@Th3solution I believe it was marketing (and corporate espionage) and oh yes I never doubted the power of Pretendo for even a moment (sorry I'm a little out of the loop, chatchat has been very active) I'll read the before postings tomorrow, I think I typed for hours again, multiple people, multiple conversations, some weird (not the people) some not, I even saw Nueromancer appear in the Movie Thread (really)
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
And don’t forget my darling, Well Dweller which will be a couple days apart from SH and Control, so actually a three headed beast that week too, although two of those heads are Pretendo’s.
Oh, great. I go from sitting back and relaxing while you three duke it out, to a simultaneous pair of Pretendo games ganging up on me! That hardly seems fair! Where's the ref...?!
Although I did like the part where you called me "darling", darling.
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
@Werehog 😂 Looking back at my post it can be read a couple different ways with my vague use of one comma there. All interpretations apply! Especially if you read it in your mind to the voice of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution My brain being British, it went to a sitcom called Blackadder Goes Forth where one of the characters was intentionally named "Captain Darling" so as to create situations where, whenever his fellow military officers referred to him by name, they would get a good laugh.
But yes, Zsa Zsa Gabor is an equally valid option, if not moreso!
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
I bloody knew Wolverine would get torn to shreds as PS walz from one massive L to another. I should have changed it up, but the other two non-dated games kind of limited my moves on the chessboard that is fantasy critic.
I mean, I think about two or three weeks ago I started to think "this isn't the game i'd imagined it would be in my head" (it now seemed to be the very standard X-Men coded side of things" and I stopped caring about getting it day-one, but wow, it can't be that average, can it? Considering Spider-Man gets inflated 90s and Insomniac is the darling of Sony. I was sure they could make a game with a bit of genuine grit this time and at least get high 80s for Marvel but with gore, whiskey, ptsd and some man-emotions like self-loathing 💀 maybe there is some review fatigue on top of Sony being public enemy number one, but maybe it is just a game that has been designed by committee.
@Tjuz@Th3solution did anyone have it being my lowest scoring game, by the way?(Assuming the others get released)
Also, Link! Please leave GTA 6 alone. Let my brand new, original and ethical games exist in peace with your silly remakes and fan service and being on Nintendo which people don't hate at the moment (are they not currently suing some guide-dog puppies for barking in a way that sounds a bit like the catchphrase of that quite clearly racist italian-american stereotype?)
also, @Tjuz we'd better keep the word-count down here in case Kyle is randomly reading the thread. Wouldn't want them getting lost 🙃
@Ravix Welcome back, I thought you'd fallen ill too, did Dawnwalker steal your time away? I've been trying to make progress in Crimson Desert, but you were right it's huge, not bad huge, just there's a lot to see and to do. I'm focused on the Faction quests at the moment for the camp, but I'm sick too so it slowed down. I've been in bed all night talking to Tjuz. It's like a sleepover there are four of us in chat. I still want to try a Crimson Desert write-up, but it's impossible to know where to start because it's impossible to know if I've seen enough of the game to try to be fair and yet critical at the same time. I've never seen one game introduce so many new mechanics per-quest, there was even a bird feeder, I can't get it to work but it's a thing.
