Sakura of DOOM

WOES! Glitch is closing D: D: D: D: D:

I do not have enough sadface in the world!

I don't even have an icon of Squeegle (my character) yet! I haven't gone fishing! There are swathes of the world I have held off exploring to savor it for longer! (And to avoid crowds.)

I just. People. I have been sucked into bits of the gaming world for the past year or so, and while I loved things like Prof. Layton and whatnot, Glitch was full of happy candy colors and really weird humor and cute animals and awesome sound effects, and it was a pretty reliable destressor that I thought would be sticking around for quite some time. (I just. They were releasing all this cool stuff! I saw more and more people from DW signing up! This is so out of the blue for me. ;__; )

So much stuff going on in Glitch right now! I should probably make an icon of Squeegle (my character) at some point, since I keep posting about it...

Anyway, I finally caved and bought a subscription and credits. If Sims Social and offline moving has taught me nothing else, it has shown that I am a billion times more likely to shell out money for pretty furnishings and decorations than I am for clothes. For some reason, this personal consistency soothes me.

(I also go "Ooo, I like this song, what is it?" a lot to CB, who frequently says it is the tenth time I have said that I both like the song and don't know it. This consistency also makes me happy.)

And I am just happy with all the changes the developers are making! It's very cool that they seem to be looking at exactly how people's use of items in Glitch has been changing and making things to accommodate that—the new Notes Pole is what brought this to mind. I also love that previously impractical objects and skills are now far more practical and desirable, because really, while I liked making fuel cells before, it made pretty little sense to do so when I couldn't find street projects to throw blocks at. But oh man, my woodworking machine uses so many of the suckers!

I am also amused by how formerly useful objects in Glitch are becoming decorative items. You can interact with them, unlike in Sims Social, but it's funny how many of us seem to want to do things like set our tables and fill our kitchens with food and have books lying around everywhere. (Seriously, Glitch, let us craft books! I don't even care what they're used for, I just want books everywhere. How else is it supposed to feel homey?)

And of course, everything is done in that weird Glitch way, so not only can you have your Danish modern furniture, you can also have a room papered in bacon with little vegetable and fruit tables and chairs! Or a sandwich bed!

Despite now having credits and a subscription, I haven't decorated much yet. I don't know exactly what I want yet, so I am mostly ogling everyone else's decor. That said, I am totally hatching a ton of piglets and chicks and not feeding them to grow them up so they can sit around my house looking cute!

ETA: Also, even though I was the one who was most excited when all the updates came out, CB is actually the one who has been totally hooked. I feel a bit guilty about this, since he had just kicked his Minecraft addiction, but it was kind of nice to have someone who is extremely into games validate my newest pet toy. Especially when everything else I've liked so far is stuff like Sims Social and Tiny Tower.

Eeeeeeeee, cannot wait! Especially since I have been loving the sample furniture—I especially love that the Glitch yeti chair is actually based on a modern furniture classic!

I am glad Sims Social has added a Career option, though annoyed at the waiting times, but really, I am in it for the interior decoration. I chose the Celebrity Chef career just so I could get more virtual kitchen gadgets.

Also, I've been playing Echo Bazaar (now Fallen London?) for a while, but mostly as a "I am bored and must click compulsively on something" distraction. But now that my numbers are finally in the above-60s, the storylines have actually been getting more interesting! With some world-building revelations! (Sorrow spiders, EW!) My favorite so far has been the Cheesemonger arc.

(Starting to xpost to LJ again)

I have read approximately 1.8 books in the past five months or so. Okay, probably more, but that's how it feels. I mostly blame CB, particularly for siccing Sims Social on me, but here's a gaming report if anyone is interested.

Please note that I am extremely idiosyncratic re: what I can play. Ex. I dislike first-person 3D perspectives, 3D navigating in general, fighting, stress, anything that depends on too much physical coordination/real world physics, and I get fixated and bored by odd things. So I am not sure how useful any of these will be...

( Professor Layton, Glitch, random stuff, and Facebook )

And I realized this is actually getting kind of long (! now I feel guilty spending so much time on non-reading things!), so interactive fiction gets its own post.

( Stuff CB plays that I watch )