clone (who takes the hero name Superboy) doesn’t know how to handle the situation and flies off.

The four new members are taken to a cave at Mount Justice that were the original headquarters of the Justice League and told they would be trained and take covert missions for the Justice League and the cave was their new headquarters.  Also they met their new team member Miss Martian.

That is where the first episode ended, and from what I saw it was a pretty good story and can’t wait for more episodes in 2011.  They still haven’t introduced the last member of the team Artemis.

Parody is Protected

I have been neglecting this site.  It is a sad state of affairs.

However, I will start pony promenading my artwork on to this place, as it is highly nerd related. This was also discussed by one of the admins. A discussion I wrote off because either I wasn’t really serious or I wasn’t really serious. I am serious now.

Artwork. Here.

World of Warcraft has a very handy feature that is called Dungeon Finder. You use the dungeon finder and it find groups for you to do dungeons with. Dungeon Finder will give you 1 tank 1 healer and 3 dps. Dungeon Finder finds players on your server as well as others so the queue time is never very long.

Random Dungeon Finder:This will Que you for a random dungeon of your level. I like doing this one as once you complete the dungeon you receive a Satchel of helpful goodies this is just what it says it is you open it and inside you will find a Random blue item tailored to your class. As well as gold and Extra exp.

Dungeon Finder specific Dungeon: This is where you would Que if you don’t like a dungeon in your random group or you have Quests you need to complete in a dungeon. You receive no extra goodies from doing this.I use this very rarely like I said only if I have quests I need to complete or really want a item from that Dungeon.

Positive: You can level quickly through the dungeons
and receive bonus loot at the end if you do random. Quick Que times wait time is usually between 2-5 min. Receive your Achievements from finishing the dungeons lots of blue loot and greens to DC or sell. Makes Tailoring a snap we all know the best place to get cloth is in dungeons.

Negative : When you are not able to hand pick your group you can get some real idiots on your team I have found rarely that some players find it ok to yell at other players and otherwise act like two year olds this is where Vote to kick player comes in handy if some one is annoying, wipes your group allot voice it and vote to kick.

Conclusion : In conclusion I love Dungeon finder even though I occasionally get bad party’s. I like the fact that my charicters level fast and have good blue gear.I recommend every WoW player tries it at least a couple of times see what it is like and decide for your self

and don’t forget about our DerNerdery guild in WoW

In celebration of Halloween here is some extra nerdy ideas for you to consider.

The Legend of Zelda

Princess Zelda

Link

Bleach

Inoue Orihime / Arrancar

Icigo / Zangetsu

Rukia / Sode no Shirayki

Random Nerdy Costumes

Pokemon Team Rocket

Naurto: Gai Sensi and Rock lee

WOW/ Drani

WOW / Baby murloc

Kingdom Hearts/ Sora

And dont forget your four legged friends

Dog/ Yoda

Did you dress up in a extra Nerdy outfit send us a picture and we just might feature you next Halloween

Scarlet Monastery

Eliala -Warrior/Tank (Nerd Girl)

Zypheia-Priest/Healer ( Fried Spam)

Mantart-Shaman/DPS (Da Master)

Huntstair-Hunter/DPS ( candy man)

Map to Scarlet Monastery

The DerNerdery guild in World of Warcraft has survived It’s first Dungeon Run with out any deaths…. Well not us anyway just the bosses and there minions. HeHeHe…… We ran Scarlet Monastery I know not a really hard one but we ran our low level characters. We arrived to do battle for the greater good of Azeroth .

Eliala shouts her battle cry and runs into the first open door to do battle with the fist enemy that she finds with her friends Mantart, Huntstair, and Zypheia close behind just as eager to do battle as the gallant warrior. Huntstair becomes bored with Eliala’s slow and stedy pace and desides to run ahed of the group to do battle on his own with his trusty reaver by his side. He did not take long however to realize that there was a handy warrior for a reason, and he ran back to join the group and with Zypheia’s quick heals he survived to learn that valuable lesson do not go in front of the tank. Anything in our groups path quickly became mince meat thanks to all the DPS from Mantart.

The first boss was down and We grabbed the keys to the monastery and continued on to the armory With a great shout of shear rage and excitement Zypheia decided to see how good of a tank he would make. He ran forward not wating for Eliala and ran back crying and managed to bubble Eliala on the way back with Mantarts quick thinking and Eliala’s master tanking skills we survived yet once again. At about this time Eliala was giting cocky thinking she was all that and a bag of chips and decides to pull all of one room at once, however she quickly learned the error of her ways and had to hope Zypheia was up to mad dash healing. Luckily he was and yet once again we survived.

Then on to armory we go  pleased with our selves for not dieing yet…. as we work our way through Armory nothing major happens just allot of bad guys dieing. Then we decided that we had what we came for and did not do the last wing. Over all it was a grand adventure of miss haps and close calls but always a ton of fun.

Great job guys and gals. Hope we have more to join us next time.

Headless Horseman

On a side note during the Halloween Season Scarlet Monastery  is home to the Headless Horseman