@GirlVersusGame haha, thanks for the welcome back. I'm no iller than usual and, if anything, i'm more relaxed having not been online. Nothing much changed, irl things and stuff changed a little, but when I have been gaming i've enjoyed it more, too, but maybe that is because Dawnwalker is made by devs that 'get it'. It is hard to tell the reason, but all the things have correlated (good game, a relaxed ravix and not being online) 😄 I did jot some notes down to kind of describe my time with dawnwalker, so far (still very early on in the main story) but never came on to post them, I don't think anyone is even talking about that game on the forum? But if you like the Witcher there's a good chance you will get these good vibes within about 30 mins of playing it so i'd recommend it to any fellow Witcher people 🙂
Yeah, Crimson Desert be like that 😅 everything is a feature, even things you don't need or never even thought could be a feature are a feature. I will read through the Crimson Desert page again at some point to see how you are doing in it, but please don't feel pressured to have to make a big write'up or review, just enjoy the time spent in it, and if the write-up happens naturally, so be it 😄
I would also like to say take care of yourself. A few times before last week I was going to say such to you and another person here, but i'm a big chicken and often sit on my positive words because I just think its none of my business and people don't need my input. But as a big silly emotional sponge I have felt that maybe things had been getting overwhelming on here for you, with a lot of deep discussions and topics and maybe it was upping your stress levels. And that was even before Kyle piped-up being a hat-of-posterior-placement (a** hat). At that stage I was going to go full-bear, but @Tjuz already said everything that needed to be said, like it is so simple for a user to just scroll past a post they have no interest in (or, as you pointed out, they can simply press the ignore button and problem solved for them) and literally they are choosing to read a long comment they aren't interested in or even tagged in, just to complain that they had a hard time reading that very comment? That is literally insane. I was already in the middle of noping out of online by then, and was browsing the chat thread while logged-out but the lack of logic displayed from the complainer definitely helped me think I was right to do so, because I could have logged-in and gone scorched-earth and made it worse, but I didn't. I'd suggest just blocking them if they can't just ignore you, though, and be done with it that way.
And seriously... take care of yourself. Stress is bad for the physical body as well as mental health, and, if you can, choose only activities that reward your body and mind 🤲
Also, I see you trying to make me jealous 😛 why isn't @Tjuz inviting me to his sleepovers? 😭😭 I need cuddles to reassure me that picking my guaranteed 90 Insomniac game for fantasy league was not my own poor foresight, but proof I am being let down by fatigued and upset reviewers giving it 6/10s because of a targetted smear campaign (that I did see coming a mile off) Surely that can't be so for an Insomniac game, though... a 6?! I never thought it would be that much if a drop, as I thought a 7 or 8 would be on the low side for their games 🙃
When it seems you're out of luck.
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@Ravix haha, thanks for the welcome back. I'm no iller than usual and, if anything, i'm more relaxed having not been online.
I'm glad you were away, I mean you care about people and there was unnecessary drama here, if you see a new discussions thread that's why. It's a long story and escalated yesterday, but it's being fixed. Tjuz and some others joined in and said their part, I'll be honest the whole things confusing the absolute Hades out of me but my stomach and head are doing so many spins and spirals that I can't fully focus on all of that.
Nothing much changed, irl things and stuff changed a little, but when I have been gaming i've enjoyed it more, too, but maybe that is because Dawnwalker is made by devs that 'get it'.
I hope it's a good change, we don't always have control over change, but I believe everything happens for a reason. I'm glad you're enjoying Dawnwalker, a handful of people were giving it praise, I'm glad you were one of them because I know your opinion is genuine. I've been struggling lately to tell a real opinion from a bias.
I don't think anyone is even talking about that game on the forum? But if you like the Witcher there's a good chance you will get these good vibes within about 30 mins of playing it so i'd recommend it to any fellow Witcher people 🙂
It's been quiet here this week, I think people are gone back to school and work, it's September. And there's my headache back again, toast didn't work at all. I can't take headache tablets either, I have no natural (I forget the word) where you do something or take something in a cycle, I tend to ride out pain. This is worse because it's my stomach and shivering too. I ate bad cheese. I have this thing where I know people are starving in the world, there was a little mold and I didn't complain, it was a mistake. I think because I hadn't been eating but food kept coming that 'this is a waste', so I tried and now I'm paying for it. I spent hours in bed talking to Tjuz he and some friends and I stayed up all night talking, I felt like the Pope how he lays in bed and people come to talk and make conversation.
Yeah, Crimson Desert be like that 😅 everything is a feature, even things you don't need or never even thought could be a feature are a feature.
I keep playing and 'they put this into the game too?' and 'this too?', I actually have a puppy now. The win three Duos in a row was awful, I just kept betting all in, waiting, seeing, saving, reloading.
