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le encounters like that which only take about 5 10 minutes tops that make my day i get far more out of a random encounter than any other aspect of an mmo in other news i ve been a baaad wow player i have had the music turned off for the longest time not because i don t like it but because i listen to other things while playing sometimes i m in discord and others i m just listening to a podcast or other music to be fair sometimes your encounters in game don t really mesh with the game music such as the music for the lion s pride inn not exactly meshing with the reality of goldshire in moon guard i sure hope that the pink glow is accompanied by a healthy dose of lysol to clean the place and there are times when music i find online actually fits much better for my mood leyna robinson stone is a tin whistle musician on youtube who has plenty of music videos for the tin whistle when i became re acquainted with the whistle a couple of years ago i discovered her work and subscribed to her channel this particular short is a duet with another whistle player cutiepie who also has a a lot of instructional videos one of her posts from over a year ago recently appeared in my feed and i found her original piece fit the wilds of feralas incredibly well going from eddie money to atmospheric tin whistle in one post go figure even back in my time on retail in 2009 2014 my first experience on wow i literally didn t know any better and i was leveling a holy paladin so a big strike against me but my later experiences were leveling to pursue different goals that were most definitely not optimal nobody goes leveling via battlegrounds thinking it was going to be quick and easy posted by redbeard at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music operation spread the love retail videos wow classic anniversary monday march 23 2026 meme monday miscellaneous memes for march 2026 as usual time to go and rummage through my pile of memes that i haven t used yet so have fun yeah it s a problem that mmos tend to have from imgflip because meeting at a tavern is so blase from quickmeme i laughed when i saw this from facebook from tiktok ha i d be buff too from shen comix me too yes me too from tumblr posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday march 21 2026 early saturday musings i was at our local indie bookstore last night and i came across this magazine bhagpuss this one s for you that and the other magazine i found below got me to thinking about how different we looked in our youth i can t get over how young sammy hagar and the late eddie van halen looked i was at the car dealer the other day to get one of our cars worked on when a woman sat down in the cubby next to mine i was focusing on a conference call at the time so i didn t really pay attention at first but then i realized i was looking at a blast from the past her hairdo looked exactly like suzanna hoffs in the bangles circa mid 1980s i hadn t seen that sort of hairstyle in person in at least a few decades but there this woman was working away on her laptop while also examining her phone for data i made a point not to stare because that s just creepy but i took enough in to know she was likely half my age did i just miss something and that 40 year old fashion and music are coming back nah not likely i m just imagining things what i m not imagining is that 50 years ago this album was released had to chase down a good looking cover from amazon of all places or this album and this one came from facebook i ve known this was coming for a long time because i m in my upper 50s and i ve been watching albums that formed my youth reach these major milestones there s also hotel california of which my freshman college roommate went to hear a preacher deconstruct that album to prove it was satanic bob seger s night moves kiss s destroyer the ramones self titled first album peter frampton s frampton comes alive and queen s a night at the opera we are now 50 years away from 1976 which is farther away than 1976 was from the big band era of the mid 1930s through the late 1940s it s amazing to me just how far we ve come from music fashion and other things just remember kids next year is the 50th anniversary of the atari 2600 which got a lot of your parents interested in video games my own hair has receded and thinned a bit the kids poke fun at me for that and my beard is now mostly grey rather than red but i don t feel massively different than i did 20 or 30 years ago obviously that has more to do with gradual changes over time just like how i never noticed that i lost my ability to hear 15 000 hertz until a couple of years ago when i was running a sound check on the speakers i d built just a few thoughts about how things have changed one thing that hasn t changed however is that i m still listening to music from 1976 not exclusively bhagpuss sees to that with his regular music posts but those albums are still in regular rotation just an oil change and tire rotation no new issues were discovered this time around posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fashion music musings thursday march 19 2026 i don t think i could sit for that long over the course of the past several days i watched jeff kaplan s interview with lex fridman i was clued into it by josh strife hayes and after his commentary about it i searched and found the full 5 hour interview on youtube yes it s 5 hours 10 minutes and yes it s worth the full time but yes that full length meant i broke down the interview into 1 hour chunks your mileage may vary from my perspective there are three big takeaways from the interview he s seen some shit that was just the biggest fuck you moment i had in my career it felt surreal to be in that condition screencap from the interview maybe i m reading too much into the look on his face but he gives off that thousand yard stare at times i look at him and think that this is what i d look like if i hadn t changed jobs back in 2001 my kids would say that about some of my more recent foibles but i m not so sure i guess it s left as an exercise to the people who know me to provide details the corporate execs at the end were complete idiots who only saw things through the lens of dollar signs yes you can say that any business is in it to make money but when some of the shenanigans that went on with overwatch went down jeff had finally had it and left i ll leave it to you to find the spot in the interview because the full interview provided the amount of heft of what leaving blizzard meant to jeff lex did bleep out some specific numbers to protect jeff s nda but regardless i felt like punching a wall or something when i saw that part from rick and morty jeff had every right to be upset and i m sure that i could find out exactly who he was talking about in that part of the interview but i d really rather not dwell on the injustice of it all jeff wasn t the one overpromising on the overwatch league and he was the one caught in the crosshairs of trying to keep riding the overwatch wave and keeping it fresh while working on overwatch 2 jeff is proof that you do not need an it or a business degree to leave your mark in gaming his degree is in creative writing and it was his passion for gaming that eventually led to his employment at blizzard while yes he s often poked fun of for