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eally i ve commented on several wordpress blogs lately including the last chapter gaming blog kamalia et alia and the ancient gaming noob but the comments never appeared my first thought was that i d somehow screwed up and pushed a cancel button or something instead of post comment but i ve since discovered that there is no cancel button okay i thought maybe i ended up on a spam list somewhere the only issue with that is that i d assume that if that were the case i couldn t post on blogger hosted blogs as well but i have no issues there so go figure it s not as if this sort of thing hasn t cropped up before my wife managed to get our main pc infected several years ago and even after i removed the infection our pc showed up on some block lists that our isp subscribed to so i had to wait until our pc vanished from those lists before we could connect to the internet once more i m kind of hoping that s not the case because removing infections can be a royal pita posted by redbeard at 9 12 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings saturday march 21 2020 saturday musings in a brave new world in these extraordinary times when shelter in place and pandemic and cancelled have become active parts of our lexicon i ve been wondering about gaming obviously if you re stuck inside the house one of the activities you can do by yourself or with family is play games if the mini reds were a lot younger we d be playing a ton of boardgames in our free time but nowadays they ve been playing video games and yes that includes mmos the oldest mini red has noticed an uptick in gamers in lotro recently and i ve noticed more players online in wow classic as well although the opening of arathi basin might have something to do with that as for eso i can t tell because i mainly craft these days and i ve only been puttering around belsavis and hoth in swtor lately which aren t typically your most populated zones but i ve also been playing a lot of civ iv games and the second mini red has been playing a lot of civ v what have you noticed has there been noticeable uptick in gaming relatively speaking i work from home and that hasn t changed and my wife still works retail and her job hasn t shut down yet as it s kind of important to distributing food and supplies i ve got it in my head that i m going to do all of the expansions both major and minor in order and that means saving up money to either subscribe or buy the mini expacs outright so i m kind of in a holding pattern there posted by redbeard at 11 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings monday march 16 2020 you know the world has turned upside down when i pull out an album i ve not listened to since roughly 1990 my wife asked me to fix her old magnavox stereo system 1987 so some of the oldest mini red s university stuff is to the right her university is going virtual for the rest of the semester and i m pretty sure that the second mini red s university will follow shortly eta aaaand we just received word that his university is definitely going virtual i guess it s time to hit the road again posted by redbeard at 3 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family miscellaneous musings saturday march 14 2020 happy tenth in the midst of everything going on i forgot to mention that kamalia of kamalia et alia has celebrated her tenth blogoversary on march 9th kamalia s gravitar i ve enjoyed her fashion sense with her sunday on the promenade recurring series having been able to create fashion outfits out of the tons and tons of wow gear that you can use me i m just happy if i don t look like burning crusade clown gear but maybe i should learn a thing or two about fashion sense and i don t mean wearing white after labor day over the years kamalia has seen her family grow with two new additions and i can truly appreciate her efforts at keeping the blog running with two little ones around happy tenth kamalia posted by redbeard at 11 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anniversaries news thursday march 12 2020 two inc to lumber mill yes that means that arathi basin opened this week on wow classic and zul gurub and nightmare dragons next month a short refresher and no that s not cardwyn on the left from wowhead clasic i guess that makes up for e3 being cancelled among other major cancellations out there esports is but one venue being hit with the covid 19 pandemic but for gamers esports and cons such as e3 pax blizzcon and gencon are huge social events of course gamer events are comparatively speaking small potatoes to some of the cancellations and or modifications happening in other areas such as the nba suspending the rest of their basketball season the ncaa hockey and basketball tournaments to be played without spectators and the italian serie a football season suspended fast news week if you ask me posted by redbeard at 10 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news wow classic wednesday march 11 2020 shooting robo dinos with arrows coming soon to a pc near you to get away from fiction for a while news came out yesterday that the ps4 title horizon zero dawn is coming to pc from the verge who credit guerilla games of all the ps4 exclusives this is the one i was most interested in and i know i m not the only one however i d kind of resigned myself to never seeing the game on pc because well sony would like to keep their exclusives in house and make you buy a ps4 instead i guess sony must have run the numbers and decided there was more money to be made by releasing the game on pc rather than keeping it in house i d like to think that s the case as i can t possibly be the only pc gamer who simply doesn t have an xboxone or ps4 lying around additionally it certainly seems that consoles are driving the video games market so pc ports can be more trouble than they re worth with the xbox and ps architecture you only have to design for far fewer sets of hardware than in the pc market additionally pc gamers are used to much higher framerates and graphical detail than can be found in the console market nevermind that the number of pc gamers who have hardware that can achieve those lofty heights aren t that numerous that the potential is there is the important part officially sony is saying that they want to lure pc people into using the ps4 but i believe that everybody who wants and or owns a ps4 already has a pc so chasing after dollars from people like me who don t have and don t want a ps4 is kind of a head scratcher but hey i m happy to accept this lure by sony sony had better not expect me to drop the full price for the game however as a i don t have that sort of money just lying around and b i m busy with other games first i m not including the nintendo switch here as third parties aren t exactly flocking to putting their latest and greatest on the switch their loss in my opinion posted by redbeard at 8 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels horizon zero dawn news tuesday march 10 2020 on being debriefed now that the story is fully posted i can take a deep breath and relax once i started in on the tale i didn t expect to be flirting with a novella length story but that s what ended up i know it s cliche to say it but the characters themselves insisted on a manuscript this size although i did chop off quite a few words