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ones that does me no favors when performing actions and can you imagine the nightmare if you were red green colorblind i m not for clarity s sake then we have to talk about the in game maps the maps are kinda sorta faithful to the old pauline baynes map of middle earth my own copy was passed down to me from my mom and i gave it to my son i was surprised to find that museoteca has an interactive map on their site this was the map that inspired my exploration into sf f the thing is there s a difference between being faithful to the original map and making an in game map actually usable this is light years better than what it used to be but even when i had a smaller monitor nothing was sharp the original map design was much worse where everything was washed out brownish colors and trying to distinguish details was poor at best and the quest markers they were all various colors of rings for the one ring but they were too hazy and poorly placed to make any details out either i know that i was looking forward to an overhaul of the ui as was wilhelm arcturus but more for overall improvements of the clarity of the design until then why bash my head against a wall metaphorically speaking when i try to play the game in as much the same way as i love swtor s story lotro s story is extremely well done and i miss being able to progress in it but for me it s not worth it to keep playing in earnest when i have these visual issues doom and other fps games have a simple problem i get nauseous when i play them from memecrunch and step brothers i know i m not the only one out there that gets motion sick when playing some types of video games and there s articles out there with advice on how to deal with the problem such as this one still the only way i ve been able to successfully combat this motion sickness is to use dramamine in the same fashion that i d take dramamine before riding on a train or a plane still i made the decision a long time ago that if i was going to have to be medicated in order to play a video game i probably shouldn t be playing said video game it does save me money in the long run as i don t purchase fps games but it does make me sad that i can t play a specific class of video games i recently discovered much to my horror that the nasa moonbase alpha video game gave me the same motion sickness as fps shooters did so what looks like a rather good lunar base simulation is sadly unplayable for me thankfully it s free to play so i didn t lose any money buying it only to discover i can t play it but still it s a tough pill to swallow i m pulling this out of my archives just so you know why you shouldn t want to have your game compared to tera uh yeah interesting enemies you got there and no i m not posting a pic of the elin i have standards posted by redbeard at 4 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels age of conan fps shooters lotro memes musings swtor tera video games friday february 2 2024 return of the happy hour one of the things that i remembered fondly from my time in that horde guild back in 2010 2011 was that on fridays after work there would frequently be an impromptu happy hour in wow the guild was split between people in the eastern time zone and the pacific time zone so at 5 pm est and then at 8 pm est we d have people getting off work and getting online to relax and chat alcohol was optional of course but after a long week at work it was nice to grab a beer and chat online while i worked on dinner there was no pressure to actually run anything at that time although if you wanted to run a dungeon with guildies it was an option even when that wow guild imploded i found another happy hour on lord of the rings online with the local band on the gladden server playing at 5 pm est in bree i reached into the archives for this one the mini reds found the band first but after they informed me of the friday afternoon concert i became a regular as well i didn t often drink during these concerts but there were weeks where a beer or a glass of wine felt like a good idea however my participation in these happy hour concerts ended when the kids reached high school and they joined the marching band that meant that in the autumn friday after work was spent going to high school football games to watch the marching band eight years later the mini reds aren t quite so mini and they ve all graduated high school and gone to college it s been a few years since we last attended a high school football game but of course it s also been a few years since the pandemic began as well and oh yeah it s been a few years since my health was turned upside down when i returned to wow classic in 2019 i fully expected to remain guildless it wasn t a desire to play solo per se but when you ve had enough drama within guilds and being the parent of teenagers you prefer to keep the drama to a minimum that being said i did kind of miss the old happy hour on fridays the ability to just kick back and relax where people are glad to see you from cheers via yarn co i ended up joining a few guilds in my wow classic career and with the exception of the one guild pivoting toward a truly hardcore raiding scene which directly led to my departure from it i had an okay time i say okay because being on a west coast server meant there weren t a lot of people on when i got off work that usually happened when it hit 5 pm pacific time but now with my involvement in classic era with my questing buddy and a small cadre of friends originally hers but i kind of got adopted by them it feels good while we re not part of the same guild we have a chat channel that we share that keeps us all connected we also use their old tbc classic guild s discord server for when we want to get in voice chat today being friday means that we ll likely get on voice chat and enjoy the company of each other for a while it ll be later than the traditional happy hour as some of them have kids that need to be put to bed but it definitely qualifies as one to me now about that beer yes i can drink beer but i have to ration my amounts and yes i know that means light beer for the most part and that probably sucks for a lot of people but local breweries make light beer such as this one that taste much better than the big brands and i support the local economy from the braxton brewing company covington kentucky to be clear it wasn t to watch the football team we were there to watch our kids and the football team lost their games a lot and by a lot i mean that seasons where they only won one game wasn t that uncommon there s also drama in our neighborhood that i definitely try my damnedest to avoid but don t always succeed in a way not sending my kids to catholic schools which is where most of the kids in our neighborhood attend has been a boon in the end it sure