[Kody]

I wanted to put together something to highlight cool things from around the community today before heading off to GDC. Expect more great stuff from the content team today, and don't forget to check out Leviathonlx's coverage of the mastery system, which was the first full coverage of Eyonix and Ghostcrawler responding to community questions.

Anniversary Captions

Cameron kicked this thread off with his caption, and it quickly turned into a masterpiece with Chimina's excellent Wowroll. A creative combination of the WoW Anniversary wallpaper and the YouTube classic, the Rickroll!

Think you can come up with a great caption for the anniversary wallpaper? Upload it to the image gallery and then post it here!

Argent Tournament Failure

Ahh, the WoW forums. You never know what you're going to get when you visit them, but this sure turned out to be a gem! I took notice of it when it appeared on the blue tracker, and it's definitely worth a read. Check it out in full here.

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ARGENT TOURNAMENT - A GRAND, COLOSSAL FAILURE

ICE CROWN - A shocking report from a whistleblower within the Argent Crusade has revealed disturbing facts about the much-vaunted "Argent Tournament" and its major attraction the "Trial of the Crusader".

AN INTENTIONAL DEATH TRAP
"The place is a death-trap..." Our source (who wishes to remain anonymous) reports, "...And Tirion Fordring knows it."

Since the inception of the Argent Tournament, thousands of would-be heroes striving to fight against the Lich King have crossed beneath its banners, hoping to gain glory, prestige, and many of the powerful artifacts retained by the Argent Crusade and given as rewards to those who successfully overcome the Tournament's many challenges, including the much-renowned 'Trial of the Crusader' and 'Trial of the Grand Crusader'.

The designers of the Tournament and its Trials - including Tirion Fordring and his Argent Crusade - crafted the Tournament with the intent of producing the best of the best. By equipping the best heroes of Azeroth with the best tools, the Tournament was expected to create the best army capable of fighting against the forces of the Lich King.

However, according to this whistleblower, the entire endeavor may be for naught, as numerous problems with the concept and implementation of the tournament have arisen. Our source cites real, practical dangers in the policies enforced on the Argent Tournament grounds.

RATIONAL SECURITY DISASTER AREA
"Security is so bad that the Lich King himself could likely walk into the place, alone, unopposed, and break the entire facility - by himself!" Our source declares. "Furthermore, there have been documented instances where rogue demon-summoning, scourge incursions, and out-of-control beasts have caused serious injury and death to both Crusade and non-Crusade members." In many cases, the tournament staff is incapable of containing these breaches. "Most of the time, it is up to the participants themselves to accommodate for the Tournament keepers' gross negligence."

The dangers do not end there. Our source reports "Applicants to the Tournament are just as likely to be eaten, crushed, impaled, or slain by the Argent Crusade's own devices as they are to be eaten, crushed, impaled, or slain by the Scourge." Victims of the Tournament are reported to rival those of the actual Scourge. "We're losing good people, and they're dying by our own doing."

Starcraft II -- Wings of Liberty Protoss Units

A great video from Lore at TankSpot highlighting the Protoss units in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. If you're in the beta and looking to play with others from WoR, stop by the StarCraft II thread!

And in closing, I wanted to congratulate katuka for reaching prestige rank 10 in Modern Warfare 2. While it's not something that takes a lot of skill, it's one hell of a grind when done legitimately, so congrats!

[komorie]

gratz katuka and awesome one chimina and i must say in my eyes worldofraids is going the good way i really enjoy what this site is becomming

[katuka]

haha awesome man!

[Deployed]

Very nice informative (if a bit rushed sounding) video.

One thing that I think needs to be cleared up though, bi-weekly means twice a week. From what I gathered at the end of the video, the intention is for it to be a fortnightly video. Yeah, I know, picky, but some people might start complaining that you're late on a video when you're not.

...probably not the right place to mention it either ah well, just incase a Tankspotter sees this comment, they can pass it along.

This post has been edited by Deployed: 10 March 2010 - 01:29 PM

[Firann]

Deployed, on 10 March 2010 - 07:28 PM, said:

Very nice informative (if a bit rushed sounding) video.

One thing that I think needs to be cleared up though, bi-weekly means twice a week. From what I gathered at the end of the video, the intention is for it to be a fortnightly video. Yeah, I know, picky, but some people might start complaining that you're late on a video when you're not.

...probably not the right place to mention it either ah well, just incase a Tankspotter sees this comment, they can pass it along.

I thought bi weekly ment every 2 weeks Go figures heh

[Xentropy]

Biweekly usually* means every two weeks. Semiweekly means twice a week.

* I say usually because dictionaries have picked up bi+a unit of time to have a second definition meaning twice per that timespan, but semi+a unit of time exists specifically to describe that frequency, and while fortnightly covers once every two weeks, there's no second word that covers, for example, once every two months. It's much better to use semimonthly for twice a month (since it has only that ONE meaning) and bimonthly for once every two months (since it is the only word that covers that meaning, and by using it instead of semi- you are clarifying you don't mean twice a month to anyone more familiar with the English language than what a dictionary tells them).

This post has been edited by Xentropy: 11 March 2010 - 11:51 AM