Smiles Sunshine and Sickness
Have a gay ol' time.
I took a week off work. Today is my first day back. I miss my comfy bed.
Initially, I had the loose plan of trying out new schedules for creative development; game dev, 3D art, drawing, writing, etc.. This break went well, just not productively well.
Day one I rode my bike to my parents house for funsies. Day two I went to the beach with my friends and got morning-drunk. The rest of the week I went through a big bottle of bourbon and played Risk of Rain 2.
To give myself some credit, I did finish a rough 3D model of a character, which turned out pretty close to my sketches. I did this through a workflow thing that I asked chatgpt for. It's a series of timers to set small deadlines for an idea to get done without overthinking little details.
On Saturday morning, as the fun of wasting away at my desk was fading, I went to 7Eleven to get a yummy ice coffee sippy drink. It was cold, windy, and raining, but god damn it I wanted that canned horse shit. I got home, mildly crashed out because of the weather and the fact that they didn't have the coffee I wanted, drank the inferior coffee, and dried off.
Then I got sick like that night. It peaked on Monday with a little fever. Still recovering as of today, but at least it extended my vacation a few more days.
Risk of Rain 2
I don't mind bad runs when I'm playing solo. It's in the nature of a rouge-like; bad runs make the good runs better.
I don't like bad runs when I'm playing with a group. I feel like after 2 or 3 losses, we're all put in a bad mood. Even if I'm just playing with one other person I feel like they didn't have fun.
I truly love that game. Even when the RNG is fucking with you, and an overloading worm spawns on stage 3, and you get killed by nothing; I still love it. I can tell when people have had enough torture though.
Never suggest Monsoon difficulty to a group. It's never a good idea. Unless you know for a fact that those who are going to play are very familiar with the game. It's a masochistic mode, and is very rarely good. Casual groups should play on Rainstorm or Drizzle. There's no way a group of more than 3 people are going to be able to get stage one done in under 5 minutes. Someone will always lag behind, not get enough items, and be miserable if the run continues.
At one point, we did a group run of 7 people. On Monsoon. With a shit ton of mods. Misery ensued. 4 people were getting owned by stage 3, my brother and other friend had passed the point of crashing out and just started stealing all the boss items for the lols, my other friend kept saying how shitty and unenjoyable the game is, I was crying laughing because of how chaotic it was... After that run ended I just felt bad. I felt like a bully for letting more people join, because I knew how bad it was going to be. I don't want to be mean, but it felt like I was just fucking with everybody because I was totally fine.
I don't mind bad runs. Run it back; try something new. No big deal.
Too many people, too many mods, too hard of a difficulty, zero communication.
It became PVP, fighting to find chests. The slow survivors were doomed from the start.
Balls.
Seeker is a new survivor from the Seekers of The Storm DLC. Her alternative M2 is overpowered. She can revive downed teammates once per stage. Her utility skill is just volcanic egg, but you're invincible.
I hated her as a survivor before I knew about the alternative M2. Now she's my top 3rd, after Loader and Engineer. She's an actual support character if played correctly.
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God, I am in need of a complete rework of my dopamine management. I can't keep playing viddy games and watching youtube until I die.