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, here’s the new video.
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?
aka fuckface
I ought to watch that video if, for nothing else, I hope that I can hear why your friend is nicknamed “Fuckface”. That ought to be good…
Well, to be fair, he’s not nicknamed “Fuckface”. It’s just what I call him sometimes. Or called him. I’m not sure I’ve called him that in years… We started playing WoW together in like 2006 so we’ve now known each other for 20 years. We had a podcast together, raided together, I was a bridesmaid at his wedding… But sometimes he’s just, you know, Fuckface McGee. Or asshat. My favourite is Merrymaker Majikmarine, though it gets very long to say, so I usually just call him Maj or MajMaj. Yes, despite knowing his real name. It’s exceedingly rare I call him by his real name, hahaha. So yeah, it’s just… 20 years of friendship begets weird ass nicknames.
Oh, and just to be clear, it’s not like HE doesn’t call me similar things. “Listen, asshat” was a pretty frequent start to a response of his for quite some time.
I already have a younger brother, but Maj is sort of like ANOTHER younger brother. A bonus younger brother, if you will. :D
Oh, I remember that podcast! That’s the one that Vidyala was on, which is how I discovered it.
hahaha, yes! Vid was always a fun guest. :) Ahhhh, ye olde days of Blessing of Frost. I keep meaning to fix the website for it. While it’s defunct, all the content is still there, it’s just not playing properly. Maybe that’s what I’ll do this weekend…
Vid was on what was, I think, our best episode ever, which was like 42 or something? The one with Stoney and Beru and Vid. Beru and Vid and Maj and I were laughing our asses off at one point. I could hardly breathe. It was outstanding. :D