Gamers love crud : its not a (new) blog
First of all ... lets make clear that, even if any condition we have is or is not recognized as real by some or other doctors or not , our life is very real to us ... first of all part 2 : we dont care what we said last summer as a loose psycho collective whatever that was it probably wasn't me anyway. first of all part 3 : we feel we are under no obligation to accomodate the 0.1%ers to save their world from becoming as wide as 5% , part 3.1 : we don't feel like the 5%er media is representative of the world views. That would be like re-training chatjippedee after it learned how to speak like "most people on the planet in chatrooms do" (ofcourse that would be Orwellian² censorship so only the russians and the chinese would do that - overhere and in the land of has been such a think is obviously unthinkable)
... and so on for a while
... have you ever felt like this ?
or most of the time ?
(its a statue in the next town where a guy who built an empire on gambling machines was mayor back then when we took those pics)
medieval sticks to salems lot
but
those guys didnt have the worst ideas - being half-mafia they're probably closer to the people than billionnaires like Dusk or Pezoz ever will be
a well-known freedom fighter when the socialists were fighting their way into the government (which was then singular) , and i bet, just like Orwell weeps he's tossing in his grave so bad the last of his bones will grind to dust if he were to see socialist parties today joining an employer union government under the guise of "we want to become the biggest party)
Orwell weeps, Daens weeps harder ...
all that pictures from the next town ... i dont think "the chipper" is still mayor, he must be past his 70th birthday (abit lol) somewhere and even billionnaires are mostly not made of warren buffet in 99% of cases. But as local folk figures go the guy was certainly someone to remember (maybe hes still alive ... smarter than Van Rossem not making wind :) )
gaming you say ...
bedroom shelves used to look like this years ago already
no money for real frames but whats inside the head, kokoro and soul is loose from that
saturday mornings used to look like this
you had money for lulz :
and had them printed
fuckers were just as stupid
as they are today , its just the the entropy at the core of the universe tends to flatten things out over time and the original one-soul now has been diluted over 9 billion , and not evenly ..
if a proverbial adam & ever shared it with two, now its divided by 9 000 000 000 ... some have as much as snoop or bootsy (or this one combined) anywhere between, most are left with quantum-zero soul
which usually shows (among other things) as no initiative ...
gaming you say ... right right right, we'll get to that
I think we should shout out to Ataricrypt
( https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/ )
first of all ...
not for saving the world but b/c the guy just blogs away without any care as to "what players want" so to speak ... just interest and whats going on , no ads on site no tracking (just like on ours) and not really market research into what everyone wants to read so maybe thats why we picked up lately on steemit again
not for the money or to bring world changing ideas - i mean, looking at the state of the state, its all about the lobby and i think they can do without our help to wreck the place - we dont feel obliged b/c they fucked our life - we feel no obligation to save mankind b/c they fucked our life AND our planet
we are obliged to the ones we love
https://alleycat.janesondergrond.art/
https://alleycat.janesondergrond.art/survivorcat.php
but thats about it ...
gaming you say ... we'll get to that right away ...
Okay wait euhm ...
ah
Yah we hurrd someone going on about "no gaming blogs" and all that, despite the fact that its one of the biggest and growing industries surpassing tv movie and entertainment combined .. and for instance smallcap like miCrotter spent more on blizzard than they did on anything else before (probably not the best move since blizzard was already no longer the blizzard before kotick but over time it wont make them a loss either - UNLESS they do liku ubiCrot and listen to the 5%er media thinkin thats what the other 95% WANTS)
...
And we mostly dont care ...
(banner saga)
what some billionaire 0.1%ers think WE should be doing to help THEM not get spacemines anyway ... it was clear since biden the americans were doing everything to go back to 1950, even if it meant dragging down the world, they just forgot BRICS is 15+ years by now and EU actually never existed anywhere but on paper ...
SO
.... its all different with the caring and the stuff, as a stranded alien from an advanced kardashev lvl 1 culture in a distant future in a galaxy outside the observable universe as seen from mount Doom we have full access to the brain in this body - its not coloured like most mundanes whos viewpoint exist in a way that might be somewhat compared to "what others see you see looking in the mirror" ... (most politicians live in the mirror , at least thats our observation, so they just keep talking as if someones actually paying attention other than the reporters making their daily bread) . On top of that the kid was born abnormal (should have died at the age of 0.5 too - very likely would have in most countries back in the 1970s but back then belgium was rich ... de put van Martens wasnt complete yet (they now go for the crater van De Wever as we hurrd from someone) and has always lived in the third person, like watching a story unfold round a body you dont live in.
somewhere out there
.. where was i ?
ah !
well
Caves of Qud
ofcourse
very Alice !!!!
didnt do much this session (this is thx to Ataricrypt guy again ... we forgot that we dont need to prep, we just pull the cork out of the skull and start typing until we put it back in) it doesnt matter much if anyone reads it and how much steem it gets
it will need more than a miracle to make it out of belgium and with the crypto we have its unlikely it will rise high enough to make it to Asia before we're too old
hence : "life is fucked = no fucks given anymore" (add to that the fatigue and janes ondergrond which is now mostly fronted by the catham joker, trying to use metafors mundanes might understand to describe perception according to this one)
Just moved back and forth selling everything stashed up , good thing that blacksmith is close to where we stored it all ... it ends out quite nicely
we upgrade the boots to chainmail, added gloves to empty hands, bought a blade that does more dmg and a rifle made by the legendary blacksmith, plus a lot of ammo ..
and we got SO MUCH fresh water now (the currency in Qud)
Found a nice tricky to even it out since they just TRUNC() the amount ... if you end up with a balance 12.03 they give you 12 if you end up with 12.99 they give you 12 too, over a hundred trades thats unacceptable (like the EU removing the copper pieces from the flow)
But we found that you can "preserve" the vinewafers at a cooking fire into vinewafer sheafs in a 1 to 5 ratio, so we had about 900 of those and they go for like 0.01 at our current bartering rates thanks to the EGO boost (as described last time) So we add some of those until we get a nice round number and we have ZERO loss on all trades so far ...
