Tag: Blapril

I tried three different games today. Three that were new to me, and each utterly different from the others. Two of them I can’t even talk about terribly much yet, though I will tell you what each of the three were. In the early wee hours of...

Long Live the Queen — Science and War (Turns 81-90)

by Naithin | May 8, 2020 | Civilisation | 3

Here we go! Back around to me, and the world has seen some exciting changes since I was last in the saddle. You can find a list of everyone’s turn stories here if you want to get caught up but the one most important fact: At the beginning of...

Blapril 2020 in the Rear View

by Naithin | May 7, 2020 | Blog | 2

Alright, not quite in the rear view. We still have until Saturday, and I’ll certainly be aiming to keep up the cadence of daily posts until then. Within the timeframe of Blapril (March 29th through to May 9th) this will be my 39th post. If I...

Around the World in 80 Turns

by Naithin | May 6, 2020 | Civilisation | 6

Maybe not strictly true within the context of the game. After all, while In our Civilisation VI Blogger Succession Game we do in fact have an exploring ship — we haven’t yet settled anywhere off the mainland. But it may be true in a...

Fixing The Comments by Removing ‘Luv

by Naithin | May 5, 2020 | Blog | 23

A bit of a short one today. Recently Quietschisto brought to my attention a problem that I am now certain has existed a long time. Probably since very shortly after setting up last year in fact. It was pretty well invisible to me as from my side...

Humble Choice: May 2020

by Naithin | May 4, 2020 | Humble Monthly, XCOM | 8

Alright, so I’m a little late on this one. The new choices came out a couple of days ago now but dangit I really wanted to get the top five most/least viewed posts out and out together. In that time, Magi put his thoughts up over on The...

Time to Loot Journal: Blapril 2020

by Naithin | May 1, 2020 | Cities: Skylines, Civilisation, Deep Rock Galactic, Journal, Mount & Blade 2, Other Games, WoW | 2

While not something I’m going to dwell on — I think I will at least acknowledge that the COVID-19 lockdown is finally getting to me. Not in any serious, major ways. Rather just I note that my motivation levels are down, with each day...

The Value in Bla(pril/ugust)

by Naithin | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog | 10

Last night, Bhagpuss posted on the subject of the recent wave of expressions of exhaustion. I read it while I was out of the house so couldn’t respond in much detail at the time. Now, much of what Bhagpuss wrote — I agree with…

RNG vs. Player Agency

by Naithin | Apr 29, 2020 | Gaming, Other Games, XCOM | 13

Luck. Probability. Random Number Generation (RNG). Love it or despise it, it’s been a part of gaming for decades. At its simplest and most extreme form the outcome is decided in entirety by the roll of the (sometimes literal) dice. It would...

Long Live the Queen — Establishing an Empire (Turns 1-10)

by Naithin | Apr 28, 2020 | Civilisation | 9

The Civilisation VI blogger succession game is here! And we have a whopping 8 players at this stage. For the sake of those reading along, I’m going to (more or less) jump right into the action. But if you’re a player, I have a section...

Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder Isn’t so Bad After All

by Naithin | Apr 27, 2020 | WoW | 2

Which is not something I thought I’d say. More; I’d say it, I think, even without the benefit of the influence buff currently running in WoW (through to May 18th). You see, I had it quite firmly in my head that the reputation ask for...

Civilisation Blogger Succession Game — Setting the Rules

by Naithin | Apr 26, 2020 | Civilisation | 12

Right! The game is afoot! Well; almost. Time to set the rules a little more firmly than we did following yesterday’s post. We had a few areas where people had a preference of a sorts, but not everywhere. So I figure the most interesting way...

Civilisation: Succession (Game) Planning

by Naithin | Apr 25, 2020 | Civilisation | 21

Sidebar: Civilisation or Civilization? I mean… Being in a country that spells via British English, Civilisation is right. But then, this is in reference to a particular game which is called Civilization. So would the latter be more correct?...

Increasing Script Efficiency #2

by Naithin | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog | 0

Late last year, the blog came under attack and required that I work with my host’s support team to implement additional site security. And then, while we were at it, improve efficiency of the scripts. Fortunately, there has been no further...

Five Favourite Game Series

by Naithin | Apr 23, 2020 | Civilisation, Dark Souls, Gaming, Other Games, XCOM | 13

Krikket posted on her five favourite game series after seeing a tweet doing the rounds asking the same. She thought it a great blog post prompt — and so do I. Except even after almost the entirety of the day thinking about it, I’m not...

Playing Alone Together

by Naithin | Apr 22, 2020 | Cities: Skylines, Gaming, Other Games | 6

One thing I’ve been reminded of lately; games don’t have to explicitly include multiplayer to be a shared experience. I’ve mentioned before, but my brother is staying with my family while New Zealand is in lockdown. While both...

Savouring the Final Fantasy VII Remake

by Naithin | Apr 21, 2020 | Other Games | 4

In a very unNait-like display of superhuman restraint, I’m not chewing through the latest Final Fantasy like it’s a piece of cake I’m afraid one of the children will come steal if I leave it sitting unattended too long. I finished...

Inventory (Nearly) Full

by Naithin | Apr 20, 2020 | WoW | 4

Damnit. It seems that a return to WoW is now all but inevitable. I pondered in yesterday’s post pursuit of flight in Battle for Azeroth, but it hardly seems a question of ‘if’ any more, just when. I know this because earlier today...