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tholme heroic dungeon we get there otherwise nobody sweats it out the lack of defined purpose is key because we aren t there for a specifically defined metagame reason these runs are enjoyable that i am just an anonymous pugger from a leveling guild with hardly anybody left on the server neve or a small friends guild in a large server linna 2 0 i can relax the major raiding guilds all keep to themselves on atiesh us and myzrael us is small enough that everybody has to band together to keep a pugging community alive so i find that when i set aside my raiding life placing it in a compartmentalized box i ve found my time spent being anonymous to be enjoyable the elementary school started at 8 30 am whereas the middle school began at 7 30 this was to accommodate the bus schedules like a lot of school districts in the us ours had to deal with a lot of voters who believed in the lean and mean style of school district financial management so schools had to make do with as few busses as possible that meant adjusting school start times to get the most out of as few busses as possible and with ulduar opening up on january 19th joyous journeys ending on the 16th seems very appropriate posted by redbeard at 4 34 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings pugs wrath classic monday january 9 2023 meme monday post holiday blues memes once you make it through the running of the holiday gauntlet there s this stretch before valentine s day and then another long stretch before spring arrives if you re in my part of the country you re not going to see the sun very much during that time it s just a fact of life that sad creeps in for a significant chunk of the population so here s some memes to cheer people up uh i tried my hand at tanking so i can appreciate this even more than before from shaneplays com gnomes just gnomes from shaneplays com again this hits a wee bit too close to home if you ask me from dnd_memes1 if i d have seen that on the road at night time i d have likely had a heart attack from reddit posted by redbeard at 8 40 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday january 6 2023 alas pandora s box has already been opened there are times when i wonder whether the old adage about necessity being the mother of invention is actually a good thing after all look at some of the designs behind monetization in video games and i wonder just whose necessity is behind those creations surely not the players necessity and certainly not the developers necessity either i suppose you could argue that those designs were created for the necessity of the investors so that the companies could make larger profits off of video games but is that good for the long term health of the industry note that i said industry not the companies i m absolutely certain that video game companies particularly the aaa game companies are more profitable because of the monetization techniques that rely heavily on psychological manipulation that however doesn t mean that the industry itself is healthy if nothing else you could argue that by creating addictive responses to the monetization techniques the video game companies have figured out how to adapt the same tricks used in the illegal drug trade for their own profits it just doesn t sound the same and it would probably work as well as the original just say no campaign too original photo from usa today given that grand theft auto v exists i d imagine my comparison of the aaa video game companies to drug cartels isn t something that those companies really are concerned about additionally the embrace of gambling mechanics by the video game industry may sound bad to most of us until you realize that gambling is a fact of life among sports leagues just look at how many teams in the premier league are sponsored by gambling outlets or the embrace of the nfl and other american sports leagues by formalized gambling and you realize that the stigma of gambling mechanics is likely considered a good thing by many investors photograph from this article by the guardian by shutterstock getty but you know what suffers the games themselves in the same way that tobacco industry executives and insiders considered cigarettes to be nicotine delivery devices i have to wonder whether the aaa game companies consider their products video games to be microtransaction delivery devices certainly the games themselves have suffered a bit in terms of quality as if the games themselves aren t the most important part of the development process to that end josh strife hayes created a video that touched a nerve with me hayes box of abusive monetization strategies or pandora s box of bad design pretty much encapsulates all of the practices that people dislike about video games today and i suppose just like the original pandora s box you can t put those items back and lock them away now that they ve made their way into game design a game developer can choose to not utilize them or a video game player can choose to not purchase games that contain the box s contents me i tend to wait for everything that was going to be released is released and then wait for it to go on sale via steam before i buy a game some games are perpetually updated such as paradox games offerings europa universalis iv and stellaris to name two of them and i just wait until there s something i find interesting and yes dependent upon whether it goes on sale and i ve the spare money which is frequently an iffy thing before i purchase it obviously this does not work so well with mmo subscription games such as wow classic but i tend to spend a lot more of my time watching and waiting on expansions before i decide whether or not to purchase them considering i m not going to be doing anything that requires me to be on the bleeding edge of a new expansion i can afford to wait but i m not a lot of people and neither are a lot of people the whales who are targeted by a lot of contents of pandora s box of bad design what can save us in the long run ourselves we have to resist the bad design practices and play games that don t have them if we want to effect change if nothing else just play those games because they re good games and for pete s sake don t preorder games from companies that use the contents of pandora s box that s giving those companies a blank check make them earn your money by making good games back when i was still into the robert jordan wheel of time series circa the late 90s there was a free paperback of the first part of the eye of the world available to people at bookstores you know what this is a bookstore employee told me holding a copy up this is your free sample of crack and to be fair a lot of the software as a service or saas model