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sic and retail he kept an open mind about the classic players opinions on the matter go watch it yourself if you want because i m going to briefly comment on the video i could get behind most of the reasons why people prefer classic i ve mentioned quite a few of them myself over the years but i do wonder whether the warcraft feel complaint comes more from pvpers and horde players than pve and alliance players most of the complaints i ve seen about retail from that angle come about when i m in a battleground so i suspect that there s an inherent bias in that direction still i can point to plenty of times in classic wow such as tbc and wrath where npcs are all about their feelings and or coming together for the good of all so the complaint about a disney ification of retail kind of falls on deaf ears for me however in the ending where shields simply says there s no way for retail to change to bring back classic players i do agree with retail has changed too much for someone who prefers an open world that isn t driven by an overarching storyline and a relatively low complexity for gameplay and design to find a place to fit in there s all this game world that blizzard is sitting on in retail yet everybody is funneled into the same few zones in the current expansion and there s no encouragement to go out and explore unless you re out transmog or achievement hunting you can t simply drop into a zone such as say ashenvale and just do a couple of quests here and there because everything from post cataclysm onward is designed with a purpose in mind blizzard has a story they want to tell and that may not be the story you want but good luck trying to avoid it okay this is an option but trying to tell a reader to not read the quest text is like trying to tell the sun not to rise in the morning from reddit since you can t turn back time and tell blizz that maybe it s a better idea to not go all in on making sure there s a story everywhere especially once an expansion is no longer current and the content becomes very dated retail is what it is just watch out for those landmines i d argue from wrath classic onward but the reworking of the old world by cataclysm largely wiped out the old unfocused open world that existed in vanilla if you want non directed zones you have to go to tbc s version of outland and that s about it posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings retail videos wow classic thursday november 21 2024 may it please the court okay i can now mention what i ve been up to or what i was supposed to be up to this past week i was selected for two weeks of jury duty in the us all adult citizens who are active voters are thrown into a potential pool of jurors and if your name comes up you spend anywhere from two to four or more weeks in jury duty there s several types of jury duty from the two main types at the county level as well as the special selections for major cases and those from the federal courthouse if your city has a federal district courthouse that is at the county level there s grand jury which you are a member of for about four weeks at minimum reviewing criminal cases as to whether there s enough evidence to try the accused and petit jury which covers actual criminal and civil trials over the years i ve been selected for jury duty three previous times petit jury in the mid 90s federal district court in the mid 00s and as part of a huge pool of potential jurors 200 people for a first degree murder case in the mid 10s for that first round of petit jury i was an alternate juror on a criminal case and then a juror on a civil case i was slotted to show up as a potential juror for a federal case but the parties settled at some obnoxious hour of the night i think it was 2 am when i received the phone call that my services were no longer required for the murder one charge my stance on capital punishment caused my dismissal from the juror pool before you say oh that s nice just say you re against the death penalty and you can get out of it i can tell you that i spent the next 30 45 minutes like i was being worked over by a couple of cops to get me to confess the prosecutors basically wanted to make absolutely sure i wasn t just trying to get out of doing my civic duty and it was not pleasant this time around i was back at my old petit jury summons so i arranged with my employer to make sure they were aware i might be out for a few weeks or more and readied myself for his past monday to my surprise i wasn t required to attend so after my dismissal i just started up work as usual the next several days were the same unless you re already attached to a case you do not have to go to the courthouse and tonight i received the following news wow i was not expecting that i fully expected to have to check in sometime over the next week well except for thanksgiving day that is but i guess the case docket isn t very full right now and while i m not superstitious i sure hope i didn t burn all of my good luck this year having the easiest jury duty service ever for those not familiar with first degree murder it s premeditated murder and it carries with it a potential death sentence when i finally was released and went home i casually mentioned to my wife the name of the defendant who was present the entire time while i and a half dozen others were being grilled and she said holy shit you were going to be on that case turns out she d been following it closely in the news posted by redbeard at 8 11 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels self monday november 18 2024 meme monday more satanic panic memes because i dredged that episode of my life out of the corner in my mind where it slept i figured i d revisit some satanic panic memes from reddit you ll see a lot of these from there it s like therapy for old time rpgers i don t need to rehash the whole thing it s all over the internet so have a fun time hunting but let s just say that d d and heavy metal music and all sorts of rebellious activity by kids back then were all gathered up and lumped into the satanism camp throw in some court cases brought against some people due to found memory hypnotism and yeah the panic but hey here s a multigenerational starter pack for you from reddit yeah i can relate from reddit and that other platform anything to make them feel justified i suppose from reddit yeah it kinda was and the people who believed it then are also the people who believe fake news now from imgflip sometimes what set off people s satanic panic detectors was weird some people gave lord of the rings a pass others didn t from reddit but evidence of good things to come out of tabletop rpgs such as d d were denied by the true believers such as my parents from reddit and one last item about the satanic panic but you can buy the t shirt from etsy from etsy eta corrected grammar posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday november 17 2024 what is even happening if the previously concluded election didn t prove we lived in interesting times i opened my email this morning to discover this i use outlook for my email so what yes the new york times is covering wow s 20th anniversary for independent confirmation that yes the nyt is doing this here s the cover of sunday s arts and leisure section any excuse to