Politics (Video) Talking out there ass ^ A little Sidestep

Politics as usual, Every one in Washington DC is lying and talking out there ass. No matter what side of all this crap you find yourself on. You are the loser in all this.

All the politicians on the left and right like to sing and dance a little sidestep, so I thought I would show you how it goes.

Alik Steel

LOL sorry could not help myself! Van Halen – Happy Trails

Not looking good for Alik Steel

Last night I found out that the little bit of extra money that we (my brother and I) was using for bill’s is cut off. Maybe I should not call it a little bit of money, Because it was half of the money that was coming into the house. With all the money we had, We was just staying above the water line. Cutting that much money out, Will make us sink fast. Unless I can come up with something very fast, The power will be cut off this saturday, and soon after every thing else.

After I was out of work for 1.5 months, then my PC dieing and like a dumb ass going out and buying a laptop for $500 that I should have spent on bill’s. We have been going down slowly. With no money put up for something like this, Well, It don’t look good.

At lest I have this PC at work and can do things like this, But as far as gaming and things at the house. I will be in the dark, for real, with no power. This is going to suck, But I know I can deal with it, as this will not be the first time it has happened. Back before I got this shitty(Don’t get me wrong, I rather have this than nothing) little job, That pay’s very little. We was in the same boat, sitting at the bottom of the water. So this is not new to me. I think in it self the fact that this is happening again, Really sucks. Damn I really thought I was out of the woods.

 

So if the blog’s slow down, and you don’t see me on MMO Voices that much, Well you know I didn’t come up with nothing. In time I will be back in and playing and talking with you all.

 

Alik Steel

Why do you play a MMO

I don’t know about any of you, But I do know why I play.

 

The reason I started to playing Everquest was that I was told that thousands of people played it every day, And they was in the same game, At the same time as I would be. That was wild sounding to me, And I could not see how that could be. So I have told my story of how my younger brother picked up a copy and it just sat there for a month or so, Till I was bored to death one day and started to load it up. I was on dail up back then. The first thing about the game that made go, WTF was that after I had did the disk thing, It wanted to download more of the game. It seems like it took two days to do this. This did not make me want to trash it then in there. No it made me want to see what the hell could this game be that took so damn long to get in.

So then I get to log in for the first time. “What in the hell is this. Hey bro, Come check this out. It wants me to make my dude.”  My bother said ” That’s bull shit, they could not even make the damn dude for you.” and walked out of the room. A very long time after that I was done making my dude, and entered the game. Nothing made any sense to me. I didn’t know what I was to do, are where to even go. I ran around lost as hell, But SOB if this was not the coolest thing I had ever seen. I could see people talking together in the game. Come to find out only half of them was people, The othere half was the NPC’s in the game. Even the way you got your quest was a “holy hell, did you see that.”  moment for me.

Then as my brother watch me play and reminded me that it was his game, No lie it was his, and now he wanted it back. Before I could get my own copy of EQ it was three of us taking turns playing. This may sound like a horror story from hell to you, But I am telling you that it was this type of things that pulled me in deeper and deeper.

After the three of us had our on EQ’s we learn how to group, Man them was fun nights. Every Saturday Night we would jump into game and play till the sun came up the next day, and some times longer. Then the friends we started making in game, then came the time we found out about guilds and joining one. Man it was all so new and nothing like any thing that we had seen before.

Today I play, because it’s something that I have a lot of fun in. It has also became my hobby. that is to say, I do things like this blog, When I am not in game. I have many sites that I go read. I watch video’s about MMO’s. I chat online and offline with people about MMO’s. All of this is fun for me.

 

So if any dare to comment, What made you start, and what keeps you in?

 

Alik Steel

Ever Raid, Will it allways be two games in one?

SOE is now sitting on two MMO’s that are endgame games. WOW is a endgame game. And I am sure other’s will follow as well. The thing is, As we all know by now, That most (I know, not all) are set up the same way. You have the first part (This is where I like to play) where it’s all adventure, explore, and crafting. With maybe some mini-games on the side. Till you hit the top end of the game. “Yes, yes, we know this all ready Alik, Whats the point?“

My point is, Why does it have to be this way? Why can’t it be two games played in the same style world. So you could use the same lore and make it where each type of player could have his cake and eat it too. Take the name I have up top, Ever Raid (everaid, everraid {sp}) could be done as a raid only game played in the (EQ/EQ2) world Norrath. This could cut out a lot of BS for the raiders. No more power leveling to get to the part you want. Also by doing this you could make your non-raid game open at the end part till the next expantion comes out.

