Hey Friends! I slept a little better last night. I ended up going to bed around 9:30 at night and have no clue when I actually fell asleep but I think it was before the evening news. I also woke up this morning remembering one of my dreams, so I am guessing it was basically the last thing I was thinking about before the alarm went off. I somehow ended up on a panel with Loading Ready Run and it was a “show” about best ferret names. It started off with Cori showing a video about how she grew up with a ferret that terrorized her growing upt… I have no clue if this is a thing or just something my brain concocted. After that it turned into a thing where each of us threw out our five best ferret names. Disturbing thing is I even remember my five names:
Captain Snuggles
Professor Barnabus T. Wigglebottom the Third
Dave
Lager
Shinobi
Naming animals completely banal human names has always cracked me up, so I understand Dave. Lager also makes a weird kind of sense in my head because the Ferret cousin the Stoat… always makes me think of a Stout. Shinobi I guess I was going for Ninja but a much cooler name? I feel like the strongest offering however is Professor Barnabus T. Wigglebottom the Third. I told my wife this mess of nonsense and she decided that Josie’s surname is now Wigglebottom.
As far as gaming goes, I mostly played State of Decay 2 last night. Unfortunately Eli the person that I showed off yesterday is no longer with us. He took a stupid death. I had just moved our base over to a firestation which provides for a good deal more room, and was trying to get the lay of the land. So I went over to a billboard to climb up and look around and one of the problems with ladders in this game is it doesn’t always hook you onto them correctly… ending up with Eli taking a plummet directly onto the concrete. So poor Noemi here had to go finish off Zombie Eli in order to get back all of the stuff he had been carrying around.
I mean ultimately deaths are a large part of the whole State of Decay thing, but so far I have lost two. The first was killed when I got ambushed by some desperados trying to take our stuff, which at least seemed like a fitting death. Poor Eli though deserved better. I am kinda proud of the fact that I have both halves of the original lesbian couple that started this all… Brooke and Noemi. I do find I am somewhat hesitant to take either out adventuring much because it would feel real bad if I lost one of the originals. The sad thing about losing Eli though is he was my strongest melee character and had specialized in swordplay, which was super useful for fighting plague zombies.
Right now I am enjoying my time with a pack of survivors in State of Decay 2 because it is oddly relaxing. Another event that happened last night is the Dead Axel group moved in beside us so literally next door to our base is one of our allies.
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Good Morning Friends. I have not been sleeping terribly well the last few nights which has lead me to be sorta walking through the world in a fog. I am not sure what is up but whatever the case I hope it passes soon. As a result I am not terribly certain I am up to some epic post, so instead you are going to get some blurbs about various things I am doing. Firstly I am still playing quite a bit of Outriders and am pretty much doing farming runs. Essentially in Trench Town there are two repeatable quests that reward quite a bit of gear in the process. The first of these is the Wanted posters that I have talked about before, but each individual quest rewards you a random epic or better weapon and doing the full sequence of ten quests rewards you a random legendary weapon. The other series is the Monster Hunts, which each reward a random piece of epic or better armor… with the full sequence rewarding you a piece of legendary armor.
I also find myself recording some more videos and I am not entirely certain why. There are just times that it is easier to talk about something while doing it and recording it in video form. One that I am releasing today shows off my favorite “loot cave”, which is actually just the outhouse mission over and over. I’ve also released a video of me doing a single Wanted quest on World Tier 11, and then another where I did two on World Tier 12 and got a random useless legendary weapon from turning in. If watching me do nonsense is your jam then by all means have at it. Like I know I will never have many viewers but I also find recording videos to be this weirdly relaxing extension of blogging? I push myself into the same sort of mindset as when I am writing and pretending that I am largely just talking to myself.
On a whim last night I started playing State of Decay 2 again and I mean I know precisely WHY I did it… but actually going through with reinstalling it and playing it was not terribly expected. One of the folks at Undead Labs, Geoffrey Card aka @Rangutang does these really enjoyable streams where he either plays State of Decay or explores some random game that he finds interesting. More recently he has been on a kick of playing State of Decay 2 again, because Undead Labs is leading up to some open beta on Steam and the combination of hanging out in chat while he played made me want to play. This is the problem I have with streaming… it doesn’t trigger a feeling of wanting to watch more of the stream but instead triggers a desire to just play the damned game myself.
So last night I started a brand new group of survivors. Things were going awesome until they suddenly were not and I wound up losing two people when tangling with some bandits that stole an allied groups meds. I did manage to relocate us to a new base of operations centered around a truck stop. Now I need to find a programmer so I can loot a drop pod that is taking up one of my spaces, so that I can build something useful there for my community instead of it just taking up space.
Lastly I am still playing Elder Scrolls Online, and by playing I mean logging in every night to loot my daily reward cache and train mounts on my four 50s. I allowed myself to get into the bad pattern of just logging in every character and doing crafting writs during the recent holiday event, and I need to actually get back into questing and doing something more enjoyable. The combination of the Jesters Festival and the Anniversary event meant that I devoted a bunch of time to grinding up three characters from low levels to the level cap. This however sorta knocked the wind out of my sails because it got me out of the pattern of logging in and questing each night. I need to get back into that because it is that sort of thing that keeps me engaged in the game. Unfortunately I have been in the pattern of “maintenance gaming” where I just log in to do dailies and then immediately log right back out.
I am not entirely certain what is going to win when it comes to my play time. I had a lot of fun last night playing State of Decay 2 and I expect that I will probably play some more of that in the coming evenings. Then given how exhausted I am right now… it is highly likely that I might just crash at some point rather than spend much time gaming in the first place. I wish I knew why I was not sleeping well, because I sure would love a good nights sleep.
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Featuring: Â Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen
This week we have a wide number of topics to discuss starting with the Nintendo Direct from March 8th and the fake out announcement of Smash Brothers. Â We talk a bit about Monster Hunter 4U and Generations and why maybe one is a better starting place in the series than the other. We talk about State of Decay 2 and the backlash over it being on the Windows Store only. Â We briefly talk about what it would take to make Desktop Linux a reality. Tam talks a bit about finishing the first route in Nier Automata and Bel discusses his experiences with Final Fantasy XV PC including the source of this screenshot. Â Finally we wrap things up with a discussion about the Legend of Five Rings Living Card game and that Tam has recently begun playing it online unofficially.
Ashgar, Belghast, Tamrielo and Thalen talk so many different games… because E3 was a thing
It is not really often that things work out just perfectly and AggroChat lands on one of the hosts birthdays.  This evening it happened to coincide perfectly with that of Belghast turning 40… so there was some discussion of that happening.  Also we dove into E3 and all of the stuff that we could remember about the show.  Below is an extremely partial list of the topics we discussed, because quite frankly we were whipping through games so fast… and I was exhausted…  so I failed miserably to try and log our discussion.  Additionally we talk Blade and Soul, Gundam Breaker 3, Ronin and some talk of the Four Job Fiesta.
