A story of sparking the enthusiasm long dormant in our ever cataclysmically prone culture, the art of innovation and genuine curiosity, the art of it, rather than all too diverting and unnecessarily harsh business of it
Preamble:
§for this is a quest to strike the spark at the core, in the deep recesses of our hearts and minds,
the long misplaced spark of enthusiasm amidst the rumble of the days passing all too often in a death march
[All Content Is Subject To Change]
This will be the starting point, I guess, the headquarters and my/our starting page of pages,
An Anthology Of future ideas and posting threads
A place for communal support of enthusiasm and creativity,
well hopefully anyway
Specifically this will or should help foster an intellective discourse and more excited engagement in various, interdisciplinary discussions... {I’ll try to think of a more detailed way of putting this, in more practicals terms later in an update}
for example, I in particular have been toying around with and idea of starting a number of parallel threads discussing people’s interests that led them to this site and community, how they’ve stumbled upon it and what it is they found within it for themselves? It’s all about intermingling among the shared niches.
A topic which seems to be a vacant niche in of itself
[snickers at his own “ecological” inside joke]
As any such attempts in the past that I’ve observed seem to have died out or moved on to easier if greener pastures...shame; as I feel this is a prime opportunity missed out of circumstantial obstacles
Well anyway, I’m really not an expert at such things so much help would be in order
I suppose as is one of the purposes of this communal enterprise
Suggestions of course are appreciated and welcomed
— To start us off, Here are some of mine, those that have been rangling around my mind as the most obvious or necessary to address....
My improvised Referential Guide...
** an option to return back to the root roots of the game in the game, cutting down on the sporadic RP of the RPGs towards just what is the widely perceived as essential? gaming experience
***besides Torn
****for community management
*****your unique struggles — ...anxiety and otherwise, a neutral place of harmony for all
****** your unique course in life, your advice and tips for others that maybe going through something on a similar path, anything you’re willing to share for others to experience through your perspective, be it your travels, your life as a student, or even your work, feel free to unload :)
&
Other misc. notions abbreviation:
if not apparent...
assoc. — associated
pos. — possible
exp. — experience
arc. — architecture
A question to a discerning reader, or really anyone who might care... — Should this thread be moved? Or does this placement seems as good as any other?
Also any perspective on the prospective future for this thread?
Does this seem like something anyone might care about to be engaged?
More poll ideas? Better poll ideas? No more polls? :(
And Saturn is actually my favourite solar planet, for various reasons, so thank you for the thread :)
(If it wasn’t for Saturn and Jupiter we, along with the rest of the celestial bodies in the solar system, would’ve been trans-orbitally bombarded into a state resembling that of our Moon’s surface a long while back) These big guys provide more stability than most realise... Plus, all that real estate to harvest :)
Also, many agree that Saturn’s (Saturnian?) and Jovian moons would probably constitute the best hangouts in the solar system(its own Goldilocks zone), discounting perhaps only the Kuiper belt/Oort cloud objects(mini planets, Pluto, Sedna, etc. etc. (Basically all the Planet X candidates))
Nothing long term comes to mind in particular but there are a few good and engaging story games on websites like Choice of Games and ChooseYourStory, not too long individually though...
don’t know if that helps, do tell if you ever do find something more substantial,
Of All time favourites, probably Fallout games, essentially the entire franchise,
Also the historic System Shock(and System Shock 2, the precursors to the BioShock), Command&Conquer, Diablo, Elder Scrolls series, Kingdom Hearts, Fable, Assassin’s Creed, old Tomb Raider, Kingdoms of Amalur,
Castlevania of course... Wolfenstein too :)
Old HALOs, Rainbow Six Siege, Old Battlefield,
Out of the more recent ones I’d go with Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Witcher series, Dishonoured, Infamous, Prototype, Dying Light, Dead Island,
Special awards to Zelda: Breath of the Wild,
Nier: Automata,
Horizon: Zero Dawn, terrible name, good game,
Kerbal Space Program, Subnautica, FTL, RimWorld, The Stanley Parable, Gone Home, Life is Strange, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands,
Old Max&Sam... Grim Fandango...
a few others too ...Dark Souls and Dark Soulsian Bloodbourne, Demon’s Souls, etc. etc. It provides for a maddening experience but enjoyable nonetheless and truly engaging
Cuphead, A Hat In Time, The Binding of Isaac, Don’t Starve, Prey, We Happy Few,
Bendy and the Ink Machine...
quite, Quite a few indie titles actually...
Stellaris, Endless Space...
EVE Online, Elite: Dangerous, for more MMO-ey ones
Although I still generally lean more in the heavily narrative influenced direction, be it character or story driven, most essentially single player based games
I’m just getting back into the fray myself, after a long long “sabbatical” ...new character and everything, especially after the last few changes... how well settled are you getting? I’m out of touch myself with everyone else I’ve used to play with, it’s been way way too long :(
If you’re looking for something “classic” shall we say,
and of course entirely Depending on preference of what it is people are looking for or expecting,
I’d definitely go for some text based stories/interactive fiction, some of it is quite good, and well written... if this falls within the scope of anybody’s tastes I do have some links, although I think most would know most of these...
