ah, so you made it back not just to the beginning of the series, but of the whole damn blog. that's even more impressive. thanks for reading! a big part of the reason i've written this stuff is in the hope of finding a kindred spirit here and there, so it's a nice surprise when that actually happens. hope the moving situation works out for you.if you're gonna pin me down, then I would say "Reaching the Far Lands as an Aesthetic Goal" and the interview are my favorite bits.
maybe. obviously at age 10 or 11 the expansiveness of its world was awe inspiring. i spent a lot of time looking at the map imagining the areas i couldn't go in. did you ever play it? i can easily imagine 5th grade suspended reason putting a month of undistracted effort into becoming level 99 in some stat. maybe fletching or herblore.Mvuent do you see playing Runescape as a teen as critical to the development of your self and worldview?
Oh yes I was obsessed for at least 18 months. Late bloomer though so we're talking 7th grade. Think I had a mage/archer hybrid, reached mid-to-high 90s but not quite. I got very involved in the social aspect, joined a guild with a phlebotomist and a tyrannical megalomaniac.maybe. obviously at age 10 or 11 the expansiveness of its world was awe inspiring. i spent a lot of time looking at the map imagining the areas i couldn't go in. did you ever play it? i can easily imagine 5th grade suspended reason putting a month of undistracted effort into becoming level 99 in some stat. maybe fletching or herblore.
is there that many already?i should resolve to read two of the mvuent pieces a day for a week starting tuesday (that week will be Tiferes in the cycle of this Omer)
yes! could be a nice change of pace from uninvolved, lightweight reading like ashberry and spinoza.i should resolve to read two of the mvuent pieces a day for a week starting tuesday (that week will be Tiferes in the cycle of this Omer)
there’s some other vektroid stuff in the early entries, and then a paragraph about it specifically at the end of one of the later entriesif the shader talk was early in the cycle or if we discussed it when we hung out, iirc u had it on the money