November 2022 Update

Improvised "Hall Update" Thumbnail.

Maybe I should write some sort of form for the beginning of these posts in particular. While there're some events that stood out in comparison to my usual routine, in the end it's still the same tale of familiar things happening again. Like I've mentioned here so many times already. Not sure if it's as helpful to publish all that for a couple of curious users that are probably bots, but it sure will keep regular people away from my nonsensical blog.

Copywriting goes as usual: Had some new work, got paid for it and now wait for more to come really soon. It looks like the family will be hit with another penalty and arrest on our bank accounts. As if any of us could've paid for previous ones and/or got new opportunities in current environment. After all, it's all about having these nerve-wracking close calls every now and again. I'm not relying on this principle, but it is a given at this point.

Health Reflections.

Recent highlight on the last 30 days might be not a pleasant topic to read if you're eating something, but this is my abyss and it still likely won't be the worst thing I wrote here. Around a week ago, I started suffering from what could easily be the worst case of severe diarrhea I've had ever. My stomach went through a lot in the last four years, and it was one of the key factors for my lackluster high school graduation, but there are only a few cases I could recall that got even close to something like this. I'm not going into detail on any of them. However, this event that made me practically inactive for a week forced me to reflect on some particularly worrisome things.

From what I understand, your mental health could play a major factor in causing diarrhea. While I had mentioned in previous months that it felt like I'm slowing losing it, I wouldn't say that there was any recent event that could've caused a drastic change in my mind. Things are going at their usual speed, in their usual way. Despite this, the possibility of my body going through some very nasty being due to state of my mind is very concerning. Especially with the way how negativity is common in current online climate. It's often hard for people to notice how directly (or not) they're becoming a part of it.

I had no wish to become a victim of some negative cycle or get into anything like that. While there's pretty much no chance that I would get attention of so-called haters or prominent figures displeased with scuffed contents of this amateur blog simply because nobody reads this, I am doing "just fair" without any outside factors like that. My descent into madness with Shadowlands expansion for World of Warcraft is probably a clear proof of that, and I'm feeling much better by knowing next to nothing about Dragonflight. Who cares what's going on there, it can burn without me for all I care. There's no value in being a type of person who is "definitely done with WoW, but still obsessed with it like a stalker and goes on constant negative rants with like-minded people and opposed crowd". This is a sad position to be in, and I'm glad I escaped that fate. At some point, I guess.

The point I'm trying to make is that I feel like there's really no point for me to dive into more upsetting topics for future "articles" in the Hall. I tend to focus on topics I'm interested and there's been a fair share of positive posts that were really fun to write. While I could feel strongly about specific topics, there's no value in shining light on those. I guess that would've been more debatable if I had a significant following as some game journalist or content maker on YouTube, but I'm not any of those. I won't cause a major change in any games and/or communities, which is totally fine by me. This is not the purpose of this blog. I don't have power to worry about the responsibility that could come with it... I did mention before that I was a Spider-Man fan before. You know, it was about time for this silliness. 

Everything Else.

Minecraft Live 2022 happened on the same day as I published my October update, and it got a dedicated post from me a day later. Despite the whole chat reporting system debacle and other negative topics that started to rise up as I started to dive deeper into Minecraft than I usually did, I feel like I'm getting drawn into the game more and more lately. Although I was more interest in staying as a "free man" when it comes to my interaction with video games, I feel like settling down with this block game as my new main thing instead of Warcraft might not be such a bad decision after all. Besides, there's actually a topic for it that I would like to use for a potential post as a way to make a note for my future self in case I would need to do this specific thing again.

I'm getting better New Game+ in Rogue Legacy by dealing with Khidr, The Gatekeeper & Alexander, The Forgotten once again. As with my other games in Steam library, my goal is to collect all the acheivements in order to scratch that perfectionist itch. In order to do that, I have to be on the lookout for Spiritual Shrine to get access to special Obols that grant you access to what commonly known as "remix bosses": special versions of familiar fights with preset hero you have to utilize in order to beat the challenge. Thankfully, you can have unlimited amount of attempts against them and won't have to clear the castle for that.

Meanwhile, Blizzard has announced the Patch 1.34 for Warcraft 3. This is convenient as this turn of events kind of coincides with the topic I had in mind for my long-planned article that should be mostly about 1.33 and current state of the game. Would be great to finally get to actually writing it and being done with it, but I'm not giving any promises because I feel like I will break them. What I am going to mention is that, due to things I'm mentioned before in this post in regards to my mental health state and approach to specific topic for Hall's "articles", this might very well be the last post about much-suffering classic real-time strategy. At least, about it's current state of affairs.

As for any future plans for this blog afterwards, I can't say anything specific right now. I would like to repeat my output at the beginning of January, but there's not enough subjects in mind for at least 9 posts (including the Update one) and some of them would require going beyond video games into other forms of media. Still have some interest in that, but not sure if I would go for it. While there's no audience to upset with this major change in the blog, some part of me still wants to be commited to "only video games" rule. Even though I technically broke it by talking about hardware stuff a couple of times.