I will read through the Crimson Desert page again at some point to see how you are doing in it, but please don't feel pressured to have to make a big write'up or review, just enjoy the time spent in it, and if the write-up happens naturally, so be it 😄
It's because I feel the Developers deserve it. They had so many hateful comments, I did try the game, did put the time it, it feels like I need to say something. Or is my reasoning wrong? I don't mind if you are bluntly honest, perhaps I'm not wanting to do it for myself, it could be the wrong reason.
I would also like to say take care of yourself. A few times before last week I was going to say such to you and another person here, but i'm a big chicken and often sit on my positive words because I just think its none of my business and people don't need my input.
All of that built-up, you missed a lot, it's affecting my ex-girlfriend now too, her name and pictures were stolen and I'm trying to put water on this fire, but I've been sick all week and my usual three things at once isn't keeping up, I have faith though. I met someone on here called DET, we talked about faith, about God, it was really comforting, his life seems perfect, he said it's because God loves him, I'm trying the same thing. I'm still a sinner because of my 'normal', but I pray to Saint Francis too and he likes pets and animals, one of them has to work, I don't think Jesus did. I hardly know him.
But as a big silly emotional sponge I have felt that maybe things had been getting overwhelming on here for you, with a lot of deep discussions and topics and maybe it was upping your stress levels.
They have but I asked Tjuz not to say anything, it's just hard to understand people, and Offline are telling me war, war and more war, my Partner took me to see for weeks or months, it didn't work.
And that was even before Kyle piped-up being a hat-of-posterior-placement (a** hat). At that stage I was going to go full-bear, but @Tjuz already said everything that needed to be said,
I still see people as people and I'll respect them if they do the same, I don't need someone who is probably twice my age doing that, yes I'm dealing with a lot offline, but who isn't, I was told it would be safe here and I still believe it but I didn't need all of that. If what happened yesterday was to scare me offline? It didn't work. It made my ex hit the roof, but I'm still here, wild horses as they say can't drag me away. I'm young too so I'll outlive any older Person who tries to scare me away.
like it is so simple for a user to just scroll past a post they have no interest in (or, as you pointed out, they can simply press the ignore button and problem solved for them) and literally they are choosing to read a long comment they aren't interested in or even tagged in, just to complain that they had a hard time reading that very comment? That is literally insane.
I don't know about that, what's happening now is literally insane and illegal, the site owners know.
I was already in the middle of noping out of online by then, and was browsing the chat thread while logged-out but the lack of logic displayed from the complainer definitely helped me think I was right to do so, because I could have logged-in and gone scorched-earth and made it worse, but I didn't. I'd suggest just blocking them if they can't just ignore you, though, and be done with it that way.
I did then a sock-puppet showed up trying to bait me, I told them to grow-up. Do I know who it is? no, do I have a suspicion? of course but I believe in fairness, false accusation is just as as bad as the act itself. I don't believe in anyone doing that. Someone tried to hack Tjuz before bed, his social-media I mean, he said it never happened before, so you can see why I had to come forward. I'm curious of his social-media but asked to never see, it's his private life, I have no right to any of that.
And seriously... take care of yourself. Stress is bad for the physical body as well as mental health, and, if you can, choose only activities that reward your body and mind 🤲
Thank you Ravix truly, I think in a way being sick at the moment is a small blessing, it's making it impossible to focus on anything but that discomfort, if I was Enigizer Bunny Kat then I'd be bouncing around and 'the sky is falling', it's not, I'm still here, my ex is absolutely furious with me, but once that parts fixed she might go back to talking to me again. We broke-up after I left the music industry, she's the 'friend' I got all of those passes for, the one who realized I'd been Truman Showed. The one my Ex didn't want around, he hated her because like you guys she tried to show me something else. It's also because of New York, I was with her there too, paid her tuition, these things, I always do the best for the people I care about. Now she's angry and I don't have the words to explain something I don't understand. My current girlfriend is in drama now too, remember I said my Partner had to leave me alone for three-nights? She was supposed to look after, she didn't, he found out, I hadn't eaten in a week, not slept, he's blaming her not me, it's that word neglect again, I just want to press pause and breath.
