Okay... I'm absolutely running out of viable options for DnD Character Colouring Book... so we're kind of rummaging around in the bottom of the barrel... and most of the stuff left in there is just failed Barbarian experiments.
I've played with the "wooden skin" idea before, but I can't find the post right now, but I quite like how this came out on Eryn here. This is a pretty on the nose version of the idea of a World Tree Barbarian. A wood elf who is so wood elfy and so aligned with the World Tree that he becomes kind of a tree himself.
Honestly, that's about as far as I got.
Anyway...
I would like to formally request a refund on the whole of January. The user experience has been terrible, the user interface has been unhinged. It's just not meeting the key performance indicators in any sector and I would like a full do-over or at a very least a full refund to compensate.
The flu or cold or whatever the hell I've had for the majority of the month is still lingering. Malingering, one might even say. At least I can breathe through my nose at present, but there's still a vague snuffliness, a cough that makes me very happy that I went and got Ventolin last week, because that definitely helps. And because the Universe is an evil beast, the sinus issue kind of relocated into one of my ear canals, causing a who new reason for partial deafness.
Urgh.
But I did make a doctor's appointment for next week. Just to get this last bit checked out. Although, as always, I'm not expecting a lot. It's also a new doctor because my old one retired and the practice moved and nobody fucking bulk bills any more and everything sucks.
I finished the main campaign of Assassins Creed Mirage. And then legitimately had to look up one of those "wtf just actually happened in the end of that game". I'm messing around with the DLC right now, because my library loan was extended, so I have it for another couple of weeks, so why not.
Generally speaking, the game mechanics and story are good. It's much more of a game that is reliant on stealth than some of the other games. In a lot of ways it throws back to the early games. And it's a short campaign, it doesn't outstay it's welcome. I have positive things to say about the majority of the game.
Except for two things. The parkour. And the fact that it doesn't really tell you certain things. To be fair, it's less the parkour itself and more the "edge detection". You take Basim to the edge of something and press the button that is supposed to let you drop down and... he just doesn't. Sometimes he leaps into space, sometimes he does nothing, sometimes he crouches.
Because the drop down button and the jump button and the parkour button and the crouch button... they're all the same damn button. So it just all gets a little fussy. And, I'll be honest, there really isn't a fully need to parkour through most of the environment. Like when just travelling from A to B.
The problem is that parkour is such at the heart of the AC games that when they screw that up, the whole thing just feels a little... blah.
Next up is a bunch of quality of life things. Firstly, the game really didn't properly tell me that, hey, you should be pickpocketing every single person you encounter because that's the way money and the specific tokens you need for stuff work in this game. They all come from pickpocketing.
Also, just give me back the "match pace" button when talking from A to B with somebody else. Or make their pace just match Basim's by default. You did it in one of the games. Maybe more than one. Why the hell would you not just do that in every single game.
In other Mini Media Reviews...
This week was Crossbones. The John Malkovich TV show/miniseries where he plays Blackbeard. And my review for this is very simple. And that is... watch Black Sails. Crossbones is just... not great. Mostly it's the writing. It's just not where it needs to be. It was funny to realise that two of the other main actors were also in the leads in the Going Postal miniseries.
Next up was the first season of His Dark Materials. It's a beautifully done season. And, honestly, the only problems I really have with it are mostly the problems I have with the original books (which I've only read once). That it's a little too Stealth Jesusy. But that will be more of a problem in the second and third seasons (which I will be watching this week). But also that it's very clear that this was written by a middle aged man (both the book and the show) because no child talks or behaves like that.
But it was pretty enough that I wanna finish off the series.
This week's salad was a very unsuccessful tuna rice salad. It was fine, it was just very uninspired.
Hey, guess what... Friday Night DnD is finally back. Woo. And we accidentally did a giant boss battle. While also being under-leveled. And haven't played these characters for basically a month. So we nearly died. But managed to pull it together at the end.
Anyway...
Nothing too exciting from today. I had massive indecision about what the hell to make for dinners this week just because I have to clean for the inspection.
And given that the weather has been shit all week, and today started off with a thunderstorm that did nothing but make everything hot and muggy, we called it a day pretty early.
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