Recent content by EvilRoy

Don't be afraid to just "take a day off" in your vacation. It's easy to let FOMO or the idea you'll never do something again keep you on your feet despite knowing that you're fatigued and not fully enjoying the experience. When I travel I usually spend at least a couple days a week in a nice...

Giving this a bump because it's out, I played it and it's frickin awesome. Generally put this is a game more like an early 00s adventure/walking simulator than anything. There are open areas where you choose to interact with people and see their animations and voice acting and all and you can...

I've been waiting on this for a few years now and its finally here, almost. Chapter one is being released on March 27 after I think two years maybe three of development. Can't really remember, just happy its here. I'm not certain how much of a game this will be. Based on things the...

My main surprise was steam charts showing 40k peak players. I know assassin's creed isn't the spring chicken it once was but even despite all the shit it caught the last dragon age still hit 80k within a couple days of release and I expected AC to be the same. I kind of lost interest in AC a...

Due to the effects of tariffs targeting steel and aluminium, here in Alberta there are some pretty severe anti-American feelings at the moment. I've seen a number of major projects completely cancel American steel orders to swap to Canadian suppliers here, and that is almost unheard of. The...

Random map is definitely better, although the leader bonus balance remains an issue and unfortunately random maps can severely hamper the Maori, one of the more interesting civilizations, because they may struggle to find decent landfall. I agree it's one of the best modern civilization games...

Civ 6 is a solid game, it just suffers from some annoyingly samey gameplay at times, major balance issues, and you can't recreate nations pretty much at all which frustrates me. The extent to which you could succeed in recreating a nation varies a lot between options, but generally speaking the...

I was kind of looking forward to this one, primarily because I'm bored of endless leader dlc in 6, but I guess I'll give it a pass for now at least. All I really wanted was some improvements to the scale of the game, a bit more variety in leadership and better balance. Y'know, figure out the...

This came up at work the other day oddly enough, one of my teammates had EA stocks which shit the bed, and someone pointed out that the stockholders report indicated "1.5 million players" instead of "1.5 million sales". Which is really bad because stockholders don't care about player counts...

I've actually been part of a push in my area to improve cycling and mass transit in my city. Not as a driver but as a designer, so when other people decide what they want and where to go I find solutions to implement it. It's been weird. Conceptually it doesn't seem that hard to figure out...

The results are in and the doc says I have to resume my diet. Its not too bad, just like a lot more fibre and less pastries/meat which is fine, but after having taken a few week break I'm learning that my body needs to become accustom to a high fibre diet again. For the record "high fibre" means...

Cool news about wood. They can make it transparent now with bonus strength. Practical trials has it tough to do for large sections so you can't make a see-through deck right now and the epoxy seems to yellow under UV light but we're on our way. This is semi old news but there's some renewed...

Just a heads up that the original Bleach anime ended before the the manga did, so they basically had a filler arc that settled the story. There was a new Bleach anime that is following the anime without filler and will have the manga ending. Apparently it may also be expanded a bit because the...

I've been playing stardew valley a lot and it's been really interesting to me how many fine details are included and how many aren't. It kind of makes sense given how old the game is and community informed continual development but it still catches me off guard. On one hand I keep getting...

Yeah I kind of had one crisis after another for a while there and started avoiding the internet to cut back on stress. And then if course I post again for a resourcing conversation.