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y times on pc to count i ve never signed up for twitter and i don t promote the blog via facebook or google i ve likened this as my way of shouting into the wind without much worry about causing a hurricane a half a world away it once showed up on the front page of google search results for tanking the lich king soul was very proud of that eta corrected a couple of grammatical errors posted by redbeard at 9 56 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging musings parallel context wow wednesday november 29 2017 i blame the holidays well the us thanksgiving season has come and gone and with that a visit from the oldest mini red for 9 days i provided the transportation as her university is 130 mi 209 km away and as is the grand american tradition for college students returning home for holidays she brought her laundry along and her laptop and a desire to get back into playing lotro and swtor she tried playing in some spare time while she was away but she discovered that the dorm s network is really bad because it s simply overwhelmed with connections when she needs a stable connection for her classwork she retreats to the music building to work but she doesn t goof off when she s there not that i consider mmos goofing off per se since i do write about them but i understand and admire her dedication to her classwork when i was in college mumbledy mumble years ago i played the original bards tale ultima iv and v the original sim city sim earth and various infocom games in my spare time not to mention games designed for the vax system such as angband or star trader or our saturday afternoon d d game still her ability to login to swtor at home after it updated naturally was a nice bonus to her visit we didn t team up for anything but she spent a lot of time puttering around an old assassin of hers and reacquainting herself with the game perhaps it was her class selection that provided me with inspiration but i started playing an old jedi shadow that i d created on the red eclipse but allowed to languish once i got to coruscant she was one of two toons i had that i was forced to make a name change i think i got really lucky and i made a minimal tweak and logged into a zone surrounded by black sun thugs i d forgotten how much fun having a trandoshian around as a companion can be due to this toon being in a rest area for a couple of years as well as the xp bonus that was going on i was outleveling planets a chapter away that felt really odd but on the flip side i wasn t getting gear for my actual level from questing so between that and the artificial level suppression it kept my toon in line sort of but i think that this time i m going to keep qyzen around as my companion since a i ve never followed his story all the way through and b companions aren t limited in their role anymore i didn t need a tank when playing as a shadow i needed a healer and now qyzen can do that too still it felt good to kick off the rust and go questing in swtor and get a hammer station random instance in now over the mini reds winter break i m looking forward to getting back into some mmo playing i ve not done in months so if you re wondering where the blog vanished to now you know being a geek i noted a network connector in her common room and brought up a relatively inexpensive hub for her to use because i knew that cinder block walls and wifi don t mix well even then the network connection is poor simply due to the overwhelming use the night before i picked her up most of her fellow students had already left for home and the network finally became usable surprise posted by redbeard at 8 40 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college family swtor thursday november 16 2017 adios marvel heroes if there was an mmo that i d played over the past several years that was going to be the first to shut down odds are good that i d not have guessed it was marvel heroes gazillion released the game as a steaming hot mess but they diligently cleaned it up and made it a bright spot in the mmo world particularly that they were at an intersection point between all of the marvel characters including squirrel girl the new ms marvel luke cage and all of the big properties avengers and x men and fantastic four but apparently things were not good in gazillion land you can read about the accusations of sexual misconduct missed updates and events and other items here over at massively op s article the game shuts down on december 31st but knowing disney they likely have a new software developer of choice i ve read that square enix is likely it but you never know with disney posted by redbeard at 1 03 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels marvel heroes news wednesday november 15 2017 small worlds i was on swtor the other day playing around with a new jedi shadow when i finished up taris and returned to the ship there i had my latest conversation with qyzen and i was reminded once again about how intertwined the characters in the swtor universe are you might remember the conversation about qyzen and his rancor trophy you might even remember how important the trophy meant to qyzen but do you remember who he worked with back then qyzen mentioned it in passing almost an offhand remark braden as in braden the npc at the beginning of the bounty hunter story the more i play swtor the more i m surprised by the entanglements that the pcs the primary npcs and their companions have i realize this is by design but bioware didn t have to do this they could just as easily had 8 class stories that were completely disconnected from the others but these little intersections serve a larger purpose that everything the pcs do is connected with each other they are to borrow a term from robert jordan s wheel of time ta veren but i had another case of deja vu when my wife and i watched an espn 30 for 30 documentary about ric flair the other day no really i suppose you d never guess by my writing that in my teen years in the 80s i followed professional wrestling while i realize that some people had their older siblings or their friends get them interested in the so called soap opera for guys my father was the one who introduced me to pro wrestling when he was a boy in the 50s and early 60s he used to ride bikes with his friends to the cincinnati gardens to watch wrestling there and he developed a love for the sport even though he and i would mainly talk about college basketball i hadn t realized that he d kept up with pro wrestling all through the years until i was cleaning up his old mac after he passed away and discovered the wwe link at the top of his favorites watching the documentary titled nature boy was a chance to get back in touch with my youth i d not followed wrestling since my time at college and the over the top drama and plotlines couldn t help but make me chuckle yes pro wrestling certainly earns its moniker of being a soap opera for guys the obnoxious boasting from the wrestlers the choreographed moves and the so called drama of the production was something you simply couldn t take seriously however as i watched the documentary from a vantage point of almost 30 years removed from following the sport i realized just how much the pro wrestling world had impacted the design of some of these newer mmos for example here s a pic from tera online complete with championship belt and now contrast it with