Ask Gauss

Sunday! Here we go end of the weekend I could make many a things with all the tears shed on this day. Alas that is not what I am here to do though. It is Sunday which means it is time to go through some questions and answer them here. If you still are unsure of how to send in your questions all the options are at the top right of the page or if you are lazy just send them to gaussafication@gmail.com. So let's get to it.

I assume you have had a look at the new Tauren Model what do you think?

It is what I expected. Just like the others updated the number of polygons to fit in with the current level of the gaming world. It doesn't look like a model from way back when anymore. What I am really interested in is how this will lead into the new Baine Model. Every other Leader has their own and isn't a small change from the base model. So as it is good to see these updated models they are what is expected while the Baine I expect to be much different.

Without any spoilers was the ending to Lightning Returns a good one?

I would say yes. When games have had multiple releases and plot which has been quite involved you are worried when things end that they won't actually take care of things. I was happy with how things ended. Sure were a couple things that I was like "really" to but it wasn't that it was bad but just wouldn't have been my choice is all. I cannot say I was unhappy with the ending though which is the important thing. If you have played the other games and played through to the end here I don't see how you could be disappointed when it was over.

So TItanfall won't be on PS4 sucks to be you.

Because I was actually looking forward to playing CoD with robots...

There you have it questions answered for the week. Thanks to everyone who sent something in if I answered it on here or not. Enjoy what is left of your weekend!

Obviously, she's a Paladin...

The Tauren & The Blood Elf

 Happy Saturday readers!! My week has been quite lonely. Gauss has been a gay pirate all week. Lol, I mean....playing Black Flag. Glad to say, tons of people participated in the Extra Life event Trion helped sponsor. I played for about 19 hours. Almost got there, but not quite. I had fun :) Battlefield 4 is available, and I heard it was pretty much everything fans were expecting. This is it!! After today i'll go back to complaining about pvping with idiots, and telling you how much fun it's not leveling a cleric in Rift :D ENJOY!!


 The noise was loud. In the deepest part of the forest, it echoed. A cold fog crept through the trees. Even with all the vegetation that was around, it felt so lifeless, and hollow. In the woods the tall dark figure stood alone. The blood elf was gone. He finally felt whole again, satisfied. He started back to the camp. Starting to feel again. He ran his fingers along a fallen tree. He closed his eyes, and looked to the sky. Took a deep breath, taking just the simple touch into his memory.

 While walking through the forest, he noticed himself growing weaker. The dark figure fell to the ground unable to move at all. He was confused. He was sure the blood elf was all he needed. It was her energy that would allow him to live forever on. That it would set him free from his undying hunger for more. Meant he wouldn't have to face his foes, or even have a single bad day. Not with this radiant warmth he took into his soul. His body started glowing with the most beautiful blue-green light he had ever seen. His figure, filling out with detailed traits he had never had before. His hands filled with detail. Fingertips, and palms. He felt more alive in this moment then ever before, he wanted to feel. His eyes, opened wide. Counting stars in the sky. Again, closing his eyes to take in this beautiful place.

 He could feel her fire. Her strength, raging throughout his entire soul. He could see her memories drowning his vision. He felt her burning, making him feel so alive. Her memories were so powerful. All at once he grew stronger, and weaker every step he took; She took part of herself back from him. Fighting for everything she lived for. A few moments later, after gathering enough strength to get himself back on his feet he took a sigh of relief. Must have been kinda drained from everything he thought to himself. Just needed rest. He felt this warmth in his chest. Like he had a heart, surging blood throughout him. The blue-green light grew stronger. Draining more life from him every step he took.

 He couldn't go any further. He stopped trying. The warlock started fading, almost as if you could see right through him. He was so angry with himself. He was sure she was it. Her strength was so strong, he was sure he wasn't going to win this fight. The harsh burning in his chest, grew within his entire body, and felt like every breath he took, was surely his last. A light beamed from his chest to the sky. It was over. The warlock closed his eyes, took in the beauty of his own light. He shattered into a thousand fragments of light. The blood elf beamed in from the sky to the ground. "The ground never felt so great beneath my feet." She thought to herself. 

 She aimed her beam of light to the sky, and summoned the Tauren, and Worgen down with her. "Im so glad it worked, and you both are here." She smiled. "Next time, we are just going to skip the mushrooms for dinner, wasn't worth this much trouble." The Tauren joked. "Thank you for all of your help, you have saved an entire village of souls, and we can finally bring back the light this forest once gave. Surely you both will return for a visit now and then?" The Worgen said, with a smile. The Tauren and blood elf both nodded,  "Of course."

 Making their way out of the forest, they parted ways with the Worgen. The blood elf casted auras on the Tauren, to ensure a safe path home. She felt like she had the power of a thousand warriors within her. The light she once had, shined out all around her. Bringing back life to Terrokar. She closed her eyes. Took in the beauty, to keep with her forever. They both hearthed back to Orgrimmar. The city greeted them with cheers, and happiness. Never felt so comforting. The Tauren took the Blood elf's hand. "Come rest with me, dear. You deserve it." He whispered. "I feel so alive! We have much to do, my love :)" She said. They walked home together. Happier then ever to be back. Although she never fully understood the power of the blue-green glow she kept, she welcomed it. It was now apart of her. Eventually it would reveal itself to her, and when it did. She and him, would battle once more.

