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riding has gotten and continues to get it s pretty obvious it s a core part of retail s experience right now if you told me that the crafting orders system is also from a wow themed mobile game i d believe that one as well i could easily see a wow dragonriding mobile game with crafting orders being a way to improve your dragon and provide an impetus for microtransactions as for the change in tone well people have been complaining about the ever increasing power of the big bads in retail wow and dragonflight at least at first seemed like a bit of a soft reset in that area if the retail community in general is conditioned to fight the big bad that the previous big bad was scared of then dragonflight definitely can be off putting but hey if nothing else this little kernel of something from 4chan got me interested enough to post about it i would set it up and let it run overnight and check in the morning i m pretty sure that if i say his name three times like beetlejuice he ll appear and tell me that i m an idiot for liking an old version of the game so i m going to keep my mouth shut in that regard at least gevlon won t suddenly appear and rain on everybody s parade since we re all slackers to him posted by redbeard at 3 19 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard musings wow wow classic wow hardcore monday september 25 2023 meme monday rite of passage memes my youngest and i share music on a regular basis i ll send her an email with a few pieces of music that i like and she returns the favor this whole thing began with a text from her having recently discovered stevie ray vaughan from one of her classes and i used the opportunity to pull out various versions of jimi hendrix little wing so that we could compare the different interpretations of the same song it has since snowballed into a wide variety of pieces covering a lot of different genres over the weekend we had another exchange which was inspired by russ ballard hmm another subject of a post in the future but my first exposure to russ ballard was when i got my first boom box yes this exact model why we got it via the catalog and not from a sears store is because it cost 149 at the store screenshot taken from the 1984 sears spring summer catalog getting your first stereo whether it s a boom box or an all in one shelf system was a rite of passage for a teenage boy back in the day i realize that getting your driver s license and your first car was probably higher on people s bucket list but before you could get that you likely got your first boom box first so in honor of that first boom box i present some memes about rites of passage and it must be said that with the how tight shorts were back then roasting your nuts is pretty damn accurate from reddit well yeah been there and i don t feel bad about it either from getyarn and lucifer pretty self explanatory i just realized that for an entire generation of kids emma watson was their first crush in the same way that carrie fisher was for mine from starecat com and the hp movies and of course in florida the rites of passage are a wee bit different from memedroid via youtube i don t subscribe to a music streaming service although i guess it could be argued that our membership in our local public radio stations entitles me to stream their stations guilt free and that way i even get access to their hd2 station a jazz format without having to purchase an hd radio here s the original and then in the 80s recorded at roughly the same time is the version by sting branford marsalis and gil evans from sting s nothing like the sun album and stevie ray vaughan s version from the legacy edition of couldn t stand the weather posted by redbeard at 8 54 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes music tuesday september 19 2023 observed on a tuesday evening i haven t been around for the traditional time for buffs to drop in classic era until now it s been a while and of course i had to open my mouth too the excitement was palpable and the festive atmosphere was something i really missed when tbc classic and wrath classic came along sure it s part of the meta but the buffs dropping in stormwind orgrimmar and booty bay are just the beginning of raid night for people and for everybody involved there s hope of a good evening spent raiding it s just one of those shared experiences that got whittled away as the expansions went on in world of warcraft so i m glad to be back for these once more am i raiding tonight oh hell no but am i enjoying myself hell yes and really that s all that matters posted by redbeard at 8 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels buffs classic era monday september 18 2023 meme monday autumn memes because in the northern hemisphere we are closing in on the autumnal equinox i figured i d beat the rush and create some autumn memes whether or not they re gaming related that s why i always thought we called it fall of course the nuns hated that term and instead required us to write autumn instead from memes com of course my questing buddy lives in the nevada desert so this doesn t necessarily apply to her from ruinmyweek an apropos name for this phenomenon if there ever was one it s time for the hunt for a red s october and here s hoping the cincinnati reds pull off the improbable and make the mlb playoffs from reddit isn t this a requirement in a lot of romantic comedies from themetapicture and two bonus memes more time for gaming from imgflip and right now it s mid upper 70s 24 c i can feel this from buzzfeed but it s dami lee september 23 at 2 49 am est if you want to know posted by redbeard at 2 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday september 14 2023 to chase or not to chase i have a cousin who writes for a video game site none of the ones in mmo space in case you re wondering and back in 2015 the pageviews frequently reached the 50 000 100 000 mark given the average pageview of an mmo blog is measured by a much smaller number and pc in particular seems to have a relatively loyal audience of 30 40 people i was curious about how the site he writes for got that big i don t know he said we just write about what people want and we promote ourselves a bit and things just took off in 2015 that meant mobas and console games but still the sheer size of pageviews caught my attention and really if i thought that was big i hadn t seen anything yet i d been reading up a bit lately on influencers and influencer culture because i ve been trying to understand the appeal that influencers draw upon they aren t celebrities in the purest sense but some of them have become de facto celebrities in their own right they have their own followers and detractors i mean look at asmongold for one obvious example but a lot of the influencers well influence comes from being perceived as a source of trust truth is somewhat malleable depending on the influencer but trust is the engine of the influencing process you don t even have to trust in what the influencer says to put it another way but you have to trust that you ll be entertained in some manner quite a few people may put eyeballs on controversial influencers not because they believe in what bill of goods they re being sold but because the influencer can pull on their emotions that s why love him or