If you've been a gamer long enough, you've had a parent or some other authority figure tell you to "Go outside". Or "Go touch some grass." I was reminded of this on Saturday, when I was literally touching grass as I was doing yardwork.
So, in honor of parents or other authority figures providing you with direction to not sit in front of a screen all day (and all night), here's some "touching grass" memes.
(And not a single one involves weed, either!)
I don't use my phone for gaming (or own a Switch), so this would be me. From programmerhumor.io.
I feel for ya, doggo. From Memedroid.
I don't play League of Legends, but I'd imagine that a subset of WoW players are like this. From Instagram.
Ha! "Me to touch grass!" is right up there with "You no take candle!" From Memedroid.
I have to admit it's a clever way around the issue. From HyperX.
It depends. Can I get revived easily while I'm outside? From Memedroid.
Yes, I've been playing Stardew Valley again. Maybe this time I'll stick around past the two year mark, but we'll see about that.
In honor of my courting of a redhead (probably Leah this time, as my wife is an amalgamation of Leah and Penny), here's a few Stardew Valley memes...
Unlike some people, I don't mind Pierre that much. Still his "Closed on Wednesday" stance early in the game pisses me off. From The Gamer.
I gotta be honest: I'm probably "the kid" in this meme. It never occurred to me that people would actually put Lewis' purple shorts in the potluck soup. From Reddit.
I'm not sure why, but this made me laugh. From Awkwardzombie.com and Kate Tiedrich.
Yeah, romancing Harvey kind of dredged up some uncomfortable surprises. He's still overall a nice guy, though. From @sonniegaming on Instagram.
I lived in a dorm in college that this reminded me of. Well, minus the fireplace and the nice kitchen. From Reddit.
Yeah, I know. I figured it out, and so did everybody else who played the game. Still, would YOU want to be the one to tell Pierre? From @StardewValleyBut-I-Draw3 on Pinterest.
Temperatures up in Milwaukee were really warm for mid-September, low-to-mid 80F/26C or so, but by the time Sunday morning rolled around, the temperatures were becoming more seasonal (60F/15.5C) for the late morning. And rain rolled in just as we were leaving, so we narrowly avoided bad weather.
There was at one point during the trip that I wondered if it were more cost effective to fly up there and back rather than drive, but I doubt that the price is worth it. Really, avoiding Chicago traffic is the primary reason to fly up to Milwaukee, but it wasn't that bad this time around.
But anyway, I figured for this Meme Monday, I'd focus on the other things that happened this past weekend, and the consequences of being away from all that.
Such as Week 1 of the NFL season. (Go Bengals!)
Tee Higgins makes a catch while a Tampa Bay Buccaneers defender is hanging onto him. From WCPO.
Hey, I'll take a victory, after baseball's Cincinnati Reds were abjectly terrible this year and our MLS soccer team, FC Cincinnati is fading horribly down the stretch.
This does bring up the question: what about people who are missing out on what they love when they're doing other things?
Hence this Meme Monday.
Okay, I thought this amusing. From Facebook.
Whenever I'm in that situation, I shudder. From Cheezburger.
And then there are days/weeks/months where I've totally missed out on things in game worlds. From 9GAG.
Sometimes Marvin Gaye just knows what to say. From Cheezburger.
And then I'm missing out by not paying attention. From Reddit.
This past weekend my wife and I ended up at a couple of bookstores, at whom I found several items I took photos of and shared with my Questing Buddy. She's a Romantasy fan, so I knew that she'd find them interesting.
You get the idea.
Oh, you want to know what I found?
The historian in me had a field day when I discovered this...
He also has a new book out about Bablyon, but I'm going to wait for the paperback edition...
Anyway, that got me to thinking about book memes. I mean, it's technically Meteorological Fall, so I could get away with Fall Memes, but I think Book Memes is a better choice today.
Here's a counterpoint: have you READ HP Lovecraft's works? From Pinterest.
This is why I don't read George RR Martin. From @jkcomics.
Ha! I'm absolutely sure that when I finally start reading the Fourth Wing books, my Questing Buddy will have this expression on her face. From Kindlepreneur.
Um, I need bigger walls first. From Pinterest.
I've mastered this look. From Instagram.
I have been there, only that I reach that point in the novel around 4 AM for some reason. From Thunder Dungeon.
Yeah, it's been quite a while since I've raided, even in a one-off, but I've got my share of raiding memes I have around. So after my chat with my Questing Buddy the other day, it reminded me about those raiding memes that needed a post.
So here we are.
Can confirm that I was mentally freaking out whenever that was my job. From Reddit.
My Rogue only got MC hand-me-downs, so I can confirm this exists. From Reddit.
I have the original around somewhere, but I kind of liked this updated version. From Reddit (again). I think I detect a trend.
And yeah, I've listened to raid leads behave like this. Some of them really do love to hear themselves talk. From imgflip.
Every time I hear people talk about how easy Classic raids are, I'm reminded of this little fact from back in the day. From Reddit.
And yeah, I couldn't resist. Redbubble put this on t-shirts! From Redbubble and Midsummer1942.
