culture consumed Wednesday:

[wisdomeagle]

games
I downloaded Puzzle Pirates to fill in the gaps while I waited for characters to heal in Marvel Puzzle Quest. 31 hours later...

Things about Puzzle Pirates that are fun:
+Gameplay/puzzles, for the most part. Naturally I am especially fond of the ones with mechanics similar to Bejeweled or Tetris.
+Watching ranking go up in some puzzles.

Things that are really not fun:
+Inscribed gender binary.
+The whole concept of interacting with other people is scary to me.
+Complicated but not especially interesting worldbuilding (politics and economy).

books
I unpacked my mysteries and am reading The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson.

audio
I've been listening to Savage Lovecast while I game, which isn't necessarily more improving, but is at least stimulating in a different way.

tv

I stalled in the middle of an episode of Once Upon a Time.

++++

Next: I'm going to try to keep reading mysteries and also try to game less (or at least fucking play Dragon Age, which has a compelling storyline.

Comments

[vass]

Oh, Puzzle Pirates. I loved the puzzles, but gave up on it years ago because the in-game economy was so boring and annoying, with everything geared to extracting money in exchange for pointless cosmetic changes. I was just like, okay, I can pay lots of in-game currency (for which I may need to spend real world currency) to upgrade my pirate's "house" in which he sometimes "sleeps"... but why do I want to? What is my motivation?

I suspect I'm not the target market.

I still miss Carpentry and Bilging.

[wisdomeagle]

I enjoy bilging a lot.

At least the lack of interesting items to buy means that I'm unlikely to be tempted to use irl money.