The beginning.
;) -Safiree

Tauren Lore

So I know all of you know I am a great fan of the Tauren. I play one and like to know anything and everything about the race I play. So when Lore comes to the forefront I will be there to read it and learn everything I can, even if it has sort of the tinfoil hat variety.

For those that don't know WoW insider has something known as "Know Your Lore". What these write ups are all about are either a review of lore that is already known to catch readers up on what they don't know, or my favourite speculation. The speculation lore is what they think is going to happen with what we already know. Really the same reason why I love reading Orcish Army Knife because of the foresight and for lack of better words "putting everything together". Back to what I was talking about today WoW Insider's Know Your Lore was all about the tauren. Take a read here. In the article Mattew Rossi goes on to speculate from everything from the creation of the world and how it relates to the tauren, to Elune, to Cenarius, to anything and everything else. Truly one of the best reads I have had the pleasure with in regards to "Know Your Lore". Maybe I am a little bias because it was directly about tauren, but I will let all of you make that argue after you read it.

The Pain Of Being A Tauren

So first let me say that I love being a Tauren and really there is no other race that I would have chosen. I love the lore behind them, where they have come from, and who can forget Cairne the tauren of taurens who inspired me to roll one. With that though there are things to expect when you play a tauren.

• You can't mount up and run into buildings
• When bridges have overhangs you won't fit under them without dismounting
• Whenever you are on a mount you will some how be in someone's way
• You are not very stealthy
• Your boots are more like anklets
• Cramped spaces make it hard to do anything

So of all those things let us go back to the last one. Blizzard for Cataclysm has made Shadowfang Keep a heroic instance. This is great. We can go back and visit an old instance and an instance that was hardly ever visited by those of Kalimdor descent. So what is the problem with this? Well Shadowfang keep is a very cramped place. Being a Tauren in this instance is extremely difficult. Blizzard has this thing with self adjusting the camera angle to benefit you. In spaces such as this, as a tauren, this is a nightmare. I am zoomed in to have a rafter in my face where I cannot see anything that is going on. I can be perfect one instant and take a step one way or another and I can no longer see anything except a wall. I am finding myself on the bosses unable to actually see any of the bad stuff I shouldn't be standing in, and it is very frustrating.

Does Blizzard know about this problem? Over the years they have had to know that this has been an issue and it is above and beyond the little things above that I have come to love about being a Tauren. I shouldn't have to use and item that shape shifts me in order to actually preform and not look like an idiot in an instance. I really have no suggestion on how to fix this except maybe making the ceilings slightly higher, but that is it. This truly is something that is a detriment to actually being able to play the game effectively.

Why Taurens Need Hair

So I know what your thinking you ran out of things to talk about, and now you just throwing in something with absolutely nothing behind it. Well all I have to say to you is, have you seen some of the stupid things I talk about? Anyways, I have waited patiently for 5 years for Blizzard to finally give myself and my fellow Tauren brethren hair. I thought with the barber shop addition that this was only a step away, but alas it was not. With no plans in the future for Blizzard to implement this it is left to me to talk about it and get people on the bandwagon.

Every other race in the game can have regular hair (I actually don't know or care if the space goats have hair so please don't send me 500000 emails saying they get the shaft too). Some of these styles are quite amusing and others are down right stupid looking, but I could careless. Now I know your thinking Taurens have horns they can mess around with. All I have to say to that is screw you if you wanted horns you should have rolled a Tauren, and before you say it the hair thing is not the same. Do I complain I don't have tusks? No because obviously having horns and tusks would be retarded.

Maybe it's the fact that this whole Mr. T thing got me thinking about a Tauren with a mohawk, and then one of my new followers put up that ridiculous picture of that idiot with the reverse mohawk. Yes, I think this got me on the hair kick. If I was an artist I would draw some pictures that looked good and you could see my vision. If I was able to draw in such a way that my stick man didn't look like an overweight orca I would have used a screen shot and tried to draw on some hair for obvious amusement. But sadly my drawing skills are about the same as Bagellord's WoW skills utter fail. So you have to now imagine my vision. You know you did that because you had no friends growing up and you had that friend named "Caveman Ted" or "Drop Dead Fred"(btw this movie is funny as hell). To get on with things here are the ideas.

Mohawk: The inspiration to this post being today. This would have to obviously be a different colour and have the normal horn positions.

Crazy Undead Bald Cut: Have you seen this? It's like epicly awesome. I suggest if you haven't seen it right now log on wow go to character creation and you will know it when you see it. Come back and laugh with me being a hair cut for a Tauren.

Spikes: I have spikey hair so my Tauren should that is all.

Blood Elf Fabbio Hair: This will only be awesome if you have the gold tuipped horns. Then get yourself a pink shirt, purple pants and the diamond tipped cane. There would never be someone more pimp to walk in Warcraft.

Mullet: When is a mullet not funny? Like come on.

Stupid Middle Part: You will look like Moe from the 3 Stooges except with horns. Please explain to me how this is not full of win?

So concludes my pointless talk about Tauren hair, which may or may not have been entertaining. You may now get back to wasting your time doing something else. Keep sending the emails you have till tomorrow night to get in on the "Did he just say that" topic.