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ours here and there reading it while i take care of other things around the house such as taxes i guess you could tell that i hung around a lot of geeks shocking i know i always considered fritz leiber s creations and the city of lankhmar as a spoof of the sword and sorcery genre so a spoof of a spoof posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes videos what on earth is red reading wednesday march 19 2025 washing away the smell i took a late lunch yesterday and to blow off some steam i figured i d get onto a wow toon for an hour while eating it s something i ve done plenty of times in the past and as long as i didn t commit to anything i could finish up before the hour was out and i had to get back to meetings az seemed the perfect toon to just do whatever for an hour so i hopped onto her and on a whim i decided to see if i could get her a stormwind stockades run she had a bunch of quests to complete in there and the instance is usually completed in about a half an hour so i just figured that with the early afternoon crowd it would be pretty easy to get into a run things never end up the way as intended you know i discovered that back in 2019 when i began to struggle getting azshandra into instance runs part of it is that certain classes are preferred over others in instance running such as mages and part of it is that rogues tend to have a certain uh reputation when linna got into a deadmines run the group that showed up on the lfg tool had the tagline no rogues i figured that if anything in the deadmines no less that a rogue would be preferred over a retribution paladin but when i joined the group the warrior said hell no rogues suck they steal your gear when you prefer playing a robin hood type of rogue the struggle is real from reddit ooo kay still i figured i had an hour to play with and as long as i got into a stockades run by the half hour mark i ought to be fine the time creeped away and most of the groups that showed up in the lookingforgroup chat group were for stocks boosts the lfg tool was kinda sorta active but i was bypassed a couple of times via that tool as well finally at the 20 minute mark i got an invite to a group all we need is a tank and we re good the group leader said more time passed and we were rapidly approaching my half hour cutoff when finally a fifth member of the group appeared thank goodness i muttered and made sure i had my poisons ready to apply to my weapons because az is a rogue you know free run guys the group leader declared and only then did my brain go huh and i hovered over the last toon it was an l60 druid well crap i had a choice stick to my principles and pass or accept the de facto boost and just deal with it the quests that involved the stockades were taking up a quarter of my quest log so there was a certain amount of pressure to get those quests completed to free up my quest log a bit at the same time there wasn t a lot of gear or whatnot that i needed out of the stockades per se sure there s the ring that is a random drop but outside of that there isn t that much in there storywise it does propel the defias narrative along but on the flip side was this tank expecting gold despite the group leader claiming it was a free run in the end i decided to accept the boost and be done with it after all a boost ought to be quicker than a regular run i didn t bother with adding poisons to my blades because i figured it d be a waste the run began and we were tasked with clean up the enemies that turned tail and ran had to be tracked down and killed part of me watched the run progress thinking it would be a nice bit of schadenfreude to have the druid overpull and die but the other part of me that is basically a nice person was pissed that i d ever consider this sort of thing i guess i shouldn t have been surprised that the druid could handle the pulls without issue but i ve heard some of my wow friends on the receiving end of boosts complain about the boosters not always knowing what they re doing again schadenfreude we blitzed through the stockades a ring dropped that i won and then once it ended i thanked people and dropped group as they were getting ready for another go at the instance the run completed in 15 minutes in plenty of time for me to make my next meeting and i felt like i needed a shower afterward to wash away the stink of shame the other day it struck me as to why i hated receiving boosts so much they make me a passive recipient if the entire point of playing an mmo is to perform group activities together then being a passive recipient of a boost is the antithesis of that boosts are transactional activities but beyond that transaction there s nothing required of the boosted player and that kind of galls me i want to be an active participant in whatever activity i m doing in an mmo i want my actions to matter so while boosting is obviously a non starter for me my distaste for passivity includes carries where you re so over leveled by other participants your actions don t even matter i ve written before about how i ve unwittingly been the subject of carries and how such a buzzkill it was to discover that i had so little impact on the actual group activity yes yes i know friends wanting to do things and whatnot but that knowledge doesn t change 55 year old me if my actions don t matter then why bother we can just chat online or talk on discord instead and not engage in the pretense that we re playing together as equals it feels less like friendship and more like receiving charity and that old midwestern pride kicks in that i don t need your charity or sympathy from yarn and howard the duck i suppose that viewed from the lens of the poor but proud people that i ve known all my life it kind of makes sense kind of like arguing with my mom whenever i take her someplace she wants to pay for my gasoline mom i always say i don t need it just accept it she always insists that i take the money we re two people too proud to simply let things be yes i have these long conversations with myself over this crap i d like to think i m not the only person who wrestles with dark impulses but this is something that people just don t talk about very much so maybe it s just me posted by redbeard at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings self wow classic anniversary monday march 17 2025 meme monday sleepy rpg memes because i m still catching up on sleep from last week i thought this appropriate the curse of dailies from instagram this is why i rebelled when classic fresh dropped i like my sleep too much from owlturd com urg pretty sure it s not the bard who says that but the dad from farstride and thunder dungeon oh freddie my old buddy from facebook s dndmemes 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 saturday march 15 2025 where s red non medical edition this past week i wasn t at home no i wasn t at the hospital again and nobody that i knew was in the hospital either i also wasn t on vacation i was traveling for work it poured in charlotte on monday and delayed my connecting flight by about 45 50 minutes if you know anything about me i m not a big fan of travel a lot of that has to do with the cost because we really couldn t afford to take regular vacations while the mini reds were growing up but there was also the proximity to other people and the overall lack of actual relaxation