LotROCON?

In case you don't pay attention to Moormur over at the LotROCAST blog (shame on you), some people are kicking around the idea for a LotROCON.

Head over to this thread to post your ideas on the subject.

Update on Spamming

Thanks to Jaxom's advice, I'm able to stop moderating comments now (that was quick, huh?). The next time there's a spam message on here it'll get reported via this link. I encourage every blogger to do this, that way if multiple reports get filed there's a greater chance of something getting done.

C'mon, spam my blog again. I dare you :).

March Mayhem DEAD HEAT!

Wow, this is getting really intense, check this out:

C'mon people, vote!

New Wallpapers

I'm a sucker for concept art, so whenever something like this gets released I'm always happy. Turbine's released 3 new wallpapers for spring, so check them out. One in particular (right) is just plain BA, so it gets special mention from me.

Comment Spamming

Hey guys, a quick update about something that's been happening recently. Every once in a while there's a user that spams this blog with comments about a website for cheats and I'm pretty sure gold for cash (I can't be sure I've never read the thing he spams about very carefully before deleting it). Anyway for the time being I'm going to have to pre-approve every comment that's left on here before it goes on until I can find a better fix for the problem (if there is one). Sorry for the inconvenience, but you should blame this on the jerk who's spamming my blog (and from what I can gather I'm not the only one).

I'll check often and you shouldn't have to wait long before you see your comment on here. I may just politely ask the guy to stop spamming me, who knows...he might have a human side.

March Mayhem Continues!

Over at The Escapist Magazine, the Developer March Mayhem contest is getting really intense. In Round 3 Turbine barely scraped by with a margin of only 96 votes. Make sure to get over there and vote for every round!

New Headset

I have a bad reputation with headphones and headsets. When I'm not breaking them, my sister is rolling over them with the office chair after she knocks them to the ground. The only pair I've been able to hold on to for an extended amount of time is a pair of very nice Sennheisers (luckily the most expensive ones seem to be the most durable).

For LotRO, I needed to get my hands on a new headset recently. For anyone who has had a headset then tried to go without it, you know what it can be like. Typing seems so out of date now. Anyway I'm reccomending a set that I recently picked up at RadioShack. They work extremely well, and I'd highly advise anyone looking for a set to pick these up. It's a Gigaware USB Headset, and it's the best one I've owned so far. Some people when they hear I'm using USB audio have questioned my sanity, but it hasn't been a problem for me at all. I plugged them into the front of my tower, and they worked right away. No drivers, and no manual installation of anything. It came with a Skype installation disk, but no need to use it if you're just using it for games. I'm sure Windows did something behind the scenes, but as far as I can tell when I opened up Ventrilo for the first time it was 100% operational. Even better, ingame chat was already set up for it as well. I was a little worried about that. One thing that I've also noticed is that when some people use the 3.5mm jack input headsets, there can be issues like echoes and stuff, but this has been almost flawless.

One minor note, when working in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, I can't hear audio. This is probably some small setting somewhere, but still kind of annoying.

Very inexpensive (as headsets go) and a great buy.