Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/3/2024
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/3/2024
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
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Anyone get up to anything exciting on the weekend?
On Saturday I took a couple of kids on a bike ride, including my 3yo who is now zooming around on a bike with pedals and no training wheels.
We went to the new playground at Frank Kitts park yesterday, which was busy but not crowded.
Also over the weekend, in case you missed it, we added the !rocketlab@lemmy.nz community based on the results of the survey that were mostly supporting the proposal. Subscribe if you're interested!
I haven't had a chance to do a post with all the results of the survey, but I have it on my list to do.
Woah, no training wheels at 3yrs is impressive!
My weekend wasn't exciting unfortunately, was getting over food poisoning so mostly stayed in my bed. Although I did manage to squeeze in a bit of AoE 2, checking out some of the Rise of Rome campaigns which was fun.
Woah, no training wheels at 3yrs is impressive!
It's crazy! The older kids both learnt at 5, but my 3yo is super tall and has been on a balance bike since about 18 months old, spent a bit of time with the old bike from one of the older kids with pedals removed to get used to the bike, then threw on the pedals and just like that, easy peasy. I think they just got exposed to it all at a young age, and happen to be tall which helps, definitely not typical!
My weekend wasn’t exciting unfortunately, was getting over food poisoning so mostly stayed in my bed. Although I did manage to squeeze in a bit of AoE 2, checking out some of the Rise of Rome campaigns which was fun.
Uh hope you're feeling better. When you said Rise of Rome I thought you meant Rise of Nations for a second. Used to play LAN games with my flatmates when I was younger. That was a great game, it would be interesting to see if it holds up today.
Used to play LAN games with my flatmates when I was younger.
Me too, even bought a barebones Shuttle to make it easier to go to LAN games at other people's. Ah nostalgia.
Nowadays the only people who want to play Age of Empires with me seem to live in Turkey and like to talk about how great Erdogan is.
I occasionally get to play a game online with friends, but the old crew are spread around the country and the world now and have young kids so it's hard to organise a good time.
Yeah it's all I can do to even catch up with people irl once every few years, or even online, what with careers and kids and locations.
Must get better at that.
Also I've been thinking I need to get back into Skyrim, I used to really enjoy that and my irl stamina's a bit better these days so the cost benefit ratio would be a bit better.
Do you manage to game at all?
I don't play many games these days. I'll go weeks without playing any, but it's more a priority thing. I get 1, maybe 2 hours in the evening to myself. I often try to use another half hour at lunch as well.
With that time I can read, watch TV, play games, work on lemmy stuff, etc.
In the past year or so I've played through Ryse: Son of Rome to the end, and also played some small amounts of Oxygen Not Included, Morrowind, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrouds, but I didn't get too far in any of those ones. I tend to play everything on the easiest difficulty these days, so as to make more progress with my time.
I'd say I play less than 1 hour a week. Even 10 years ago that number was a lot higher, a couple of hours most days, but different priorities now 🙂
I loved Morrowind. Re tv when you're pressed for time some of those series of really short episodes are great. Eg Rose Matafeo's Star Struck.
I played one of the Elder Scrolls games (can't remember which, but I think not Morrowind) on a disk that I borrowed from a friend a couple of decades back. I didn't understand what I was supposed to do, so didn't play it much.
It wasn't until Skyrim had the Game of the year edition with all the DLC for $15 that I finally played it. I loved it and spent 100+ hours playing it (I know, amateur numbers).
I only recently tried Morrowind, which was only a few dollars so I thought I'd give it a go. I enjoyed what I played, having had a better casual intro to the series via Skyrim so I knew how things worked, but the problem is I didn't get a chance to play for a few weeks and now I have no idea what I was doing. No quest markers and now I can't be bothered spending the time to work it out, so now it's been months 😆
Having played Morrowind obsessively when it first came out, I downloaded it on Steam and ... geez it makes you work hard now that we're usef to quest journals and maps. Also you're in a potato world. But I still have amazing crystal clear memories of flying around netch farms at night and stuff. I think maybe it offloaded a lot of the image processing onto our brains or something!
I don't mind so much the maps and quest journals if I'm in the moment, but it's a problem when I suddenly need to save and quit, then don't pick it up again for weeks.
Oh in terms of graphics, I can remember how awesome games looks. Quake 2 was so detailed compared to the first. Need for Speed was basically photo realistic. Age of Empires had such detailed units and AoE2 was amazing!
Unfortunately I didn't play Half Life until a decade or so after it came out, but that was apparently revolutionary (and I still really enjoyed it even though it was a decade old).
Omg, completely forgot Rise of Nations was a thing! That was another great game back in the day. Thanks for bringing it up, will have to go check it out.
It seems crazy that it didn't get sequels. Even now, come on, can we get a Rise of Nations 2 please 🙂
I did a bunch of cleaning around the house, which normally would be a bit of a drag, but it's made a big difference. Got the jif out to sort out scuff marks on skirting boards, that sort of thing.
Also saw Dune 2 - loved it. Was a bit condensed at the end, but in a way that I actually appreciated. Battle scenes that last too long start to get a bit boring (looking at you Marvel Universe).
I watched Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou on Saturday then went to a local fighting event and watched 15 amateur fights. The next day I watched ufc 299. I watched so many fights I'm getting bored of watching people fight.
Haha I can imagine you could get burnt out from watching all those fights. Maybe you should participate in your own fights? (Consentual, in a designated area, please).
One day I might but for now I want to avoid hard sparring and competing because I need my brain for work.
Yeah fair enough