What Is Life but a Constant Stream

Looks like I'm moving again, perhaps for one final time. It has been close to 3 years and I have been well-adjusted to living in Ketchikan, Alaska. Now, I get to play this game from the beginning all over again. I knew that this was a possibility when I started redecorating this Game Room just recently, so I can't be mad about this whole thing. I just know that it will be exhausting because this one will also be a long-distance migration. Am I moving across state lines, perhaps across the pond, or maybe to the other side of the continent? I'll leave that up to your imagination. I've decided to keep this private from now on.

From today's livestream: The Game Room deconstruction process has begun.

Diablo IV: The Ultimate Gift?

I participated in the Diablo IV open beta last month and it was fine. The game felt like Diablo III, only with amazing graphics - probably one of the best this year - and it was so well optimized that I didn't even have to use DLSS to run the game at 4K 60fps with all the settings maxed out. Unfortunately, once I got to the "MMO" part of the game, everything pretty much fell apart. The frequent lag was horrendous, where my druid was teleporting and stuttering all over the place. It's unfortunate that Blizzard is turning Diablo IV into a live service game, well Diablo III on the Personal Computer was pretty much that. The financial success of Diablo Immortal is the main driver of the game's current model here and you can't blame Blizzard for wanting to make money. I have always felt that it was a mistake to drive these developers away from the loot box mechanics - if you don't have self-control, that's on you and you should stop playing the games with loot boxes, there is a reason why we don't let blind people drive cars - because now they are hooked on selling season passes, and Diablo IV is the latest victim of that trend. Silly loot-box complainers thought they did something good when instead, they just doomed us all. Unfortunately, in this world of ours, there are just too many idiots and that's just the way everything works.

No amount of blood cape can justify that game price... Unless you're in love?

The Games of Steam Spring Sale 2023 Part 3

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Sea Horizon ► Roguelites are easy to like and easier to enjoy. I prefer playing them over your typical linear titles. This game reminded me of For the King, especially the graphics style. I am always up for some fantastical, random quickie adventures. I know I have quite a few of these games already but just like those Vampire Survivors clones, I will never get tired of them, as long as they are somewhat decent.

Tales of Strange Internet Behaviors

As a small-time video game streamer, and as someone who knows and embrace his own unpopularity on the modern streaming platforms, I do feel a bit small sometimes when there's hardly anyone stopping by my channel. I'm only human, and I can't escape that self-inflicted negativity sometimes. Believe it or not, for as much persistent, perhaps incessant, livestreaming contents I provide on twitch.tv, and then later preserved on YouTube, there were many times when I just felt like I want to stop doing it, when I just wanted to forget about making myself accessible out there knowing that I am unable to bring in any new audience. Every single time that happens though, I would take a deep breath, shake off the feeling, and turn on my OBS to do it all over again. At this point, I know that all of the streaming I have done is only beneficial to me, and me only. Nobody cares, and that's okay. I just wish that I can keep that reaffirming thought in my head all the fucking times. Self-doubt is not only a exclusive feature of being as a small-time streamer, it also means that I get to experience weird interactions with the little number of viewers I have. And I am not talking about the typical stuff out there, like people who would only watch me when I play a specific game, or people who would spout racial epithets on top of other rude comments and then leave immediately. No, these are the more "special" occurrences. I don't think the things these guys did to me would fly in a chat room that goes up 300 lines per second, so these individuals like to target smaller channels. Let me invite you to 3 sordid tales of strange Internet behaviors that can only be experienced by the loneliest of lonely streamers. The names have been changed to protect the silly but the stories are real:

TALE ONE: The Artist

A desolate artist looking for work in a desolate place. Art by the Microsoft Bing.

Resident Evil 4 Remake Is Out but No

Hollywood is doing a never-ending amount of remakes... And so do video game studios these days. Don't these people have any hint of creativity left in their hearts and in their souls? Pretty soon, Capcom will have to start remaking the remake of the first Resident Evil and then the cycle will begin once more. Don't get me wrong, I am curious about the latest RE remake but there is no way that I am buying that game at anything less than 50% off. So I was like, let's forget about pricey new games for a bit and check out the available Hatsune Miku figures they have out there. There is never a shortage of Miku figurines of course, and I ended up getting two new ones.

Hatsune Miku 15th Anniversary KEI Ver.