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uox



updated with lots of things. if you should only play 1 mmorpg / game, try ultima online outlands. its free! completely. unlike regular uo where to use good items you need a payed version with subscription?



1st character, SeasiepiePisces, Classic Swordsman, main, 2025

no magic resist! the new focus skill isntead. i just deleted all my magic resist points on all my chars in revolution to its oppiness.

2nd character, Ryzynxouir, Backstabber, Self Surviving

yes, happened to pk a whee too much with him 😳 so now hes a resident of corpse creek for awhile. until hes down to 4 pks in which ill bust him up to 5 in no time and be back lol. still its good, it makes me level him instead of having "fun" and looting.

3th character, D'Enc'tiZx, Featherweight Ironman Boxer

a lot of fun, finally pk'd with him :)

he hits fast like a dagger

and as accurate as a bow

and damn the hits hurt too!

harpies dont like him though :(

4th character, Pzcyukmoik, Tamer Bard Macer

a real weird combo. a lot of skills. i prefered him at 70x10.

1 taming
2 animal lore
3 herding, this increases damage and attack speed and accuracy and things for pets i think?
4 veterinary

5 macing, just use a 2handed weapon and you do 1handed damage, dont need tactics
6 parrying, works even for 2handed, levels slowly. the max i got on a char is 85.

7 musicianship
8 discordance
9 peacemaking
10 provocation, didnt really use this much. but together with herding crook you can give bonuses to friends and pets and summons :) and its not good unless its at a perfect level or you only provoke lower level creatures, since when it fails, which these skills do, it provokes the failed monsters towards you. since when youre deep and down vetting them, that makes you die quickly. which brings us to the next char

5th character, Thael'Why, Mage Tamer

i just had to. yes i got 2 tamers. they mostly just tame horses and and level em to 1 and sell em for NOTREALLYENOUGHsothemountmarketcrashes! refilling reagents isnt fun and them running out after less than an hour. and you cant have too much and because you get pkd then. anyway, never bother going to valloria. all the banksitters are really pks in disguise, like makeshift assassins. scouring for newbs to kill when they dare step outside town with some nice gear. or they turn into them.

6th character, Muoldoura, Archer Carpenter

im level 77 or something forensic evaluation on him, so im getting higher level leather. its nice :)

7th character, Wyxxzxz Oxeexex, Hardcore Ironman Fisher

yes just started him. he has leveled a total of 3 skills! begging, for fisherman needs actually later on, really a bother to skill up, you can only beg against an npc once a day. and fishing and camping. not sure what else skills to put on him. im taking it easy :)

8th character, Thamrik Smoulder, Mining Smithy Defence

yes a classic mining smithy, dont need more muling on him, so ill add classic damage skills. pickaxes are lethal btw :) i tried to pk a guy in the winterlands, and as i was watching the healthbar it was really mine going down lol. he can easily make like 50k per hour or more. you get 2 ingots per ore and here its 100% chance to smelt. hes also got camping jsut like wyz but for the increased backpack size. ore weighs a lot :)



heres is a plain copy and paste from there. beware. this is 75k :) dw supports max 300k. ill see ya when you get there. "dont fear perfection, youll never reach it". 🫕





The October 26th Midnight Massacre



A newb who'd just been playing for 2 weeks—but surely been PK'd 30 times already—had had enough. He was gonna do a bot massacre. He'd noticed PKing before: north of Prevalia, people didn't even react. Not to greys, not to corpses, not to fighting—nothing

Not only would he PK apocalyptically and unapologetically, he would do it on a fresh account, and rack up kills faster than once a minute, against seemingly near-grandmastered accounts, who were controlled in bot fashion: first run to Boney, the battle trainer, then summon water elementals when in need? Then run away when low on health, or auto-bandage.

Or what about running around screaming at the top of their lungs, "GUARDS! GUARDS! GUARDS!" while nothing happened? In total, after 7 minutes—including starting the game, choosing a name (the fittingly titled ThrowAwayPK), choosing skills and stats, running to the omnibot place, and using that lethal newbie axe—he'd managed to rack up 9 kills before someone really reacted.

And Outlandia was never the same. No one ever botted anymore. No one ever used 20 fishing poles and 20 skillets on a fisher. People started enjoying the game more. And it spread to IRL, and world peace was achieved with Agenda2030 only 5 years later—because whoever wasn't a bot then was organ-dealed.





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= songs =



[[Mo|people have forgotten what mmorpg means]]

[[Fil:Dont be a mule, dont be a banksitter, do.mp3]]

dont be a mule
dont be a banksitter
dont be a cookie cutter
dont be a twink
dont be a mage pk
dont be a dragon tamer
be yourself
everyone else
already exists

[[Fil:Dnd.jpg|300 px]]

uo pvp and outlands is the same
as when the game got released almost.

in outlands youll often find 2 mage pks,
the spells, as i hate magery,

seems to be explo + mindblast x2,
this does 30*4 dmg even
with high resisting spells,

so takes down almost anyone
as soon as you see the
red names on your screen.

its silly unbalanced.
even with just 1 mage.
im sure if they balanced it
people would just gang up in 4s.

magery has hiding, aka invisiblity,
taming, summoning,
making food, cooking,
so many other things, just for free.

even ranged attacks
its much better and more
powerful than archery.

the op factor is just silly.
when i mentioned this as a
suggestion one guy said
"best one id ever heard",
but then others chimed
in the dark side with
"then people would have
to remake their builds".
yeah, so bothersome to
start with magery skills at 60,
level them to 80 in newbie dungeon
then afk for a day and
get gm or higher.
would take no time at all.

anyway, ive started 2
ironman characters.

i choose only useless
skills and stats
like 80 int, 80 str, 25 dex
so it should be challenging.

on my boxer i
barely managed
to master a bird.

after that i found a nice
place with 6 bird spawns.

after 50 of those kills my
combat one skills
were already in the 50s.

im evolving him,
but the vendor scene
is really offputting,
they only have whats popular.

can barely find low level
or iron items on them.

i also have a poisoner pk and
poisoned weapons arent
easy to find either.

my second ironman is a fisher.
i started the game by begging to
afford a horse and fishing rod.

then i noticed
you can get a
crew member at
80 begging.

will take a long
time to level.

anyway, rpg means you
roleplay a unique character,
you shouldnt be a cookie cutter.

mmo means you interact with others,
not just to twink and be
twinked and level easily.

actually to talk to them,
to be "in character" and do
something interesting



= essays =

== inflation in the mount market ==



[[Fil:Inflation in the mount market 2.png]]

its fun when you can affect the game

without fucking it up, but im not sure of this lol

so when i started my tamer, i noticed a guy had horses

at 555 gp, they were mostly lvl 0 so no bonded so not very

useful for newbs without any skillpoints in taming and lore

i figured id breed a bunch of lvl 1s and do

them at 500 gp. he didnt lower, but instead tamed loads

and loads, i mean just check it its like 5 pages or more

of horses from a south west town where its 4 spawns for

maximum zero effort. well, later, the lvl 1s costed 1k

and the lvl0s 500gp. but now he changed his mind haha.

what i wonder though, is it really newbs buying this?

or is it horse breeders hoping for weird colour combinations

trying to make an easy buck then selling em for millions?

i guess well never know. so much to learn about this game.

as for stock market manipulation, this is my first :)



== helping newbs ==



the thing i like most

about online games,

beyond anything else,

leveling, skills, gp, op items,

is helping newbs.

it doesnt happen that often though.

when i was 30 i wanted to be a father.

i have several kids

but ive never met em,

unfortunately.

so this is like surragate of it.

i enjoy my life and take it easy.

i might get pissed off but

i get calm just as quickly.

i guess ill live a long time.

next aim is 999 ai songs.

maybe 99 custom made videos?

i should collect em!



