skill issue

Another week where a week happens. The N/T ratio is appearing to be a pretty accurate metric.

I am officially moving to my own home this week!! Landlord can officially suck it!!! I’m not paying off your home loan anymore (I’ll be paying off my own instead)!!! Fuck yeah!!! I can drill holes in the wall whenever the god damn I want!!!

God damn Sacrifice, it was an RTS-esque third-person wizard game from 2000 or so. I remember the story and voice acting being quite good, and everything in that game being extremely weird looking. You could pick your god (thunder, fire, stone, life, and death IIRC) and they all had different spells and minions. You needed souls to summon minions, and you could get more souls by battling the other wizards’ minions and stealing their souls, by having some strange dudes with giant syringes take the souls and perform a ritual at one of your altars. The highest level spells were fucking awesome too, if you played as a fire wizard you could summon a giant god damn volcano on the battlefield. The goal was to sacrifice one of your minions at an enemy wizards main altar, and banish them from the realm (i.e. eliminate them from the game).

And holy fuck I’ve also just been informed that this game is available on Steam, brb

Hell yeah! Huge congratulations to mr largepenis.

That right there is Ruben

Animal Well! There’s some incredibly obscure and esoteric puzzles in that game. Many of them are completely optional, but they’re so intriguing that I wanted to figure everything out anyway. I don’t think I’m anywhere near “done” yet, even though I beat the last boss already. You can unlock the ability draw on the map as well, so you can keep track of things.

Also maybe Noita? Completing a run and beating the last boss is basically just the tutorial, that game goes deep. There is an in-game achievement tracker for completing some unbelievably convoluted puzzles and challenges.

Relieved to learn I’m not the only one with this problem. I was a split second away from posting a spicy-ass Slammer meme in a company-wide slack channel the other day. I even turned off the middle click paste thing on my Good Computer, but I can’t remember how I did it and I’ve never been bothered to do it on my work laptop (Bad Computer). Imagine, I could save myself from quite a lot of occasional stress if I took the two minutes to solve this problem, but I’m still probably not going to do it. The mind works in mysterious ways!!!

It’s decently fun still, but the average player has gotten so good at the game at this point that it’s mostly just frustrating. Feels like you gotta spend like 8 hours a day on the grind to compete at all.

Holy shit that looks like a sick setup!! Probably costs as much as a house though. Maybe I should sell my house and build a dope modular giga synth?