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see the light at the end of the tunnel i have 3 4 leftover 16 deck boards that i ll use when the last batch of wood arrives and once those are all installed i ll be done for the year i think i ll use this winter to let my back rest if you work in it you know what i m talking about sure there are projects that end up being completed but i d say only 1 out of 10 projects i ve worked on ever crossed the finish line to my satisfaction there s far too much horse trading going on trying to keep the bugs and disruption to a minimum versus finishing within a so called reasonable time frame posted by redbeard at 10 59 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hobbies self wednesday october 23 2024 a truly remarkable life sometimes i have this urge to post multiple times in a day after having not a lot to talk about over a week kind of just figures right several years ago i was aware of a wow player named mats steen who d passed away back in 2014 from duchenne muscular dystrophy and his parents were surprised when several of mats wow friends showed up at his funeral the events were picked up in a story first presented for the nrk in norwegian in norway in 2019 but translated and presented on the bbc in english it was a touching article and a reminder that the friends we make in mmos impact far more people than we may never know people like mats are the reason why i play mmos not for the shinies or the achievements or the story but for the people i m afraid that too many players lose sight that it is people that make these games special and not just your buddies on a raid team it s all about the friendships you make along the way however i thought that was that and the memory of mats faded over time then i was surprised to see this pop up on my youtube feed on tuesday from bbc channel 4 about a minute into the interview i realized that yes i remembered the story of mats but what is it with the animation then i realized that someone benjamin ree had made a documentary about mats and his main ibelin i quickly searched for the remarkable life of ibelin and found the trailer on youtube how did i not know this was coming the documentary releases on netflix in the us on friday i was concerned it might be only watchable in europe it s already garnered a bunch of awards and nominations at sundance and other film festivals so that s a very good sign and yes i checked and we have enough tissues so that when i m ready to watch it i can posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels documentaries movies wow tuesday october 22 2024 more silence on the guild banking industry i figured i ought to provide an update on the great blizzard bank heist kurn dropped yet another youtube video monday evening basically blizzard hasn t done much of anything despite kurn trying to stir the pot to at least get some visibility on the matter she s also tried to get some visibility by going to bellular gaming wowhead and blizzard watch among other people without so much as even an acknowledgement response blizzard saying nothing i pretty much expected anybody who has had to try to navigate microsoft s helpdesk knows how frustrating that can be but i at least expected better from michael bell and blizzard watch the retail wow community in general has collectively shrugged and moved on in the same way that people not directly affected have moved on after hurricane helene and hurricane milton other than that i don t have much to add i guess there s a big patch coming up in the next day or two which also includes some changes to the banks so uh good luck with that posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs retail videos monday october 21 2024 meme monday new to mmos memes we ve all been new to an mmo right whether it s wow final fantasy xiv swtor lotro new world or some other game we ve all been the newbie to the genre so this is dedicated to those first few months that we ve spent figuring this genre out trying to figure out what mmo to play is always an adventure and not necessarily the good kind and no i don t know what game the scantily clad elf is from my guess is bdo from youtube and if you understand mmos now let me know i still have a curve ball thrown at me every other week and i ve been playing since 2009 emblematic of all games but mmos in particular it s hard to understand the lingo and systems while you re getting acclimated from reddit again keeping new players engaged is a real problem and weaponizing fomo is starting to get a bit old once it gets past a certain point game companies are going to have to figure out something else because the cynicism will overhwelm any sense of fomo from reddit do i detect a trend yeah this sort of thing happens all the time from pinterest interacting with other players can be good but some mmos encourage toxic behavior by design from reddit once more some games are highly customizable with addons which becomes a problem then again a lot of mmo players turn off the music and sound and focus on the addons anyway from reddit and finally you knew there was a starter pack about mmorpgs i feel like they re picking on wow classic and old school runescape here from reddit 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 friday october 18 2024 making sense of incomprehensibility sometimes i wonder just how traffic flows on the internet oh not the technical version mind you because at one point i could tell you precisely how networking via tcp ip actually worked but i meant in terms of why traffic flows to a specific location if you know the name of this character that peter falk is playing you might want to go schedule a colonoscopy from tenor com i keep up with the meme monday posts for a couple of reasons namely to push myself into posting more often by having a regular column and having an outlet for my snarky sense of humor however another reason to post meme mondays is that by and large more eyeballs look at those posts than any of my other ramblings on this blog that shouldn t be a surprise since those posts have the broadest appeal as opposed to the gamer geek centric fare typically found on the blog still i can be surprised by what takes off and what doesn t when a post takes off within gamer space that s typically driven by eyeballs on a post itself what i mean is that traffic goes directly to that post because it got a bump from somewhere out there in the blogosphere such as the times when a post from pc would get a mention on the now defunct wow insider the first time that happened on the series of posts i made comparing blood elves and draenei back in december 2011 caught me by surprise all i knew at first was that our traffic had spiked from a dozen or so views to 2000 or more and i had no idea what the hell was going on it was only after i dug into the data that i realized almost all of the traffic was coming from wow insider whereupon following it back i discovered we d gotten a mention in their weekly blog spotlight column the traffic eventually reverted back to normal levels but for a week or so pc got a nice boost this sort of behavior has happened from time to time based primarily upon getting a mention in other blogs or websites with readership far greater than our own but it could also be due to pertinent data appearing in a post