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the theater i kind of miss the days when the worst thing you had to deal with in a theater is the people near you making out or otherwise fooling around 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 march 24 2024 we ve been through death and life together oh we won t give in let s go living in the past living in the past jethro tull the longer i ve delved into the past the more i ve come to the conclusion that the present day is the best place for me that s not how i expected a medieval prostate exam to look like from memebase that s not to say that i don t find the study of history and archaeology fascinating but rather an acknowledgement that if i were born at most other periods in the past i would have likely not lived to adulthood that doesn t take into account all the times that i developed bronchitis or strep throat but the earliest major illness i had was scarlet fever when i was about 4 or so were it not for antibiotics i would have likely died from it that s just the most obvious instance of an illness that required a dosage of antibiotics to survive and really any of the dozens of illnesses requiring amoxicillin or an actual shot of penicillin could have killed me but scarlet fever was the earliest and likely worst illness of the lot i was also a curious kid and i broke my collarbone when i was 2 when i fell down the stairs i was one of those kids who was able to unlock multiple locks driving my parents crazy and i did so on that fateful day when i slipped and rolled down the steps landing on the concrete basement floor if you took those antics and transported them into oh 16th century english farmland i would have been the sort to provoke a horse and get kicked in the head or fall in a pond and drown even if i didn t actually die from doing anything stupid if i had merely broken my collarbone it would have potentially maimed me for life after all a physician would have had to set it properly and restrain it so that it would heal and without an x ray people might not even believe that i had a broken bone since it wasn t something obvious such as an arm or a leg and being two years old it s not like i was able to sufficiently articulate what was wrong with me aside from it hurts myself aside my wife would have likely died during the birth of our first child due to a medical condition that was easily solvable today but would have likely proven fatal only 140 years ago and that s not even counting issues with infection and disease that accompanied childbirth because doctors couldn t be bothered to wash their fucking hands why those gloomy thoughts well i was thinking about long term survivability in the past and how it fed into people s religious beliefs a furore normannorum libera nos domine an 8th century prayer i think it is difficult to understand just how much terror the vikings struck in the populace of europe because we have no modern equivalent in the us and western europe in a similar fashion the recent global pandemic is but a faint echo of the black death of the 14th century in terms of death it wasn t even as bad as the 1918 1920 flu and we have modern medicine to thank for that but when death is omnipresent it can affect your view toward the world with so many people dying around you what do the survivors cling to do they adhere to the straight and narrow of their religious practices do they change their worship because their god s obviously abandoned them or does their old societal structure break down due to so few survivors i don t have the answers here because i don t have enough exposure to psychology to speculate properly what i do know is that in the past the fear of hunger especially during the winter months was very much in the forefront people s minds when you re laser focused on one thing it can be difficult to appreciate the beauty of small things a couple of months ago i was up earlier than usual for some reason or another so i made some coffee and sat in the kitchen looking outside as the sunlight kissed the frosty yard i was struck then at how beautiful the morning was but if you had other things on your mind you would have missed it and worrying about such things as the amount of grain you have left in your stores or whether that smoke you see in the distance are viking raiders would probably qualify as other things on your mind nuff said but let s turn this thought exercise on its head and focus on life instead what would be the impact on a society where people could be brought back from the dead that core mechanic of rpgs both pencil and paper and video games is used primarily to keep a game going forward without having to create new characters on a regular basis but how would society change if death wasn t something to be truly feared since you could be brought back or maybe more precisely you could be brought back if you had enough money think about the implications of that little chestnut where the rich and powerful could pay to be resurrected on an ongoing basis does that mean they could live forever and what does that mean to the mass of people who couldn t afford to be raised from the dead how does religion respond to that religions today have enough trouble explaining why some good people are saved when others who are just as good aren t so it s not a big leap imagining priests struggling to explain that while some people are worthy of being raised from the dead the rest of you heathens aren t religion as the opiate of the people indeed monty python poked fun at the unexpected side effects of being healed in the movie monty python s life of brian then again in most rpgs deities and pantheons are not only present but actively so in the world they grant their priests the ability to cure and smite in return for following their teachings but what do those deities think of the grifting performed by their priests in their name or in the case of world of warcraft why does the holy light allow such fanatics as the scarlet crusade to wield the power of the light against obviously good people who merely disagree with them i guess those are questions that can t be answered without going deep down the rabbit hole and to be fair trying to retrofit these obvious gaps into an already extant game is the path to madness anyway and let s be honest here if you ve ever had an actual shot of penicillin in the ass you know it hurts my pediatrician said the shot needed to be done where there s a lot of meat on you and i guess my ass qualified but damn i dreaded those shots the sharp smell of alcohol the harsh rubbing of soaked cotton on skin and i knew what was coming if i could have ran i would have but in those times i was too sick to squirm away but those shots hurt like hell and when i heard what the cure for rabies was 20 shots in the stomach or 5 in the arm that encouraged me to avoid all wild animals as much as possible assuming my ancestors could even afford a horse since the peasantry could rarely afford to do so themselves i m not so foolish as to think that my ancestors were merchants or nobles given that there were far fewer of those two groups than there were of the peasantry i ve seen enough census records of my ancestors to know that most of them fell under the broad job description of laborer which is not the sort of thing you put down for someone whose family came