BlizzCon Vlogs - Part 2

Patch 4.2.2

This video is a LOT shorter than the first one, and I probably could have just tacked it onto the end, but I felt that my awkward moments just before and all of the awkwardness during actually meeting Crykoda for the first time IRL merited it's own video. XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9izXzSrTI

BlizzCon Vlogs - Part 1

Patch 4.2.2

Hey guys, I know this is way old news, but I've finally gotten around to editing some of the footage that I took while I was at BlizzCon. I never did any sort of "news coverage" for BlizzCon announcements since I figured everyone would be spammed with news elsewhere and I just wanted to enjoy my first BlizzCon experience, so the next few video logs I'll be uploading that I took at the Con are just that.. Personal video logs. XD Hope you enjoy my silliness if anything. Here's the first video: just me vlogging on the way to pick up Crykoda and Mikey from the airport. =3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMqvG0IBBA

Rolling Out The Deeps [New Parody]

Patch 4.2.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij8cg-0SpHs

Hi!

Patch 4.2.2

I'm not dead! I swear I'll have a BlizzCon post up soon, I just have a lot on the list first! XD Prioritizing is not one of my strong points. Saaarryyyy. <3

Legendary Shoutout from THE Athene

Patch 4.2.2

If you don't know who Athene is, I don't know where you've been! He's just..like.. the BEST PAL-A-DIIIN IN DA WURLD!!! Subscribe to my channel and don't forget to subscribe to his channel if you're not already! --http://youtube.com/athenewins
http://youtu.be/AcHuuAWWnWs

A little late but... Happy Brewfest!

Patch 4.2.2

I swear I wasn't drunk when I recorded this video. But I was definitely tipsy a little while after XD. http://youtu.be/sUV0Z4LqdtI And to all of you beer snobs, give it a rest with the "Heineken is piss" comments. If you must know, of all the beer that I've tasted in my life (which isn't a whole lot) Blue Moon Belgian White is my favorite. I also enjoy Newcastle, Sam Adams, the local breweries' reds and ambers... and I'm just not a picky beer drinker. XD There have been known sightings of an Ember with Corona, Budweiser, even a one-dollar "forty" of 211 Steel Reserve! lol.

BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT: HAPPY BREWFEST!

Personal Reflection (continued)

Well friends, thank you for all the healing vibes because I have no doubt in my mind that your well wishes helped! TMI: I passed the kidney stone and now I just have to take it in to the doctor to get it analyzed so they can give me more specific info about how unhealthy I am lol. XD

Thanks for keeping me in your thoughts in this little "first time" of mine. I was scared to tell you the truth and I still am a little scared about what the doc's gonna say, but we'll see. Much love to you all.

Personal Reflection

Let me preface with this: this blog entry is a personal reflection of recent events regarding my health. No cause for alarm here, I simply wanted to get my thoughts out of my head while I'm thinking them...

Last week, Nuku took me to the hospital at around 10pm Wednesday night for the first time in my life due to some really painful aches in my lower back (or so I thought that's where the pain was from). I felt silly since I've never gone to the hospital before and we don't even have a regular physician. We even went to the wrong entrance where a nice lady in "Patient Registration" directed us to the ER! There was a family in the waiting room when we arrived so I was nervous about how long we'd be waiting. But I filled out the short information form and the triage nurse called me up in less than 10 minutes. She asked me to pee in a cup which was fail because I had just gone to the bathroom at home before Nuku took me to the ER because I thought I just had some really bad gas cramps! XD The nurse sent me back to a curtained off room where I signed more paperwork as another nurse hooked me up to an IV and drugged me with three drugs (I can't remember the names of atm) to get rid of the pain quickly. The doctor told me I may have a kidney stone. They ordered me a CT Scan, that was another first for me too, and results showed that I do in fact have kidney stones. "Of note, there is a duplicated left kidney." hehe.. Ya, I just found out last week that I have 3 kidneys too. The doctor compared the abnormality to having a 6th finger. =3

So he wrote me a prescription for some Vicodin for when the pain comes back since the stones aren't big enough for invasive treatment/surgery (thank gods!) but I'll have to pee the damn thing out! He gave me an odd strainer thingy and said that until I "catch" the stone, they can't really tell me anything else about how the stone formed and what I can do to prevent them in the future. XD Sorry if this is way too much information, but I am thoroughly amused that I have to strain my own urine and actually look for a stone as small as a grain of sand!

My family doesn't have a history of kidney stones that I know of, but my mom's side has a history of diabetes. Doc said It can take up to 2 weeks for a stone to pass so I'm doing a little more research on kidney stones in the meantime so I at least know more about it. XD

I'm turning 27 at the end of November and this incident has given me that feelin' old mentality! At least it's helped as far as reminding me that I need to take better care of myself. I popped a pill just a minute ago since the pain is what prompted these thoughts in the first place. Hope this passes before BlizzCon and not during! XD The pain is unbearable when it happens, but that's the problem: it's really random and sporadic. Wish me luck with this. Thanks.

