Well, I ended up redoing the entire video I had talked about last week because of the audio glitch, which I found was an errant setting in OBS. So entirely my bad. Whoopsiedoodle. Anyways, new video coming out as of 6:30am ET on Tuesday, June 10.
In other news…
Topic 1:
It was my birthday not long ago and my good buddy MajMaj (aka Merrymaker Majikmarine, aka Majik, aka fuckface) was kind enough to purchase me a Steam gift card and then recommended a couple of games to me. This past weekend, I bought two of them and one of them, Esoteric Ebb, is a really interesting RPG. (Its publisher is Raw Fury, which also does Blue Prince, as an aside.)
The amount of lore/world building for EE is absolutely overwhelming, and I mean that in the best of ways. It made me think about how different WoW could be if it had focused on the true differences between the races of the Alliance or the races of the Horde, not to mention every faction out there. Like, imagine that we didn’t have the common languages. Or imagine that there are separate flight paths depending on how the different people we encounter decided to travel long distances? Or what if money was different? What if my gold was only good with the Alliance and, say, the goblins, but if I wanted to interact with… I don’t know, the Scryers, my gold was useless? I guess we get some of that lore with turn-in items, but I’m thinking of something beyond that.
Topic 2:
There’s no character alignment as far as I can tell in EE, but it makes me wish we had active alignments that we could alter with our actions in WoW. Like, Madrana? 100% Lawful Good. Kurn, too. (Me as well!) But maybe my ret pally (the grandbaby pally) is Lawful Neutral. Or Neutral Good? Lawful Evil? We could get benefits to each of the 9 alignments and it would be possible, across the course of many, many, many actions, to change your alignment, but it would be impossible to do within 30 days or something equally long so that you couldn’t cheese it/abuse it to your benefit.
Topic 3:
Speaking of games, I have hardly touched WoW. Wondering if I really want to spend another 250k in gold to get another month, but I guess we’re getting a patch next week or something? I guess I’ll see if that’s any good and see if I’ll stick around for another month. Dangit, I keep meaning to reinstall Hardcore Classic too. Maybe I’ll try to do that this weekend. My weeks are so busy lately that it’s hard for me to do much in the evenings. Damn you, late-stage capitalism! <shakes fist>
What should I tell a story about next time?