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igin story of my reluctance to ask for help now you know of course i now play on the alliance side and outside of some quests from the forsaken there s not much difference playing either faction in the various forms of classic wow but you know that didn t matter my mind was already biased in the almost 14 years since i ve started playing mmos i ve found those few offhand comments have had a huge impact on how i approach this genre i still prefer to do as many things on my own as possible and i ve even taken that to an extreme by not using any assists from wowhead or other third party player aids for quests well within reason i do set a mental timer for trying to figure out a quest and if i exceed that timer i pull out wowhead and bitch a little bit while i research but that s me and i think it s important to note that these internal biases are simply that a bias toward a certain viewpoint that might not be well correct i m not talking about politically correct but rather actually correct since i don t know what the status of horde vs alliance population was back in the day i can t really say whether horde was significantly outnumbered to any degree i also can t make the assumption that the do it all yourself mentality would arise from being outnumbered on the face of it you d expect any group that was outnumbered to share resources and information more than normal because communication would be key especially on a pvp server like stormscale us is i have this gut feeling that the underlying event that influenced my playing behavior wasn t a real one oh i m sure that soul probably believed what he was telling me but i ve a suspicion that he played that way and used circumstances as justification for that playstyle when it s entirely possible that the playstyle actually encouraged the opposite behavior among the horde in those early days still without any real data it s all conjecture not this data but the data sigh from memegenerator net so what does this all mean well that our internal biases can be based on unreliable information for starters that s a polite way of saying what we believe in is frequently based on bullshit doesn t matter where the bullshit originated or who said repeated it bullshit is still bullshit another point to consider is that everybody is susceptible to this problem again it doesn t matter who you are you can spew bad information quite easily if you believe in it the question then becomes how do you fix the problem with biases that i don t know i wish i did but i ve discovered that people don t like it when you point out the flaw in their own beliefs nobody likes to be told they are an idiot no matter how nicely you polish it it s still a turd that people will refuse to accept and if you bring in religion or politics or race into the mix you might as well drop some tnt onto the mess maybe some compassion all around would be helpful but there are always assholes who look to exploit any compassion for personal benefit again look at religion politics and race for numerous examples but maybe just maybe getting people to figure out the mistakes on their own would be most helpful because the realization comes from within rather than being told what to do by someone else which can make people resentful why do i say that might work because it does for me i haven t changed my self reliant playstyle much but i am more open to reaching out for and accepting help than i have in a long time i m sure that my questing buddy is having a good laugh about this right now because it sure doesn t seem like i ve changed very much but when i figured out what i know now the ego that fueled my playstyle kind of deflated and went oh which isn t a bad thing because egos do deserve to be deflated from time to time so baby steps i guess he was a miner and jewelcrafter for the record originally inscription but jewelcrafting was much more lucrative cataclysm naturally changed all that those changes to the story in the old world are big part of the reason why i don t play retail but you knew all of that posted by redbeard at 3 10 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes mmos self monday may 15 2023 meme monday rogue memes despite my love of mages and clerics i do like playing rogues my last retail wow main was a rogue azshandra who made a reappearance as both my first wow classic toon and my first new wow classic era toon i ve also played rogues or their equivalent in rift star wars the old republic guild wars 2 and elder scrolls online i may take playing rogues seriously but not so seriously that i can t laugh at them or their memes okay this is the dad joke of memes right here it s from several places on the net i do love the scouting capabilities of rogues but i truly do appreciate their innate ability to resist backstabbing their teammates from pinterest rogues in wow and other games do have that ability to sap someone which can drive enemy players absolutely bonkers i know because it used to do that to me from memesboy com but far and away the calling card of a rogue is being able to move in the shadows and stab people to death when they least expect it from fakeposters com and one bonus meme oh yes this except when you leveled straight back in mists and went from cata at l85 to the first mists of pandaria zone in quest greens oh boy was that one ugly from the otherworldly incantations fb group posted by redbeard at 8 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday may 14 2023 the wheel of time moves on and ages pass when souldat and i began this blog in 2009 the mini reds were 6 8 and 11 they are now 19 22 and 24 this past weekend my son graduated from college and armed with his bachelor s degree in history will be attending graduate school in the fall to work on his master s degree in his time away at college he got into paining minis from john kovalic s dork tower and he plays ffxiv when he asked if i was going to attend gen con this year he mentioned that at least one of his guildies was planning on attending heh he put a version of this from final fantasy xiv on his cap congrats kid onward and upward posted by redbeard at 6 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family ffxiv gen con minis thursday may 11 2023 what the f is filk if you re not familiar with the term filk it s a specific subgenre of music that references sf f media placing the sf f topic into a musical framework we re not talking about a soundtrack or even something like toss a coin to your witcher but typically a replacement of lyrics of an already existing piece of music like oh say replacing the lyrics in the beatles song penny lane with an ode to middle earth from my copy of the tolkien scrapbook page 144 apparently a lot of people on goodreads don t understand that the tolkien scrapbook s origins are long before tolkien himself was ever taken seriously by academia much less the peter jackson films filk appeared with the rise of the sf f convention scene and i suppose you could argue that the bastardization of the words folk music is where filk got it s name my guess is that we re talking about oh the 1960s or so given the rise of folk music in the popular consciousness at the time despite it s age some people have issues wrapping their heads around filk even if they are inclined to accept cosplay there tend to be raised