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grissallia

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I’m just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking it to love her.

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melissabeartrix, to random
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Fff fast ...

Hugz & xXx

grissallia,
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@melissabeartrix how good is it?

grissallia, to random
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Nose is running, coughing and spluttering, head is aching.

Don't want to call in sick though.

grissallia,
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@stufromoz Yes, but... I know, but...

I don't know whether I'm at the start of something worse, and taking a sick day might eat into leave I'll need later.

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If you're questioning, recently hatched, and/or afraid you'll lose your identity in transition:

You'll GAIN your identity. You'll LOSE the 17 trauma responses in a trenchcoat that you think is your identity.

grissallia,
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@Impossible_PhD I’m feeling happier than I’ve ever felt before, but I’m also feeling ragged, like “what if I’m not soaring, just mid-plummet?”

grissallia, to random
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Sat here all afternoon trying to get my wife a ticket for TS tonight. I've just been sitting in front of her laptop.

Finally got in.

Got a ticket!

... "You have to log in"

She was logged in, but the cat jumped on the laptop earlier and closed the browser.

Logged her in. Ticket was still available!

Her: "Wait! I have to transfer money to the account."

[while transferring money]

... "your transaction has timed out."

Gaaargh.

melissabeartrix, to random
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Little kids love looking at me ... Huge eyes open ... It's beautiful and slightly off-putting ... I smile and give them a little wave ... And then they are off on their merry way ... I just hope I don't confuse their minds

Hugz & xXx

grissallia,
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@melissabeartrix @sortius My BIL & SIL have decided not to tell my nephews, because "it's too complicated".

It's been a bit of a rough week.

grissallia,
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@melissabeartrix @sortius tweens / early teens

grissallia,
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@melissabeartrix @sortius They're in Sydney, we're in Melbourne, they haven't seen me for a couple of years.

grissallia, to random
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OK, so I need a favour, if anyone running an small business has experience with using to accept payments?

If so, could you PM me please?

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TW: medical humour

I was today years old when I found out they left a METAL STAPLE in my abdomen from a surgery in 2011…

Yeah. lol, oops.

I’m glad all my MRI’s have been of my head since then because otherwise 👀👀👀

Canadian Healthcare: 1
American Healthcare: 0

grissallia,
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@britt So... BadAbs Britt then?

I'm sorry, I'll show myself out. :p

jonoabroad, to random
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I wonder if it is too early in the week to just break down in tears.

Also, whomever said "doing the same thing and expecting different results is an idiot" has never worked with corporate America APIs.

still, it's been a while since I've felt "childlike wonder and surprise" .... unfortunately, also rage, and tantrums.

grissallia,
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@stufromoz @jonoabroad I also can send large hugs, as IIRC I have successfully hugged Stu

grissallia, to gaming
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I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.

For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".

Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".

I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).

I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.

I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.

One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.

Unplayed games:
Trying a game again:
Going live on Twitch:

I'll hashtag these with so you can mute it if you're not interested.

grissallia,
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February 7, 2024 - Day 403 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 439

Game: Life Is Strange: True Colors

Platform: Steam
Released: Sep 10, 2021
Installed: Feb 7, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 35m

Rating: 4 - Good

Life Is Strange: True Colors is a third person adventure game, and is the first game in February's Humble Choice bundle. I actually owned it already; in my head, I pictured it as a sequel, so I hadn't actually played it.

You play as 18yo Alex Chen, who has a psychic ability and can see the emotions of others as coloured auras, and hear their thoughts.

Beyond that, I'm not sure, as the pacing of the game means that even after 35 minutes, I'm not terribly far into the storyline.

However, based on the previous games, and my experience so far, Life Is Strange: True Colors seems to be:

4: Good

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February 8, 2024 - Day 404 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 440

Game: Scorn

Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 4, 2021
Installed: Feb 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 17m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Scorn is a first person horror survival adventure puzzle game. It's the second game in February's Humble Choice bundle.

This was in my "never playing that" list, and seeing it show up in the bundle was a moment of "suck it up, princess."

However, for day 404, it was definitely a case of fun not found.

The game is viscerally disturbing, with the environment being all flesh, bone, and metal; a Gigeresque fusion that just had my brain screaming "GET OUT, QUIT, NOW!"

After exploring the tunnels of the first level, and sticking my avatar's hand into far too many squelching control interfaces, I was glad when my 15 minutes were up.

Scorn is an absolute:

1: Nope

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February 9, 2024 - Day 405 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 441

Game: Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

Platform: Steam
Released: Aug 31, 2022
Installed: Feb 9, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24m

Rating: 3 - OK

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed is a third person open world adventure game. It's the third game in February's Humble Choice bundle.

Unlike Scorn, I actually had DAH!2-R on my wishlist. However, what I didn't know is that while it's a sequel to 2020's Destroy All Humans!, it turns out that Destroy All Humans! was a remake of Destroy All Humans! released in 2005, and DAH!2-R is a remake of the sequel Destroy All Humans! 2.