But even with them never doing the two game for both sides, They could make it a living world. and NO I do not see WOW or EQ/EQ2 as living worlds. At lest WOW seems to be trying it with there next expantion. But I think to keep players like me, and I know we are more than half the gamers out there. They need to make it where the world changes some. It does not have to be all of the world. Just change an area or so. When your games go for as long UO, EQ or even EQ2 and WOW. Seeing the same quest giver standing in the same place, Giving out the same quest for the past 5 to 10 years, Get’s old.

Going back to the all raid MMO idea, You can still put some solo stuff in the game, to give the new players something to do, When they are still learning the game and waiting to get into a guild. Crafting is a hard one to call, because I know a lot of hard core raiders that are just as hard core with there crafting, when they are not in a raid. So no idea. I do know that I wish one of them(SOE/Blizzard) would try, As they are the two main MMO co. That have the top end games.

Is WOW new expantion going to change all of the game? or just the first to mid level area’s? What ever it is, it will be good for he players, EQ2 has been changing one zone at a time, But only got two of them done that I know of.

 I  know this is out of left field, but how hard is it to make a MMO that has good grouping and solo content? I just don’t understand why it seems you can only have one are the other.

but any way …

I think that a game is dead in the water when they start doing all top end stuff for there game. At that point, They have put up there hands and said we give up.

In the end this post is BS, As in nothing will change for a long time, They have gotten set in there ways, and it will take something big to knock them out of there grove. I would say hooray for WOW, but I just don’t know how much they are doing, and when will be the next big change?

Alik Steel

(NSFW) The Gentle and more Sensitive side of me

You all know me as the Big Man, Who even after having his arm ripped off his body, Never made a sound. Yes I am a manly man. Most times I would crush who ever would dare to say otherwise.

But today, I feel as if I can share with you the gentle, and more sensitive side of me. And what better way than thru a song. I warn you, This can make even the most manly of men cry.

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Alik Steel

LifeNet: Fallen Earth Podcast

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Originally uploaded by aliksteel

Last week’s LifeNet: Fallen Earth Podcast #7 they told us of the “LIFENET’S DUNEBUGGY GIVEAWAY!” and all we had to do was “leave us a review on iTunes (positive, duh!) then email us at show@lagwar.com to let us know which review you left and your iTunes username so we can verify it.” Well that did not sound to hard to do, as I use iTunes for the show anyway. In LifeNet: Fallen Earth Podcast #8 they gave it away. I was floored to find out it was me. I won the Dunebuggy.
Look at the screenshot! On the left hand side you can see the stats. At the bottom side of it you can see a word writen in red “Dexterity“. Now look at the window on the right hand side, see what my dexterity is? Yep, you read it right. LOL I can’t even open it up yet. AND NO, I AM NOT SENDING IT BACK!!! LOL
So NO stat or skill will feel any love from the AP till I get my dexterity to 35, I’m not even sure what level I have to get to for me to have 35 dexterity. At level 10 my max is only 30.

But when I do get there

thanks to LifeNet: Fallen Earth Podcast and to the Lagwar Clan for this great ride.

I think I need to get me fraps are something, so when I do get to start driving the Dune Buggy I can show y’all how cool it is.

Happy hunting till next time.

Alik Steel

Fallen Earth and Me

I thought it may be time for me to do a new post on my main MMO game FE.  Just to let you know what was happening ingame with me.

First I am back on my Laptop playing, and that means lag fest in towns for me. Even with the lag I am still liking the game. I have been hanging out with some friends from MMO Voices, and luckily As a group we started a Clan in the game, My friend Gulmuth came over to Fallen Earth from Everquest II. As a group we started a Clan in game called “Voices of the wasteland”. 

If you play or start playing Fallen Earth and wish to be apart of the Clan, You can look for me as Alik, Alik Steel, Nati, and Brohan and let me know you want in.

So far I have mad 5 toons in a game that only lets you have 4 characters at a time. The first was my starter toon. It’s a character I make in any new game. It’s the one that I test all the new things that I don’t understand yet. I got him up to level5 before I trashed him, and start what I thought would be my main toon. Took this one up to level 9 before I started to think I had F’ed up his AP bad. I have not dug into a lot of the info. in the game, So I have no idea how many AP we get. I do know I was way over 100 AP and had them all over the place. So I started yet another Main toon. That has turned into my crafter. As of now I really don’t have a main toon in the game and have not even made it to the mid-level of the game. The other toons I have made have not went past level 5 and one that has never made it into the game. The great thing is that the game is new and I have lot’s of time to make my way up to the end game. I am not one of those to race to the end game so I can bitch that there is nothing to do.

