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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-24 05:51 pm

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Today's game playing was Frustrating and I am remembering why I do not like the Shadow World in the DLC.
I am trying for a specific achievement so I know I have made it harder than it has to be, but also, I dropped the difficulty down to Casual to try and figure out where to go and what to do and it is still kicking my arse.

Everyone needs to have Death Ward on, but they aren't high enough level to do that for everyone at once, let alone keep doing it long enough to get through.
So then there's a lamp that mitigates some of that problem, but, also kicks off fights that mean you can't do that one achievement.
And you still get your butt kicked by soul eaters if you don't got Death Ward.

I can't find a map that shows you anything useful or instructions that are remotely helpful
and I just replayed the same few minutes Many times while people got dead a lot.

This is not a style of play I am enjoying.

Pathfinder is so much more difficult if you don't get enough money. And the more difficult it is the more you'll have spent all your money on healing potions so you're just very behind on gear.

Very much makes you aware why people would follow the Knight Commander. They are doing so much better than these guys.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-23 06:03 am

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I have been relistening 7 and Mel audio adventures from Big Finish
and this time it struck me funny how often she's like
I am a computer programmer!
so the aliens they've dropped in on assign her to fix a computer
and to the Doctor she'll point out she's from the Earth and also the 80s
but the situation is dire so she'll Have A Go
and then of course she does it.

I'm not surprised they'd want her at UNIT, I'm surprised Earth technology is still vaguely ballpark equivalent to our own.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-20 06:25 pm
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Relistened some 7th Doctor Big Finish today.
7 & Ace in Assassination Game I realised I had put on my relist because it mentions The Light, who also turn up in a Torchwood audio and arguably are referenced in a Torchwood book. Except in Torchwood they are not much like this. So probably it's more like when you get two secret societies called Watchers, because no one is trademarking their secret society. Someone wants to claim to be a major concept like Light, that's up to them. Read more... )
Other than that it was a lot of politics and mind control and running around. Didn't hate it. Didn't like its ideas though.

In Torchwood it's simpler, the Light introduces itself as Hell. Extradimensional conspiracy to get in. Still creepy infiltration and mind control stuff but without the mind controlled babies.


Actually all three of today's listens involved mind control stuff, which always seems to me a lazy shortcut. Persuade us someone could be persuaded or go home. But they did okay on that in the Dalek one.

7 and Mel in
We Are the Daleks
and
The Warehouse.

We Are The Daleks was released in 2015 and set in the 80s. Read more... )

So there were good bits and not so good bits. Reacting to the Daleks as if they're just another trading block and deciding to oppose them on the same grounds they decided to oppose the EU is funny and an interesting angle. But mind control takes the pressure off the problem from the story title. It makes it a dumb sci fi problem solved by moving the transmitter, instead of a lot of moral choices.
But that does make it solvable in the space of one adventure, so, can see what they were going for there.



The Warehouse was one of those that takes ordinary words like Delivery and respins the story around them not meaning quite the same thing there as here. Deliverance and religion get attached to a big warehouse for fulfilling online orders. Read more... )
After relistening this one I went back to my existing listing in my catalog and gave it an extra star. It's still not maximum stars but I think I must have been in a bad mood listening the first time. Liked it.



Liked today pretty well.
Sunday tasks achieved. Lots of nice foods to choose between. Plenty of quiet time to listen.
Pretty good day.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-19 08:42 pm

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Today I played WotR Lord of Nothing and did the cave, tower, and jungle.
I stopped before the Shadow because I remember going through that as fast as possible because Creepy, and it is sleepy time now.

I got the two fiddly achievements I was trying for, including one that *should* have worked already but I found a guide that said it was bugged so you had to do the thing a particular way that would usually be losing. So I did a proper save, played it the right way, did another proper save, and went back and did it the wrong way. Then I exited the game and loaded the right way version. And then it went Ping and I got an achievement something like 0.6% of players do.
This is not because I'm impressive, its because hardly any percent of people seem to actually play their game, the can't miss it achievements aren't impressive percents on the xbox either.

I also spent some of today playing using the actual xbox controller rather than the wired powera version I usually use, because the controls were being quirky and I wondered if it was game or controller. Either way it stopped. But, I relearned why I don't use the xbox one. It is just different enough everything Bothers Me and the buttons click Wrong and I can't put my fingers in the exactly places. Blah.

This is not exciting gaming news.

But it passes the time.



I'm never going to get 100% of achievements because already Core difficulty is annoyingly hard instead of just quite challenging. There's more difficulties above that and all you get for it is a finished the whole thing on that difficulty trophy. ... the highest difficulty one I believe is called Test of the Starstone, which, would be nice to be able to say I passed.


