An Eventful February

We’ve been living in city apartments for 20 years but we always had the idea to move to a house in the country. After 3 years of research, we finally found a house we could call home. Since January, we’ve been very busy purchasing the house and selling our apartment, hence the lack of posts on the blog. It’s been the busiest February of both our lives, and it’s only starting… There’s still an entire moving to organize.

Beside working on our relocation project, we’ve been playing Enshrouded and Grim Dawn. Two fantastic games without any subscription, cash shop or microtransactions, it feels good to be free! I will probably write a post (some day) about our growing hate for monetization.

I just found out about the Wayback Machine, an internet crawler that saved more than 916 billions web pages over time. They saved the pages of our old blog “Dark Heaven” from when we were fans of Goth stuff. Such a flashback!

I also found a thread on the Quake subreddit about mapping. I remember when I used to make maps a map for Quake 2, it was based on a train station converted to a concert/party place called The Soundstation. It took me 6 months and it was really fun. Internet was in full bloom, everybody thought that they were “cyber”, we used to live in movies in our heads and it was so cool.

I have the feeling that the world became much more serious than it used to be. Orrrr, I’m just surrounded by older folks who have lost their illusions and who live in a world that is much too real. Resist, folks! Play games and believe that there is more than jobs, bills and mortages.