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but i m at that stage of my career where going on vacation is actually more trouble than it s worth i have to get ahead of the pile of crap that is in my to do list just so i can leave and not be pestered by somebody and yes that has happened several times before and then when i come back there s three times the amount of work waiting for me to deal with than if i d just stuck around you tell em ron from parks and recreation via pinterest there s also the issue of me working around off days from getting kids back and forth from college and now all of my little extra doctors visits so i ve just kind of looked at what vacation days i have and take a day or two off here and there i do look at those people who could simply take a week or two off on release of a game they ve been waiting for or an expansion and wonder how they could pull that off i mean there were so many people who were going to go balls to the wall when tbc classic and then wrath classic were released and now diablo 4 has generated the same interest and oh look there s a zelda thread about pretty much the same thing from reddit still that doesn t mean that i can t appreciate a good vacation meme so here s a few to tickle your funny bone the few times we have gone on vacation this has been my wife wanting us to make sure we get to the place on time from pinterest but this this is me from someecards alas this is me as well after over 20 years of working from home i have issues not thinking about work from quickmeme and then it s all over it must have been love but it s over nowwww from memegenerator and this was done by people who should have known better they thought that my being on vacation meant i just wasn t visible on the company s microsoft teams when they asked me to get on the network to look up something on a server they were genuinely shocked when i told them i was 3 hours away from my laptop and was going to take this discussion up with their boss when i got back yes it s more than just the title of a song by accept 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 saturday june 24 2023 friday night repairs i think i jinxed my questing buddy she logged in to raid last night and wrath classic barfed and wouldn t let her in multiple times so after a lot of debugging by disabling addons and other tips that the raid lead was providing and weren t working she decided to take drastic measures and uninstall reinstall wrath classic while she was waiting i kept her spirits up with some pics inspired by what was going on in lfg chat in our classic era cluster i found this on redbubble my oldest wants this because night elf hunters you know and then because i was curious i found a companion to that one i m not so sure i d want to uh advertise about that fact again from redbubble right about then i stumbled onto a pic from reddit that sam hogg had created as a commission and i about fell over this is the artstation version omg i found card i practically shouted in discord i have no idea who the hell the draenei is but that is cardwyn to a tee well outside of the fact that she would more likely not be in her robes but still whomever got that as a birthday present got something priceless shortly after that my questing buddy finished with the wrath classic installation but still she couldn t login so i took the data she could give me her laptop s basic info processor memory etc and the error code and did some quick research luckily for me i d been wrestling with this exact problem on my son s old laptop before it gave up the ghost so i knew where to look for the legacy amd fx series drivers i found the one for her laptop gave her the link and waited and hoped and it worked she was able to get in finally and it turned out the raid waited for her while they filled out the rest of the slots but since she d uninstalled reinstalled the game all of her addons were gone so she had to reinstall and reconfigure all of those too but the worst part of the fight was over she was back online now the raid under the friday night lights can go on in the meantime i m going to admire that artwork some more while fishing and listen to todd rundgren eta corrected a grammar problem posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art friends raid wrath classic thursday june 22 2023 it all blurs together there are times when i hit it with my axe is the best way forward me probably i hit it with my axe wooo youngest mini red in our 2 3x annual 1e ad d game as she in turn high fived one of our fellow party members yes both women play dwarven fighters are you surprised if you listen to people talk about retail wow after having been away for a while you can get absolutely lost in all of the systems and designs in the modern game you don t say returning to classic wow as a refuge from the complexity is an illusion as those devoted to the min max culture brought that back with them to classic where it has morphed into its own culture in the wrath classic servers every time i think about trying out retail i read some blog posts or watch a youtube video and story complaints notwithstanding i get lost when people start talking about the various systems in game when i also realize that unless i want to pay blizzard extra money i d have to go through battle for azeroth and shadowlands to get to dragonflight i just kind of shudder at all of the complexity those two expacs introduced if you ve been playing the game straight through that s one thing after all the systems and whatnot are gradually added over time it s when you go away for years and then come back do you realize just how crazy things have gotten there was a time when i was the one who preferred the complex over the easy to learn and hard to master method of game design back in the early 90s when i was knee deep in games such as squad leader war and peace and battle of the bulge an old high school acquaintance invited me to playtest a boardgame he and some mutual acquaintances were working on this was the sort of thing that i played back then which is victory games ambush a solitaire ww2 wargame from jonathan arnold of board game geek their game was set in the star trek universe where up to three players were fighting over control of a specific doohickey using several starships each the three factions federation klingons and romulans were pretty much equal in overall strength and movement is this like star fleet battles i asked no my friend replied that s too complex we re aiming more for axis and allies okay i thought let s give it a try the game had potential but i felt that they lost something with the rules as simple as they were the various ships with their number rating is fine i began but have you thought about two numbers one for attack and one for defense that ll allow you to have more and different types of starships out there we re not doing any of that avalon hill bullshit one of the team snapped back at me that crap is too hard and we want this to get a wide audience after that i realized that they weren t really planning on taking my advice to heart so i just kept it basic with some generally positive feedback and then found an excuse to leave rather early the irony is that not only am i the one who prefers simple systems to more complex ones these days the so called simple systems found in wow s classic era are far more complex than what i proposed back then computers have a