Blapril Archives – Time to Loot

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...