Weekly talk 250 (Patreon)

Damn 250 of those, that's a lot!

Not 5 years yet, would be the 260, but still, big number!

Anyway

Workflow:

6/31

Behind my target of one drawing for each day of the month X)
I dunno if i'll do it, but at least i'll try.
Last week issue were that several days of the week were used to do visit for the appartment, for future roomate. Problem is, from the whole pack that visited half already noticed they found another flat, the other just ghosted me, so, i guess, new visit incoming. So i'll lock two more days this week for that :/
That said, 4 elite pic remaining, one halfway done while i write this. Then we got the HQ ones, question is, can i do them all this week? I doubt it, but i know i would end the elite and at least start the HQ, that's for sure!
So this week target, breach the HQ!

The Darktide Unleashed:

Kinda like the new Darktide class rework a lot.
But for those who dunno what darktide is, it's a bit like Left4Dead but in 40k...
Ok maybe left4dead start to be a tad too old to use as a reference. Let's explain quickly
The game make you play a team of4 peoples. You're thrown in Location A, and your exit point is location C. But before you're allowed to explore you'll have location B to reach and do the action requested at the place. Could be, kill that boss, or, turn back on this facility, clean the area, shut down air defense etc etc.
There's several different maps, and most have 2 to 3 different routes / mission into them.
In between you and the end objective there ll be ennemies, going stronger as you choose higher difficulty missions. But higher difficulties mean higher rewards, and higher rewards mean more money and craft items to build the character of your dream.
Now, the recent rework made the 4 existing class , the psyckers (space mage), the Ogryn (space ogre), the Veteran (from space vietnam) and the Zealot (regular bible alt right guy), a tad different than they were before.
Before they were each locked in a specific set of competence and gameplay
Exemple, the Ogryn is big, dumb, can charge in the middle of the ennemy, throwing them on trh ground like a giant bowling play. You were a sort of tank/crowd control thing, not much the damage dealer, but with strong artillery, including a box of grenades you threw like a rock making them scater and do multiple explosion.
Now you can still play him like that, or, decide to pick alternate route. You could decide to throw Rocks instead of grenade box! Advantage? It's a 5kg rock, you can pick it anywhere in this crumbling warzone city, so it refill itself. It don't explode tough, but, well, you re still throwing a concrete block to someone's head with the speed of a major league baseball ball.
So can be fun, and make you test many build, and equip them in consequences, mean using a lot of ressources to equip, mean doing higher and higher difficulties, that by itself ask higher and higher grade equipment.
Good loop of gameplay. Not to everyone, but fun AF. I keep playin with my hommies, we used to play before, but now, it's hard not to do 2 or 3 game per day.
Really good game. I recomand

The moody day:

And talking of that, i'll need some cheering moment soon. If you follow me for long, you know last year i had a major loss. Someone important to me, my uncle, one man that been close my whole childhood, and kept an eye on me once adult, comited suicide 1 year before.
Would have been his birthday yesterday.
The following talk is a bit heavy, so you might want to skip that part.
All to say, we know, now, that he had planned it a long way before. He had sent invitation and being sure everyone would be able to come for his "birthday party" at a certain date, turned out he had planned his funeral ahead.
I know him enough to know he did it because he knew it would have been hard, and he didn't wanted it to be an hassle even more. So, he made sure we would be free to come.
My father being.. well, my father, i was the one choosen to say a word at the funeral, to cloture the day. My aunt had picked a poem, she didn't wanted me to have to come with something.
Been a year and now i can talk of it more freely. It had been a shock.. a tragedy for all of us. He.. was the man you always turn to when something come. A news, an issue, or just talk. When i became a teacher, after my mom and my gf of the time, he was the third person to know.
When i became a full time artist, he asked if i wanted to expose my stuff, because he had friend in the village he was from, and he could arrange that, i said no with a laugh, because of what i drew. Wasn't his thing, he was quite a pious man, but, he never juged me about what i make. He teached me how to be kind and humble. Even after the divorce of my mom and father, he was always welcome in her house, because he was family.
Once, when i was younger, the state scolarship money went stuck for a few month because of an administrative hiccup. My summer work money went away quickly, and my student job wasn't enough to pay the rent by itself. My mom helped, but she couldn't support me alone, not with my 2 sibling still in highschool and her own rent to pay. My father.. well, tossed me a 100 telling me stop calling him, was the max he could afford.
My uncle him, paid me 2 month of rent. Only asking that i do my best to finish my college. Was how i would repay him, having my diploma.
Not only me miss him, he was a well known local historian, and recently the association of his region gave him an homage. They speak of naming a library after him, i hope they do, he would have loved it.
He was the kindest man i ever knew. And after a year, i notice how empty it feel now that he is gone.
Sorry for the long message, and the mood suddenly shifting. Needed those moment. Sayin goodbye is always hard. But all the good moment we spent together, worthed every moment of pain it gave me when he went.

Take care of yourself guys

And c ya soon