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other i was listening to a youtube video when it was mentioned that warcraftlogs had announced that the first week of ulduar had the most registered parses of any raid my first thought was duh alas i ve not been able to confirm that mention independently so i d place this as not surprising but unconfirmed eta fixed a formatting issue posted by redbeard at 10 44 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels raid wrath classic monday january 30 2023 meme monday monday memes this is kind of an obvious theme for meme mondays and i ve been remiss in presenting it so while you re waiting for your coffee or tea to finish brewing here you go yep yep yep yep from pinterest sometimes hoth is the perfect metaphor for mondays from tumblr i vote for the former from memegenerator net every freaking weekend from cheezburger s memebase posted by redbeard at 10 12 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes wednesday january 25 2023 a winter s day in a deep and dark uh january i ve been under a bit of a writers block lately so this post is mainly out there to force myself to write something to completion you have been warned something i ve been puzzling over the past couple of months has been my lack of interest in movies and television the past decade or so okay to be fair my declining interest in movies started long before that i think the last movie i saw in the theater or on television was the hobbit the desolation of smaug and before that uh wall e maybe now i get where my lack of reading fiction has come from i know that once i get started on a book i ll keep going until i look up and it s 5 am and i should have gone to sleep hours ago there s also my experiences with authors who don t know how to get their stories to end such as the time i threw my hands up in the air and decided that robert jordan was never going to finish the wheel of time this was when path of daggers came out and gave up on that series so no that didn t start with george r r martin then there s also the grimdark nature of modern and sophisticated f sf which seems to have a requirement that the primary characters need to suffer in order to move the plot forward as if authors and their audience are all friedrich nietzsche fans ah yes kevin kline from a fish called wanda this doesn t explain my lack of interest in movies or television shows because i used to like watching series i mean i wasn t a movie buff in the classic sense nor was i someone who d spend every evening watching television but i watched enough shows and saw enough movies that i was at least reasonably acquainted with the moviegoing experience i mean hell i even watched a daytime soap opera for several months while i was attending college so i even have that bona fide but i guess i don t know for sure why fictional television series and movies don t hold much interest for me actually maybe i do and it has to do with my psyche and the big bang theory in real life i m not a big fan of crowds or interacting with people i don t know going to parties is not on my social agenda and i avoid situations that put me out on a limb in public and those to me awkward social interactions that involve risk such as asking someone out going on a date dealing with problems at work or even interacting with people at an otherwise fun event such as a renaissance fair raise my anxiety level i mean i can do them but i don t relish them and based on failed past experiences i try to avoid them if at all possible so where does the big bang theory fit into all this because about midway through the run of tbbt on network television episodes that made me entirely uncomfortable watching began showing up not for any sex or violence or language but the cringe of watching awkward social interactions play out on television in a way that made me get up and leave the room other people could potentially watch the closet reconfiguration without a problem but the gang not respecting howard s wishes and reading the letter from his estranged father without his consent and passing it around would have been a deal breaker for me there are certain lines you don t cross and that blatant disrespect for howard s wishes in a topic as sensitive as his dad would have been enough for me to cut them out i don t care that the gang felt bad about it afterward that they did it in the first place meant i would never trust any one of them again or in the speckerman recurrence where leonard is contacted via facebook by someone who bullied him all through high school i simply can t watch because i would never have accepted the meeting request in the first place when i left high school i left that part of my life behind and simply cut off pretty much all ties with my classmates i d have a hard time finding a smaller violin to play a sad tune on if someone from that period in my life particularly more so if it were one of the bullies were to reach out to me and watching that train wreck of an episode from my perspective was too much especially when leonard accepted the invitation to meet for drinks thank you mr bucemi from giphy com after about that episode i dropped the big bang theory from my watch list and well i haven t picked up anything since maybe it s because i m happier playing it safe but i don t find any amount of catharsis from watching shows that make me cringe or watching characters i like suffer and or die yeah i know what happens to hedwig and sirius black and dumbledore and in avengers infinity war and in the world of warcraft legion expansion and in final fantasy xiv stormblood and well you get the idea if you want to avoid spoilers to anything and everything probably rule 1 is to throw out your internet connection maybe that s why i like open world games and rpg settings and whatnot you are free to imagine the possibilities what might be and not what is so that you can forget all of the cringe inducing aspects of work and life while other people might enjoy movies and television i no longer can i ve seen enough parts of my life that i ve desperately tried to bury dug up and put on screen much too frequently over the years to relax and enjoy the ride there s more to it than just that i do have issues with series fiction where i get to a point where i just like where the characters are and i m just reluctant to move past that i guess i know that bad things will happen that s the entire point of fiction it seems to provide conflict and i look at that next book in the series and go i m perfectly fine where the characters are right now thanks that s why i ve not continued series such as kristen britain s green rider novels past the high king s tomb finished off the mistborn trilogy or gotten much deeper than a book or two into the two jim butcher series of novels or yes even harry potter i stopped after goblet of fire and never had much of an inclination to pick up the rest of the books in the series it s not that i think the stories above were bad or anything i was just fine where i was at and didn t feel the need to move beyond that point days of our lives circa late 1988 to early 1989 beware there s waaaay too much 80 s hair in that youtube video and yes this has caused heated arguments with my wife on numerous occasions my wife is an extrovert and much more outgoing than i am and in the early years of our marriage we frequently