== that creepy silence around psychos who kill for sport ==



why is everyone quiet

in the bank area

of ultima online?

thats always puzzled me

but now it makes sense

all the banksitters are not

just posers and item hoarders

but full fledged psychopaths

they scour for victims there

then when you leave town

youre dead in a few mins

from one of their many

many alt accounts

if you got high level crafted

items or just 1 magic one

they have gear on their

sitter character worth

10s of millions if not more

but they prefer pking newbs

with gear worth 10-20k

the strange thing is

this isnt what its

like in runescape

the grand exchange

is a real talkative place

sometimes it can be boring

but you can get

good conversations

help newbs, or teach

an old dog a new trick

but the old dogs in ultima online

are only sick freaks nothing else



== happiness is relative and simple ==



[[Fil:Ironman outlands part 1-3.flac]]

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[[Media:Ironman part1-3 oct 19 2025 outlands mmorpg shorts properly edited.mp4|vid]] 10mb h265

ive played the

char a lot more

as you see by

the skills, many

ill drop at higher

levels obviously

i do most 3 dmg

but my swing speed

is about 1.2 secs

so its pretty good

i guess against 0

def npc if i can find

em it might be 4-5

dmg or something

nothing much is

needed to make

someone happy

the problem is

when you try to

be happier than

anyone else, but

its a relative concept

so why bother?

you can play a very

simple game and

still enjoy it, like

snake on old nokia

phones. theres no real

requirement for what is

fun. you can play

strategy or turnbased

or action based on cosmetic

like the sims or runescape

without ironman lol or puzzlers

like tetris or more advanced

ones like the classic myth

really, the skys the limit, just

dont limit yourself. enjoy yourself

while playing. thats the point.

its not supposed to be a job.

its not supposed to be boring.

its not supposed to be easy either

not too easy

there should be some challenge

which you have with pks in this game

yes, they flock around you like

doves around oat flakes

as soon as you have high level

crafted or good magic items

but thats ok. so this character

as you saw in a previous video

cant actually handle bulls yet

im not sure what i should max

attack speed or damage? since

damage almost never goes up

NOTES

so i evolved my videostyle.

its still quite clunky.

and the 2 different audio

parts are varying db levels.

and kdenlive is buggy.

but i understand it better

that is, at all heh

anyway, before i just started with this,

i was listening to super mario bros 3.

so i figured, why not do it proper

vapourwave style and

add in some effects?

then i added some music

from there as well.

i kept it fairly low volume, -17db,

to not interfere with the vocals.

im not using memes lol.

but yes the volume level fucked up

or is it the automagic

limiter + compressor

that many sites have

that ruined it?



== the sorry state of the world ==



[[Fil:The sorry state of the world ver 4.flac]]

[[Fil:The sorry state of the world.png|200 px]]

having it easy is just as

bad as having it difficult

isnt it strange how it is?

as they say

i dont think it was in

the creation idea for god

that we should be happy all the time

because we get a lot of joy

from a contrast, and very

seldom from how things are

anyway, as for easy leveling in outlands

it just eats your soul

instead of working for gains

you just get it automagically

then youre supposed to do that

for all your characters?

after the first i just

exited that place directly

then i got yelled out and

made a mage that way

and god damn, just removed

all fun from the game

having everything served to you

is just as bad as having

to work your ass off

its actually worse than that

another quote

nearly any man

can stand adversity

but if you want to

test a mans character

give him power

and ill end this

with another one

not necessity

not desire

no

the love

of power

is the

demon of men

let them have

everything

health food

a place to live

entertainment

they are and remain unhappy

and low-spirited

for the demon waits and

waits and will be satisfied

and i got another

the best one

power tends to corrupt and

absolute power corrupts absolutely

great men are almost always bad men

even when they exercise

influence and not authority

still more when you superadd

the tendency of the certainty

of corruption by authority




== pking and banksitters ==



[[Fil:Etherether - pking and banksitters, an mmorpg essay (talk).flac]]

[[cuo|call out to all rich miners/lumbers in ultima online (outlands) get 7 defensive skills!]]

if your main income is from resource gathering,

you should really have 7 defensive skills.

or rather offensive ones.

my first successfull pking in the game was today,

using a gateway to a non populated place.

never been there before.

lots of houses and snow,

nearly no challenging monsters to talk of either.

now, i dont go out of my way to pk.

i just explore and do whatever i feel like.

it takes me around 10 secs from when i see a

person to when im whiffing against them.

you see, i got 2 low level offensive

skills, fencing and poisoning.

if i used swordsmanship and a katana

the bleed special attack would do more

damage than my meager extra output.

and you can poison swords as well.

but i want to keep in character.

except those i got alchemy and cooking,

since i got neither healing

or magery on my account,

and need some sort of healing,

and i dont want to buy everything,

what we called "twink" back in the days,

which was deregatory term, as was "trammie",

but now everyone wants to

have it easy, aka banksitters,

also a negative expression then,

and act like a blonde, with their 100s

of makeup items that do nothing except

empty their bank accounts and soul.

as for the pkd miner, she tried to use greater heal

after about 15 seconds she was down

the second one tried only "heal", so i guess

she had 25 magery or what? it didnt work.

after about 3 tries she ran to town, while

the guy next to her insta teleported away,

they could have easily handled me

2 more ran to town quickly, and the last

was original, he seemingly had

grandmaster hiding and stealth

just disappeared after some trees

the strange thing was,

he had an earth elemental

as a protector, but i guess freaked

out too much to react intelligently

so that would mean i should have detect hidden

or i should make a dedicated another pk

magery though? never. theyre just so dull

overpowered and resource hungry



= grandmaster =



[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-24 083325.png]]

6x grandmaster, sure wish it had bells and whistles and fanfare and fireworkrs just like in runescape. now since codexes are quite useless except fighting 1 enemy then waiting to out of war mode for 2 mins and then waiting for the mana to regenerate. it seems more logical to bust one of the support skills for hiding and stealth so you can do 8-16x backstabs. whith ones? parrying obviuosly, and focus? theres too many skills that do damage, not enough to resist and defence. like why would lumber now get a mealsy 10% dmg boost? why not 30% def boost. if you hav
e a complete mulified accuont, it should be a powerhouse can take carry 3000 stones and have loads of defence capabilities.

[[Fil:5x grandmaster.png]]

yes, 5x grandmaster today

he can almost master ogres without healing

the disappointing thing was codexes though

you need 1 very specific one, not as useless

as the aspect which you lose when you die

which in outlands is several times per day

but codex uses mana. so you should have high

int and leather armour for better regeneration?

sort of defeats the purpose of a fighter build

doesnt it? and it doesnt help defence that way

and 28% damage reduction is useless if youve

got leather armour. you could use high level

version of it, but again, then you just get pkd

and your stuff taken. so another useless system

everyone says newbs should invest it. atvi!

but i get what they mean with "glass cannons"

no def or any hp, why not, 100 dex and 25 str

and 100 int? how dumb. could work for a

backstabber though, but then you dont

need high mana for codex.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 082959.png]]

well, not much to talk about

it trains automagically

just had the comp on

while sleeping

yes its the boxer

finally outfitted him

with some vendor armour

and hes now

training parrying

majorly needed

[[Fil:Grandmaster shade second gm.png]]

trained it naturally to maybe 87.

then cheated with a simple loop macro.

the only thing that worked.

look further down for my backstabber story.

most ive done is over 700 damage! wow.

im figuring of changing my swordsman

to have hiding and stealth, he could surely

do 2000 damage? and with codex, even more.

i wish there were even slower weapons, like

speed 15 10 even 5. for 10 second between hits.

would make "lancing" or turn hitting more effective

how i always played my archer with a heavy crossbow

that has a swingrate of 3 seconds. and they nerfed

its range? just silly. they love their instakill

2x mage pks surely the devs.



