DoA #19
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I have a handful of issues with Ohio. There’s a ton of pollen, which means if you’re from a less pollen-ridden state, you practically die each summer. No one seems to understand the concept of pizza by the slice- plus, they keep trying to serve me pizza cut into little squares. And for some reason, there’s an array of shelf-stable food items that I cannot find in this state at all.
Like Yodels.
I really do keep my diet clean of low-grade crap, honest. (Hey- I no longer eat Cosmic Brownies! I know they’re terribly disgusting, but at least I last ate those in middle school.) But c’mon now- how do you not have Yodels?? The closest I could get is Ho Ho’s, which makes me feel worse about myself, to be honest.
(I think it’s a box art thing??)
Anyone else move to a different state and find themselves adrift from a beloved item?
Let’s jump into the past week!
🏕️ Hashtag Survival Catchup
📝 Our Notion game directory is still under construction. You can view the work-in-progress database at this link. (The link is new.)
Feedback is incredibly welcome, so hop into the comments or contact me on Discord. The database is still a WIP, so most primary page filtering is inactive. ‘Altered States’ and ‘Upcoming’ views/games are done! I spun the others (from the more extensive Curator list) into a separate view I can parse through as I work on the cards.
💻 Still making some behind-the-scenes changes to the Discord. I did swap the Game forum section to Gallery, which I think allows for a more excellent user experience as I onboard more of the game discussion threads.
💻 Articles this week!
🌲 Survival Community Tidbits
Last Week
⌛ We saw Return to Moria launch to a fair amount of amusement on my part. I read a (prerelease) interview from one of the developers calling their combat the “best third-person melee combat in the survival genre.” Then I read the avalanche of reviews remarking that the combat was the worst thing in the game. ARK Ascended was released on equally shaky footing; graphical and connection issues plagued players for most of the first day.
Upcoming
⌛ Polylithic will enter Early Access on November 9th. The Day Before will join Early Access on *checks notes* December 7th. Experience with the drama surrounding this game led me to urge caution on believing that the date is set in stone.
💙 Diversions
🎵 Music: Though I’ve been bouncing on YT a bunch to catch up on bag reviews, mostly I’ve been playing music on Tidal. The ‘My Daily Discovery’ playlist has been surprisingly good lately! This week was a lot of ANGSTY ANGRY music from my youth. Like this, this, and this.
➡️ Most Used: DaVinci Resolve 18. Last week, I mentioned that I traded a bunch of DSLR equipment I hadn’t used in ages and picked up a DJI action camera. I snagged an interior car mount and a neck mount, and I plan to bring them with us on hikes and road trips this fall. So far, it’s been a learning curve, weirdly more fraught with mistakes than when I picked up the drone. (With that, I just crashed into things.) Also, I can’t get Davinci Resolve to play nicely with the files on my PC for some reason. Or at least these files from the camera. Sigh.
📚 Fun Consumption: I’ve been working on a piece about survival games, so I’ve been reading survival books. That would be books about survival, not books about survival games.
🎮 Game: Sea of Thieves is ALWAYS good for a laugh.
#️⃣ Best Hashtag Moment: Working with my ‘nerdherd’ -my small group of community folks- on ideas for Hashtag has been a pleasure the past few days. I also had a great time today on voice chat with community members as we watched the “whatever the fuck that was” trailer for The Day Before.
DoA #19
I'll send you some Yodels. I'm more of a Devil Dog girl myself.
To my untrained eye, isn't yodels and ho ho's the exact same thing?
Or is it like the same difference like Twinkies and actual spongecake? (Where one is actually good and the other is a "will survive all nuclear, biological warfare possible" whilst also being a terribly sweetened, pseudo cream filled mess)