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a boat on a dock that was awkward from facebook s wow group self explanatory from reddit yes that is me right before i die from fyxt and this is monday doesn t matter that i set this up on sunday evening this is always my monday from memegenerator 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monday memes friday july 18 2025 brushing off the cobwebs i just took a look at pc s design last night and it s pretty out of date well not the overall design since that s pretty much a blog design in a nutshell but more like the references are dated and ought to be revamped geek and sundry that place kind of imploded when founder felicia day and then critical role left the about me section hoo boy is that dated some parts of the blog design i can t get around blogger s limitations such as it s inability to provide the latest youtube content in the same way that you receive blog feed content you d think that google owning both blogger and youtube would want better integration in the same way that google worked but nooo still i m not giving up on the platform right now i just need to freshen this place up a bit yeah there went my motivation from cheezburger posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels parallel context wednesday july 16 2025 a return to the glory years i was getting on one of my toons on the anniversary servers when my questing buddy whispered me and asked if i could join her in exploring aq40 in retail for a bit i knew that the lead in to the opening of aq40 formally known as the temple of ahn qiraj had begun on the anniversary servers and she wanted to poke around inside to make sure she had the cadence of the raid down having actually completed aq40 before she could pick my brains a bit as needed what do you need i asked thinking of the retail toons that could get into aq40 doesn t matter which faction doesn t matter because cross faction grouping so i hopped on neve who was simply loitering around silvermoon city ported to orgrimmar and then took a flight down south i had to make some adjustments to the ui however yikes that was embarrassing i felt it wasn t going to be that big of a deal only there was one thing you ll have to timewalk a bit she informed me do i need to do that i haven t played neve since mists yeah you will the giant sword is in the middle of silithus what sword the irony which i called out midway through the raid was that she was on a draenei warrior and i was on a blood elf mage tbc forever i said yes this is the same gear neve wore when i last ran a bg with her in cataclysm or thereabouts my questing buddy s warrior was significantly higher level than neve because neve was still at l32 where she landed after the level squish going from l85 down to l32 and with the mobs there around l31 or so my aggro radius was pretty broad on more than one occasion i d be typing something in and i d get shellacked by a mob that wandered vaguely close to me even when i behaved myself and hid away from the fight such as the final fight against c thun one of his tentacles magically appeared in front of me and tossed me into his inside where i died quickly story of my life dying to c thun obviously one shotting mobs and bosses don t give you a good feeling of how the fights really progress and so i was just there to bounce my experiences off of her however i believe she s going to have a bit harder of a time of it in spots than we did in the fall of 2020 you have to be able to decurse here so casters can t just sit at the top and then dps you need to put them on the stairs so they can reach people for decursing that means me because our mages don t decurse i was pretty disgusted at that behavior you do what you can to help the raid if they behave like that they ll die very quickly in naxx let alone here still for a brief diversion it was fun i really didn t do terribly much other than comment on how much things had changed such as the blizzard spell behaving completely differently in retail versus classic and how you could now use any mount you wanted inside aq40 whereas back in the day you could only use those qiraji battle mounts which worked only within the raid itself also i have no idea why raid frames didn t appear like they re supposed to when we were in a regular party things looked normal but as soon as my questing buddy converted the group to a raid the frames vanished and for the record i don t have any addons in retail because this pc didn t exist when i last played retail speaking of not playing retail note i don t want to hear anything about the cluttered nature of my bars i haven t touched them in 13 years so they re bound to messed up posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 friends retail wow classic anniversary tuesday july 15 2025 beware strange people bearing whispers i ve been on a bit of an exploration kick lately in retail where i just poke around areas looking for people while i m on my lowbie rogue this is all within reason of course since she s roughly l13 but i did poke my nose into northrend and all sorts of other areas on the old world needless to say it s all pretty empty eh i took the portal anyway i don t know where half of these portals go nowadays ever had the feeling that you re lost in your hometown retail is like that to someone who hasn t played since mists and even then mainly bgs oh i did recognize a few people around wait i thought cardwyn was your only apprentice when did all this happen and does card know about this and i couldn t go more than a few feet without it being suggested that i check out various things sigh but i found some honor hold personnel at the bottom of the mage tower and i saw they could port me to the dark portal aha i can go to outland that ll work whiskey tango foxtrot what the hell is going on you know what i think it s smarter to just go back to the old lion s pride inn and call it a day ahh much better still there was one thing on my mind after the roleplaying post from the other day i was reminded that the old moon guard us server was where most alliance rp took place and yes i m quite aware of goldshire and the lion s pride inn s reputation well the last time i visited goldshire on moon guard i wasn t that impressed this was back in 2013 or so and some of the worst offenders of erp back then had been purged from the server so it wasn t what i d call busy still i ve seen enough youtube videos that show an active rp scene so i got curious and made a toon on moon guard just to see what s going on sorry but she s not named cardwyn i did check to see if deathwyn was available but alas it was already taken it actually took me about 10 15 minutes of hunting for available names that i liked before i got to this one i wasn t planning on doing any rp myself i don t have any rp addons installed on retail and if anybody were to whisper me i d politely decline hey it s their world and it s the proper thing to do well at least this looks normal full disclosure i ran back last night to get this screencap because i forgot to take one on sunday i did find actual people questing in northshire abbey so that s an improvement over what livona experienced instead of doing those initial quests i figured it was safe to run straight to goldshire and see what i could find remember the proverb be