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0s 80s and 90s so i have my street cred and i have absolutely no issues with new voices or settings for science fiction or fantasy it s just that i m tired of the same old the world universe nation needs saving epic story trope because in the end the stakes are of the same variety that i ve seen countless times by now and video games aren t exactly helping i ve said it before about world of warcraft and it bears repeating now i prefer the original vanilla version of wow because of the overall lack of an epic plot to the extent the expansions put into place sure there are storylines riddled throughout the leveling areas but nothing so laser focused on an epic conflict to the extent that you see in the latter expansions you ve got nefarian c thun and kel thuzad but you didn t have two continents worth of quests focused on the storylines behind those three that lack of an overall epic narrative meant you could forge your own story picking and choosing what to do and where to go without having an overarching epic story to direct you let s be honest here video games and novels are one thing and movies are quite another i mean look at the tons of movies and shows that are churned out year after year in the mcu alone not to mention the dc universe or star wars everything is epic in nature where the mcu is involved and even a movie such as captain america the first avenger goes fishing would somehow turn steve rodgers catch of the day into an epic worthy of ernest hemingway i had no idea this existed i swear from a youtube video by reel hazardous but therein lies the blandness of it all you ve seen this story a few times and it all starts to blend together and trust me given the amount of books video games and movies i ve consumed over the decades i ve seen far more than just a few versions of the same trope i need to be perfectly clear i m not saying that insert content here sucks i m saying that i m tired of these stories these books could be incredibly well written the video games programmed and designed to an exquisite degree or the movies insanely well crafted it s just that i ve seen it all before and to get my attention something else needs to be done what doesn t need to be done is do what s been done to death in video games the moving goalposts problem you play a video game with an epic story finally defeat the big bad and then either in the final cutscene or a lead in to the next expansion installment in the series there s a revelation that it wasn t this big bad who was behind everything it s this new big bad or the princess is in another castle meme from knowyourmeme com or you saved your town in this video game now you get to save an entire province then the next expac is now you have to save your country then the world then you now have to save the afterlife oh wait that s shadowlands that s a huge trap that authors and developers alike fall into where the stakes have to ratcheted up more and more to keep people s attention after infinity war what then marvel multiverse mayhem well crap that s exactly what they re doing now what s the solution hell if i know and besides if i did know the way out of this do you think that publishers and developers and producers would be beating a path to my door oh hell no right now the sound of dollars from the people who consume their content is louder than anything i can say or do if i ve learned anything in this world content creators want a sure bet on where to put their money and it s a lot easier betting on the same old same old than trying something new of course game companies discovered that breaking their games up into pieces got them a lot more money than release it all at once dorkly don t ever change that doesn t mean that i ve turned into a costume drama loving highbrow or lowbrow or midbrow or whatever the hallmark channel fits into consumer it s just that i want something more than what we ve got right now it also doesn t mean i want to eschew standard novel formats and instead go with modern novel constructs i had to read virginia woolf in an english class at university and that experience alone put me off of reading any novels designed to be modern for a couple of decades the english professor who taught the class i read mrs dalloway in warned us away from taking his modern novel class because non english majors sign up expecting to get to read modern popular novels but that isn t anything at all what they actually read probably the best way to put it is that maybe the sentiment go big or go home is missing the point perhaps not going all out will result in a better story and part of the end of the 00s beginning of the 10s posted by redbeard at 7 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books memes movies musings video games wow wow classic monday may 22 2023 meme monday allergy memes if you re like me seasonal allergies kick your ass multiple times per year the one major drawback to my son s graduation last week was that meadville pennsylvania where allegheny college is located is in the middle of their big pollen bloom for the spring and for me that was well kind of hellish just when you think you re done with seasonal allergies they drag you back in michael corleone maybe so in honor of those who scarf down a bottle of zyrtec every spring and fall yeah kid i feel it too from science abc from imgflip don t get me wrong benadryl works faaar too well from izismile yeah geralt i get it really do if you re a hypochondriac covid offers a whole new set of paranoid fantasies from reddit via mematic posted by redbeard at 8 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday may 21 2023 the lessons you learn along the way it s funny just how much our perceptions and playstyles are influenced by those first early hours playing a game for example when i first started playing a cleric on my recently concluded 20 year d d campaign we faced an enemy that decidedly had the upper hand on us our fighters and rogue had whiffed repeatedly and the enemy we were engaged with was getting ready for a killing blow against one of us my cleric was all out of spells and the only thing he could do was make an attack with his spear he was a cleric of zeus hence the spear as the chosen weapon my cleric charged in hoping just to get a hit in and distract the enemy but i rolled a natural 20 then i hit on the critical roll and well the enemy dropped out of that little fiasco my cleric learned that charging into battle with spear out was a good thing so he began to use that early and often not exactly the smartest thing for your cleric to do but hey it worked that first time and he just kind of ran with it this happened four years before leeroy jenkins from ifunny co fast forward to my first year of playing world of warcraft and i was in souldat s small friends and family guild that was a holdover from burning crusade sometime when my paladin was in his mid 20s maybe we had someone new join the guild seems the guy was originally alliance and decided to switch to horde so soul offered him a spot no big deal i thought a day or two later soul and i were on and the guy logged in after a minute or two of pleasantries the guy asked if we had any spare bags he could have quintalan wasn t a tailor and i said as much and soul didn t have any spare bags either oh the guy said and faded into the background soul