Also, I see you trying to make me jealous 😛 why isn't @Tjuz inviting me to his sleepovers? 😭😭 I need cuddles to reassure me that picking my guaranteed 90 Insomniac game for fantasy league
It was basically me nodding along while he and two other friends gave me the 'kat you need to say something', I didn't want to be making waves for anyone. The last thing you or anyone needs to see is what happened in that thread. I went offline and came back to all of those people, some I'd never even seen before like Telco and another Solid Snake. Tjuz and Sarge really helped, reminded me of some things. The 'stay, don't let anyone exile you ever', so I didn't.
My friend made me this yesterday, I love it. I like the panel with all of the cards too.
This was another friend, I like the just blow-dryed look on those ears, obviously the box too.
was not my own poor foresight, but proof I am being let down by fatigued and upset reviewers giving it 6/10s because of a targetted smear campaign (that I did see coming a mile off) Surely that can't be so for an Insomniac game, though... a 6?! I never thought it would be that much if a drop, as I thought a 7 or 8 would be on the low side for their games 🙃
Which game is that? I genuinely am struggling to keep up.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame I was just being silly about the Wolverine scores.
Seriously, take care of yourself, though. I'm glad people were there to supoort you. That bit is the serious bit to focus on. I'm kind of glad I haven't got a clue about all the other stuff, I just thought one user was being a bit grumpy last week and wanted to control how people on the forum talked in case they were reading it because they felt it "wasn't like the old days" or something. Obviously it has escalated into something more and i'm really not following the summary of events. Don't worry about trying to explain it to me, though, i'm sure it will get sorted by the admins. I honestly haven't really got the mental bandwidth to take it all in or deal with anything like that anyway as it would take a lot of reading through the site, and too much online negativity is kind of why i'm happier staying offline at the moment.
@Ravix
As you and a couple of other people have already said. That one guy could of just scrolled past her comments, or settled for the ignore button even and let it be. But instead he turned it into one big piss party following it up with a few snide remarks, and even one prior to that, which said ,"She'lll probably say her uncle works at nintendo next" Like, really? Smells like jealousy. I hate it when people try and dictate how other people should act and behave. "Less is more" like whatever. Less is less the way I see it. We don't need the forums to feel like they're an extension of YT's talk backs.
But that's social media for you. It's usually never representiive of how people would actually converse face to face. 99% of us would probably be all smiles, happily agreeing to disagree, topped with a few fist bumps. lol But when you give somebody the power to hide behind a computer screen thousands of miles away as Mr. Anonymous without any consequences at play, then you're going to experience what people really have on their minds, most of which, wouldn't dare cast or project any level of shade in person face to face.
I'm no prize myself. i've said plenty of dumb things along the way throughout the epic 25-something years that I've been using the internet, since like 2000. I'm guilty myself as most of us are!
But ya, if somebody is in a position, where they don't have much of an oppurtunity to be vocal, just to open up, to vent, to express how they feel, and talk about whatever it is they want to discuss, in detail, and the forums(etc) allows them to, and it helps fill the void, than go for it. That's what the chit chat & deep discussion thread and whatever else are here for. I mean lets face it, most of us on here irl may have friends & family, but they're not into gaming. And video games after all, or any hobbie for that matter are meant to be shared. It's all about human relationships, and what would video games be without that? They'd be soulless. Still, the forum stuff is all temporary. people come and go, things change, and that's that.
Still, at this point, I'd struggle to turn on my NS1 or PS5 if i weren't hitting up the forums, and YouTube's talk backs talking about all things video game related. As most of us probably would. When I was a kid & teen, my world was a lot larger, i always had a large group of friends, I'd hang out with their friends, school friends and plenty of cousins to share and talk about video games with including so much more back in the late 80's & 90's. But that all started to change in my mid to late 20's, beacuse of life stuff. People change, their hobbies change, responsibilities kick in, the 9-5, people start their own families, they move away etc. This is where forums, YT(etc) obviously come into play.