= guild =



anyway, someone said

you could create a guild

just for yourself, i should

really have invited that guy

the other day. anyway, i have

invited all my accounts lol

as for benefits in your own

well, i got a title and an acronym

next to my name on

all my chars, looks cool :)

i wont add my 2 seasiepiepisces

since the names are so cringe

you can rename your char

but i guess it costs millions :(

'''OXBLOODLORD'''

''OXB''

Members

'''Ryzynxouir'''
Doomlord
''Poison''

'''Muoldouraa'''
Nightlord
''Archery''

'''Thael'Wyy'''
Vamplord
''Magery''

'''D'Enc'tiZx'''
Timelord
''Boxing''

'''Pzcyukmoik'''
Beastlord
''Bardtamer''



= stats =

== my low level archer vs high level spider ==



[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-25 182544.png]]

was released in town

figured id some maths

colossal black widow

14000hp

140 wrestling

25 armour

my newb fletcher archer

76 archery

85 tactics

70 anatom

66 arms lore

67 focus

dmg 68-205

dps fluctuated between 24 to 26

108 leather 28 ribs

strangely enough

just like vanilla back in the days

archery just hits a lot more?

this one had 140 wrest

and nearly every shot hit

i notice that with

other npcs as well

and i remember the adrenalien

rush from being pkd

with that wellknown

k-tchunk sound from

a ranged weapon

should have taken about

9.3 mins to take down anyway

again in vanilla i retrofitted

my blacksmith with just archery and tactics

and took down a skeleton dragon

they moved real quickly

dont remember if they

even had dragonbreath

or magic was quite the

feat for a kid :)



== which is the best physical damage skill ==



without a doubt swordsmanship

i just tried fighting an

ogre with my 6x grandmaster

what i got was a not so amazing

58dps, damage per second

but 1/3 of that damage was

the bleed special attack

so it does a lot of damage

a lot more than poisoning

still, im intent on getting

+20 skills from orbs

and adding 40 poisoning

parrying is rising slowly at 81



== different material ==



nonexceptional shadowwood club

+2 tactics

quality and material +2% accuracy



== taming and xp ==



unless the pet

fights the monster alone

it wont get full xp

xp
15 harpy
22 giant spider
37 wight
40 ogre

this is disappoing indeed, i thought

it was different just some day ago?

even worse, if you lure a spellcaster or whatever

and you seemingly do some damage, your pet gets 0 xp?

i guess thats to prevent ez xp, but it also prevents

me from being a tamer dexxer, or even a tamer bard dexxer

like i am. really disappoing. of course if i have lvl 10

pets it wouldnt be a problem, but thats a long time away.

like months of training.



== understanding weapon damage and armour rating ==



[[Fil:Damage 6x grandmaster swordsman exceptional iron.png]]

cutlass weapon by the way

another part. as i said in another place, this char

with gm mastercraft iron weap and armour does 58DPS to ogres

quite alright. lots of stats here and synergy bonuses.

im thinking of switching tracking for something else.

cooking? then i get swing speed from delectable food more.

i will grandmaster parrying, it will just take a long time.

maybe ill have codex defence lvl 7 so ill be able to solo

ogres without bandages, who knows? thats my goal right now

inspired by my ironman who is still not stronger than bulls lol

ive tamed a bull btw it has real good stats 😁

i dont find leveling pets fun

but it sure is fun to tame horses

lvl em 1 then sell em for 500gp

except theres comepeition in the game

someone else has like 5 pages of 1k lvl 1 horses?

and someone started with 500gp ones as well

separate from the old 500gp price

who will flourish?

who will survive?

do the 1k+ sell at all?

to who? news? do they even know how it works?

or is it solely sold to breeders so they can

make ususual coloured horses that sell for millions

and make a lot of bucks from our hard work?

well thats irl alright, thats global trade

he that dont shall lose, he that have shall flourish

i do know i like doing it, so until lvl 1 horses

plummet to 100gp ill keep training em, and if it gets

that bad ill give all my 10 chars a lvl 10 horse with

good stats for xmas pres! :) remember, theyre all in my

imaginary guild lol. ive tried to invite 3 people but none

have said yes. i sorta forget to ask mostly.

[[Fil:Stats swordsman 95-100 skill.png]]

so it says my damage potential is 80-160

weapon special damage makes no sense, i get

5 bleed attacks on a successfull strike

which do about 25 damage, so thats 125

fighting several rebel soldiers with 50 armour

and i presume them having parrying skill

and an exceptional great axe and 95-100

combat skills including 40 lumberjacking

shows my damage is 25-115dmg

while against an orc with 25

armour, and no parry, its 87-143dmg

so it seems 25 more armour reduces

the max damage by 25 but not the minimum

except 25-28, the damage was otherwise

minimum 87 just like against the orc

parry reducing damage by 75% would mean a 115 dmg attack

would be reduced to 29 damage, sounds about right



== misc ==





tactics bonus
exceptional +10, +5% dmg, +3% accurace (even on non-exceptional, so better than store bought)
mastercrafted +?
magic resist tactics bonus +2 at 70 skill?

pvp bonus, damage at lvl 100
tactics 50%
anatomy 20%
forensic eval 10%
focus 10%
crafting 10%
item id 10%
sec weap skill 10%



{| class="wikitable"
|-
! +weapon special chance
|-

! level !! arms lore
|-


|-
| 25 || 2.5% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?%
|-


|-
| 50 || 5 || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?%
|-

|-
| 75 || 7.5% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?%
|-

|-
| 100 || 10% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?%
|-

|-
| 120 || 12% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?% || ?%
|-

|-
|}

delectable food +5% swing speed

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! +swing speed
|-

! level !! focus !! anatomy !! arms lore !! magic resist !! delectable food + taste id / cooking || chivalry +15% at 100 skill
|-

|-
| 25 || 3.75% || 1.25% || 1.25% || 2.5% || 2.5%
|-

|-
| 50 || 7.5% || 2.5% || 2.5% || 5% || 5% ||
|-

|-
| 100 || 15% || 5% || 5% || 10% || 10% ||
|-

|-
| 120 || 18% || 6%% || 6%% || 12% || 12%
|-


|-
! +damage
|-

! level !! tactics !! anatomy !! lumberjacking !! tracking !! camping !! forensic eval !! sec wpn skill
|-

|-
| 25 || 3.75% || 1.25% || 2.5% || 6.25% || ?% || 6.25% || 6.25%
|-

|-
| 50 || 7.5% || 2.5% || 5%% || 12.5% || ?% || 12.5% || 12.5%
|-

|-
| 100 || 50% || 20% || 10% || 25% || 25% || 25% || 25%
|-

|-
| 120 || 60% || 100% || 12% || 30% || 30% || 30% || 30%
|-

|-
|}

other modifiers: 0% durability -25% dmg

[[Fil:Swing speed stat relevan.png]]

[[Fil:Weapon ratio.png]]

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SkQUjlznsHFSEIecAKgToIBDw16Uykp0PHIU3A2yvGc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

forums.uooutlands.com/index.php?threads/weapons-spreadsheet.470

accuracy

25
50
100 focus

== latest char stats and build ideas ==

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= Build Ideas =

== 10x70 skill Tamer Bard Macer ==



i just like using them wooden weapons and shields

the build is very simple and can be

"completed easily on newbie island"

it is the following

1 taming
2 animal lore
3 herding
4 veterinary

5 musicianship
6 discord
7 peacemaking
8 provocation

9 mace fighting
10 parrying

and the dull 100str 100dex 25 int

the thing is, with 10 skills

you can obviously just have 70 points in each

all i did much with this build

was fight ettins and ogres

they give about 40xp each

so you only need to kill 3

to train horses to level 1

then i sold em for 500gp

i mean money is relative

personally, if i got 100k

or 10 bucks i waste

it just as quickly

i never learned

the worth of things

but in a good way too

because i realized my worth isnt in

bling or numbers of "friends" on

social media who dont care about you at all

your worth is solely dependant on yourself

yes, i feel uselss sometimes

have really horrible moments

but not because someone in my clan

has 20 million more gp than me?