visit a bookstore you can see vin diesel on the cover south park a very stylized tauren who s more minotaur than tauren a generic looking orc sorry not thrall and a red flight dragon i get the feeling the artist is busy shouting for the horde somewhere but between this acknowledgement of wow s continued existence we also have had celebrations of the granddaddy of rpgs dungeons and dragons and it s 50th anniversary you know that d d is finally big enough when it gets the time magazine special issue treatment i got it at target of all places about a month or two ago i m just not ready for this pop culture acknowledgement of our geeky pastimes poltergeist is kind of appropriate for all of this from tenor com i still remember the satanic panic and i know that there are still a significant number of people who still believe that all things rpg are satanic my own family included people who think that those times are gone have never interacted with the satanic panic crowd if given half a chance they will attempt to assert their own morality on everybody else because they simply can t understand the concept of mind your own business oh they understand it but only when it applies to them not other people they feel like they re doing the proper thing by attempting to impose their morality on others because they want to share in the path to heaven with everybody the concept that religion and faith are a personal matter for other people as well as themselves just doesn t compute this from medium com here s to another anniversary in 10 years as the saying may you live in interesting times implies posted by redbeard at 3 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anniversaries d d memes wow saturday november 16 2024 just how fresh is it i wasn t that enthusiastic about the prospect of new so called classic fresh servers since i was already fine with hanging around on classic era the nicest thing about classic era is that it s theoretically not supposed to change there is absolutely no rush or fomo or anything in classic era because it s simply not going anywhere there s nothing new coming to the servers so if you want to take years to finally get around to raiding naxxramas that s fine if you want to gradually get to rank 14 in pvp sure take your time that s the thing about azeroth in classic era sure it s static but it also means the entire place is relevant yes even azshara you don t have to worry about broad areas of the game being cast aside and not played by 99 of the player base because it s not part of the latest expansion because there simply aren t any expansions my questing buddy and i have discussed at length the only weakness in classic era the lack of tbc era or wrath era servers if you ve read this blog during the period of tbc classic you know i have issues with the burning crusade expansion but to be perfectly honest the issues were less with the expansion itself but more with my interactions with my guild and its transition into a hardcore meta driven raiding guild if we d have been given the opportunity to keep our old toons in tbc era i would have done it if for nothing else than to give me a chance to enjoy tbc on my own terms without the external pressure to be something i m not as far as my questing buddy goes she loved how the warlock played in tbc classic but probably even more than that she missed her draenei priest who became her main in wrath classic so when i logged into classic era the evening after the 30th anniversary video release i should have known she had opinions on the matter cardy hey there there s gonna be new fresh servers that go to tbc yeah you could say she was excited i m somewhat less enthusiastic because i don t intend to give up classic era if these servers become or transition to tbc classic era servers i d be fine with that i suspect however that they ll move on to wrath classic just like the current progression classic servers do and since they re fresh servers i won t be able to transfer my original cardwyn over either i would have to do all the things she d done and i m not sure i really want to but in the end i did agree with my questing buddy that i d spend about half of my wow time in these new servers i suspect that among our friend group i ll be the last person to l60 because i do dawdle a bit when i don t have a goal in mind you can t de rank in classic era due to inactivity that was part of a change to the pvp ranking system put in place in era presumably to combat the issues with a lack of people playing era servers when they first appeared the changes made also make it harder to get to rank 10 and beyond but i ve learned to cope with that after all i never got past rank 9 in original 2019 classic i think the biggest loss for me in that tbc classic period was how that naked pursuit of hardcore playstyles wrecked relationships in the guild i should have never accepted a raid leadership position because i was exposed to the conflicts within guild leadership which manifested in a fracturing of the guildies that i was one of the leftovers the leveling shamans abandoned when the dark portal opened didn t help i would have been much better off staying separate within the confines of my old guild retail orphans and tried to hold onto cardwyn as my main instead of volunteering to level a shaman instead posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classic era tbc classic wow classic wow classic anniversary friday november 15 2024 for bhagpuss yes it really is my youngest sent me a recommendation of this song by haley heynderickx the last name is correct and the first thing i thought of when i began listening was that bhagpuss ought to hear this there you go bhagpuss happy friday posted by redbeard at 12 27 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music videos thursday november 14 2024 these aren t the toons you re looking for move along i haven t been writing much about any adventures in mmos lately okay for the past couple of months at least but to be perfectly honest there s not much to report okay last weekend was alterac valley weekend so there s that there s also been my questing buddy and i sneaking into the 20 person raid zul gurub to farm bloodvine like a god is going to listen to me or just hanging around at darnassus watching the trade and lfg chat and doing some buffing of people as they go by i have to admit that guild advertisement for vanilla in the chat window was pretty damn good one thing i ve not been doing much this this was on my login screen the other day that s pretty much the extent of classic s participation in the anniversary events and classic era has none of that going on at all i suppose i could have watched the video today but i really don t see any reason to do so the only time blizzard cares about classic era is when they want to improve things without consulting the player base or when they update season of discovery and break things in classic era as a consequence the widely rumored official classic fresh servers are likely to have been announced but given that i ve already got toons on classic era i m not sure if i d bother with going to a new series of servers at this time in the meantime some of the people in my friend group have migrated to mainly playing retail since you can solo 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