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I Feel Old

Posted in Gaming, MMORPG, Writing with tags , , on May 17, 2013 by theerivs

kellylebrockweirdscience_0Sorry folks for being a few days late, and several dollars short, but last year, Syp a mentor and old school blogger started up his Newbie Blogger Initiative …I would say it was a success if even one new blog came out of it, and kept on writing.

So I seen a couple posts, it’s been a year since the NBI came about and other bloggers did a way better job covering it then I did…Hear is a few.

Casual Aggro – A great round up, and he himself is going strong

World’s End Tavern – Another great round up.

Avatars of Steel - Has a great post.

Ravalation –  Another blogger wrapping things up and going strong.

Healing the Masses – Did some wonderful work, also posting up blog posts that help bloggers.

Ancient Gaming Noob – Compiled a bunch of Data. My eyes they bleed.

MMO Melting Pot -  They even showed some love.

 

Check these blogs, and many more….A big Congo Rats are in order. Keep on chugging folks…but you do make me feel old. Cause we did something like this many…many moons ago…in a far away place.  Syp led us before in a movement to get new bloggers, and I was a part of it on my old blog, Way of the Chosen, back in 2009. A lot of great blogs came out of that, and are still going strong even today, that makes me proud that I had a small hand in that too.

 

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Looking for a New Writer

Posted in MMORPG, Writing with tags , , on January 15, 2013 by theerivs

Let me start off by saying Bee was a great writer, and I loved her attitude, I really can’t fill her shoes….but I can find a new voice, and encourage someone new to blog. it’s time HLL looked for another ying to my yang. To bring a new voice to this blog, freshen things up, and to make the place smell nicer.

I’m looking for preferably a female, someone who loves to write about MMO’s, I prefer someone who plays mainly WoW. I’m looking for someone new to blogging who wants to have a built in audience for their writing.

Now don’t let what I’m looking for dissuade you, even if you don’t fit the bill I’m looking for contact me and we’ll talk. Contact me at cc0926(at)gmail.com

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Fare thee well, where ever thou fares

Posted in Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags , , on November 30, 2012 by theerivs

star-trek-tpol-lt_-saavik-cosplay-wars-vulcan-nerd-sexyThe great thing about playing and blogging about MMO’s was that I get to meet, and talk to some exceptional people. From the great people in my guild, to my fellow bloggers who love to write about these little pixels. One of these great people is Scarybooster, he wrote his farewell post today, and even though I’m a cynical douchebag, I found myself deeply saddened. Oh he’s not dead, and I sincerely hope he keeps in touch, and if he ever touches Illinois soil, I want to get him so drunk, he curses my name until God hears him.

It’s just some of my greatest moments in blogging were due to Scary, and no matter what enemy was crashing down my door he had my back. I always wished that are Podcast would of took off, The Donkey Show would of been awesome I’m sure. From starting a guild with him, to debating crap with him, and just sharing our lives with each other, I enjoyed getting know him. He’s a funny bastard Scary is, and like me either you get him…or you don’t, and those that get him treasure him.

I wish him all the success in the world, he deserves it. In Honor of Scary there will be no Weekly Lagout this week, and I will forever leave his blogs on my blogrolls.

To quote Spock - ”I have been and always shall be your friend”

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Hey Guys, You’re all a Bunch of Rapists!

Posted in MMORPG, Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags , , on August 30, 2012 by theerivs

So something interesting popped up in my twitter feed, an article about some Nerd Girl project….I read the article…yeah slow work day, but this in caps whacked me in the face…”Idiot Nerd Girl is the throwaway byproduct of a culture that regularly responds to criticism from women with flurries of rape threats.”

I for one was a little insulted. I’m a gamer, and in the gaming culture….now I’m basically being called a rapist. WOW! I took great offense. Does the gaming culture have a lot of immaturity, sure does when it’s saturated by boys in their teens. Boys who do not know how to channel the angst, and feelings they have raging in them. Do we punish the whole gaming culture for it. Are we all just deviant rapists who don’t want women playing video games.

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Well I lodged my complaint, but the author told me to read some more about the subject so I did. Here’s the articles she told me to read, and what my thoughts are about those articles.

How the Web became a Sexists Paradise -  Written by a woman. If you put my picture up on a forum, how many insults will be thrown my way…probably alot. Oh come on you should have seen the threats lodged at me by role players when I went to war with them. Kudos for using the word vitriol though.  The web has always been the wild west mentality, not some utopian idea these tree huggers want.

Wikipedia article about Anita Sarkeesian – Never use Wikipedia as a source is rule #1, but hey you put yourself out there, and you go on the attack, people are going to get offended. She is cute though.

Female bloggers - This isn’t about the gaming culture, so I don’t see the relevence…people are assholes, welcome to planet Earth.

On rape threats, and internet trolls. - Same broad who wrote the above article, wrote this. Great job beating a dead horse, honey.

