T w e n t y S i d e d
I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad. Instead of a Sims 4 Overthinking post this week, I’m just going to throw out my Twitch. I’ve been live-streaming The Sims 4, but I’m also planning to get into some emulated games. Maybe old Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon titles. It’s quiet, no-dialogue streaming. If it’s a quiet game, I put music in the background, if it isn’t, I don’t.
It’s much less of a ‘professional streaming’ setup, and more of just a place to play games without feeling alone. I don’t have a schedule currently, but I play something or other most days in the evening. My handle is ‘Capsulepon‘ because Gashapon (my usual online handle) was taken and my hyper-fixation on capsule dispensing and claw machines only grows stronger by the day.
I’m posting today instead of tomorrow because when this post goes up I should be live, and Fridays are doctor appointment days.
Best. Plot Twist. Ever.
Few people remember BioWare's Jade Empire, but it had a unique setting and a really well-executed plot twist.
The Middle Ages
Would you have survived in the middle ages?
Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
Quakecon 2012 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
The time difference between the East Coast and Hawaii is just a bit too large, apparently; I read this post upon getting home from work, and Twitch said you’d finished an hour ago. Ah well. (That’s kinda the main reason I don’t usually watch streamers live, schedules just don’t line up here.)
Well, I’m planning to start recording them and turning them into Youtube videos. The Sims4 build I made last night would be best as a speed build I think, I’m still working on what’s actually interesting enough to warrant wasting 45 minutes on with people watching.
Speed builds can be fun, perhaps combined with a bit of judicious editing (though I know from experience that that increases the production time a lot).
European here, and I am raising my hand as also being likely to be watching recorded video that joining a live livestream.
“I have no good explanation or reason, but my brain is fried, and I’m sad.”
this could easily describe my mood during one out of three days or more