UltrViolet writes great posts but doesn’t have any comment section on his blog. Sometimes you just have to take that extra step.
I’m going to start a new feature in my blog, called “Dear @endgameviable”. It will consist entirely of comments I want to leave on his blog, but can’t. — Tipa of the South Wind (@tipadaknife) October 7, 2021
Once upon a time, I used to do respond to other people’s posts on my blog, every day – almost every day. It was fun.
Poorly lit Greedfall shot
I started Greedfall a while back, but it didn’t click with me. It was “okay” but running back and forth to watch cut scenes is the main game activity. It wasn’t a good game for videos. “Now What”
I’m actually surprised that a lot of New World players aren’t playing Greedfall. Granted, I haven’t played New World, but I did finish Greedfall, and got all the endings, and I really liked its take on the whole question of the ethics of colonization. I understand New World handles those same uncomfortable questions in a different way, with the natives welcoming the new explorers. Greedfall doesn’t go for the easy solution, here. I very much enjoyed the game. It reminded me of the good Dragon Age games.
With that kind of game, I could theoretically play it without recording it, but it just seems like a waste of time to play games now without leaving some kind of creative work or archival record behind to show for it. (And before you ask, blogging is too much work.) Ibid
I feel the same way. I try to record most games I play, now, unless they are with other people, in which case I protect their privacy by not broadcasting it. I am slowly figuring out how to do Twitch. I tried a live stream on YouTube the other day, but I didn’t enjoy it much.
You should definitely try Valheim. I had a lot of fun playing with my static group. And some amount of fun playing solo, too :-)
That dress.
The Copied Factory, it turns out, is one of the easiest alliance raids I’ve seen in the game (admittedly I’m late to it, so everyone is now overleveled). Compared to The Labyrinth of the Ancients back in the day, it’s a breeze. Shadowbringers 5.1
Sheesh. The Copied Factory left scars on me. Those first few days were rough, but I really wanted the outfit, so I ran it again and again. It did get easier over time. But when the second Nier: Automata raid went live – I quit the game. Even though I’ve come back to FFXIV, I still have never given it a shot. Same for the last Eden raid. I really do need to study up and do them.
The Labyrinth of the Ancients was fun.
Writing is hard, so UltrViolet implemented an entirely bespoke blogging system from scratch. Which is kinda awesome, actually. But I know exactly what he means – I never actually know what to write, I just figure I should write, and what comes is what comes, but I program computers during the day and I’ll be damned if I don’t love doing the same stuff when I get home. Weird.
It was UltrViolet’s struggles to get his blog running through Github and Markdown and scripts that scraped together his work and turned it into web pages that guilted me into finally making the old West Karana stuff available – first through a Python script that recreated the blog in Github, and then (with suggestions from Nimgimli to teach me how), actually combined the old blog with this one.
I’d have been content never to resurrect the old stuff. I’m kind of embarrassed about parts of it. But other parts, I enjoyed reliving.
Thanks for the free content, UltrViolet :-)