= 1st character, SeasiepiePisces, Classic Swordsman =



[[Fil:Max skills +3.png|600 px]]

well wouldnt you know,

i bought a tracking skillscroll

i was slow though,

it was right next to

griefing ville aka prevalia

so i got it stolen. not to hulk though,

i went south and killed a skeleton?

wouldnt you know,

it had a +max skill orb.

when i check the vendor index

it only costs 10k?

so i bought 2 more. real nice.

i think ill put poisoning on this guy.

if i can manage to boost to +20.

probably wont make much difference,

but how much would +2% dmg do?

maybe ill pk with him, just once, lol.

i sorta like my title though

or remove focus and parrying

for hiding and stealth.

even my fencer with near

zero damage skills

did a backstab with

above 700 damage!

imagine with an axe

of mine, 5000?

[[Fil:4 gmSkärmbild 2025-10-19 154812.png]]

4x grandmaster, doesnt seem like i got any bonus there

for any of them, healing gives 50 hp, its sad, it

should be 1 point per skill, and then anatomy is

supposed to add to it? maybe it doesnt. it was

a mistake choosing focus, i should have gone

with magic resist. it limits what enemies you

can fight. still, i wont against a wisp, compared

to vanilla it had lots of loot, 1600gp even, nice.

[[Fil:Rat bastards Skärmbild 2025-10-19 152134.png]]

yes, about 5 corpses from me and 3 from others

lumberjacks who were surprised running to town

as a rat camp had opened, they are real tough

in ultima online. both melee and poison and magic.

i wish id stayed with magic

resist and dropped focus instead

theres so many enemies im missing out on.

ill obviously never be able to

master a dragon with this build

maybe with a halberd or axe

and turnhitting

right now im trying to get my parrying

up since it works with 2handed as well

but it doesnt give much points unless you use a shield

its 50% chance to reduce damage by 75% at grandmaster

so 40% less damage, pretty nice, i also got a warrior

codex from a newb quest so ill use the defensive one

for more resist vs enemies. its leveling fast, soon

ill have enough points for lvl 7, theres 7 levels.

with 4% resist per, so 21 in total, will be nice.

would be nice with magic items or high level crafted

but you just get pkd then

[[Fil:First key.png]]

this was cool

had anxiety

went online after some hours

could only stand it 15 mins

but was fighting uruks

together with the npcs

got a key to a locked chest

was quite low level, but

a new achievement

97-100 combat skills

cutlass

dmg to ettin 33-51

bleeds 12-15 dmg

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-17 045432.png]]

as i said to a person on discord

"pks can smell good items"

she replied

"they can smell helplessness"

well, both i guess

here id been outside town for like 2 mins

and a mage runs up to me, a red even

from nowhere

if i have low level items,

i dont see pks for hours

even if im afk for hours as well

nothing ever happens

just like a guy said

the mage seemingly used

the paralyze spell on me

just as i was looting a corpse?

if hed timed it some sec before

id been stuck trying to see what

the corrupted digits

said in the captcha

yeah, id equipped an avarite sword

and a verite shield

stupid obviously

but i figured i

would stay near town

it was a mage pk

theres nothing about them

i feel like picking

up the names of them

and finding their

non mage chars

and pking em

dunno how id do that

they just piss me off so much

and its worse than i thought

they got the invisibility spell

baam, gm hiding in something

anyone can cast

then they got even high level summoning

bang, gm animal lore and taming

and so much more, its so sick

[[Fil:Codex of swords.png]]

yes, as i mentioned in a vid id prefered

the codex of parrying, since its only 100hp

and that doesnt last long, especially with

a healing time of 12 seconds. that means

if a monster does more than 8 damage per

second, youre dead. and that sounds pretty

low right? thats why parrying helps a lot.

anyway i figured out afterwards why i dont

get gains, i use a 2hand weapon! so im

switching to shield and sword i guess?

one idea would be to drop anatomy or

arms lore and do poisoning instead.

probably doesnt increase the damage

more, but its fun with pking, when

people get poisoned they freak out

completely, start trying to use heal

spell? theyve never been damaged in

their whole characters

twink development it seems?

at grandmaster level parrying decreases

the overall damage by

around 40%, thats a lot.

also, just this player made iron shield

gives 22 armour on its own, thats real good

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 160214.png]]

managed to stay alive in the orcfort.

mostly other pvmers and never any pks

orc lords werent that challenging, but

without magic resist i avoid spellcasters

which i did before anyway, fighting them

is just so dull, they do too much damage

no matter what. anyway, as you can see im

already 30% to my first point. but you seemingly

need loads. im not in a rush though, and doing

high level pvm beyond even dragons will be fun.

[[Fil:Grandmaster.png]]

so it seems when you

grandmaster, 100 points a skill

you can gain more fame and karma

so now im "fair" :)

i was thinking of pking with

but i dont want to ruin that title

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 121738.png]]

correction: i suppose the 30 damages are from the mages.

and its explo + mind blast x2. so 30 dmg

each time, with 90 in swordsmanship as well

yeah, a log of the damages. starting at 12:10 the first one was harm

the second one as well, then 2 explosions. then harm again.

just no effort whatsoever in it. could just as well be bots.

again, with originally 72 resist and 74 parry. shouldnt

anatomy protect somehow? and this was with food bonus

spell siphon and "sacret journey" whatever that is.

its so sad. and so unbalanced. neither the original

creators or the modders have bothered with it at all

for over 2 decades. i dont remember if it was 2 or 3 pks.

even better, the prepare the explo spell offscreen, then

when theyve cast that there is a 2 second delay or whatever

then they immediatly cast harm which automagically hits

directly. so horribly unbalanced. anyway, in protest and

becauze i want to grandmaster my skills ill put resist

spells to 0. so i wont be able to fight dragons then-

which is disappoing. but anywhere with good loot is pks

so its seemingly impossible anyway. anyway, im gonna buy

a lethal poison dagger and maybe try to snag em in the

elbow some. you cant poison arrows? hmph. you can poison

with spells even. back in the days they used to use poison

wall bug inside your house to kill you.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 121207.png]]

got stuck in a jungle with high level monsters.

try to use stucky option to tele to town.

got there through a vendor moongate.

just as i press the button i see 2 pks.

i died in a few secs, as usual.

mages, as usual. resist spells helps

nothing there, as usual. the spells

always hit, as usual. eventough i got

74 parry, as usual. theres just no effort

to it, and then that leveling battle skills

is so easy means everyone can pk anyone

they want without effort. just a few spells.

do it in team and 99% success rate.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 115104.png]]

yes, this one im not bored of. except the whole resisting spells debacle.

it barely resists spells. and i dont wants lots of skills at lvl 80

then my character is almost done. after a week or two of playtime?

thats sad. so yes im gonna eradicate resisting spells. if i lower

arms lore my weapons will break and armour too. id rather not.

i want resisting spells to resist spells, not give weapon bonuses.

thats fixing a problem which isnt there with something even worse.

just nerf magery already. both for pvp and pvm.



