Did some work on all that stuff in my tabs.
For one, I posted one of my ancient shorts stories to Archive Of Our Own (AO3).
I chose it more or less at random because the point of the exercise was to break the seal and get something put up there and hopefully get a comment or two.
It’s not a terrible story but it’s not great. I can do better now.
I’ve had the idea for a sort of an angelic alien being from far away for a long time now. Since I was in UPEI way back in 1991, in fact, so 32 years or so.
It sprang into existence when I was first reading Thus Spoke Zarathrustra by Nietzsche and pondering what I would write if I decided to try to write a piece of philosophical fiction like that.
And I thought it would be interesting to posit a nearly perfect being coming to Earth and experiencing it with an open mind and a compassionate heart but without prior knowledge of humanity and our ways.
Don’t assume it would be horrified by us. Maybe it would decide we’re wonderful despite our imperfections, and sure to only get better as we evolve.
I’ve never believed in any judgment of ourselves as “good” or “bad”. We’re just people. We’re far too varied and complex for such simplistic valuations.
I will probably post something else tomorrow. Something funny, like one of my sarcastic takes on fairy tails or science fiction tropes.
AO3 is primarily a fanfiction host and I am not particularly inclined to write fan fiction, so there is an irony there.
And said fanfiction is mostly erotic in nature, at least partly, and so far I have not written any sort of erotic fiction.
I’m not against the idea. In fact, I am quite confident that I could write stuff so steamy you could cook rice in it.
I’m just not currently interested in writing it. I write to express myself and I guess I don’t have any sexy emotions to express at the moment.
I also took another looks at that freelancer site Fiverr. I still have not posted an ad for my services to it. It still strikes me as an absurd way to do business.
But I feel like I looked around enough to desensitize myself to the daunting challenge of trying to convince people to hire me some.
Looking over the ads there, I can’t help but notice how deadly dull most of them are. So I have an in there. I am sure I can write something colorful and amusing and fun that would make me stand out from the crowd.
Anyone put off by that is probably the wrong fit for my style anyhow.
And I suppose I could work up some samples from different styles and moods and genres of writing to show off how versatile I am.
That could be kinda fun. I like to dabble in things.
Oh, and I left a message about my GPU crashing issues on the forums of a site called Tom’s Hardware (the computer kind), which is THE hub for computer hardware aficionados as it has all kinds of data about everything with a microchip in it and lots of programming stuff too.
I figure it’s a good place to ask for advice.
So to sum up, I did some potentially productive things today, and felt I needed to memorialize that fact in words.
Good job, me. That wasn’t so bad, was it?
More after the break.
I am NOT a CONTRARIAN!
Old school gaming
It sucks that it’s come to this, but I have two games on the go on my PC right now, and the most recent one is 10 years old.
The other is old enough to drink in all 50 US states.
And I am playing such ancient artifacts partly because I know that they won’t crash my goddamned computer and force me to reboot.
The younger game’s Dragon Age : Inquisition, AKA the third in the Dragon Age series.
I bought it directly after finally finishing the previous game, Dragon Age 2, which was a sequel to the first game, Dragon Age : Origins.
Well, nobody said the titling had to make sense.
It’s graphics are a lot more detailed than the previous game, and the world is much, much bigger, and overall the production values have skyrocketed.
In fact, it’s all a tad overwhelming. In retrospect, I might have been better off playing something else in between. Oh well.
I am finding the combat to be a lot more difficult. It’s much more chaotic and busy and that is not good for my particular model of brain.
Oh well. I can always turn the difficulty down.
The other is Etherlords II, which is from the ancient year of 2003, and is still the best CCG (think Magic : The Gathering) style game I have played.
So much so that this is my fifth or sixth time playing through the whole thing, and I amd still having a hell of a good time.
I’ve played some pretty good CCG style games since Etherlords II came out.
Hearthstone, Slay the Spire, and Inscryption all come to mind. CCGs are one of my favorite kinds of game, after all.
In fact, for me, it’s pretty much CCG or RPG. Etherlords II is both.
There is another game that I really liked, the original Magic : The Gathering game made by Microprose way back in the 90’s.
But it’s so ancient now that modern computer just can’t play it. It would probably be possible to get it working with a DOS emulator, but meh.
It too combined CCG and RPG. One could look at it as an RPG with a robustly developed CCG as its battle system. Same with Etherlords 2.
That makes me feel like I am truly earning my victories, and I love that.
So that’s my game life, AKA the closest thing I have to a “real” life.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.