during editing cardwyn in particular shoved me out of the way and took over the keyboard insisting that this was how it happened i originally started this project writing in third person but it just didn t feel right i personally prefer third person because you can get multiple viewpoints from scene to scene but once i converted to first person the story flowed much better there are events behind the story that card was never going to know at least at the time anyway so i had to create a cheat sheet with a timeline to keep everything straight one thing i immediately decided upon however was to expand the size of azeroth as of now in both classic and retail azeroth is just big enough to allow people to travel and keep things interesting going from point to point in much the same vein that turbine standing stone took towards creating lotro if azeroth were as large as it really should be there d just be tons and tons of walking around with absolutely empty countryside think of it this way in lotro you can ride from bree to rivendell within a day of game time whereas in tolkien s middle earth it would have taken close to a week s riding travel to get there an ancillary point is that according to the map of elwynn forest there s a grand total of four farms present in the zone with one of them a vineyard and another a pumpkin patch that s simply not enough farmland to feed all of goldshire let alone stormwind walking not jogging from where guard thomas is stationed at the stream near the logging camp to goldshire is something around 15 30 minutes of game time which makes sense only from a plot game perspective based on all of this i essentially blew up elwynn forest into a super sized version complete with many more farms which also means that goldshire takes on more importance as a regional farming hub than the wow classic version would allow consider the difference between troyes and paris in medieval france while paris was the center of the monarchy troyes was a major trading hub in the medieval period enough to command its own fairs and draw people from throughout the region troyes even has its own cathedral which is a very big deal in medieval europe there were other items however that i did not tinker with i knew in general what evelyn and the others could do and also knew that the four veterans balthan daryn evelyn and mona were considerably more experienced than the defias they were facing that also meant that in game terms they were significantly higher level than the defias so they should have been able to steamroll the defias in a fair fight the leaders of the defias gang undoubtedly knew this and even though they thought they were originally going to fight just daryn and mona they decided to use as many dirty tricks for leverage as they could but once the actual fight began i had to keep in the back of my mind whether things that evelyn in particular did were possible within the context of the game in addition to this being cardwyn s story i wanted to keep any involvement from the main wow npcs to a minimum if there s one thing that bugs me the most about the wow stories that blizz puts out they always focus on the big players within azeroth what makes wow and especially wow classic tick is that it s us the players who have the direct involvement in the story and wow classic in particular doesn t elevate us to the level of the power brokers in azeroth and it doesn t try to either you might be part of the army represented in game by 40 person raids that takes down onyxia but you re not luke skywalker or aragorn at best you re somewhere around fatty bolger s level who had a part to play but was one of many but the wow books spend so much time on the big players that they miss the point of what makes wow interesting us i was determined that cardwyn s story would not involve the big players at all because this is a story about well us no nobles no kings no high priests no faction leaders just people even the npcs aren t exactly high up in anybody s command structure and although at least one mid high level npc is mentioned in the story there s no guarantee that he ll play a part in any subsequent tale additionally there s no guarantee that balthan is as well connected as he thinks he is after all the guy drinks at taverns all over azeroth and i can t imagine a faction leader or their immediate subordinates or even their subordinates doing just that that doesn t mean that along the way card won t run into some people who qualify as big players but the story won t be about them but card herself and i m happy with that because while i can wander over to stormwind castle i don t have quest markers over the big players in the throne room at least at the same rate as you find in some of the later expacs anyway but an astute reader will figure out who card s older sister is and yes that was deliberate i always thought there was a story there with her and i decided to tie that npc in with card s story in as much the same way as the blue recluse barker or ol emma roaming stormwind these are the stories i really want told no more big player only stories in azeroth please there is one last item and it is presently driving me nuts but cardwyn will simply not shut up it was as if i d opened the floodgates as once i finished this story card has been bugging me showing me scenes for other stories and other people and insisting that these stories be told as well that s great and all but i don t think it s going to happen just yet and besides i don t want to turn this blog into a fan fiction blog i am also aware of my own limitations i m not that great at description and while i don t aspire to be a robert jordan with his walls of descriptive text it would be nice to figure out how to describe things a bit better than the spartan level i presently can attain and although i m grateful that ancient allowed me to use kitwynn i don t want to create the kit and az show i do admit that it could be hilarious in its own way but i don t want to take creative control over kit she belongs to ancient and i really like it that way so there it is my big debriefing about one final lesson and i m glad i wrote it it s something so unlike the rest of pc s output that i understand that people may not be that interested in it but the concept behind the story was something that had been bugging me for quite a while while i ll freely admit that when i hear fan fiction i immediately have rule 34 pop in my head i knew that if i was going to make this story work i wasn t going to come within 10 miles of anything like that type of fan fiction thanks for being patient with me for putting the story out in several posts according to sfwa guidelines for the nebula awards a novelette is 7500 17500 words and a novella is 17500 40000 words one last lesson clocks in at roughly 18975 words give or take some 10 words as i d made some last minute tweaks that i need to add back to the original word doc the original draft finished at over 20000 words i guess i tend to be a bit wordy i should point out that unless you ve invented the middle earth express horses can t be expected to be pushed to their limits everyday without collapsing the same thing goes for people walking from bree to rivendell i can see 10 miles per day on a normal pace and remember a normal pace also includes 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