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u after all i played tabletop rpgs and i ve read a metric ton of sf f so yeah i ve got opinions about excessively long life or immortality another way of looking at intra species romances from the pathfinder comic hollow mountain posted on reddit the problem is we look at it purely from the angle of physical lifespan and who will outlive who but a larger question is how does the longer lived person behave toward others do they look at their short lived brethren as merely cattle as playthings as children to be parented either strictly or gently as the great unwashed who need religious and social purity imposed upon them as agents of chaos to be destroyed or an annoyance to be either disposed with or ignored at your whim for me one thing is certain people who have abnormally long or immortal lifespans behave significantly different than everybody else garion looked at the old man whose white hair and beard seemed somehow luminous in the morning sun what s it like to live forever grandfather he asked i don t know wolf said i haven t lived forever you know what i mean the quality of life isn t much different wolf said we all live as long as we need to it just happened that i have something to do that s taken a very long time he stood up abruptly this conversation s taken a gloomy turn he said from pawn of prophecy by david eddings pg 258 as you could probably figure out i disagree with david eddings presentation of belgarath in the belgariad from a story standpoint it works fine but i m under no illusions that the belgariad is anything other than a fun romp of a story if a person is 7000 years old i have a very hard time believing that they would behave no different than any other human if we are the sum of our experiences hundreds or thousands of years are a lot of extra experiences that literally nobody living or dead could possibly comprehend plus memory is a bitch and that s when people live our current lifespan can you imagine trying to remember something that happened 500 years ago or 1000 we don t even remember what we had for breakfast a couple of months ago much less things far longer ago than a human has ever been alive there s also something to be said about how our experiences shape us as people and if we ve done one thing for a long time we tend to look at everything through that restrictive lens that s just for those of us with a normal lifespan so extend that out several centuries and what have you got someone who strictly adheres to one singular viewpoint to the exclusion of all else if you think it s hard for a normal human to break out from their prejudices and perceive other points of view just try to do that if you re 1000 or 5000 or 10000 years old and have had centuries or millennia to build up your worldview at least he admits it from reddit i was thinking about this when i realized that the freakiest thing that any npc ever said to me in wow was this yeek think about the implications of power and vision that statement had in the hands of anybody else short of a god it would be hubris at best and insanity at worst but only someone with the age and prestige and power of the dragon queen could pull that off even then becoming all chummy with you later on just kind of lost the plot as far as the immortality of alexstrasza is concerned in terms of age and power imbalance it s a lot closer to one of us befriending a dog which reminds me from reddit yeah sounds about right there s plenty of unverified ages over 122 in history but given what we know about physiology that s likely inaccurate to put it politely stick a pin in that we ll see that again later given that the so called cognitive revolution roughly 50k 60k years ago gave us the capacity to perform imaginative thoughts we d have been in the same boat as our canine friends were it not for that i realize it can be a bit dense and a harsh authorial voice at times but sapiens by yuval noah harari covers this cognitive revolution fairly well in the initial part of the book most well known for his decades of running astounding science fiction analog science fiction during the golden era of sf campbell can be a bit of a controversial figure i was first introduced to him throughout the essays in isaac asimov s asimov on science fiction if you can find a used copy around it s very much worth a read it feels weird reading in stories and in biographies about wasting sickness and only later realizing that the author or biographer likely was referring to what we now call cancer i ve read a ton of tolkien over the years and so the only book i can definitively point to for some of this is the silmarillion although unfinished tales might have parts of it posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books comic f sf memes musings video games tuesday march 17 2026 okay break s over one thing i learned while i was away from mmos for a week was that the world doesn t end if i stop playing okay that s a bit of hyperbole but given how fomo driven video games tend to be these days you d be forgiven if you thought that the weight of the virtual world rested on your shoulders that s the sort of quip that i could see seth mcfarlane make from reddit i have wondered whether i have the willpower to give up playing wow again especially given that i do have an active circle of friends in game which is something that simply did not exist in 2014 that wasn t why i took the break but the knowledge that there were people who would notice if i weren t around certainly kept me on edge to a degree sure enough after the weekend i got pinged by my questing buddy to see if i was doing okay while we hadn t actually played together in game for close to a year now she having gone down the hardcore route to complete all the raids and even managing to get an atiesh we do still chat regularly and she and the rest of the group had noticed my absence even though it was only 3 4 days at that point after assuring her i was fine just doing other things for a while i concluded that i couldn t simply vanish unlike 2014 and to a lesser extent in 2022 from the simpsons via tenor so when i felt ready to login once more last friday evening i discovered a few items of note my friends were doing their own thing as they always had and that the active population on the anniversary servers had shrunk the former wasn t a surprise to me at all since everybody in our friends group has their own goals and are currently pursuing them but the latter was after a few weeks of upwards of 20 layers worth of active players on the anniversary servers we were down to 9 or 10 layers over this past weekend the layers as of 6 51 server time on dreamscythe us on march 16 2026 now admittedly i m not sure if people in instances count against layers but given that players were chain running 5 person instances once the dark portal opened i really doubt there d be much of a change in population simply because karazhan gruul s lair and magtheridon s lair had opened up i think what is currently happening is that people either burned out rushing to l70 and getting attuned as quickly as possible or that people are merely raid logging because they can i haven t been to outland yet but given that the main hub there shattrath city is connected to the other major cities via trade chat i know that people haven t been pulling