And to think, if the internet didn't exist, we'd have to really push ourselves to get out there and meet people that share the hobby, maybe at gaming convensions, local video game store hangouts(I remember MicroPlay back in the late 90's doing mini PS1 tournaments and the winner would get free video game rentals for like a week. Barely anybody would show up. lol) or whatever else. I was in the Art institute for game art & design back when i was about 22 for a little bit, before deciding to bail out of that plane, but I met a few pretty cool people during that short 2 month span back in 2006. But unfortuantely we stopped talking a few years later after that and lost contact. Bummer. They must of resented my handsomeness. lol It's the cheak bones and 1.5 dimples, I'm telling you man. lol jk
@Ravix I was just being silly about the Wolverine scores.
I missed that part I was talking to Tjuz and some others, he's definitely awake now.
Seriously, take care of yourself, though. I'm glad people were there to supoort you.
It was fixed, I talked to a site owner and they were lovely. I wish I'd had more answers for them, what do you say? help someone traced my ex-girlfriend because we had pictures together, and now they created her as a profile on your site. It's a mindset I'll never understand. I count you as among those people, you've been more of a support than you'll ever know, more than I have words for. You gave me Metal back, now I love it again, and feel like I deserve it.
I'm kind of glad I haven't got a clue about all the other stuff, I just thought one user was being a bit grumpy last week and wanted to control how people on the forum talked in case they were reading it because they felt it "wasn't like the old days" or something.
It could have been that, it could have been someone else, I don't believe in accusing anyone of anything without proof, and even then understanding why they did it means more to me than knowing who did it. Either way I'll add them to my prayers tonight, good always comes from bad, always.
Obviously it has escalated into something more and i'm really not following the summary of events. Don't worry about trying to explain it to me, though, i'm sure it will get sorted by the admins.
Again it's fixed, and they were lovely, but I think I confused them because I was equally confused, it's been a strange week, like really strange. My actual girlfriend had her station reset because those three nights/days where she was supposed to look after me, she didn't. I was more less alone, my Partner found out after I was sick, so she's like me again, has to relearn what it means to be in all Caps again. It could take months, I was part of that original training process. It's how females in our lifestyle learn, they do both roles and naturally learn faster, except she didn't, I just have to see what happens.
I honestly haven't really got the mental bandwidth to take it all in or deal with anything like that anyway as it would take a lot of reading through the site, and too much online negativity is kind of why i'm happier staying offline at the moment.
If you are happy that's all that matters because life is really short and we have to find and do what makes us happy, you have your games, puppy, swords, music, I wouldn't make room for negativity there.
I suppose I'll tell you a little about who she was to me. We met one night at a show, I saw her working on images, sending them out and clearing her RAW cards before shooting the current show. I was really fascinated because a female photographer in that industry is really rare, and Metal? and successful too, extremely rare. We talked, I was there to feel the music, she was there to capture it, like memories. Really capture them in photos, to have and to hold forever. It was a career, but I saw it as something bigger, a passion bursting into something so productive, I'm still impressed.
Her nickname was fox and of course people call me kat so it was this explosion of 'wow', I fell for everything about her in a big way. I put her on the guest-list for every show, passes to every festival, saw her photos and tried it too, it didn't take. My nerves always meant my stay in any pit was very brief. She gave me confidence, tried to get me to share my Minecraft builds, I refused, then she started doing it for me and still I didn't feel it. We tried a run of my art/paintings too, it's hard to explain. I paint for myself, she wanted my work to have an audience, I don't want that. She introduced me to Hitman too, the game, some others. I covered her tuition, we lived together in New York, but we left that house fast because she got into ghost-hunting, thought an ouija board would be a great idea, I'd been trying to close-down my abilities. It blew those doors wide open, she wanted to photograph those too, put them on tape, I said absolutely not. It's hard to understand by my respect goes this way, you respect a living person, you respect their spirit too, you don't poke or provoke. It got to be an obsession, we did one day on a Ghost Adventure special, I said afterwards I didn't like Zak Bagans, I really didn't.