WTF#10

Patch 4.2.2

New vlog today! http://youtu.be/bNtFSrzYI0o

I have been getting so many messages asking me, "Where are you?" on YouTube that I finally buckled down and recorded a quickie for you today! By the way, you all make me feel SO loved and awesome with your messages that I am feeling like an asshole not giving you more regularly scheduled content! But that doesn't mean you should stop sending me messages! <3 Hehe. XD I really am sorry about the lack of video content lately, but I've been busy with my costume and other artsy things... AND to be totally honest, I'm still not completely over the whole idea of "Who would care to hear and watch me talk about my-fat-self anyway?" XD.

Aaanywaayy, I decided to shorten the video title from "Weekly Talking Fun" (like the previous vlogs) to just "WTF". I swear, only 3 people even saw that acronym which was the whole reason why I even wanted to call it "Weekly Talking Fun" despite the horrible English... But maybe it was just so under the radar barely anyone noticed. And if you DID notice, and didn't say anything, well.. Kudos to you even though you didn't say anything to me about it! ^_^

So, in this update video, I just show off some progress on my costume and some gift art I've been working on for my friends in the WoW/YouTube community. Also Please don't expect a song from me before BlizzCon since I'm devoting all my free time to these projects and the cosplay thing is a lot bigger a project than I thought it'd be XD. I'm SO glad I started it when I did!

Thanks for visiting my blog and enjoy the video!

 

Cosplay Update!

Patch 4.2.2

Firstly, I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping you up to date with my [what were supposed to be] weekly vlogs. DX I haven't posted a new video since WTF#9 three weeks ago! But in my defense, I have good personal reasons for skipping them! Besides real life stuff going on like my nephew's second birthday and getting out of the house more regularly, the time away from my computer has paid off in that it has given me enough time away from WoW and YouTube to finally make some decisions about what to do for my cosplay for BlizzCon! And with the new project underway I'm getting some serious BlizzCon fever!

Tin foil armature ready for paper clay.

So, I've decided on Dwarf Shaman in T10. Reasons: 1) Because dwarves have skin color that I don't have to use body paint for; 2) I LOVE Shaman T10; and 3) Dwarves don't require stilts. XD As a sidenote, I still plan to do a Dreanei or Worgen cosplay at some point with those stilts that I commissioned, but as of now I don't see it coming together in time for BlizzCon this coming October. The stilts are simply not 100% ready for a costume because they still need permanent straps to hold my feet securely onto them. In the test video I uploaded to YouTube a while back, I improvised with some rope and just tied my feet down. XD Heh.. Yeah, dangerous... But not only that, the metal is RUSTING! I mean, I knew ahead of time (before Gir shipped them to me) that I'd have to figure out a way to strap my feet on somehow myself, but the rust was a surprise to me. =[ I picked up some "Rust Destroyer" and some Plasti-Dip spray for them, but that project will have to wait until after BlizzCon since I'm going full speed ahead on this Dwarf Shaman idea.

I did a little shopping over the weekend and now I have pretty much all the supplies I need for building this costume. I even ordered some blue LED "Power Dots" from thatscoolwire.com for the lighty bits of the gear set ^_^. And those shipped so fast: ordered on the 23rd and they arrived at my house on the 25th! I'm still not exactly sure how to go about building everything, but I'm pretty resourceful, so I know that I'll at least be proud of the final outcome. I'm so excited!

Weekly Talking Fun #9 - Succubus Live?

Patch 4.2.0

Another vlog. And I sing Succubus live. Sounds poopy stupid webcam software..RAGE. Oh well. I ain't gon' redo it. So... deal widit. <3 http://youtu.be/vzWTpr3qecI

Weekly Talking Fun #8 - TL;DR

Patch 4.2.0

New vlog: http://youtu.be/ygohd271OBM --


EDIT: I'm totally diggin' my zombie-esque pose in the video still-frame. lol XD

Weekly Talking Fun #7 - It's been 2 years?!

Patch 4.2.0

New vlog today! Happy anniversary me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lc6HF2EwP8

Four Point Two

Patch 4.2.0

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I made a real written post on my blog, so I thought I'd take a moment...
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... to write you all a real blog post full of stuff that I have been too lazy to write about...
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... Hehe, I find it so ironic that on the nights that I decide to stay up all night and play WoW I forget that it's Tuesday and an inevitable shutdown is scheduled...
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... But it makes this moment a really good opportunity to tell you about my WoW shenanigans while I'm still in a WoWy mood. XD

So, I rarely ever queue for heroics without a tank friend since I refuse to heal just for insta-queues, but last night I decided to just do it, and the average wait time was way less than it usually is for a DPS by about 10 minutes! My guess as to why it was a shorter wait time is probably because of all the straggler Tanks and Healers trying to cap their Valor Points for the week! XD Anyway, I ran a couple "random" Zandalari Heroics (both Zul'aman..yuck) and then a random regular Heroic (Shadowfang Keep) and the groups I PUG'd with were such good sports!

