Cluster B type ex-husband and father of my kids. I’d rather not give him the ammunition to be a nuisance.
Fair enough.
This made me laugh. About 5 minutes before I read it I got the email that I was accepted into our university’s Accounting, Finance and Marketing faculty. When the inevitable second lockdown comes, Aruba will be properly ruined, and most if not all the clients the company I work for will be declared bankrupt. So I’m going to spend 4 years getting a new degree instead of directionless fretting about unemployment. The choices here were limited, but a US$ 1,142.85 a year tuition really can’t be beat.
ca. $1,100 p.a., no, not to be sneezed at.
What’re you gonna do?
Fingers crossed, right? I got to continue with the assumption it has.
Either that or top yourself, I guess.
Me and my boss at the moment. First lockdown already decimated the amount of work we got, so we’re not likely to hire anyone else soon.
Hopefully he doesn’t mix with the maskless afterhours then.
Ha. Not as often as I should, I’m afraid.
Co-dependent parent isn’t a good look, you know … not sexy — more likely to make me run a mile, in fact.
Excuse you, the correct term is JRPG.
HAhahahaha! 😀
STD, STI … is there really a difference? 😜
Thank you, but I am a GenXer. One of the younger ones of my generation, true, but still officially GenX. That makes me developmentally arrested AND apathetic. So, whatever, man.
Speaking as an X-er myself, I resent the whole ‘slacker’ epithet.
In fact, much to my disgust, a couple of years ago I realised that I adhere entirely to the ‘work hard, play hard ethic’ bullshit that instantly lets you know that’s not an environment you want to work in and keep looking for another position/contract: I take my slack time very seriously indeed … and put a lot of effort into it — I’m not just going partying this weekend, I’m going out and getting absofuckinglutely battered (when I finally make it home, three days later, it’ll be on my knees … it’ll take me until the next party to recover!)
We are not slackers, we just don’t waste our time on bs that doesn’t matter.
But then we grew up in the era of “The Russkies/Yanks are gonna to blow the World up in five minutes’ time, so kiss your ass goodbye!” … which did kinda give us a perspective on what’s important in Life — get a job, climb the ladder, get a house in the suburbs, a white picket fence, 1.4 kids, a dog and two cars, keep up with the neighbours, wash the car on a Sunday, yeah, whatever … pass the bong, man.
Fable 1 and 3 actually came out for windows, I have played those. Great games, but not all that much replay in them. Same with Overlord and others of its kind.
What?
Philistine!
You can replay Fable (at least the Lost Chapters/Anniversary edition anyway). Two is much the same — you can replay it at least once. And, okay, you need to give it time between replays but, in fact … if you give it time in between them … you can replay both of them multiple times by re-speccing your character (different weapon classes, different magic).
Three was terrible. Just terrible. I wouldn’t touch it again with yours.
That’s what I enjoy in build/god games, you can play them endlessly because there’s always something you haven’t tried yet. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Dungeon Master 2 are simply the best of their kind. They’ve tried to recreate the magic and failed.
But, in that case, there are plenty of others that you can pick up so cheaply now that you needn’t worry about replayability, you just play something else instead. You can give Resonance of Fate a try and tell me how to play it — I couldn’t get my head around the real-time-turn-based combat (wtF!?), so I barely even started, let alone finished, it.
I know FPS isn’t your thing but you can play L.A. Noire without having to engage in the combat — and if you fuck up the driving three times in a row the game asks if you’d like to skip it, so even you can play that one.
Red Dead Redemption has such a classic spaghetti western quality to it that even I couldn’t help loving it (and I despise westerns) — lots to do … no more combat necessary than is absolutely required to get through the major plot points, you’ll cope.
Catherine … well, what can I say? I absolutely loathe platformers … (I won’t play any of the Womb Raider games for that very reason) … but, man, it’s fucked up and an absolute must play.
American McGee’s Alice / Alice: Madness Returns … again, platformers and normally not my thing, but …
And you really can’t go wrong with Wolfenstein: The New Order. If you only play one FPS in your life, it has to be that one — even on Über mode, it’s not difficult and it’s fantastically cinematic (if you wanna actually care about the characters in an FPS, that’s the one to go for).
You can play Deus Ex: Human Revolution entirely in stealth/non-lethal, so, you don’t even need to engage in any combat and won’t miss out on anything as a result. Dishonored: same thing. Metro 2033 / Last Light, okay, you won’t get through them without engaging in any combat, it’s true … but the games are designed to encourage you to avoid it whenever you can and silenced weapons go a long way to making the whole experience less fraught when you do.
The Assassin’s Creed games: yeah, the whole point of them is to perform sneak attacks and then hide until the heat’s off, so, again, you can just get on with enjoying the open world for the most part.
Thief (2014) has limited (virtually no) replayability, I grant you, but it’s cheap second-hand and definitely worth playing through at least once.
Racing games — there’s so little to them that, paradoxically, replayability is virtually all they have.
There’s no reason why you can’t go back to your building/’god’ games afterwards … but there’s no reason not t expand your experience either.
