Entry 23

Last week was busy busy busy. My owner was too busy finishing a few things up before leaving the state to a concert he's in with his band that I was the only assistant in the carpet cleaning business. By Friday, after 7 jobs, 5 shifts both morning (I am not a morning person) and afternoon, including two double jobs on two shifts, I was exhausted, tired, cranky, and in deep need to relax. Me saying, "I am having trouble getting sleep," is an understatement. I keep crashing and taking two hour naps after I'm done for the day. Very exhausting. Starting to dislike the job though, at least it pays well than my other monthly average. Not much to talk about between me and my boss other than work. He's a musician and I'm a gamer.

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I bought three games on steam from my wishlist, after trying the demos: Tidalis, Gunpoint, and Mole Control. Majority indie puzzle games.

Tidalis

It's a very unique puzzle game that I have never tired before. At first it can get hard and confusing, but eventually you get the hang of it if you keep trying. Some of the puzzles may have you go nuts to wits end though. I don't recommend it for children as it only gets more and more complicated that they may end up breaking the monitor.

Gunpoint

If you're a fan of crime-drama, you'll like this game more for it's story than the game play. To me the story, somewhat linear path, gets confusing after a certain point that eventually I don't care and just want to play. The story feels short though. What I like most of this game is the humor you can get from it: Never ending punching on a guard you pounce on from jumping 5+ stories high and survive the fall, cause a guard to shoot another or have their gun trigger a door to open on another guard (or yourself) upon triggering, or, my personal favorite, have them reach for a switch that is booby trapped by a socket to shock them instead. The game play can take awhile to get use to.

Mole Control

Similar to minesweeper basically. The moles look oddly similar to the sloths in Ice Age II, except the moles have a fuse on their head. Yes, they do explode. Basically, they're a mix of Moles and Creepers. You don't know where they are, and they will explode under your feet if you don't catch them first. The supermoles each have a certain ability that you can either use to your advantage or complicate things for yourself.

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Nel was able to make a minecraft server for her, Fang, and I to play on. It was out of my hands as I lacked the RAM to run a server plus the client, and Fang didn't want to bother with it. The server works fine. I'm not gonna share the IP address, I'll leave that up to Nel to share it or not.

It's nice to play with them again. We sorta jumped ship from Mabinogi for awhile. I was starting to get bored from the never ending stream of events, one after another or overlapping, in the game and some outfits from events started to drive me away too; started to feel like a prison. Still hoping Antilia stick to the culture/lore and not fan-service/pop culture references, and not so "event happy" either.

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There's a new reputation system in Antilia that I've never seen before. It seems to be similiar to the Taipii culture of goodwill, according to Jeff. Based on how he has described it in the thread, I may like this. Although it'll drive me insane at times that I may not feel so famous as I thought I am and it's all in my head, similiar to Through Glass