fought over her desire to go out to bars and listen to bands whereas i just wanted to relax at home and do homebody stuff i don t know when we stopped fighting over this but i think we eventually settled into an uneasy truce there are still flare ups over my avoidance of these things but not so often as before it s not that she understands me so much as whether she wants to spend time arguing with me over it as a kid i dealt with betrayals like that and if there s one thing i ve learned from sad experience is that if someone does something like this once they won t stop at just the one thing even if they feel remorse for having done that first thing the old fool me once shame on you fool be twice shame on me adage in full display for everyone to see with george r r martin you get both for the price of one eta corrected grammar posted by redbeard at 3 11 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings self monday january 23 2023 meme monday winter blahs memes you know you re in the depths of winter when you kind of start wishing it were warm outside okay for a person like me who prefers fall and winter you can reach your breaking point sometime after mid january when the unceasingly gray landscape starts to get to you so here s some memes to break up the monotony always look on the bright side of life from makeameme org ya gotta believe from winkgo com that s pretty accurate but in my case my wife would use that as a prelude to shoving me off the bed in her sleep yes i ve woken up on the floor before from thefunnyplace net uh that s gonna be a while snoopy from lovethispic com posted by redbeard at 8 51 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes monday january 16 2023 meme monday miscellaneous memes again i suppose that most meme mondays are miscellaneous in one form or another but here s yet another collection of various and sundry memes i ve uh done this before from rpg net i m not saying that some mmo players are assholes okay yeah i kind of am from vance whitmer when my questing buddy asks me to be a murder hobo for her i pull out this handy chart from fb s dndmemes yeah it s kind of like that from reddit posted by redbeard at 10 01 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes wednesday january 11 2023 little did they know back when i first began playing mmos okay wow back in 2009 most of my game time was spent playing in parallel with people by that i mean i was out in the game doing whatever while soul and his wife were also online and playing but we weren t necessarily doing the same thing we may have been questing but we weren t questing together or even in the same area my playing on the family pc also meant that i had to work around my wife and my kids usage as well so i moved in the direction of solo play at odd hours this was my life when the mini reds were in elementary school from yourtango com middle school sounded the death knell for early morning wow because the kids would have to get up at 6 am to catch the bus and or get dropped off at school and i wasn t getting up at 4 am to play wow okay in 2020 i began staying up until 3 am to finish raids so i guess you could say that i came full circle but still for me playing mmos began to mean doing my own thing whether on my own or grouped with strangers there s a certain amount of freedom to being on when nobody else that you know is for example if you re on a pvp server in wow you can make a run for it through certain zones without worrying about whether some max level toon is going to come along and gank you kind of like this running as horde through wetlands and dun morogh from tenor com no matter how much you try to handwave it there s a significant amount of stress involved and even in the off hours that s no guarantee that some toon won t come along and fuck you up just because however i discovered way back in 2009 that if you time that run from arathi through to the badlands just right you won t see a soul on the road these past few weeks i ve been channeling my younger self and have been spending more and more time on my alts such as linna 2 0 and neve getting them to max level and doing things that i used to do on azshandra and cardwyn in my pre raid days run battlegrounds quest and queue for instances i know the wrath instances very well having done them back in the day ad nauseum so i m comfortable queueing for those instances in what passes for an lfg system in wrath classic i also made a point of doing that dungeon running when it s highly unlikely that i ll run into anybody i know from the franken guild on atiesh us my status on the server as deuce messy and uncomfortable and all means that i try my hardest not to put myself out there where i could run into people i don t care to interact with and that means leaving deuce on the shelf when outside of raids while i get in touch with my past bolster my defenses hurry curse you i can imagine that you might be thinking hey atiesh us is supposed to be a very large server why all the caution that s because i keep running into the same people while doing leveling dungeons on atiesh on myzrael us which is a much smaller server that s to be expected but on atiesh yeah it s very much a thing just like back in the day when i ran dungeons at odd hours i kept seeing regulars in the automated lfd tool despite being in a large battlegroup this brings up yet another item that i discovered in tbc classic and has seemingly carried over into wrath classic people sprinted to max level and jumped straight into raiding and once they and their primary alts hit max level dungeon running participation plummeted i guess i shouldn t be surprised at this development and from conversations i ve had with people in game it also seems that people are getting bored or whatnot and are unsubscribing and or dropping from raid teams until the next phase hits if this sounds like a modern mentality of saying i ve done that already so i ll unsub until new content drops yes it does and with that revelation i think i can now explain the sudden reappearance of the joyous journeys xp buff far sooner than people expected to try to fight that yo yo effect of people subbing and unsubbing but i digress i ve found a lot of relaxation and joy in just going with the flow and running some dungeons with people whom i ve become acquainted with over the past few weeks we re not guildies or anything but we re people who know each others abilities and we reach out to each other if we ve got a spot available there s no pressure involved and even if it doesn t work out as intended we ll still have fun what ingvar needs is some stylish gear that s all i m gonna miss these brutal battlegear sets that our group was rocking the biggest part about these dungeon runs is that i truly do feel no pressure to perform the expectations are different for me in these runs because i know going in that i m not going to have a lot of gear so i won t be rocking the charts or anything and when a piece of blue gear drops that i can use it s a bonus all around i can hear my questing buddy already saying that we want to just hang with you not put any pressure or anything on you the thing is no matter what is said and i m sure it s meant by everybody i know who has told it to me i still put pressure on myself to perform there i even put it in italics 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