In video games. And in life, I guess.
I’m stuck in both my main games : Hearthstone and Pathfinder : Wrath of the Righteous,
in Hearthstone(a CCG or Magic : the Gathering type game) , I am technically double stuck because I am stuck in the main campaign I was working on, the Book of Mercenaries, and the one I started up because I was stuck in the first one.
The second one I will probably resolve just by throwing myself at the enemy enough times to stumble upon a winning strategy.
But the Book of Mercenaries one really has me pissed off. It has 10 story paths, each 8 fights, and on the second-last path I was confronted not with an enemy but puzzles.
Basically, here’s this setup, here’s these cards, figure out how to win. Like a chess puzzle for people who find chess too boring. Like me.
This is not the first time the game has made me do these puzzles. But this time there are eight of them in a row and I can’t save my progress after solving one of them so in order to get through this fight I would have to solve them all in one sitting and that is just plain not gonna happen.
I mean, the solution is the same each time, so I technically “know” the solutions to the first three puzzles but these are high level puzzles with lots of cards so the solutions are not the sort of thing one can easily memorize.
And here’s the thing : repetition defeats me. I can’t stand doing the exact same thing over and over again. There are games, Final Fantasy 7 being the most prominent one, that I have abandoned forever because they made me go through a whole elaborate and difficult series of steps over and over and over again just to get to the part where I die yet again.
Nerp. Not gonna do that. That shit is fucking Kryptonite for my soul. I’m gone.
The other game I am stuck in is the one I have been playing for months, Pathfinder : Wrath of the Righteous. The Midnight Isles DLC.
I have hit a boss who seems impossible to beat. He has massively powerful spells, he is nearly impossible to hit, and he has a million hit points.
And it is especially frustrating because I have been doing this damned DLC for weeks now and I am finally getting somewhere near the end.
Now I am not giving up. I have been at this point many times before in games and have always figured it out eventually and moved on.
But I must admit, I had not hit a brick wall this thick in a long time. So it hit me (or I hit it) rather hard and it is taking me some time to get over the shock.
I have at least googled how to beat this fucker, So far, the solutions all seem to involve spells I don’t have and character classes I didn’t select, but I have at least confirmed that I am not the only one who found it super hard.
So did this guy.
More after the break.
Now and forever
Got another gay furry smut comic recommendation.
It’s called Now and Forever and it is about the wonderful romance between two gay Pokemon. It fills my heart with joy and my eyes with happy tears.
I know that I don’t always show it, but I really am a romantic at heart, and very sentimental. And that comic pushes all the buttons in my big soft squishy heart.
It IS a porn comic, so there is lots of happy loving gay sex in it too. I, of course, heartily approve. For me, the sexiest sex is always the kind that expressed true attraction, on all levels, not just horniness.
For me, sex is deeply spiritual. It is two souls reaching out to one another, looking to make that amazing connection that can break the seal of solitude and connect us to another human being in a way that nothing else can.
To me, sex is a miracle. It’s this incredible source of mutual bliss that anyone can enjoy for free and I think that’s why so many people are afraid of it – because it is so emotionally and spiritually powerful.
That is why they want to tie it up with rules and taboos and other bullshit. Like a person who is afraid of dogs and won’t come to your house unless your poor dogs are locked in a cage, they can’t feel safe unless sex is locked away in rules.
To the point, especially in American religion, of insisting that sex be limited to basically the bare minimum necessary to perpetuate the species.
That’s what is behind that “for procreation only” nonsense. They would eliminate sex entirely if they could, like the Quakers did, but obviously belief systems that forbid procreation don’t last real long.
So the erotophobes have to begrudgingly admit that some sex is necessary to keep the species going but that is the only allowable kind of sex.
How childish! To run away and hide from the manifold wonders of human sexuality out of fear of its power.
Grownups don’t run away from powerful things. They learn to use them, and thus they not only tame the beast, they can occasionally even harness it in order to do good.
Besides, suppressing sexuality can turn it into a dark and chaotic force because it takes one of our strongest drives and forces it into Jung’s shadow.
And trust me, that energy WILL find a way to express itself. All the suppression does is guarantee that when it does emerge, we will be powerless to control it.
The places with the highest teen pregnancy rates are always the places with the lowest sexual literacy rates.
Thank goodness the teens of today can just look stuff up online and there is nothing their fucked up parents can do about it.
Go for it, kids! Be safe and be sexy! Don’t let anyone tell you it’s dirty or wrong. The only thing dirty about it is the filthy minds of those who want to suppress it.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.