= 2nd character, Ryzynxouir, Backstabber, Self Surviving =



[[Fil:Cooking in the wilderness.png]]

well he is a self survivor

scout maybe,

i made him like

that in the beginning

like i say in other places,

with only 180 skillpoints

you increase your damage by 10x,

what would be better? =)

so im cooking food from

another character,

neither of us got pkd

takes awhile to prepare 500 ribs

the moongate is pretty near

anyway, corpse creek or

not ill be alright

it was only because of

here that i put

arslet i vagnen

and got stealth to 80

i mean if i managed to pk everyone

i wanted id been ranking

up -13 by now lol

fought an ettin in the shadows :)

no screenies, had too much fun

wasnt thinking about it

sure saved up on bandies

and was maybe 4x faster

i whiffed after awhile

so that wasnt fun

and youre not on a

mount so its not

easy to run away from

the monsters either

ettin

5000hp

melee 40-50

wrestling 75

armour 25

610-698 dmg backstab

also managed to

down a gazer larva

that was 3 ryggdunkar

as we say in sweden :)

yes im still where pks go to die

my verdict is 2 days 11 hours away

ophhmawooowooeeee

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-21 101750.png]]

OMG YEAH 753 DMG?????? 😁😁😁😁🗡️🗡️

[[Fil:Backstabber Skärmbild 2025-10-21 101035.png]]

yes, so theres the skills. looks better than excel things.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-21 100644.png]]

so now i can backstab? i hope it works.

i did this build specifically for pvp

but backstab doesnt even add 25% dmg there!

so its 800-1600% dmg based on weapon speed?

so harpoons make the most? can you backstab

at a distance? lol. probably not. anyway.

this will be fun! ^_____________^

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-21 084713.png]]

so im in murderers creek. where pks come to die.

yeah when you have 5 or more counts and die

you can only stucky option to that place.

and you can get pkd in town without repercussions.

its quite a mess, lol. anyway, a chick found me

there, we had a nice convo eventually. she pkd

me like 20 times haha. anyway, its like a prison

colony. you get calm. do what youre supposed to.

it will literally take half a month to remove the

5 murders from this account. at the very least.

it would be cool if they had labour so you could

reduce it faster? heh. anyway. just playing different

chars. think still im gonna make 10 level 10 low level

mounts so the dont die as quickly. i got 2 tamers now! =)

one with magery. its just so fun. lvl 1'd my 5 horses

on low level monsters. then i happened to kill 2 gazers?

that was like 120 xp! woah! and they killed 2 of my horsies

so its relative. anyway. its easy to have fun. dont be effective

when youre playing a fucking game. youre surely not that IRL

if you even have a job you slob.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 175200.png]]

that took awhile. im not in a rush though.

joy isnt relative. its simple.

even if you cant feel anything

you can still feel joy. eventhough

it feels fake then.

well this surely

was adrenaline rushing

so i figured id camp

at that winter area

where they mine carelessly

well, after only 10 mins or so

someone was digging a treasure there?

so i sneaked close

and landed several hits

including a poisoning

he was at 1/3 hp

then he sent his pets after

me but they did nothing?

didnt land any more hits

he ran back to

get more loot lol

i shoulda waited

1 alchemy 63
2 cooking 74
3 taste id 51

4 fencing 74
5 poisoning 60

6 hiding 100
7 stealth 73

so thats what itll be

like at grandmaster

the build holds up!

it seems people think

if you use a shortspear

youre a pk, and i prefered

the normal slow spear

then they predict nothing, lol

oh yes, was worrying

about pvm strength

but then backstabbing

will be available

btw i saw a guy mentioning

in the trade part of discord

before i got banned that

he would cook

your raw food for you

well it was better

first i got 100 delectable food

then a 1000 more

that will last me awhile

i noticed they cost about 100gp each

so thats 100k! nice

even with all the pkings i go plus

but for many builds you dont

especially with magery heals

or potions its not

just wish eating food was faster

than once per min

but really, normal healing

or magery healing isnt needed

when you got cooking

and pots and maybe taste id

[[Fil:Thanks for all the fish Skärmbild 2025-10-20 001816.png]]

yes, thanks for the loot mr afk. wow. 0.8 gains from just 1/5

of all the fish steaks he had on him. completely worth it.

[[Fil:Fencer poisoner vs gm swordser Skärmbild 2025-10-19 103617.png]]

its funny, even without magic resist my fencer poisoner without

much offensive skills or very high level ones, still outperforms

my grandmaster swordsman against magical creatures. i know i wouldnt

have been able to handle this one. but cooking and alchemy gives bonus

to heals with food and potions, and also bonus to poison damage. its

fun its a viable build, even for pking. ive done 2 pkills so far, dont

know if ive mentioned. this whole page is 45k now! wow.

"people say im weird for collecting books. and ill perfect my library

til the day i die. and then hopefully my surviving wife or kids or

grandkids want to take over it. if not, at least i did my job"

[[Fil:All out on skills backstabber.png]]

yeah went all out on skills

probably helped some against the attack mentioned here

healing is real nice of course and cost effective

but its sort of out of my rp realm

wont help against pks or pking someone

didnt find a spear near so bought 2

short spears, they arent that much less

damage but real nice attack speed

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 180445.png]]

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 175234.png]]

fought my second found paragon

a faery, it didnt seem to do more damage

or have more hp at all? pretty disappointing

it had 1 magic item and a big chest this time

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 170828.png]]

oh, i got pkd, he sorta did it rp style

not hardcore, and i got in some hits

he was whiffing a lot in the beginning

a real high level character with lots

of aspect items as theyre called, they

give huge bonuses, i did 10dmg he did 60

but like i said he wasnt all out on pking

me in a second. so happy im not finding

double mage pks anymore that do mindblast

+ explo and as soon as you see a red name

youre basically dead after youve blinked.

anyway, adrenaline rush, especially as i

was talking to a newb at the same time, and

he did greater heal on me

and flamestrike on the pk

as for my pvm playing style

well, its a lot of turn hitting

and running away from the monster and with gm hiding its easier

but not really needed, i notice on my archer monsters get bored

if you get only like 12 tiles away? nice nerf there, not like

they are overpowered. bolts and arrows cost through the roof.

you can use a 1000 in an hour or more. quivers are nice but

i dont want to pay 100k for 70% reduction when im gonna get

pkd with that item on me in a few mins.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 172414.png]]

anyway, the new build idea, and as my main 7 skills are only

480 points i can now at least afford a lot of support skills.

it is neat though i can survive with just 1 single battle skill

just like a mage except without magery and just some meager

poison damage. you can gain easily with a lot of skills, but

ive only used poisoning with 30 hours of play maybe like 20

or 30 times, and its raised my skill level nothing. why not

gain in the skill when you use it, aka, when you poison npcs

or players? like if they got poison resistance and you manage

to damage them still? or a small skill check even every time

you do a poison tick? right now its just pathetic, its still

staying at 60 skill points. i dont get why such a nerfed skill

should cost so much to train.




