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7 days ago
7 days ago
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 825 - We’ve Got Mail
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. Show Notes:Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 825 - We’ve Got Mail
Email and audio from Rigarmorty, Kep and Wren & Morgaine
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Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 824 - Rigarmorty, Rigarmorty, Rigarmorty
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. Show Notes:Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 824 - Rigarmorty, Rigarmorty, Rigarmorty
Email and audio from Rigarmorty
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Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 823 - Play or Not to Play, That is the Question
Show Notes for: Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 823 - Play or Not to Play, That is the Question
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
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Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 822 - The Friends We Make
Show Notes: Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 822 - The Friends We Make
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
We made so many friends playing World of Warcraft. In fact, that’s how you and I got to know each other. It was an interesting dynamic because unlike most of today’s games there’s not even voice. How about we did have vent. Which was amazing to use. A couple of days ago we lost Caoboi he gave a lot to the community. He met his wife, Iceflow in World of Warcraft and the two of them have been on the Podcast on multiple occasions. Coincidentally, if you listen to last weeks episode, you heard the clan of darkness theme song at the end, that was written produced and saying by that wonderful couple and my heart breaks to know.
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Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 821 - Happy Birthday AprilPvd
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Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 820 - Patch 7.2 Is Coming Next Week
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 820 - Patch 7.2 Is Coming Next Week
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 819 - It’s Little Ladies’ Day
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 819 - It’s Little Ladies’ Day
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 818 - I Found WoW in VR
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 818 - I Found WoW in VR
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Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 817 - Unaccompanied Minors
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AprilPvd and Grand Nagus talk about Video games both Virtual Reality and Flatscreen.
Grand Nagus:
We are in the middle of the New Year’s Event, called ‘Heavensturn’
I promptly used the tabletop dish in my new OCE house, this is how it looks on the table among others:
I used the mugs from the Christmas event, as you can see, since i don’t have the reagents and materials on this character, yet, to craft coffee or tea cups, so i bought a few more Christmas mugs so i can use them.
As part of the event you can raffle for a fortune, good fortune or bad fortune, so i’m really happy with that. It’s just a cosmetic thing that doesn’t have any ingame power, just for fun.
I won the lottery on my Oceanic homeworld for a beach front house. It was a really nice new year's present.
Materia DC, Sephirot World, Ward 21 Plot 19.
I don’t have a Message book yet, and the house is classified as ‘Under Renovation’ for now, but you are more than welcome to stop by.
I’ve been unlocking a few new submarine destinations in my FC Workshop.
Submarines and Airships are basically timed exploration missions that can take up to 1,5 IRL days to complete, depending on the speed of the vessel and how many destinations you visit. You level up your ships
AprilPvd in VR:
So I don’t think I wanna play with kids anymore. You get a lot of loud noises in the background and I messed up. He wasn’t giving clear. He was trying to order me around drop the anchor raise the anchor. Let’s just keep going nice and he was just very basically annoying and we ended up dying which happens I mean, gosh it’s just a game and then he ran back to tell everybody how awful I was.
Sail
Loaded money up on my steam account so that I could buy the blue coins in SAIL which I used for cosmetics. I wanted to make a purple boat. Turns out you cannot buy the coins on steam, and you can only buy them on the Meta version. I met a character was only level two so I immediately stop playing Steam and work to level up my Meta character. But there is the daily challenge in which you can earn blue coins, 101 challenge and between five and 50 when you spin a wheel. So I’ve been hopping onto the Steam version every day to complete the challenge, hoping to get enough of the blue coins, too get some cosmetics.
Ran into some awful kids using the N-word repeatedly and name the ship in word killer.
Event in Zenith
Medieval Dynasty
Exercise
HoloFit challenge
Vehicles
Soapbox
Legendary Tales!
PCVR RPG game that is expensive but beautiful
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Shout Outs & Thank You
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Recording Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 816 - Christmas
Grand Nagus:
Path of Exile 2:
Early access has started.
Likely going to last between 6-12 months.
Access to Early Access will cost you $30.
You can buy Supporter Packs that include Early Access access.
Those are packs of cosmetic content that is usable for both versions of Path of Exile, though not all of it will be available for both, like lore related content for PoE2 is obviously not accessible / usable in PoE1.
All the items you buy in PoE1 carry over to PoE2, like cosmetic skins (other than the ones that are not available in PoE2 like spell skins of spells that are not in PoE2) and stash tabs. All of that is available for you to use once you start playing PoE2 right away.
Content that is not unlocked yet in PoE2, you have to wait for it to be unlocked to use the related cosmetics.
I really like the game, although it’s more difficult at the start, so I had to farm some items and abilities to be able to beat some of the bosses. I like challenging content, but sometimes I think it’s a little too tough. But then, once I defeat a boss, it’s ok, it’s all about the challenge, and being able to just one-shot the bosses isn’t fun either.
Final Fantasy XIV:
Starlight Celebration, the in game Christmas event, is upon us.
Along with it, we get a Twitch collaboration to earn yourself a ingame mount if you gift a sub, or sub yourself, three times within the event period, the event duration is the same as the collaboration timeframe.
I really look forward to this event, since it’s the first one, since I started playing, that we get housing items that I really like to use in my house / apartment.
I like the theme surrounding the ‘Kinderpunsch’ items, and, as you can see from looking at the event banner in the show notes, it looks like there is heavy involvement of children this year.
I’ve heard people say that they can’t use housing items, because they don’t have a house, but, let me tell you, if you are kind of new to the game, or never really knew this about housing, there are two other options besides owning your own plot of land, aka having a house in game, that you can utilize to have your little home away from home.
An apartment - Each housing ward has one, technically two, if you count the sub-division too, apartment buildings where you can rent / buy, there is no such thing as renting in FFXIV, your own apartment, so it’s more of a condo. It will cost you 500,000 gil, it is one room, AND it has the big advantage, that it is NOT affected by the demolition rule, so it’s a permanent place for you to call home. It has a maximum item count of 100, so not too much, but it’s way better than nothing.
A FC room - Almost the same as an apartment, but you are tied to your FC for better or worse. Since it’s a non-permanent place, for the FC ties and all that, its cost is ‘only’ 300,000 gil. In every other way the FC room is identical to the apartment.
You can own both an apartment and a FC room, if you want, they are not mutually exclusive.
A couple of pictures from my apartment to show you what’s possible, and i’m by no means great at using space, i just do stuff like i want it, and execute the ideas i have and find elsewhere, so others are even better at decorating than i am, specially small spaces.
A picture of my Lalafell alt.
AprilPvd in VR:
They finally fixed a lot of the problems that co-op was having. There will be some people who won’t appreciate the fix, but it made me feel better.
The infinite harvestable glitch made everything much easier. I could just take wheat over to my windmill and said it to constantly grind flour and then sell a stack of the flour for almost 3000 gold.
Zenith
Blade to 62 all gear to 60 and both Legendary weapons to 65 because I actually got to join a group to take down the big boss. this actually took some doing because not too many people are still playing and the ball still playing not too many are doing the in content. It actually took me three tries to get in a group because it’s a group of eight and the first time I tried I was on the bench. The second time I actually got there late cause I forgot about the time, but the third time was a charm and even though on the third game, I got kicked out. I still manage to get enough of the marks of dreads to upgrade my second legendary weapon to 65. I had been going in occasionally to grind for the mats to create the radiant crest, which was the other part of the upgrade.
Sail
I also tried a game called Sail which is an open world where you can play with other people and actually got into a game with some kids. And while they were semi annoying, they were actually very helpful.
Fly
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