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ng a weber gas grill i ve had coleman and sears kenmore gas grills and i ve learned my lesson if you want a grill that lasts get a weber and yes those exist ryobi and kobalt are two brands that make decent inexpensive models but you have to check them out to see if they ll work for your situation seriously it s worth it to do some hands on testing i was a radio dj back in college and for a span of 5 6 years in the late 90s early 00s i helped to run the sound at the cincinnati celtic music and cultural festival my work laptop can t access anything in my home network from printers on down because of the vpn that the laptop uses oh well posted by redbeard at 11 12 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels self upgrades thursday april 8 2021 enriching a life well lived the arts are what makes life worth living you ve got food you ve got shelter yeah but the things that make you laugh make you cry make you connect make you love are communicated through the arts they aren t extras barack obama the idea of taking up art as a calling a profession is a mirage art enriches life it makes life worth living but to make a living at it that idea is incompatible with making art john sloan yes he was an artist go figure as part of the vanilla classic wow quest chain for tirion fordring he sends you into stratholme to find a painting his family sat for years ago the reason is to remind tirion s son who has effectively been turned into a cultist by the scarlet crusade of his family s past life and what honor truly stands for the questline is a tragic one but for me it s notable because the focus of one particular quest is on an object of art there are a few quests that require you to fetch and retrieve a book and there s a notable quest that involves a flute in felwood but far and away the arts aren t found in the azeroth a player interacts with sure there s the background music at inns and other locations paintings on the walls and other reference pieces but almost literally nothing interactive unlike lotro a player can t learn a musical instrument or play a class that uses music as its magic and unlike elder scrolls online or swtor or many other mmos you can t purchase a house and decorate it as you please the most you can do is transmog in retail or take up some of your precious bag space for a roleplaying or hangout outfit it is not a controversial statement to say that when wow was designed the arts weren t exactly high on everybody s mind i completely understand the whys of that because when you re creating a game of epic fantasy you re more concerned about a lot of other things like making sure mechanics actually work than how the arts impact the denizens of the game world that being said given the dedicated art department that blizz has for wow and its other games especially for the look and feel of a specific class race zone or whatnot you d think that there would be advocates for the art that a player has input on i hear their passionate music read the words that touch my heart i gaze at their feverish pictures the secrets that set them apart when i feel the powerful visions their fire has made alive i wish i had that instinct i wish i had that drive mission by rush from hold your fire the reason why i m so passionate about the arts and mmos is because art inspires me i love to read rpg materials not just for the game rules settings adventures but because the art inside the books stirs a desire in me to do more and be more than just a character playing a game i m one of those people who has to have music on at all times no matter the genre because music is the backdrop of my narrative life about the only times i don t have music on at work are when things get so serious that i have to devote all of my resources to something or as one of the mini reds once told me dad when you turn off your music put in earplugs and hunch over your laptop that s when we know shit has just hit the fan but the arts are what i truly enjoy in life sure i love sports especially college basketball and i enjoy building things i built these last fall for my wife s old 80 s era all in one stereo replacing the crappy old speakers that came with the system was like night and day but i don t have the talent or time to devote to the arts i can wander museums and look at the art but i can t paint or sculpt i can immerse myself in music but i can t play worth a damn acting no thanks i listen to voice actors and watch plays shows movies and think i can t do that i can t fake emotions like that hell i get embarrassed role playing in pencil and paper rpgs and the great american novel this blog ain t just sayin doesn t hurt my feelings any because i recognize my limitations and work within them art also provides a starting point for a player as well it presents a new player who may be uncertain about wanting to play with the ability to say you re welcome at the table you can play someone who looks like you if i m in a fight i want this guy on my side from the d d 5e players handbook or they can give you a sense of what a player can do i never realized it before but the female halfling here bears a vague resemblance to anna kendrick or maybe i need more sleep from d d 5e players handbook and yes there s the eye candy art as well what you thought i was going to use seoni geralt works fine you know besides geralt is one of those people who i think of when i say i m not gay but from the witcher trilogy people draw fan art of their favorite characters their toons or even scenes from a gaming session all the time and if i tried posting some here i d have a real problem picking a representative sample from the tons of fan art available perusing deviantart alone can suck hours of your time but if you ever watch critical role you ll note during their breaks the fan art they post oh the fan art because of all that the overall lack of an artistic outlet in some mmos can be a bit jarring at times some work within the limitations and create fantastic work such as kamalia of kamalia et alia and her fashion sense her sunday on the promenade series on transmog outfits alone are worth a perusal even though i play classic and don t have access to transmog me i m happy when i don t select blue shirts and a blue jacket to go with my blue jeans others work with what they have saving a set specifically for hanging around an mmo city but there are times when i wish a wow toon could make music all on their own in the same way that you can in lotro the 5 pm est band on the gladden server still plays regularly just inside the western entrance to bree and it would be nice if something such as that were available on other mmos or have a space of your own to decorate like you can find in lotro swtor or eso oh boy the options you have in eso such as it is we have to make do with our own efforts outside of mmos maybe i should try my hand at painting i already had a couple of discussions with one of my fellow mages about watercolors and he positively geeked out on me and provided me with a ton of info to get started i know going in i m going to suck but if i work at it maybe i can finally draw paint an image i ve had in my head for a while of card wearing regular clothing with her nieces and nephews heading to the pond close to the farm to go fish her face is relaxed she s grinning at the nephew she has perched on her shoulders while carys and the others are cavorting