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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 were almost l15 but after not leveling through the entire deadmines instance i was calling bullshit about that to my questing buddy as proof when card was high enough she helped out some friends through deadmines and all of them leveled at least once during the instance run for the uninitiated all raid participants have to have a certain amount of gold on their person you have to have proof before you re invited to the raid and have to bid in gold for items that drop this is apparently the meta on wrath classic servers these days and on large servers such as atiesh us that has colored everybody s approach to the game if you want to pug things you d better be able to buy gold or you have to put up with the gatekeeping on 5 person instances if you want to do group content on smaller servers such as what old blanchy us or bloodsail buccaneers us are the culture is different so it s not as bad there but for me i don t feel like giving blizz money for the privilege of avoiding the mess they helped to create i ve said this before but in the off chance you missed it there ya go and to be fair i had a hard stop on wrath classic servers anyway because cataclysm classic will be coming next year eta corrected grammatical errors posted by redbeard at 4 34 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings wow classic wow hardcore monday september 4 2023 meme monday how about some more miscellaneous memes today is labor day in the us and canada i believe therefore i m gonna put minimal effort into this meme monday because i actually have to get some work done today of course i do gee thanks upper management for putting a meeting only a week out when i have to chase down a ton of people to figure out what s going on this is for my questing buddy who just got a new puppy late last week from travis hanson who draws excellent webcomics not sure why but my version of a bard is always out of step with the in jokes in rpgs i think i was influenced by the harper hall in anne mccaffrey s pern novels from pinterest alas that mary no longer draws npc comic i love her work but i can understand and sympathize with the burnout from npccomic com hey gang i found winston from overwatch from reddit posted by redbeard at 9 03 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday september 1 2023 just who are you really part 4 of 4 to conclude this mini series of posts i m following up with the last two of my wow classic toons that have a persistent narrative and also two of the other three toons to make it to max level for these two i kind of veered more into the fictional realm than a summary because i felt these were best told that way linnawyn songshine knight of the silver hand the demons never knew what hit them linna is the third of the four songshine children and like her younger sister cardwyn her life was changed the moment the defias brotherhood came to the family farm and demanded all of their metal unlike card however she remained at the farm and soon volunteered to join the local patrols that the farmers of eastern elwynn organized to deal with the encroaching defias threat daryn and mona set aside land for weapons practice and the entire farm hastily constructed an extra building for barracks for the trainees calling themselves the elwynn rangers linna s father daryn and a few other veterans of the second war became the instructors for the patrols while linna took her work with the rangers seriously something began nagging at her in the nights while she tried to rest at first she thought it was concern for her little sister but as the days dragged on she began to feel that she should be doing more to help out that worry only grew when her sister visited the farm on her way toward lakeshire following up on a lead as to the identity of the defias leadership and she returned two days later gravely injured from an ambush on the road by the defias there has to be more than this she thought as she watched helplessly while cardwyn was healed by a family friend and member of the cenarion circle when the defias threat was finally broken linna thought things would return to normal but her concerns only worsened it was then that she finally realized that what she felt wasn t concern but a calling linna resolved to take the oaths and become a knight of the silver hand but she didn t know how she spoke with one of cardwyn s friends a squire who told her that since she s not nobility she must have two valid sponsors who vouched for her standing those sponsors had to be accepted by the knights as valid sponsors preferably they were knights themselves as his own sponsors were or they were people the knights were familiar with and trusted their judgement linna prevailed upon cardwyn fresh from the defias campaign and hailed as the hero of westfall to be one of her sponsors and asked her old teacher evelyn aldcock to be the other upon taking the oaths training with a squad in northshire and elwynn and then performing mop up duty in westfall linna s first assignment was to investigate reports of the scourge in duskwood she arrived in darkshire to find herself swept up in a mystery surrounding a ghastly prediction of doom from the town s mystic madame eva meanwhile darkshire was beset on all sides by the undead mysterious dark riders from deadwind pass and the wolfmen called worgen as linnawyn strove to uphold her duty to darkshire and keep the darkness at bay she dove into the mystery of this stalvan and why his name was divined by madame eva as the 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