eyebrows at filk songs and performers my suspicion is that because cosplay is primarily a visual medium and let s be honest there are a lot of attractive cosplayers out there it s easier to accept cosplay than filk you get the idea from blizzardterrak via pinterest now if you like your football soccer you re probably familiar with the replacement or insertion of lyrics specific to your team such as that found with such creative editing of classical music or hymns so the basic concept isn t completely unfamiliar to people this isn t the adoption of an existing song as your club s theme song such as cincinnati bengals welcome to the jungle liverpool fc s you ll never walk alone or crystal palace s glad all over by the dave clark five but something like a full version of this sort of thing taking the melody from land of hope and glory to tell nottingham forest among others to go piss off you re probably wondering where the hell this post came from and i ll be honest this wasn t what i had in mind when i sat down to write on tuesday that post will come later in this case i pulled up youtube to listen to something i was originally thinking of something mellow to get through my morning workload such as french impressionistic pieces but instead this old chestnut appeared on my feed and so i went down that rabbit hole for the next half hour listening to piece after piece because when you start youtube just starts throwing everything vaguely similar at you a lot of those pieces are listed as wow parody or insert franchise here parody which i guess filk could fall under but i also would argue that the term parody makes light of what is clearly a labor of love it s fine for the music to be self aware and not take itself seriously but i typically think of a parody as something that can be easily dismissed when people want to discuss real music sometimes however the real music gets overshadowed by the parody to the point where the parody is more well known than the original piece it was based on such as weird al s i lost on jeopardy eclipsing the greg kihn band s our love s in jeopardy this isn t a plea for filk to be taken seriously after all it already has its own website at bowling green state university in northwest ohio but more a celebration of the form or raising some visibility to it locally we have a true community radio station waif fm 88 3 mhz there are only a handful of community radio stations in the us these days where you can donate money become a member and actually get air time for your show program these are distinctly different than public radio stations which are far more organized and tend to be affiliated with colleges universities or other non profit organizations community radio stations are just that they take their mission very seriously even if the programs themselves can skew very oddball at times i personally recommend listening to the rockin and surfin show on saturday nights if you like your surf music you ll love that show from waif fm and when i said anybody could put on a program i meant anybody back when i first started working in it in the mid late 90s i knew a guy from work who had a radio show on waif that was strictly filk music you might think that a once a week hour long show might run out of filk music to play after a short time but he was able to come up with new filk pieces on a regular basis i ve no idea when he stopped producing the show as it s no longer on their lineup but it s still a nice reminder that there have been people out there raising filk music s visibility so have a couple of pieces of filk music for your day it wouldn t be christmas without hp lovecraft i suppose for those honor harrington fans and it wouldn t be a filk session without a star trek song by way of kermit the frog that s not to say that some people don t expand the definition of filk to cover new pieces of music based on sf f topics or rpg topics or video game topics i mean there is the band harry and the potters after all posted by redbeard at 10 44 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cosplay fandom filk music musings monday may 8 2023 meme monday video game rpg memes if you re like me you have played your share of rpg video games i m old enough that i played colossal cave adventure back in 1981 on a remote teletype machine at a neighbor s house tunnels of doom on the ti 99 4 a home computer and even programmed in video game adventures for said ti home computer in basic and extended basic to play ah tunnels of doom my old friend now the question is whether i have a working cassette tape player to save my progress from necropraxis so there are memes out there lots and lots of memes here are just a few of them i am most definitely not a speedrunner i realize some people derive enjoyment from blasting through a game but that is most definitely not me from imgflip and this is why i don t have my show helm option selected if at all possible well also because a lot of helm artwork is pretty crappy from cheezburger this is one of the reasons why i m not a fan of this staple of the rpg genre and mmos in particular from reddit and speaking of staples why is it that the best item s in a video game tend to drop at the end you d think that you d want to find the best weapon in the game to then go and defeat the big bad from imgur thus starting my interest and eventual career in it posted by redbeard at 8 05 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday may 6 2023 musings on god mode and other pay to win items congrats to mage for winning the 149th kentucky derby sometimes you can t make these names up and as i teased my questing buddy alas there isn t a horse named druid i would totally name a horse warlock though was her reply although i m sure that some of my fellow bloggers you know who you are would disagree the original nintendo entertainment system came too late to draw my or my friends interest it released in the us the winter of my junior year of high school and i was far more interested in what video games were at the local arcade girls music and cars than a new game console imported from japan still my brother who is 2 5 years younger than me was more in the nes orbit he managed to scrounge enough money together while he was in college to purchase one 1990 and amassed quite a few games alas my brother had issues finishing some of the games he had so he eventually bit the bullet and bought a game genie to assist him in finishing those games you know this from wikipedia he once described what to me was a hilarious encounter with nintendo customer support about a game he was playing using said game genie and was experiencing a technical issue in the game we don t support those devices he was rather frostily told and then the customer support person hung up what the hell did you expect i told him i thought it was worth a try come on it s a device designed to cheat at the games by providing you with god mode why would they want to support anything like that i said it was worth a try i dropped my next bit of needling because i could see i was getting under his skin i was the more physically active of the two of us and while my dad rode me hard on improving at the sports i played he rode my brother even more for most definitely not being any good at sports so i m sure that insecurity fed into the 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