I knew this day would come, but it still was a bit of a shock.
Dolly Parton died yesterday at the age of 80.
Here's a message from the family:
I will not say I'm a fan of Country Music; to the contrary, if there's one music I tend to dislike in general, it's Country. Of course there are exceptions, such as some Kenny Rogers songs, but by and large the biggest exception was for Dolly Parton.
She was something else. I'd call her a force of nature, but when people typically think of that they think of people who went through life like a tornado, wreaking chaos and destruction in their wake. Dolly was most definitely not that. Born into poverty, she rose up to be the person she became, and yet she never forgot where she came from.
People born outside the US may have absolutely no idea of the impact Dolly had on reading. Through her Dolly Parton's Imagination Library* that she founded in 1995, she put books in the hands of millions of children. The Imagination Library was a book gifting program that mailed a book per month to children from birth through age 5 completely free of charge. Dolly initially focused on her home of Sevier County, Tennessee, but the program quickly expanded beyond that nationally, and then later internationally to include Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia.
The thing that made this endeavor work was that the gifting was completely unconditional: it was open to all children regardless of family income. Dolly just wanted children to read, to have the chance to succeed in life.
***
I grew up in the late 70s to early 80s, which coincided with Dolly Parton's rise to superstardom on the pop charts. So yes, I was quite familiar with Dolly. And yes, hitting puberty in the early 80s meant that of course I knew all about Dolly's most famous assets. If you were a boy of that age at that time, there was no way to not know about them.
And that's not even counting Nine to Five or her duet with Kenny Rogers, Islands in the Stream.
***
Dolly was one of those people who was beloved by everybody. I don't think I've ever heard someone say a bad thing about Dolly Parton, and that's saying something.
Farewell, Dolly. You had a much greater impact than you may have ever realized.
*The website is understandably swamped right now, so don't be surprised if you have issues accessing it.
This past week I found myself on the road a bit. One day I travelled up to Lafayette, Indiana* to me my oldest. Lafayette is right about the halfway point between Milwaukee and Cincinnati, so meeting there for an afternoon is kind of feasible. This past Saturday, of course, I was down in Louisville with my in-laws and my youngest.
And a Mooch.
So, in honor of that travelling, I figured I'd create a Meme Monday out of it.
Uh, no. Traffic says otherwise. And nice misspelling too. From Pinterest.
It's all relative. I mean, I went through Indiana on I-74 and I-65, so yeah. But if I head east from Cincinnati on US-32, you hit the Appalachian Mountains before you know it. From Reddit.
I've honestly wondered if Blizz wanted to sell you on purchasing flying because the automated flightpaths were so bad. From Facebook.
Then again, just remember that travelling in an MMO is where the devs want you to go. Not where you actually WANT to go. From Reddit.
Okay, I laughed. From Pinterest.
And sometimes the journey is almost mandatory. From Instagram.
*Yes, Purdue University is right next door in West Lafayette.
Yes, if you can count, I got Joan to L70. I was in the middle of the Ring of Blood group quest when she dinged, so I was kind of busy and didn't take a screencap at the time.
If you'll also note from that screencap Neve is at L51 now --and boy have I been dragging my feet with her-- so she ought to reach Outland sometime in late September.
As for what to do next on the Alliance side, I've brought Hoots over and have started leveling her. I realize that the optimal way to level a Hunter is to go and get a Ravager as a pet, but as you're quite aware I march to the beat of my own drummer. In Hoot's case, I probably will not get into very many instances regardless, as I just prefer solo work with her. Good thing, as Hunters are a dime a dozen on the Anniversary servers. Between Hunters and Druids, they make up what seems to be 90% of the gatherers out in the field.
In other news, for the first time in 2-3 months I logged into Retail.
You don't say...
Of course I just logged in and fished for a bit, but the cry of seagulls and the rolling thunder of the surf was quite pleasant to listen to.
You can tell I'm not serious about doing anything other than fishing because I actually have the "Fishing" command on my main bar (#9). I know that I can move it around wherever I want, but given that I'm not really doing anything else on this toon, why bother? At least she's low enough level that I don't get the "catch up" option when I come back to her after having been away for a while.
Alas, poor Quintalan.
Given that Quintalan hasn't been played since early Cataclysm, so 2010-ish, there'd be a LOT of catching up to do.
From Reddit. Well, and World of Warcraft on Facebook.
Yes, I play MMOs, which technically have no "saved game" feature. However, I do play a lot of other video games that are not only single player but also allow you to save your progress.
(Just because I can knock out a game of Age of Empires or Civ IV in one day doesn't mean that I'm not familiar with saving my progress.)
Of course, saving your progress and coming back to it later have their own issues. Hence this Meme Monday.
Of course you did, Joey. From Reddit (and Friends).
Yes, this is me. From Pinterest.
Again, this is me. From Reddit.
This happened once in a game of TI-99 4/A's Tunnels of Doom. However, I was the older brother and it was I accidentally overwrote my younger brother's save. From Memedroid.
Yeah, I automatically think that this is gonna be bad. Video games have conditioned me to think this way. From Pinterest.
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