such as souldat s post on how to effectively tank the lich king from 2010 which remains our single most viewed post on the blog it didn t get a spike in viewership but it had a steady number of views for several years that it used to get on the main page of google search results didn t hurt that being said by and large the majority of spiky traffic that does come to the blog goes to the blog s main page rather than a specific post which tells me that that traffic isn t driven by the gamer geek ecosphere here ya go the last three months worth of traffic while i can guess what might have driven some traffic the spike at the end is likely due to the magic words discworld and kickstarter a lot of those spikes come from way out of nowhere i can t assume that a single post drove traffic to the blog because the spikes in july september and october show up during my dead time between posts blaugust is also no help since you can t look at an individual post and say yeah that s brought people here there s also the undercurrent of web crawlers and whatnot that will flow through all of your website creating a higher base level than what i d call the true number of regular readers i ve always known that the internet is a fickle beast but blogging over the past decade and a half has reinforced those opinions i still laugh at people typically business types and marketers who think that making something go viral is just what internet creators do we need you to create a viral video for this is a query i ve heard on occasion as if you can snap your fingers and views will magically appear but it s the sense that some people who get the internet and can manipulate it to their own ends that drives me batty the internet doesn t work like that what goes viral and what doesn t is pretty much an unknown so i ll just continue to wonder just what the hell it is that occasionally makes pc s viewership spike if you gave me an hour or two i could refresh my memory on all of the details beyond the basics of hubs routers setting up a local lan behind a firewall etc in case you re wondering the advent of wrath classic and the opening of icecrown citadel did not result in a corresponding spike in views i presume everybody ran to wowhead to find out what the currently accepted strat is for the lich king fight since i never actually got to raid icc i couldn t tell you whether the current meta matches what soul had written down over a decade ago never directed at me thankfully posted by redbeard at 11 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging musings parallel context wednesday october 16 2024 adding to the to be read pile i knew that sir terry pratchett s novels were popular but i underestimated just how popular they are as of 5 05 pm today this is kind of bonkers but it also underscores the popularity of discworld i never read any of sir terry s work even though i was very much aware of it because i ve been a bit intimidated by it i m aware that there s a lot of puns and humor in the novels and my concern was that i simply wouldn t get the humor in them kind of like watching red dwarf i know there s humor there but a lot of it simply flew over my head because it was so british that i didn t get the context or maybe trying to understand some of the monty python s flying circus social commentary particularly with then current political and celebrity characters appearing as caricatures to me i simply had no grasp of the context at all so it could have been humor surrounding warren g harding and the teapot dome scandal for all i knew the parrot sketch sure i got that one the ministry of silly walks yeah because every country has a blasted bureaucracy but a lot of terry gilliam s cartoons eh not so much but given sir terry s popularity underscored by the support for the discworld rpg i think i might give the series a chance yay one more book or is that set of books for the tbr pile before you ask yes i gave red dwarf a chance my brother in law loved the show which is how i was introduced to it although i did see a graphic of edward heath in a couple of them i know him not because of the beatles taxman song uh oh mister heath but because i attended a question and answer session with mr heath when he was in dayton for something or another back when i was in college let s just say that mr heath does not suffer fools very well and i m glad i decided i wasn t going to ask him a question even though the opening was there posted by redbeard at 5 19 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels discworld fiction kickstarter rpgs tuesday october 15 2024 kind of a busy day in crowdfunding land i guess tuesdays are a good day to launch crowdfunding initiatives in the same way that it used to be book and music release days because two initiatives i d been keeping an eye on dropped today the first the kickstarter campaign for terry pratchett s discworld rpg launched at midnight eastern time and has already blown way past it s abnormally precise goal of 130 549 as of 12 41 pm est to say that sir terry s novels are popular is kind of an understatement while this kickstarter covers editions in english german spanish and polish the french edition is being handled by arkhane asylum for the curious the discworld quickstart guide pdf is presently available from modiphius both the us and uk websites for the low low price of free the link is from the kickstarter that takes you to the uk store but when i went there it asked if i wanted to move to the us store instead at this current rate i d imagine that modiphius is going to break the 1 million barrier by tomorrow long before i became aware of the discworld rpg i knew that atlas games was going to put together a crowdfunding campaign for a reworked version of the ars magica 5th edition rules to which i can loudly say thank goodness the more i dug into the 5th edition of ars magica the more i felt that while the rules were good the presentation was lacking i didn t mention it in my rpg from the past entry because i was still working my way through the system but you could tell that the game was written with an eye toward people who had played previous editions of the game as i tend to be a person who rails against that self limiting design and story in mmos looking at you retail wow i m sensitized to that weakness in other things the layout could be better the art was closing in on 20 years old and hadn t aged as well as older editions and in general the system needed some good ol tlc so when i found out about a year ago that atlas games was planning on creating a definitive edition that basically presented the same rules in a better format i was on board then atlas games announced that ars magica s crowdfunding would include an open license a creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 international cc by sa 4 0 license this would allow players and creators to legally share and publish their own additions and modifications to ars magica allowing people the same sort of creative outlet that other games such as pathfinder d d for the moment and fate to have the ars magica definitive edition launched at noon eastern today on backerkit seeking a goal of 15 000 while not having the sizeable fanbase that sir terry s works has atlas games saw their crowdfunding effort 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