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y 60s he used to ride bikes with his friends to the cincinnati gardens to watch wrestling there and he developed a love for the sport even though he and i would mainly talk about college basketball i hadn t realized that he d kept up with pro wrestling all through the years until i was cleaning up his old mac after he passed away and discovered the wwe link at the top of his favorites watching the documentary titled nature boy was a chance to get back in touch with my youth i d not followed wrestling since my time at college and the over the top drama and plotlines couldn t help but make me chuckle yes pro wrestling certainly earns its moniker of being a soap opera for guys the obnoxious boasting from the wrestlers the choreographed moves and the so called drama of the production was something you simply couldn t take seriously however as i watched the documentary from a vantage point of almost 30 years removed from following the sport i realized just how much the pro wrestling world had impacted the design of some of these newer mmos for example here s a pic from tera online complete with championship belt and now contrast it with a few classic pro wrestling stills the nature boy himself ric flair wooooooooo indeed from villains wiki randy macho man savage on the left and hulk hogan on the right if this doesn t scream protect the princess boys i don t know what does from reddit but a version of this is on wikipedia org but a larger influence is found from the world of women s pro wrestling yes that is a thing when i was in college there was glow the gorgeous ladies of wrestling that hoped to capitalize on the popularity of the wwf and wcw but was frequently relegated to midnight on saturday nights but the wwe has spent a while now promoting women s wrestling which includes ric flair s daughter charlotte her dad used to enter the ring wearing a cape robe of his own from wwe com and a couple of other pics from wwe com from lethalwow com no not a world of warcraft site just sayin now the reason why i point to pro wrestling versus mixed martial arts mma is that the mma clothing is strictly practical in nature whereas the influence of pro wrestling s undeniably sexed up outfits can be seen in archeage my short lived warborn alas that archeage has a two character limit for non subs and in tera online my castanic what is it about devil characters that people find so appealing i suppose you could even throw draenei into that mix even though they never were corrupted it feels odd looking at pro wrestling and seeing mmos instead in its own way the plotlines in pro wrestling is analogous to these newer mmos where story isn t quite as important as bashing people looking good and preening like an alpha but i shouldn t be surprised because pro wrestling is pop culture and mmos do reflect pop culture sure other mmos may not reflect it as obviously as wow does with its quirky names and questlines but pop culture does extend a long shadow over mmos and video games in general we may think we re playing games that are immune to or isolated from what we consider to be the larger world but we re not the larger world does provide at least a subconscious influence on our smaller gaming worlds and we should pay attention to that influence mmos and other games video and otherwise reflect their times even if those times include eyebrow raising wrestling outfits to be perfectly honest my wife set the dvr to record it not me i wasn t so sure whether i wanted to watch it but i figured oh hell why not more world championship wrestling than what was then known as the world wrestling federation now called world wrestling entertainment after a lawsuit from the world wildlife fund forced a name change as one person in the documentary put it the wcw was for more blue collar people who loved to watch wrestling and the wwf was geared toward kids and teens they operated in two completely different circles as well as watch the nba team the cincinnati royals whose most famous player was oscar roberston oscar known as the big o was one of the greatest players of his generation and one of the all time greats of basketball given that the big o s career overlapped that of wilt chamberlain bill russell doctor j julius erving and kareem abdul jabbar that s saying quite a bit the cincinnati royals moved to kansas city in 1971 and were renamed the kings and in 1985 they moved to their current location in sacramento for the rest of his days my father was mad at the royals management who basically sold off the team s best players and then used the plummeting attendance as an excuse to move okay i guess i ought to confess one other item during my sophomore year at college i got hooked on the nbc daytime soap opera days of our lives i blame my roommate at the time who was hooked on it before me so for several months i would take my lunchtime break and pull up a chair by a television set around campus to watch days after about 5 months worth of shows however i just threw up my hands and said that the plot was way too over the top for me to find remotely enjoyable still it does give me an appreciation of how much work and acting skill to keep the show going every week out of the year posted by redbeard at 10 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mmos musings pro wrestling swtor wednesday november 8 2017 a few minor changes i know the blog looks out of date if that wasn t obvious before now a short glance at the redesign that navimie did for the daily frostwolf druid edition shows just how ancient that this circa 2009 design is there goes navi raising the bar for the rest of us just teasing navi this is really a great redesign however i have added one item on the sidebar that i wanted to highlight the youtube channels list unfortunately blogger doesn t yet have the ability to provide the latest entry in a youtube channel but i can provide the channel link itself and while the list is small i really want to highlight the list because i enjoy seeing the content from all of the entries sure geek and sundry is the only major channel present at the time of this post but some of my fellow blogger friends have channels that need more visibility given that i m not a big fan of streaming or posting my own videos i really admire my friends for their efforts and their professionalism in their work that does bring up for me a topic that has been simmering in the background for quite a while the evolution of how gamers share their love of gaming when souldat and i started pc back in 2009 blogging was one of the primary methods of communicating about mmos there were youtube channels videos by fans of course but beyond blogging and podcasting there were more commercial websites such as kotaku or polygon and software company forums but while blogging as a primary source of gamer activity has declined streaming and other more modern forms of social media have taken over another way of looking at this is how we obtain pc games these days the last game i had on a physical disk that didn t require me to have an online presence to either login or obtain updates or even the game itself even though i d bought a copy was civilization iv complete circa 2010 or 2011 all of my other games i ve purchased i had to be online to download via either the company site or a service such as steam or to even use the game such as diablo 3 or the most recent sim city what happened