NotAnNPC plays space games
Playlist is a day late, I know. I’m WAY behind on Elite updates, I know. I’m on vacation. And lazy…
Here’s what I played last week:
I’ve been getting a little more into Dead By Daylight. Which is odd for me with my aversion to anything scary… but I’m having fun playing with friends. I don’t think I can handle randos. They leave me hanging too much…
Here’s what I played last week:
Mars Horizon is a lot of fun and I need to give it a full post. You basically control a space agency like NASA or ESA and try to be the most successful. I’m working through my second save as NASA. My ESA save started out strong but ended up taking a turn. So far, as NASA, I’ve been first or second in all the milestones!
Just a reminder that Elite Dangerous is free on the Epic Game store until the 26th! You should pick it up and come play in space with me!
What have you been playing?
Hey look at that, I forgot to move this from draft to scheduled!
Here’s what I played last week:
Short list this week! My Elite playing has ramped up a good bit to help other folks get things like Engineers and Guardian components unlocked. Empyrion is proving to be a really fun combination of a bunch of different things that I like. The best comparison I can come up with is Space Engineers, though I’m not sure how deep the crafting/programming is yet. I’ll try to get a post with some photos written up so you can see what it’s like.
I haven’t played much of Star Wars Squadrons. I’ve had trouble adapting to the flight model using a HOTAS and to be honest, I wanted to play it with friends but no one seems to be into it for various reasons. So we’ll see what comes of it. I’m hoping for some polishing patches to keep rolling in.
What are you playing?
Here’s what I’ve been playing!
Squadrons may need to wait till the first patch. It’s fun enough but I feel like it’s hitting my GPU pretty hard. Harder than it should be. I dunno. Shapes.io is a factory game that scares me. I don’t think I’m smart enough to play it.
I can’t remember how many people I’ve bought Elite Dangerous for. I’m sure I can check Steam but I know it’s probably more than a handful.
Every single one of them don’t play it anymore. And for a little bit, it hurt. That’s what this post is about: the highs and lows of you being super passionate about something, sharing that with someone, and coming to terms when they’re just not as into it as you are. I’ll be honest that, in the past, I’ve struggled with it.
Continue readingHere’s what I played last week!
This week is get Columbia ready for exploration and set off. I also want to put some hours in Hardspace: Shipbreakers. AND I started a Civ VI play by cloud game with some pals. So that’ll end horribly for me. I watched d20monkey stream Guild of Dungeoneering and it looked like a lot of fun. I might have to pick that up. Speaking of d20monkey…he’s streaming again. You should go give him a follow and watch. He’s a hoot.
What are you playing?! I want to know!
We’re hosted! I signed up for hosting and a domain for the site. So we’re official and all that. I was able to get all the posts and comments imported from the WordPress hosted site. It kept failing on the media imports but with the way I put images in my articles, they should all link out to the old page’s media library.
I did a quick skim to see if everything looked okay and I think I’m fine with it. Images from this point forward will be hosted and linked here. I don’t plan on getting rid of the other site because it’s not hurting anything just sitting there. And, of course, most of my images would go away if I did. I’m not about to go through, re-upload every image and edit every single one of them used in the articles.
I’m excited to have my own space. I’m kind of liking the way the blog looks so I don’t think I’m going to get incredibly fancy with the layout. It’s still a WordPress site and I’m not a WordPress developer. But I may play around with it as time goes on. In the mean time, I hope you have a good holiday weekend (4th of July in the States) if you’re able and stay safe! It’s scary out there for a bunch of different reasons…
Hey there, I’m Matt. This is my blog. It’s generally about the games I play. The focus is space games, but it’s not totally exclusive to them. I’ve started and stopped doing this blog probably 4-5 times since the first post back in 2015. You can tell because you’d think a 5 year old blog would have more content on it.
With everything going on in the world, I feel like I need an outlet. I’m not sure if this is it, but I have it, it’s here, it has a history, and I mean… I still love games. I still love Elite Dangerous. So why not this? I’m trying to decide if I want to spring for hosting. I’d love more control over how it looks and, more importantly, I’d love to have the adds removed. I’m noodling on it as I’m incredibly cheap. The easiest solution would be to just upgrade my WordPress plan to something other than free…but that’s not the cheapest. The cheapest, however, means I’d have to deal with exporting and importing the blog to the new host. I don’t know. My hesitance is directly tied to my lack of commitment. I’m doing this right now with no real content plan or any idea of the future I want for this space. And that’s not necessarily a requirement or a bad thing… but if I’m going to seriously jump into this enough to shell out money, I feel like there should be some preliminary planning done. Of course, I could just leave it all like it is. The ads (as far as I can tell aren’t super intrusive) and the blog is functional. It doesn’t look terrible (not a designer). I’m just not sure. I just know I feel like doing something again. I’m in a pickle.