Unprovoked Rage – Yeah teenage boys love to rape things. I say we cut their penises off.

Being a woman on the internet - Yet again not really doing with gaming culture.

Ok to sum up the only one site that really totally has to do with gaming, and who were these bad people, little boys who don’t know shit, from shinola…were they truly boys all of them I don’t know. Is it possible girls acting like asshats too, hell I had one girl gamer that likes telling guys they had their “shit pushed in”…isn’t that butt rape?

My Point -

The internet is not a utopian society, it’s more like a wild frontier. We all put ourselves out there, and say if you present yourself as a fat person, and people hate you on the internet, they will pick that out and make fun of you, so if you put yourself out there as a female, or feminist guess what their going to pick on.

Now as far as gaming culture, for every one 13-year-old jerk off out there who shouts “I’m going to rape you and your mother”, there are hundreds of gamers who just go about their business, and enjoy their games. Hey guess what there are some African-American rapists in prison, are all African-American people rapists? No they are not, there are a lot of good hard-working African-Americans.  I don’t use the word rape in my gaming or real life, please don’t call me a rapist, or one who participates in a rape culture.

 

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Why I don’t run a Porn Site

Posted in Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags , , on August 7, 2012 by theerivs

5 reasons I blog about Video Games, instead of running a Porn Site.

5. I spend hours playing Video Games, I just watch enough Porn to get the job done about 4 mins. 

4. When you play with 25 other people in Games it’s a Raid, in Porn it’s a Gangbang. The clean up is easier with a Raid.   

3. If you get a Disease, all you need is a Healer to Cleanse you in a game.

2. Though I would probably making money hand, and fist I would be spending a fortune on pajama robes, and sheets.

1. Porn Sites actually take work.

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1000th Post

Posted in Writing with tags on July 18, 2012 by theerivs

There are many landmarks in a blog. I think this is one of them. It’s my 1000th, after years of blogging I have finally reached this landmark.  I want to take this time to thank my readers, and my fellow bloggers for making this hobby worthwhile for me, and being apart of my adventure through this thing called life, and the blogosphere. Thank you for putting up with my insanity, my dirty overtones, and my stupidity. I sincerely hope that one of my posts, made you laugh, made you think, or made you just shake your head and go “what an idiot”.  I never said I was the sharpest pencil in the bunch, but my goal was never to enlighten you, it was to entertain you, and I hope I did that.

Oh and to the people that hate on me, thank you even more, you spur me on to greatness.

 

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You can be whoever you want to be.

Posted in General, Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags on June 22, 2012 by theerivs

I kind of want to clear something up, even though I  wave my red blooded American Hetero Male Flag like it’s going out of business, I in no way condone mistreatment of others.

When I was fresh out of High School, I went to work at a quick oil change place. This place was filled with more scum, and villiany then the Catina in Star Wars. Here I met “Teddy”. Teddy was a unique man, in respects I don’t know if he was a hippy per se, or just really high all the time. The first time I met Teddy, he looks me in the eye and goes, “You can be whoever you want to be, you want to take that last piece of pizza,  you take it”

The reason I bring that up. I recently came across a post about Proudmore Pride, and I was thrown back a notch. I didn’t think events like this still occured in WoW. Oh I remember the heyday of WoW there were huge events.  It kind of warmed my heart a bit to see it.

As I dug deeper into Ironyca’s blog I found this post. Tell you the truth I find the whole subject of gender, and gender roles facsinating. When I say I am a man. What does that mean? What does it mean to be a man? On the flip side of the coin what does life look like from the other side. In virtual world’s you get to change your perspective, and I delved into that myself. To me life is perspective, and when you change your perspective of things, you change your life.

Here’s the thing if you fill your life with hate or prejudice you will as even the bible says, “Reap what you sew”. So when I say I am a man, my Dad once told me, “As a man you must do the right thing, even when the right thing isn’t popular”. Found out later he stole that, but I don’t care I’m still giving the old man credit.

The right thing is whether you’re a women, a gay, a lesbian, and yes even a role-player. I may not agree with you, I might not like what you say, but I will keep an open mind, and not judge you, for even Jesus said, “He without sin, cast the first stone” when those people were judging the harlot, and folks I have a shit ton of sins. Here’s the payoff keep an open mind, and who knows one day you might have your perspective changed, and then your life will change.

As for my friend Teddy, he passed away hiking in Alaska when he fell and hit his head on a rock, and I’ll miss that man because he wise beyond his years, and he could play spoons like none other.

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NBI Sucks

Posted in MMORPG, Writing with tags , on May 31, 2012 by theerivs

NBI Sucks, and I for one happy it is over.  People all over the blogosphere are claiming it a success, as for me I’m glad it’s over.

Why NBI Failed

1. All These New Awesome Blogs - All these great new writers, and their new fresh blogs.

2. Great Advice -  All these sponsors piped in with their great advice, I haven’t gotten to half of them yet.

3. My Blogroll is Huge – I have to go through and add all these new blogs to my blog roll. I use to be made fun of back in the day on how huge my blogroll is, well this isn’t going to help.