The game gets better week after week. They seem to be working very fast on all of the fix it up’s and make it better’s. I do run better in the towns now, but know that may come from so many people are moving on to S2 and S3 and that helps me in the towns of S1.

As in most MMO’s the big thng to Crafting is the Harvesting, and it’s the same in FE. Harvest, harvest, harvest. And with you being able to craft anything, and not stuck with only being able to make one or two types of stuff, This is open skill and it only takes time and building of skills to make every thing. So if you can see it, kill it, or take it, You need it for crafting. And as I am becoming more of a crafter in MMO’s than I am at any thing else. I have a lot to do in this game. The fun parts for me here of late is when I go on what I have been calling walk-abouts. I point my dude North, South, or where ever, and start riding. I come across alot of stuff I may not have if I stayed on the beaten path of the Missions. I have found many places to harvest from, with out ever see any othere person out there. The down side of this, is they are never near any place. And when I die, and I will die at some point, It takes a very long time to run back out to it. I could pay to get my mount towed back to me, but why spend the money? When I can just run back.

The waypoints help out a lot for when I find new places to hunt or harvest. There is many ways to set waypoints, But I do the alt+P to pull them up and hit creat to name the area I just found.

As far as the fighting goes. I have started likeing the FPS way of fighting, and hunting. Just the fact that I can come from the back side and as long as I am not to loud. I can bash them in the head, and damn near one shot them is great. I also like that I can use a lawn mower blade or a frying pan as a weapon. Lots of cooll litle things that you can use a weapons in this game. Also the armor is crazy. I love to see things like some one running around in football shoulder pads as extra armor. Or a trash can led as a breastplate.

 

All and all I am having a blast in this game and meating a lot of cool people on the way. and if there is a few of you looking for a few places to go to find good info on Fallen Earth Globaltech ATLAS is one of the best website for FE, Also if you like podcast LifeNet: Fallen Earth Podcast is a great one to check out. They both give out a lot on info, that you may not be able to find at any other place.

Till next time

 

Alik Steel

Downloading Video’s, and Extracting Audio from YouTube

Have you ever been watching a  YouTube video, and think,This is a great video. Or Damn I wish I had that song.

I know I was last night, so I went looking, and been playing around with Any Video Converter, and vidtomp3.com (BETA) and have found that they work great. I have not found anything wrong with them. But as allways when dealing with smaller sites there is a chance of getting something. I have a few hours in them so far and doing good. Any Video Converter is a download and it’s what I have been using to download video’s to my laptop, it even has a small editor built into it. Vid to MP3 is a site I have been using to extracting the music from video’s, and turn then into MP3’s for me. This site is in beta and does seem to have pop-up’s wanting to, well pop-up. Other than that it works great. I have got the one song that I have looked for off and on for years. The Benny Hill Theme song. Not that I have any reason to have it other than the fact it reminds me of when I was a very young boy. I would snick into the TV room late at night(or to me it was late) and watch the Benny Hill show on PBS that showed the BBC late at night.

 

Here is two video’s showing you how they are used.

 

Enjoy the new toy’s

Alik Steel

(Yes more Video’s) Halloween post with a video or two

Happy Halloween

When i started thinking of doing a Halloween post, I was not sure where to start, till I went to YouTube to mindlessly watch some video’s. With out thinking about it at first I was watching video’s that made me think if Halloween.

Like

Rob Zombie- Dragula

and

Third Eye Blind – I Want You

So then I went looking for more video’s

I came across this video tribute for

Lost Boys – Lost in the Shadows – Lou Gramm

Well if I am going to do a music video post you got to have some

mandatory metallica

Enter Sandman – Metallica

Being this is for Halloween and when you think of Halloween, You think of dark thing. Well that took me to “The man in Black”.

Johnny Cash – Ghost Riders In The Sky

So how to end a post like this.

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I know,

With a song from way back.

One I loved when I was young.

Mom and Dad got me Funny Bones Favorites

Monster Mash – Bobby Boris Pickett & RYL

Well that it.

I hope you enjoyed at lest one or two of the video’s.

Have a blast this Halloween.

Alik Steel