It just went down the hill after that, I wanted to sleep, she wanted to chase ghosts. Soon after I left the music industry, the passes stopped, and I suppose I learned the lesson again of if you give someone everything they'll want everything but you. Yesterday when all of this happened I thought she joined the site to spend some time with me, or to calm things down. I was really happy to see her again, or to even hear from her, I did get a Christmas message but nothing else. That was the hardest part of that whole thing, thinking she was back in my life, I thought it was a surprise. I think whoever did it wanted a different reaction, and I'll prayer for them either way, if I get angry, have hate, cycles never end, I meet each day with a smile. I wish everyone else could too, which is probably naive but I really don't hate whoever did it. I feel sorry for them, so yes the question of why far outweighs the who, I want them to be happy too.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@WaveBoy Seeing you in this thread wasn't confusing at all, hi again though. And thank you for saying all of that, you didn't have to. I didn't understand your video posted that day either, I do now which means technically you were the first person to actually say something. For months I said nothing, people said I needed to, I didn't know what to say to a Moderator. Or today or yesterday, I explained and was still confused.
But that's social media for you. It's usually never representiive of how people would actually converse face to face. 99% of us would probably be all smiles, happily agreeing to disagree, topped with a few fist bumps. lol But when you give somebody the power to hide behind a computer screen thousands of miles away as Mr. Anonymous without any consequences at play, then you're going to experience what people really have on their minds, most of which, wouldn't dare cast or project any level of shade in person face to face.
Have you used actual social-media before such as Reddit, Facebook, Friendster, what did you do on there? From what I gather it's almost like taking every thread from here, condensing it down to one person and hearing that one person's view on a topic, i.e. today I ate a banana, today I watched Batman, today I walked through here, the thing is I see two issues. One it's one person so where's the conversation or input from others, and two telling people where you walk each day is dangerous. If a crazy person decides to capture you or unalive you then social-media is a way to find you. You yourself are fine, you can muscle punch them etc, but in my mind someone like me my size and my gender if I did that then I allow my Ego to take a bigger place than my personal safety. Then there are politics too, an echo-chamber of the kind of propaganda I have to live under, but they enter it voluntarily.
I'm no prize myself. i've said plenty of dumb things along the way throughout the epic 25-something years that I've been using the internet, since like 2000. I'm guilty myself as most of us are!
Can I ask what's the craziest appropriate thing you experienced on or from the internet?
That's what the chit chat & deep discussion thread and whatever else are here for. I mean lets face it, most of us on here irl may have friends & family, but they're not into gaming.
My Family see gaming as a kind of mental illness, my Partner sees it as a way for me to build, express myself, explore new worlds, no one ever talks to me about gaming offline. I see my Families interests and views on war as a mental illness. Those words are treason but I see it like we learned how to destroy so many lives on a massive scale, without getting passed the mental illness of wanting to do it in the first place. That to me is mental illness, not gaming, gaming is freedom.
And video games after all, or any hobbie for that matter are meant to be shared. It's all about human relationships, and what would video games be without that? They'd be soulless. Still, the forum stuff is all temporary. people can and go, and that's that.
I'll keep talking to people regardless, I'll just move my really lost posts to the new thread out of respect to what people said, and I mean more than one person, but like today and with Northern_Munkey I'll still use chitchat, Russaphobia didn't run me off and it had years, barrages of insults, threats to my actual life, things I can't and never will repeat, but one person? not in their, yours or my lifetime. If I ever leave it will always be on my terms, if someone tries to scare me away or manufacture craziness then I'll still feel sorry for them, pop them in my prayers and hope they one day realize how short life actually is, not to waste it. I believe in karma, hurting people is bad karma.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@Ravix Good grief, buddy! I hadn't seen the Wolverine scores when I stopped by yesterday, otherwise I might not have been such a jerk about the Zelda news!
Out of everybody's drafts, I would have thought the latest Insomniac superhero blockbuster was one of the safest bets, and yet here we are, hoping it won't cost you points...?! Well, thank goodness you have GTA VI to cushion the blow (although, speaking of safe bets, I suppose I shouldn't tempt fate)!
