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ern rock was out there as was new wave but when i was in high school i wasn t really exposed to it at all the legendary woxy 97 7 fm was up in oxford ohio and while we could barely pick it up back home it was more well known locally as the station used in the movie rain man the tagline was created for the movie and the station loved it so much they adopted it i knew of punk and what i heard i liked but it never got on the radio back home top 40 dominated the airwaves and big corporate radio companies jaycor a predecessor to iheartradio began in the late 80s in cincinnati were just starting to make inroads on homogenizing what you could hear over the air so i expected that going away to college would expose me to far more of what i liked than what i could hear locally but of all the things i expected to be exposed to this certainly wasn t on the menu my new roommate was from chicago and i quickly learned a few things when we moved in together we both shared a love of d d and doctor who he certainly loved his chicago cubs and chicago bears no city in the us was as good as chicago and that he was fine with putting up posters that would have given my parents a heart attack we both contributed to the decor in our dorm room my posters were more along these lines mine was a 5 foot version of this which i still have stored away in the basement from ebay but these were more of my roommate s taste i had no idea who samantha fox was until he put this 5 foot tall poster up on the back of our door this caused drama when my parents picked me up for thanksgiving from worthpoint oh and he had eclectic taste in music he had an actual cd player a portable model and the first one i d ever seen and about a dozen cds sure i d seen a few cds at stores but compared to albums and cassettes there were very few of them but i was surprised at what he had on his collection amy grant stryper he didn t seem like the sort for christian music he also had genesis invisible touch a greatest hits compilation of the young rascals and it might have been fresh aire iii but this was a better quality photo from discogs fresh aire what the hell is this and from discogs windham hill i asked yeah it s pretty nice music i ll put it on later given his other geeky pastimes i was willing to give it a try and i surprised myself by actually liking both cds although i ll freely admit the sound quality of the cds alone probably had an impact by october i d heard enough to know two things i actually liked this new age type of music and i wanted a cd player for christmas given that i didn t have a receiver but i did have a boom box with aux inputs that s saying something fast forward to today and the past couple of months i ve been spending time re ripping my old cds at a better bit rate than before so i ve reacquainted myself with my old windham hill and mannheim steamroller cds i mean i still play them from time to time but one thing about re ripping means i m hearing everything again listening critically to make sure that the cd was ripped properly because of this exercise i ve been struck by how greatly my roommate from 37 years ago influenced my musical tastes of today and now i ve got online friends to thank for influencing my musical tastes again found this at a bookstore this one s for you bhagpuss my dad did not listen to classical music my mom got the funk and wagnalls collection one week at a time as they were released from our local discount store down the street when he was moving his stuff into our dorm i noticed this magazine on the top of one of his boxes took me a while to find this out of the parallel context archive but here it is i immediately recognized it as tsr s dragon magazine so i pretended i didn t see anything so as not to attract my parents attention but if i had any doubt that i had found another one of my people this dispelled it he also had a signed black and white photo of tom the fourth doctor baker on his desk next to the prom photos with his then girlfriend so yeah a nerd through and through yes it s still mp3s because i don t have that much in terms of disk space for storage to handle flac besides being in my mid 50s means that my ears aren t as good as they once were but they re good enough to hear the difference in some pieces of music in a 192 bitrate versus a 320 bitrate mp3 you just have to know where to listen and have the right sort of music to make it noticeable sure flac or wav files are better than mp3s but mp3s are pretty universal so i don t have to worry about not having a format that won t play i m looking at you samsung music alas after 35 years a handful of my cds no longer play it s not because they re scratched but it looks like it s a failure of the metallic material comprising the cds among those cds were the eagles hotel california the cult s sonic temple a greatest hits compilation from golden earring and alice in chains dirt posted by redbeard at 9 40 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college d d music musings videos monday april 22 2024 meme monday fake book memes oh this is as old as photoshop but i ve been amused by them to no end maybe it s my snarky nature but sometimes the titles just are hilarious they aren t about gaming or rpgs or whatnot but they do reflect the state of the internet i ve had this one for a few years waiting for the right time from the windham hill group on facebook but originally from phil are go blogspot com this one is for bhagpuss who might get the musical reference from jay allen sanford via the windham hill group on facebook no worries about that one from pinterest a bestseller from the satanic panic era from pinterest and cheezburger i had to do a double take on the publisher name from cheezburger and of course this is in honor of 4 20 from pinterest and one last bonus meme oh this whole thing predates the internet by a lot from pinterest 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 thursday april 18 2024 the great plains youtuber vulgrin dropped a video the other day titled this place is why i love classic world of warcraft and three guesses as to which zone it is despite my hardly ever playing horde toons these days and the highest level tauren toon i ve ever created i got to level 7 back in late wrath i have to agree that mulgore is my favorite classic era zone to just relax and enjoy i almost never go there because i d rather not scare the lowbie horde toons but i typically will find an excuse to stop in when i m passing nearby and if darkmoon faire is there that works for an excuse another place i like to go just to enjoy the sea is the coastline in desolace it s always empty and the farther south you roam the fewer naga actually come out on the shore to disturb the view if you include tbc classic zones i d also have to throw in eversong forest as the place is locked in perpetual autumn that it existed as it was long past cataclysm s reworking of the old world was a bit of a bonus the irony is that while i like those areas the most that doesn t translate into what toons i play the most after all i mostly play alliance toons these days and outside of neve in tbc wrath classic i have hardly touched horde toons at all still i can t deny the simple beauty of mulgore posted by redbeard at 4 17 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classic