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Reader WoWspace of the Week: Absoli
For as many different World of Warcraft players as there are out there, there are equally as many different WoWspaces for people to game in. Each week, we'll bring you a WoWspace sent in by one of our readers and let them tell you all about it. Would you like to share your own personal space? Just drop some pictures and your description to us here at readerwowspace AT gmail.com! This week, we visit the home of Absoli, who has a dark but interesting WoWspace -- and really needs a better camera. I have several toons, but really now my main is my lvl 70 priest on Duskwood. I spent several years collecting bits and pieces for my setup and thought I'd share it with you all.
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Finnicks
For as many different World of Warcraft players as there are out there, there are equally as many different WoWspaces for people to game in. Each week, we'll bring you a WoWspace sent in by one of our readers and let them tell you all about it. Would you like to share your own personal space? Just drop some pictures and your description to us here at readerwowspace AT gmail.com!My name is Finnicks and I am a Warlock RPer from the Cenarion Circle server... and this is my WoWspace! For the longest time I had a desk built into a nook in the wall under the window; it was built-in to the house. The walls of the nook and the angles it created wreaked havoc on my wi-fi reception. Add to that how the light from the window kept my monitor looking dim, and the lack of ability to move my computer where I wanted it in the room -- it drove me crazy. At last, about four months ago -- after like 15 years -- my parents caved and let me demolish the nook, and I picked up this corner-desk which now resides in the corner opposite the old window nook. The little mini-shelves for speakers are (I think) the coolest thing in the world. And, since the little light on the side of the speakers that changes color to indicate volume is just out of my sight, I have my handy-dandy little Donald Duck paperweight to reflect the light so I can adjust the volume with confidence. (Total nerd here, like really.)Curious as to the rest of this WoWspace? Join us past the break for more from Finnicks!
Reader WoWspace: Violetly
As promised earlier, we've brought the sexy back of Reader WoWspace of the Week, just in time for you to enjoy on downtime Tuesday. (Although we make no guarantees about consistent amount of sexy....) This week's submission comes from Violetly, level 70 Blood Elf priest on Mal'Ganis who somehow has managed to show up in the armory twice. Violetly's chief complaint is that we're not doing enough justice to the girly WoWspaces out there -- so she did her duty and sent hers in for us to enjoy! Violetly writes:I have long felt it is my duty to provide WoW Insider with a much needed "girly" WoWspace, so here we are ladies and gentlemen. I have been playing WoW since 2005, first leveling an Alliance hunter to 60 before crossing over to the Horde with the arrival of BC. Violetly has always been PvE shadow for raiding. However, after returning to school to pursue a Master's degree in education, my raiding came to a screeching halt; so to spice things up, I recently switched to PvP discipline. I'm finding discipline to be very entertaining and equally as frustrating for my opponents (even in my welfare epics)! For more details on this great girly WoWspace, (and another picture with moar fuzzy cat) read on after the break!
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Shaard
Along with Reader UI of the Week, we're also bringing back the Reader WoWspace of the Week, just in time for your downtime enjoyment! (We're thoughtful like that.) Of course, much like the Reader UI column, this column survives or dies based on your submissions! We've got some in the mailbox still, but we want more pictures and stories! If you've ever thought about submitting a WoWspace, now is a good time to do it! (And remember, we like 'em candid. -- Besides, I did it, you can too!)For this week's entry, we've got four pictures from Shaard -- and we're even keeping with our Druid theme today! (Although the WoWspace isn't perhaps very Druid-y.) For an in-depth look at a candid and unedited WoWspace, join us after the jump when Shaard tells us all about it.
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Rizznay
This week we're featuring a Reader WoWspace from Rizznay, level 66 Blood Elf Hunter from Eldre'thalas. As you can see from the above image, this WoWspace is crammed full of much gaming goodness all in one area! Unless I miss my guess, this is dorm or apartment living, as I know I crammed much gaming into my tiny space when I was sharing living space too. That said, the description for this week is short, sweet, and to the point.
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Lunasmile
Keeping up with the fine tradition of readers letting the rest of us WoWspace voyeurs peek into their own gaming spaces this week is Lunasmile. He actually let me know he'd dropped a submission to me by sending me a whisper in IRC while I was doing the WoW Insider podcast with Elizabeth H. two weeks ago. But he didn't just send pictures of his WoWspace -- he also sent along a great description to go with a nice numbered photo of his WoWspace! (The numbered photo shows up if you click the above picture or link) This week, I have the honor of presenting Lunasmile's letter and WoWspace to you all. Hello WoW Insider Readers,My name is Michael, and I play a 64 Blood Elf Warlock named Lunasmile on Hellscream US in the guild "Devils Horde. " I thought I would share my WoWspace with all of you. I took a page out of Krystalle's book and added numbers to explain the main features of my WoW Space. Without further ado, let's begin.
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Mneth
The calls for the 'everyman' setup have been heard, and this week, Mneth has sent in his submission to share with all of us. There's a lot of old-school comfort in this setup -- which is a lot closer to my setup, at least. (as a matter of fact, I think I had that same chair before!) While I'm all for the picture that is worth a thousand words, I much prefer to give people a chance to tell us about the things that make their WoWspace unique. As such, check out some words from Mneth about his Reader WoWspace after the jump!
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Taeo
That's right -- the same man that gave us the wildly popular UI this last week that many of us spent quite some time chewing on and are now running also sent in his reader WoWspace! Since so many people were wondering why the screen resolution was so large in regards to his gorgeous UI design, that it might be worthwhile to show off his equally impressive Reader WoWspace to you this week. I know once I saw it, it made a lot more sense to me. This isn't just a WoWspace - this is a full out gaming space! The flat-panel television that Taeo is using for a monitor is also hooked up to a Wii and a 360 to make this a sweet all-in-one gaming space!