Continue readingTotally spaced on getting the playlist up yesterday!
The last week has been pretty light since I’ve gotten the printer up and running. Most of all my free time has been learning everything I can about 3D printing. But I did manage to squeeze in a little gaming. Here’s what I played:
I’m not sure what the rest of the week looks like for me yet. I’ve been looking at learning Blender and started poking around in there last night. The past weekend we moved a bunch of furniture around and I redid my battle station. It’s alot bigger.
That basically a dining room table that we now have that can’t fit anywhere in the house. When we eventually move and get a bigger place that can house a table (which will be amazing for running D&D on) I’ll need to figure something else out. But until then, I’ll be gaming with some class.
The printer table is directly behind me. So it’s easy to just spin and roll when I need to mess with it.
I’ve finally emailed Twitch to ask to be removed from the affiliate program. I’m looking forward to streaming again. Maybe even streaming some printing in creative. My thing is, I want to be affiliated. I like that badge, I like having an emote…if there was a way to turn off monetization, it’d be awesome.
What are you guys playing? Also, tell me about your hobbies!
So it’s a new year (almost) and there are some things I want to restart. Chief among them, this blog.
I kind of got out of updating here in favor of streaming. And then I got affiliated on twitch. Which is amazing! And I’m super proud of how fast we were able to pull it off. But I got to thinking. And, true or not, I’m worried about any income from twitch screwing up my tax return.
That might be stupid…it probably is. For one, I’m assuming that I’d even make income from twitch…but the possibility of it being a headache around tax time is enough to turn me off of it.
If I’d given it more time, I probably wouldn’t have signed up for the affiliate program. I was just so excited to get it, I dived right in.
I haven’t streamed since then. The whole tax thing was a big factor in me not streaming, but also I just stopped being able to play a lot over the past few months for family reasons. And I don’t mean that I’m upset about that or anything…I only mean that I needed to spend time where I was needed. And I was happy to be there for the people that needed me. Long story, short: we had an unexpected loss.
After the first of the year, I might contact twitch and ask them to take me out of the affiliate program. Because when I think about it, I’d never get streaming revenue to a point that would supplement my income to the level we’re used to now. And that’s okay. I like my day job. Also, streaming full time is hard. The few weeks where I did it all day were exhausting. I don’t know how full time streamers do it. Regardless, it really only started out as a hobby. I think I should have kept it that way all along.
So that’s the state of things. Now let’s talk about what I need to do better.
For starters, I need to update this blog more. I also need to update on more than just Elite Dangerous. I will always love this game and I’ll always come back to it. I think this last break was probably one of the longest. I managed to not get hooked during the last big update like I normally do. At this point, there’s nothing with the Thargoids that interests me. That might change some day. But at this point, moving back into a arc where I feel like I’ll be playing Elite a bit more regularly, I’m content with continuing the grind for money and rank. I hit Lieutenant today. And I’ve got my bank roll up over 270 million. More than enough to buy the stock Corvette and give it some teeth. I also have a couple of friends that picked up the game over the steam winter sale. So that’s a strong motivator to get back into regular play too. I love helping new players figure the game out for themselves. A lot of this game is stuff you’d have a hard time figuring out on your own. And sometimes they figure out it’s not for them and that’s okay.
Something else that I’ve started doing this year since my last update is I’ve taken up Star Trek Adventures. It’s a bit of a curve for me coming from traditional d20 systems but we have an amazing GM and an amazing group of players, all of which are from the Hammer Gaming guild. As an aside, getting involved with that guild is probably one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. They are all just the best.
On the 31st, my local group is getting together to roll up Starfinder characters. To say I’m excited about that is an understatement. I’m really hoping we’re able to get the group together on the regular. I loved/love Pathfinder. It was one of the first systems I started playing tabletop RPGs on.
So that’s where I am and what’s been going on.
I hope you had an amazing Holiday and it was full of joy! I wish you all the prosperity in the coming new year and hope that you’ll join me in another year of fun space shit.
What you get for Christmas? Let me know in the comments!
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