Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20170225142933/@comment-3547390-20170320135431

Me, I grew up in a city environment. My father was working and my mother did not want to walk through the city, feeling it was too dangerous to hang out at the park, so I learned to mostly entertain myself on the computer. I had board games, but my mother never really bothered to play them with me, so I pretty much just got used to isolation. I would sometimes go outdoors, but out there were ticks and mosquitoes, or snow and getting colds. I never really got any enjoyment from stepping outside my house.

You know me, if I am going to do something I am going to do the real classic. The real first season is rather interesting, it is serial based so you need to watch it in order even though entire parts of the storyline have been destroyed by the BBC, plus the Daleks seem to have been retconned later to be global conquerors or something. I read The Dalek Book (a book written in 1964 during the first season) last night, they were suddenly conquerors and it made zero sense in regards to the earlier storyline. I think I am close to stopping the series, I am feeling better today than I was during the weekend. Still a bit of a sore throat, but it definitely was smart to rest it before it became something more serious.

Well, it isn't my fault that every time I start trying to dig myself out that I get convinced to play some game you know and the games you know are in the early 90s :P

MMOs are decent time sinks if you accept them for being walking simulators, they are also good because they are so terrible grindfests that they aren't worth recording and thus nice to play when nothing else is going on. Still, I am not a big fan of them by any means. I hate how they constantly update and change, the game I played can be ruined in the next update. Or the servers can go down and I totally lose the game I played permanently. I also am not too big on other people being around me, seeing a giant group of people around results in me often hopping around to try to find some place I can play by myself, I end up just soloing everything and giving up at some point because everything isn't soloable. Plus to prevent cheaters they don't allow you to mod the game, I pretty much find any game that doesn't have custom stuff produced to be uninteresting just because the content feels more finite even if it really isn't. Plus I cannot enjoy the MMO mentality, they often try to rush to the end goal to get past all the grinding, which makes the entire thing fast paced and stressful because I tend to like to take things slow. You also often cannot do quests if you outlevel them, this is absolutely horrible in my opinion as it makes me EXTREMELY paranoid to level in the first place. I spend a lot of time going out of my way to avoid attacking enemies or doing anything that isn't required by a quest. I also try to tackle quests as fast as possible so I don't lose my ability to do them. Needless to say, at some point you just start leveling too fast and the game gets ruined for me. The saddest part is the community, obsessed with reaching the end game as fast as possible, will have stuff added to make it faster, so you end up spending a lot of time avoiding these boosts. Even rewards from quests, you have armor you can buy, but every quest gives you something so overpowered with a ridiculous amount of stuff you will never die with. Then you have the fact that everyone is expected to know everything before they do it, there is no mystery to a MMO. I can't do a boss for the first time, I need to research a guide and better be as good as everyone else lest I get yelled at and make a bad name for myself. I can't make whatever choice I want for my class, it might be a weak end-game setup and thus I never get invited to any dungeons. I like the open world aspect and the grind aspect makes for a good time sink, but that is pretty much about it. Give people an open world with infinite choices, they will mess it up.

I have a lot of experience with MMOs as you can see. It is the main exception to my lack of knowledge of modern titles. I never really bother recording them, as I said they are way too repetitive, and in that is the main reason I play them. They are good if I get bored, don't feel like recording, and also feel like doing something relatively simple. It is also the only real way I have to play multiplayer with someone, since every other game requires some mod I have never touched, so they are good if I feel like being social and have nobody around to talk to. Yet I admit entirely that they aren't really my style and that there are many better games I would rather play.

The main one I have bothered with might be rather weird, but it is a cartoon MMO called Toontown. Basically nostalgia plays a lot into it, it was the first MMO I played as a kid and the only subscription for a game I ever had. Plus it has one of the best camera angles I have seen in an MMO and doesn't have the leveling stress of other ones as everything is in a distinctly separate system. The best part about a MMO "made for a child" however is the fact that there is less complexity to the game and therefore a lot less people can use to treat the game like work, the serious nature of players means you want the game with the least rules so that people cannot enforce their own arbitrary set. Sure, you can always go against the grain, but the fun of a MMO is that you can't do everything alone. The simplistic nature just works when you need a good time sink and don't want to get invested into something. Say I have an hour before needing to leave the house. I have three choices. I could record, but the problem is I most likely will end up having to hunt around for X and thus either have to wait for long render times or rush the ending. Needless to say, I avoid this as often as possible and record when I know I will have a good expanse of time. I could play Quake or something I really enjoy, but the problem is I get heavily invested and will forget what time it is, meaning it really isn't worth getting into. Sure, I could read or watch a show, but there are plenty of times when I just get tired of that. Or I could load up a MMO, do some grind, and shut down when I need to go. Needless to say, it works well for short burst periods.

