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nd cable is half of your packing requirements we had those two items but somehow were missing other things such as toothbrushes from mpora that s something that does kind of annoy me unless i just get a mcdouble from mcdonald s for lunch you re going to spend more money on food than you really want to so when your wife brings up a restaurant to eat at that you know she has complained about the prices in the past you just know that lunch is not going to end well we used to do this but apparently the new trend is to have these large bottles of soap shampoo etc in your hotel room that are pretty much locked in place so you can t walk out with them on the one hand it s nice to not have to worry about having enough shampoo but on the other hand i wonder about sanitary conditions from imgflip it was her birthday 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 thursday september 12 2024 channeling my inner boss i ve been dipping my toe back into some raiding nothing crazy mind you just regular old molten core on wednesday nights one of our little group got into that mc on his paladin and when i happened to login earlier than usual on that wednesday he asked if i wanted to come my wife was already beat and was going to bed early so i said sure hmm have i been here before it didn t hurt that the good twin got a couple of pieces of gear the azuresong mageblade it s made for a mage because it has mage in the name and the mage tier 1 arcanist bracers between those two pieces of gear plus an offhand i had obtained as a reputation piece via alterac valley my damage on an unbuffed per frostbolt hit went from mid 600s to mid 700s which ain t so insignificant when you think about it there s also been all sorts of sneaky activities that my questing buddy and i have gotten ourselves into because i simply can t keep my mouth shut she and i on my old classic rogue azshandra have been sneaking into zul gurub and picking herbs hoping for bloodvine to drop in case you re wondering az s spec is a customized mixture of combat and subtlety i designed it so that i could go just far enough into subtlety to pick up improved sap and then into combat to get the bonuses for dual wielding daggers oh no a dagger rogue and a non optimized one too eh it works for me she s not raiding as a bonus she has advantages in stealth that a regular combat rogue would never have and that means she can help my questing buddy with operation bloodvine when we re not dead that is there s a reason why i m still hidden those of keen eyesight among you might notice that my questing buddy s druid doesn t have any real gear on and that s because she d died enough times that her gear broke the idea is that we target an herb node she casts heals on herself mounts up and pulls the nearby mobs then i stealth in and grab the herbs and any nearby hoodoo piles then stealth away before the mobs come back she typically manages to avoid the mobs long enough to find a reset point but as you can see above she occasionally pulls too many enemies or she runs into one during her escape still the reward of bloodvine for some of the best non raid gear in classic era is worth it the bloodvine 3 piece cloth set is great for warlocks and mages up through blackwing lair and only starts being replaced in the aq40 t2 5 set pieces back in the fall of 2020 once i obtained my bloodvine set on og cardwyn i kept it until i began getting replacement pieces in naxxramas my questing buddy was hunting for bloodvine to make the set for herself but bloodvine alone is worth a pretty penny on the auction house so the lure of free gold minus the gear repair bills is strong when my questing buddy is running back from having died i find myself with time on my hands so i ve taken up dancing and singing while hidden because i can yes i remember born in the usa quite well between that album purple rain 1984 and a host of other classic albums 1984 was a good year oh and i ran into an old friend in feralas fancy meeting you here it s good to see rexxar out and about like this and not tied up at a horde only base in outland and uh this person is back too sigh sometimes you just can t win why is it so good because the bloodvine set has two distinct advantages over most other gear it has superior spellpower bonuses and it also has hit bonuses if you want to go raiding a mage has to get to roughly 17 to their hit bonus to reach the cap and have the greatest chance of hitting a raid boss that s roughly 3 levels higher than you the bloodvine set alone gets you a 4 to hit netting you a quarter of the bonuses you need to become hit capped the drawback is that there are absolutely no stamina bonuses to the bloodvine set so you don t have even close to as much health as wearing tier raid gear will get you that is kind of deadly in places such as blackwing lair or aq40 eta apparently i can t spell the word keen fixed posted by redbeard at 11 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alterac valley classic era friends molten core zul gurub wednesday september 11 2024 did you ever anticipate this sir terry for those who are fans of sir terry pratchett modiphius entertainment is going to be bringing an rpg based on discworld to kickstarter in october from the kickstarter page here s a link to the announcement on modiphius website and here s the email i received via screencaps okay here s hoping that this works but i m going to put the links for a sign up for kickstarter updates here and signing up for the quickstart preview here posted by redbeard at 10 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels discworld news rpgs monday september 9 2024 meme monday gatekeeper memes you all know about them you ve likely seen them in action gatekeepers the people who try to make whatever hobby or fandom or whatever an exclusive club to keep the riff raff out they re the sort of people that would try to take over a homeowner s association just to create rules to turn a local subdivision into their own little fief video games are definitely not the only fandom or community that has their share of gatekeepers i have personal experience about that so now that i ve gone down yet another rabbit hole of a community i ll be posting about sometime in the future i figured i ll get these memes out there to poke some fun of the keep out crowd yeah pretty much the old h l mencken line about someone somewhere having a good time springs to mind from x poor gandalf i imagine gatekeepers imagine themselves like this from twitter and sales evangelist like i mentioned gaming isn t the only hobby that has its share of gatekeepers from reddit amazing how frequently this pops up whenever i poke my nose into comics from facebook s dungeons and dads group posted by redbeard at 10 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday september 8 2024 red needs water badly on september 4th we received our next batch of wood for the deck the guy delivering the wood warned me about some of the pieces he didn t pull them but if he had he d have gotten me better boards as he builds decks as a side job on the weekends that meant i worked on the deck this weekend i have 42 rows to replace so i bought enough wood for 21 rows plus a bit extra to compensate for any bad boards so today i put down nine rows