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Since I can't really post to all the guild sites regularly without going insane, I figured I'd list em here and you can see for yourselves where to join your alts.

Third Life - http://3rd-life.com/

http://www.absent-element.com/

http://weknow.to/forums/

http://nightshiftguild.guildomatic.com/

They're all on Eitrigg, where I'm also trying to get my charter for 'the autobots' signed, just so orionpax can be the GM.

Finally!  Here's a few non-shark-jumping shows.  The jump tends to happen around season 5, sometimes sooner when the popularity tapers off.  I found it extremely hard to find many innocent shows given the strict criteria I've set for myself.

Firefly - It never got the chance to jump any space sharks. Early cancellations don't really count, however, but I can't see this show jumping if it had the chance. Although Whedon's Buffy lost it for me as soon as it hit the college years and it got all super-sexy. With the very sudden and trendy lesbian relationship and Buffy fucking every vampire in sight.  For the kids.

Friends - Never jumped the shark, it just got tremendously unfunny towards the end. It started to strap on some water-skis when it focused too much on whining and relationships. So, no shark jumping, the shark bit its legs off and it drowned in a frothy mixture of its own blood and shark shit.

Futurama - Not on quite long enough to jump, but stayed great. Next weeks DVD movie release could ruin this.

Cheers - consistent, especially for a show that switched leading ladies gracefully and basically took place in one room for a decade.

Seinfeld - lost all touch with sanity and became a little formulaic, but was maybe even more entertaining. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation - pulled a reverse jump by starting a little cheesy and got better as it went on.  It even a very solid ending while it was still going strong.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The god-damned ANTI-shark jump.  This dyslexic show either didn't get the shark jumping manual, or it just decided to set it on fire, then wipe its ass with its still flaming pages.  The first few seasons were good, but it inexplicably launched onto a level unheard of super-rad and bad-assitude for a Trek series with war, violence, death and long lasting epic storylines.  Instead of adding a kid several seasons in, they brought in WORF, for fuck's sake!  When the boat and water-skis arrived during the season where the jump should have taken place, DS9 was too busy punching kttens to notice, then it dove head first into the shark infested water, launched torpedoes out of its screaming mouth and blew that motherfucker to bits.  Then I'd like to think it savagely fucked whaterever holes it found in the shark bits, and then maybe ate the ones that were sexiest or something like that. 

Full House:  Didn't jump the shark at all!  This dedicated monster was consistently a mung-covered dumpster pad for its entire hellish duration.

To be continued if I think of any more and feel like doing stuff ever again...

Alrighty, so I finally got the story out of him, he moved his priest kind of randomly at the same time he sort of got bored with the game.  He's on an extended break, didn't see the point in paying for a game he didn't play.  Says to say hi to everyone, he's not pissed or anything, just on vacation.   Likely he'll be back for the next X-pack if not sooner. 

Mirrorposted to the vox blog, which my roommate now contributes to.  (Pics of my near broken ribs from pissing him off will be posted as soon as I find the camera linkup cord.)

http://orionpax5555.vox.com

Steve

...Now, back to Dave's psychotic obsession with sharkjumpers... (seriously... it's scary.)

Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda. 

Hi, this is Dave, Steve's heterosexual, semi-abusive lifemate.  If he ever says ANYTHING to you, its a lie.  He fell down some stairs.

First, my rules! 

In addition to the literal act of jumping a shark, I include the following heinous practices as acts of shark jumpery: 

Musical episodes - a show gets cocky and feels it can get all wacky and just fly over the damn shark unharmed, such as the semi recent and altogether shitty Scrubs.  Buffy's was good, but still...

The mysterious and sudden addition of new children - Just as the original kids get long in the tooth and ugly, a cousin or street urchin moves in rather inexplicably.  Maybe one episode deals with the arrival, but its rarely discussed again.

