Let's Play SH4: a video series

[White Owl]

Originally Posted by Elder-Pirate

A lot of work went down the drain. 1.5 stock with a few boat mods is a lot better than that.
That poem is horrible and I Push "Esc." each play, why would you even want to comment on it in the first place. You are right I'm not a poem lover and neither is the guy whom wrote it as the way it sounds.

Get off your drugs, maybe you'll do better.

Sorry but that is my opinion.

Nobody else has my particular recipe for mod soup, so I don't expect anybody else to like the flavor as much as I do. No worries. Which particular mods do you especially object to? Maybe there are some better options I've overlooked.

I wanted to comment on the poem intro because I'm excessively opinionated and long-winded, and commenting on things is the whole point of a Let's Play. I get unhappy when I go too long without sharing my opinions with anybody who'll listen.

Getting off the drugs to do better, hmm... I think I see where you're coming from with this comment. At first glance it appears almost like a personal attack, but I very much realize if I share that kind of personal information with the world this way then I'm actively inviting comment on it. So again, no worries. For many many years I was extremely resistant to any idea of drugging myself for any reason. I'm a lifelong teetotaler, even. No alcohol, no tobacco, nothing like that at all. I've always considered alcohol addicts to be the most reprehensible, idiotic junkies around, precisely because I see that addiction as so preventable. It's the worst kind of mental weakness. Believe me, it was no trivial decision to deliberately seek a drug dependency. Not least because it meant giving up on a lifetime dream of flying airplanes.

But... I was badly broken and unable to fix the problem myself. I could no longer tell the difference between friends, enemies, acquaintances, and strangers. I was losing the ability to feel any emotions other than anger and rage. I was starting to occasionally think about different ways I could kill myself. The dilemma was: I must either become suicidally insane, or become a drug addict. There was no third option. So I let the doctor decide on the particulars of my fix, and I became a junkie. It was the correct decision. Now I enjoy life, and wish I'd done this years ago. No, I would not do better without the drugs. Thanks for the concern.

Or maybe by "do better" you meant play the game better! Yeah, I obviously fell apart in that convoy attack. I had never set up a shot using only the periscope and TDC before that. I always had either map contacts or functioning sonar or both. So I didn't handle the unfamiliar situation very well at all. At least I got a lucky hit, though!

Originally Posted by Armistead

Most of us delete the start up movie so we never have to deal with it. I think TMO does it by default. After watching it once....who cares.

And I only intend to post it and comment on it once.