era monday april 15 2024 we want a shrubbery although nobody is asking for my take on the pandamonium limited event that retail will be experiencing i figured i d drop in my two cents pandamonium is a hedge by the wow team it s not a shrubbery it s a hedge from getyarn io but really from monty python what do i mean by that well it s pretty simple the wow classic team is all in on cataclysm classic but if it flops badly there likely won t be a mists of pandaria classic let s face it cataclysm classic is as big of a risk as the original wow classic was in 2019 blizzard wasn t entirely sure if people would show up to play an official vanilla classic server back then and by throwing out the original trilogy by moving all wrath classic servers to the now current azeroth before phasing i presume there s no guarantee that enough players will show up and continue to play cataclysm classic to make a mists classic viable so the easiest way to present the mists expansion in a way that will guarantee people will go back and play the content is to create a limited time event with wildly accelerated leveling in retail throw in a bunch of fomo cosmetic items and there you go there is a second reason for this pandamonium event and it is to drum up interest for a mists classic this is a taste of what mists was like since it is still set in the current retail environment so blizzard is also hoping that pandamonium will generate enough interest in mists as an expansion to counter the pushback from the bean counters should cata classic flop and that s that for those interested in the event go have fun enjoy yourself because that s why we play games right hindsight is a real bitch here because looking back it seemed obvious but there was no guarantee that people who d been playing on private servers would actually show up to play the official version and there was also no guarantee that people like me would return just to play the pre cataclysm version of wow there s a very vocal part of the player base that looks down upon classic and classic players and even those blowhards aside the fracturing of the player base was a big risk blizzard took i don t think i need to go over my own opinion of mists so i ll save that for another time posted by redbeard at 11 25 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes mists of pandaria retail wow classic meme monday survival game memes survival games have been a thing for quite a while now from the now ancient minecraft to the recently departed unannounced blizzard survival game couldn t resist from ifunny brazil judging from both my blog feed and my wow friend group this type of video game is pretty popular too more so than say baldur s gate 3 so in honor of games that make you feel like you re living the life by having a stick to beat back your enemies with here s some memes about survival games rimworld isn t technically a survivor game per se but this meme is what i think of when i play it from know your meme i saw this and immediately thought of day z which one of my friend group has been playing for the past few months from imgflip having played both minecraft and conan exiles i can confirm this feeling of elation hell surviving long enough to not only make a basic tool but actually go to sleep is amazing from imgflip and this is why i don t play these games that much from reveslwas via memedroid and one bonus survival game meme yes the ol reddit r starterpack via know your meme posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday april 12 2024 a drop in the bucket something that frequently gets overlooked is that relatively speaking non mobile video games are still something that not a lot of people play sure video games may make more money than movies and music do combined but when you look at sales of the games themselves you realize that a lot of money globally comes from not that many people i was curious about how many copies of madden 2024 were sold and i discovered that it was around 5 million or so to put that in perspective ea sold madden 2024 to roughly the entire population of alabama that may seem like a lot but when you remember the population of the us the prime target of madden given it s american football is 333 million you realize that s kind of a drop in the bucket and when you realize that the average viewership of cbs comedy young sheldon is 8 million viewers you get a better comparison between passive viewing and active playing mmos are even more of a niche market given that the largest mmo out there world of warcraft pulls in somewhere between 4 to 8 million or so subscribers globally yes only at best 0 1 of the world s population play wow so when people talk about how wow was a phenomenon it s all relative more than twice as many people bought the spice girls spice than the best numbers world of warcraft posted in the last 8 years and we don t want to compare wow to the number of people who have cable and or satellite television subscriptions do we so why bring this up i was reminded of this because i frequently interact with people at work and at other places who aren t gamers of any sort and they have at best only the vaguest idea about what might be going on in the gaming industry they may know that game companies are making a ton of money because it improves their retirement accounts but beyond that they are left in the dark when people find out i m a gamer i usually get a oh like madden question directed my way if i respond with an actually i play wow i get those looks the you re a weirdo looks the ones that i used to get when people found out i play dungeons and dragons i have no idea what it d be like if i said league of legends or fortnite since i play neither of those but i d imagine there d be similar reactions the irony is that people in my wow friend group aren t all aware of the industry beyond wow itself when i mentioned baldur s gate 3 only one person in the chat said yeah i play that too there were a couple can t afford that right now and a few huh what game is that reactions usually right about now someone will point out those profit numbers and how many people tend to watch the league championships that s nice and all but league still has a ways to go to match the viewership of the 2023 major league baseball world series and that world series was the least watched series in television history by comparison 300 million people worldwide watched joe frazier beat muhammad ali in 1971 from sports illustrated it s kind of strange how boxing doesn t have the cultural cachet that it used to have but i honestly believe that the pursuit of profit and moving boxing from something you could see on television to a strictly pay per view environment hurt the long term health of the sport if you don t have eyeballs watching your product it ll fade from public consciousness so video games are this financial juggernaut but that s largely on the backs of mobile games and live service games where you constantly feed money to the beast but the long term cultural impact well that remains to be seen my perspective as a gamer is that gaming is having a large cultural impact but that s because i m inside the ecosystem however my work and life take me outside the ecosystem and for that reason alone i remain skeptical we may no longer be in a world where a 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