I just wanted something to show for my time at the end of lockdown. The first month of lockdown was a lovely staycation, but by month two I was ready to do something. People were picking up hobbies and getting I to exercise and whatnow, but I wanted a significant accomplishment, I wanted to get my life together. I was still living at home (24 but couldn’t afford my own place) with my mother, I’d struggled with school before, never being much of an academic success.

But it wasn’t lost on me that for the first and basically only time in my life I could go to school, get paid while doing so (Say what you will, CERB was huge for peace of mind), and I could be utterly ironclad I wasn’t missing out on anything while working on my classes. I felt I couldn’t waste the opportunity. I guess something about the change in circumstances worked because i did better than ever before grades wise.

I always think about this when people say Universal Basic Income wouldn’t work, because people are naturally driven to do things and want better for themselves. We had only a glimmer of it, but it was enough to transform my life forever.

Anyways, ramble over. I’m glad my story could help brighten your day :)

Another good thing that came out of covid: yours truly got laid off from retail/sales/customer service after ten years, giving him the first time off in ages to reflect on how long he’d been doing it and that he was still getting paid minimum wage. His time, experience and work was worthless. So he went back to college, worked hard on an IT degree and now a little under a year after graduation he’s got a great job in cybersecurity for municipal government.

It might not mean anything to you it its a big silver lining to having basically completely missed 3 years of my life thanks to covid. But yeah, fuck covid.

Fuck it, I’m switching to TempleOS

Hi, great write up with good info. I’d recommend some formatting though as without breaks it’s just a massive wall of text. Thanks for contributing to the discussion with such valuable insights!

I actually found it pretty soon after it went free to play, I thought I’d check it out and then BAM I’ve completed all class stories, maxed levels, got into housing decoration, and even have an unhealthy number of alts I’ll definitely get around to playing through again someday.

I remember being so happy it was on steam largely for the auto updates. Seems it’s been a very healthy success since then.

That’s awesome! Thanks for making an MMO I personally have 500 hours in on steam. It’s actually the MMO that made me open to playing MMOs, I hated the genre before because all I knew was WoW and Korean stuff that’s all walls of bland text and dull repetitive tasks that don’t respect your time.

The stories of SWTOR and full voice acting were something else entirely. I really enjoyed it and have some very fond memories of my first time playing it as a teen years and years ago, it basically absorbed my holiday vacation that year as I found a guild, made friends, got into some RP, and really just found some cool experiences. In a market starving for anything halfway decent that’s star wars I’m glad we have it.

I request lightsaber pictures!

You helped develop it?

Out of curiosity, what are the good MMOs?

I love these kinds of articles almost more for the weird art choices than the news

Outlaws, the out of focus lady in the center with her hands in/near her jacket pockets is the main character

Don’t worry, they’ll port it and charge 20$ more than it releases for on switch

Logan Paul lookin’ character on the cover

No, you’re thinking about Sid Meier’s Colonization

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Anyone else feel disappointed it’s just another MOBA? Like, this is territory Smite has been treading for years.

Hey, random internet commenter here. This is the way to positive character growth and I want to give you kudos. It’s hard to admit flaws but you owned up to it and took constructive feedback with grace. Keep it up :)

Hey so our main studio is floundering, lets make another one!

Agreed. It might not be the best one but I have a real soft spot for revelations, old man Ezio is a very compelling character, the setting, wrapping up arc for characters. We get plenty of Egypt in games but I can recall ever getting the Ottoman Empire.

Also Unity is underrated, if it had been polished at launch I hold it would have been the best game in the original style gameplay series by far.

I appreciate the kind words, I was just joking around. I’m a happily taken man with a great girlfriend. To those considering bad choices, I promise the unknown is scary but has much greater rewards than going back to something that already failed.

They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.

I should call her