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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 of the Week: Aryc Ogre
Welcome once again to Reader WoWspace of the Week! Now I know a lot of people like 'em messy, but as some have noted, we just don't get too many messy ones. It seems like we generally only get them when they're clean. (Of course, you have to wonder if we couldn't market WoWspace participation as an effective office organization tool!) This one comes to us from Aryc Ogre, who didn't send in his character name, server or anything, but his case makes us wonder if he isn't the prot Paladin from this recent Penny Arcade comic. For his story and lots more pictures, be sure to join me after the break!
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: Crumbs
This week's Reader WoWspace was sent in by Crumbs, who has managed to fit twice the geeky goodness and a whole lot of desk space into one nifty corner of his office. As Crumbs told us here at WoW Insider, he had been playing a Hunter "forever" but when Burning Crusade came out, he decided to make the jump to a new character. He has since switched to a L70 Draenei Priest named Chilee of the guild <Epitome> on the Thrall server that he's been enjoying raiding with.For more cool pictures and details of Crumbs' WoWspace, check out the information after the jump!
Reader WoWspace: Skyghene
Maybe it's just me, but I read Skyghene as rhyming with Hygene, and so I get a little extra chuckle when checking out this week's Reader WoWspace. I mean, it's totally cool and all to take some snapshots of your space as it exists in its regular state, unlike the cleaned and polished spaces we sometimes see here, and I'm so digging the microwave, but.. well.. maybe it's the paper towel roll that just sends me over the top and makes me laugh. I love it, and now I really want a mini fridge and a microwave in my home office. Hi, my name is Skyghene im a 65 undead rogue on Magtheridon and this is my WoWspace:- Desk- Custom built computer- Fridge under the desk for those endurance sessions- Microwave beside computer for really intense endurance sessions- brown sugar cinnamon poptarts to keep me going- Logitech g15 keyboard- My desk as it slowly bends downward from all the weight on it- Razer copperhead mouse- alot of empty cups- old plates- my cell phone- an old video camera- old packs of guitar strings- some old usb cablesShort and sweet from Skyghene, but the photos really make up for the lack of long monologue, don't they? What's the coolest non-computer item in your WoWspace? Do you have something better than a microwave or a bar fridge? Let us know here, and send in YOUR space, including photos, a list of elements, and what about it makes it special to you, and we'll feature it here in the upcoming weeks. Submit yours to "readerwowspace at gmail dot com" today!
Reader WoWspace of the Week: Patrick and Kyle
This week, on a very special episode of Reader WoWspace... Two men, brought together by fate share a destiny they never thought was possible. This summer, from the producer of The Odd Couple, and the director of The Crying Game comes an experience you'll never forget - Patrick and Kyle's WoWspace!Okay, maybe not earthshaking, but I do find it interesting that it's a shared space. Do any of you share your WoWspace with another? If so, send it in! Here are the details:Patrick and Kyle's WowSpace from Southern Wisconsin.Characters from Left to RightGorgas - Level 70 Warlock (Skywall PvE)Rebourn - Level 14 Warlock (Arthas PvP)Budenhagen - Level 70 Rogue (Arathor PvE)
Reader WoWspace of the Week: March 29 - April 4
This week's entry is a doozy. It is big in all ways that a WoWspace can be big. Lots of write-up, giant images, and 2 screens that just look huge. I never thought my 2x 20" screens would look small. How wrong was I... Hey, wowspaces moderation folk! Long time reader, first time submitter...although, i guess everyone is a first time submitter. anyways! Here is my wowspace, with a little description of it all. Let's start out with the monitors first, my pride and joy :P those are 2 24" dell widescreens, each running at 1920x1280 resolution. the laptop is a 13" black macbook. All three of these screens are connected to the same keyboard and mouse, which navigates across all three screens through a virtual KVM program called Synergy. This is nice, since it lets me run processive intensive apps on the mac, while my desktop can be dedicated to running WoW. So, what about the desktop specs you say? Athlon 64 4200+ processor2gb of DDR2 533mhz ramgeforce 6800 ultra card, 512mb video memory7200RPM, 300GB hard drive. The laptop is a 1.8ghz intel core duo macbook, 1gb of ram - it does the job when im out of the house :) Both systems are connected to a Creative Gigaworks G500 sound system.
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: March 7 - 20
This week, Ben sends in some interesting images, and writes: I've been tempted to send in a shot of my workspace for a few weeks now after seeing the WoWSpaces of the week, and now I guess I've gotten around to it. So here 'goes, from left-ish to right: - my Logitech X-230 speakers- a note from my mom congratulating me on the arrival of my new PC- a newspaper clipping about DST changes- under that, a greeting card and some weird round orange post-its- my television remote - cream soda x2 (awwww yeah)- a J!NX bumper sticker (yep, it's stuck on right on there)- a page from an old Nintendo Power magazine about Ken from Street Fighter II- partially under that, my DS charger
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 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?
Reader WoWspace of the Week: January 23 - 30
Continuing the love from the last edition of Reader WoWspace of the Week, we've got another Mac in the mix. This week's WoWspace comes to us from Mark: My WoW space:17" MacBook Pro Core Duo (2GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB)30" Apple Cinema DisplayApple wireless keyboard and Might Mouse What I like:All of it, is perfect for my WoW gaming. Nothing like playing it on a 30" display. What could be improved:A Mac Pro to replace the MacBook. Going to be 2007's purchase hopefully. There you go, short and sweet, and to the point. The desk looks immaculate, and I can only wonder what playing on a 30" screen is like! Remember to send in your own WoWspace pics and descriptions to readerwowspace at gmail dot com!
