Calm Before The Storm (18/07/24)
Howdy all, it's your favourite Internet nerd checking in once again!
Life's been very chill this past month since last, and I'd thought to share some of the good and the bad about this Winter break. In general, it's been a pretty silent break, where I've been rotting inside playing some sick ass games, listening to some sick ass music, and not really doing much with my uni friends?
Sick Ass Games:
Steam Summer Sale 2024 bought me a myriad of high-quality games into my library, but the ones that really shined in my eyes were the Portal games, (which I beat over the course of a couple days) and the Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (which took longer), both of which are masterclasses in writing. Portal easily has the better gameplay as Stanley is a glorified walking simulator, but it trumps Portal in its writing and comedic wit. That being said, both games are masterpieces and if you've yet to play them, do not wait. Insert "yaoi vs yuri" meme here.
Some other games I picked up include the rest of Valve's back catalogue (minus the CS/Dota games), Skyrim, and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (for OpenRTC2), but I've yet to sink my fangs into these titles due to my current addiction to a Minecraft Realm playthrough (set up by a club at my uni) I've been enthralled in for the better part of a couple weeks, to which I'll be the only user online for days on end. But we'll get to that point later...
Sick Ass Music:
Been listening too a varied list of artists this winter, so much so that I've collated a boringly-named playlist of all the songs I've enjoyed throughly. Check it out right here! And yes, this counts as the Album of the Blog.
What's the Deal With Socialising?
Recently I did a personality test to confirm if I was extroverted rather than introverted, and as it turns out, I am, which solves a lot of the personal questions I had about myself and why I'm so intrigued with socialising and building relationships with people. But it seems to me that everyone that I try to interact with either ghosts me for indeterminate periods of time or falls out of communication entirely, whilst I do my best to maintain said relationships. I know that people have their own lives, but so many ideas/plans I wanted to come into fruition with uni friends over the break didn't become realised because of the adherent lack of communication between the parties involved. Doesn't help that when I try to strike up a convo, it'll usually be ignored or continue awkwardly until it gets dropped a couple minutes later. Am I overthinking this? Most definitely, but it stills upsets me that I want to build stronger bonds with these people and I'm getting "ignored." But I digress - it's not all doom and gloom, and I'm definitely overexaggerating when I say EVERYONE, but I'm still a bit regretful I didn't jump more onto these groups to get them to hang out.