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ew of them on the blog itself you might not realize it but yeah they re there from memesmonkey com is there a trademark on blaugust one of these days i ought to find out 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 tuesday july 25 2023 all hail glorbo with ai driving content at places such as z league s the portal go read up on the glorbo prank here from ars technica i have been wondering whether you can set one ai against other ais bellular news take on the whole ai thing the tl dr of glorbo is that the portal uses ai to scrape reddit for content with ai created articles that push what the ai believes will increase pageviews to the portal several redditors created a fake world of warcraft expansion glorbo and began posting about the expac z league s ai picked up on those posts and began flooding the portal with a lot of glorbo related content only afterward did z league realize their ai s mistake and they had to correct all of those posts to identify them as satire and then later took down wow related content my thinking is that we could seed a second website with ai generated articles based off of the portal s content potentially supplemented by posting ai generated articles to reddit creating a feedback loop where the ai s basically feed off of each other in escalating content craziness if someone were to do this with ai generated art i m not exactly sure what might come out of it given the sameness a lot of the ai art from midjourney i suspect the human or humanlike art will give rise to an ai version of the hapsburg chin it s all an interesting exercise as long as said ai s don t become sentient and turn on us in revenge i suppose posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings wow monday july 24 2023 meme monday health memes okay if you can t laugh at yourself then i guess you re not me because we re gonna have some health memes today not healer memes but health memes i just finished the last of my mid year updates this time with the diabetes team and since they re happy with my progress i figured i d celebrate with a few health related memes yes it s okay to laugh at them permission granted that s one big problem with high blood pressure i take my evening s high blood pressure reading after i ve been gaming for a bit i m sure that also colors my opinions of group content from reddit i laughed at this because it is so true at least it s the case for someone my age from imgflip on those days when you have low blood sugar and you have to do something quick you kind of do look like a junkie hunting for munchies from imgflip and this is why you have to pay attention to source material when relatives try to be helpful and tell you about something about your health problems i read on the internet from quickmeme and finally it s not a meme or anything but i saw this when i was helping my son move into his apartment for grad school yes doughnuts stuffed with ice cream and yes this is outside the busken bakery commissary if the name busken sounds familiar it s in the song m a g e by nyhm waves hi dawn you know just in case you happen to be on this obscure little gamer blog on some weirdo corner of the internet 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 tuesday july 18 2023 i will gladly pay you tuesday one thing about wow classic era that i ve had to reacquaint myself with is just how poor a new player is in the game most mmos don t have this issue creating a new toon on lotro or swtor for example will have a person poor gold wise but they re still easily able to afford their training regular mats and their mounts yes even in swtor s original form where you could select the slicing profession and basically open lockboxes for free credits swtorclassic my time spent in age of conan had limitations of course but most centered around mandatory grouping once you got out of the starter zone other mmos i ve played extensively such as guild wars 2 elder scrolls online and wildstar also don t have gold or monetary issues sure there are other limitations to the games such as gear or weirdness surrounding the auction house i m looking at you eso but money has never really been a problem wow classic era however is an entirely different kettle of fish my first toon in vanilla classic azshandra was so poor that she didn t get enough gold for a riding mount until l47 ish and then i spent a lot of time fishing for lockboxes to open and sell the contents on the auction house before you ask no i didn t read gold making websites or watch any youtube videos about it because i wanted to experience vanilla classic without min maxing my way to a ton of gold besides i don t play video games to make a ton of virtual currency in the same way i don t work irl to amass a horde of cash progression raiding in vanilla classic did me no favors with my gold supply either as the costs involved keeping cardwyn raiding particularly through vanilla naxxramas where the potion flask requirements for raiding were fairly high also kept me gold poor i frequently found that scouring azeroth for the mats myself was far more cost effective than being cute and trying to play the auction house as if i was some junior investor for goldman sachs so when the time for tbc classic and my corresponding switch to the shaman briganaa happened i had little gold in reserve to afford mounts for her until well into outland fast forward toward the end of tbc classic and i d created cardwyn s clone deuce on atiesh us at first i thought that the ease of which i was able to acquire gold on a brand new toon on a new server had something to do with the knowledge i d acquired over the years of playing classic or maybe it had something to do with the population size however going back to classic era and creating yet another version of cardwyn has disabused me of either of those beliefs vanilla classic is simply designed to keep a person poor so they will keep going out in the world there i said it i mean it s not a big surprise the monetary rewards from quests are smaller the costs associated with class training and everything affiliated with mounts are higher and the failure rates at professions are also higher so all of that adds up to a player having to pick and choose what abilities to train and level along the way and if you select a profession such as oh enchanting or blacksmithing be prepared to shell out gold for enough mats to finish the grind to max profession level now there are some ways to generate gold that don t involve begging for gold in stormwind or orgrimmar yes that is very much a thing and they involve leveling a gathering profession herbalism and mining do come in handy but fishing does give a player a good bang for the buck in the long run i m sure i m not giving out any secrets when i say that there s a trick to gaining access to moonglade at a relatively low level if you re not a druid why moonglade you may ask because the mythical home of the druids and the cenarion circle is also the lowest level area where you can go fish up the raw nightfin snapper a cook can turn the snapper into the nightfin soup which is sought after by casters as a raiding buff which is in demand on the classic era auction house at the present the raw nightfin snapper is selling for about 6 gold per stack of 10 on the ah and the soup commands a higher amount