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Sunday! And a Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there who deserve to be recognized. For the non-mothers out there we are wondering if our weekend was as productive as it should have been. While you are contemplating that though why don't we see what questions I am answering for the week. So let's get on that.

We are getting closer to Uncharted 4, how ready are you?

I supposed I am ready as the rest of the world is and that was they were ready the moment it was announced. There is a lot to be excited for. I know I am a little fanboy on this, but don't particularly care. Every gamer out there should be excited for this game. We will be privileged to a great and intriguing story and one whose gameplay elements while won't be difficult will keep us interactive in our game and want us to keep going. The only sad moment will be when we are done it may be the last we will see of Nathan Drake.

Thoughts on Heroes new Heroes?

I love the additions. I know Chromie is an interesting choice, but I think it gives us a loved character in the Warcraft universe without going all out dragon. I believe this is one of the major reasons we have not seen any of the aspects yet, because the devs are worried how that would all play out. There is a fine line of balance in a heroes kit. So yes for all of those upset one of the aspects or all of them are not in the game yet. They will be just give it some time to be balanced correctly.

Why don't you ever complain about anything?

Really? Are you new here?

There they are questions all answered for the week. Hopefully some if not all of you got something out of it in one way or another.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Hearthstone Reader Rage

Well it is Friday and you may be wondering where the week has gone, but it doesn't mean that you aren't happy about it. Also the same can be said about the new Hearthstone expansion. You don't have any clue what the meta is yet, but you are having fun playing it. What is funny though is every time I consider a Hearthstone topic for a Reader Post it happens to be someone ranting about something. Today is no different from Eloar who sent me a direct response to my C'thun post. Have a read.

I don't think C'Thun is particularly OP -- it kind of means you have to win by turn 10-ish. Obviously if he comes out, it usually means you lose -- but that doesn't necessarily make him OP.

With that said, I do hate the card, and I do hate standard. I hate that blizzard created standard as a way to keep the meta "fresh", and WotOG is the least diverse expansion released yet. There are way too many cards that have overt synergy. Standard feels dumb and simplistic in a game that was already suffering from dumb and simplistic mechanics.

WotOG puts on display the overwhelming lack of creativity blizzard has with respect to this game. Hearthstone needs more variation, and more interesting card mechanics. For example, having neutral cards restricted to being minions only is so boring -- classes are stale; if I play against any class, I am never surprised by the deck they play -- Hearthstone is stale, and it has been for a while.

A big part of the problem is card pool -- which is why I won't play much of standard; but another issue is the lack of variability a class can have. Anyway, these issues are largely known and discussed so I won't reiterate them here -- but we all know the issues, and nerfing a handful of Druid cards (and Leper Gnome?!) won't fix any of it.

I do think Hearthstone will continue to do well, though; in large part due to its mass appeal and the fact that it competes in a vacuum. 

If Magic The Gathering would put out digital content that didn't have an idiotic user interface, and if it wasn't developed by some garbage 3rd party, then maybe Blizzard would have to actually innovate. But until someone comes out swinging... I know I'll still play -- and so will many others that are tremendously dissatisfied and hungry for something else, but just accept blizzard's mind numbing nonsense as a means to satisfy our gaming wants

Well? Wasn't I speaking the truth? Maybe I just appreciate a good Hearthstone rage and complaint session every now and then. Or is that people just have this passion for Hearthstone that just isn't comparable. Who knows, but at least it is entertaining.

Today is a Good Day to Complain

So I have been wanting to do this for awhile but then I always have had something else to write about so I kept putting it off. But today after all is a good day to complain.

• So we all love our Halloween Brooms and of course I do as well. The awesomeness of a Cow on a broom is beyond words. But of course I have found a problem. When you are in Dalaran it is treated as a land mount obviously, but when you get on the landing it should change to a dam flying mount. It doesn't so you have to dismount and remount again. Like come on wtf fix this.

• Why does blizzard insist on making us covert our badges down each rank. This is just stupid. I want to use my conquests to get a god dam gem. I don't want to convert them to valor then to heroism so I am finally able to buy it. Let us convert to all lower ranks from each rank. This could save 30 seconds of my life every time I get a badge.

• Fireworks stack in 5. This is just stupid and needs to be fixed. Fixed like Bagellord's mother should have been before he was born.

• Why is my backpack only 16 slots. Like honestly this was too small 5 years ago and its still the dam same. But hey we got a free penguin pet for converting our accounts.

• When I am disenchanting something and someone trades with me. It cancels it, WHY! This happens with no other dam profession. I would prefer to start trading guildies back their crap while disenchanting so I can get some spare bag space. Like come on this is stupid.

• There is STILL no horde flight path in western plaguelands. STILL! You can put like 400 mailboxes in Dalaran but still cannot add a stupid flight path here. This is enough to make me want to go outside and kill some kittens. If only I wasn't busy walking to WP from UC.

• Speaking of UC we can mount here. Thank you Blizzard. Oh but wait my Tauren Brothers and I can't fit through the dam archways while mounted because we are too big. Can we please fix this problem so we can actually mount where we can mount. This is probably a problem in that hell hole know as Silvermoon but hey I never go there so I can't complain.

• So I have all these tabards and extra gear that just sits in my bank and bags. Blizzard you give us all these RP items to have fun with, but then we have no places to put them because our banks are too small. Give us closest kind of on the same idea as the keyring. This would make me happy.

• You know sometimes my legs get tired standing around and there is no bench in sight. So why not a portable chair. So then when waiting for that retard who doesn't have a flight path or no clue how to accept a summon I can chill in my chair and not on the ground. Make it Happen!

• We have armory to check peoples gear and achievements to know what they have done. So let's extend this by having a place to check peoples WoW Intelligence. I honestly want to know if this tool has died in a fire.

• So with Cooking you realized it took way too long. I applaud you on this. So like cooking why not give us something like the hate to speed up the crafting process. My ideas are as follows: Sewing Machine for Tailors, Co-op Student for Engineers, Welding torch for Blacksmiths, polishing cloth for Jewlcrafters, Utility Knife fro Leather workers, and a hit of Speed for a Alchemist.

That is all I got on my mind for now. I am sure if I was a ret pally I could go on for days with much ease., but alas I am not.