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
Oh I just noticed Ravix picked Wolverine for BoobiSoft. I remember saying Wolverine as my choice when we started but it was too late, I knew someone stole it, but I thought TheSoloution did, so we never had Wolverine after all. How do we know who's winning? or is it still too early. Is someone going to sneakily hire Wavey as their PR/marketing too? That's how I got in with PretendoEnt.
Edit: If I could manage one post this week without having to fix a typo, it's going to happen eventually. That was a short post too and I still saw a missing word.
@Th3solution Hope this finds you well, buddy. Saw that Rayman Legends Retold got delayed and had a minor panic on your behalf, before reading that it's still gonna release within the year! Only just, mind. Hey, it's not a proper victory unless it's by the skin of your teeth, right...?!
"If I let not knowing anything stop me from doing something, I'd never do everything!"
@Werehog@Ravix@Tjuz
I congratulate you all for your cute little games with Critic scores in the 70’s and 80’s. How quaint. Please excuse me as I pop the champagne for being the first game to eclipse the 90 mark. 🍾 🥂
I’m happy to accept any resignations from the competition for those who wish to just yield to my dominance now in order to save yourself the embarrassment of defeat later.
I’ll be back with more comments and updates from Pretendo and Sol’s world after I sober up. 🎉
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution (Ravix is on a kind of break focusing on Dawnwalker Come Deliverance. It's been a rough week, in summation I've been deathly sick for days, someone I care about was doxed by a fool, then they stole my pictures from this site and started messaging her but she's no fool herself and she knew it wasn't me and so tore into them. Also there's a new thread for longer posts because some people thought mine were too long, imagine that. It's called the Deeper Discussion thread and Sarge was kind enough to make it. Other than that Tjuz has been busy with work and learning to fish, and Werehog has been off in his Starship Enterprized. I'm mostly trying to get my energy back, my fevers finally down but everything is moving in slow motion still)
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame Oh, cripes… sounds like it’s been an eventful few weeks. Here’s hoping you’re making a good recovery and all is getting back to normal.
It sounds like Rav, Tj, and Rog all have been buried in their own issues and activities. I’ve been swamped and everytime I seem to get a few minutes to catch up on Push Square stuff, the time disappears as new fires erupt for me to put out in my life. I’m not out of the woods yet and have a big project this next week and expect to put more long hours in and so I don’t know that I’ll be present much for a number of days. I happened to see the headline for Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter review and wanted to quickly drop in to gloat. Now in retrospect my comment seems a bit brash, but it’s all tongue-in-cheek.
And yes, thank you, @werehog I appreciate the outreach and the info on Rayman. Sounds like I’ll be ok still to get it in before the deadline, but it does make for some extra gluteal clenching toward the end of the year because I can’t afford for them to delay it again and go into 2027. But on a related note, congrats on Zelda hitting a firm date now.
And for @Ravix , I was a little surprised about Wolverine being a slight disappointment. Still…79 can hardly be considered a flop. The bar for our games is just incredibly high!
I have some small updates on DS2 and AW, but I don’t have time to properly compose my thoughts so I might leave them later on the respective threads.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Oh, cripes… sounds like it’s been an eventful few weeks. Here’s hoping you’re making a good recovery and all is getting back to normal.
Do you know what's weird with sickness? I felt good yesterday, I even ate, there was no headache so I played Crimson Desert all day, in bed of course. I really thought it was on the way out like a Plus+ removal, then today I wake at seven in the AM and it's all back. It's awful but I have to laugh at it too because I was sure yesterday was almost the last of it then today it was a kind 'guess who's back?', I know what caused it at least which means no cause any extra concern. To search for traces of poison they have to take nail clippings and I'm not getting declawed over a false alarm.
