I did not have “Haze Reverb English Release” on my 2024 bingo…
But here we are.
I can’t even bring myself to talk about ReZero, this is such a bigger shock to me.
This game was literally cobbled together on the hopes and dreams of a bunch of giantess artists!
I was fully convinced this thing would never get an English release because it’s absurdly niche!
I literally only tracked its development out of morbid curiosity for if they could pull it off as an art team.
The realm of Satisfactory kidnapped me today…
I spent several hours just trying to organise some basic stuff…
Literally just the starter iron production factory took me hours because I made the dumb idiot move of dismantling everything before rebuilding it…
So I had nothing producing the parts I needed to organise everything… so I had to make them by hand…
Yeah.
But it works now!
Automation is king!
Now I need to do the same for my Copper production line… before I start work on the Steel production line… but first I need coal power…
The factory never stops growing.
Chapter 100!
Recently I have been hit by a strong desire to play Baldur’s Gate and my friends constantly streaming it and inviting me to join them on a multiplayer campaign hasn’t helped…
In a few days Steam is doing the RPG sale so I am going to pick it up then if it’s on sale, but really, my friends aren’t making it easy to wait even a few more days.
Well, whatever the case, I am sloooowly making my way through Satisfactory content…
This is my second day in a row craving biscuits.
I thought it was just a yesterday thing… oh well, I guess I will face reality.
Tomorrow I will buy some!
That should work well. Unless I suddenly don’t want any.
Knowing my luck… might be possible.
Nintendo just utterly destroyed a mobile game inspired by Pokemon, which they had just about enough legal right to do for obvious reasons.
But now they’ve set their sights on Palworld. Yup. Now of all times…
It’s hilarious to me because they haven’t gone in on IP grounds, because I guess they know they have no leg to stand on. Apparently it’s a court case over Patent Infringement instead.
So oh boy, we’re going into the legislation quagmire of copyrighting game mechanics!
And the patent that it appears that Pokemon is trying to use against Palworld is literally “The mechanic of throwing an object at a creature to capture it in a 3d open world space”.
The most basic of mechanical concepts ever.
The development of this chapter gives me mixed feelings, I’ll let you read it and decide for yourself.
I think the world building of this author is pretty decent but they’re not the best at crafting a narrative inside it.
Or maybe the opposite?
It’s hard to explain, but there’s a mismatch in the pieces of this story, and this chapter felt like one of them to me.
Well, I will continue reading (not that I have a choice) and see how things go before passing judgement.
The dreaded meeting I had today was actually the best I have had ever.
The new guy was a perfect fit for me, I feel like there might actually be some decent progress this time.
Hopefully things can progress…
Because I have been reading while leaning on the arms of my chair more lately, my elbows have become dry and irritated…
It’s not really a big deal and will go away when I stop reading all hours of the day…
But it’s annoying at least on a minor nuisance level to me right now.
Oh well, even if I say something like “I will get some lotion” or whatever, I’ll just forget to use it because my brain can’t handle remembering anything not built into my default routine.
This chapter was quite short so it surprised me, but a chapter is a chapter! Here it is.
I spent several hours today trying to help the AI in my game achieve its goal in one of the dynamic random events that it can do…
It was very futile of me, I could have done it infinitely faster myself, but I set a limit for myself at the start to not do any combat encounters myself.
So I was trying to provide support to the AI but they just kept getting distracted…
The goal of the playthrough is to help my allied factions conquer the galaxy without building my own military (with the exception of anti-piracy measures).
Mostly so far I’ve done this by supporting their economy, but I am gaining enough money now to start funding their militaries directly… soon, very soon.
It’s September!
Wow, time really flies…
That means it will soon be the new school season here in the UK…
Not that I have gone to school in like an entire decade, but you know, things just remain associated like that.
If you are one of those people returning to school after the summer, then good luck to you.
May your grades be high and face be unslapped.
In the meantime our girls here will be ending their summer too!
I had a day that started with pure stress today, that was not fun.
I am now having to go through the complaint process with the civil service too…
Also not fun.
But oh well, battles must be fought eventually. I just hope this resolves neatly, worst case scenario and my government support is being cut off…
Autism is no fun when stuff like this happens, literally all started because I said I avoid answering my phone whenever possible.
So today Amazon finally officially cancelled my order for Arpeggio of Blue Steels next volume.
I made the order in 2021, and Seven Seas just kept delaying its release forever and ever…
I think they have just unofficially axed the translation now, I am a bit gutted, I have been supporting this manga for years.
Oh well, you win some you lose some, at least it’s not a fresh memory and I half expected this fate after all the delays.
In other news the Stellaris board game is finally reaching the stretch to actual release…
I backed it years ago too…
I went on a traversal to the dentist today.
I learned two things.
The first is that my teeth are well cleaned.
The second is that I still have a cavity forming.
Hmmm…
I wonder if perhaps my copious intake of carbonated beverages is perhaps bad for my teeth?
I am currently suffering from a migraine.
Forgive me if the quality dips slightly.
I am battling through wanting to go to bed to make sure I schedule this.
I tried to make an entirely original mod for X4 today.
A simple one… or so I thought. I just wanted to edit some tags so that it would enable the player to build something that has the appearance of one of the NPC structures…
That uh, didn’t seem to work as intended?
There must be some hidden step that I am missing because although I can unlock the items on my character I can’t seem to get them to show up in the build menu for actual placement, and even when cross referencing other mods I can’t find any hints as to what I am overlooking. I really do wonder what it is… Eugh the only place for help is the official forums but I’m really really not a forum person, they always seem to be designed to hate the user as much as possible somehow. I guess the discord exists but… socialising… sigh.