Still, it is something to check out for the newcomers and the updates are still coming in regularly so there’s always more to choose from...
Going in no particular order...
Choice of Games LLC the most obvious one perhaps but it was a rather recent discovery of mine all things considered, just a few years ago in fact... o how the time flies...
They also do a good job supporting the independents, and giving them a platform from which to work with, it’s nothing fancy, but it’s nothing to sneeze at, as the Americans say :)
There are a number of my all time favourites among them <3
ChooseYourStory is another one, good, reliable, and I'd say it’s enormous in its variety
The author known as the EndMaster there, he’s rather prolific and well accredited, perhaps most so, albeit he is one of the acerbic nature is his personality. Thread carefully :)
There is of course also the Infinite-Story, I’ve actually stumbled upon it through a forum mention on the ChooseYourStory site, it is perhaps not quite as well updated and so on, but still engaging enough for those looking for new and unusual, fresh material to peruse in “free” time
There are also quite a few works from the more well established writers and storytellers of the digital age...
They(CCP) have been coming out with new updates(quite different actually) and expansions again recently... any one has opinions? Suggestions? Alternative sources they’ve turned to to quench that thirst for space, after the slight shift to Play2Win after the Freemium model took off, nof to mention the vast upset over the Galactically Hated micro-transactions debacle...
Whatever happened to those who left?
Our poor old EVE, and the battered No Man’s Sky?
DID they turn to Kickstarter’s indie darlings like Stellaris, and the Endless Space? Or the newly acclaimed Elite: Dangeous? What’s the news with that minted Star Citizen project?
And Saturn is actually my favourite solar planet, for various reasons, so thank you for the thread :)
(If it wasn’t for Saturn and Jupiter we, along with the rest of the celestial bodies in the solar system, would’ve been trans-orbitally bombarded into a state resembling that of our Moon’s surface a long while back) These big guys provide more stability than most realise... Plus, all that real estate to harvest :)
Also, many agree that Saturn’s (Saturnian?) and Jovian moons would probably constitute the best hangouts in the solar system(its own Goldilocks zone), discounting perhaps only the Kuiper belt/Oort cloud objects(mini planets, Pluto, Sedna, etc. etc. (Basically all the Planet X candidates))
A story of sparking the enthusiasm long dormant in our ever cataclysmically prone culture, the art of innovation and genuine curiosity, the art of it, rather than all too diverting and unnecessarily harsh business of it
Preamble:
§for this is a quest to strike the spark at the core, in the deep recesses of our hearts and minds,
the long misplaced spark of enthusiasm amidst the rumble of the days passing all too often in a death march
[All Content Is Subject To Change]
This will be the starting point, I guess, the headquarters and my/our starting page of pages,
An Anthology Of future ideas and posting threads
A place for communal support of enthusiasm and creativity,
well hopefully anyway
Specifically this will or should help foster an intellective discourse and more excited engagement in various, interdisciplinary discussions... {I’ll try to think of a more detailed way of putting this, in more practicals terms later in an update}
for example, I in particular have been toying around with and idea of starting a number of parallel threads discussing people’s interests that led them to this site and community, how they’ve stumbled upon it and what it is they found within it for themselves? It’s all about intermingling among the shared niches.
A topic which seems to be a vacant niche in of itself
[snickers at his own “ecological” inside joke]
As any such attempts in the past that I’ve observed seem to have died out or moved on to easier if greener pastures...shame; as I feel this is a prime opportunity missed out of circumstantial obstacles
Well anyway, I’m really not an expert at such things so much help would be in order
I suppose as is one of the purposes of this communal enterprise
Suggestions of course are appreciated and welcomed
— To start us off, Here are some of mine, those that have been rangling around my mind as the most obvious or necessary to address....
My improvised Referential Guide...
** an option to return back to the root roots of the game in the game, cutting down on the sporadic RP of the RPGs towards just what is the widely perceived as essential? gaming experience
***besides Torn
****for community management
*****your unique struggles — ...anxiety and otherwise, a neutral place of harmony for all
****** your unique course in life, your advice and tips for others that maybe going through something on a similar path, anything you’re willing to share for others to experience through your perspective, be it your travels, your life as a student, or even your work, feel free to unload :)
&
Other misc. notions abbreviation:
if not apparent...
assoc. — associated
pos. — possible
exp. — experience
arc. — architecture
A question to a discerning reader, or really anyone who might care... — Should this thread be moved? Or does this placement seems as good as any other?
Also any perspective on the prospective future for this thread?
Does this seem like something anyone might care about to be engaged?
More poll ideas? Better poll ideas? No more polls? :(