whispered me a short time later saying he couldn t believe that this guy would want to mooch off of us like that we re horde he said not doing it yourself is an alliance thing to do i didn t know that i replied yeah back when wow started most people played alliance and those of us who played horde had to stick together because if we didn t we were going to get overwhelmed it made us strong and self reliant i had no reason to doubt the truth of it so quietly i acknowledged his side of things while i still have no idea whether soul s comment about how outnumbered the horde were back in the day really was true or not what i do know is that little exchange did impact the way i played mmos for a long time namely it was to never depend on other people for help in game and to do things yourself instead of asking for help who knew blanche dubois was alliance from utterdigital com and quotemaster the strange thing is that i ve no qualms at all as far as giving assistance to someone in need i mean i ve been known to assist members of the opposing faction if it looks like they re going to lose to a mob so the fact that i m happy to give help but not receive it is kind of odd so if my questing buddy ever has wondered about the origin story of my reluctance to ask for help now you know of course i now play on the alliance side and outside of some quests from the forsaken there s not much difference playing either faction in the various forms of classic wow but you know that didn t matter my mind was already biased in the almost 14 years since i ve started playing mmos i ve found those few offhand comments have had a huge impact on how i approach this genre i still prefer to do as many things on my own as possible and i ve even taken that to an extreme by not using any assists from wowhead or other third party player aids for quests well within reason i do set a mental timer for trying to figure out a quest and if i exceed that timer i pull out wowhead and bitch a little bit while i research but that s me and i think it s important to note that these internal biases are simply that a bias toward a certain viewpoint that might not be well correct i m not talking about politically correct but rather actually correct since i don t know what the status of horde vs alliance population was back in the day i can t really say whether horde was significantly outnumbered to any degree i also can t make the assumption that the do it all yourself mentality would arise from being outnumbered on the face of it you d expect any group that was outnumbered to share resources and information more than normal because communication would be key especially on a pvp server like stormscale us is i have this gut feeling that the underlying event that influenced my playing behavior wasn t a real one oh i m sure that soul probably believed what he was telling me but i ve a suspicion that he played that way and used circumstances as justification for that playstyle when it s entirely possible that the playstyle actually encouraged the opposite behavior among the horde in those early days still without any real data it s all conjecture not this data but the data sigh from memegenerator net so what does this all mean well that our internal biases can be based on unreliable information for starters that s a polite way of saying what we believe in is frequently based on bullshit doesn t matter where the bullshit originated or who said repeated it bullshit is still bullshit another point to consider is that everybody is susceptible to this problem again it doesn t matter who you are you can spew bad information quite easily if you believe in it the question then becomes how do you fix the problem with biases that i don t know i wish i did but i ve discovered that people don t like it when you point out the flaw in their own beliefs nobody likes to be told they are an idiot no matter how nicely you polish it it s still a turd that people will refuse to accept and if you bring in religion or politics or race into the mix you might as well drop some tnt onto the mess maybe some compassion all around would be helpful but there are always assholes who look to exploit any compassion for personal benefit again look at religion politics and race for numerous examples but maybe just maybe getting people to figure out the mistakes on their own would be most helpful because the realization comes from within rather than being told what to do by someone else which can make people resentful why do i say that might work because it does for me i haven t changed my self reliant playstyle much but i am more open to reaching out for and accepting help than i have in a long time i m sure that my questing buddy is having a good laugh about this right now because it sure doesn t seem like i ve changed very much but when i figured out what i know now the ego that fueled my playstyle kind of deflated and went oh which isn t a bad thing because egos do deserve to be deflated from time to time so baby steps i guess he was a miner and jewelcrafter for the record originally inscription but jewelcrafting was much more lucrative cataclysm naturally changed all that those changes to the story in the old world are big part of the reason why i don t play retail but you knew all of that posted by redbeard at 3 10 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes mmos self monday may 15 2023 meme monday rogue memes despite my love of mages and clerics i do like playing rogues my last retail wow main was a rogue azshandra who made a reappearance as both my first wow classic toon and my first new wow classic era toon i ve also played rogues or their equivalent in rift star wars the old republic guild wars 2 and elder scrolls online i may take playing rogues seriously but not so seriously that i can t laugh at them or their memes okay this is the dad joke of memes right here it s from several places on the net i do love the scouting capabilities of rogues but i truly do appreciate their innate ability to resist backstabbing their teammates from pinterest rogues in wow and other games do have that ability to sap someone which can drive enemy players absolutely bonkers i know because it used to do that to me from memesboy com but far and away the calling card of a rogue is being able to move in the shadows and stab people to death when they least expect it from fakeposters com and one bonus meme oh yes this except when you leveled straight back in mists and went from cata at l85 to the first mists of pandaria zone in quest greens oh boy was that one ugly from the otherworldly incantations fb group posted by redbeard at 8 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday may 14 2023 the wheel of time moves on and ages pass when souldat and i began this blog in 2009 the mini reds were 6 8 and 11 they are now 19 22 and 24 this past weekend my son graduated from college and armed with his bachelor s degree in history will be attending graduate school in the fall to work on his master s degree in his time away at college he got into paining minis from john kovalic s dork tower and he plays ffxiv when he asked if i was going to attend gen con this year he mentioned that at least one of his guildies was planning on attending heh he put a version of this from final fantasy xiv on his cap congrats kid onward and upward posted by 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