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that time of year when you come out in the morning and your car is covered in pollen if you wash your car it ll be covered in pollen the next morning oh yay in dubious honor of the flowers here going bananas i figured i d spend this meme monday on the bane of my existence pollen and both blow things up too in the case of the former my eyes and nose from memebase yeah i know i get that from cheezburger makes me wonder if that death mask found at mycene merely had allergies from pinterest truth from depositphotos and one bonus pollen meme wow i never noticed from click2houston 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 saturday april 27 2024 some short ponderables for a saturday none of these items are enough for a post on their own so i strung several that have been living rent free in my head into a single miscellaneous post in world of warcraft main raids typically have a gear set for each class known as a tier set in vanilla wow there s even a pre raid tier set known as t0 that you can accumulate via dungeons however why is aq40 s tier set considered t2 5 and not t3 it s not a set that came along later and was shoehorned in to give people a chance at better gear like the t0 5 questlines so why is it colloquially known as t2 5 you d think that going from molten core onyxia blackwing lair temple of ahn qiraj naxxramas would be tier 1 through tier 4 but noooo ex blizzard head honcho mike ybarra has this idea in his head to allow paying customers to tip game devs given that while he was in charge at blizzard he had the ability to pay the development staff all of them more money if he liked their work why is he even suggesting this apparently tip jar stickers are a thing that you can buy from superostmk live because he wants to turn game development into the equivalent of the wait staff at american restaurants who survive on tips because of the low pay i mean i get it if there s a tip jar out for free to play games since that could make sense if you don t want to buy stuff from their cash shop assuming there is one but when a guy who was in charge of a game development studio makes these suggestions it certainly seems less like he s trying to say game devs deserve extra for a good game and more like i really want to find new ways to pay people less to increase my profit margins one thing that always puzzled me about the plaguelands in wow is how the land is so obviously diseased and plagued both there and in the ghostlands in southern quel thalas but the npcs and the players seem to be immune to the plague itself you see this in northrend in wrath of the lich king as well where in the troll city of zul drak has plague spreaders everywhere but the crusaders and the players are effectively immune to that i would have thought that anything who stays long enough in plague infested lands stands a very high chance of contracting the plague themselves but i guess plot armor is stronger than the plague of undeath thought i d go with a ghostlands screenshot for a change even in broad daylight it looks like this i m not the brightest bulb in the universe when someone tries to subtly tell me something if you ever read some of those reddit threads about guys totally missing out that they were being hit on yeah that d be me for some reason i was thinking about the term netflix and chill and it occurred to me just what other come hither signals in the past did i miss i knew of come up for a cup of coffee but i personally never encountered that one but beyond that outside of the stereotypical booty call calling someone up after midnight to ask them to come over to your place i don t know of any and i certainly don t know of any references used by people playing various video pencil paper and board games for certain still maybe it s something to pursue for a while yes i am such a dweeb or maybe i just want to look back on my past and smack my forehead and go oh crap how did i miss that one sometimes being middle age is a bitch yes i know that they re not all that good in terms of what your class is best at blizzard was still figuring this stuff out in vanilla you know so it s not perfect still the rogue set and the mage set do look nice from an aesthetics standpoint there s a ton of them out there i only linked one but if you want to read more go ahead and search for clueless guys reddit thread trust me they ll pop out posted by redbeard at 9 54 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings video games wow wednesday april 24 2024 reminiscing it s kind of funny how life works out when i went away to college i was a kid who listened to rock and metal but also enjoyed classical music i had a thing for canadian power rock trios as my collection of rush and triumph cassettes proved but i also would listen to the classical lps that my parents had in the basement as far as i know they re still down there this pic is from etsy but this was the first album in the set i knew that alternative aka modern rock was out there as was new wave but when i was in high school i wasn t really exposed to it at all the legendary woxy 97 7 fm was up in oxford ohio and while we could barely pick it up back home it was more well known locally as the station used in the movie rain man the tagline was created for the movie and the station loved it so much they adopted it i knew of punk and what i heard i liked but it never got on the radio back home top 40 dominated the airwaves and big corporate radio companies jaycor a predecessor to iheartradio began in the late 80s in cincinnati were just starting to make inroads on homogenizing what you could hear over the air so i expected that going away to college would expose me to far more of what i liked than what i could hear locally but of all the things i expected to be exposed to this certainly wasn t on the menu my new roommate was from chicago and i quickly learned a few things when we moved in together we both shared a love of d d and doctor who he certainly loved his chicago cubs and chicago bears no city in the us was as good as chicago and that he was fine with putting up posters that would have given my parents a heart attack we both contributed to the decor in our dorm room my posters were more along these lines mine was a 5 foot version of this which i still have stored away in the basement from ebay but these were more of my roommate s taste i had no idea who samantha fox was until he put this 5 foot tall poster up on the back of our door this caused drama when my parents picked me up for thanksgiving from worthpoint oh and he had eclectic taste in music he had an actual cd player a portable model and the first one i d ever seen and about a dozen cds sure i d seen a few cds at stores but compared to albums and cassettes there were very few of them but i was surprised at what he had on his collection amy grant stryper he didn t seem like the sort for christian music he also had genesis invisible touch a greatest hits compilation of the young rascals and it might have been fresh aire iii but this was a better quality photo from discogs fresh aire what the hell is this and from discogs windham hill i asked yeah it s pretty nice music i ll put it on later given his other geeky pastimes i was willing to give it a try and i surprised myself by actually liking both cds