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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXVII: An Important Distinction
Wednesday Action Log 6-26-24
This week I’m pretty much only playing Rimworld. I would also be playing Stardew Valley, but our internet is currently being very bad at its job. So I guess this week’s Rimworld highlights are: realizing that living in a mountainous ice sheet is bad when your only food, heat, and feed for your livestock comes from hydroponics. Nothing else could ever get done because if one person is out of commission, the whole colony would collapse.
So I started a new save and quickly learned that raiders can just take stuff and go if you live close enough to the edge of the map. They stole my couch and megascreen television. I liked that couch and I spent too much money on that TV. I also got a colonist with the traits too smart and fast learner, which skyrockets their learning speed for skills with a passion to 250% from 100% and skills without a passion to 88% from 35%.
Anyway, next week is probably going to be more Rimworld unless Armstrong remembers how to create internet. If they do figure it out, I’ll probably be playing the new Phasmophobia update.
What is going on with you guys?
Wait…I finished one?
Yes. Last week I completed Galactic Seasons 6 in Star Wars: The Old Republic, but that’s not what I’m talking about. A couple of days ago I finished The Burning Crusade expansion of World of Warcraft. I should clarify that I have finished THE STORY; the plot. I have done everything in the game that connects the end of the initial release of World of Warcraft, plus its updates; through to the end of The Burning Crusade and all its updates. As with other expansions, there were originally also some pre-patch events that took place BETWEEN The Burning Crusade and the next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King which can no longer be played. But more discussion on the move onto WotLK later. I should also note I do still have the Draenei Hunter Mystilatre in Warlords of Draenor completing the Garrison before finishing that expansion. I have had some uncertainty over when to call an expansion “done” for reasons I will get into with Selarashari.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXVI: Our Once and Future Party Leader
Wednesday Action Log 6-19-24
This week I’m still playing Rimworld. I, for some reason, decided that it would be a good idea to start a new game on a mountainous ice sheet. With a lot of loading saves and very careful resource management, my base is not about to crumble any second, and it only took five hundred days to get there. A fun bonus of living there is that when a siege starts, raiders will uselessly shoot mortars while standing in -60F weather.
Also, one of my colonists won’t stop hitting on people. I can look at his mood at any point and he will have been rejected by someone recently, while another of my colonists has two lovers and a wife at the same time.
Other than that I’m still playing Stardew Valley. I started a new spooky themed game with my sibling a bit ago. We just barely managed to complete the community center first year, and I’m working on getting Krobus as my roommate.
Anyway, how is this week of gaming or otherwise going?
No Post This Week: Mental Health Happens
No post this week. Mostly because I’ve spent the week managing around the work in the bathroom I had previously mentioned; coupled with multiple trips to buy the parts I agreed to do after the builder did the drywall, texturing, and flooring. I’ve had multiple occurrences of mental shutdown when several interactions requiring brainpower all hit at the same time. This requires me to have to withdraw and reset. But since this has happened repeatedly and while things were happening that required my input, my stress levels have just continually increased. I’m at the point where I start to snap at people or otherwise react badly when they try to interact with me, and obviously I don’t want that to happen. So I am focusing on de-stressing and making notes for my next therapy appointment. This is a known issue I’ve been dealing with for a few years that is likely the result of a significant trauma event. A decade and more ago, I would typically get aggressive and loud when stress piled up, but technically I was able to deal with it. Part of my therapy is because I don’t WANT to get loud and aggressive when stressed, but coupled with other inputs…I now just shut down in these situations.
I did finish Galactic Seasons 6 in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’ve also started outlining the next chapter in the Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy story. I should have a nice, full post next week.
DM of the Rings Remastered LXXV: Incontheevable!
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