rifftrax – AggroChat

Last night was a bit of a strange night for me. Originally I had plans to get together with some of my friends and work on Karazhan attunements… of which I have not even started running the dungeons. However I had apparently forgotten that last night was the RiffTrax live show. By “live” I mean streamed to theaters around the country as the original show is going on in Nashville. This time around we got to see two shorts and the really bizarre feature film “Carnival of Souls”(which is apparently up on youtube in its entirety). The film is apparently by the same guy that did another RiffTrax classic… the “Shake Hands with Danger” PSA from Caterpillar. This literally is probably one of the more bizarre movies I have watched because really from the entire moment it started… it felt like this strange meandering film about nothing. The RiffTrax send-up however was great, the movie itself just ended with what was supposed to be a shocking reveal… but largely felt like maybe the director was the only one not in on the secret? In any case by the time I got out of there, and drove home I was a little out of it. I existed in that state of too tired to do anything serious, but not tired enough to actually head on to bed.

Instead I decided to install the Skyrim Special Edition and check it out. I have to give Bethesda a lot of credit for giving it out for free to anyone who already owned the original game and all of the expansions. The install was roughly 9 gig so I am guessing that the improvements were more or on the processing side of the equation rather than just pushing a lot of upgraded textures. Whatever the case the game looks gorgeous, if I had been thinking I would have installed the base game on this newer machine and done some side by side comparisons. It is enough of an upgrade to make me happy, and I am always willing to have a new excuse to roam around Skyrim being a murder hobo. Once again however I am torn between sword and shield and bow… ending up mixing between the two quite a bit based on the fight. As is always the case I had trouble staying to the actual missing and instead have already cleared out the first barrow while retrieving the golden claw. In theory I think I probably should have gone to Whiterun, but whatever the case I am wandering down my own path once again. The game doesn’t really feel that changed, more like you installed a graphical upgrade mod. Whatever the case it looks pretty, and runs well so that pretty much ticks off the boxes I needed. At some point I might check out the mods available, but for the time being I am largely running vanilla.

For lack of a better term, yesterday was a slow news day… at least in terms of me and gaming. A handful of times a year I go out with some co-workers to RiffTrax and last night was the live show for Mothra. I say live show… because in Nashville the Rifftrax crew genuinely is doing this live… and simulcast to the various theaters around the country. We’ve talked about how great it would be to sit there in the theater and experience it in person… but that would be like a nine hour drive. Also the RiffTrax show is always on “a school night” which would make work the next day super awkward and staying over in Nashville even more bizarre. The interesting aside from last night is that I apparently had either not seen Mothra… or did not remember it at all. In truth when I think Mothra… I think Mothra vs Godzilla. Growing up there was a local UHF channel that used to have “themed” weeks during the summer. There would be one week where they played all of the Spiderman movies, or another week where they played nothing but Bruce Lee. One of the weeks was always every single Godzilla movie, and I remember watching those as a kid and enjoying them greatly. Mothra on the other hand… was just way more bizarre than I ever realized. Also as the RiffTrax folks kept pointing out… for a movie about Mothra she didn’t spend much time on screen. The “Riffs” were of course plentiful and one of the more awesome things about going to several of these live shows… is that they keep making call backs to previous ones. Both Merlin and the Ice Cream Bunny made appearances at least in joke form.

As far as gaming goes I did manage to get about an hour in before I finally collapsed, and during that time I mostly just worked on trying to get drops from the invasions. Right now it seems like everyone is for the most part either finished gearing… or one slot away from it. I’ve made a lot of progress in knocking stuff off in my spreadsheet, and at least feel like I am in a better place than I was earlier. It does get frustrating when you need a single item… but keep getting nothing but bracers for example. What I seem to be missing follows…

Exeter – Paladin – Gloves
Lodin – Hunter – Shoulders
Tallow – Shaman – Legs
Gloam – Rogue – Gloves
Belglaive – Demon Hunter – Grinding out Purchased Items
Belghast – Warrior – It’s Complicated

Right now I am mostly focused on that last one. Belghast was my best geared character going into this event, so some of the items are simply not upgrades… unless I happen to warforge them. Even then some of the slots are not worth it unless I get the 720 warforged versions. The main thing for him however is gloves and a set of weapons because at least in my Fury set I only have a pair of 690 axes. I am not sure at what point I call it “good” however, because really I feel like my 11 level 100 characters are all in a reasonable place for leveling in the Legion expansion, which ultimately was my entire point in doing any of the events. At some point soon I am going to shift my focus over to the Monk and see how close I can get to pushing him over the level 100 line before the expansion actually hits. I am not sure why but it just feels like it would be awesome to say I went into this expansion will a full stable of level 100 characters… at least on Argent Dawn my primary server.

Wandering Skyrim

Slow News Day