Sucky sleep sucky dreams

Didn't sleep well last night. Whether that is because of the shitty dreams I had or if those were merely a symptom, I don't know.

Fragments I remember from the dreams:

( Dream 1 )

( Dream 2 )

( Dream 3 )

So yeah, crappy dreams and crappy sleep. One probably caused the other, but I'm not sure which is which.

"EA's Peter Moore Is Wrong About Video Game And Music Distribution"

Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time that Peter Moore has been wrong about something.

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I sorely believe that the video game industry needs to experience another 1983-like crash, and the sooner the better, if not necessarily for the same reasons the original crash occurred. Hopefully, if it does happen, the terrible companies like EA will be washed away, and the current crop of indie developers (which actually include a lot of veteran former-AAA developers who simply got fed up with the current AAA-industry bullshit) will rise up to take their place as the de facto standard of how video games are made. Then, we'll have a decade or two of "golden years" before it all mucks up again and becomes in need of yet another crash. ¬_¬

State of Decay

I was playing State of Decay just now. I got it for $5 during the Steam summer sale thing a few days ago. Up to this point, I'd put 8 hours into it, according to Steam. I was playing as Marcus, the guy you start as. I'd just unlocked the Pro Wrestling skill with him. I was finishing a mission and heading back to the church. On the way, I saw a zombie horde in the distance, so I decided to see just how awesome my new wrestling skills were. I waded into around 12 zombies or so and slammed every one of them to death while taking almost no damage myself. It was pretty cool and I felt like a badass. I continued on my way. Not thirty seconds later, I ran into a feral zombie. About ten to fifteen seconds after that, Marcus was dead. Just like that. Death, in this game, is permanent, unless you start a new game.

I immediately exited out to the menu, deleted my save profile, and then uninstalled the game. I will likely never play it again.

So... would I recommend this game? I don't know. I honestly don't. I was having quite a bit of fun with it for the eight hours that I did play it, so there is that. But then, as soon as Marcus was killed, I lost all desire to continue playing it at all. I don't know... I might reinstall it and give it another shot someday, but for now... nope. I'll just say this much: it's a survival horror RPG that takes place in a modern day zombie apocalypse. If that sounds cool to you, check it out. If, however, you feel like you'd react the same as me in a situation similar to the above, you might as well not bother, probably. That's all I have to say about that.