still figuring out what works best for me in posting cadence, but this does seem to be doing well for me so far. i do still transfer every post to proper html tags as a local file before actually posting it, so a thousand years from now when i finish css formatting my actual website journal updating each entry to my website as well should be trivial.
complaining about video games
usual disclaimer that this is all my own opinion; i do not care if anyone disagrees with me but i will not tolerate being expected to forcibly change how i feel for someone else's comfort and appeasement.
disappointed today to see wow is drafting a "story" difficulty for dungeons in the next expansion, which seems to solidify they're copying one of the (many, many) things i absolutely fucking detested in ff14, which is forced dungeons as part of the main story.
i just. god. i am so absolutely tired of these games copying each other but only pulling the things i hate from each other. many of the things people praise ff14 for are just worse versions of things wow has, and the few times wow seems like it wants to take from ff14's design are just things like this, things i think make the game actively worse to play. if i'm in the mood to quest out in the open world i am not usually in the mood for instanced content as well, and when i am i only tend to want to do specific kinds of instanced content.
for example, i LOVE wow's system for raiding. love it. nothing else compares. there are of course things that absolutely piss me off about it too, but even as much as people praised ff14's raids to me ff14 raids aren't even remotely as good as wow's raids. it's not even a sensical comparison; it's like trying to compare the light output of a barely lit tea light candle to the literal, actual sun.
but that doesn't mean i like or enjoy the implementation of dungeons. ff14's dungeons i pretty universally hate on all counts, and on wow i only like them in extremely specific ways: namely, doing a rather difficult NOT TIMED dungeon with friends. no speedrunning, no timer. easy dungeons feel like a waste of my time, dungeons that are hard but have a strict timer to up the challenge like m+ i actively detest so much i wish i could delete them from the game permanently, and doing dungeons with strangers (in BOTH games) is nearly always with the expectation of treating the dungeon as a SPEEDRUN GO GO GO GO FAST FAST FAST mindset i would also delete from every game community with my mind if i could.
follower dungeons i feel like i could generally tolerate but not as they're implemented on either game. on ff14 the npcs always VERY VERY SLOWLY single target down one enemy at a time no matter how many packs you pull, refusing to do any aoe whatsoever and making the dungeon take an absolute eternity. on wow, they will at least actually fucking aoe. but on both games their AI can and sometimes does fail more demanding mechanics, to the point you're eventually forced to just queue with other players anyway. which feels to me like it defeats the entire purpose of offering npc dungeons in the first place.
so this brings me back to: why the fuck are they injecting this content i pretty much generally don't want to do into the main story :) which they are increasingly forcing you to do more and more before you can do anything fun :) which was one of the things i also absolutely fucking hated about ff14 :)
christ man. blizzard is real fuckin lucky they somehow, despite their otherwise vast incompetence, managed to craft an online multiplayer experience that is the most fun of any online multiplayer experience i've ever had. because they really force me to tolerate some real bullshit that has literally driven me away from lesser games.
anyway.
i will probably continue to feel out what it is that will make journal entries easier and more fun for me. right now i am testing if typing Depression Entries is just a thing i need to do in the neocities editor, and if i can just type normal posts into the dreamwidth editor directly. it seems to work so far.
why does it work? look, don't ask me. i don't understand why my brain is like this either, lmao.