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Space workers and broken limbs
This is another 💦 Quickie with Angelo.
I'm not having the most incredible week — see the first topic — but I didn't want to leave you without this fantastic piece of useless information: This is another Quickie 💦 with Angelo!
In this issue:
My shitty sleeping schedule
Cutting up ships for fun (and revolution)
Children's day
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On Monday, I woke up at 5 in the morning for no apparent reason. In a sleepy late afternoon, after work, I took a nap at 19h to wake up 40 minutes later, have dinner, therapy, and play a little before bed. I woke up at 2h30 a.m.
Not only I got mad because I had utterly overnapped (or, as I like to say, failed the Russian Nappete), but I had to be awake at 6. I didn't get proper sleep from 19h to 2h30; I wasn't going to get proper sleep from 3h to 6h.
I had a shitty Tuesday.
Then, yesterday, I decided to nap from 18h to 19h. What happened? Yeah, I woke up at 23h, fully energized and absolutely hungry. I ordered food and, at 1 a.m., having not received it, I decided to call it a day and go to sleep. I woke up today at 6 a.m., hungry, underslept, and confused.
There's no moral to this story. It's just me sharing my demise and showing you what a 25-milligram reduction in my daily medication triggers.
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I am playing two games at the moment. One of them, Deathloop, is a crazy 70's sci-fi mad-artist-meets-mad-scientist with time travel, cold war espionage, magic, and great dialogue.
That's not the one I'll talk about today (wanna know more? Ask in the comments 😎).
I have been pouring an unhealthy amount of hours into Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
The game is simple: you are a ship disassembler. You use simple tools to cut a bunch of spaceships open and move the parts to the correct places — burn them in a furnace, keep them intact in a barge or assign them to a processor.
The trailer below doesn't give the real game vibe. It looks like an action game, full of suspense and explosions, but it's definitely not.
There's even a story — you get a massive debt and need to work your ass off to pay it. To be able to do the job, you must rent your tools and suit — adding to the debt — and pay interest — adding to the debt. Did you accidentally hit a fuel barrel that exploded you to smithereens? No problem, the company can reconstruct you... for a fee — adding to your debt.
After so much sweat and so little profit, your colleagues start to talk about how shitty your work condition is. Eventually, they suggest the dread of every business owner: organizing a Union.
People got so pissed with this storyline they even are searching for mods that turn it off, like in this Reddit thread:
“But now they added this whole whiny storyline with this forced socialist ideology shoved down your throat. I like the career mode gameplay but don't want to be forced to listen to several minutes of dialogue where one of my collogues signs me up for an extremist message board and I have no way to decline or interact in any way. I hope you get the option to turn her in at the end of the game, but the way it's going I assume you're forced to participate in the nonsense.”
If a game has "forced socialist ideology," sign me up. Better yet: it's not only leftist; it's an "extremist message"! Yeah! That's what I want in my gaming!
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is (different from what the trailer shows) a very relaxing game. You cut these giant spaceships into pieces, slowly, taking care to do things carefully, using your tools to the best, and being an outstanding worker. Each shift has 15 minutes (in real-time), so you can slice your day into pieces (pun intended) and play in small batches — Grand for those without much time to spare.
This gameplay trailer is more honest to my daily (yep, every single day) routine:
As a profound lover of science fiction, especially space stories, Hardspace: Shipbreaker touches me in the right places. I wish the game could get enough traction and that I could see ships like Enterprise, Nostromo, or Rocinante.
The game is free with Xbox Game Pass and is available for PC, Xbox Series S/X, and PS5.
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Yesterday was children's day in Brazil. Since I’m in another country, there is no holiday for me. As I'm still following and interacting mainly with Brazilians, I was overwhelmed with pictures of people in their golden years — the merry childhood.
Most of the pictures were from one of the best moments in Brazilian history to be a kid: the 90s; very little censorship, very explicit TV shows, absolutely crazy parents — surviving the remains of the dictatorship, a new constitution, and the freezing of assets from Collor.
Really, how amazing it was to be a kid when this was aired in the middle of the afternoon:
I didn't participate in the "show us your picture as a kid" trend, and I’d love to post pics here… but I can’t find them!
I found this one on Instagram, and it has a nice story: on the same trip, I ripped my chin open, broke my leg, and broke my arm. This picture is still before the arm thing happened (and we decided to go back home before I broke more).
There’s a clear reason why I don’t like jumping around or doing stunts while traveling (or not traveling. Or ever).
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This Quickie was sloppy and badly prepared. I hope you at least smiled. That’s what I’m here for.
See you around!