although i ll freely admit the sound quality of the cds alone probably had an impact by october i d heard enough to know two things i actually liked this new age type of music and i wanted a cd player for christmas given that i didn t have a receiver but i did have a boom box with aux inputs that s saying something fast forward to today and the past couple of months i ve been spending time re ripping my old cds at a better bit rate than before so i ve reacquainted myself with my old windham hill and mannheim steamroller cds i mean i still play them from time to time but one thing about re ripping means i m hearing everything again listening critically to make sure that the cd was ripped properly because of this exercise i ve been struck by how greatly my roommate from 37 years ago influenced my musical tastes of today and now i ve got online friends to thank for influencing my musical tastes again found this at a bookstore this one s for you bhagpuss my dad did not listen to classical music my mom got the funk and wagnalls collection one week at a time as they were released from our local discount store down the street when he was moving his stuff into our dorm i noticed this magazine on the top of one of his boxes took me a while to find this out of the parallel context archive but here it is i immediately recognized it as tsr s dragon magazine so i pretended i didn t see anything so as not to attract my parents attention but if i had any doubt that i had found another one of my people this dispelled it he also had a signed black and white photo of tom the fourth doctor baker on his desk next to the prom photos with his then girlfriend so yeah a nerd through and through yes it s still mp3s because i don t have that much in terms of disk space for storage to handle flac besides being in my mid 50s means that my ears aren t as good as they once were but they re good enough to hear the difference in some pieces of music in a 192 bitrate versus a 320 bitrate mp3 you just have to know where to listen and have the right sort of music to make it noticeable sure flac or wav files are better than mp3s but mp3s are pretty universal so i don t have to worry about not having a format that won t play i m looking at you samsung music alas after 35 years a handful of my cds no longer play it s not because they re scratched but it looks like it s a failure of the metallic material comprising the cds among those cds were the eagles hotel california the cult s sonic temple a greatest hits compilation from golden earring and alice in chains dirt posted by redbeard at 9 40 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college d d music musings videos monday april 22 2024 meme monday fake book memes oh this is as old as photoshop but i ve been amused by them to no end maybe it s my snarky nature but sometimes the titles just are hilarious they aren t about gaming or rpgs or whatnot but they do reflect the state of the internet i ve had this one for a few years waiting for the right time from the windham hill group on facebook but originally from phil are go blogspot com this one is for bhagpuss who might get the musical reference from jay allen sanford via the windham hill group on facebook no worries about that one from pinterest a bestseller from the satanic panic era from pinterest and cheezburger i had to do a double take on the publisher name from cheezburger and of course this is in honor of 4 20 from pinterest and one last bonus meme oh this whole thing predates the internet by a lot from pinterest posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday april 18 2024 the great plains youtuber vulgrin dropped a video the other day titled this place is why i love classic world of warcraft and three guesses as to which zone it is despite my hardly ever playing horde toons these days and the highest level tauren toon i ve ever created i got to level 7 back in late wrath i have to agree that mulgore is my favorite classic era zone to just relax and enjoy i almost never go there because i d rather not scare the lowbie horde toons but i typically will find an excuse to stop in when i m passing nearby and if darkmoon faire is there that works for an excuse another place i like to go just to enjoy the sea is the coastline in desolace it s always empty and the farther south you roam the fewer naga actually come out on the shore to disturb the view if you include tbc classic zones i d also have to throw in eversong forest as the place is locked in perpetual autumn that it existed as it was long past cataclysm s reworking of the old world was a bit of a bonus the irony is that while i like those areas the most that doesn t translate into what toons i play the most after all i mostly play alliance toons these days and outside of neve in tbc wrath classic i have hardly touched horde toons at all still i can t deny the simple beauty of mulgore posted by redbeard at 4 17 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classic era monday april 15 2024 we want a shrubbery although nobody is asking for my take on the pandamonium limited event that retail will be experiencing i figured i d drop in my two cents pandamonium is a hedge by the wow team it s not a shrubbery it s a hedge from getyarn io but really from monty python what do i mean by that well it s pretty simple the wow classic team is all in on cataclysm classic but if it flops badly there likely won t be a mists of pandaria classic let s face it cataclysm classic is as big of a risk as the original wow classic was in 2019 blizzard wasn t entirely sure if people would show up to play an official vanilla classic server back then and by throwing out the original trilogy by moving all wrath classic servers to the now current azeroth before phasing i presume there s no guarantee that enough players will show up and continue to play cataclysm classic to make a mists classic viable so the easiest way to present the mists expansion in a way that will guarantee people will go back and play the content is to create a limited time event with wildly accelerated leveling in retail throw in a bunch of fomo cosmetic items and there you go there is a second reason for this pandamonium event and it is to drum up interest for a mists classic this is a taste of what mists was like since it is still set in the current retail environment so blizzard is also hoping that pandamonium will generate enough interest in mists as an expansion to counter the pushback from the bean counters should cata classic flop and that s that for those interested in the event go have fun enjoy yourself because that s why we play games right hindsight is a real bitch here because looking back it seemed obvious but there was no guarantee that people who d been playing on private servers would actually show up to play the official version and there was also no guarantee that people like me would return just to play the pre cataclysm version of wow there s a very vocal part of the player base that looks down upon classic and classic players and even those blowhards aside the fracturing of the player base was a big risk blizzard took i don t think i need to go over my own opinion of mists so i ll save that for another time posted by redbeard at 11 25 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 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