Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

Thinking of setting up an account somewhere just for tabletop stuff.. 🤔

Going to play my first game of Lancer today!

I have little idea of my background but I do have a giant robot with a gianter sword

So ought to be fun

Today I stumbled upon the realisation that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure has the plot and themes of a Cardassian repetitive epic, and now I want to see this so very badly

yeah, me too buddy #warhammer

flop

o/

I was worried it would just be a nostalgia trip, but instead it uses the period & the context as incredible framing to enable some incredible storytelling techniques

in part because what it simulates is corporate-space artificiality, the arbitrary mechanical rules and the forced detachment, so those aspects of gameplay enhance the immersion rather than damaging it

also playing with the detached-observer perspective, the mindset it pushes you into and all its contradictions

Domesticated Species:

Brown Rat -> Fancy Rat
House Mouse -> Fancy Mouse
Rock Dove -> Fancy Pigeon
(Prehistoric) Wolf -> Dog

Nononono

(Prehistoric) Wolf -> Fancy Wolf

Perfect

👏

Today will be take 2 of "try to plug a 24-pin cable into my motherboard without snapping it"

When they said it takes a bit of brute force, they weren't kidding

PC build is going in little increments each day

2 days and everything's removed & cleaned, case is dusted out

Jeez it is too hot for this stuff rn though

awoooo

bird call mimicking other birds: nature is beautiful and precious

bird starts mimicking car alarms: nature has gone too far and must be stopped

Anyway "Warframe as a trans coming of age story" is a fanbabble I will happily go into at any opportunity, so it works out for me

Up at 3am a few nights ago explaining the plot to a partner who'd played like 10 hours of it and wasn't aware Warframe even *had* a plot

It's kinda oddly comforting how these problems still haven't been solved in the new generation (contextually) of iterative content MMOs

I've heard Destiny 2 has the exact same "We've got all this content and plot! And no idea how to present it coherently to new players.." problems

Hmmm

want Warframe..

but it doesn't play nice with router

or wrists

hardware problems..

Tonnes of PC parts arriving this week..

I've never actually built a PC without assistance before, just watched a friend do it and swapped out parts and such.

Going to try and take it slowly.

How did I manage to get earwormed with the door alarm noise from Halo

It doesn't even have a tune, this should be illegal