"you achieved slightly not meh once more"
havent explored or killed anything, just trading back and forth, pouring the water into containers and using other containers to collect oil wine and cider together as we were running out of sacks and bladders to store the water in (that too ...) took up about the whole game session
since we are obsessive hoarders in games like this ofcourse to use thats not much of a problem ...
thus far caves of Qud ....
Some stuff that caught our attention and might need checking later :
"the next Skyrim" :
Tainted Grail : the fall of Avalon
still in early access (most games seem to be and stay there - i think we used to call that "in development", .. for instance a blizzard before Kotick would be too ashamed to publish something unfinished, they were always like "it will be there when its ready" ... and see ....
thats why they became THE blizzard (and like bitcoin once wallstreet level CEO's got a hold of it they went down)
this one's also available on GOG, not sure if its on itch havent checked yet and ofcourse you can get it from the three gamestores the world has left as well im sure
Battle Brothers
nothing says we are obliged to pick "new" games btw like qud, tho qud is also 15 years in the making and only recently "released" ... (also on GOG as well as this one as well i think)
gouts et couleurs - we dont play minecraft or overwatch as for "new" ...
Battle for Cronos is pretty new for that matter .. we havent gotten past lvl 6 tho, compared to when we were an 0day-gamer and finished everything before release we dont really game much anymore ...
Avalon should run on low to mid-end pc's (as defined in 2025) without problems and we play caves of qud (offline) on a refurbished HP mini we bought for €49 and duo-installed linux next to the pre-installed USA-DOS , it has 4GB of ram and a super low-end i5 ... mostly used for retro-programming and it runs QUD PERFECTLY on a 4k hdr screen
then there was
King Arthur: Knight's Tale: Legion IX
not sure if thats available outside the three crotter stores that own the world ...
it looks like a mesh between diablo and blackguards so if we ever get to it im sure we be jLoggin about it ...
there also was
Ancient Cities
which all looks very promising but looking at the roadmap of "what we're gonna do" its a wait-and-see ... seens this thousand times at least "what we're gonna do" and then when funding doesnt come in as expected the project gets dumped and everyone who forked out gets left in the dust ...
not saying they will - we just grew cautious of anything that walks on two legs (even if its in a wheelchair)
SO
as for US
we have
(the site is not made for mobile so its very possible some parts wont work as intended its a hobby thing that doesnt make money so we dont care)
the c64 game we are doing
https://janesondergrond.art/middlersted
the Atari stuff and game we wanna do
https://retrofans.janesondergrond.art/attherealatari/
the atari jaguar game we're doing :
https://retrofans.janesondergrond.art/JoGstudio/
misterfpga and what we be gaming
https://retrofans.janesondergrond.art/MFpga/
c64 stuff in general
https://retrofans.janesondergrond.art/firstlove/index.php#top
theres a lot of dlogging there too but in most cases other that the devlogs only the last 20 items are kept
janesbirdie only shows the last 100
and
'JoG-license' (wip - based on some MIT piece)
the stairway to the catstar animation
https://alleycat.janesondergrond.art/
which is intended to be the pyramid we cant build for the ones we lost
and since playing Caves of Qud
the itch to reboot Tyrnannoght
( https://tyrnannoght.janesondergrond.art/ )
but with a U.I. /interface the likes of QUD instead of using unigine has been itching
time is an issue ofcourse given the condition of the body, mind and state of the state - but we DID do a part of the world andto us building a world is the bestest part about it (like Tolkien did middle earth with its own languages and Gygax did forgotten realms, Tyrnannoght is not procedural like Qud would be althout for some sub-dungeons and what not that would have been an option ... we'll see how life fares - if that happens it would have to be PC b/c the sheer size of the world cant be held by 8 or 16 bit machines, even with a hard drive, memory and processing wouldnt follow up)
AAAAAND....
o dear ... i hope we didnt hit the 64Kb limit for a steemit post
its time anyway
on the retro side our most anticipated would be Sarah Jane Avory's work in progress - an "ultima"-like brought to 2025 with music by (i think Ben Dibbert / Nordischound) a well-known scener ...
ofcourse, as with all games we hope they take time to finish it before release heheh
no rush - we got plenty to do , there's also eating, shitting, pissing and cleaning the floors and cabinets (and toilets ...)
if that offends you, just take it as a reminder that
LIFE STINKS (lately even more id say , wehn we cleaned the elder car by the time we parked up the karcher there was this layer of fine dust blown over it to one side - which means all of that is "in the air")
anyway
its not what the kid did
its what you did to the kid
Catham Joker out
Janes OnderGrond 2025 - still not a doompatrolmetafor