one more row here will barely fit within the length of a 16 foot board and then i ll have to use combinations of 8 foot and 12 foot boards it was also quite the adventure given that i dropped a couple of things that fell down under the deck so i had to crawl under it to get to the drill bit and screws i was sure not going to go on another trip to the hardware store for another countersink bit the hardest part of the deck work has been ripping out the old boards the damage i m going to have to break those down and safely remove bend the nails before i can get too much farther along these 4 inch wide boards may look pretty but there s a lot more of them than there would have been if the previous homeowner had used the more commonly used 6 inch wide boards sure i could have replaced the 4 inch boards with 6 inch but that would have required me ripping out all of the boards so i could properly do it and i really wasn t going to do that and leave the deck in an incomplete state for a couple of months the weather today was fantastic almost too much so because in my focus on my work i neglected to hydrate and even eat some lunch i did have a handful of nuts so i wasn t completely crazy right now i m paying the price by nursing a headache while i drink water eta it s countersink not counterstrike sigh posted by redbeard at 8 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hobbies self wednesday september 4 2024 not for lack of trying in case you didn t know retail wow has a new expansion out this was what i saw when i logged in on sunday night and it s not the first pop up i ve had either i think that this is the second or third one in the past week or so even on monday evening when you login to battle net your main screen on wow classic is this just in case you missed it you know i d say they re hyping the hell out of the new expansion not exactly sure just how much interest they re going to get from the various shades of wow classic players the first classic oriented news bit is the fifth article on the main page and it s about cataclysm classic but they are trying although i will say that the wow classic community is probably not mythic dungeon invitational and the arena world championship s target audience just a hunch kind of like this but replace mmorpg with wow from quickmeme posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes retail tuesday september 3 2024 how much choice is too much one of the reasons why i prefer an mmo such as wow classic era is that it simply doesn t have that much choice when it comes to in game activities sure you can go wherever you want in the two continents you can go into dungeons battlegrounds and raids if high enough level and you can even do some repeatable quest grinding out in silithus if you re so inclined or just hang around and fish or just kill things it sounds like a lot but compared to a lot of other mmos it isn t even compared to other video games it isn t that much in the early part of the summer i played through my time at sandrock the sequel to my time at portia that was about the best i could do to create another redbeard considering i was supposed to be a youngster of about 18 20 ish it ll do compared to the original game the new one has several quality of life advancements and presents more of the post apocalyptic world than ever before the story while a bit grimmer than that found in my time at portia is well done if you ve ever played a sort of building creating game such as my time at sandrock you know that romancing and potentially marrying a character is a big part of the game and that my friends is where i fell down on the job there are potentially 21 romanceable options to choose from and based on my own personal preferences i ve whittled it down to 9 well i couldn t make a decision so i kept putting it off and putting it off and then the game ended damn that wasn t what i had in mind i was going to focus on someone but i found the options presented to me so appealing that i couldn t make a choice before the game ended all of the characters spoke to different aspects of my personality and what i found attractive yet no single option presented itself above all others again in my experience real life doesn t operate like a video game in that manner the tinder fueled appeal of hookups notwithstanding so when you get right down to it i had nine options to choose from and i couldn t select one when everything has a certain level of appeal trying to decide which option to choose leads to a form of analysis paralysis this is not a new phenomenon as it s been studied before one of the more recent studies conducted by researchers from the university of buffalo s department of psychology discusses how trying to make a choice between options that have a high level of importance make people freeze with indecision based on the number of choices presented maybe selecting what you want for dinner from a menu may not be a life altering choice but if you present it in the context of a first date or a business lunch with a client the stakes are raised and selecting poorly may cost you in other ways or to put it another way take a look at covenants in a recent retail wow expansion shadowlands you d think that blizz or wowhead would have a usable graphic but nooo i had to go to a boosting service s website boosting ground to find a good version still just remember that you re dead if you re looking at this well theoretically so and handwaving is involved when you reach the end of the main questline where you have visited and quested in all four covenants you re asked to choose one one of those four would provide a good buff to your abilities but if you choose the wrong one you originally had to work hard in game to be able to switch covenants to the correct one if you don t have any knowledge of which covenant to select what is this wowhead you speak of you kind of just have to wing it knowing wow players as any mmo player worth their salt does if you don t pick the correct one you re going to get crapped on in group content and let s be honest switching covenants as originally designed would have put you far enough behind any friends you play with that well yeah the stakes are pretty high here sucks to be you homie blizzard probably so while the number of choices isn t high the stakes were high enough that the potential was there to simply freeze with indecision blizzard eventually learned their lesson and eased the restrictions on covenant selection lowering the stakes a bit but one place where they haven t really learned their lesson is in the volume of activities found in retail wow in retail wow you don t suffer from a lack of things to do this is no means an exhaustive list but off the top of my head as a classic andy here s what you can do in retail wow quests main questline leveling questline max level questline side quests daily quests weekly quests monthly quests are these still a thing grind reputation s darkmoon faire transmog collecting professions crafting orders weeklies no more dailies is that correct just craft gather to sell or wait for a queue to pop delves dungeons normal heroic mythic coming soon raids coming soon lfr normal heroic mythic battlegrounds arenas various 2x2 through 5x5 solo shuffle have i got that right world pvp marked as pvp or whatever it s cal...