4. Hemorrhoids -All these leads to one thing..see  I do most of my reading on the toilet, all this extra reading will result in me buying Preparation H. I’m sending the bill to Syp.

Of course I mean this all in good fun, I really am mildly shocked how well things turned out, but now comes the real task I hope you new bloggers stick around, and write some great stuff. Cause if i add you to my blogroll, and next month I have to take you off…I will be PISSED.

Check out all the new blogs, and sponsor advice links on Syp’s post…cause I’m real lazy to link all that stuff.

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NBI- You need a Thick Skin

Posted in Other Nerdy Pursuits, Writing with tags , on May 22, 2012 by theerivs

There are many advice posts being posted about how to do this, how to do that, all of them great posts.

One thing though I did not see is that beign a blogger, you sometimes have to have a thick skin. You are putting a piece of you, for the whole world to view. Some people may not like what your opinion is, and they might attack you, and sometimes get personal about it.

I don’t censure my blog, I have people call me every name in the book, and I leave the statements up, why?  Because I don’t care, their comments are a reflection of them, and their stupidity. Censor that, no I want to show the world that this person is upset of a blog, that just posts crap. As a bouncer at a bar for most of my life I learned a thing or two about having a thick skin.

A Couple Tips For A Thicker Skin.

1. It’s never personal – The people that insult you over the internet don’t really know you, so calling a jerk because of your thoughts on a warrior talent is a moot point.  When people use to scream in my face how their going to get their gun, and blow my head off never worried me, cause the blowhards are just that, big bags of air…it was always the quiet ones I worried about, who without saying a word would grab a bottle, come in back of you, and smash it on your head.

2. Never Argue With Stupidity – See I kind of enjoy feeding the trolls sometimes cause I know no one has any real power on the internet…well maybe Bill Gates does, but that’s besides the point. To avoid frustration I suggest to just walk away.  When people use to argue with me when I worked at the bars, I use to say I wasn’t on the debate team, so they can save their breath.

3. Have a Set of Rules -  If you are going to censor, or not have a set of codes to work by on your blog. Is there a line that a commenter can cross that will upset you. You have some guidelines, and post those to commenters so they know,  so when someone breaks the rules, no debates, it’s just done. Me I have no limits, I don’t censor myself, nor others…but I can understand why someone would  put limitations up. One time someone went to my personal blog found out I was living with my mother, called me a loser for doing so. What they DIDN’T know was that I moved in with Mom who lost a leg due to cancer, to help out with my Stepdad who had a major stroke.  I didn’t remove that comment until the user asked, because it showed what an idiot that person was.

4. If you truly write for yourself, who cares what others think - Alot of people are saying you should write for yourself, not care about numbers…if you are truly doing that then you should have no problems if someone doesn’t like what you do.

5. Never Get in A Fight With Role Players – They be crazy.

 

 

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NBI- Finding Your Voice

Posted in Writing with tags , on May 3, 2012 by theerivs

So you want to write blogs? What makes you so different then the millions of millions of other bloggers out there?  You could write about a certain niche, write a blog about Mario Kart, but as my friend Tobold told me one time it limits you, it’s like painting yourself in a corner, so be careful if your writing about one game, or even one class within the game…I didn’t listen.

No it’s a little better to give yourself some wiggle room, and be a bit of a generalist. The thing that will make you heard among the masses will be your own style, your own voice. 

Around the blogosphere, I’m a bit of a bad boy. I post half-naked women with my posts, Feminists hate me, I have an ongoing war with Role Players. My posts are usually short, and to the point, and most of the time crap, but take it or leave it….that’s me. I write like how I talk, my posts are an extension of who I am….that’s my voice.   

How do you find your voice? For some it comes naturally, god bless them. Their writing is awesome, and almost lyrical. For me it’s always a work in progress. I remember my first posts were dry, and some were even guides on how to stuff. Horrible, don’t we have enough Elitist Jerks sites out there as it is.

For me it was an evolution, but it starts with a vision. My vision for this blog has always been to entertain. The world loves a fool, and I am that fool.  What’s your vision, do you want to entertain, inform, or maybe even both?  From that I went what entertains people…and I go from there.

Why the half naked girlie pics?  Ok I’m going to let you on to a secret, i like girls. Also I think there are way to many carebears in this blogosphere, I see myself as the Man Show of blogs…if I could have girls jumping on trampolines after every post I could. We are still a male runned genre, and other guys like girls too…so sex sells…it’s the way of things.

Why the half naked hot trannies? Once in awhile I post one of these up. It’s kind of a joke on myself…and a little shock value for my readers. I like shocking people, or even angering people at times merely for the reaction. Almost Jerry Springering in fashion.

There are methods to my madness, but for you if you want to blog, find your own method, your own madness, and your own voice.

Make sure to check out the NBI forums, and register

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