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ukee the irony of seeing this in our current political climate wasn t lost on me on tuesday i spent some time over at my mom s house because her hot water heater has begun leaking which is a good sign that the 20 year old heater has finally rusted through and needs replacement i ve had to argue with her about the immediate need to call a plumber to get this replaced asap because you don t want a catastrophic failure and have 40 gallons of water on your floor then yesterday i attended the funeral of one of my brother s in laws it rather understandably got me thinking quite a bit about mortality afterward it also brought up the very real question about what happens to our games and our characters when we die i have a few boardgames that are difficult to find these days such as avalon hill s old civilization and advanced civilization game and i ve taken care of the game to make sure it doesn t fall apart but what happens to it when i die will it end up in a landfill somewhere like what happened to my grandfather s stamp collection or in terms of video games who gains access to them when i m gone more than likely they ll vanish as well given that someone else would have to take ownership of my steam account and other accounts such as my battle net account orcish army knife may be gone but rades old toons are still present in puggers anonymous as of october 31 2025 as you can see above i logged into og balthan just to check to make sure rades old toons are present i guess they ll remain until microsoft purges accounts from battle net for inactivity but i m certainly not removing them another reason for thinking about mortality and what happens to things after you die is all of those books that came out decades ago but are no longer published the most obvious example i can think of david eddings belgariad which i never see anymore but there s also other authors who published books in the 70s 80s and 90s that are now hard to find i m thinking of works by barbara hambly janny wurts katherine kerr and katherine kurtz even older classics such as fritz leiber s fafhrd and grey mouser books are long out of print i suppose you could go the ebook route but you don t actually own those books and ebook publishers have shown an inclination to simply yank books away from you whenever they feel like it oh well just another thing to brood on i guess he died of a brain tumor at the relatively young age of 44 my mom and her siblings thought it would be worth something but after consulting with a couple of experts on the collection the result was that the collection wasn t worth much of anything it was merely my grandfather s obsession and that was all it was really worth posted by redbeard at 1 57 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love self wow classic anniversary tuesday september 2 2025 a short post mortem well i pulled off another not quite a blaugust blaugust no signups no fanfare no topics just writing for 31 days things turned out better than i expected i didn t have any real annoyances that kept me posting multiple times a month nothing earth or azeroth shattering really just the usual stuff so i just kind of leaned into my various interests to keep the posts coming oh and i got some fiction written along the way too nothing ready for posting yet but stuff that s been needing to get done and i ll be sending drafts along to my beta readers for feedback soon it felt good to get this past month s posts done especially getting the radio stuff off of my back i d been thinking about it for a while but shintar gave me the impetus to finally write it up and post that part of my past i ve got other topics that i can write about that are geeky in nature but not strictly gaming related so those might begin to make an appearance here as well nothing quite as fascinating as wilhelm arcturus posts about his employment history with telecom that s for sure but they re something to get off my chest speaking of things to get off of my chest from ebay of course my old 1989 who concert t shirt has likely bit the dust i no longer fit into it anyway it was an xl and i now wear a 2xl size but i d been using it as a shirt i wore when i painted rooms in my great aunt s house back in the early 90s so it had splatters of paint all over it i recently became curious whether some enterprising soul likely the who s management had decided to reprint old concert t shirts and i came across this entry in ebay i suspect that they re knock offs of the originals but the shirts do look correct at first glance i mean it d be nice to have a reprint to wear around the house again no i m not wearing it to paint or work on the car or something but i won t be torn up about it if i don t manage to find one now i need to find some old d d t shirts from the 80s i saw them in cleveland on july 19th and the story behind that road trip is worthy of a post blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 music musings self sunday august 24 2025 time marches on my wife and i met our son and his partner for lunch today at our local bookstore and afterward we wandered the stacks i espied a few boardgames that the store had for sale and i immediately felt a bit wistful it reminded me that the first boardgame store i visited here boardwalk hobby shop had closed during the pandemic the owners had decided to retire and like i said in a previous post i couldn t begrudge them that the day before i was out as an advanced scouting party for getting my youngest a new laptop as her current one is far too old and slow to handle windows 11 and i needed to reacquaint myself with how the various brands and models handled naturally i went to microcenter and afterward i stopped by my nearby friendly local game store flgs yottaquest i wasn t there to buy anything because laptop you know but it was good to simply roam the store and watch