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• 8 hours in persona 1
• 22 hours in persona 3
• 7 hours in persona 5

Hello! In this video, I’m indulging the feminine urge to turn any topic into a complaint about capitalism. It’s a lot of numbers and a bit of a downer. I’ve linked all data sources below and EA - if you’re out there - I just wanna talk.

An hour long Dagoth Ur interview

in all fairness though they're very cute and there's nothing wrong with making the entire outside portion of your fortress a giant equine/goat/cat/bird sanctuary for your animal trainers to frolic in while you send miner after miner to their watery graves (after all three of the fortress' military squads were killed or maimed fighting two forgotten beasts that made their way out of the caverns into the hallway leading up to the fortress) in the cavern fifteen layers beneath all the unicorn vomit....we're rich in rope reed and barley

Lmao "revolution bad"

You think this is Final Fantasy, kid? We Ultima in this bitch!

Unrelated the sun is setting and I haven't done shit today

So, a while ago I was in a community theater and we put on plays that would break even largely. Our biggest costs were theater rent, followed by specialist hires (a worker with safety training that did our ropes and high powered electrical stuff). We charged pretty cheap tickets in the context of theater, which given the majority of our actors, costuming and props labour etc. was volunteer.

It got me thinking about games. I realise there is an intense dislike of DLC, particularly AAA companies doing day 1 DLC, but even longer term DLC that could not have been made on the budget of the original game and released like a year later or whatever.

The idea was having a platform for, say, RPG systems that's well coded, slick, bla bla bla, and comes with a few base stories, but after that the majority of development after that is done by something similar to the theater group but indie artists, writers etc. and you buy into a long form RPG (or, idk, subscribe on patreon or whatever). Every month (or whatever), some sub-team releases a new part of their adventure or a new system with a new adventure, and you can keep playing with what characters you had before (if that's what's happening).

Things like the Adventurer's Guild (or whatever the D&D one is, where you register and play each adventure bit once alongside thousands of other players) are a thing, this would wind up be something similar but system agnostic and more tech oriented.

IRL, every time a community theater wants to do a show, they don't rebuild the theater and stuff. It's not "wholly original".

I'd also want the writers/artists to be more connected to their community, hypothetically.

The system would have to have very non-coder friendly tools for writers to pull together systems and make maps and stuff. Dialogue trees may be a bridge too far.

The mixed reality is actually legit really good; I played a free demo of a game that lets you summon creatures and to arm yourself with a bunch of swords, a rifle and a revolver (I think the swords each have a special ability as well). You can summon something as weak as a goblin (though with a shield), and I think it goes all the way up to a dragon, perhaps beyond that too; for context, the first creature was a straight up sword and shield goblin, the second a rogue type character that can throw a line of daggers at you from a distance, and the third was a straight up red giant who towers over you (also he's got like maybe four or five health bars), and those were three out of maybe ten or more enemies. The fight against those three enemies (I lost against the giant by the way) was actually good as a workout and I was tired by the end of it (then again I'm fat and out of shape).

The Q3 also has an air link feature that lets you stream your oculus games (which would have been designed originally for the Rift and Rift S) to your headset, and a steam link that does the same.

I bought some custom VR lens from a company called VR lens lab, and I'll hopefully have them in three weeks or less; they should allow me to use the Q3 without having to wear glasses, so that's awesome.

Honestly as much as I love VR, I think mixed reality is probably going to be my preferred game type as I can see the world around me so I know where I am at all times and where every piece of furniture or clutter is.

The headset isn't without its flaws though; it heats up uncomfortably, the battery life needs to be much longer, you can't use the air link or steam link feature I mentioned if you're on another network (so no activating your PC at home and trying to stream games from it at a friend's house; although apparently you can use virtual desktop to do that I think? Not sure how or if that truly works), they need to up the resolution of how the real world looks in the headset, the IPD despite my fiddling still isn't aligning properly for some reason, I could almost swear the FOV is smaller than the Rift S, the sides of the headset from within the headset are very visible making you feel like you're wearing goggles.

I tried finding some info on which games may offer the best workout and hilariously found a workout game called supernatural that actually has a subsciption model that's more expensive than a netflix subscription (the cheapest offer goes at $28 a month).

My room is badly cluttered, so unfortunately working out in my room is going to be somewhat unfun; I need to see what I can do about making space or playing somewhere else.

Got it where I want it so far, sunk like 80g into it. Also died and lost all my stuff because I couldn't afford the corpse summoner :( UO is like you need to absolutely know what you're hunting, just because a rune book says it's a hunting ground for new players doesn't mean you can handle it. But I wonder what I can fight now given that I'm Grand Master in a couple skills.