I’m gonna be honest: I wasn’t expecting to like this game so much, at least the bit I played on the beta. As someone who has been playing since Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on the 3DS, not all of the changes in Monster Hunter: World hit the spot for me. Like, obviously the bigger maps…
Author: Loke
I don’t trust Tom Scott
Tom Scott says electronic voting isn’t reliable, but doesn’t mention Brazil, a country using this system since the 90s, even once.
2,000 words on physical notebooks (sorry)
I don’t like writing by hand. It’s slow, it’s clunky, it’s not indexable or searchable, it consumes physical materials, and requires physical space. Digital note-taking, though, isn’t automatically better. I used to save drafts, links, images, and whatever else on OneNote and it was fast, but it became pure chaos of random things kinda-categorized-but-not-really, and…
Bands with female singers that released one album and then disbanded
The title seems overly specific but, as people say, “it’s weird that it happened twice” (that I know of). I literally mean what I said, though: there are two rock bands that are among my favorites overall, and they had female singers, but released only one album and then disbanded. And to this day I…
The Banished Vault has a physical manual
Seriously. And you can buy it from Amazon (I think it’s print-on-demand?). And it’s a proper manual, just look at this, it’s gorgeous. It’s worth mentioning that this is the same manual that’s accessible inside the game, but in a physical format. I bought it some time ago because, to be honest, flipping through pages — that…
Well, that is unsettling
It’s not every day that you’re walking down a street near downtown and see something like this just lying around on the sidewalk.
“Rewilding the Internet”
Some time ago I read an article that compared the internet to a forest, and how it thrives on diversity in a plural and complex ecosystem instead of being a monoculture, like it is today. It’s a very interesting analogy and very well worth reading. I like this idea a lot. I’m not that old…
Ultima Online nostalgia
A trip down the memory lane There was a time when the genre of “MMORPGs” had more variety than just another copy-paste version of a single-player game story that you go through with a bunch of people over the internet, which is the common formula used today. I wish that the genre had gone in…
Devlog 1 – Concept and planning
As I said in the previous post, I’ll be making the game in Twine first, and then porting it to Decker. My original idea, though, was to make an “open-world” exploration RPG, something like SaGa: Scarlet Grace or Emerald Beyond, in RPG Maker. Maybe go even further and do something like Romancing SaGa 3, which…
This website now federates with ActivityPub and has webmentions
What the title says. Or, at least, I hope so, as I’m unsure everything is working as it should. The ActivityPub part I tested myself seems to be all fine, so anyone on Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and so on, can look up for the user blog@www.whateverthewindbrings.com and follow it to see blog updates directly…