Disappearing cast members and dying characters - The show Valerie, which brought us Jason Bateman astonishingly managed to destory all credibility after just one season, when the show's STAR left over her contract and they decided to keep on truckin' without her!  They said she died!  Then good old Aunt Cyclops, Sandy Duncan rolled in to hold the family together and they renamed it Valerie's FAMILY for a season on two until the settled on The Hogan Family.  Crap. I feel that 8 Simple Rules clearly jumped the shark when they decided to kill off John Ritters character.  Same goes with Phil Hartman's character on News Radio.  What was with that?

Any overhauls to the original formula of the show - Poor white trash Roseanne winning the lottery, dressing like Xena and swordfighting. Ugh. 

A drop in creativity or quality from a successful show that starts to just phone in it and becomes a parody of itself - No longer creative or very funny, but its okay, so they know we'll eat it up anyway.  Its the battered housewife method of producing, where they know we'll keep coming back and should at least be glad we didn't punched in the mouth this time.

Speaking of battered housewives, Steve's telling me I should post now because I've gone on too long.

Next, I'll actually get to some shows! 

Alright.. I'm doing a limited update due to demand, and trying to consolidate all my nerd friends into one URL so they can minimize thier favorites list.  This is by no means an official "what's up with Steve" post but at least now you get to check out Kristin's legs and a more current post in response to me from the WK forums.  Doing my best to get back to news soon - Based on recent demand I'll try to do a weekly update, and by all means keep the love coming - we all know I need attention constantly or I'll die. 

Like, in two seconds.

Also, after opening up my myspace to val.. I may be in for a rep dent.  Bring it on.

Steve

Which person from your past, who you've lost touch with, do you wonder about the most? 
Submitted by ancora impara.

This chick.  She's for sure crazy, but any time I've called her drunkenly, she's always had a kickass story to tell.  (Seriously, it's like flipping through your contact list and noticing you forgot to call Hunter S. Thompson (sp)

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=46379620&albumID=0&imageID=20301903

Also, ya know... nice ass.

Steve

Firstly, I have to say I'm impressed with the sheer number of folks that came out on a Thursday night to check out a screening.  Even here in Delaware, three theatres were packed to the hilt.  Young and old, boy and girl, the crowd ran the gamut.  I went with my friend Dave and his girlfriend Renee, and we met up with a third friend, Jeff, once we got there.   Our adventure begins thusly...

Listen up True Believers!

We started out waiting at the restaurant where Renee works, just across the street from Regal Cinema in Wilmington.  When we got to the door, Dave realized he'd left the tickets in his car, and went back to grab 'em.

As we waited, Renee, leaning on the wall and pondering how the hell she was dragged into this, mentioned that she felt "Sort of like she was attending a Nerd Convention", to which I and an anonymous bystander replied "Because you are."

And, in what might be the most perfect moment of my life, at that exact second (I swear to God) some dude walked past us in a spandex Spidey mask.  My brain went into total orgasmic shock and I was unable to speak.  Renee's eyes went wide.  Spidey remained calm, his spidersense totally at ease as he glided past us, his effortless confidence no doubt fortified with Raimi-Lust and Totino's pizza rolls.

MEANWHILE, IN THE THEATRE...

Seats were filling quickly, and the nefarious forces of the Sinister Six had managed to leave an acceptable number of empty seats, but no three in any sort of acceptable social configuration.  I knew what I had to do.

"Why don't you two find a couple of chairs, I'll be fine flying solo.."

The two faded into the darkness, and I grabbed an empty seat at the end of a row... too late to realize my tragic error.

I had planted myself next to a group of eight highschool kids.  The Fake-Me-Out Drakkar Noir soaked the air around me, stinging my eyes and impairing my breathing.  I was trapped in a TeenNick nightmare.  They started chatting, and one of them said "I already saw it.  I work in the other theatre"

To which I replied "really?  I was in the other movie."

