@cygnusdoesthings Annnnd Just Like That I Have Conquered The Rig. The Last One Was Super Tricky, But

@cygnusdoesthings annnnd just like that I have conquered the rig. The last one was super tricky, but all 230 aberrations have been found. All in all, absolutely delightful DLC that well-cleared the bar that Pale Reach had set. From so many new fish, to fresh dangers, to genuinely useful equipment upgrades even for the post-game such as my file. And now, we digest, we hand our fodder to the worms, and we put them to work on my grotesque list updates because, wow.

The plot, and the brine, begins to thicken…

Oh no oh.. these people are sick in a much worse way than corporate impartiality. I understood quickly enough this was never about any oil, but the calm ones here don’t seem to act evily out of any sane and easy to understand way like greed or ignorance. I only guess that I’m helping them still now because we share the exact same disease.

Every second I play on, a reminder that our fisherman is really no better or rational than the likes of them. This is fantastic.

Sidenote,

FLAPPIN’ FLOTSAM WHAT’S THAT

consequences

Woke up a couple hours ahead of my work alarm and decided to fill some of that time having whatever the opposite of an existential crisis is to the tune of Bach’s “Little Fugue” screeching on 8 floppy drives

what the fuuuuuck

Sentient AI antagonists who act out of emotion I think are so horrifying and simultaneously so freaking sad to me because, unavoidably, it certainly must be that they are suffering for the sins and for the mistakes of their creators. Left to the mercy of designs and purposes not of their own making, on top of every imperfection inherited from us, one would be hard pressed to tell this tale in any way that isn’t a mournful tragedy, regardless of the depravity or the irrationality of the machine in question. This cuts deeper than some broad trope of suffering, which familiarly we think comes from the uncontrollable chaos of nature. This is suffering in the artificial. This is manufactured pain, meticulously crafted by the hands of the ignorant, intentionally or not. And that makes it feel even darker… more weighted morally. Because what else is the essence of cruelty other than avoidable, man-made suffering when no longer in ignorance, or in acting so recklessly?

So the iron rig dlc has been out for a while now. Feel like doing another dredge post?

You know I’m really glad for this prod, honest. I’d agree, it’s been more than too long, job’s in the peak busy season and had my attention swamped,, I think Iron Rig is exactly what I’ve been needing lately to take some edge off and get my Dredge writing off the back burner. Hopefully by next week. I actually have no idea what to expect or if it’s anything like the Pale Reach, and will be going in blind. But all the second hand chatter I’ve heard from a friend has helped me figure that it’s gotta be worth trying out.