habit of condensing complexity to manageable levels after all kirk galloping about the cosmos is a game for the young doctor uhura now what is that supposed to mean from star trek 2 the wrath of khan that s not to say that complexity is bad by any means if you know going in how complex things are and if said complexity is presented well the complexity isn t necessarily a problem the thing is if complexity is gradually added to over the course of years you may not realize just how complex things had gotten until said complexity becomes overwhelming or in my case poking my nose into world of warcraft after a decade away i like to use the blood elf starting areas up to and including the ghostlands as a great way to introduce someone into the various systems of wow well tbc era wow in a gradual fashion the build up includes things such as timed events escort quests mobs with aoe damage mobs that chain pull and mobs that drop the don t stand in the bad stuff in the end you even have opportunities for grouping up for the two abomination elites as well as dar khan drathir but along with everything else that got nerfed in cataclysm those grouping opportunities were obliterated as well that basic introduction carried my original toons all the way up to max level in original wrath of the lich king because that foundation was utilized and built upon from the beginning from what i ve read the brand new intro zone provided in shadowlands exile s reach does a great job of providing a new player a way of learning the basics of wow but what ends up happening is that those basics get thrown out the window once you reach high enough level to hit the various expansions not that people can t utilize the basics of don t stand in the bad but that you re not exposed to the systems found in the expacs until you reach those expacs like oh say legion or shadowlands or even dragonflight existing players may not notice it at all or may even think it a new quirk of the current expansion but players who had been away for years or are new will notice that wasn t always the case as the systems found in tbc classic and wrath classic flying and membership in scryers aldor being the notable exceptions are also found in vanilla classic after a while all that bait and switch complexity just blurs together and makes you feel like an idiot for not understanding it all if that doesn t happen on its own the loudmouth toxic aspects of the wow community certainly will do that for you lol l2p noob from memebase via pinterest the thing is sometimes all you want to do is hit an enemy with your axe which brings me to diablo 4 i m moderately interested in diablo 4 but to my mind as someone who never played the diablo franchise i d first want to play diablo 2 and then 3 before finally setting my foot into diablo 4 if that sounds vaguely familiar to long time readers of the blog that s the process i used to approach retail wow with starting in cataclysm i d select a toon or two and then level those new toon s from l1 all the way to max level when the new expansion dropped this meant that the crowd had already cleared to max level begun their raiding and were sitting in trade chat complaining that they were bored before i even killed my first mob in the new areas it also gave me a chance to experience the game as it was presented whether that presentation was purposely intended or not in the case of diablo i m not one to replay rpgs ad nauseum because replaying and releveling to the end at increased difficulty levels doesn t engage me so if i wanted to try those games out i d wait for a massive sale and then purchase those games at the price that reflects the worth of a single playthrough rather than a steady stream of replays for whatever reason i suspect that the replay concept of diablo arose because people would replay the game while they waited for diablo 3 and then diablo 4 to be announced and released now it s just part of how the game is played nevertheless when i watch diablo 4 youtube videos what i m struck by are how much diablo 4 and world of warcraft have blurred together terminology wise people talking about affixes grinding for renown and the various seasons could be talking about either game really add in world bosses and dungeon grinding and you d have a hard time distinguishing discussions between the two games if you weren t looking at the screen that does highlight something that i never thought i d ever have to contend with in an action rpg such as diablo just how much complexity from wow has bled over into diablo i mean i hit it with my axe is pretty much the hallmark of the diablo playstyle but if you have to pay attention to all of this other crap just to play the game to completion what s the point what else is out there that if you missed a specific item you were doomed to not playing the game right and that you had to start over we ve all experienced this feeling before which makes you wonder why you spent all this time in the first place from gamerant kind of like that ol diamond flask for warriors in wow classic if you didn t know that was a bis item for warriors in classic classic era and you missed out on selecting it as the reward from the voodoo feathers quest then you were simply shit outta luck l2p noob indeed in the end complexity is an aftereffect of how long a game has been in existence all games will over time become more and more complex as additions are made to the base game hell just look at all the additions to the various incarnations of sid meier s civilization over the years the thing is just how the game implements that complexity and builds up to that complexity is critically important and that is something that blizzard s properties need to work more extensively on such as oh 9 years from the date of this post but effectively 12 years you can just opt out of this culture as i kind of have but that only goes so far even i partake in the min max ing culture whenever i fire up sixtyupgrades com to see if a specific piece of gear is an upgrade or not still classic era has been a true refuge from the meta driven culture found in wrath classic they were most definitely old school in that they hated star trek the next generation i was the only one who regularly watched st tng and even then i stopped watching by my junior year of college i m pretty sure i soloed dar khan during the cataclysm expansion on a horde toon at level and maybe even soloed the abominations as well i want to point out that membership in aldor or scryers was entirely optional in tbc you d think it was required but i managed to simply ignore it on deuce while leveling her and never had any issues with that of course i wasn t going to raid so that meant i wasn t gaining access to any scryer or aldor specific crafting recipes but since i could just buy those if i needed them it wasn t a big deal per se flying in tbc wasn t mandatory if you weren t planning on raiding or accessing the tempest keep 5 person dungeons as my old tbc classic main briganaa didn t gain access to flying until some days after hitting max level and i absolutely was required to enter into those tempest keep instances for attunements but deuce like before skipped flying entirely until she finally had to bite the bullet and get it at l80 in northrend now that i think about it i m pretty sure that neve still doesn t have flying in wrath classic and she s been at...
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