[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 155440.png]]

so this is the old build


after careful deliberation,

im dropping snooping and stealing

you can still do backstab against

monsters and steal from them at the same time

but grandmaster stealth is so far away,

and training 2 other skills as well?

managing to pk people

when you do like 10

damage is entertaining

ive managed 2 now

one who tried to use in mani all the time

who had a verite skinning knife + 30 other items

its only worth like 2k but still a good loot

i didnt know they existed,

dont seem to give big bonuses

and another guy some special build seemingly

with 100 dex 100 int and 25 str

if hed just died outside town

id gotten the loot of my life

but i made 10 dmg, he ran to safety

then 2 secs later he was dead

from greater poison?

i know getting pkd isnt fun

but damn ive gotten pkd so much

with some magic items out of nowhere

even just gold platemail

that evening out the

hate is worth it

this is the new idea

i dont want to drop cooking

now its increased 5 points

while alchemy is just 2

cooking is basically free if

you just skin a lot of npcs

especially with forensic eval

while alchemy costs through the roof,

i also got a mage now to uphold

i might still drop cooking further down the line

i figure if i manage to make

like 10k ribs or whatever

i can rest it for awhile

or add cooking to my new mage

a chef who makes wonders

why not? sorta rp there :)

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-13 122624.png]]

im sure fighting this

monster is more viable

than my grandmaster swordsman

spells just ruin him

and without magic resist

theres barely any difference

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-12 200501.png]]

yes, i use alchemy and taste id for

higher healing amounts and more poison dmg

then cooking for some extra heal points

this is much better, even without any

additions, than healing + anatomy

12 secs to heal once? yeah, real

balanced for pvp or nothing really.



= 3th character, D'Enc'tiZx, Featherweight Ironman Boxer =

== continuing ==



well. whatever. i twinked him out some. being hardcore you

cant be always. it gets boring as well. im not using wrestling

weapons since he just turns into another melee fighter but i dunno.

disarm and hambone sounds interesting. increasing swing speed would

be paramount. but i wonder if you really do that or if its at certain

thresholds only. swing speed in and of itself is quite bugged. sometimes

it shows up correctly sometimes it doesnt. with pets as well. makes me

wonder if it also works correctly sometimes and not. it doesnt seem like

the animation gets speeded up or down directly. its the same. unlike running.

[[Fil:Boxer vs cougar.png]]

managed to take down a cougar

just needed to heal

eventhough they can frenzy

couldnt they hide too?

no that was panthers

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-15 211733.png]]

well, its strange, i bought leather armour.

the bull did just as much damage,

so dont know whats up with that.

maybe if id healed 1 time id managed it,

but i dont think so. so i used exceptional mastercrafted leather armour, and also the same for shield, but didnt make much of a difference. i guess i need to twinkmule studded armour from myself somehow with a tailor.

here are my skills by the way, but i still do only 3 damage? its been like that since my combat skills were level 50. attack speed is pretty good though at about 1.2 secs between strikes. it just looks fast. lots of weird skills give especially damage bonus but its seemingly lost in whatever calculations are used.

Tracking 96, max 101
Anatomy 74
Arms Lore 73
Wrestling 68
Focus 68
Tactics67
Mace Fighting 60
Item Identification 55
Healing 53
Begging 42
Parrying 31
Chivalry 5
Veterinary 5

i started the char with 0 skills and 0 items, had to fight birds to build myself up. then gain 40 in begging just to afford a few bandages to train my healing.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-15 181920.png]]

not as strong as a bull yet

have to heal several

times in a fight

still doing only 3 damage

whats the max you can get

without a weapon?

realized i should use a shield

should also do that on my swordsman

to increase the skillpoints

bull
hp 250
melee skill 40
armour 25

140 secs to take it down
dmg per hit 3
1,8 DPS
swing speed 1,24
113 swings
74% hit chance

[[Fil:2dmg boxing.png]]

yes, against 75 armour i do 2dmg only

still, it was feasable, my

heal+anatomy of total 110 points

which restores quite a lot of hp

now and other skills protected me

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-14 124627.png]]

im happy wrestling is hiddenly nerfed so much

makes it challenging. i supposedly am to do 6-26 dmg

which woulda been major at that swing speed.

anyway, the calculations i made are

fighting a cow, with the default

25 armour rating, always 3 dmg

start 12:43:20

finish 12:44:56

1 min 46 secs

106 secs

50 hits

supposed swing delay 1.26 total fight time 63 secs

accuracy 59.4% against 35 wrestling opponent

my wrestling skill is 60.4

it does seem to be swinging

very fast, near a second

so i guess the chance to hit

is correct by my calculations

i checked it some and i even

whiffed twice in a row sometime

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-14 121405.png]]

my latest adversary.

i had to run away to heal once

but then he was malleable



== in the beginning ==



started on 2025-10-12 saturday

objective:

# throw away all starting items
# choose only 8 skills you wont use, at least in the beginning, they can only be used when theyve been reduced to 0
# no npc help
# no twinking from players or other accounts
# no bank?
# no items at all?
# how long can i push this?
# no city visits? just be a wild barbarian? no clothes?
# add stealing and join the thief guild?
# add music skills to keep with the air theme?

thinking about how to limit. now that i tried out spirit speak, maybe i should try a necromancer for the first time? it feels tintilating to fighting low level mosnters and them being challenging. just something new. how far can i take it?

even just using items feels overrated. which skills are possible to grandmaster this way? taming surely isnt, the lowest taming requirement is 25.

anyway, what i did was put points into skills that i wouldnt use. and if you are to use them, they must reach 0 first. for stats i put max amount into intelligence so my swing speed would be as slow as possible.

luckely enough the first moongate i used had a bird right next to it. i almost didtn make it. i could always have run away to heal, but it was possible to 1v1 them. then i tried birds, a chicken, more birds, a cat. and yes, i call this the

"featherweight ironman boxer"

maybe i should only fight flying creatures? wisps would surely be a challenge. mongbats are probably possible as long as i find them somewhere. and why not harpies? could stone harpies be possible? i read that outlands has 500 different monsters, how many are flying capablity?

maybe i should turn him into a musician? or start a new character with that? never tried that out.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 082858.png]]

i figured i should start out with birds. the first one i tried i had about 15 hp left. luckely enough i found a new place which had 6 bird spawns. and an elder larva that annoyed me eventually. so no afk here!

monsters fought
birds 3, lvl 17 combat skills
1 chicken, lvl 20

as i thought tracking increases my dexterity, its already gained 16 points. sort of a cheat. built in afking.

birds 3, skill lvl 24

birds 3, lvl 27, without regenerating inbetween

next bird was unlucky, lost 30 hp

76 str, 34 dex

again bird took away 30 hp

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 075914.png]]

11 bird
1 chicken
combat lvl 29

12th bird, lost 20 hp
13th, lost 12hp
14th, lvl 32
15th, 11hp
16th, 11hp
17th, down to 38 hp now, didnt rest
18-19th 36 combat skill
got attacked by a gazer larva
82str, 44 dex

18 bird
2 chicken
lvl 37

3 chicken, lvl 40
4 chicken, lvl 41

18 bird
4 chicken
1 cat
lvl 42

5-6th chicken lvl 44
7th chicken, lvl 45

2nd cat, lvl 46

8th chicken

46 tactics
47 wrestling
48 anatomy
50 arms lore
49 focus
53 item id
54 tracking
92 str
58 dex

9th chicken
10th chicken 2025-10-11 09:08

21st bird, 3 birds with only 6hp loss

3 more birds went down, 24 total, with only loss of hp 84 of 96

at around lvl 45 combat i started doing 3dmg, was always 2 exactly before. wasnt precisely giving it the attention.

