Grrl Power #980 - Destination beatdown (Patreon)

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Sydney probably could have just hunkered down in her shield and let Kevin just blast away at it, then maybe juggle him around with the lighthook, but she felt this would be a whole lot more demoralizing.

Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:

I really need to finish the book so I can close the tab I've had open for three weeks on google results for "sintered." (Spoilers? Not really, no.)

So Assassin's Creed Valhalla was on sale and I've never played one of those so I decided to check it out. It's... fine? The hide, stab, climb a thing loop is okay I guess. It's basically the same game as Far Cry, but you hide, shoot and climb a thing in those. That basically describes all of Ubisoft's catalog I think. The world is huge and there's a lot of nothing. Like I remember Skyrim, you couldn't walk for 90 seconds in any direction before finding a carin stone or dungeon entrance or a giant herding sheep or something. AC:V has you running for 5 minutes from place to place to a pre-marked treasure which is usually an ingot for upgrading your weapons marginally, or a "mystery" which is usually just some minor scripted side quest that gets you some XP. There are also towns you can raid, because you're a viking, but instead of calling in your homies, I can usually take down an entire town by myself because I'm playing on normal difficulty.

Like I said, it's fine.

All this is to say, I haven't made any progress on T:E2 since Monday because I haven't played any video games in quite a while and thought it would be fun to hit some digital Saxons with an axe. I do hope to make some more progress by the next update though. I've played a lot of video games and the gameplay loops tend to wear out their welcome with me fairly quickly. I actually can't think of the last game I actually beat. Playing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, I maxed out Enchanting and Stealth, then enchanted a full set of glass armor with stealth buffs, then crouch stealthed all the way through an Oblivion portal and stole the gem thing and I was basically invisible even in bright light, and after I did that I kind of figured I had basically won the game in all but time expended, so I stopped playing there. I tend to either do stuff like that, or just play long enough to get about half the upgrades then exhaust the gameplay loop and lose interest.