over this time bandwidth happened to the tune of a big expansion of both the download speeds as well as upload speeds that bandwidth not only makes software downloads more practical but also makes personal streaming uploads more practical however bandwidth wasn t the only technical hurdle it s also about the computing and graphics power a computer has given the leaps and bounds that processors motherboards and even storage has made over the past 8 years the capacity of computers to not only handle a game and a livestream but also maintain both for a minimal drop in framerate is pretty amazing when i started playing wow it was on what was then a middle of the road 32 bit intel core duo that ran vista i could play wow with mediocre graphics but playing wow and connecting to vent proved a bit of a stretch i ended up pressing my work laptop into service with vent while i played wow on the main machine and automated backups oh boy would they tank your machine but within five years intel and amd were putting out processors that could handle all of that plus run chrome with a full load of tabs and extensions as well as ms office in the background and not blink an eye software has taken advantage of the increased power as well with gaming streaming built into operating systems such as win 10 as well as other software packages when that showed up in win 10 you know that streaming while gaming had gone mainstream finally the rise of esports popularity of netflix and hulu and a new generation of gamers thinking nothing of sharing and competing while streaming a tacit acceptance of voyeurism i suppose has pushed streaming completely into the mainstream i can check facebook during the week and watch a fb livestream of the devs from standing stone playing lotro hell just about all mmo development houses have their own regular livestreams to handle all sorts of activities from connecting with players to showing off upcoming patches they re everywhere here on gw2 s loading screen i guess that s another question to ask prospective employees how do you feel about putting yourself on twitch and livestream you playing a game for hours this is an entirely new environment from when i started playing wow and if you d have asked me how long it would take to get to this point i d have said especially after the economic meltdown in 2008 likely 2020 at minimum yet here we are in all of this video oriented and immediate gratification read twitter material blogs like this one still have a part to play for starters they don t take up network bandwidth at work where employers tend to frown on a single employee hogging a lot of the bandwidth to watch whatever is on twitch they are also quieter and less visually distracting unless you have a ton of gifs on your site like some mid 90s website designs finally blogs allow a blogger to take their time to put together a post sure you can write an entire vlog entry and then stand in front of a camera and recite that but if you re like me you re constantly going back and editing even after the point when you thought you were done and yes i see the editing that goes on with vlogs and it drives me bananas vlogging simply doesn t mesh well with my thought processes neither do my thoughts mesh well with twitter who knew that munch captured my brain on twitter so well f rom mentalfloss com i have an unfortunate tendency to shoot my mouth off when i get agitated or otherwise emotional and an app such as twitter or snapchat is a disaster waiting to happen so for those denizens of twitter who can keep themselves under control at all times more power to ya and while i realize that blogging isn t quite as immediate as twitter it is far quicker and more relevant than print magazines the nature of print means that the news is already out of date by the time it makes it to a monthly print magazine so print magazines have not only expanded into digital formats but also focused on longer feature pieces that don t strictly fall into the news arena and while it s not the same for everyone blogging feeds my addition to writing without demanding too much from me one of these days i d love to sit down and finish a novel nanowrimo or not but while my chaotic life isn t helping me out at the moment i can blog relevance or not i still need to look into more of a major design revamp of pc i think the basic design orientation having a main section for articles with side areas for other information works fairly well however i think it can be done better and in an easier to read format than what it presently is and yes i need to replace the cataclysm era graphics with something a bit more reflective of the times that s actually a sticking point for me because i d love to have newer graphics without relying upon the gif format to cycle through images like what rades does with orcish army knife there s something appealing with what ravanel griffon does in ravalation where a different header graphic shows up every time you select a link but i ll have to think about whether i really want to implement that and what graphics to choose naturally after all what else will i do with all of these archeage screenshots anyway i think i need to solicit some ideas for improvements to the blog sorry deleting the blog won t happen what do you the reader want to see in a blog design if internet years is akin to dog years the design is 56 years old hell it s older than me in the officially supported widgets at least i started writing a blog post on this at least twice only to shelve it for later i guess later means now i eventually had to replace the graphics card due to the abominations in the undercity proving too much to handle for our machine i discovered that much to my chagrin when i was interviewed on the twisted nether blogcast i had no idea that the automated backup that kicked in after midnight was wreaking havoc to my connection until i listened to the podcast afterward fimlys hydra if you re reading this i m still sorry about that the popularity of smartphones and their social media and streaming capabilities shouldn t be overlooked either sure you don t play wow on an android tablet but people livestream all the time now for example i ve worked on this particular post over the course of about 10 days i ve tightened things up a bit added some graphics and rewrote significant portions of the body while i try to post once a week and about 6 times a month sometimes i have to slow down to make things just the way i like them this also means letting other posts go ahead of posts like these i used to avoid going to my oldest s track and field meets when she was in middle school precisely because i didn t want to be that parent in the stands i ran track for three years in high school yes i know you d never guess it now and i didn t want to be the parent who tried to usurp the coaches authority or simply be obnoxious throughout the meet even now watching the high school american football team lose week in and week out hey i go to watch my kids in the marching band play at halftime it is really hard on me to not go bananas and bitch about all the things the kids are doing wrong i can handle that they re physically outclassed but not using proper technique drives me nuts posted by redbeard at 1 24 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 4 2017 no need for coffee today this is what i get for focusing too much on work 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