a few classic pro wrestling stills the nature boy himself ric flair wooooooooo indeed from villains wiki randy macho man savage on the left and hulk hogan on the right if this doesn t scream protect the princess boys i don t know what does from reddit but a version of this is on wikipedia org but a larger influence is found from the world of women s pro wrestling yes that is a thing when i was in college there was glow the gorgeous ladies of wrestling that hoped to capitalize on the popularity of the wwf and wcw but was frequently relegated to midnight on saturday nights but the wwe has spent a while now promoting women s wrestling which includes ric flair s daughter charlotte her dad used to enter the ring wearing a cape robe of his own from wwe com and a couple of other pics from wwe com from lethalwow com no not a world of warcraft site just sayin now the reason why i point to pro wrestling versus mixed martial arts mma is that the mma clothing is strictly practical in nature whereas the influence of pro wrestling s undeniably sexed up outfits can be seen in archeage my short lived warborn alas that archeage has a two character limit for non subs and in tera online my castanic what is it about devil characters that people find so appealing i suppose you could even throw draenei into that mix even though they never were corrupted it feels odd looking at pro wrestling and seeing mmos instead in its own way the plotlines in pro wrestling is analogous to these newer mmos where story isn t quite as important as bashing people looking good and preening like an alpha but i shouldn t be surprised because pro wrestling is pop culture and mmos do reflect pop culture sure other mmos may not reflect it as obviously as wow does with its quirky names and questlines but pop culture does extend a long shadow over mmos and video games in general we may think we re playing games that are immune to or isolated from what we consider to be the larger world but we re not the larger world does provide at least a subconscious influence on our smaller gaming worlds and we should pay attention to that influence mmos and other games video and otherwise reflect their times even if those times include eyebrow raising wrestling outfits to be perfectly honest my wife set the dvr to record it not me i wasn t so sure whether i wanted to watch it but i figured oh hell why not more world championship wrestling than what was then known as the world wrestling federation now called world wrestling entertainment after a lawsuit from the world wildlife fund forced a name change as one person in the documentary put it the wcw was for more blue collar people who loved to watch wrestling and the wwf was geared toward kids and teens they operated in two completely different circles as well as watch the nba team the cincinnati royals whose most famous player was oscar roberston oscar known as the big o was one of the greatest players of his generation and one of the all time greats of basketball given that the big o s career overlapped that of wilt chamberlain bill russell doctor j julius erving and kareem abdul jabbar that s saying quite a bit the cincinnati royals moved to kansas city in 1971 and were renamed the kings and in 1985 they moved to their current location in sacramento for the rest of his days my father was mad at the royals management who basically sold off the team s best players and then used the plummeting attendance as an excuse to move okay i guess i ought to confess one other item during my sophomore year at college i got hooked on the nbc daytime soap opera days of our lives i blame my roommate at the time who was hooked on it before me so for several months i would take my lunchtime break and pull up a chair by a television set around campus to watch days after about 5 months worth of shows however i just threw up my hands and said that the plot was way too over the top for me to find remotely enjoyable still it does give me an appreciation of how much work and acting skill to keep the show going every week out of the year posted by redbeard at 10 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mmos musings pro wrestling swtor wednesday november 8 2017 a few minor changes i know the blog looks out of date if that wasn t obvious before now a short glance at the redesign that navimie did for the daily frostwolf druid edition shows just how ancient that this circa 2009 design is there goes navi raising the bar for the rest of us just teasing navi this is really a great redesign however i have added one item on the sidebar that i wanted to highlight the youtube channels list unfortunately blogger doesn t yet have the ability to provide the latest entry in a youtube channel but i can provide the channel link itself and while the list is small i really want to highlight the list because i enjoy seeing the content from all of the entries sure geek and sundry is the only major channel present at the time of this post but some of my fellow blogger friends have channels that need more visibility given that i m not a big fan of streaming or posting my own videos i really admire my friends for their efforts and their professionalism in their work that does bring up for me a topic that has been simmering in the background for quite a while the evolution of how gamers share their love of gaming when souldat and i started pc back in 2009 blogging was one of the primary methods of communicating about mmos there were youtube channels videos by fans of course but beyond blogging and podcasting there were more commercial websites such as kotaku or polygon and software company forums but while blogging as a primary source of gamer activity has declined streaming and other more modern forms of social media have taken over another way of looking at this is how we obtain pc games these days the last game i had on a physical disk that didn t require me to have an online presence to either login or obtain updates or even the game itself even though i d bought a copy was civilization iv complete circa 2010 or 2011 all of my other games i ve purchased i had to be online to download via either the company site or a service such as steam or to even use the game such as diablo 3 or the most recent sim city what happened over this time bandwidth happened to the tune of a big expansion of both the download speeds as well as upload speeds that bandwidth not only makes software downloads more practical but also makes personal streaming uploads more practical however bandwidth wasn t the only technical hurdle it s also about the computing and graphics power a computer has given the leaps and bounds that processors motherboards and even storage has made over the past 8 years the capacity of computers to not only handle a game and a livestream but also maintain both for a minimal drop in framerate is pretty amazing when i started playing wow it was on what was then a middle of the road 32 bit intel core duo that ran vista i could play wow with mediocre graphics but playing wow and connecting to vent proved a bit of a stretch i ended up pressing my work laptop into service with vent while i played wow on the main machine and automated backups oh boy would they tank your machine but within five years intel and amd were putting out processors that could handle all of that plus run chrome with a full load of tabs and extensions as 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