the steady flow of customers into the place those included a couple easily old enough to be my parents and they weren t there just because their grandkids wanted to visit but to actually buy something themselves i took this pic last fall when there were leaves everywhere even on a nose or two time marches on but i hope that some things continue such as good bookstores and game stores having spent the last 12 years buying laptops for the kids i ve seen a lot of trends such as the decline of hp in terms of quality holy hell are those laptops flimsy and the rise of acer as a viable brand i remember when acer s aspire line used to be nicknamed expire because of how poorly powered and built they were but hp has certainly passed them on the way to the bottom in terms of consumer grade stuff i still refuse to touch dell because of my own personal experience with the brand courtesy of a work laptop that refused to have it s fan spin unless it sat perfectly flat tilt it just a hair and the fan would simply stop working and i won t get into the overheating problems with that laptop either that was my experience as a kid when i d drag my grandparents to a video game arcade or a bookstore blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 3 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 boardgames books family musings self saturday august 16 2025 what goes around 1982 was a bit of a seminal year for me the 1981 1982 school year was my 7th grade i was knee deep in puberty i d been playing d d since the fall of 1981 and i d dove headfirst into reading science fiction and fantasy beyond just lord of the rings movies from 1982 still rank among my favorites star trek the wrath of khan conan the barbarian mad max the road warrior rocky 3 and fast times at ridgemont high i was a year away from discovering metal but the popular songs of 1982 are still lodged in my head all these years later among some of the big hits of the year such as i love rock and roll and eye of the tiger was a song from a studio band called the alan parsons project it got up to 3 on the charts in the us higher than i thought it did to be honest but after that it kind of faded from view except for the fans of the band and their concept albums i always liked the song as i could tell it was a bit deeper lyrically than the average pop song of the era but i never got the album to find out how it fit into the larger sonic picture a couple of years later the intro piece to eye in the sky sirius began being used as the introduction music to the nba s chicago bulls games sirius became synonymous with the michael jordan era of the chicago bulls so that when they hear that synthesizer intro basketball fans immediately think of 23 i find it surprising that decades later people have rediscovered the alan parsons project through reaction videos and much to their surprise that alan parsons is that guy who wrote the chicago bulls theme for some reason the official channel never put these two songs together as they ought it s been 43 years since this song came out so i guess that it s time for newer generations to rediscover the music of the past just like how my generation rediscovered the big bands of the 30s and 40s sorry i don t like e t more of a reaction to how popular it was than anything else and i didn t really care for tron the thing wasn t my type of movie so i never watched it and i didn t really watch blade runner all the way through yes i know the album was released in 1981 but the song was released in 1982 so it counts in my book i could just as easily have chosen rock the casbah or jack and diane to fill in this spot but some 8th grade girls used to play i love rock and roll all the time during lunch and recess looking back on it i m still amazed the nuns let them get away with it eta corrected some grammar blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 1 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 music self tuesday august 12 2025 when you re too meh for a midlife crisis i sometimes wonder what my midlife crisis would look like yes before you point out that i m north of 50 so i technically should have had my midlife crisis a decade or more ago i m aware of that but i also know i didn t really have a midlife crisis either so would it be a fast car like this mercedes i discovered at my son s apartment parking lot when we picked him and his partner up for gen con it was so out of place compared to all of the rest of the cars in the parking lot fun fact i looked up the price online and it costs close to what our current house cost back in 2002 nah if i had my choice of car it d likely be something from the mid 90s to the mid 2000s although i d not say no to a mid 80s ford mustang or pontiac firebird these were made locally until mid 1987 the thing is that era of cars are in high demand from people my age or a little older so even the thought of buying one to try to fix it up is kind of cost prohibitive the pricing bubble has also afflicted another hobby of mine audio because i d like to have picked up an older 1970s era receiver but again a ton of people my age have gone into that and driven up the prices such as this pioneer sx 780 made in 1980 the manufacturing run was 1978 1980 from oleg s vintage audio then again my trusty old nad t751 receiver could stand a cleaning and repair job so maybe it s for the best to stick with the nad and my pioneer vsx 2000 that is still chugging away in the basement or i could go the route of a friend of mine and start up an ad d campaign of my own such as module s3 expedition to the barrier peaks from ebay but i m happy playing in his campaign at the moment no sense in stealing his thunder maybe i could just take that period of my life when i actually did progression raiding in vanilla classic and say that is my midlife crisis and then we ll call it a day that s 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