At first I thought it was Covid again because that too had those shivers and when I caught it I didn't even know what Covid was or that the world had gone on lockdown. We still had diplomatic travel, it was just another day and I've never been in an airport before so I never saw any grounded aircraft. No one wanted to tell me about Covid because they didn't want to scare me and we had places to be, such is life. Then I suppose like everyone else? I awoke one night shivering and was told about Covid. I don't think anyone would have told me had I not caught it. And even when they did I couldn't see or grasp what they meant by 'the whole world', mainly because when travel is constant the world becomes tiny. It's the saying 'as the crow flies', that's my default point of view. Then I wonder what did a non-agoraphobic do for lockdown? gaming obviously but even so what if you like walking around outside daily, and food and shopping that's all outside too, and then I wonder who makes you stay inside? the police, the military? I never really thought of it before. Hopefully it's gone forever, I do like the inside, most seem to want both.
Ravix did say the negativity of late made him take a little time away for himself, I can only assume that he means what happened that weekend in chitchat. I didn't catch a lot of it in real-time even-though it was aimed at me. Someone made issues about my posts being too long, I said leave me alone you've been doing this for months and it's causing stress and anxiety. Which is true, how do you post when you are constantly worrying like that? and it was mixing with 'am I even allowed to say this or will a Moderator remove hours of trying to word something?'. So those two fears were mixing, and I finally just said to leave me alone. After that Tjuz and some others took me into private, I forget all of that, when I came back here a lot of people had replied to that thread, Sarge created a thread for long posts so I tried that instead. Then I started getting messages about 'kat that's exile, use both but just use the new one for long posts', so that's what I'm doing. I think Ravix was online that night and saw some of that. It could also be how games like Wolverine were being painted and twisted to sound 'woke'. There definitely has been unnecessary negativity lately. Someone lied after there being a male on male option in the game, Liam shut them down right away, but those are the lengths people are going to sabotage games now. There's a lot of hate for Sony, it's definitely affecting things on the surface level, others are trying to focus on the good. I'm trying to balance it out by calling out bigotry when I see it. Too many people left the site and told me 'it's because of negativity' and while that might be a part of most online communities? it doesn't need to be.
I’ve been swamped and everytime I seem to get a few minutes to catch up on Push Square stuff, the time disappears as new fires erupt for me to put out in my life.
I just assumed you were really busy with work because September is the month where everyone goes back to work and schools around the world reopen. I don't ask people if they have children, I see children as sacred and someone that needs to be protected, not talked about with strangers on the internet. Things here did go quiet and I did think it was also school.
I’m not out of the woods yet and have a big project this next week and expect to put more long hours in and so I don’t know that I’ll be present much for a number of days.
As long as you make some time for you too, gaming is there for a reason and I don't know if you play games like Vampyre Survivors but those little bites of accomplishment wouldn't hurt either. I think also (but could be wrong) that the games of the Draft are mostly out for now and then October or the following month are the next batch. I'm glad I never got to go solo for this, I'd never have kept up. If we do another I'm going to team-up again, I'd only clutter and confuse the whole thing by trying to keep on-top of this.
I happened to see the headline for Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter review and wanted to quickly drop in to gloat. Now in retrospect my comment seems a bit brash, but it’s all tongue-in-cheek.
I saw that game, read the review, drank in all the visuals and added it to 'it looks and sounds brilliant but realistically speaking I'll probably never play it'. I think there's a genre and culture block for me. With gacha it's 'this game will be addictive therefore I avoid it'. With games like Trails I know it appeals to Anime fans and I'm not one of those either, all of those Sammy games (my new genre name) look so good but I get the feeling people have been following those franchises their whole lives. I did buy a Dragonquest game recently because it has building and Palworld sounding monsters. I'll eventually give it a try. Then there's Runescape too, I'll eventually try that too, as it stands Crimson Desert is turning into one of my favorite games of all time, and it has a DLC due soon too.
I will say this too, negativity aside, the People who run this site care about the people who use it, obviously I can't go into specifics but that too was a big part of feeling welcome here, it was and still is a really good feeling. For the longest time I had an all consuming dread of a 'they hate me too', and it's a byproduct of Russaphobia, I think years of that feeling does rewire something. Talking to the right People helped quieten that too and had things not gone as far as they did I'd still be feeling the dread today. I see two silver linings from the experience and that's a big one. Life as they say is good.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
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