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DM of the Rings Remastered LXVIII: Deeds of Legend
Some Unaesthetic Mental Health: The Plural They
There is a lot myself, my dad, and my family never brought up on this site. The closest this place got to ‘the real’ was when my dad and I each wrote books about our real life experiences, and of course, when dad died. Dad wrote about my seizures briefly when they happened, and some of our money problems when the house foreclosed, but a whole human life doesn’t really fit on a blog. It’s hard to know how much to share, when to share, and how to share it, especially with strangers, even in a place of familiarity. It doesn’t take rocket science to read my dad’s autobiography and know there is some very deeply set generational trauma in our family. Dad always tried to write kindly about people, but also be entirely truthful, and I really admired his ability to balance both of those things even when they felt mutually exclusive.
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Wednesday Action Log 4-17-24
This week I’ve not done very much. I’ve played Roblox and helped my siblings with their various Minecraft projects. I also intend to play the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 VR mod now that I’ve got a slightly better GPU.
What are you guys playing?
SWTOR: Rix’larril’an of the Ascendancy 2.05
Before returning to the Revanites, Kaliyo and I detour back to Kaas City to decide what to do with the Mask of Revan. Ladra wants the mask as a symbol, and possibly believes it contains ancient power. Torrun seems to just want the mask to keep it from people like Ladra and Grathan. I think the situation stinks. Stealing the mask from Grathan is a unique situation…what do the Revanites NORMALLY do? Does that mean Grathan is actually in on this charade? He’s a Sith Lord; sacrificing a few dozen guards every week means nothing to him. The flip-side is what I said to Acolyte Sandor: this is the culmination of a handful of coincidences. But I just can’t believe that. Possible? Yes. But the most plausible explanation is that Grathan and the Revanites are allied against the Emperor and the Dark Council. I haven’t talked to Watcher 2 or Keeper about this, and that may have been a mistake. I considered this journey through the local Revanite Cult to be an extracurricular activity that might help me with my mission to recover Theover Mindak’s contacts. Now it seems possible someone is organizing numerous opposition forces simultaneously.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXVII: A Sizeable Contribution
The Sims 4 is Lowering The Bar
This post has nothing to do with The Sims Overthinking. The save game is fine, the world is working…about as well as expected, nothing is broken or corrupted. This is fully a tangent due to a hyperfixation of mine over the last few weeks.
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Wednesday Action Log 4-10-24
This week I’ve finished Graveyard Keeper. It was good, it reminded me a lot of Forager, and I wish I did the quests in a different order, I ended up doing the slowest quest last after doing everything else so I just had to wait for the right items to show up.
What are you guys playing?
From The Archives:
A Lack of Vision and Leadership
People fault EA for being greedy, but their real sin is just how terrible they are at it.
Spider-Man
A game I love. It has a solid main story and a couple of really obnoxious, cringy, incoherent side-plots in it. What happened here?
Please Help I Can’t Stop Playing Cities: Skylines
What makes this borderline indie title so much better than the AAA juggernauts that came before?
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 Biggest Game Ever
How did this niche racing game make a gameworld so massive, and why is that a big deal?
This is Why We Can’t Have Short Criticism
Here's how this site grew from short essays to novel-length quasi-analytical retrospectives.
The No Politics Rule
Here are 6 reasons why I forbid political discussions on this site. #4 will amaze you. Or not.
Silver Sable Sucks
This version of Silver Sable is poorly designed, horribly written, and placed in the game for all the wrong reasons.
Playstation 3
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
Shamus Plays WOW
Ever wondered what's in all those quest boxes you've never bothered to read? Get ready: They're more insane than you might expect.