Dear
Player One,
It has been another week and of up and down but I missed
your post on Monday. Work has been going along and I've been trying to get
better at this volatile work environment. I have found my work in person
suffers a great deal more for my metal state than working from home. I suppose
this is not a surprise but it is a foreshadowing of a potentially difficult
spot to work through. It is not impossible but it is not something I’m particularly
looking forward to.
Concept
art in person has been interesting. It is not a task that I’m unfamiliar with,
but delivering it in person and having the ‘customer’ able to see the pieces unfinished
has introduced a new twist to the work. All unfinished work always is up for interpretation
but concept work that doesn’t even necessarily have a set direction. I want
input but I also don’t want to have my general flow broken up ‘randomly.’ It is
not exactly random, it is more a miscommunication between sketches and what the
finish pieces are going to look like. While I can look at a piece in process
and try to extrapolate to that point, I understand that people that aren’t involved
in its creation may have a harder time of it.
I have
been playing a number of new board/card games this week. Burred Treasure and
Loot are both pirate themed games that focus on card order and collection of
points. While Tichu is a card game that I don’t understand so I’ll have to get
back to you on the details for that one. I have also revisited a few that I
have played before like Bonanza. That one gets easier the more I play it and
the more I recognize the cards. Planning ahead and trading away beans I don’t
want has greatly improved my ability to collect points.
I have
downloaded all Blizzard games available on Battle.net and I’m looking forward
to playing in familiar territory. I do enjoy new games but I would really like
to just trop around in something I know and have fun where it is not a hugely
taxing experience learning new mechanics and environment. I’m hoping this
weekend to catch back up with dallies and get back in the flow of regular game
play that ‘cares’ if I log in or not.
I have
also been crawling up the League of Legends ladder. It has taken a little time,
but doing it regularly and in small chunks have shown more success than trying
to binge. I might make it to gold if things keep going along the way they have
been. We’ll have to wait and see. It is entirely possible that I’m just not a
gold level player to start with. It is not a happy idea, but it is certainly a possibility
that needs to be examined if there is heavy plateauing at somepoint.
I’ll be
looking for your post on Monday.
Your,
Player
Two
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