The sneaky glass cannon
I like my builds do a LOT of damage, be mobile, and be silent death.
CANCELLED!
My partner and I really like watching old shows from the 90s and early 2000s, like Will and Grace, Frasier, The Nanny, Buffy, Friends, Boston Legal, etc. When we do, we play this game called Cancelled.
The rules are simple: Get a large cup, pint glass, vase, or bucket of alcohol or another beverage of your choosing. Turn on your show. Every time someone says or does something that would get a show, writer, director, producer, actor, or entire franchise cancelled in today’s socio-political landscape, yell “CANCELLED!” and take a swig or a hefty glug.
We are drunk a lot. Kidding; I only drink sometimes. But we do play this daily.
The Medium: Reviewish
If your idea of horror is cheap jump scares, gratuitous gore, and slimy monsters trying to eat you around every turn, then you will be disappointed in this game. I’m a horror junkie, and, personally, I don’t think that stuff is scary; I think that stuff is just cheap, tacky, lazy writing and boring, overused, tired nonsense.
The horror in this is a slow burn conceptual story element and it’s a fantastic piece of writing. I mean, yeah the monsters are scary-ish (I don’t scare easily) but the story is the true horror element. If there were ever a good game to turn into a limited run TV series, this would be it. The story is about a woman, who, after preparing her recently deceased adoptive father for his funeral, gets a phone call from some guy who tells her he knows what she is (a medium) and that he needs her to come meet him because the light is almost gone, which is just vague enough to be intriguing. That’s all the story I’m going to give you.
Planet Zoo: Reviewish
So, I’ve played this for four hours and I’m still in tutorial mode. It’s kind of a LOT of tutorial if you’ve played Planet Coaster, and I have, extensively.
It’s a cute game so far, but if you loved Planet Coaster because of absurdity and rides, this isnt that. There is a lot of information about the animals, a lot of specific decorating, and a lot of personnel management. And, in tutorial two, a whole lot of mandrills escaping. I’m not sure how though. I’ve built a 7 meter tall fence and moved every tree, building, rock or other climbable away from the wall and they just keep getting out. could you not, I’m trying to build a spot for my cute little tapirs!
3,000 Hours!
3,002 actually, but whatever.
To celebrate, I feel sorry for social justice warriors.
For my turn, I feel sorry for Netflix.
Today on the chopping block we have Community, a wholesome, amazing, hilarious show about a community college full of misfits and mismatched characters from across the racial, age, and socioeconomic spectrums. God forbid a show like this exist.
There’s Jeff, the hot, white, douchey, not-a-lawyer; Annie, the meek, pale, secretly hot, jewish academic; Abed, the loveable, likely neuro-atypical, half Arabic, half Palestinian nerd; Troy, the dumb, black jock with a heart of gold; Shirley, the black, judgemental, well-meaning, extremely christian mommy; Pierce, the old-money, ancient, white asshole; Chang, the narcissistic chinese asshole who screws with the study group; Dean Pelton, the pasty, extremely flamboyant dean, who speaks 70% of his lines in sexual innuendo directed at Jeff, and Britta the defiant, idealistic, white bread, social justice warrior. Britta is the worst. Somehow these characters, though deeply flawed in their own ways, get along with each other.
Modder Spotlight: Niero
I’m going to start off by saying that Niero is, hands down, one of my favourite modders for Fallout 4. His mods are mostly clothing and weaponry, steeped in lore that somehow fit into the wasteland, and stand out at the same time. His work all looks like it was put together by a team of professionals, instead of one solitary person. The models are beautiful, the UV maps are flawless, and the clothing rigging looks natural. The pieces from each outfit mesh fabulously with pieces from other outfits, and I’m usually wearing parts from at least four of these mods, simultaneously. Also, almost all of these items come with unique mods and/or headlamps which cast shadows.
I think one of my favourite things about the Niero mods is that all of them come with a couple colours, but he provides, for free, 4K skin packs on his Gumroad page or his Patreon. Providing them on an external site speeds up your downloads too!
Niero mods never clash with any other mods I’m using, and they seem to be happy anywhere in my load order. I don’t even test new ones anymore, because I’m comfortable dumping a new Niero mod into an existing play through without worrying about breaking my save. I can’t not use Niero mods in my play throughs.
My one single only tiny iiitty bitty gripe is that Niero needs to use more purple. I’m very sad there is no purple of any sort in the Stridgudae gear. I need me some purple. But I kinda want everything everywhere to be purple all the time. Perhaps the lack of purple is good for me.
This is going to be long. Strap in.
Children of Ug-Qualtoth
This mod…
I grew up on horror. I was reading Stephen King at 11. I can watch gore horror like SAW and Hostel without even being remotely phased. Pennywise is kinda cute. I have zombie “nightmares” where literally everyone else on the planet is dead, aside from myself and handful of people and I love them. I have fallen asleep during hour 3 of the 6 hour Shining miniseries, woken up when Jack is stalking the house, covered in blood and insane, trying to kill Danny, and fallen asleep again in the middle of it. Point is, I don’t scare easily. I have considered that there might be something pathologically wrong with me.
Jenna Marbles
Great. So the social justice warriors have necro’d a bunch of 8-10 year old videos and cancelled Jenna fucking Marbles. The only good OG comedy creator on the entirety of YouTube.
Sure she did a bunch of stupid shit when she was young and trying to be edgy for views, just like all of the other creators of the time doing stupid edgy noob shit. Instead of starting 97 squeaky clean new channels to bury her past or just giving up entirely, like many of her contemporaries, she stuck with it, grew up, and showed us that it is possible to be an angry, sarcastic, confused, young 20 something and grow up into a really decent person who makes soap hands, throws dog weddings, fails miserably at making corn-on-the-cob-except-the-corn-bone-is-a-hotdog, and water marbles her CROCKS.
The gaming industry and its mass layoffs
I saw this topic on Reddit, and realised I hadn’t written anything here in a long time. Well here goes:
IGN story Reddit post
I actually read the article, and I think some things are missing.
The things that are missing it barely mentioned are AI and not listening to customers.