Overly Dramatic News

#238 Pet-ulant President

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 02:27:00 +0000

Apparently Blizzard didn't learn that giving the White House secrets is not a good idea for the next several years!

#237 A Grape Idea

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Tue, 30 May 2017 02:31:00 +0000

After finally finishing the Artifact Power grind on my bow, I couldn't resist using the experience as the jumping off point for this week's segment.

#236 Let Them Eat Cake

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 05 May 2017 02:51:00 +0000

Although I try to not make the majority of ODN segments political in nature, today's events scream out for it. The sight of GOP representatives celebrating the stripping of medical coverage from millions of people is beyond disgusting. What is amazing is that so many of their voters have pre-existing conditions that will not be covered if this bill becomes law, and yet they still support the men and women who just voted to do this. Somehow they seem to believe that only those "other" people will have their health coverage stripped away or priced beyond reach. Sickening.

#235 Bad Words

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:55:00 +0000

While we here at ODN love more people engaging in the fine art of punning, we have to take action when our business model is threatened. Nothing personal, Khadgar!

#234 On a Break Shores

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:26:00 +0000

The new version of invasions seems very unfriendly to those who have, you know, lives. Random six hour windows once a day? I'm glad they took out requiring them for flying, but I'd much rather have a chance to participate! So, in the spirit of making (green?) lemonade out of Legion lemons, I bring you this week's episode!

#233 Death Becomes Her

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:31:00 +0000

Warcraft is littered with places that have become ghost towns once the expansion treadmill moves on from their locale. But one leader is taking steps to ensure a different fate for her realm!

#232 A Clean Start

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:28:00 +0000

Trilliax proves once again that an annoying voice is not an impediment to being a memorable raid boss. But it turns out his other skills have drawn some outside world attention!

#231 Disaster Awaits

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:24:00 +0000

It's hard to believe that it wasn't that long ago that the "Big Squish" happened. Now we are fast approaching ilvl 1000 items. But, then again, on the scale of things that are hard to believe these days, that info tidbit doesn't even make a blip.

#230 Kitten Kaboodle

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:20:00 +0000

My two feline masters demanded that I do an episode recognizing their species, or they promised to meow continuously whenever I tried to record.

#229 An Alternate Approach

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:17:00 +0000

Any similarity between the alt-vanilla world and our own is purely coincidental. And if you believe that, I have some inauguration photos to show you!

#228 They Dung Us Wrong

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:13:00 +0000

I still hold hope that someday the devs will figure out that PvE players hate being forced to do PvP in order to get an achievement, reward, etc. That day is still not here, however.

#227 Reindeer Rescue

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:09:00 +0000

In usual ODN mashup style, this episode combines Chris Metzen's retirement, his long-running alter ego in Winter Veil, and Rogue One. It leaves unanswered, however, what happens to the rescue team!

#226 A Bitter Flavor

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:25:00 +0000

AFter stewing over it a while, I decided to go ahead and do an episode on the election. I now have an urge to go play SWTOR again.

#225 Cute but Dangerous

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:09:00 +0000

It's hard to write parody when the real world behaves more outrageously than any parody you could come up with. So this week's episode doesn't describe how Trade Prince Gallywix got himself elected to lead the Alliance. But maybe some good will come of it - he could sit down with the Gilneans (not to mention the Pandaren) and learn about the futility of building walls.

#224 Aiming to Displease

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:12:00 +0000

Despite the superb abilities of Legion's artifact weapons, many have found them less than stellar when it comes to figuring out who to actually target. If they only had looked at the manufacturer's nameplate, and knew their cartoon history, it would all have been so obvious what the problem was!

#223 An Egg-celent Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:07:00 +0000

So many people have gotten all frazzled about the amount of food they've given to Nomi, that it looks like he's decided to take unusual measures to calm their nerves!

#222 Burnt Out

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:03:00 +0000

Many people have been submitting scathing reviews to the Azerothian version of Yelp about Nomi's cooking skills (or lack thereof). But who knew there was a theological side to the story?

#221 Spoiling for a Fight

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:21:00 +0000

The storylines strewn across the Broken Isles are many and varied, from the mundane to the shocking. And, sadly, many have been spoiled by thoughtless "OMG!" postings in guild chat. But is there a limit on how much to push back against these revelations? ODN explores the issue in this week's segment.

#220 Babel-ing On

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:14:00 +0000

Those big ships hanging in the sky during the Legion invasion event started the idea for this episode cooking, and it didn't take long to cram a bunch of HHGttG references into 90 seconds. Sadly, there were a ton more I had to leave on the virtual cutting room table. Douglas Adams, we lost you too soon. :-(

#219 They All Fall Down

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:08:00 +0000

The pre-patch invasion event certainly got people playing again (and allowed me to complete my stable of Earthing Ring level 100 character classes). But the Doomsayers certainly did have a strange effect on some people...

#218 Why You Peon Me?

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:04:00 +0000

The Pokemon Go craze consumed the country, so it was a natural for bringing over into Azeroth. The peons were not amused, however!

#217 Electile Disfunction

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Although it may not seem that way from the number of political topics creeping into ODN, I really am looking forward to this election season being over!

#216 Out to Launch

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:56:00 +0000

The problem with Blizzard coming out with several great games in close succession to one another is that there just isn't enough time in the day to play all of them!

#215 Walking the Walk

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:53:00 +0000

Incentive programs to get people more active are fine ideas, but few should be surprised that some will try to game the system. That reminds me...I still need to rig up my treadmill to send the 'W' key to my computer!

#214 Minding Their Pees and Poos

noreply@blogger.com (HuntsTheWind) — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:49:00 +0000

Sigh, it's just so sad that so many people in the US are up in arms over (false) rumors that one religion is trying to force itself into our laws, while being totally ok with their religion being forced into our laws.