Thoughts...
I thought about commenting on the 38 Studios situation back when it started, and the news of SWTOR layoffs and server consolidation, but I feel like most of what I was thinking at the time has been said and/or played out already elsewhere. Video games can be big, and rough, business. SWTOR will probably carry on for a fair while with its million-plus subscribers and do reasonably well, but it's no more a WoW-killer than Rift or Warhammer Online or... whatever else. Then there's an Elder Scrolls MMORPG in the works, though I can't fathom why. And some recent posts took me to a Kickstarter page for Pathfinder Online, which surprised me. They're gathering money to make a demo to show to investors? Huh. From the news bits I saw about features the game meant to include, I thought they were a lot further along than that...
Meanwhile, Diablo 3 is a shining star/depressing symbol. I think the 6+ million sales (plus another million and change "given away" with WoW subs) make it an umitigated success from a financial standpoint even before raking in any percentages from a real-money auction house, but the always-online format is such a drag. And it feels like all those upfront sales, which are surely due to Blizzard's wide fan base and marketing reach in part, are implicit suppose for the change in paradigm. I don't like it, but what can you do?
I watched a borrowed Captain America the other day. Decent, but it really felt to me like it was missing something compared to, say, the Iron Man movies. Maybe it glossed over a little too much in the middle for me. Or maybe Rogers was just too "perfect," whereas Stark and even Thor were flawed-but-good characters. I'm also a little confused at how he actively eschews guns most of the time, but goes into at least one assault/scene with a pistol blazing in hand. Ah well. It was okay with a lot of neat period stuff - and anchronistic advanced tech thrown in naturally.
After some introspection regarding my long-standing inactivity on-grid on Furryfaire, I took a look at some of what I felt wasn't working with my most recent character. And I came out of it considering another one who, while perhaps not motivated by a major goal, would at least have an active interest in going out and interacting with people. When I ran the idea by a couple friends (who are probably the most frequent readers here anyway), the comments/questions I got back were somehow not what I... hmm... expected? Wanted? Brief, reasonably helpful and supportive, but they all seemed to be from the angle of how to do it rather than whether I should and whether it would make a difference ultimately. That's... probably more where my doubts lay.
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