12th chicken

3 cat
12 chicken
24 bird

birds barely dent me now

bird +2

bird +3

29 bird
lvl 50 wrestling

chicken +2

bird +2

31 bird
3 cat
14 chicken
lvl 51 wrestling

bird +2

cat +1

[[Fil:Ultimate antitwink.png]]

i went to town to bank, heh, nothing. there was someone who made a hobo barb in diablo 2, who wasnt allowed to use town except to teleport to the next act. was interesting. so many variations you can do. remember, the RPG in MMORPG stands for role-playing, that you play a role, something unique, something different from how you usually are. try something new! challenge yourself.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 092042.png]]

health regenerated to full automagically after having fought 4 birds. its time to upgrade to mongbats 09:20, im also killing the npcs faster than they can respawn.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 093727.png]]

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 092856.png]]

couldnt find a mongbat, but i fought an eagle, taming level +10 higher than the birds, so a formidable opponent, lost 55 hp. so seemingly not ready for mongbats yet. but this is only 2 hours or so of gameplay to reach npc training level? about average. not too easy not too difficult. as always in UO the designers mix low level and high level monsters so afking combat skills is never completely safe.

i wont use hiding on this character. at least not now. im tired of training it on just a previous character i made recently.

stats
53.5 anatomy
52.3 tracking
53.2 arms lore
53.1 focus
61.7 item id
61.2 tracking
51.6 wrestling
total 342.6

100 str
70 dex

1 eagle
14 chicken
33 bird
4 cat

just fighting about 50 monsters give you 50 in combat skills and also 10 levels higher in item id and tracking at the same time. npc training isnt needed. and yes i guess i could have gotten hiding that high as well.

the eagle does 6-9 dmg to me while i only do a constant 3. tried a second one, and it went down pretty quickly compared to the low level birds in the beginning, but i lost 60hp.

i dont know if i want to ruin this character with items. its challenging now in a completely different way. pking isnt for me its just way too fast and then youre dead already. this is more my style.

09:39

ill just see how i long i can take my boxer. ill try harpies eventually. maybe just a feather weight fighter? hah.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 094843.png]]

had to run off to heal after damaging the eagle only half. theres some antibotting scheme which reduces your damage to 1 only. when i got back it was the normal incredible 3. my gump says 2-8 in attack but no monster takes that damage?

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 095049.png]]

right now im playing catch up with item id to mr automagic skill tracking

it still hasnt found a grey after looking for hours? i guess i need synergies.

i have 2 simple in game macros to last skill and last item. havent pressed it a lot.

09:57

7 eagle (sorry i forgot to count correctly, was writing this, should be about)
14 chicken
4 cat
33 bird
total 58

10:01

10:42

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 104143.png]]

player came close, tried to attack. did a whooping 1 dmg and maybe 6 whiffs

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 105001.png]]

why not? start in the lower end. and work yourself up.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 105817.png]]

this allowed me to buy 1 bandage. increased my healing skill by 1.7.

anatomy is already 56.5 so it should help in healing if its ever successfull.

when have playing the game in the nullties, i never learned much. i was

just a teen. i enjoyed just playing the game however. and now to a higher

degree, thanks to the unique builds videos some people still do about

diablo 2, now that its in remastered form.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 110642.png]]

a kind soul left some alchemy tools in town.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 110712.png]]

im not sure i like my chances though.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 111401.png]]

yes, managed to achieve an incredible

42 in begging and 52 gp, enough to buy

a wrestling weapon! lets see how this fares.

first i was going to buy a hatchet, but all

that clicking, oh my.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 111639.png]]

supposedly it should quadrupple my damage.

but because the way armour works it will

probably be a lot more. interesting!

oh, ruthless! 51-61 damage!

and it trains parrying.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 112848.png]]

well, now this character is a lot like some of my others.

still, i showed its easy to work yourself up to npc training level

in only a day or 2 of playing, with zero starting items

and lvl 0 starting in everything.



= 4th character, Pzcyukmoik, Tamer Bard Macer =



i prefered my bard

when he was around

70 in most skills

what about this?

1 taming
2 animal lore
3 herding
4 veterinary

5 musicianship
6 discordance
7 peacemaking
8 provocation

9 mace fighting
10 parrying

with 100 in each i have to

scrape away sorta everything

and when my swordsman

gained grandmaster i got

no bonuses from it

at least hiding and

stealth gives more steps

but 4 grandmasters? nothing

the idea is to use wooden shield

and a club, its just something i wanted

ill craft them myself

since getting low level things

from vendors you have to run

all over the map

only for 1 or 2 of the item

which youll lose

in less than a day

then they might restock

with your items!

anyway together with dullhide

my grey clothes, hair, and complexion

looks nice, and it doesnt cost

an arm and a leg and getting pkd

i can just craft more

i got 5 dullhide wooden shields now

from just 2 trees of chopping

anyway, i explored earlier

for like an hour or two

before i got home

i seemingly got into the clutches

of a wrestler?

he

hamstringed me?

paralyzed

took like 20 secs to kill me

i wondered what that was

he used hiding and stealth

surely a patient guy

and with 3 music skills

you can give 3 bonuses

to yourself to friends

to your pets and summons

if you prefer magery instead

its just an awesome build =)

but then again i want

character development

you cant kill much with it

i guess when i get 80

for codexes it will turn

better, and ill abandon

my low level high level pets

for powerful beings

frogs are pretty strong though

they regenerate too!

so the aim is to have 10 level 10 pets

for all my characters.

and i swear, llama mounts

move faster?

its just when horses turn

they lag the animation somehow? when

youre running through the woods, llamas

just turn faster when you run into a

tree and change direction. it really

really seems like that?

[[Fil:Horse good stats.png]]

6.5+2.4+1.8+9.2+9.7=29.6

best stats ive found.

its got minus to magic res

but like ive said that

skill is so useless.

im gonna lvl 10

this one as well! :)

its just nice with not your

pets dying when you die

if they can handle 5-7 hits

instead of 1-2 makes all the difference

"do you want a challenge?"

"its nice if youre rping or something"

at least they said the rp word

in runescape the rp server has like 5 players

[[Fil:Pet xp.png]]

so, 6500 xp needed

to max out a pet.

not that horrible.

about 175 wights.

or 300 giant spiders

[[Fil:Llama.png]]

not a very good stat pet, but i trained him a lot

seemingly killing that spellcaster with him gave

me 0 xp? i guess its because i attacked first.

its 37 xp on that, more than giant spiders at 22.

its about same difficulty, also as shallow water

which gives less. so lvl 9 to 10 needs 1100 xp i think?

that means in total its about 3000xp? have to calculate that.

[[Fil:Amazing bull.png]]

9.5+7.2+7.1+9.2=33 the minuses dont really matter.

and minus to swingspeed is good right?

well, i do get lucky. i found this on another character.

had other things to do, so it took 2 hours until i got

on my tamer again, and then another hour until i found

the place, lol. i was thinking of training up 2-5 of

a pet type, but thats only with 50 slots not possible.

so it will be a smörgåsbord of pets. i figured i could

sell them but thats not the deal. everyone just want

lvl 1 mounts or special colours. thats it. the world

has become so boring. anyway, did meet 2 nice people

today. i mentioned i was doing an ironman account

and the guy chimed in, gave me some nice items

and gold. then another one teached me some things.

undoing its called. when you least expect it, thats

when it turns good :)

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-12 225505.png]]

got a vendor from a newfound friend

selling clean all the time!

and magic armour and weapon

anyway, just stats on the skills

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-12 214153.png]]

yes my low level pets

can handle trolls even

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-12 215039.png]]

just a screenie

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-12 182932.png]]

i died too quickly when i got attacked

by monsters my pets were fighting

and since shepherd crooks give bonus

to taming i figured i should use maces

real nice idea, they reduce armour rating

of monsters, up to 100% although unusual

at lvl 60, so it benefits all pets. also

music skills give double bonuses, also in

outlands for pets allies and yourself

this is my first lvl3 pet, takes quite

awhile to level. i optied for only using

1 pet for awhile, it can be confusing sometime

and if you find a good stat animal you cant

have 5 full slots. and training 1 at a tmie

is just more fun. yes i get proud when my

pet level :) ive never played a bard before

and surely not a tamer bard. my weirdest char

back in the days was smithy archer. just added

tactics and archery to her and managed to down

a skeletal dragon, though it took awhile. they

move real slowly and have to firebreath attack

or do they? maybe i had healing too. now i discovered

crafting meat heal although not often but also potions

never tried them back in the days either. there are so

many synergies between skills in the game making it fun

to variate your points. i love uo <3

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-11 203409.png]]

walrusses are buff :)



