taimatsu @ 2019-04-08T20:06:00

2019-04-08T19:09:15Z

Hello Dreamwidth people!

I was wondering, who's still reading entries here? I have been very bad at posting lately but I love reading your stuff.

If you are reading this but haven't posted for a while, it would be lovely if you had the time and energy to post a small something in your journal - maybe about your day, something you read/watched/listened to recently, something you've been thinking about...

I've tidied up my subscriptions and things and removed all the old unused LJ accounts so it's a lot easier to see who's where. I'm wondering if there are people on Dreamwidth that I might know offline, or from other communities, but haven't linked up with here. If you think of someone I should connect with, please tell me!

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Gaming! on computers!

2019-01-01T17:25:48Z

Why not post more things if I have things to post? This one can be public I guess?

Compared to olwy I am a gamer. Compared to Real Gamers I am not really a gamer but who cares? I like playing computer games of various kinds. (I also like playing board games but that's another post.)

I have my phone nearby most of the time, so that's where I play a lot of games. I enjoy puzzle games - I recently played 'Isoland' 1 and 2 which were good, small, point-and-click find-things-and-solve-puzzles games. I had to resort to a walkthrough a couple of times where I'd just missed something or got the wrong end of the stick, but that says more about my tolerance for mild frustration than about the game, I think.

Also on the phone I have been playing Eden Obscura, which is a tap-and-swipe swinging-around-an-abstract-floral-landscape thing. I like it a lot because while it has goals, it is also a very open kind of gameplay - you have a level, you have five goes in which to complete it, you can choose powerups before you start but you don't have to, and you have to find the goal location and fill it with 'pollen', but meanwhile you can choose your route and the way in which you get where you're going, and whether you complete the thing in a couple of goes or take all five and explore along the way. It also doesn't nag you to buy things - in fact, most of the time you can't buy anything at all, it just has a once-a-week powerup sale.

The thing I spend too much time on is 'Love Nikki Dress-up Queen' which sounds bananas and it is. It's a dressing up game, which is also a RPG. It's set in a world where all conflict is resolved by having a dressing-up contest. You collect clothes and complete challenges. It's not just one thing, the game contains quite a lot of different ways to interact and score different kinds of points and progress. The downside is that it's very, very tempting to spend money on it and some of the special events can't be completed unless you do so. The game originates in China, so the dressing-up clothes are very varied and much of the wardrobe is fantastical. It's problematic in a number of ways but it's still fun. I am slightly embarrassed to be telling you this but sod it, life's too short to be embarrassed about fun things.

I have just started playing 'Alto's Odyssey' which is a side-scrolling sand-boarding game with lovely graphics. I am not very good at it yet, but it's enjoyable.

I have a bunch of other games on my phone which see less action - June's Journey (hidden object/finding things), SailorDrops (sailor-moon-themed Match 3), Threes, Two Dots, Hidden Folks, a Sudoku game, Anodia (a brick breaker thing), Piyomori! (throw little sticky chicks at plates of food to form a pile, I kid you not, it's Japanese and amazingly silly), Alphabear, Moxie (a word game based on changing one letter at a time), a Solitaire game, a Mahjong matching game, and of course Frotz (an iOS interactive-fiction interpreter). On the web-on-the-phone I play Fallen London, which is a text-based choose-your-adventure thing with a 'dark and hilarious' sensibility. It's good.

Off the phone I have done less gaming recently, but my big computer is back online so that may change soon. On PC I enjoy: Sunless Sea, which builds on the Fallen London setting and involves navigating a ship around the Unterzee (the underground ocean); Stardew Valley, which is a cute farming simulator (I cannot get the hang of the bit of the game involving chatting up villagers, but it's still enjoyable without that); and Lord of the Rings Online, which I haven't picked up for a while but which is a Tolkien-themed MMORPG.

On Olly's PS3 I really enjoy Dragon Age: Origins, which is a fantasy combat RPG thing for which I have an elf mage character (ranged combat all the way, I can't react fast enough to do melee properly).

Gaming! Yay!

Edited to add: my phone is an iPhone 5S - no guarantees any phone games mentioned are available for other platforms, though I'm confident most of them are.

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We! Are the Crystal Gems!

2018-08-31T20:21:36Z

I just finished watching Steven Universe season 5. I... aaaaaa! AAAAA! The... things! The stuff! Episode 23-24! Aaaaaa!

I need more. But I have to wait.

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taimatsu @ 2018-08-28T15:59:00

2018-08-28T15:01:14Z

kaberett is hosting an old-skool love meme; you can join in! You can say nice things about me here if you would like. <3 <3 <3

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taimatsu @ 2017-04-11T21:17:00

2017-04-11T20:17:42Z

Have made epic attempt to locate LJ friends on DW. If I haven't added your Dreamwidth account & you want me to know what it is, please say hello.

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taimatsu @ 2009-04-29T14:56:00

2009-04-29T13:56:42Z