out the i m bored complaint as is often found in mmos so i suspect it s merely raid logging for now well i m refreshed and i m back to doing the same thing i had been doing which was leveling briganaa 2 0 and to a lesser extent my blood elf pair of toons if the in game population of the anniversary servers continues to decline by the time i reach outland i will have the place to myself as everybody will be raid logging and not doing much else i won t know for certain until i get there but i expect that the people running tbc 5 person instances will have dried up just like in 2021 victims of burnout due to following the meta to be honest that would suit me just fine i don t need the crowds and i m happy doing what i should have done 5 years ago live and learn i guess i m quite familiar with how fomo is used to make people play and purchase in game currency with my limited experience with mobile games there was a mobile game whose name escapes me now that i played via pc that i simply refused to purchase anything for but the psychological tricks utilized to try to entice me to purchase currency to buy better items for defense gradually ratcheted up to the point where i simply had to walk away or i knew i d have broken down and bought stuff just to try to keep up with other players i m sure my castle or city is a smoking ruin right now years later because of other players who ran roughshod over it in the intervening time but it was incredibly hard to both walk away and not buy things to improve my standing in the game and that was 2014 2015 mobile games have gotten much worse in that regard in the past decade yes i had my blogger friends and you know who you are but except for the rare direct interaction we didn t play wow together vidyala once offered me a spot in her guild but as i was quite aware that she d be making an exception for me as a non raider i turned it down i didn t feel it was right for the rules to be bent just because she and i knew each other outside of the game itself posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes operation spread the love wow classic anniversary monday march 16 2026 meme monday taking a break memes in 2026 all in all i took over 8 days off from mmos it was very much needed and gave me the chance to recharge a bit it may sound funny saying so because a video game ought to be fun but try telling that to people who are on progression raid teams oh the participants may claim it s fun but the effort it takes to do raiding and or retail esque mythic plus dungeon runs is not a trivial enterprise for some people leveling another alt is the break from facebook s warcraft memes group yeah this is not unheard of in wow from reddit and twitter to some people this is how they get breaks from mmos from meme arsenal it goes without saying that everybody needs a break from time to time whether or not oprah is the provider from twitter and webengage ha i m probably going to be struck by lightning for this one from reddit see taking a break is a good thing and should be encouraged from memedroid 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 wednesday march 11 2026 this ll be your big chance to get away from it all outside of checking out a few cities in retail as seen in the previous post i took the past several days off from playing wow i d like to say that i had projects that had priority over any video game playing but that wasn t the case i simply didn t feel like logging in and playing on my alliance toons i did check the bank alts a couple of times to make sure i wasn t losing anything via in game mail but beyond that i didn t do much this is but one page of my junk mail this sort of break is a necessary part of any endeavor and because i have no external pressure to complete anything in game i can take as many breaks as i need this was something i sorely missed in 2021 and i fully intend to take advantage of my lack of commitment right now so what have i been doing thinking about this no this is not my house from a reviewer at the home depot s website yes it s creeping toward gardening season and i ve already obtained some seeds for this year and this year i m actually going to put in a couple of raised beds in the backyard so i can plant a vegetable garden in the yard the first one since the mini reds were little here s to hoping the deer won t be that hungry outside of that i ve just been taking a mental break goofing around doing this and that and catching up on some of my writing by the time this posts i might be back into wow but whether or not isn t that great of a concern what s important is that i enjoy what i m doing if you re like me and have far too much accumulated junk for a bank alt or two you just move stuff around via in game mail in wow at least you have 30 days before the mail and attachments returns to the sender and then 30 days it can sit in the sender s inbox before it s automatically removed so if you keep up with juggling in game mail you can move a ton of stuff around relatively speaking of course my friends group would want me to get to outland and level faster it s not quite so overt right now but it s one of those generally understood things but i m being my contrarian self right now and am actively resisting that posted by redbeard at 7 30 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hobbies musings retail self wow classic anniversary tuesday march 10 2026 some more exploration i suspect that i m the sort of player that blizzard likes to pretend doesn t exist or if we do exist my sort of player is in such few numbers that they don t pop up on their activity data in a meaningful way i mean i prefer visiting this place in retail i think there might have been a toon or two around here but i didn t poke my nose into the bank area so wasn t certain or this place running around on march 8 2026 i was literally the only player here or this place nobody here either here s the screenshot that shows i was in the cataclysm version of theramore not the mists or later version those tanks only appeared in cata and if you got through mists and the event there s just rubble here i think i never did it there were some new toons i saw at the place shown below however which is to be expected given that blood elves got an uh extreme makeover for this expac but this version of falcon watch is one of my favorite spots in eversong right next to fairbreeze village if you re like me you can still visit the old be areas all you want without ever having to think about anything post 2007 i had to manually accept the catch up dragonflight quest so i could hide it from my screen you simply can t hide it any other way and i finally figured out how to turn off the you have to select a combat specialization persistent pop up hint it s buried in the tutorial settings now i can sightsee without the constant prodding to go and progress level up or just do something other than what i m currently doing if there s a reason why i m reluctant to go to outland in the anniversary edition of tbc classic it s the constant prodding to do your dailies once you reach max level not by the game itself per se but by everybody else in the game and once quel danas opens up in probably september or october there will likely be people loudly banging a drum to do the quel danas dailies to unlock more content wherever you go it s as if in the c...