Blog Building
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It's weird to think about, and I'm not sure how many of my friends/readers were aware of it at the time, but my very first blog back in the day (early 2000s) was entirely hand-rolled.
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Peak
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The climbing felt jankier than I wanted. The second biome felt like a brick wall, which I can handle except for the tax of having to trudge through the trivial first biome every time to get there. Then we dialled the difficulty down and immediately won. Meh.
Two Stars.
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Europa Universalis V
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The thing with the complexity of this game is it actually simplifies things if you just don't approach it like a video game. Ohmigosh there are so many numbers and variables and modifiers and interlocking systems! What do I do? I dunno man, it's frigging complicated, just like build some stuff that seems like it might be a good idea.
Are you making optimal decisions? Bitch, please: when have any actual real life world leaders made optimal decisions?
Kind of does feel like the world's slowest clicker sometimes though.
Four Stars.
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Marathon Postscript
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I don't know why I felt the need to effort post but I did. I got some good feedback on it, which felt nice because I am not in love with my own writing. I was trying to mimic the feel of trying to assemble a narrative that may or may not exist out of a collection of "codex entries". I think it more or less worked.
Some random related notes:
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Alan Wake 2
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Alan Wake 2 is a great, weird, story that I might even dare call Lynchian in its "makes sense in the moment but not after you wake up"-ed-ness. It's also one of those annoying, inventory starved, slow paced, survival horror things. No idea how well it executes on that one.
I also don't care for the Control references. A few easter eggs here and there would be fun and fine. But they are trying to turn all of this into a universe and that cheapens the mystery. Especially since the nature of Control is all about reducing the supernatural to boring beureaucratic tedium.
The result is something that drags just the tiniest bit, but is still hard to put down.
Four Stars.
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