didn t feel like it at first but once the kids grew up i realized i d successfully avoided most of the parochial school church related drama and there tends to be a crap ton of it from what i can see posted by redbeard at 11 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels friends lotro memes musings self wow wow classic thursday august 24 2023 just who are you really part 2 of uh 3 actually i figured i d start an exploration of some of my pcs and toons with my ad d 1e character alarius you know stick to the classics at first i d originally joked that i should name him joe the cleric hence the joe there and yes when someone says something funny at the table it goes on my character sheet somewhere alarius is in some ways an unfunny me he takes himself far too seriously doesn t really like the hilarious moniker he was given and doesn t talk much about his gods there s an out of game reason for that last part as one of our game group is a methodist minister and therefore i m not inclined to be obnoxious as far as in game religion is concerned alarius began the adventuring life following up on rumors of slavers operating in the area and joined up with a group to pursue those rumors along the way the slaver conspiracy kept growing in scope and size and as the group gained in knowledge and strength they began to find themselves a target of the slavers themselves when they finally reached the heart of the slaving operation they were instead captured and thrown into the dungeon presumably to await execution only a fortuitous volcanic eruption a gift from the gods alarius said at the time allowed them to escape find their gear and overwhelm the guards at the docks yes that was the content of the old ad d slave lords modules a0 through a4 while perusing the slavers documents alarius discovered that a shipment of slaves had been sent out to a remote area which stood out from other possible locales the party reassembled and headed out to investigate only to discover that the surrounding countryside was under assault from a clan of hill giants oh yes it s that module alarius and company defeated the hill giants and followed the trail to a stronghold of frost giants and subsequently to a fortress of fire giants it was only then that they discovered the long rumored but never seen dark elves or drow not only existed but were directing the fire giants in their acquisition of slaves at the moment alarius is somewhere underground following a path marked on an incomplete map to what appears to be a drow city the party already had to fight off some drow slavers who took off with some of their number and followed them to an underground supply post the abductees were subsequently rescued and everybody escaped an underground supply post by the skin of their teeth yes we re finished with module d1 descent into the depths of the earth and are about to start d2 shrine of the kuo toa for those who don t know who kuo toa are think giant murlocs evil giant murlocs aranandor is up next an elven champion in lotro there are stories about that already lotro is an ideal game if you want a story because the original shadows of angmar story is absolutely fantastic you can get bogged down a bit while you level and the ui is really bad for the red green colorblind but if you re a fan of middle earth it s always worth a trip so aranandor i made a point of making a character with an accurate quenya name although after the royal aran i think it means royal noble of andor or maybe not aranandor spent some time earlier in the third age at rivendell but eventually grew restless and made the trip to ered luin where the grey havens lay as the shadow of the east grew larger he considered following the call of the sea and going to the undying lands but instead he chose to stay and fight the shadow as best he could the witch king wove many intricate plots around eriador from ered luin to bree and even as far east and south as eregion and no matter how hard aranandor tried he always felt that the minions of the witch king were a step ahead of him as angmar looked unstoppable the witch king s chief minion decided to dole out his own twisted form of justice on a minion he perceived to be insufficiently loyal that turning on a loyal minion causing the minion to in turn betray the shadow was the break aranandor and the free peoples needed strange how such a thing as petty jealousy can cause the downfall of the great aranandor once mused while resting at imladris after the angmar affair aranandor spent time with the dwarves in khazad dum a relentlessly grim place that he shudders to remember the boughs of lothlorien were more to his liking his kin from afar dwelt there after all but even there the shadow stretched its arms toward the golden lady he would die for galadriel and celeborn but rather than asking that sort of sacrifice they instead chose another to draw the attention of mordor away from the fellowship aranandor was tasked with assisting an assault into mirkwood the darkness that dwelt there reminded the elf far too much of the darkness in moria and as companions died his spirits flagged a change was needed when he returned to imladris for healing and rest elrond summoned him to his side word has reached us that aragorn has need of his kinsmen he told the elf assemble the rangers of the north so that they may head south and rendezvous with him in rohan ever the dutiful wood elf aranandor rode throughout the north bringing word to the rangers and then riding south with them to the country of the dunlendings there he found loyalty and betrayal among the people so thoroughly dominated by saruman yet he also found courage and heart in those few dunlendings who rejected the shadow it is there that aranandor s story ends for much lies before him and is yet to be told as you can guess aranandor s primary motivation is his desire to see the shadow defeated but the long and often lonely paths he has trod has worn on him he smiles less now and he has seen far too many of those he calls friends fall in battle or to the plots of the enemy yet he has not totally forsaken the grey havens as he knows that when this age is over he may yet cross over the sea to the west blaugust2023 i suggested it and it stuck posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2023 d d lotro rpgs older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred and other junk we have to talk about 1 day ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 1 week ago twisted nether blogcast moving to youtube episodes 346 348 4 months ago battle bards the final refrain 1 year ago ootinicast a star wars the old republic swtor podcast ootinicast episode 503 1 year ago mmo blogroll kamalia et alia sunday on the promenade 297 2 hours ago massively overpowered dc universe 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