Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Tram Rats Podcast - Episode 004



Episode 004 of The Tram Rats Podcast. Your hosts fluxdada and Pinkeytoes bring you their latest World of Warcraft adventures, news, and topics from the last week.

In this week's episode we talk about our upcoming 6 year World of Warcraft anniversary, crazy Black Rock Depths runs, transmogrification and much more.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The Tram Rats Podcast - Episode 003



Episode 003 of The Tram Rats Podcast. Your hosts fluxdada and Pinkeytoes bring you their latest World of Warcraft adventures, news, and topics from the last week.

In this week's episode we talk about some of our recent dungeon runs, give tips for new tanks and returning players as well as discuss how Patch 4.2 has effected World of Warcraft.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Ahhh, The Power of DDO!

The following is a blog post I originally wrote on March 15th, 2006 while working at an MMORPG game development company. I thought you might enjoy the story behind how Pinkeytoes became a PC gaming goddess. (Please excuse the amateur writing/formatting/typos. I'd like to think my writing has improved over the years.)

How did the dread of returning a $50 game turn into the building of a $800 gaming rig for my wife?

Read on to find out.

So I got all excited wanting to play Dungeons & Dragons Online with some of the other employees here. I went online and pre-ordered it so that I could play with them during the head start period. The funny part about that night was by the time i was up and running to play everyone else had gome home.  One reason for the pre-order other than getting to play 5 days earlier than others was to get the “Necklace of Natural Armor”. Eventually my head-start ran out and I still hadn’t received my game in the mail. I was dying. I needed to play. Then I heard the special edition of the game gave you “Boots of Running”! Well I called around and drove 1/2 hour to Fry’s to get my special edition. “I’ll just send the EB Games one back.” I thought and proceeded to play (with my boots of running which by the way combined with my elf barbarian’s 10% class speed boost and with her barbarian speed feat, well, she runs freaking fast!). A few days went by. The thought of sending the unopened EBGames.com package and figuring out how the refund will work was nagging in the back of my mind. I even made a half-hearted attempt to look up the return policy on their site. I was not too jazzed about actually having to deal with it, (I’ve got a rough life don’t I!). Well on the way home from work the thought occured to me, “Why send it back when instead I could help my wife build her own gaming PC and we could play DDO together?” Selfish? Maybe just a bit, but she loves games as much as I do.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Tram Rats Unedited 20 July 2011 [Explicit]



If you have two hours to kill (and don't mind a few swear words here and there) we present an unedited two hour audio recording of flux and Pinkeytoes running a random Heroic Zul'Gurub and a random Heroic Grim Batol.

We promise nothing (except perhaps mild amusement) but we had a blast recording it.

WARNING: Contains explicit language and mild bickering.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

The Tram Rats Podcast - Episode 002



Episode 002 of The Tram Rats Podcast. Your hosts fluxdada and Pinkeytoes bring you their latest World of Warcraft adventures, news, and topics from the last week.

In this week's episode we talk about some of our "best" dungeon runs, discuss our PVP experiences throughout the World of Warcraft expansions and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Tram Rats Podcast - Episode 001



Episode 001 of The Tram Rats Podcast. Your hosts fluxdada and Pinkeytoes bring you their latest World of Warcraft adventures, news, and topics from the last week.

In this week's episode we talk about their impressions of the Cataclysm expansion so far, give some background on our character histories in World of Warcraft, tell about some of our dungeon experiences and discuss the "Call to Arms" feature. And now, on with the show!

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