Woke up relaxed using a gentle music alarm as opposed to my normal sharp shock alarm.
Still got to work on my sleep pattern. It’s clear that my mind is not settled.
60mg today.
It’s gonna be a good day
Dream within a Dream with a Dream
Love is not Free
Today Ghost Recon® Wildlands Open Beta goes Live to the general public for 120 hours.
It’s a standard strategic move to grow the community before the game goes on sale and for the most part an excellent experience for all types of players.
Open Beta’s is a boost of Oxytocin or a School Boy Crush 10 times the normal levels.
The downer comes pretty fast as you realise you haven’t got the resources to play the game for any extended period of time.
No dedicated time
No enough money to buy the game in the first place
….and no one to play with.
It sucks and you wonder, why play the Beta in the first place?
Well, like Love, better to have a neurotransmitter dopamine rush for a short time than nothing at all.
Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart)
One of the things that make BioShock such a great title is the sound design.
As you wonder through the first level you can hear Fitzgerald’s God Bless the Child in the background and can easily eavesdrop on the conversations of your enemies around every corner.
Pretty early on, you are faced with critical moral decisions – rescue or kill.
It’s at this point you really have to get your head straight.
Got a bit stressed out last night. Back to usual dosage 60mg today.
Diana and Marvin sang it well in 1971
You’re alone all the time
Does it ever puzzle you, have you asked why
You seem to fall in Love and out again
Do you ever really Love or just Pretend
Why fool yourself
Don’t be afraid to help yourself
It’s never too late, too late to
Stop, Look
Listen to your heart, hear what it’s saying
Endlessly
I was 13 years old when Randy Crawford dropped the track “Endlessly”, I had enough pocket money to buy the Album 3 year later. To this very day, the lyrics echo the perfect Love song from a woman to a man.
What is “Rare Grove” today?
Chances are you can find it on all the popular streaming services, there is not even the need to own it anymore.
I still have a load of sealed Vinyl records in my garage but keep my 80’s Typewriter close to my gadgets.
In this cashless, always connected world keeping our “Rare” stuff offline and unavailability to SmartPhones is an admirable goal.
See me after Class for some authentic Rare Groove experiences.
Endlessly
Beautiful and Big
I set my alarm for 1:30 am so I could have a dedicated Beta testing session with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
The environment is absolutely beautiful transporting to Bolivia. After running around like a n00b for half-an-hour I figured out how to join a session with friends.
The game feels like a hybrid of FarCry and The Division so it fails to deliver a jaw-dropping first-time experience. However, the sheer scale of the map points towards an adventure with over 6 months of steady gameplay.
It was kinda interesting meeting fellow Beta testers in Live chats and game sessions, some of whom were paid handsomely to keep you playing the game. Point being that the developers need as much player experience data as possible for the final release next month.
Final verdict: 80% chance that I’ll buy a physical copy on release, especially as I’ve just completed FarCry Primal.