DAH!2-R is set in 1969, and you're playing as a clone of the original Furon invader, Cryptosporidium-137.

As the now-President of The United States, you find yourself under attack by the KGB, having simultaneously destroyed your mothership in orbit, and waves of KGB agents launching a direct ground assault on you, while you're attending a music festival in San Francisco. Of course.

It's feels much like a pastiche of alien invasion movies of the 1950's & 1960's, and it's kind of goofy fun.

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed is:

3: OK

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February 10, 2024 - Day 406 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 442

Game: Beacon Pines

Platform: Steam
Released: Aug 31, 2022
Installed: Feb 10, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 20m

Rating: 4 - Good

Beacon Pines is an isometric narrative adventure, in which you can go back and change the choices you've, and thus the outcomes that ensue. It's game number 4 in the February Humble Bundle.

Framed as a storybook, in which you're participating in creating the story, the story is about a anthropomorphic young deer, whose father died when he was six, and whose mother has now disappeared.

Luka and his best friend find themselves in the middle of investigating goings-on in their small town of Beacon Pines.

The game is bittersweet, and I'm interested to see where it goes from here.

Beacon Pines seems to be:

4: Good

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February 11, 2024 - Day 407 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 443

Game: There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition

Platform: Steam
Released: Sep 20, 2022
Installed: Feb 11, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 21m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Game number 5 is the February Humble Bundle is There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition. It is a top-down, pixel-art hack-and-slash action-RPG (ARPG).

It's set in a brutal, seemingly post-apocalyptic world, and opens with your wife being stolen away during childbirth, so that your newborn child can be sacrificed for the sake of the community.

This threw me off from the get-go, and it didn't improve from here on in.

Here's the thing: I'm on call this week. It's Wednesday morning. I'm three reviews down (have played, though) - four, if I pre-emptive count today's review. I'm running on three hours sleep, and today is going to be another long day.

The reviews this week are going to be perfunctory, but I've remembered the point of this whole thing: whether or not I enjoy a game, and want to play it again.

The answer to that question in regards to There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition is:

1: Nope

#ThereIsNoLightEnhancedEdition #TopDown #PixelArt #HackAndSlash #ARPG #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG

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February 12, 2024 - Day 408 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 444

Game: Children of Silentown

Platform: Steam
Released: Jan 12, 2023
Installed: Feb 12, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 21m

Rating: 3 - OK

Children of Silentown is an isometric point-and-click adventure with a beautiful but haunting art style. It's game 6 in this month's Humble Choice Bundle.

Lucy is a 12 year old girl living in a town deep inside a forest, that's haunted by monsters, in which children have repeatedly gone missing.

The game is very atmospheric, and just a little creepy.

I think I might keep playing to find out what's happening in Children of Silentown, because it's:

3: OK

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February 13, 2024 - Day 409 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 445

Game: Oaken

Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 21, 2023
Installed: Feb 13, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 17m

Rating: 3 - OK

Oaken is an isometric hex-based tactical roguelike deck-building strategy game. It's game 7 in this month's Humble Choice Bundle.

Oaken is very pretty, but I'm not sure I could explain the storyline, even if I tried. You're some kind of spirit making your way down an oak tree, through various battles, and building out your deck in the process.

If you're a roguelike fan, Oaken is:

3: OK

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February 14, 2024 - Day 410 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 446

Game: Snowtopia

Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 15, 2022
Installed: Feb 14, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 27m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Snowtopia is a top-down/third-person snow resort management sim. It's the last game in this month's Humble Choice Bundle.

You start out in the middle of nowhere in a snow-covered valley with the main buildings of a snow-resort in the centre, begging for you to build it out into a functional skiing paradise.

There's potential here for something interesting, but it's let down painfully by a tutorial that explains things in a way that still leaves you unsure of exactly what you're supposed to do.

However, the game's biggest failing is that it tells you to build ski runs on the vector-graphics hills, and then when you try to, it gives the cryptic error "Impossible to build on uphill slope."

It feels like it was designed by someone who understands exactly what that is supposed to mean, and since it's obvious to them, it should be obvious to everyone else.

However, having lived just south of the NSW snowfields for over a decade, one of the most important things required for ski runs is the uphill slope, so you have something to ski down.

Don't let the time played fool you; I became determined to at least complete the tutorial. I did not. I gave up in frustration.

Snowtopia? Snownopia. It's a:

1: Nope

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February 15, 2024 - Day 411 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 447

Game: Fantasy Blacksmith

Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 16, 2019
Installed: Feb 1, 2024
Unplayed: 14d
Playtime: 33m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Fantasy Blacksmith is a first-person work simulator, where you get to play as a blacksmith in a fantasy setting, making swords for adventurers.

If it sounds like an interesting idea, that is correct. It's an interesting idea.

The execution, on the other hand, will push you to build your first sword so that you can immediately fall on it, and put yourself out of your misery.

It's like the devs on this game thought of the worst possible way they could do every single thing in this game, and then found a way to make it buggy as well.