hate him people watch asmongold s videos if you didn t give a whoop about him you d not be watching but i think one thing that my cousin mentioned about writing what people want is highly important in an age of ai generated posts based on what will generate the most clicks finding what people want isn t exactly rocket science the blandness that permeates most ai created written content however will turn people off i know i don t like anything that resembles a poorly written technical manual no matter how tailored the content is toward my interests and i work in it what my cousin missed was that it s more than just promotion and writing relevant content but writing relevant content that people enjoy reading it s that human element the writer s voice that will keep people interested and coming back for more yes there s a lightning in a bottle aspect to some website or person hitting it big but that emotive element has to come from somewhere and once people know they can expect you to provide that element that s when you ve got them sounds easy right heh if you ve ever tried to make creative content before you know how hard it can be or how much self doubt can cripple you i can actually speak to this with some experience here given that pc is pretty long in the tooth as far as continuously active creative content goes so if you think i can look at the success of my cousin or others and only feel jealousy you re sadly mistaken i have a lot of respect for what they accomplished and i realize that what they ve been able to do does come at a cost my determination to do things my own way is a reflection on what i feel the personal and professional cost might be if i decided to start chasing clicks and generate content at a level i don t feel comfortable with and with a personal slant i disagree with and those that actually can pull that off and generate eyeballs my hat s off to them for what they ve accomplished not my place to say which one because he goes by a pseudonym sadly mmos were not on the radar that would have been in 2005 rather than 2015 but the book that kicked off this interest is influencer by brittany hennessy for the time being anyway eta corrected the posted by redbeard at 8 55 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging musings monday september 11 2023 meme monday comics memes i figured that i had these comic strips saved for the right time but the right time never seemed to appear so let s do a meme monday for these rpg and mmo related comics i don t have the original comic strip cut out from the newspaper but i have the paperback collection of the far side that this comes from from gary larson the far side oh this cuts close to home i d be all over excalibur for an rp weapon but if i had to fight i d go with the min maxer here which i really hate myself for doing that but i m honest from nerfnow com my recently concluded 20 year campaign had me playing as a cleric of zeus so a spear and greek robes but i feel this from rpgenerations and finally as both a tolkien fan and an rpger this is hilarious from travis hanson s life of the party 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 september 10 2023 sunday musings on the wow hardcore servers after having spewed out content on a daily basis in august i took this week off work had something to do with it as well since i have some big meetings coming up and with yet another new platterful of stuff to work on still thoughts about games and whatnot haven t been too far from my mind mainly what do i think of the hardcore wow servers okay let me get this out of the way early i have already made peace with the likelihood that my toon is going to die i mean i even named her deathwyn and instead of long black hair she has short blonde hair the polar opposite of ol card there ya go same blue eyes tho the playstyle is exactly as it was for vanilla classic and classic era so me playing on era servers for the past 8 months it has been a smooth transition but beyond that i play like i did when i first played on stormscale us all those years ago in a nutshell i play in a similar fashion to how i ve always done but since stormscale was a pvp server i learned very early to have my head on a swivel and always take into account any and all potential threats see a bear waaay over there i m killing that before i attack the mobs i was here to kill i m not taking any chances in a normal situation i might just kind of wing it until said bear is a bit closer but i m not messing around on the hardcore servers in the same way as what i learned during my first exposure in hillsbrad on a pvp server you can t take anything for granted i m already looking ahead to what instances might look like normally as an alliance player i d expect to enter into the deadmines as maybe l18 or l19 i d even accept grouping up with an l17 as long as they knew to not overpull several months ago when era cardwyn was starting out we even took an l14 and got most of the way through until we got to the boat on these hardcore servers i think l21 22 minimum is a safer bet for everyone involved and if someone wants to be an idiot and take a severely underleveled toon into that place go ahead i m not coming along and i m fine with that to be honest i can get away with that because a lot of the decent gear a leveling frost mage has are the items that they can make via tailoring i m used to playing conservatively so hardcore servers just make me slow down even more and i don t even bother with baddies like murloc packs or gnolls in westfall because i know that 2 3 coming after me is a recipe for death so it s much smarter for me to relax pull back and make like predators on the serengeti hit the isolated and weak ones outside of that mental adjustment the vibe from the hc servers isn t as bad as it was when the hardcore challenge was merely an app sure it can get crowded but it s not terrible the phasing has helped a ton with this and without people being able to run boosts and whatnot or try to do anything vaguely resembling a gdkp run there s a dearth of bots and whatnot those few bots i ve seen out in the wild they tend to have junk names that don t mean anything at all have died pretty early in the leveling process one thing that hasn t changed the idiotic arguments in trade chat for example i left stormwind the second day i logged in because people were arguing over what shorthand to call dire maul versus the deadmines both can use dm hence the bitching but as i pointed out before i left there s probably only a handful of people on the hardcore servers who could even enter into dire maul so there s absolutely no reason to fight when for 99 of hardcore server players dire maul isn t even an option so not everything is hunky dory in hardcore land but that s fine it s an engaging diversion from when i m playing era but not something i m going to go all in on i think oh and i d be remiss if i didn t give a shout out to atheren who managed to track me down already on skull rock us and send me some health potions and some bags they have been much appreciated even though i ve been mainly stockpiling the potions for emergencies one day i missed because i miscounted and thought i d already posted but i made up for it by posting twice in the next day said l14 told us they 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