Razer Support

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Recently I ordered a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth edition. A keyboard that just types beyond well. Here is a link to their minisite. http://www.razerzone.com/minisite/blackwidow

Once I ordered the keyboard only took a few days to arrive, sadly when I opened the package I noticed a crack in the keyboard.

I immediately got in touch with Razer Support who, despite a timezone difference limiting our contact moments to once a day, offered me a new one in return if I could RMA it to them.
Unfortunately they wanted me to send the keyboard to Germany. I live in the Netherlands. So I asked them if it was possible to send it to the office in the Netherlands instead.

They answered that they would also accept it if I cut through the cord and sent them a picture of the cord and the serialnumber. With this as proof they would send me a new keyboard.

Cutting through this cord was not fun, but it had to be done since I wanted a keyboard that was fully intact..

After sending the picture they contacted me within a day confirming that they accepted my proof and had initiated an order for a new keyboard.

The keyboard has just arrived and I’m typing this on my excellent new piece of hardware right now.
Thank you, Razer, for your excellent support and quick solution to my problems. Keep going the way you are!

Farming with a Tauren Druid

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I have a Tauren Druid. I gave him Mining and Herbalism to support my Hunter.

A druid makes for an excellent farming character. For starters their flightform is instant. So you don’t have to wait for your character to mount up after gathering a node.
Next to that, you can also gather herbs in flightform. So even more time gained!
The same applies to aquatic form, wich allows a great speed while gathering in the sea.

I decided to make a video of me doing a lap in Vashj’ir. A total lap takes about 10 minutes. During this time you’ll find plenty of nodes as you’ll see in the video.

Grinding towards the Swift Love Bird

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With the Love is in the Air festival arriving once again I saw that there was a new mount added this year.
Since I’m trying to focus on my Hunter only nowadays I decided it was time to get serious about this and grind my way towards the Love Bird.

You can get it by getting 270 Love Tokens.
These tokens you can get from dailies and from trading them for Lovely Bracelets.
Since dailies are not for me I decided to look into the Lovely Bracelets. Luckily it didn’t take long until one of my guild-mates mentioned a nice spot in Throne of the Tides.

If you kill the first boss in Throne of the Tides and then go back to where the big squid was poking his tentacles, there will be the purple elementals in the corridor towards the event with Neptulon.
The small elementals respawn incredibly fast and they grant Lovely Charms. Ten of these Lovely Charms and you have a Bracelet. 2700 of these Lovely Charms and you can create enough Lovely Bracelets to get 270 Love Tokens and get the mount!

Not at all tedious.

I spent parts of two evenings to grind out the needed Lovely Charms and get the Love Bird. I only managed to keep up by putting World of Warcraft in a smaller screen and having a stream of TheLittleOne playing Starcraft II in the other half of my screen and watch it while sometimes looking back at my screen during the Multi-Shot spam.

But after all this terrible work I now have the Swift Love Bird!

Darkness II – Demo

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I’ve finally managed to upload the video I shot from Darkness II – Demo.
I had to convert it to a smaller file type before YouTube would accept it.

I never played Darkness, I had no idea about the concept. But it didn’t take long for me to realize that the atmosphere was quite sinister. The first bit of speech when loading up the game is quickly flown into you being hammered into a crucifix or something alike.
After this the demo presents you with some flashbacks of the evening the character has been having.

During these flashbacks you get more power on each step. It doesn’t take long until you have two demon tentacles over your shoulders.
The controls get a bit confusing quite fast though. With each button used for one or two abilities at most. But this is quickly forgotten when you can grab car doors and get bonus points for throwing them at someone and splitting them in two. Your little minion that pees on dead enemies is great as well!

Here’s a video of my playthrough

Youtube is tricky

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I’ve played the demo of Darkness II, and recorded the entire thing.
I’ve added the clips together and converted it to a high resolution file, ready for uploading.

The first time I tried uploading it it wasn’t done by the time I wanted to go to bed, so I had to cancel it and turn my pc off. Using 850W to upload a video seemed like a bit of overkill.

The second time I started the upload as I got home from work. It uploaded entirely near the point I wanted to go to work. Sadly, I read the page wrong and thought it was done uploading and Youtube was processing the file. Turns out there’s a moment of validation after the upload. This resulted in me shutting down the page before the upload was done.

The third and fourth time I encounted issues with the upload. As I started it my bandwidth would drop down to a terrible minimum. The upload limit from my ISP would only be 50% reached, but my download was reduced by 90% or more!

Time to try again tonight, I may have to just leave my pc on during the night this time. Or I could bring the file to work and upload it here, since we’re a hosting provider we have a very nice upload speed, going near 65 Mbps from the office. Sexy stuff, I wish I had that at home.