In Which I wonder about Civ and its many facets

Good morning dear friend, happy Monday! April continues and so does the rains that will keep cooling the soil for a close to arrive winter. As the temperature will go down, so I pray, hopefully the insects will finally go away. I detest them and no matter how much I clean my desk, there they are again, with their wings getting detached as they are on their mating season. Nothing I detest more than their dirt and dust. I am counting the seconds for June, and the coming of May, even! I love the relatively colder days of this time of year, whwre I can wrap myself in blankets, never feeling sweat. What a bliss!

How are you? How was your weekend? As for me, I am okay, thank Goodness. I am alive and overall okay. Just feeling a bit dizzy on the legs for some reason, a feeling I dislike quite a bit. Apart from the woes of the legs, I think of the previous post, where I mentioned Civ's issue with the mod I am using, Vox Populi. I am still not entirely done with this entry, but I am thinking of other games that I could occupy my time with. The mods do revitalize my interest in the game, but may also interfere on another thing I wasn't anticipating: how to wrap up the game. Civ has the victories we all know about, and some mods may complicate the path to those, unfortunately. As much as I adore most of them, Civ is not a sandbox, and as such, I should evaluate how to proceed. 

It is not like gaming is my only passtime, I adore drawing as well, though sometimes I get entirely out of ideas or out of energy for this activity. There is some reading I like to do, some writing, overall gaming is where my free time gravitate towards though. It is immensely stimulating and refreshing, when things go well. Even when they don't, with some hours, the bad memories turn to good. I was writing to myself some days ago of other titles I could try besides the ones I choose on a daily basis. There are smaller city builders such as Town to City, that I find amusing! Nova Roma is being developed on Early Access and it has been nice to visit. Some lesser known titles as well, such as Highrise City, that seems to be promising. Airborne Empire, successor to Airborne Kingdom, got released, too. I did notice some issues that are being discussed amongst its players, as I notice a sharp decline on the critic consensus on Steam, but I could still try it. I did notice that Steam consensus is not infallible, but is a good metric to sense the mood towards a project. 

Of course, I have grown tired of metrics, as it is not how I see a game. I don't want to talk of it on mechanical terms, as how much fun do I have, as what "itch" it "scratches", God do I HATE those terms. Should not be a hobby more than the escathological desires? It tires me, though I do not reject the metrics for other uses. Just don't want to base my enjoyment over these either, the titles I experience are not the ones that require such metrics anyway. 

I wonder how I will spend my week, now that we touched this subject. I had some other topics to chat about on the blog, just do not know exactly how to bring them, such as my issue with the term "traditional architecture", which is one I often have, but such concerns got muffled due to the cultural wars and so on. I could mention it here briefly, but this post is getting big. I will keep it in mind for another entry. For now, we should move to wrap things around this post!

Thank you for reading, mr and mrs! I appreciate your presence, how my day is improved with having you here. Wish you the best! I should return to write some more as the week goes, hopefullu before the next weekend. Just happy that April was not entirely unproductive, and I had some joyful moments of writing and engaging in hobbies! In any case, see you again real soon! Farewell, but just for this moment.