itself falls under that header too since i m really keeping my wow account active for wrath classic and to a lesser extent classic era there s no worry about being on say a current raiding tier there i don t have to pay extra for wow classic which is perfectly fine with me posted by redbeard at 2 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels josh strife hayes musings video games wednesday january 4 2023 new year new labor microsoft is now a company with a union zenimax which we gamers know more for elder scrolls online and bethesda in general has had their qa testers vote to join the communications workers of america unlike certain other tech companies microsoft officially remained neutral on this vote since they decided to not oppose the union i suppose one could take it as a tacit endorsement of unionization for the qa people who are frequently among the lowest paid of the development staff i honestly have no idea if this will change anything but we ll see source i worked in software qa for five years posted by redbeard at 9 44 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news tuesday january 3 2023 a sobering reality i know that pc is a gaming blog and no not gambling gaming so items such as sports don t officially come under the mission statement of parallel context still i have talked about sports before on the blog and referenced sports in comparison to video games and i ve mentioned more than a few times in the past about my complicated relationship with our local nfl team the cincinnati bengals i mean i ve seen hopes dashed and freak injuries and losses oh the losses that would make a manchester city fan nod in remembrance of the typical city times so i ve been acquainted with bad stuff happening but never in my life have i seen something like what happened last night live on television during the buffalo bills cincinnati bengals game other players were just starting to realize damar hamlin had collapsed but bills 30 dane jackson immediately recognized the severity of the situation and began rushing to his teammate s side from espn via nybreaking com the collapse happened after this tackle of bengals 85 tee higgins from fox5 atlanta likely originally from getty damar hamlin made a tackle which for all the world seemed like something made hundreds of times each nfl season got up and then promptly collapsed onto the field trainers from both teams rushed to his side cut off his uniform and chest pads and began administering cpr and using defibrillators after what has been reported to be upwards of 10 minutes hamlin s heart was restarted from the associated press and jeff dean via news4jax com he d gone into cardiac arrest on the playing field from the cincinnati enquirer i ve never seen cpr performed outside of training purposes on dummies and yes i was trained back in middle school in the ancient times but i never kept my certification up but i m told by friends who were paramedics that cpr performed by medical professionals out in the real world is much more aggressive and violent than what you re used to seeing on television to put it bluntly a person s ribs are frequently broken on the first couple of pushes but you keep going because you have to get a heart rhythm started people are frequently not able to be resuscitated via cpr but in situations where seconds count it s the best option we have needless to say watching this entire thing unfold in prime time was very sobering from associated press via arizona sports photo by emilee chinn from getty images via ball state daily photo by dylan buell the game was suspended and the nfl announced just a little while ago that the game will not be resumed this week i d not be surprised that the game were simply declared a draw and teams given a tie or simply have the game not count for me i was never happier for a raid night than last night it gave me a chance to not think about what i saw or the young man currently in critical condition at the university of cincinnati medical center i don t actually have a formal mission statement i ve not gone corporate on you but it s not a bad idea to have a statement of purpose around revisiting that statement from time to time allows a person to refocus the blog as needed posted by redbeard at 3 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels self sports monday january 2 2023 meme monday new year s memes yes i posted a quickie late last night after raiding but that doesn t mean that i didn t forget about meme monday i only forgot that the raid ran into monday that s all without much ado there s a ton of new years related memes out there here s but a few i think i actually did this in wow since i play on a west coast server and i reside in the eastern time zone and that my wife already had gone to bed a few hours before then from reddit i m with doctor evil on this one i don t even keep up with monthly gaming goals because i never keep them from well you know what austin powers is right hey at least there s sexy fun time involved from 9gag ah life of the party you never let me down posted by redbeard at 2 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes a quick note i don t like retrospective posts very much especially reviewing how things went over the past year or so after all i don t set playing goals for a month because i know i won t ever meet them so reviewing what i ve been up to in general seems a personal performance review that i know i d fail and really i get enough of those at work so why bother with another performance review neve s horde guild has all but collapsed as most of the active people changed servers and factions in one fell swoop this utgarde keep run felt like a trial run put on by the top horde guild on the server as i was the only non member in the run about the only thing i will say is that i survived another year around the sun and despite its best intentions my heart hasn t killed me yet carry on then apparently my ex guild has now instituted weekly performance reviews of raider activity to see if they re up to the quality level expected of the 25 person raid teams oh and not only those reviews but raiders who do good parses will be given priority on gear too as a kick in the pants reminder that they do loot council on gear oh and guess what they began the wrath expac with about 30 35 raiders vying for spots on each 25 person raid so an excess of 10 players per raid team and now they re having to recruit for raiders i m damn glad i m not in the middle of that shitstorm posted by redbeard at 3 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels self newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 2 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast 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