around because they re all excited that aunt cardwyn is taking them on an adventure and perhaps in the distance kit and kerisa are already there sitting and fishing glancing over their shoulders with amused expressions at the ruckus it s not a go slay the dragons image at all but a simple picture that reflects the humanity of a toon that s not counting the pirate and other costumes people can transform into courtesy of holiday events well i m not a fan of most country music and hip hop commands my attention in a way that distracts from anything i m working on so i rarely listen to either although i will say that cardwyn s nickname in raids is now primarily cardy b and because of that i now point out that the b stands for battle rez oh for pete s sake i do love my wife and family so don t go there i have two now the vixen set which features the spider mage robe and an out dating set which has card wearing an evening gown i should make one with a full tier set even having helm and cloak on just so i can look like a mage and drum up some consumables and or portals business i can t remember who said it but a friend in classic mentioned to me about a month ago that when they wear a full t2 set they get a lot more business posted by redbeard at 2 10 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art mmos music musings rpgs friday april 2 2021 so that s how we looked okay i still haven t figured out how to post the video like you can with youtube and i blame poor tools by blogger here but here s a link to our k t kill as streamed by mirsh it s also nice to know i m not the only one who curses while raiding good thing the kids are much older or i d go crazy trying to censor myself but somewhere i think my grandfather would be proud of me for cursing as much as i do i ve always wondered how i sound in raids in discord and now i know you can hear me at the tail end just before the kill saying we ve got him we ve got him i can t help but confess that i was focusing on where i was on the screen hoping that i don t look too much like an idiot i can t stream because if i did you d see my head was on a swivel constantly looking for those banshees as they bore down on us and it s not a lot of fun once you hit phase 2 and you re trying desperately to conserve as much mana as you can for sheeping while wanding and pacing out your potion consumption a quick story about my grandfather during ww2 he and several other people in his division were promoted to corporal as they all stood in line a captain marched up and down saying i made you and i can break you my grandfather never one for tact piped up and cracked if that s the way you feel about it you can shove it up your ass my grandfather was busted back down to private quicker than you can say wtf eta fixed the link whoops posted by redbeard at 3 26 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels naxxramas raid wow classic thursday april 1 2021 give the people what they want if you get a chance go listen to the kinks album of the same name as this title you won t be disappointed mmos by necessity are a limited slice of an invented world as much detail a dev team can put into a game world there are going to be gaps some are massive such as the lack of religion being prominent as a divisive element and some are more subtle such as the lack of music and the arts in people s lives i was thinking of this when i read bhagpuss post about how the guild wars 2 devs tried to artificially create player hubs when the players had organically established their own hubs it s a good post and well worth reading and as you ll see my really short tl dr doesn t scratch the surface of its detail i don t play gw2 enough to comment on that specific mmo but it did give me fuel for thought concerning other mmos the most prominent of mmos world of warcraft has the recurring theme of conflict between orcs and humans at its center this is artificially propped up by blizzard even though the most popular expansions bc legion wrath all center around the two factions joining together against a common threat expansions or portions of them that emphasize the conflict tend to not be as well received however blizz keeps pushing the conflict because it s the core of the game or something although if you asked me what the core of wow was it s that old gods are bad and the source of all evil hp lovecraft rules still it also seems that blizz attempts to do the same thing that gw2 has been guilty of which is to create a new player hub for each expac or in the case of cataclysm an artificial attempt to re establish the faction capitals as the primary hubs in the game it s not like arenanet and blizzard are the only guilty ones here standing stone has created new hubs with each expac in lotro and bioware the same in swtor to an extent i can understand the need to create central hubs in new territories and they become the hub of activity for each expac but at the same time there s no reason in a fantasy or science fiction mmo that you can t just have a gamified way of allowing players to simply return to the hub of their choice and bounce back and forth from wherever the front is i guess my whole point is that instead of observing what the players are doing and trying to change behavior by artificial means why not let the players do their own thing i do realize that there is a game out there that does just that and it s called eve online but eve takes the give players the latitude to do what they want and opens up to an anything goes environment that sort of game isn t for everybody eve is definitely not for the faint of heart from giphy com and yet looking over how blizzard has implemented wow from expac to expac i can t help but think that blizz has lost a lot of what made the original vanilla or classic implementation of the game so great you can wander around and make your own way without being railroaded into a specific path that doesn t mean that people haven t figured out optimal paths for everything there s a reason why boosting services are so popular in classic but to experience endgame content you aren t limited to a very specfic path to experience naxx you don t have to have gone through aq40 for example and vice versa about the only limitation those two have is that you have to have at least gotten a decent amount of t2 gear from bwl and even then it s not a strict requirement i m living proof of that sorry couldn t resist some games however you can t not have various hubs with the events of the war of the ring as a backdrop lotro can t avoid having hubs in various locales and swtor has hubs on each planet you visit as a necessity since traipsing across the galaxy is not a simple thing but an azeroth or tyria they have no such limitations it s all up to the devs to observe the players and reinforce their preferences rather than trying to redirect them because artificial redirection doesn t always go well this is merely an observation not an indictment many of the longest running conflicts over the centuries have been fueled by religion so the absence of those types of conflicts in mmos do tend to stand out and as many conflicts are driven by religion an equal or greater number use religion as an excuse for something else such as albigensian crusade which was merely an excuse of the northern french nobles to invade languedoc in the south of france battle for azeroth as the primary example althou...
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