I was in a stupid "I'm famous" mood tonight (lol), so I pooped my YouTube URL chat macro in Party Chat at the end of the instances and I felt really embarrassed when the healer in the first group actually knew who I was... DX Mind you, I don't click that macro in every single group I PUG... I'm not that full of myself lol... and usually no one even knows or cares about WoW parodies or so it seems ^_^. So, I was happy that someone knew me, but I was terribly embarrassed at the same time. Hehehe... *awkward grin* But the rest of the group all were genuinely interested in the link and actually went to it! XD Such nice folks online in the wee hours of the morning, I swear...anyway... XD

Regarding the title of this post: I am really liking 4.2. I think it's because it's easy mode for me, or I have discovered a way to get gear faster than I usually ended up with in previous patches. I'm totally diggin' the ability to convert Justice Points into Honor Points! Because now I can put together a decent PvP set to stop hating PvP before even setting foot in a Battleground!! XD I'd definitely not consider myself the PvP type, but if you watched the tail end of my Livestream this last Sunday, you may have seen an Isolte PvPing AND Arena-ing!!! And what's cool about running a bunch of Zandalari Heroics is that I got PvE gear from Boss drops while farming JPs to turn into HPs. Win. Win. Win. XD

Honestly, I never thought I'd ever step foot in an arena, but Crykoda was obviously very successful in convincing me to join him in 2v2 (Feral Druid + Enhancement Shaman). I honestly never thought the resilience gear was going to make that much of a difference for me (cuz I always just thought I sucked at PvP though I never had the gear, mind you...) so I assumed I just hated it and would never PvP at all 'til very, very recently ^_^. After getting just 2 pieces of the Valorous set and hopping into BGs and Arenas... I think this PvE and lore junkie may actually ENJOY PvP! Whodathunkit?! It's funny too 'cause I could have had 2 more set pieces than I have now because I stupidly thought I'd enjoy PvP healing, so I wasted some Honor on 2 healing pieces. But Crykoda and I did a test 2v2 where I just stayed in my Enhance PvE spec and PvE gear... And we found ourselves #WINNING!! LoL.

It's funny right now too because as I type this, my spec is still the same as it's always been: Enhance PvE. I never respec'd for PvP and our Wins-Losses in 2v2 is 24-23!! Haha. Maybe I should buckle down and do some Enhancement Shaman PvP research... or I'll worry about that later.

All I know is: I'm having fun right now and that's all that matters. XD

Patch 4.2.0

Here's a PvP video for all you people begging to see me PvP.


http://youtu.be/e1zrjiuX9BI

LOLOLOLOL I feel like I just trolled all of you.

Weekly Talking Fun #6 - WoW!

Patch 4.2.0

New vloggy woggy uploaded. So, you all probably know by now how incredibly lazy I am, and to further prove my laziness, I bring you a completely unedited vlog. XD



---Summary---
Collabed with PlayerPOV again http://youtube.com/PlayerPOV
I'm Livestreaming every Sunday http://livestream.com/isolte
And if I'm too lazy to record future Wednesday's "Weekly Talking Fun", I'll post a bulletin and a comment on my YouTube channel about livestreaming instead!

Shoutouts!
http://youtube.com/nananeawow
http://youtube.com/taintedlore
http://youtube.com/machinimasound

- So, tell me how to properly pronounce the word "meleé" XD
- Do you have any suggestions for a "Weekly Talking Fun" intro?!?!
- What class is your main?!?!

Wee!

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Oops I'm bad & New Parody Out!

Patch 4.2.0

If you haven't heard, I released a new parody today! And it is available for download right NOW! (The download link is in the video description.)



And I'm bad and I forgot to post my last vlog on my blog. DX

Livestream!

Patch 4.1.0

Heeeeey grrrrls (and guys ^_^)! I just thought I'd share this tender.. I mean EPIC moment with me 'n Crykoda that happened on our latest Livestream yesterday! We're seriously thinkin' about doing a Livestream every Sunday but we're still being really lazy about strapping down and deciding on a specific time! XD But please follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook if you'd like to stay up to date with the very latest news, info, and video uploads RIGHT AWAY!

LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/isolte

Crykoda:
http://facebook.com/lolkoda
http://twitter.com/crykoda

Me:
http://facebook.com/GirlsDoPlayWoW
http://twitter.com/emberisolte

Weekly Talking Fun! - GirlsDoPlayWoW

Patch 4.1.0

Just posted a new vloggy woggy! Go go!

Where'd You Go?

Patch 4.1.0

I guess this post is unrelated to WoW in the fact that this video/song is not about WoW in any way shape or form... BUT it's definitely blog-worthy here in the fact that it's ME singing and Crykoda rapping (http://youtube.com/lolKoda) and he and I met each other through the WoW parody YouTube scene, so there ya go: 6 degrees of Kevin Bac.. I mean.. WoW relation. ^_^

If you don't know who Crykoda is, please check him out! Subscribe to him on YouTube and Like his Facebook "fan" page (http://www.facebook.com/LolKoda). In short, he's a WoW parody rapper/lyricist/comedian and an overall great, loud, obnoxious, geeky guy.... Yes, ladies, he's definitely a heart-breaker. XD *winks at Koda*

This video is Koda's remix of Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go". The chorus (that I sing) is the same as the original song, but the rap'd verse is an original written by Crykoda himself. I hope you enjoy the vloggy "liveness" of the vid! *blushes shyly*