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[shadowhive]

I had intended to do a June something or some other type of post but alas, no.

In part that’s due to this weekend’s weird weather. It’s been a mix of warm and trying to storm. It did rain a bit both yesterday and today, but seemingly not enough to cool things down and today’s especially was short. But either way it’s been too much to do much of anything.

Another part is that mum’s picked up some sort of bug and I’m not sure if it’s from the library or the trip out last week, but she’s been feeling rough (though is a little better) and now I’ve felt it coming in. Which is… not the best, but at least we don’t have any real plans.

Despite that I did a few things.
*I got to Genshin level 18 so now I’m on the last of the prologue quests woo!
*I listened to a Who audio, The Dalek Trap which was free with from a a magazine code. It was part of a boxset and it was the first one, so it’s clearly laying the groundwork for something from the final audio, which means a lot is left hanging which is a shame
*I watched Shoto’s stream yesterday which was stories from his trip which was sweet
*I watched The Mummy Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor and it’s… ok. I mean it’s good that they tried something different, you can’t fault them for that but it just felt kinda… I dunno.
*There was a qsmp mini event yesterday which was funny because of Foolish and Bad being spy’s and being terrible at it, but it was fun. Though now there’s a mysterious timer
*I finished Inscryption, has anyone else played it because I have some thoughts and questions and….
*I watched some twitchcon stuff, though net was spotty and I got the time wrong and missed the gen loss panel so will have to watch it when the vod is live

And yeah, the net is back to being spotty which is annoying as fuck. At least when it went off this morning it was because of one of the girls turning the router off somehow but it’s disconnected randomly a bunch of times today, ugh.

Randomly today I got hit by a depression wave of sadness and just… bleh. I wish it would go away. It came out of nowhere too and it’s just…. Lowered my mood so much and I don’t get why. Meh.

I’m not sure what I’m gonna do now, I did think of watching a film on tv but both are horrors and I’m not really in the mood for either. Maybe I’ll finally revisit Foolish’s Name Your Price. Or find something else.

Comments

[shadowhive]

This is true! I do wonder if they had the concept for act one (which would have worked as a game on it’s own) but then decided to add everything else after? The whole thing makes me curious about the process

I’ve only seen a little of both of those so I can’t fully comment. (I did see the first season of Lost when it was on tv but it got nabbed by sky which was an irritating thing that happened with too many shows back then.) I do feel something like Lost should have had a definite idea no outline (I just looked it up and how did they stretch it out for 6 seasons???) I agree, it’s so frustrating when a show starts off with these threads but just… doesn’t do anything with them so I can only imagine how bad it was for something like that. You’re so right there!

For me things that comes to mind in those terms is the Resident Evil films (which started really well then each time got messy and the last one was just…a mess of contradictions) and also Rise Of Skywalker (which felt like they bought Palpatine back for no reason and messed a lot up)

Yeah power for power’s sake is a common motive that’s been used a lot (I guess in this case it’s the vagueness of what the power is that’s the issue). With Zelda it started as being just for power’s sake and it’s only because of later games that it expanded further than that. I think whoever came up with the that piece of lore for the characters in OOT was a genius because it works and it works so well.

I think comparing the two is a bit difficult (especially because Zelda has 20 games compared to Inscryption’s one). Would we think differently if Inscryption had a sequel further down the line that’s less vague and has more answers?

[yarnofariadne]

Oh good shout bringing up Star Wars - I remember hearing from the filmmakers that there wasn't a three-film plan for the sequel trilogy when they started and I was like ?!?!?! We just admit this now?? Embarrassing. But yeah, that's how you get Palpatine, of all things. Not outlining is how you get Palpatine.

You're right that it's a bit unfair on my part to compare Zelda and Inscryption - it was just the first thing that came to mind with a 'power for power's sake' motivation. But I do think that Zelda's an example of it done well.

Honestly an Inscryption sequel would annoy me? Like, I'd be happy it exists for everyone who enjoys it, and I hope it'd be fun. But with my fundamental issue with it being that the original game doesn't have a compelling or well-developed story, I think them being like 'okay but we totally promise we'll get the story right in the second game' feels like a cash grab to get money for two games rather than one, and also that they're counting on my goodwill that they haven't earned in the first game. If I felt the groundwork were laid competently in the first game I'd be more willing to entertain the idea of a sequel - they haven't earned my investment, I feel. But then, I don't think they want my investment or my opinion so it truly doesn't matter, lol.

[shadowhive]

Yeh when I heard that I was like ?? Because they set up things that could have been interesting only to…. Not have a plan? Or back down on them. I remember when The Last Jedi came out and the director for it said multiple times that when he came in there was no plan and he was free to do what he wanted and I was just ??? This is the middle part of a trilogy and there was… nothing? And then we get Palpatine and just…

That’s ok! And yeah you’re right it is

That’s fair! I guess to me it would depend on what they did with it. I think it works on its own, but a follow up to expand the story could be interesting (or to have another game effected by it) but it could also end up being just as unexplained