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fanbase that sir terry s works has atlas games saw their crowdfunding effort shatter that goal in a grand total of 3 minutes as of 1 32 pm est the definitive edition is definitely aiming toward the fans of the game with an elaborate slipcase cover that holds the core rulebook a reference guide a storyguide screen and a poster map of mythic europe the physical edition isn t cheap at 150 but a digital only version of the core rulebook is 40 and a bit more practical if you re trying to save money yes the rules are exactly the same as that found in the current 5th edition of ars magica but the layout has been reworked and all of the extra rules scattered across all the supplements have been incorporated into this version of the core rulebook throw in the new artwork and layout and well here s hoping that the reorganized 5th edition rules explain the game better because if you want to grow the game you have to get people involved and up to speed on all the details as for me taking the mythic europe setting and the ars magica rules and creating a rules lite version using say fate would be absolutely awesome as i ve gotten older i prefer a more free wheeling type of game can t you tell i was informed by my wife that music releases have moved from tuesday to friday close to a decade ago and given that she works at target she ought to know this sort of thing i m not that plugged into music release dates anymore since i rarely buy music when it first comes out and i d rather support smaller or local artists aha found it that value is a conversion to us dollars from a backing goal of 100 000 tender lovin care eta added in the source of the 130 549 goal eta helps if i include the link to the backerkit project for ars magica definitive edition posted by redbeard at 1 57 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ars magica crowdfunding discworld monday october 14 2024 meme monday weekend warrior memes i spent some time working on the deck the past few weekends and that push has gotten me to thinking about people who tackle projects on the weekends and evenings for a variety of different reasons and that naturally led me to memes about this when you ve got a project you don t think in terms of having the weekend off from the nfl this was me last night and i think it carried over to today still i m not a morning person per se so this may be normal from corporatebish and cheezburger okay i ll admit it i put this one here for the knight rider gif from yarn and knight rider naturally but the really bad part about being a weekend warrior is that mondays bring no comfort from cheezburger posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes wednesday october 9 2024 and here i thought it was lester s imprint a week ago this short video about judy lynn del rey from the pbs show american masters was put on youtube if you look at my bookshelf you d see del rey books represented all over the place many of my favorite sf f authors wrote for del rey so i thought i knew the imprint pretty well uh nope i always thought it was lester that was the dominant factor in the imprint but it turns out it was his wife judy lynn instead maybe del rey was called that because of lester s name but judy lynn made it the force it was back in the 80s and early 90s there were some novels that i ordinarily would have passed on but picked up back then because of that del rey imprint such as barbara hambly s those who hunt the night i don t think i can be blindly loyal to a publisher like that anymore but i did enjoy those novels far more often than not still it s a fascinating bit of sf f history about a woman who made her mark in genres i loved posted by redbeard at 10 30 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels f sf videos monday october 7 2024 meme monday 90s memes yeah i was on a 70s kick for a while and i ve some posts cooking that will result from that but i ve been listening to music from the late 90s the past few days help i have fly by sugar ray in my head and i can t get it out it seems that the tunes that i ve been reminiscing about have been happier ones i m aware that it s the rose colored glasses effect but the music took a darker turn after 9 11 in the same way that grunge ushered in a more depressing tone in music after the late 80s pop and hair metal or it could be just nirvana rage against the machine and alice in chains so here s some 90s memes for people who need to remember a time when the internet was young or felt young and innocent yes that is dwayne the rock johnson from imgflip ah yes before viral videos there was bob saget showing us people doing stupid things on their own video recordings from imgflip and throwbacks com friends is 30 years old as of this fall for reference seeing it on television now is like seeing gilligan s island on television back in the mid 90s from odetoclassy i have this exact model of portable cd player it was part of a combo cd player cassette adapter for the car and foam earphones that my parents got me for christmas one year i used it all the time to play cds in the car during my commute from the west side of cincinnati to the east side where i worked no i never had pants so large that i would consider putting the player in there from thegamer this is more of an 80s thing but cassettes were still going strong in the early 90s from the daily drawing comic and finally one bonus 90s meme i laughed i know i m a bad person and if you don t know who these two olympians are well google 90s ice skating drama from imgflip posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday october 5 2024 no fdic insurance for your guild bank kurn posted an update on the great blizzard bank heist the short summary is that no new items were restored and she provided commentary on the comments from her first video that blizzard hasn t provided any communication on this issue isn t surprising to me because a huge monolithic corporation bobby kotick s version or satya nadella s has other things to worry about if the contract doesn t call for their explicit attention put another way the people who lost items are too small in stature for micro blizz to care and it also wouldn t shock me if blizz never bothered with a proper restoration because that cost money in terms of people and space the longer this has gone on the more it seems to me that changes under the hood that led to the deletion of massive amounts of items from some guild banks was actually a data wipe items that were no longer in the game or may have had some potential data corruption from years of activity were simply removed and that was that i ve seen database cleanups that have had this sort of effect before particularly on unstable databases at those times you have to do a manual dump of the database contents and potentially clean up the database by hand it is by far a miserable task but cleaning up a database like this is something that ought to be done it will take a ton of time but there also needs to be a full amount of transparency involved with the customers us i d actually respect blizzard a lot more if they were up front about what they were doing instead of this whole too bad so sad non response after