when on vacation to me vacation was a thing you do to just not be in any hurry to unwind if you want to do nothing do nothing to others glances sidelong at wife vacation is more about going places seeing things and above all keeping to a schedule to see said things when you re waking up at 6 or 7 am because insert locale here opens at 9 am and we d better be ready to go asap that s not a vacation to me that s work in just another form my dad insisted on that sort of vacation too because he loved to golf and wanted to make his tee time when we were on vacation so maybe that resistance to having a regimented vacation is deeply ingrained in me i never really travelled for work in the past either for starters i never had to the closest i ever came to having to travel for work was when my old team over 20 years ago had a disaster recovery drill and we were going to have to travel to the east coast to conduct it at a remote site i was slated to go until i got bumped for another person which was fine with me i was then slated to go on the next dr drill until i got moved into another team much to my surprise and that team and line of work never required me to travel at all so when i was told i was going to have to travel for work for this past week it caught me by surprise i m not here to talk about the work itself because that s a big no no but to muse about other things regarding travel from the perspective of someone who simply doesn t travel that much and maybe i ll tie this into gaming or something the last time i flew on a plane i was one of the first people to get patted down by the new rules regarding air travel in a post 9 11 world that was to attend a friend s wedding down in houston and we struggled to come up with the money to pay for the plane ticket and the hotel room if i were at the software development job i held in the late 90s i wouldn t have been able to afford to go but where i was employed at by then i could afford it barely outside of the wedding itself my traveling partner and i didn t do that much we saw the fellowship of the ring in the theater we went to the wedding and we kind of just hung around the hotel room and that was it beyond that i had more memories about the new fangled garmin in the rental car than i did of houston itself the city was just so large and so spread out that i really had no memories of the place i had more memories of the airport because at the time the greater cincinnati international airport cvg had our flight at a separate terminal for a low cost carrier far away from the rest of the airport itself you had to take a bus from the main terminal to get there and like i mentioned above it was on the flight home from houston that i got the detailed pat down process so with all those memories in my head i got authorization from work to travel and booked a flight a rental and a hotel room without further ado here s my notes tech has transformed travel much like everything else well duh tell me something i didn t know i just didn t realize just how much tech has transformed things even 23 years ago i was going online for air tickets orbitz anyone but now i can perform all the functions of a travel agent far easier than i ever could in the past travel agents still have their part to play but they re more of a niche market than they were before still tech has also transformed the travel experience in other ways the number of people i saw using their phones or tablets during a flight was simply staggering when i last flew smartphones and tablets didn t even exist and yet at the airport and in flight they were everywhere people no longer had to be glued to the arrivals and departures screens at the airport their phones could provide them an up to the minute status on their flights and even if their flight was rerouted to another gate with all this tech the flying experience became very well ordinary everything was presented to you to allow you to operate in the most efficient manner possible in much the same way that some addons such as questie do in mmos trying to avoid the easy mode version of doing things takes more effort now than simply just going with the flow i now know why noise cancelling headphones are a thing i had a connecting flight at charlotte north carolina to my final destination in florida that meant i had flights between cincinnati and charlotte on an embraer bombardier crj900 i knew next to nothing about the crj900 so i discovered that some people disparagingly refer to the plane as a flying trash can with wings this did not inspire any confidence in me but at least there are tons of them flying so how bad could it be not that bad but that s because i had really low expectations based off of reading the info i found online the seats were not very good but they didn t make my butt ache and i could at least relax a bit one of the armrests wouldn t go up to let me get out more easily but at least it was in the correct position for flying the person in the seat next to me said something about the lack of comfort but i mentioned it could be much worse to which he heartily agreed i was also able to fit easily into the seat without feeling squished thanks no doubt to my overall weight loss like i said not bad except for the cabin noise holy crap was the noise bad the culprit i had my earbuds snuggly in place but that cabin noise generated by the jet engines was pretty horrific i could barely hear whatever i was playing it was a podcast about the history of kissing of all things unless i turned the volume way up it was then that i realized that noise like this was what led people to creating noise cancelling headphones not the press of crowds at malls and other enclosed places when we landed i took note of the various shops in the concourse at charlotte and just how many of them had headphones for sale and not just headphones but the expensive noise cancelling variety if nothing else those shops do know their clientele my other flights were on newer airbus jets and while those jets were significantly quieter my old honda accord is quieter than these jets were if you ve ever driven a 90s era honda you know it is not quiet if i do this sort of thing again i might have to get a pair of noise cancelling headphones just to preserve my ears all these lists and i still forget things i m pretty sure this isn t limited to me but i d made lists to check off prior to my departure to prevent the one thing i was most likely to do forget something while it was plenty obvious that i needed to have enough underwear or shirts packed other items such as my mouse and my battery for my laptop might easily be missed if i hadn t written them down so i made a point to put them on the list when i finally got settled in my hotel room for that first night i d congratulated myself for a successful first part of the trip when i realized i d forgotten my toothbrush yes i was able to easily obtain another toothbrush from the front desk but since i actually had toothbrush on my list you d have thought i d have actually packed it away but i didn t so i spent most of the rest of the trip wondering just what else i d forgotten in spite of putting everything i needed down on the lists so far i haven t found that out yet although i did forget to bring my laptop charger with me on my last day at the client office that made things a bit 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