February 2021 archive

This is why I am not playing Cyberpunk 2077.

When Cyberpunk 2077 came out, I was initially excited to play the game.

However, that was short-lived when I found out that a certain part of it caused people to have seizures.

I am epileptic myself, although I retain awareness and consciousness during all of my seizures, and I have no involuntary motor movement. Even though I do not appear to be photosensitive, it wasn’t — and isn’t — a risk that I was (am) willing to take, especially if I had a seizure that… laid me out, so to speak. Even though that was almost immediately patched and friends of mine have told me that that section of the game is a lot “tamer”, I still haven’t played our copy of Cyberpunk 2077. I’m waiting for a lot more information to come out about it, especially that part of the game. My seizures feel like something is shocking my brain, like my brain is an egg thrown onto hot concrete, immediately cooking. If I can avoid them, that would just be awesome.

That also reminds me that I would like to write a post all about my epilepsy since why not?

Yeah, so I’m switching over to Skeld.net.

Since a friend mentioned it and I liked it enough to try it, I’ve begun to play on the Skeld “public” (in all actuality, it fits the definition of private server if you want to get technical) server. I had eventually begun to grow tired of not being able to get into public games on the official server because of how quickly they fell out, the glitching that comes with some of them such as drops due to “lag”, and how public games could — and very often would — go on this server. So far, I have had absolutely no problem with public games on Skeld… that, and they have variations of the official game that make it quite fun to play, such as Cops & Robbers where one person is the Sheriff and can shoot the Impostor (although if they’re wrong, they and that person die, and it actually winds up helping the Impostor out), clones (where everyone “is” you, making it that much harder to find out who the Impostor is), and zombies where your goal is not to get infected.

The people on Skeld also tend to be really nice, and chatting with them is enjoyable as I’ve come to learn.

I am much better at playing Among Us than I thought I would be, or even was when I first began playing it. I continue to be an excellent crewmate, although on a standard game I am also not the worst at being an Impostor (although if I am the only one, or the only one left, that’s when it starts to get difficult for me, heh).

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