items were removed if the answer to fixing the data meant removing all the items from a guild bank into a temporary guild bank and then putting items back into a rebuilt guild bank to fix any potential corruption that should have been done oh and once again a season of discovery rollout affected classic era as of a week ago all of our bars were reset so you have to go back into every toon on settings and re enable your action bars one of my wow friends was in blackwing lair on thursday night and the drakes in there were massively bugged they hadn t wiped to them in ages and yet they kept wiping due to wonky drake behavior i didn t get any real details other than this crap sucks but let s say she s not a fan of sod impacting era s raids and some pull down menus like that found on your toon to reset a dungeon have that table s font and font size absolutely huge compared to the rest of the ui given that blizz has implemented some changes into era in the past few months i m not confident that this will ever get resolved if you think that if you were a larger customer you d get better customer service well let s just say that some fortune 500 companies are beginning to discover that azure cloud and aws don t really give a crap about any special services for them unlike when they might have gotten that extra service in the past from outsourcing firms that had their own datacenters eta i meant to write action bars corrected posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs retail videos tuesday october 1 2024 all that s past is prologue sometimes i wonder if blizzard s legacy of an rts game developer has unduly influenced their world of warcraft expansion design oh not that wow is going to turn into an rts despite what a subset of the player base might want but where or more precisely who the emphasis is on in an expansion compared to some rts games such as age of empires blizzard s rts design incorporates leaders into a story and makes them the central part of the story the warcraft and starcraft games told sure you re there as the player but the story revolves around these central characters from starcraft remastered you can see that the leaders are incorporated into the mission design and not just cutscenes from resetera not only did the polish and gameplay set blizzard s rts games apart but the stories they told influenced their design of the diablo games as an action rpg with a defined plot from diablo 2 resurrected screencap from ars technica blizzard s second last rts game warcraft iii went all in on the story and leaders where more rpg elements were added into the rts design than ever before more tightly integrating the story with the rts game itself so blizzard did something unexpected they pivoted and created an mmo that doesn t have any of those central design tenets the release of vanilla world of warcraft was not only a departure from blizzard s rts core but a change in design emphasis sure there are faction leaders and other important personnel around throughout azeroth but the game design didn t revolve around them there wasn t a main story in the same way that other blizzard designs had but a bunch of smaller stories that were strung together with quest chains instead of a tightly integrated story with an emphasis on the leaders as main characters the player was the main character in a vast world with minimal emphasis on the heroics of the few people in charge i guess that wasn t bound to last because a decentralized game world wasn t in blizzard s dna it took a few expansions but by wrath of the lich king wow had pretty much returned to the blizzard fold in that the leaders and a central story were tightly integrated into the game and it s been that way ever since this is what blizzard is most familiar with developing and your job as the player is to basically facilitate the story that the faction leaders are involved with like or hate the story this is the pattern that formed in the warcraft and starcraft games and that is what blizzard knows best people myself included rail against the so called lobby based nature of retail wow but when you consider it is the spiritual successor to the earlier rts and arpg games that built blizzard s reputation it s not a great surprise when you throw in the lobby based story found in shooter games such as call of duty blizzard is providing what they believe gamers expect out of a game in the same manner that turn based isometric rpgs are tightly integrated into larian studios business what we are seeing out of retail wow is in blizzard s it would take a monumental effort to break out of that design philosophy and i m not altogether sure it would be a good idea for blizz at this point to do so as much as i prefer classic era blizzard s fanbase doesn t expect that decentralized non story driven design out of them they expect lobby based story beats with an emphasis on the faction leads and the other chief protagonists if anything the leveling process in the game world is the anachronism here it s a nod to an era when blizzard broke out of what they did best as a company to try something new with different design parameters and blizzard can t bring itself to shed that vestige of it s old mmo design instead blizzard uses the leveling process to move the story from the introductory phase to the why of group content at the end it s not an end in itself as it was in vanilla wow but in service to the endgame which is where the real story in retail wow begins no i was not going to put that line from south park in here if you want it you can go find it via a quick search from youtube it is kind of funny in its own way that the retail wow player base argues about details in expansions such as systems whether the group content is any good or the quality of the story but they have simply accepted the larger design philosophy as is what you see out of blizzard now is what you will get because they have no incentive to try anything truly new even season of discovery isn t that new it s just a reshuffling of the cards as it were but keeping the same basic design in place since blizzard is now the mmo and action rpg developer in microsoft s stable they are most likely destined to stay in their lane and only work on those items if you ve a dev team that wants to try something new don t expect to find yourself under the blizzard arm of microsoft game studios you re better off going independent yes i know i m not that fond of the plot in diablo there s a lot more action and a lot less rpg in the diablo games that doesn t mean there s no plot however no plot is more akin to playing gauntlet than diablo despite the mechanics similarities apologies to the elder scrolls online but zenimax bethesda is known for first person rpgs not mmos in my opinion it wouldn t surprise me if eso eventually gets moved under blizzard because they re the mmo developer for microsoft never mind the game world or the corporate culture there s always a bean counter somewhere who wants things to align perfectly under their proper silos posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard diablo retail starcraft warcraft wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch 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