A Cry for Help (Teen Mom)

I have to really get this off my chest.
I'm incredibly disappointed in MTV right now. They need to really drop Amber from their Teen Mom show. And even report her to Child Services...

Today's episode (2.10, Hello and Goodbye) was just a second show of Amber's domestic abuse against her baby daddy Gary. And I'm not just talking about the punch she threw at him on today's episode, which is the second time she was physically abusive towards him. Nor am I talking about the shocking first time she was in episde 1.03, Fallout, where she threw him against a wall, choked him and then hit him. I'm talking about her constant yelling, her abusive language, and her horribly bad, but horribly obvious anger management problem.

Amber is a constant hot mess. She is always yelling at her child, always yelling at Gary, then sits around wallowing in self pity when she doesn't get her way. And while Gary isn't daddy-of-the-year, he has a lot more patience (although possibly because of lack of balls) when dealing with Amber. She really doesn't show remorse for her actions.

She throws Gary out of her apartment (screaming the entire time) and then tells her daughter that her daddy abandoned her...that just makes me sick.

Then we have the season 1 reunion episode with Dr Drew, where he confronted Amber about her attack on Gary, and she just laughed about it. Laughed. And then acted like it was no big deal. Only when Dr. Drew pointed out that this was domestic abuse did she give a half-assed apology to Gary.  

I hate when Amber cries (granted...I'm laughing at her when she cries because she looks so fuckn hilarious).
I think she enjoys the attention that Teen Mom gives her. She really needs to go.
No matter how many pathetic little "domestic abuse" mini PSAs they add during the commercial breaks after Amber's tyrants, it's wrong to allow her to continue this way. How can MTV not do something about this, beyond just some stupid little infomercial at the end?

I hate that I wasted this time writing this about a person who doesn't deserve our attention. But that poor child certainly does.

You can show someone whose shitty (like Farrah), hate her, but then feel better as you watch her grow and start taking responsibility. Then you have someone like Amber, whose antics may seem great for Jersey Shore, but not for a show called Teen Mom. That child deserves better.

Video (courtesy of Youtube) showing Amber choke and hit Gary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_HvDNlhiWE

I don't care if she s a girl and his a big huge man. This is completely and utterly wrong. (and domestic abuse...)

You're kidding me, right?

I think because we're all rolling around in Icecrown Citadel, we've kinda forgotten how bad Blizzard nerfing has become. Or maybe buffing would be the right term. Because they technically didn't nerf ICC. They just buffed us.
How many times did they up the ICC buff damage increase/healing absorption? I think it was 3 times. It now sits at a very comfortable 30%.

Thirty percent actually is a big difference. It what's makes all those dpsers do no lower than about 6k+, makes tanks have health we didn't expect to see until Cataclysm, and makes it so Shamans don't get one shotted with our pathetic health pool.

As far as evening the playing field between casual and hardcore raider, I'd say this buff does the job. And it's a fair thing to want to do. Blizzard earns more moolah for making us all happy.

Blizzard does make multiple levels of difficulties available. Hardmodes. Love them, hate them, they are what makes the game worthwhile for the hardcore gamer. The buff can also be disabled to make you truly understand what your gearscore really means.

But honestly, I think ICC really made me rethink what a raid is these days. The other day my guild ventured into 10man Ulduar for some hardmodes. We did Freya (with all three elders) and Mimiron (Firefight).
Doing those, and also remembering what raids used to be pre-ICC was quite the wake up call.

Granted we were doing hardmodes, so more fire, more big scary things to look out for. But the basic mechanic of the fight was there, and unless my guild really really did suck back in the day, I was remembering some very interesting, difficult, but even fun raiding strategies.

As a healer, if I told you Mimiron was my favorite fight, I'm sure most of you would be like, "You're kidding me, right?"
Its a tough fight, and its healing intensive.
But I loved it. I liked feeling like I was working for something.
That is what ICC is missing for me.

Granted, the Lich King is actually a difficult fight. Defile can suck it. But the rest of ICC is a joke. When the ICC buff was only 5%, or even 15% (maybe? I'm not completely sure) ICC was still a challenge. A Mark of Blood would still go out in Saurfang. Festergut was still a DPS race.

Now its a PuG's walk in the park. Being able to down more then 7/12 in a PuG is just plain...amazing. It was unheard of in Ulduar. At first I thought it was changing realms; Argent Dawn is vastly superior to Undermine. But then after running Ulduar the other night, it became apparent that it was more than just that.

It's Blizzard, upping the buff while easing up on the raid itself. And while there's nothing wrong with making raids more accessible to casual gamers, and they do gain some kudos back by making the difficulties levels adjustable, there's definitely a sense of loss; at least for those of us who notice and don't care.

I think it places some players in a sense of security. Woohoo, my 5k gs can pull off 7k dps against Saurfang. In reality, that's probably not what you can really do. Same for both healers and tanks.
It definitely allows for a larger margin of error.

Now, you might ask, Who cares? I guess, in reality, none of this really matters.
The only reason I care stemmed from running hardmode Mimiron. Firefight is definitely no walk in the park. I remember back when my guild downed a boss in Ulduar or even Naxx, and it was a big deal. Now, its just something handed to us by Blizzard.

Preparing for Cataclysm. (bye bye Undermine)

The reality is this.
Im really upset about the Tree of Life changes.
Namely. Not being in Tree of Life whenever the f**kn hell i feel like it and forever.
Im one of those idiots who will purposely transform into Tree of Life, run around dalaran, do craftings, just cuz i like that little root waddle.
I could also give the reasons losing tree of life is fuckn retarded, but this person does it a lot better than I.

http://treebarkjacket.com/2010/06/15/cataclysm-hobbl-fail/

I miss my time with you, Eric! (True Blood Non-Review)

I won't be posting reviews about True Blood for a while D:

My recent move has placed me in a great place close to campus, but also in a place with no HBO. I've been looking online, trying to find a place I can watch episodes, but I'm not certain which website is legit and which one isn't. Hopefully, I can find a solution before the season finale (way too soon!) or looks like I will be deprived before the dvds come out.

Any suggestions? Please let me know. :)