✔ Finalize and email out tomorrow's schedule for the barn
✔ Full self-care shower (inc hair, shaving, and foot scrub)
✔ Send end-of-term potluck sign-up email for the barn
Still to do:
🍴 Finish clearing to the dining table and get that set up
📦 Unpack and put away kitchen stuff
✈ Carefully plan a trip next month
🧶 Finish the hair for my Ukrainian amigurumi doll
📚 Start reading books at bedtime again, not scrolling insta reels
But first, we're gonna wait for the Sunbeam to arrive (no spoilers please, I have not finished the game! I've only made it just to this point a few times, so I know what happens to it but not beyond) and then go make some lunch. I think it's a soup and buns kinda of day.
Might be a grownup and also unload the dishwasher while I'm down there.
Watched this great video about the feeling of "the sublime" (awe mixed with fear) in #VideoGames. Here they discuss it in #Subnautica & #TheLongDark. Makes me realize that this is that je-ne-sais-quoi that I really look for in #games. 🤩
Finally Subnautica multiplayer?! :blobcataww:
I really hope they'll nail this one :blobcatdrool:
I'm gonna be hella mad, if they just try to squeeze money out of the franchise :blobcatblush:
Are there mods that make #Subnautica 1 look less...bad?
Fantastic game but especially after playing Below Zero, it's rough going back.
Pretty limited amount of life (granted the setting explains but it's clearly for performance) and GOD that level of detail loading is horrific. Shit briefly looks like minecraft loading chunk by chunk because it's...well it's loading chunk by chunk.
One thing I don't think I like as much about #Subnautica Below Zero is it really doesn't suggest pacifism nearly as strongly as the first game
Almost all creatures, even leviathans it seems, run away when struck, and anything smaller than a Squidshark can be trivially killed in a single hit with the sea truck (traps I don't think you can kill)
I guess it makes the game easier, but it alters the vibe a bit. There's still not much REASON to do it, but Ampeels take like,20 minutes to kill in sub1
Woof, the original #subnautica is a little rough to look at after Below Zero. Much less life, and that LOD issue always bugged me. certain areas look awful at times depending on what's loaded in.
I usually HATE permadeath ANYTHING, but I highly recommend a hardcore playthrough of subnautica/Below Zero (AFTER beating it at least once). Tips:
Nothing can kill you in one hit from full HP, vehicle or in person (1 large, deep exception in sub 1). Never leave below 90 HP.
Oxygen will be almost all of your deaths. Rush for the utlra capacity tank while doing other stuff along the way. Keep a base/vehicle near and never push it.
Beating #Subnautica Below Zero after finishing that extra little bit is slightly more satisfying but still, pretty odd ending.
It feels like it should be huge, some huge stuff happens, but it's open ended and just doesn't really compare to the first one (even if it is its own sort of downer ending)
@SirTapTap Below Zero suffers by falling between categories, I think. It’s longer and more fleshed out than a simple DLC, but not as complete and fulfilling as a full-fledged sequel.
I tend to regard BZ like the Hobbit movies vs. LotR: not as good, but more in the same world, with a lot to like.
I replay both, but to scratch different itches. Expansive loneliness, exploration: Subnautica. Cramped/cozy builds, fun animal interactions and weather effects: BZ.
I'll admit I'm just slightly disappointed in Subnautica Below Zero, but I suspect most of what feels like missing underwater design/creatures went to above ground stuff (which still feels odd)
Tonight's stream we're all about the SURFACE, and if we don't find the rest of the snowfox I am going to scream
One of my favorite bits in #Subnautica is that when the PDA warns you of the ecological deadzone, it doesn't REALLY warn you, it tells you "additional information added to databank"
If you're too lazy to read the databank entry the PDA is happy to let you swim right into something leviathan-class