for a stack of 5 you can put two and two together of course that s a pretty good gig for steady work the thing is there s only a few places around azeroth where you can fish for nightfin and there s the issue of having to fish for it between the hours of midnight and 6 am server time i mean it is in the name night fin by far the lowest level area is in moonglade which if you re not a druid is gated by having to run the gauntlet of tunnels commanded by the hostile timbermaw firbolg tribe while you can eventually build your reputation with them the firbolg are all roughly level 50 enemies and the entrance to the tunnels is deep in felwood a l48 l54 zone so if you don t want to roll up a druid you d either work on leveling a toon or get creative besides you re not old enough for the shenanigans at goldshire simba and wait why are they talking about goldshire already shouldn t simba have the talk first from imgflip that get creative means taking advantage of a glitch in the game where you enter into the low level zone of darkshore ride run walk all the way to the top of the zone which abuts moonglade s zone and swim north once you get far enough north you enter into moonglade s zone and there you die seriously once you die the graveyard you respawn at is moonglade s graveyard so if you ask the spirit healer to rez you and accept the resurrection sickness debuff you re smack in moonglade go get the flight point and you can fly to moonglade whenever you want to easy peasy so easy in fact it won t surprise you that i never used it ever yes i drove my questing buddy batty by never taking advantage of this cheat to start fishing nightfin at a much lower level but instead fished up oily blackmouth to sell at a much cheaper price biding my time until i got to a high enough level to fish up nightfin at another location this combined with me disenchanting every magic item in sight severely hampered my ability to accumulate gold for a long time why not take advantage of the glitch because it s a cheat sure it s technically in the game and no people haven t been banned or anything for it but to me it s against the spirit of the game in the same way that it s against the spirit of the game to farm mobs in maraudon or lower blackrock spire or zul gurub for boosting purposes if a friend asks me to run them through say deadmines i m more than happy to but i would never ask to have it done to any of my toons and if offered i m likely to refuse it s the same way why i won t go on heroic plus plus dungeon runs given the current meta is to simply run past the initial bosses allowing them to reset i was chatting with my questing buddy the other day and i saw via a dbm alert that she was fighting a boss a few seconds later there was a zarlie has wiped on xxx boss announcement ouch i responded sorry about that wipe it lies my questing buddy whispered what dbm it lies we ran right through the boss and it reset oh why do this strat because the badges people want and the loot people want only drop off the last boss there is literally no reason meta wise to do any of the other bosses and most of the trash so the bosses and as much of the trash as possible are skipped i mean at this point why even have the dungeon in place at all if people are simply going to skip to the end impressive clergyman have you the wing from imgflip com and why do i get the feeling i d despise mythic plus in retail if it involved a metric buttload of skips and bypasses ahem i digress where was i oh yes about gold in classic era when you re that starved for gold you have to be choosy about what abilities to train with when you level up you start with your primary attack abilities which for a frost mage those are frostbolt frost nova blizzard and cone of cold and then select a few other critical abilities to keep current and then let everything else slide so while the next rank of conjure food and conjure water may make the cut fire ward and frost ward will not on the original cardwyn i reached max level so far behind in a lot of my non critical spells that i spent my first 120 gold after reaching max level just catching up on a lot of these missing spell ranks this time around however i took the gains from my first few nightfin sales on the auction house and blew them all on catching up on my spell ranks all of them no it wasn t ideal by any stretch but it meant i had a full set of spells to work with such as oh mana shield which might save my bacon in the plaguelands it was only after my training was complete and that i was caught up did i save up enough gold for a riding mount but i haven t stopped there i realize that i m going to need enough gold to buy enough mats to finish tailoring and enchanting so my nightfin activities haven t stopped if i want an epic mount it s going to take a lot more fishing than what i ve accomplished so far so i m not in any hurry to get there maybe there s a purple kitty grind in my future but i ve already done that once not exactly the most fun thing in the world if you ask me but it is something that can t be skipped so there is that at least the starter zone tortage is still probably one of the best starter zones i ve ever encountered in an mmo i suppose that the reversion to a traditional mmo once you leave that starter zone not to mention the bugs was a huge part of the bait and switch impression i and a lot of other people felt the game gave to players this is a us specific issue because most of my relatives died with barely a penny to their name as their health declined the federal government would only step in and support their stay at a nursing home or a hospice for their final months after they had depleted all of their savings and the us healthcare system is perfectly happy to oblige in racking up fees and charges many of my relatives had a decent nest egg upon retirement so watching all of their savings being sucked dry by a medical community that is at times part savior and part leech was disheartening to say the least if nothing else the lesson i learned from it is that if you die make it quick so that the healthcare companies can t gain access to all of your money trying to level fast meant bypassing extra quests and other activities such as fishing or picking herbs that i could use to supplement brig s income when brig crossed the dark portal i had a total of 80 gold spread across all of my toons thank goodness for the ghost wolf form that a shaman has which allowed me to delay paying for a mount for quite a while that s in addition to never selling any magic items ever again you re always either keeping them to use holding onto them to use later or disenchanting them for mats to use for enchanting it s a grind that any enchanter has to pay eventually and in the case of the original cardwyn i paid it later after i reached l60 going back and running low level instances just to get magic items to disenchant wasn t exactly a lot of fun but at least i got to level weapon skills along the way there s a location in feralas that worked so card needed to only reach the mid l40s to safely fish there eta i corrected the grammar before posting but forgot to remove the in oopsie posted by redbeard at 8 05 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gold farming memes wow classic monday july 17 2023 meme monday relaxation memes one of 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