Meanwhile, Elon Musk is on a mission to privatize space travel, raking in lucrative government contracts to lock the poor out of the next stage of human development.

Had a fun weekend where I celebrated my mom’s birthday, and I went out to get a whole spread of food that included some very tasty fried chicken while we watched some movies on Netflix. Met up with some friends yesterday at this local brewery that did all the social distancing of people at tables, with staff that wore…

The reality of the PC platform is that more games exist on it that ever, which means there are more chances for a game to be average to bad, but also yields more good to great games in total than back in the day.

I’ve been trying out more makeshift recipes usually using some banza chickpea pasta, whatever frozen vegetables I have, canned tuna or salmon, and some milk with a combo of spices to make a sauce. While the pasta is boiling, have another pan with a bit of butter, some minced garlic and pepper until they’re almost…

The temptation to just look up a problem you run into is more readily available with shift+tabbing or using the smartphone next to you.  I’ve just pushed myself to resist the urge, try things out myself, and if I get super invested in a game I keep playing with other people I’ll start to look up stuff to see if there…

Not seeking help, and just trying to figure things out on your own is a part of the fun of most video games to me.  It’s a puzzle I want to solve, and will only look up a guide if I’ve beaten my head against the desk.  Just going to the guide early, or having an audience spam the “proper” way to play just dilutes the…

Yeah, I’ve heard keeping up with the changing season content can get exhausting with Path of Exile...which is kind of a shame given their large progression sphere grid on steroids seems tailored to allow players so much flexibility to make different kinds of characters.

Well I think the Souls series is kind of unique in that it’s seems intentionally opaque just to get players to discover more on their own (and players on release like talking with other players to decipher things), but comes with the downside of trial and error. Enough other RPGs these days seem to build themselves…

Playing WoW Classic myself illustrated how different times today are. Classic still had the big things I came back to it for, like the social aspect where the world felt alive with communication just to group up, vs. the modern game where an instance feels like I’m going through hyper fast with companions that might…

I kind of agree, but we live in a more corporatist than capitalist society imo these days. I regularly see companies and people try to cheat around having to out-compete their competition, and use regulations to their benefit that are diluting capitalism out of the equation. Getting an edge to win though, however…

It’s definitely a difficult issue for designers to contend with, especially in a service-based game that has to change over time like an MMO. The ability to just pull up the best way to do X thing has taken away discovery, which is why I try not to look up much about a game beyond the info that gets me to want to buy…

Yeah, people should be allowed to play how they want, and it seems like more on the min-max crowd want others to play like them than the reverse.  

What’s funny to me is Skyrim and other Bethesda proper games seem designed to accommodate that kind of playstyle she’s expressing. They made all these systems to allow players to build the character they want, let you explore and leave quests mid-way through if you want, and can be modded for additional content. The…

I definitely think one of the downsides of so much information sharing around games, is that push for more “optimal” or min-max commentary from people.

“But in a way, [Trump spiritual advisor Paula] White perfectly captures the problem with positive thinking: It tries to twist every situation into a ‘victory,’ even when reality demonstrates otherwise.”

That said, it’s often hard to distinguish between legitimate concerns with Tencent and racist or anti-Communist sentiments among right-leaning players.

Definitely come up with some more creative takes on recipes using some of the canned food I have, and trying to eat more consistently healthy. Though I’ve gotten in the pattern on Friday nights making myself whatever I want, calories be damned.

Honestly the thing I miss the most was about once a week after work, I’d meet up with some friends at a local brewery, and just hang out while drinking weird craft beer experiments they’d try. Being able to go on roadtrips I miss too, or really any of the simple activity excuses for socializing with my friends.

Been feeling like playing MMOs, as they’re pretty chill, and I can play with other people. Went back to Guild Wars 2, and been going through the older Living World Season content to catch up to the Path of Fire expansion store stuff.

Well it’s good to be skeptical, because this is at the end of the day a marketing trailer for the engine. I’m sure there are some limitations they went past explaining for the sake of showing off eye-candy, but the close-up in the confined space did seem to backup the audio features looking back along with some really…