The weather is nicer outside but my flat does not feel like changing, except to intermittently feel like if you put a wet sponge in a microwave. Dryer is better.

But basically had an okay day.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-17 04:08 pm

Wrath of the Righteous all day

Today I played WotR on Core difficulty from waking up at Defenders Heart through to actually defending it, because then I could do Prelate's Nemesis, which I missed on my other Core plays.
It only pinged after I quit and loaded it again, but I figured it would.

Defender's Heart takes like 42 rounds. And most of them are boring, because once you have web grease pit cast on the gate nothing gets in, and Camellia can Entangle the streets all around so nothing much climbs in and when it does it stands there waiting for your arrows. ... this leads to a certain amount of entangle web greasing your own team. Today it went extra wrong because Nenio who cast half the spells got caught in them so she couldn't cancel them. Lots of running around to fix that. Still, everyone on my team and at least the vast majority of the defenders survived the fight.
The Nabasu fight goes great if Ulbrig Grabs them and goes very very poorly if he does not. So it took a couple of tries. Worked though.

Core remains more frustrating than fun. A sensible me would stop chasing achievements and go back to playing the difficulty I actually like.

... a sensible me would play far fewer hours in one day.

... unlikely...
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-16 03:01 pm

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Today was Cleaner Day, so I am cleaner, my house is cleaner, and I ran the dishwasher and the washing machine and am waiting on the drying cycle for the laundry. Maximum clean.

Quite a lot tired.

I watched a couple more Doctor Who, 12 and Clara. Read more... )

I can see how this is interesting story, but they're becoming versions of themselves I remember finding least fun.

Ah well, will see.


Oh good, laundry beeps, tasks complete 🤞
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-15 08:19 pm

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https://seanharry.com/home/flux/
if I was a person who left the house any more I would so want to go to this one
13, 9, Yaz, Toshiko, Ianto, and Rhys
and more spaces left TBA on the Guests pictures.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-15 02:55 pm

Murderbot, written form

I have finished rereading all the Murderbot books.

I had a few little thoughts as I went along. Read more... )

The most recent book, the one where story saves the day, that made me feel kind of tired. Because I felt like the truest line was saying if the corporates made story at them first they would win. I have not of late been optimistic about the power of story, since I have been seeing people reading many things with the special lenses on, the ones that have decided the meaning first and only see the ways that fit. It's an excellent theory and a great development for the character and kind of a writer power fantasy. It should work.

The world could be nicer.

But the reread was good.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-13 08:21 am

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Today I relistened to The Doomsday Quatrain, a 7th Doctor audio, because I was feeling too something to sit and read. But then I was feeling too fiddly to sit and listen so I started playing Wrath of the Righteous again, because there's an Achievement I skipped on Core and I'll have to replay past defending Defenders Heart to have another go at it. But then the audio finished and I didn't start another one and I got stuck playing Wrath on a difficulty I do not find fun replaying the bit I have done So Many Times so I was actually bored. And then it was morning.

Somewhere in there I formed the impression that The Doomsday Quatrain doesn't have much going on except The Twist, and that the elements of the story do not support each other, so it's kind of three things in a sack. Okay, the racism and violence parts from the two sets of aliens fit together. I just never did see why the guy on the cover was in it. Maybe I missed the good bits by replaying the game. But mostly I was not fascinated.

I'm also rereading the Murderbot series. It's action with an unusual and surprising protagonist with a lot of the usual signifiers of Hero who actively refuses a lot of the other parts. It gets blown up a lot, thinks it is bad at its job, and considers its fighting style to be Throw Self At Other SecUnits and see which one is repairable after. It keeps saying it would rather watch media but doing complicated corporate espionage and client retrieval. It's about asserting personhood in societies where slavery is normalised and the well meaning neighbours are often clueless. There's a lot going on there. Good to read. Shall go see if I read more this morning.
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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-07-12 07:47 pm

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You ever dream about the apocalypse and wake up more tired than you started?
I actually dreamt about packing for the apocalypse. Great big trunk to pack, yet far too small compared to my Big Finish collection. Obviously this is a problem worth losing sleep over.

In unrelated news, it has been bugging me recently that one reviews place I see keeps guessing wrong things about genre and then rating stuff poorly based on it not being that genre? Like, Murderbot doesn't have enough gags for a comedy. Or the Sandman doesn't use his powers enough. I mean complaining Dream doesn't manipulate people's dreams is like complaining God appears to leave people free will when he could simply fix everything by not doing that. Missing the point by rather a lot. Yet they had perceived him as some kind of fantasy superhero, so, they thought he wasn't very good at that.

... so now I'm wondering what kind of genre makes my life seem awesome.
And frankly as post apocalyptic survival goes I'm doing flipping awesome.
So that's nice.