from a higher social status translated from latin it means from the wrath of the northmen save us o god posted by redbeard at 3 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings monday march 18 2024 meme monday thirsty rpg memes no i don t mean memes designed by the hydro homies subreddit either my poking around in baldur s gate 3 has made me wonder a bit about just how horny is everybody out there i mean i get it that you re young and whatnot but more than once i ve watched a cutscene in an mmo or rpg and thought just how much of this is wish fulfillment no it wasn t a fluke kira wait just a minute you could have said something you know thankfully i began playing bg3 after there was a hotfix to get some of the npcs to uh not get so horny for you so quickly to which i thought holy crap it was even faster earlier i m going to have to go in the direction of assuming that a lot of these romances and whatnot are primarily wish fulfillment and they just get hornier quicker and that i wasn t hanging out with an extremely slow moving and prudish crowd in my teenage college years still rpgs and mmos do now have their share of very thirsty npcs these days to match the horny pcs so in honor of all this thirstiness in the genres here s a selection of memes on the topic you know the paladin doesn t have to be the thirsty one from dndmemes yeah that escalated quickly from animalnouncomics well if you ever wondered where dragonkin really came from from demotivational i think well that certainly explains elminster s interest in things no not in bg3 specifically yet but due to reputation courtesy of ed greenwood s copious novels about the forgotten realms from imgflip and one bonus meme for the perpetually thirsty you see moss description was the perception of what rpgs were to the people who didn t play trying to convince some dms to actually not inject tons of sex into their campaigns is the challenge i ve experienced from cheezburger and the it crowd posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday march 15 2024 point of reference if there s one game that i play more than any other it s sid meier s civilization iv what you expected an mmo wow maybe oh no not by a long shot a rare cultural victory for me from back in may 2022 i don t save a lot of screencaps but since i almost always win a space race this was a notable exception i bought the game around 2009 or so which honestly works as a counterpoint to wow and i ended up re purchasing the game on steam a couple of years ago when it was down to 4 or so on one of those winter or summer sales my reasoning was that i d already gotten my money s worth out of the original game and i knew that in order to install it on this new pc i d have to go buy a portable dvd drive so it kind of made sense to save a few dollars and just buy the game off of steam instead having played the original civ back in the day and then civ iii for several years i knew what i was getting into still even i was surprised at how much i preferred civ iv to civ iii i don t think i ve even bothered to try to install civ iii on this pc and even though i dabble a bit in civ v and civ vi i always return to civ iv just how much uh whoops that little graphic is from my 2023 year in review from steam that s roughly half of the year i played civ iv because some of those sessions went kind of long it s the sort of game where i can play for a bit go away and do something else for a while and then return to the same session while it s been patiently waiting for me in the background unlike it s brethren and other civ sim games a match of vanilla civ iv can be cranked out in about 3 hours or less depending on how wars develop and my need to micromanage city building and development it s when you add systems such as found in civ iv warlords or civ iv beyond the sword do the civ iv matches really start extending in length i guess for immersion those later iterations of the game are better but i prefer vanilla civ iv for the overall simplicity and balance i ve gotten to the point where i can play for about 5 10 minutes and immediately decide whether it s worth it to continue a game or start over something i can t really do in the latter two for a bit longer and don t tell sid meier this but the ai in civ iv is kind of predictable and brainless so i can switch my own brain off for a bit while playing that is especially useful during lunch where i can hop on and play for an hour or so and try to forget anything stressful in the morning so if you ever wonder if i spend all my time in wow or other mmos i guess you ll understand that is simply not the case hell i don t even spend the majority of my video game playing in wow but rather in a turn based civ builder game from 2005 just a guess really no idea as to the exact year posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels self sid meier s civilization wednesday march 13 2024 behind the curve my son informed me the other week that he d finished baldur s gate 3 considering that after that first week s worth of excessive playing my time in bg3 had shrunk to practically nothing for a month i guess i shouldn t be surprised i m not into rushing into new content when an mmo expansion hits but that initial week s worth playing bg3 gave me enough dopamine hits that i could understand the urge to keep playing when i realized i was eschewing work to play bg3 i had to dial it back for my own sanity and to keep my job but that kind of goes without saying my son didn t have those issues since he was able to fit in most of bg3 before his current semester of grad school started and more power to him for that i m not going to lie and say i was totally fine with all this i felt a pang of jealousy at how he cruised through the game while i m plodding along it s not as if i m savoring the game either at times it feels like when i was speed leveling that draenei shaman when tbc classic came out i m constantly plotting my next move and trying to figure out how to progress further through the story yes my mmo playing is at exactly the opposite inflection point from where i am playing a single player rpg you could say that i m playing baldur s gate 3 like other people play world of warcraft and you d not be wrong it s the equivalent of reading a really exciting novel the pages fly by and you want to get on to the next part just to see what happens i get that i really do but i think that i need to be reminded of that from time to time that people who blitz through content aren t doing it just to get it over with but genuinely like the content so much that they re constantly turning that next page to find out what happens i guess i get cynical about things when like in tbc classic everybody was supposed to follow a playbook to get themselves raid ready as soon as possible i thought it was only my guild that did that because a few people i met out in outland while leveling had completely different and better experiences with their guilds in terms of pacing and prepping for raids however on further reflection those better experiences had more to do with helping their own leveling shamans to get leveled and not abandoning them to their fate when the dark portal opened those guilds while more helpful to their shamanistic and blood knight brethren still had goals to achieve and 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