If you got to live inside a video game world, which one would you choose?
Easy Peasy Answer…
Ark Survival Evolved
You basically start the game naked, freezing, and starving on a mysterious island or map called an ARK. You manage basic human needs like hunger, thirst, temperature, and weather. You chop down trees, mine rocks, and harvest materials with your bare hands or tools to progress from a basic thatched hut into something more solid and finally…The game features hundreds of prehistoric animals, dinosaurs, and fantasy creatures. You can knock them out, tame them, feed them, breed them, and ride them across land, sea, or air.
It can be played online or single player. You can firm tribes, alliances trade, barter etc.
In the photo above I am riding my tamed Argentavis whilst hunting for an equus. Basically a pretty horse.
My favourite map is the one shown as it actually looks like the spaceship you are on.
Note to self: when shoving pins into very thin foam then don’t press the pieces together too roughly!
I swore… Proof of concept test (number: whatever) it works sort of.
Cutting the pieces down the middle excellent, with the slight caveat that instead of eyeballing 5mm I should have measured.
Going round the wood template…not so brilliant… I will need to sand it down to allow smooth running of the wire. Secondly I ended up with a weird angle. The only thing I can think of is I lifted it up slightly off the bed.
Now this whole thing was spur of the moment so a few things that might have helped (remember you can’t fix stupid!)
Blue tak the wood to the foam
Get some Lego out and make a 90° corner to stop the been to squeeze bits together.
Invest in foam safe super glue.
Don’t do things when you are knackered.
Told my boss taking tomorrow as Flexi day off because I really do need to recharge the batteries.
Ohhh while I remember I finished Alien Dark Descent. One Marine killed in 60 days on the planet.
Others died but it had nowt to do with me… The cut scenes killed them, not me.
The actual end was good, not what I was expecting… I did have to Google how to do it as I was getting nowhere.
The actual final cut scenes was better than I expected, I was waiting for the Alien to have sneaked aboard the escaping space ship but no such thing happened. So well done to the team on that.
Well this evening I achieved nothing. Basically by time I got all my tasks done I really couldn’t be arsed… Talking of arses I landed on mine with a thump walking the dog. I have decided my trainers have had it and they have gone in the bin. Definitely a case of trainers of Doom. Sod all grip and on wet grass/mud… You get the picture.
Last time I ripped my knee open, along with my trousers.
I am actually considering doing the croft house out of foam. I have shit loads of it and in reality I can use the Proxxon to cut out one end wall and one side wall then simply slice them in half. He about 5mm thick.
But if I need to be a little bit more… I was going to say sensible there, but in fact I was being.
Never mind, if I answer the question in the way it was meant then I would have to say… people.
By that I mean human contact. Yes I know I quite like my own company and too much peopling makes my head hurt.
In history, castaways and people lost have really struggled having no-one to talk to. It’s why solitary confinement is sometimes used to break someone’s will. Pirates marooned were given a loaded pistol and a bottle of rum. Pistol was for when the loneliness became to hard to bear. Yeah starvation and thirst too, but a number did survive and we’re picked up by passing ships. Ben Gunn from Treasure Island was a literary example of real people.
Let’s not forget the great book Robinson Crusoe. Eight and twenty years alone on an island. Defoe would have heard of many such stories and possibly Alexander Selkirk was one such tale.
Poor Alexander spent four years and four months on an uninhabited island. Now interestingly he asked to be left there as he deemed the ship he was on was unseaworthy. Sadly for everyone else he was proved right. He did however try to get back on the ship but was refused by the captain… Lucky old Selkirk. Six survivors of the ship were picked up by the Spanish and sent to the mines.
Here he is, reading his bible and singing psalms. He hunted feral goats, tamed feral cats and generally made a life for himself. He was however incoherent with joy when rescued by the British.
Thinking of a couple of films here…
Castaway with Tom Hanks… Wilson the volleyball becomes a personified object.
I can no longer watch the bit where poor Wilson gets washed overboard… Heart breaking! In fact Wilson won an academy award for the best inanimate object ever. I concur with the decision.
Will Smith in I am Legend gives the display mannequins names and talks to them when he goes shopping…
Finally in the Film genre we have Hell in the Pacific…
Two enemy combatants who after spending a bit of time trying to kill each other. Learn to trust and then rely on each other.
Sorry for the rambling post….but yeah although they annoy me, I would have to say people.
I am still KerfuctundBuggered as they possibly say in Germany. Really having a motivational set back.
So I decided to do some research for my Aliens RPG… AKA I have spent a lot of today playing Alien Dark Descent…
Doing Research honest… Joking aside it has actually given me a whole host of ideas…
The above is the map for Berkeley Docks. Basically this is street level. There are other floors on all maps.
Gist of the game is,… Good old Wey-Yu are up to their shenanigans on an orbiting space station above a terra formed moon of Lethe.
Deputy administrator Hayes is the only survivor. To stop the WY ship escaping she sets of a planetary quarantine weapon named Cerberus… Basically nothing in, nothing out Hayes is saved by a squad of Marines but…
Three ships are in the kill zone. The Wey-Yu one, a gas transporter and a Colonial Marine warship. Due to its armour the military vessel crash lands on the moon and that’s just the start of their problems.
So far I have lost one Marine. She was executed… my bad, I thought they would just throw her in the brig for having positive thoughts towards the nutters in the Xenos cult. I am on day fifty-something…did I mention they are going to nuke the planet to make sure nothing gets off.
I am seriously running out of time!
To be honest I am really enjoying this, it is full on Aliens, some great cut scenes. My favourite has to be the Marine gunship going head to head with the Wey-Yu commando one.
Even has working Joe’s that were bought by Wey-Yu and may or may not have had a bit of a memory upgrade…
After 4 days of full-on training I decided to give my head a bit of a break. I had glued two bits of corrugated card together yesterday to make a base as another test run.
It’s quite thick. I made sure to glue them so the corrugations ran perpendicular to each other.
This evening I trimmed off an edge with my knife and strengthened them with masking tape.
There is a funky shadow from the building.
I will faff around with things tomorrow when my brain is not feeling like it’s stuffed with cotton wool.
What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?
I suppose if I had one film that scared me then it would be Jaws… Love sharks but really, really don’t like Dark water and also absolutely detest seaweed on both the shoreline and in the water.
A film that Disturbed me a great deal was the 2004 film Downfall. A pretty accurate depiction of the last Days of Hitler.
