So where was I?
Anywhere. In most cases, they are still isolated at home. Occasionally, I was forced back into the office meaninglessly with a mask. Come up with ways to navigate this new world of volatile supply chains and logistics. There, it is a consciously planned action to shop for groceries for balanced nutrition while staying as socially distant as possible.
Juggling pure introversion bliss, becoming a socially benevolent survival strategy, extroversion and extroversion shortcomings mentally destroy everything around me, one of its stress leaks in various ways Absorbs the part.
Achieve the first number in the last few months. (Although I use the word “achieve” very loosely.) Perhaps the word “encounter” is better.
I lost more than a month to catch up with the whole story of The Wandering Inn. That is the first. I can’t even remember that it was “so” in a rational way with worms and Harry Potter. I’ve forgotten most of the details of the last two web series, but I feel like I remember all of the wandering-in wacky character casts.
I think we have to regain the initial impression that LitRPG is crazy. If the writing can fascinate me for that long, I have zero legs to stand.
At the same time, I escaped from Guild Wars 2 for the first time. Similarly, seriously and consciously let it go. The idea of a hardcore achiever is to collect everything. Endless frustration about endless delays. Obligation to attack twice a week. The spiritual resistance of a bag full of eternity.
Burnout has been around for a long time anyway – I may have stuck for more than 3 years than I should have. I gave a pass to the fractal update. I skipped Halloween. At some point, it might be very easy to step into the latest story chapter, but I’m four days late for the party and don’t mind too much. If you do not log in, you do not need to address the above important issues. This junk 2020 mental burden has been reduced by one.
I may be doing something else. To catch up with my reading. I enthusiastically updated the latest Dresden Files – about 7/8 of Peace Talk and Battlegrounds – in a few days.
The last three months have also been new experiments in new style games.
I haven’t fully identified the proper term for it yet.
So now you’ve heard about patient games. Choose to wait for a period of time before purchasing and playing a video game. In short, we will do our best to avoid launch hype and launch prices.
Frequently on each reddit pops up an eternal lament about dealing with the “backlog” of the game someone wants to play, others create a structured list and stick to it, limiting options , Returns various advice on reconstructing perspectives, such as erasing the word “backlog” and replacing it with “collection” or “library”, or loosening the obsession with game completion, etc.
Rarely, chimes with a slightly more left-wing strategy of cycling the required number of games in blocks of 15-30 minutes or other random time.
I believe this could eventually hit something that sticks to longer or worse case scenarios while satisfying the urge to try many of the games on the “what you want to play” mental list. It means short-term tactics. Many game areas without encountering fascinating ones.
Anyway, that works for me. Limited focus, specialization strategies don’t work for me because I collect a lot of games at once and have a tremendous variety of tastes.
What I was experimenting with was a larger and more diverse application of this idea, stealing some of the themes behind Cricket’s “Play to Satisfaction” policy.
The practical term is “Unfettered Gaming,” inspired by Stephen R. Donaldson’s poem about Unfettered Ones. The quote that touches my heart is “Free Unfettered Shriven Free”.
It’s a bite, but it encapsulates the idea of losing all restrictions. All “should”, “have” and “should”. This is the Antithesis of the Five Game Challenge, one of these limited focus strategies.
If you find yourself packed, you will find that even deliberately confronting mental restrictions does not end the world.
Example – “Once you start playing a game, you have to complete all the games.” “I want to see the story to the end.”
I don’t like it. It’s a lot of luggage to handle. In reality, I haven’t completed most games. Many others don’t. So why do you turn that expectation on yourself? Play the game to the point you don’t want to play. If you get tired of it, stop and decide what to do next.
Am I just not interested in gameplay? But do you still want to know what will happen next? Check the written summary or skim on Youtube Let’s Play and call it complete.
Am I stuck? Don’t know where to go? I use walkthroughs and ignore the guilty journey that “real gamers don’t use walkthroughs”.
Is the game too difficult? Are you too frustrated? Find a cheat. Decrease the difficulty level. I mod the shit from the game until I like it again.
(This is the way I’ve spent a couple of weeks playing ARK single player in the last few months. The default settings are bullish. To make harvesting and resource and dinosaur tame settings easier. Adjusted. Played until deadlock. Weight limit sucked in, player weight and dinosaur weight increased.
Is Argentavis terrible? Change to match the speed of classic flyers. Is the speed of classic flyers still too slow? Tweak the config file, which is twice as fast. Now I can actually fly the island alone in a decent amount of time.
Whether or not you actually stay in the game for a long time when doing so is not cheating at all. Same as above Sunless Sea and ship speed. So terrible turtles are slow. )
To be honest, have you just lost interest in games for now? Is it unlikely that you will click on the icon next week or so, like?
Just in case, I continued the game. Well, part of the intentional free game is to loosen that bond. It has been uninstalled.
It disappeared from the hard disk. What is the harm? If you’re urged to play again, you can always re-download. Nowadays, almost all saved files are kept intelligently or stored in the cloud.
And to be honest, if you don’t get back into the game within a week, you’ll probably forget how to play and start a new game instead of picking it up in the middle of a save you don’t normally remember. Difficulty is increasing too much for unfamiliar people now.
This part is probably the greatest personal spiritual habit I have deliberately worked on to break. Hoarding. cling. That’s what I do. I accumulate things. Accumulate installed games here and there until the hard disk is full.
I’m learning slowly, slower than ever, so I’ll take a little virtual note that I might play the X Games again someday, then remove things from my hard drive and take a little Steam list. If you have it, the world will not end. It is grayed out than usual.
“I need to play this game properly” “I want to be optimal” “I need to learn the exact ratio of X to Y to make this as efficient as possible” “I enjoy this game unless I am You can’t play it in a properly approved best practice way. “
Yes, some people enjoy doing so. That’s how they play games. All power to them. You are? You don’t have time to do so. Learning to become an expert will take longer than you might stay in the game in the first place, given your distracting bee mind.
So if the roads in the virtual city look like Maya hieroglyphs …
… and your new highway elevated road is bold for city dwellers to commit suicide if they accelerate too much …
…you know what? They will just have to deal with it. (Anyway, it slows down all cars and heavy trucks before they try to rotate the sharpest angles of their lives. It’s okay.)
So my Steam game activity list looks like the one above in the last month or so. A new game “for the first time” every few days.
Play what you want to play.
But I want to play and play.
I don’t play anything I don’t want to play. (And please uninstall after a while.)
I don’t play whenever I don’t want to. (And do other things, such as reading, watching, eating, or doing * gasp * exercises on a small scale using microworkouts.)
I’m not going to write a first impression post or paragraph for each of the last random games I play, which makes blogging harder. And after enjoying most of my time with most of them, I stop by happily hours or days later. It’s obligatory and we’re playing unlimited games here.
That is the point.