Reader WoWspace of the Week: March 21 - 28
This week on Reader WoWspace, Thijz writes:I took three pictures of my setup. I took them with my mobile phone (my mom stole the camera) so they're not very high quality.On the first one you can see this:Top shelf: (left to right)- Some random books and CD's, as well as a Princess Mononoke DVD- My printer (HP Deskjet D2360) nothing special- Center speaker of my Logitech X530 5.1 speakerset- A picture of my cat- WoW and BC boxes, as some sort of tribute :P- Behind those are some boxes from my motherboard, mouse etc, in which I keep driver-CD's and instruction books
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Feb 28 - March 6
This week's WoWspace setup is brought to us by Kerri, who you may better know as Lysaara of Nox Invictus. I'm not sure which server she's on, but I'm loving the WoWSpace.Hmmm.. Lets see. I took this a couple weeks ago to show a friend my new monitor, thought I'd send it in...Left-to-rightish: lumpy funky lightbulb for behind the monitors to reduce eye-strain on endless Scholo runs 60Gb iPod (because iTunes can be a resource hog!) diet Coke Nostromo for, as the marketing on its package advertised, "Faster Frags!" 2x3GHz Dual-Core MacPro under the desk 4Gb RAM ATI Radeon x1900 gamepad for MAME breaks Sennheisser HD-570 headphones USB Vent headset 23" 16:9 ViewSonic - this is my main display (I took this photo right after the last patch, so I don't have my UI up..) 21" 4:3 Dell - with Yahoo IM, Ventrillo, webBrowser with thottbot, wowwiki, and guild website open Microsoft "Natural Touch" keyboard - I'm a programmer in as my day job, need to avoid that RSI..) various junk under the monitors John Vanderslice, Blackalicious, Joanna Newsome (!), and a couple Phish albums deodorant (hey, a girl's gotta smell nice even though she's raiding..) "power shelf" to the right of the monitors... I have no idea what else to call this, but I ninja'd it from a former employer, and its got switches for all the lights in my room Ott-Lite full-spectrum lamp.. this helps with eye-strain and with Seasonal Depression (I saw the sun here in Seattle last November, as I recall...) Vitamin C - gotta stay healthy and sharp! a pair of Altec Lansing surround sound speakers... normally these live directly behind the monitors, but I'm in the middle of rewiring the rear channels for watching DVDs Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 - BEST mouse I've ever owned,sadly discontinued. I may get the new 5.0 wireless one at some point, but only once this one dies. It has 2 thumb-buttons that I have mapped to keystrokes in-game. Combined with the Nostromo, I only use my keyboard for chat As always, keep sending in your WoWspace entries, with a nice description (the more thorough, the more chance of being posted), and a few photos (2 or 3 is best).
Reader WoWspace of the Week: February 21 to 27
Short and sweet this week. Okay, maybe the space is more grotty than sweet, but I'll let submitter Charlie explain: You guys seem to be featuring really neat and nice set-ups, so I thought I'd show you what most WoW player's desks look like! In order from left to right: Latest Newsweek, bottle of water, Bourne Supremacy, LOTR The Two Towers (Extended), a Hotpocket, an old Canon AE-1 (for when I do shoot film), Klipsch speakers (eh, they're ok, field is a little narrow), Apple 20" Cinema Display, iPod Mini (it's there, trust me), 90+ year old negatives from my grandmother that I need to take into work to restore (brown envelope), BC mouse pad, USB multi-card reader I ninja'd from work, RAZR, Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 with 2GB of RAM, ATi Radeon 9600 with 128MB of DDR (eh, need to upgrade), old Joystick from when I used to play flight sims all night long, and my Ventrilo headset.Remember to send your submissions in to our Reader WoWspace address, along with a couple of good photos of your space.
Reader WoWspace of the Week: February 14 - 20
It's Wednesday night, so you know what that means!! No, not LOST.. sheesh.. It's time for Reader WoWspace of the Week, the lengthily-titled spotlight on YOU and YOUR SYSTEM! This week it's back to a very clean setup, with a nice graphical twist at the end. I'll let the submitter explain: I saw your article yesterday on Reader WoWspace and it reminded me of the glorious days of the site Spymac which used to ave a similar feature for Mac users. It was enough to inspire me to dust off the digital camera and take a couple shots of the 3 places that I play most of my Warcraft at these days. The first is in my office which features a 30" Apple Cinema display being driven by a Dual G5 PowerMac (not shown). Next it on the desk is a 15" MacBookPro. Picture #2 is being driven by a 17" PowerBook on the previous generation 23" Cinema display and the last one (and perhaps the most comfortable!) is the 15" MacBookPro in ye 'olde comfortable chair (you gotta love WiFi). What can I say, this game drives you to do some strange things and hence my motivation for sending in these pics. In 2006, I setup a little guild website called horderising.com which has turned into a collection of videos / comics / pictures about WoW that highly the creativity of the community. It's just something I did for fun and I thank wow.com for also highlighting the best in the wow community. Take care, JeffDenver, COTauren Druid (currently lvl 61) on Proudmoore I'm just a big fan of the clean setup, but the real kicker is here. Take a look at the back of his MacBook Pro! Imagine taking this puppy to meetings with clients - those in the know will fear you and respect you simply because you're showing off the might of the Horde. It just gives me a good laugh. I wonder what non-WoW players think of it. Have any of you customized your rigs with WoW art or designs?
