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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 shatter that goal in a grand total of 3 minutes as of 1 32 pm est the definitive edition is definitely aiming toward the fans of the game with an elaborate slipcase cover that holds the core rulebook a reference guide a storyguide screen and a poster map of mythic europe the physical edition isn t cheap at 150 but a digital only version of the core rulebook is 40 and a bit more practical if you re trying to save money yes the rules are exactly the same as that found in the current 5th edition of ars magica but the layout has been reworked and all of the extra rules scattered across all the supplements have been incorporated into this version of the core rulebook throw in the new artwork and layout and well here s hoping that the reorganized 5th edition rules explain the game better because if you want to grow the game you have to get people involved and up to speed on all the details as for me taking the mythic europe setting and the ars magica rules and creating a rules lite version using say fate would be absolutely awesome as i ve gotten older i prefer a more free wheeling type of game can t you tell i was informed by my wife that music releases have moved from tuesday to friday close to a decade ago and given that she works at target she ought to know this sort of thing i m not that plugged into music release dates anymore since i rarely buy music when it first comes out and i d rather support smaller or local artists aha found it that value is a conversion to us dollars from a backing goal of 100 000 tender lovin care eta added in the source of the 130 549 goal eta helps if i include the link to the backerkit project for ars magica definitive edition posted by redbeard at 1 57 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ars magica crowdfunding discworld monday october 14 2024 meme monday weekend warrior memes i spent some time working on the deck the past few weekends and that push has gotten me to thinking about people who tackle projects on the weekends and evenings for a variety of different reasons and that naturally led me to memes about this when you ve got a project you don t think in terms of having the weekend off from the nfl this was me last night and i think it carried over to today still i m not a morning person per se so this may be normal from corporatebish and cheezburger okay i ll admit it i put this one here for the knight rider gif from yarn and knight rider naturally but the really bad part about being a weekend warrior is that mondays bring no comfort from cheezburger 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 wednesday october 9 2024 and here i thought it was lester s imprint a week ago this short video about judy lynn del rey from the pbs show american masters was put on youtube if you look at my bookshelf you d see del rey books represented all over the place many of my favorite sf f authors wrote for del rey so i thought i knew the imprint pretty well uh nope i always thought it was lester that was the dominant factor in the imprint but it turns out it was his wife judy lynn instead maybe del rey was called that because of lester s name but judy lynn made it the force it was back in the 80s and early 90s there were some novels that i ordinarily would have passed on but picked up back then because of that del rey imprint such as barbara hambly s those who hunt the night i don t think i can be blindly loyal to a publisher like that anymore but i did enjoy those novels far more often than not still it s a fascinating bit of sf f history about a woman who made her mark in genres i loved posted by redbeard at 10 30 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels f sf videos monday october 7 2024 meme monday 90s memes yeah i was on a 70s kick for a while and i ve some posts cooking that will result from that but i ve been listening to music from the late 90s the past few days help i have fly by sugar ray in my head and i can t get it out it seems that the tunes that i ve been reminiscing about have been happier ones i m aware that it s the rose colored glasses effect but the music took a darker turn after 9 11 in the same way that grunge ushered in a more depressing tone in music after the late 80s pop and hair metal or it could be just nirvana rage against the machine and alice in chains so here s some 90s memes for people who need to remember a time when the internet was young or felt young and innocent yes that is dwayne the rock johnson from imgflip ah yes before viral videos there was bob saget showing us people doing stupid things on their own video recordings from imgflip and throwbacks com friends is 30 years old as of this fall for reference seeing it on television now is like seeing gilligan s island on television back in the mid 90s from odetoclassy i have this exact model of portable cd player it was part of a combo cd player cassette adapter for the car and foam earphones that my parents got me for christmas one year i used it all the time to play cds in the car during my commute from the west side of cincinnati to the east side where i worked no i never had pants so large that i would consider putting the player in there from thegamer this is more of an 80s thing but cassettes were still going strong in the early 90s 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