making the original green hills of stranglethorn questline in wow he talks about that in the interview by the way i m also confident that he had a big hand in the defias questline that i love so much in the interview he mentioned that pat nagle worked on quests for elwynn forest and he took westfall which meant that he was working on quests in the heart of the defias territory it s a fascinating interview and i m glad that jeff seems to be slowly coming out of his funk after leaving blizzard now i really want to read play nice by jason schreier about the rise and fall of blizzard entertainment posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard interviews memes wednesday march 18 2026 who wants to live forever okay the reference to both queen and the movie highlander aside nobody lives for that long even with today s medicine the oldest verified living person was according to wikipedia a touch over 122 years old life and death are a natural cycle and while that has been long known we also have a long history of wishing for immortality or at least a much longer lifespan i m not going to get into the weeds as to why we as a species tend to collectively want that whether here or in an afterlife but instead i want to look at how we write about species races with vastly different lifespans than ours let s get the big one out of the way shall we this was the version i had as a kid i have no idea whatever became of it from ebay we write what we know so we project our lives our understanding and our emotions onto anything we create frequently that includes animals that don t live as long as us anthropomorphizing dogs and cats and other animals that we know and love is pretty typical for us as a species 101 dalmatians anyone and in terms of aging we basically compress our own human experience into the lifespan of said animals assuming it s a direct 1 1 correspondence of course that s not exactly the case other animals are not us and while they may have individual personalities they don t have the sense of impending death that we have that means our understanding of the eventual end of life doesn t impact what other animals experience while we may not know exactly what your doggo is thinking about things it s pretty likely that they don t have any real thoughts of the rainbow bridge like we do okay that s us looking at the lifespan of animals but what about our examination of other races species that are much older than us there s a quote by the science fiction writer editor john w campbell about approaching alien intelligence that applies here write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man but not like a man the other big one that we might as well talk about are the elves and dwarves of middle earth alan lee s cover of the tale of beren and lúthien by jrr tolkien star crossed lovers from two separate races beren and lúthien represented tolkien and his wife edith as they came from two separate worlds elves are immortal assuming they don t die due to violence or merely wasting away and while dwarves are mortal their lifespan is much greater than that of normal humans even the númenóreans descendants of men who fought alongside elves in the elder days have a much longer lifespan than that of the regular folk our experiences of elves in tolkien s lord of the rings really was that of wise counselors and background commentators for the main characters they provide the world s exposition and a sense of the weight of tasks ahead think of dumbledore s here s what happened part at the end of the first few harry potter books and you get the idea i ve mentioned this before unfortunately since google doesn t have this blog indexed i can t easily find it but when fantasy authors put together timelines stretching thousands of years as if it s not a big deal we are doing ourselves a disservice think of it this way the entirety of middle earth s third age was over 3000 years which puts the equivalent in our time to be 975 bce the zhou dynasty in china divided rulership in egypt splitting of the kingdom of israel into two the gradual rise of the assyrian empire and decline in the old babylonian empire and the rise of the olmecs so looking at all the upheaval that s happened from that time to today the timeline presented by tolkien in the lotr appendices is incredibly simplistic no country nation has lasted 3000 years in our world the current nation of egypt bears no resemblance to the medieval mamluks much less the hellenistic ptolemaic or the new kingdom yet gondor and the elven kingdoms remained relatively intact and with a similar political structure over that time sure some empires have come and gone but nothing even close to what we ve seen in the real world however as time in middle earth has progressed the elves gradually retreated from view and the political stage as they left middle earth for the undying lands even the threat of sauron didn t mean armies of elves marching against him in the war of the ring peter jackson s movies notwithstanding and the battle of the five armies from the hobbit was the largest military action the elder race performed in the latter half of the third age in one sense the gradual retreat of the elves from view leaving the world to the mortal races is rather natural if you re an elf you don t change but everything else around you does men dwarves hobbits and woodland creatures all grow old and die and you don t in the elves that manifests in terms of grief and weariness which is why they re drawn to the undying lands where they ll find a respite from the world s mortality my son years come when hope will fade and beyond them little is clear to me and now a shadow lies between us maybe it has been appointed so that by my loss the kingship of men may be restored therefore though i love you i say to you arwen undomiel shall not diminish her life s grace for less cause she shall not be the bride of any man less than the king of both gondor and arnor to me even then our victory can bring only sorrow and parting but to you hope of joy for a while alas my son i fear that to arwen the doom of men may seem hard at the ending from the tale of aragorn and arwen the return of the king appendix a tolkien obviously put in a lot of thought to the immortality of the elves on a racial and personal level particularly in regards to the personal cost of what immortality and the rejection thereof brings to a person and their family however i think he missed the mark on the resulting societal impact of immortality in the end the elves society didn t really grow or change over time but rather tended toward stagnation and calcification now that i think about it if there s one common thread among immortal or extraordinarily long lived people in fiction or gaming it s that we really don t know what it would be like from a social or societal aspect to have a race of extremely long lived or immortal people around or even a couple of people for that matter would they calcify and be gradually consumed by grief and weariness such as tolkien s elves would they dominate society like the emperor of mankind in warhammer 40k would they become more rigid and black white in their worldview would they lose what makes us human the ability to connect on a personal level to someone to feel intense emotion to love and 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