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rophysicist a puzzled look crept across her face and she turned to my mom in a loud whisper she asked what is that i don t know my mom whispered back i ve visited a couple of artificial caverns created by mining limestone and detroit has underground salt mines that i ve not visited but are similar in scope and the spaces created are similar but on a smaller scale the closest i can describe it is the 21st hall in terms of columns preventing the ceiling from collapsing as i doubt tolkien had the mining knowledge to understand how to tie the ceiling into the bedrock above and prevent the ceiling from collapsing tolkien could understand columns however posted by redbeard at 8 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro musings tuesday september 13 2016 well that s that i was going to post about something else but it seems that blizzard is continuing its dominance of my posting cycle this time it s a bit unexpected chris metzen is retiring from blizzard he s not leaving for another company unlike some of the others in the industry but actually jumping off of the train to spend time with his family while i didn t agree with every decision blizz wow dev team made i can respect his work best of luck chris posted by redbeard at 8 42 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard news wow friday september 9 2016 don t click on the random item just sayin why you may ask if swtor s tendency to hide world bosses behind clickable items won t deter you maybe this will seriously if you find a hidden puzzle without any explanation don t start acting like the dwarves in khazad dum and delve too greedily and too deep you just might unleash an old god upon azeroth and really i ve done that several times on swtor before i finally got the hint and didn t click like say on voss oh look a mysterious tablet ohshitohshitohshit posted by redbeard at 7 21 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels swtor wow sunday august 28 2016 now this is a bit more like it with legion s release imminent this arrived in my inbox now this is what i kind of expected from blizz no mention of my previous mains however best of luck to wow players on release day posted by redbeard at 9 30 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard wow friday august 26 2016 now this is an odd gear check silly me and here i thought i was going to proceed with the story for lotro s mines of moria expansion without running into a grind but a few days later and i m slaying orcs and angmarim and dunlendings in eregion grinding away at getting a legendary weapon up to l10 apparently a legendary weapon demands sacrifice bathing in the blood of my enemies who knew the first five levels weren t so bad the next two as well but by the time you reach l8 you have to whack a bunch of orcs just to move up a level and i dread what it s going to be like when i get to oh much farther downstream such as l20 or so i had no idea that i would end up wielding stormbringer in lotro this was what the cover of the first elric book i owned looked like from tor com and maybe i ought to start getting concerned about lotro s endgame given how the elric saga ended up and no i m not going to spoil that one the moorcock books are very quick reads but given that michael moorcock has rather publicly stated his dislike for tolkien s works i m not sure what he d think about my comparison posted by redbeard at 5 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fantasy novels lotro tuesday august 23 2016 i m going on an adventure somewhere up there lies the black pit courtesy of a lot of diligent grinding and a major boost from the lotro 50 off sale i managed to accumulate enough turbine points to nab the entire expansion for the mines of moria some thanks goes to the oldest mini red who has one toon on my account on this server and did some grinding for deeds herself a while back but if you ll excuse me there s a world underneath those mountains to explore posted by redbeard at 10 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro friday august 12 2016 shaken not stirred i ve always wanted to play a spy because it is the ultimate acting exercise you are never what you seem benedict cumberbatch the 60 s era spy genre as interpreted by the swtor agent class story has all of the classics covered danger double crossing sex romance an insidious enemy and a dashing heroic character at the center and no easy choices although it was before my time by several years i m familiar with this tune by johnny rivers i m about at the end of chapter 2 and i recognize all of the signs for a big reveal and or turning point that sends me on to chapter 3 but the more i ve thought about the class story that i ve seen so far i ve been impressed with how clever bioware has been to humanize the story and get you on the agent s side spoilers after the break read more posted by redbeard at 5 58 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels swtor wednesday august 10 2016 what a puzzlement the name i d chosen eons ago for the blizzard forums is not redbeard believe it or not i was quite a bit more mundane and used one of my old standby forum names because i was used to having redbeard already taken imagine my surprise then when i received an e mail from blizzard a small portion of the e mail yes ol redbeard is front and center in the e mail i m used to some of my toons showing up in the occasional blizzard e mail such as azshandra nevelanthala and tomakan but this is different just who reads this blog anyway there must be a ton of scooby doo fans out there unfortunately i m not going to link the episode that features the ghost of redbeard go away ghost ship as i can see that the videos out there are pretty thinly veiled attempts to avoid copyright infringement video is speeded up and white dots and smudges are deliberately introduced to avoid bots posted by redbeard at 12 10 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard wow thursday august 4 2016 methinks i need a new d20 gen con begins today in indianapolis and this year i m going to be reduced to watching it from afar due to school commitments marching band camp and monetary commitments the grand college tour we re going to take a pass this year but that doesn t mean that i won t keep up with what s going on as boardgamegeek com has their boardgamegeektv up and running over at gen con and i ve a connection on the inside as my brother in law has been attending for years and is likely in line right now 6 am indianapolis time go forth and play games posted by redbeard at 6 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gen con friday july 29 2016 hey at least i didn t die of dysentery i haz returned the great college tour is complete universities and colleges were visited food was consumed and nary a video game was played hell i didn t even think of mmos or video games until our last visit of the tour the guide for the last university tour paused in front of a room at the student center and asked if anyone here played video games three mini reds hands shot up along with those of a couple of other people well the guide said this is the video game room there are consoles and oversized screens there for people to play and it s all