Raithe

My, you folks really don't keep this thread up without me 😆

Dealing with a whole heap of work, and a bizarrely long running heatwave in the UK. Also, still dealing with the house hunt post dealing with my father's estate. Not sure when I last dropped an update on my life in general here 🧐 So I've been living out of a rented room about 9'x8' with a bed, my desktop PC, a wardrobe, and about two weeks worth of clothing since end of March with alllll of my stuff in the storage unit. Started the process on purchasing my first home, but the surveyor's report flagged a whole heap of "possible serious" issues, so I've been having to get the various specialists to look at it, confirm what is or isn't an issue and how much it'll cost to sort. So that's been the last 4-6 weeks, and now I'm getting the nudges from the estate agents that the sellers are getting antsy and want me to get my solicitors to start signing paperwork. I'm pushing back with the "No, not until I know it's financially viable for me because I don't have the budget or mental energy to deal with a fixer upper". So we'll see where it all breaks out.

Well, tis being an odd mixture of times for me. After two years and 1 month since my father passed, we finally wrapped up the estate, sold the family house. My life is pretty much now in a 100 sq ft storage unit, and I'm renting a room while I do the hunt for my first house. Having a little debate on the potential for putting up insulated / powered summerhouse/workshop in the garden of wherever I end up buying. Once that's done.. slowly unpack and figure out where my life is going. Also doing that slight mental replay where one of my closest friends just killed our 15 odd-year friendship and I have no idea what actually happened or drove them to that decision. So that's a little odd. Still, adapting and figuring it out. I guess now I'm not having to deal with all the things on my evenings and weekends, I can possibly start catching up on books and computer games and tv shows and wotnot....

Enjoy the New Year folks

And if you want to add another element of joyous, look up Daniel Craig's reaction to the above..

For those SW geeks out there, this might be somewhat entertaining: "Learning Mando'a for Dummies"

Well this has started up now...

Slowly doodling along in the background with some of the Outer Worlds 2. Mostly in short pushes rather than hugely extended gaming times. Edit: And yes, I am moderately amused and entertained by the menu responding and making commentary on where the game is when I run it up again.

@Hawke64 I stumbled into the City of Anarchy ending. Lou got mysteriously thrown out of the window of her hotel during the day, and it turned into a jolly Anarch town with Katsumi in charge. By the end of it, I'd done all of the side missions for those three characters and had positive responses from pretty much every character I'd met. So apparently, when everyone is positive to you, and you It defaults to Katsumi as the winner.

I've dabbled my way through it now. It's a very odd feeling to play. It's got got an interesting story and some characters I would like to know more or have things happening with. But, you don't actually get that much engagement with the characters apart from a lot of fetch quests. It's got a really atmospheric downtown section of city.. that has almost nothing to actually do in it. The representation of Clan Disciplines is yet another weird blend of I both like parts of what they've done and loathe other elements. So it's a lot of disjointed sensation. But the combat mechanics annoy the bleep out of me, and has pretty much nothing positive for me to say about it. Plus, the way they've done the ending is disconcerting. You have all sorts of build-up on characters reacting to your conversation choices throughout the game "was irritated by that" "was pleased by that" "found that interesting" kind of thing going on, and then for the whole last sequence you have no engagement with any of those characters and there's some arcane logic of which one of 6? endings you get depending on some combination of those results, but no real suggestion of which did it. And apparently, a couple pretty much overwrite everything else you choose to do. And the ending themselves get presented in this incredibly shallow "60 second review of the aftermath" with no interesting details of surviving characters you met along the way.

This thread really is quite slow when I'm not around... 😄 So, quote for the day: "In America you call it the Alt Right. In Germany, we call it 'Why Grandpa lives in Argentina Now.'"

https://www.ign.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-review?

https://www.eurogamer.net/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-review