"All alone, thank god."

[greygirlbeast]

I believe that it's become necessary to wake this journal up and press it once more, day to day, into service. Simply put, I cannot recall the flow of days without the aid of some written record, and my attempt at returning to a handwritten journal is proving futile. I miss a day, then three, then five, then...here I am back. I can't stand

Comments

[andrian6]

Fecesbook is entirely appropriate. I hope you don't mind if I steal it and use it in future.

And the discussion of weather, of summer being late or, in my area, damnably early has me wondering about people trading bottled weather back and forth. "Hey, if you can send me two days of your march-like spring I can give you a month's worth of sultry early August."

But I suspect Phillip K. Dick or Gabriel Garcia Marquez has already written it.

[greygirlbeast]

I hate when people offer me their weather.

[andrian6]

It would be worse if it could be done in a real and literal sense:

"Oh, Maisy saw your post on the cold spring and offered to send along two days worth of Georgia July she kept from last year."

"You an tell Maisy to shove it where she keeps her late summer thunderstorms. I hate it when people offer me their weather."

And campaigns. "Don't buy Champagne Spring unless it's actually spring weather bottled in the Champagne region of France!" *shudder*

[greygirlbeast]

Then again, I wouldn't turn down a large bottle of Birmingham, Alabama right about now.

[shanejayell]

Still looking forward to Cherry Bomb, oddly enough. Your bad writing is often better than other's good.

[greygirlbeast]

Your bad writing is often better than other's good.

Well, it's an odd compliment, but thank you, all the same.

[jacobluest]

Does The Secret World have strong narrative / character RP options? I'm in the market for an MMORPG to play, but I'm a little disillusioned with the "kill five boars...then kill five more boars" of LOTRO and the "read all the wikis and still get ganked by a Finnish banker" of EVE Online (although it has a special place in my heart). I looked it up and the premise seems fairly compelling!

~Jacob

[greygirlbeast]

Does The Secret World have strong narrative / character RP options?

I think the writing (and voice acting) is marvelous. And it has probably spawned the strongest RP community in MMOs. But I admit I don't know what you mean here by "strong narrative / character RP options." It is still a fairly straightforward MMO. Though there are investigation missions, and the game has a tendency to emerge in the real word through things like Twitter, you also have the kills missions, etc. I rarely play the game, proper. I just use it as an RP vehicle. The actual game mechanics are clunky, and the avatars are really poorly animated and designed.

[jacobluest]

I'm working this summer on generating dynamic quests based on NPC personalities (imagine!), recent local history, and lore for the NPC's region in a large MMO. Ever since I started spinning up brain cycles on this area, I've been...saddened by what's considered state-of-the-art for mainstream game narrative. As such, I'm on the look-out for MMOs that can accomplish good narrative while still providing the quest hooks us players need to satisfy the "XP gain / level up / etc" mechanics we all know and love. It seems like currently (to paint in broad strokes) the choice in games is good writing or good quests. But for me, writing always wins out. I'll check it out...thanks!

~Jacob

[greygirlbeast]

Yeah, you should check it out. I think it's a game that manages to succeed despite it's many flaws. Given what's out there, it's at the top.

[ext_653478]

Good thing I caught the comment about not sending you stuff that isn't already on your Amazon wishlist! I was going to send you some interesting bede I'm unloading. Whew!

[greygirlbeast]

Yeah, not really in the market for the Venerable.

[setsuled]

I believe that it's become necessary to wake this journal up and press it once more,

It's good to have you back.

(which I have an amusing habit of mistyping as "Fecesbook")

Hehe.

[greygirlbeast]

I'm not sure it's good to be back, but thanks.