 - a comment meant to be taken as "I win the 'connected to Spiderman' contest"

...but which I think was percieved as "I'm a lecherous gay dude hitting on teens in a movie theatre."  So Boo to me for that one.  (I almost used the tennis phrase 'fifteen love - advantage them' here but the grave is getting deep... cutting my losses lol

A few previews ran, nothing notable save 'Balls of Fury' - a pingpong kumite with Christopher Walken, and "Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer."

To which one of my new friends applied his razor sharp analysis to, declaring at it's end, during that magic moment of silence between the dramatic smashcut and the fadeout:

"GAY!"

Okay, he'd earned my respect.  Because wow, man.. he really sold it.  I just about shit my pants laughing.  It WAS gay.  Totally gay.  I do dig the Human Torch as a character, and Jessica Alba as a ... well I'm pretty sure she's the hottest thing to ever sport a vagina, but something about this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  Dave's biggest problem with this movie is Jessica Alba as one of the planet's most noted scientific minds.. Must say I'm backing him on that one, but its' not what bugs me.  Feel free to voice your opinion on the matter, cause I can't put my finger on it.

Finally.  The movie.  It was a typical Marvel Movie opening, the flipping pages, the 'meet the hero' scenes, and finally a meteor crashes with the hunk of tar known as the symbiote.  Venom's conception, cut to the chase and ignoring any secret war or astronaut mission, just right to the good stuff.  Then I had to pee.

I decided when to pee based on what little knowledge of the plot I had - Naturally, Harry flies on a glider.  Been done.  Sandman and Venom were both to make appearances, but I knew there's no way they'd blow their Venom wad before Sandman.. after all, I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly wouldn't be at a theater at midnight to watch some dude who's most terrifying ability is to irritate me when he gets in my socks and asscrack.  So Venom would be last.  Get the pee over with!

I bolted straight to the nearest door, determined to miss as little as possible, and found myself in a long hallway, with clear sailing ahead.  Not one person to slow me down!  Perfect!  Sprinting forward, I closed my eyes as my brain caught up with my bladder.  I had used a fire exit, and was now trapped outside.  Fuck me...

I circled the building, but the doors were locked, employees were gone, and lights were off.  I didn't have a cellphone, and since i had elected to sit alone, my friends had no idea I was even gone.

Thanks again to my stepdad for picking me up and letting me blog this at his house while I wait for the movie to get out... and to answer his very astute question, I have no idea 'what the fuck is wrong with me'.   Updates on that as received.

Doesn't Ghost Rider come out soon?

Lots of you in game are all saying 'I'm not bothering to get keyed because I'll never get a group for Kara anyway.. thing is, if so many people are spamming me about it, we already have one.  Remember, I've formed PUG's for onyxia, Emeriss (with Leonhart's help, credit where due..) and even BWL (which, granted, was an unmitaged disaster, but hey, if it weren't for a couple of impatient jackasses we'd have had a shot)

Point is, I can PUG anything.  They were 40 man, Karazhan's just 10.  Easy Peezy.  As a drawback, Derek will likely be in my groups.  Nothing's perfect... :)

A few of the required quests can be done at the same time; I recommend getting the ones you get from the dudes outside of the instance itself out of the way first (they can be solo'd if you're careful).  Deadwind Pass, all the way south.  Just head east from Duskwood and follow the road.  If you're a rogue or druid, you can even solo the instance quests for the fragments if you're REALLY slick.

Here's a link to the chain for attunement.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan

  I've been helping everyone I know as I go along it; Paxorion is currently at 'The Second and Third Fragments' quest but I'll help on any portion of the chain.  As Rendall is fond of reiterating, 'NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER!  NO ONE DIES ALONE!'

Cya in game...

Steve

Tonight, while warcraft was down and I was awake at 3 am, I decided to do my laundry.  Some dude from the apartment building came into the laundry room to yell at me about running the dryer at 'this horrible hour'.

I told him I had just been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor and only had a month or two to live.  I was trying to get my affairs in order before I checked out.

Not sure whether I should be ashamed or proud, but the guy folds a nice towel, I'll give him that.

Steve