careful what you wish for because you might get it yeah about that holy crap i got over to the inn saw that and immediately logged for the day that was a bit overwhelming the inside if the inn had to have the most people i ve seen in one place in retail since early cataclysm maybe it certainly wasn t in mists because ysera us was pretty empty even with the server merges on area 52 us a 10 1 horde server i think everybody was either raid logging or just hanging out in the horde pandaria hub but since i never leveled a horde toon to max level that expansion i never made it there so i decided it couldn t have been that bad and that i just happened to show up at a specific event or something so i checked goldshire and the inn again tonight do i really want to know what your rates are for a room sir and stepping outside there was this i ran back to northshire abbey because it was a lot quieter and it was there that i discovered two things the first is that it s now a default that if someone whispers you it s put in a separate tab and two well i m almost 100 certain that person wasn t talking about enterprise resource planning i didn t respond because at first i wasn t sure how long that whisper had been there it could have been about 10 minutes old for all i knew and i ll be honest in that i should have known that sort of whisper would happen but did you see the size of that crowd given the mob inside i figured it would have been hard to pick me out especially without me having installed any rp addons and only running out of the place but a female toon still managed it in the minute or so i actually spent in goldshire this kind of puts a lie to the concept of if there s a crowd nobody is paying attention to you if there s a way to make my anxiety spike while playing a video game that was it well i guess you could say i finally found where the people are in retail when they re not sitting around wherever the endgame area is they re in goldshire on an rp server you have to be paying attention if you do this in classic because the defias and hostile animals lurking near the road could kill you in retail it s not very likely eta added the comment on the last graphic because i can t not see the business version of erp when i see that acronym posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels retail role playing wow monday july 14 2025 meme monday earworm memes everybody gets an earworm every so often i ve been dealing with this one from 1976 the past day or so since i really need to get this out of my system i figured i might as well invoke the meme monday gods and see if that works i feel ya bird from the comic strip speed bump via reddit i think i prefer boz scaggs earworm to katrina and the waves from metzgercartoons back in the early 2000s a local radio station did a stunt where they played this kid rock song for 24 hours straight i was not amused from imgflip and something else but i can t read it you know which generation you re part of by which song pops into your head first from 9gag oh yes that is so me from reddit yeah sorry about that bird from memebase well something must have worked since i no longer have that song stuck in my head 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 sunday july 13 2025 does romance give you the squick well it does for me oh not in real life irl i m a softie who enjoys romance not necessarily romance novels mind you but i meant the concept itself yes yes i know somebody alert my wife i also don t mind having romance in video games because for me that s a personal choice if you want to romance an npc go ahead if you don t you don t what i meant was romance in pencil and paper rpgs although to a lesser extent romance between two players in an mmo as well this was sparked by a video that popped up the other day concerning d d and romance yes i follow ginny di s youtube videos no i didn t get into her videos from critical role but rather i stumbled on her channel when she progressed to other rpg topics the algorithm looked at my viewing history and thought you know there s this woman who dyes her hair that you might find insightful and here i am she does have some great and insightful comments on a variety of rpg topics and between her pointy hat stephanie plays games kelsey dionne bob world builder and several other 20s and 30s content creators i feel that our ttrpg hobby is in good hands for the future i guess the reason why i watched ginny s video was due to my own experience with romance in a d d game if you ve been around this blog for a while you might recall i was part of a long running d d 3 0 campaign as in a 20 year old campaign when our dm got together with us to hash out what the campaign would be about there were a few ground rules we decided upon low to mid level magic use the greek and egyptian pantheons for the campaign and world building some roleplaying in character but not pure amateur thespian hour and absolutely no romance that last one was a hard no from us players as we were all dating and or married and we really just wanted to focus on a campaign with no romantic escapades involved we ve had romantic subplots in our campaign back in college and when it s involving people who are actually dating irl who then break up it gets really ugly really fast therefore just keeping things platonic would make it easier for everybody we players figured that with the ground rules set we were ready to play things worked out okay for a while and outside of us using im to play this was 2001 2 after all things seemed to progress decently well after a couple of years however our dm began trying to slip in romantic subplots and the occasional conan esque nudity into the game we all knew our dm who was a bit of a horndog back in college so we just figured it was him being him and we didn t take the rather obvious bait we kind of kept things at bay until a new player joined the group for a few years he was a coworker of the dm and he wanted to play a bard you can see where this is going right yeah they both went there the bard started wanting to screw every woman he met and this began to wear on us this isn t what we wanted and we definitely didn t ask for it and it kept diverting us from the actual campaign then the dm started having npcs hit on my character and i began having to be more forceful in my nipping of those subplots in the bud the rest of us began talking among ourselves about whether we need to take a stand with the dm and then the problem solved itself the new player had to stop playing and just like that the division mostly evaporated mostly the dm still would try to sneak in some opportunities for romance here and there but we ignored them and kept the game focused on the campaign in the last few months of our campaign before it ended however the dm began to ratchet up the opportunities and the pg 13 nature of those encounters i won t lie and say otherwise but after 20 years we players had had enough there were several other things that contributed to our decision to want to end the campaign but one of the top complaints on our list was that the dm kept pushing the romance and sexual angles on us i think it needs to be said that we re all adults and we can handle adult themes however people have to buy into the concept of 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