free of charge i swear i thought i saw the mini reds levitate not all was serious business certainly we did sample the local cuisine which in chicago means chicago style hot dogs and chicago style pan pizza and we took a day off and visited the museum of science and industry in chicago here have a picture of the pioneer zephyr the first us streamliner which was donated to the museum of science and industry in 1960 posted by redbeard at 9 04 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college family miscellaneous sunday july 24 2016 clean up in aisle four after several years i ve finally pushed past the last kerrals jarvis quest in the agent s storyline on hutta and begun my last unfinished class story in earnest even after creating another new agent and reaching that same moral roadblock i finally decided to bite the bullet and finish that quest still that wasn t an easy thing to do spoilers after the break for the swtor storylines read more posted by redbeard at 10 35 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aircraft arcade games swtor friday july 22 2016 have a nice trip i spent most of the past week visiting different colleges and universities with the redbeard clan and while that also meant not a whole lot of gaming i also got a lot of exercise walking around several campuses sort of you see i d busted my foot back in early june the day of a college visit to bowling green state university i was walking across our hotel s open area where their attempt to invoke the images of new orleans french quarter included masks such as these the photo doesn t do it justice the thing is close to 2 meters tall as i was staring at these masks that my wife compared to american horror story s freak show i tripped over my feet and i felt intense pain in the heel of my foot to my later regret i convinced myself that i d be fine and went on the visit anyway which included a 90 minute walking tour of the campus i discovered just how much of a mistake that was when we left for home after the visit and stopped for lunch along the way i simply could not put any weight on my foot without pain shooting through my heel after a week i decided to visit the doctor s office since the pain wasn t going away much at all in spite of rest ice and elevation the doctor took an x ray and discovered that my foot was not in fact broken but merely sprained more rest and ice was the prescription fast forward to a month and a half later i can walk fairly well but the foot is around 85 90 but it still isn t fun walking around college campuses particularly those with lots of hills anyway after one of the campus tours we stopped for lunch at a hole in the wall latin restaurant we placed our order and while we were waiting i noticed a couple of construction workers eating nearby normally that s not a surprise but what attracted my eye was the blizzard logo on the back of one of the workers shirt sure enough when he went to get a drink he had a giant horde symbol on the front for the horde i whispered and smiled posted by redbeard at 9 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college family the wow life monday july 11 2016 anyone for a friendly game of pick up mmo players tend to be a bit of an odd breed no i don t mean in the u suck noob manner and not in the obsess over a game manner either but in how a significant portion of the player base is constantly looking at new unreleased material and that this is considered completely normal imagine about 10 20 of the people who saw the force awakens got to see it about 2 months beforehand multiple times and a got to provide detailed write ups of the entire plot and the fights before the movie was even released and b used the viewings to organize friends into the optimal movie watching strategy for the midnight showing and consider that the really hardcore viewers were in a race to see who could finish watching the movie first and you ve got a bit of what it s like operating with the ptr servers for an mmo it may sound silly when converting the mmo concept of a ptr server into other forms of entertainment but to a decent sized portion of the player base a ptr server is absolutely vital to playing an mmo working out boss strategies figuring out optimal pathways to world firsts exploring every corner of a new expac major or minor and writing up a world guide and figuring out what the newest hot pvp class will be are all integral to the mmo experience for mmo developers the ptr provides free player feedback and bug reports so it is a win win for them as they can tweak the patches prior to formal release as an it person myself i completely get that it s the equivalent of a qa server where people can kick the tires prior to a formal release to production and i like that as it means that i have a better chance at a bug free release but this also highlights what mmos are to a certain amount of the player base an exercise in group mechanics and achievements where the theme is secondary or tertiary if you count the toon sex appeal on some games i m guilty as the next person for trying to do things such as figuring out a rotation or going to elitist jerks and try to min max my toons gear but i have to wonder whether the mmo community has lost something over the years go ahead and google legion is coming are you ready and scan the results i see forum and blog and youtube posts from as far back as august and september 2015 on how to maximize your output and prep your stable of toons to be ready for when legion drops remember these are posts from almost a year ago about what mechanically speaking you need to do to prepare yourself for the new wow expac that hasn t dropped yet to me as a long time boardgame player these articles remind me of discussions surrounding the hard core eurogames such as puerto rico or tigris and euphrates if you hang around boardgamegeek enough you ll find that there s an optimal strategy for puerto rico and if you play with some of the hard core you ll be berated if you deviate from that strategy yes the exact same l2p noob behavior exists in the board game community and like the mmos the theme is less important than the mechanics and the team requirements to win the game or finish the raid eurogames in particular were infamous for a tacked on theme hiding behind an optimization game and if you were out shopping for boardgames it made a lot of sense to read the entire description on the back very carefully so you d know whether the game is the sort that you d be interested in or not what might be a game that sounds like wheeling and dealing in istanbul s grand bazaar is really an economic simulation that requires you to figure out how many wheelbarrows you need to transport goods to market to exchange for rubies the theme itself is secondary to the mechanics behind the theme comparing a eurogame to an mmo isn t really fair since mmos are much bigger than any euro and because they are bigger they can appeal to far more than simply the min maxers and the others but at the same time those subgroups do take up a lot of the oxygen in the room i used to gripe at blizzard for shoving a lot of plot and background development off screen and into their books the game is right there i d say...
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