Some games are so bad, they cycle through to being some kind of perverse pleasure.

This is not one of those games. This is a game that makes Snowtopia look like a masterpiece of UX design and user-friendliness.

This is a game that will have you longing for pixel art, just so the game is actually bright enough to see what you're doing.

It feels like something that was coded by a repurposed Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser, producing something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a game.

Every single game element seems to be a psychological challenge to see how hard you can push a user before they break and throw their mouse across the room.

While it doesn't reach the nadir of Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory, it does put in one hell of an effort.

You do not play Fantasy Blacksmith. You suffer through Fantasy Blacksmith. It's a painfully obvious:

1: Nope

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February 16, 2024 - Day 412 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 448

Game: Bee Simulator

Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 17, 2020
Installed: Feb 1, 2024
Unplayed: 15d
Playtime: 15m

Bee Simulator is a third-insect bee simulator. It's right there on the tin.

Back in 1991, Will Wright (creator of SimCity and The Sims) released SimAnt; unsurprisingly, this was an ant simulator.

This was among the first games I purchased, and I was very disappointed. While I learned a lot of information about ants (some of which still comes in useful), I didn't actually enjoy the game in the same way that I'd enjoyed SimCity.

Unlike the top-down nature of SimAnt, Bee Simulator is a fully 3D environment. It's a little more game-oriented compared to the po-faced SimAnt, but basically: if you're interested in bees, and/or want to experience life as a bee, Bee Simulator will be right up your alley.

It's not a bad game, just not that interesting to me. For me, Bee Simulator is just a bit:

2: Meh

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February 17, 2024 - Day 413 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 449

Game: Edengate: The Edge of Life

Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 16, 2022
Installed: Feb 10, 2024
Unplayed: 7d
Playtime: 31m

Edengate: The Edge of Life is a third-person post-apocalyptic walking simulator.

You play as Mia Lorenson, who wakes up alone in a deserted hospital. It starts out feeling a little bit like the opening scenes of The Walking Dead, then goes in a different direction.

"Walking simulator" is often considered to be a bit of an insult to a game, but one of my favourite games of all time (Firewatch) is a walking sim.

It's got my interest piqued, but it's not quite as "keep-going" as I found Firewatch. I'm still interested in seeing where it takes me, and finding out what Mia has to do with the apocalypse that unfolded while she was unconscious.

I have a theory, but if it turns out to be correct, it will be so on the nose I'd probably come back and lower the rating; at this point, Edengate: The Edge of Life is:

4: Good

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February 18, 2024 - Day 414 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 450

Game: Iris and The Giant

Platform: Steam
Released: Feb 28, 2020
Installed: Feb 2, 2024
Unplayed: 16d
Playtime: 27m

Iris and The Giant is 2.5D RPG/roguelike/deckbuilder. It's kind of hard to pigeonhole.

You play as Iris, and the game is an exploration of her mental health and struggles with anxiety. Cut-scenes that start to flesh out the backstory can be triggered during battles.

As deckbuilders go, it's quite unique, and the game has a certain melancholy air to it.

Iris and The Giant is:

4: Good

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February 19, 2024 - Day 415 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 451

Game: Sheepy: A Short Adventure

Platform: Steam
Released: Feb 7, 2024
Installed: Feb 19, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 42m

(The next few reviews will be very short, because I played each game on the day while I was sick, but I didn't have the energy to write the reviews.)

Sheepy: A Short Adventure is a 2D pixel-art platformer.

You play as an abandoned plush toy ("Sheepy"), who's brought to life inside an abandoned factory.

A pixel-art platformer is exactly the kind of game I would have avoided at the start of this ridiculous project, and it would have been my loss.

Both the soundtrack and the visuals of this game are gorgeous, and it's got the gameplay just right to match. This game is utterly glorious - and it's free! (link below)

Sheepy: A Short Adventure is:

5: Excellent

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568400/Sheepy_A_Short_Adventure/

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February 20, 2024 - Day 416 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 452

Game: Niche - a genetics survival game

Platform: Steam
Released: Sep 15, 2016
Installed: Feb 1, 2024
Unplayed: 19d
Playtime: 18m

Niche - a genetics survival game is a top-down hex-tile turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements.

The single player game opens with a cutscene of a kitten-like animal being stolen from its family by a bird of prey. In mid-air, the kitten scratches the bird, and is dropped, where it wakes up alone on an island.

Your goal is to get back to your family... in a manner of speaking. "Adam" will only survive 14 days (unless injured), and so needs to find a partner, and mate, with Adam's descendants eventually finding their way "home".

At this point I was already on the verge of tears, and learning of the gameplay pushed me over the edge.

It might have been recoverable if the gameplay had been better, but it's just clunky. Adam died within a few days on my first run, because of how clunky the UI is, and in trying to climb onto a rock in the water, it was unclear that would, in fact, leave Adam in deeper water, taking damage.

On the second run I did a bit better, but found the whole thing just a little bit too clunky and complicated.

Niche - a genetics survival game is just a bit:

2: Meh

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