Gaggle of Updates

Oof baboof it’s been a good while, huh? Well I can’t promise it’ll get any more regular than this but hey, here’s a post anyway! Obviously a lot of things happened during this long hiatus and I won’t be able to list everything - nor would anyone care probably - so here’s a few things from the top of my head. Child stuff Our gorgeous offspring is doing great, very healthy for most of the time and developing nicely....

September 27, 2024 · 4 min · Alfred Dobradi

EVE Online and Escape from Tarkov

Quick disclaimer here, I’ve been playing EVE Online on again, off again for almost 20 years and I tried to recruit so many people over the years with little success, so this post was born out of frustration especially considering the recent craze in extraction shooter and persistent world type video games. Here’s the thing: why are people who enjoy the risk and reward mechanics in games like Escape from Tarkov and the likes of them not willing to try EVE Online?...

May 15, 2023 · 4 min · Alfred Dobradi

V Rising

Oh boy this is a doozy! I’ve been looking forward to this game since it was announced, I really liked Battlerite and the Royale version of it despite I was not good at all in neither of them but the presentation and the atmosphere was just always really cool and fun, naturally I was curious what they did with the survival genre. To be honest the choice of the genre combined with the whole vampire setting was a bit awkward or at least unconventional at first but I like the mythology and also survival games that are heavily reliant on gathering and crafting, however the sheer amount of these games makes one hesitant to spend any money on them because it’s easy to pick a shit game....

May 19, 2022 · 5 min · Alfred Dobradi