The main reason for that game over others is the community, I have befriended a handful there and so it works if I feel like talking to someone in IM since I don't use social media. I cannot stand just sitting and talking, I need to be working to some goal such as an end level grind while doing such. I will, on very rare occasions, also touch Roblox as some people are also there. Mostly I just visit obscure places there, places with weird designs that have been entirely abandoned. Once again, nostalgia works wonders, and the casual nature means it works great for those short bursts of time when I cannot be invested in a game. Playing a game I get invested in during a short time ends up making me feel more miserable since I feel like I am constantly interrupted even if it is a one-time occurrence.

I have seen many other MMOs, but the desire for something without a subscription model that isn't tied to a major franchise means I often avoid the obvious options. As I just consider it a convenient timesink to not get invested in, I don't wish to spend money on any MMO, so I don't play any titles that require me to pay money to get past a certain point or whatnot. I have, for example, touched Runescape. However, I just cannot get into it because I can never restart a character I haven't played in years and constantly get reminded of the stuff I can't do because I don't pay money. Private servers feel like power gaming, I am suddenly going too fast and all the NPCs are in one area so I am no longer exploring.

I did play Pirates Online, but the early beta nature means you need to assign a time to play and wait for the time I can play, which kinda defeats the purpose of quick bursts when I cannot do anything else. I tried Perfect World, but it had power gaming written all over it (this is where my example of the armor came from, the game was killed when this happened and when it got rid of the old starting location), plus the old design had you go to a capital city where I felt overwhelmed and lost. I tried Tera, but hit level 16 or so and you will suddenly be overwhelmed with all the quests you can only do at that point and not later to the point it stresses you out. I tried Second Life, but the people there think the game isn't a game, resulting in people getting offended when you do anything outside of a rigid rule set, plus most people just sit around and type which gets old as I want something else going on while doing that. Second Life was a shame too, that is pretty much a world with user created stuff in a giant world that could have unlimited potential, but what you end up realizing is that is a bunch of safe-space bubbles where you have to walk on eggshells to not get banned by admins that get paranoid about everything (never go to a roleplay sim, play a character that assumes the city is abandoned because nobody is really in the open because they love talking in confined places, and then steal a firetruck, driving around like a madman with the sirens turned on because you have no other way to pass the time with society having crumbled; they will just complain about the firetruck being "locked" and how you should have imagined the place being filled with imaginary people. Pretty much, infinite choices, as long as your choices constrain exactly to what they want, when the fun of a multiplayer game is you never know who you will run into.). I tried Runes of Magic, but there was a dual class system and I hated the idea of choosing and possibly getting my choice wrong.

Imagine this. You get banned from Steam because of X reason. Perhaps you said something someone got offended by. Perhaps they found you using a third party tool in one of the games you owned. In any event, now you just locked yourself out of using any games you own. It also scans all your computer files. I can't really be a tinfoil hat nut, I have most of what I do on Youtube for anyone to see, but I feel giving up extra freedoms unnecessarily just to not be worth it. It is the same reason I don't like Windows 10, it is too collective for my liking.

I work in a pretty amazing company. The people here are extremely patient and understand the amount of work that goes into this. My boss pretty much made the old database, so he is pretty aware of the work required to get this thing functional. Nobody here really has any problems with me, if anything they often speak pretty highly of me. I just do my work, I find the most efficient manner to get something done and do it. If I find a bug, I fix it. Pretty much, it is the perfect situation here, you couldn't ask for better.

Evil hues? I didn't know evil was a color. Based on the fact that you mentioned brown, it must be azure. Azure is the color of the devil.

Oh, lots of new music coming your way :P