= 5th character, Thael'Why, Mage Tamer =



[[Fil:Horse master.png]]

im mostly a horse tamer, leveler, and salesman

you only got 500gp each, but i enjoy it

i dont know if i even go plus with all the reagent costs

i also have 50 poisoning so that spell is useful

the horses do sell so theres a market for them

an npc lvl 0 horse costs 750gp so the one selling

for 1k at lvl 1 sure isnt selling many

theres like 5 pages of em now

anyway, not more powerful than my bard tamer

and what skill will i drop at higher levels?

wrestling i guess. i wonder if actual breeders

buy my horses to get unique shades? then they

surely should be worth more but im tailing vs

the 1k gal.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-21 113847.png]]

oh havent posted anything here?

anyway turned him into a mage tamer =)

just taming horses really

and leveing em to for cash

i know you dont make a lot only 500gp

but its still fun. and they sell well.

anyway a direwolf at 120 taming is weaker

than a lvl 10 horse. the wolves do near zero

damage and just have double the hp of a horse.

so of course you should level your mounts!

you can fight with em! like ive shown. or have it?

maybe i should make a vid about that ^___^

and on another char i killed

an ettin and it gave 1700gp? wow 😁

[[Fil:Mongbat loot skill scroll Skärmbild 2025-10-21 113358.png]]

mongbat loot. yes a skill scroll! first i found.

its worth 20k. can go up to 100k.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-13 210721.png]]

ok i gave up, i leveled on newbie island

it sure is fast. only some hour to 6x80

as for the last skill. i dunno? im sorta

happy this way. parrying? arms lore so my

things dont break but i get pkd faster

than that so it doesnt really matter.

you know what? i dont think i even want

to play this char now. mages are expensive

and boring. 100% hitchance. you just cast

spells over and over and over.



= 6th character, Muoldoura, Archer Carpenter =



[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-19 223132.png]]

was just adventuring around uo

going far southwest then north

got some dullhide, like 40

then i figured id fight a demon

hah, didnt make a dent in him

hes got 100 armour or what? or more?

anyway, took me 15 mins

until i found my things again

figured itd decayed, but i was lucky

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-19 224413.png]]

then i get pkd by a guy which seemingly

had been waiting there for a long time

he paralyzed me with a wrestling move?

he didnt loot me dry so it was ok

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 045538.png]]

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-16 103737.png|400 px]]

anyway, i tried vlogging while chopping lumber at the same time

it was real inspiring, so i managed to do it for 50 mins without burning out

remember, make it worth the effort. if theres no effort, its not worth anything.

and do enjoy life. whatever happens. every day is a new adventure with new

ways to learn from people and things happening. theres no point in being bitter.

09:26 197 logs

10:15 1700 logs

1500 logs 50 mins

1800 logs per hour

anyway, seemingly my lumberjacking skill is 77. at 66 i got dullwood, at 76

maybe i got shadowwood. this is real nice. although, ill just be a resource

gatherer here, ill make a dedicated carpenter. dunno with what skills.

on my mage? have all combat skills on chars now. dont care for chivalry

or necro though. they gonna add a new druid skill so that will be interesting.

and yeah, thats 2 player made crossbows. what im using now.



= 7th character, Wyxxzxz Oxeexex, Hardcore Ironman Fisher =



existance at its core is inherently simple

i enjoy fighting with a horse against an ettin on my tamer

just as i do chopping up monsters with my GM swordsman

or fishing and camping and begging with this ironman

not much is needed to make us happy, numbers dont

make you happy because they have no end. you gotta

do something unique. every day is an adventure!

these are all my skills after 3 hours

no newbie dungeon or any twinking nosireee

begging 65

up to 60 it went like woooooooeee

camping 28

not that fast

fishing 19

real slow even here

ive catched 8 fish only!

but it only uses a charge

on the fishing thingo

when i catch one

so itll last long

anyway, did pk a fisher

so i guess i have

it coming for me lol

[[Fil:Fisher Skärmbild 2025-10-19 091456.png|300 px]]

yes, these are all my skills so far!

after having played this char 3 hours

did talk a lot with 1 theif

yes, a thief!

i figured if i started theiving

someone would sneak up

to me while i was afking

well a guy tried to take my shadow armour!

haha. he was a real nice rper.

[[Fil:Fisher Skärmbild 2025-10-19 084936.png]]

hey, just chilling by the water

have a warm fire by my side

and doing it easy with fishing

i wonder though, can you

still summon water elementals

and other things with fishing?

they probably pussified that

like with valorite elementals

and valorite pickaxes

i loved those!

made mining fun again

i still need a miner yeah

another build idea

theres like 70

skills or something?

[[Fil:Fisher 10 18.png]]

hey, its going swimmingly

[[Fil:Fisherman ironman pic 1.png]]

as useless skills and

stats as possible

this will be an ironman

[[Fil:Fisherman oct 17.png]]

yes finally at 6.9 skill

i got my first fish

i was just going

to run back to town

so it wouldnt get under

the coins and id miss it



= 8th character, Thamrik Smoulderin, Blacksmith =

= 9th character, Uusfourthzsch, thief =

= ?th character, Whael'Mynx, Tailor =



65.6

[[Fil:Whael mynx dunno.png]]

dont know what to do with this one

had 7k leather id collected

since i started playing,

gained 5 points



= unsorted =



[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-25 173901.png]]

well this was cool,

seemingly a cambrian caravan

spawned near a brigand fort.

both im DOOM and QUAKE

you had in fighting

with the enemy NPCs.

but in UO its more advanced

since they can have

different alignment.

this went on for quite awhile 😁

thanks for the loot 🪙

just some latest screenies

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 173004.png]]

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 145752.png]]

horses fighting a tentacle lol

yes its possible

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 145444.png]]

completing that spellbook from loot only

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 101805.png]]

said it was immortal

and it summoned a spider?!

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 074442.png]]

mage summons are op

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-20 165341.png]]

i might be vain in some sorta way

but not based on the cost of the fashionable items

in runescape i really liked starting clothes in red

made me look like a lumberjack. that colour doesnt

really exist for any in game items. so you stand out.

as you see here i chose grey skin, grey hair, grey beard

like on 4 other chars lol. and then also grey

shield and weapon lol. this costed me like 30k

in dullhide. yes you read it right, first i bought

1k lvl 2 leather, THEN i bought dullwood. anyway

got some backup weaps and shields too. have had

no one talk to today. sorta dull. got banned from

the uo reddit. theyre such oversensitive pussy assholes

there, i didnt even get a message notification?

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-19 053336.png]]

i was in a trade caravan!

look at that loot ^_^

well, sort of

i barded a monster once or twice

and got that much?

they didnt mind

did die once

the second caravan i did die once

cuz i got pkd

they dont like snyltare

anyway i was gonna start 1 on my own

but it spawns real high level monsters

so i guess not

[[2025-10-14 17-25-09 1 500kbps 64kbps audio low quality vid pking ultima online outlands mmorpg|my first pk oct 2025]]

[[Fil:Yes im fighting birds.png]]

i created a new pk account, an archer

i got pkd quickly though, from looting

an empty blue guy, just my luck.

had all my stuff on me. so what to do?

create an ironman new account of course.

ill only do useless skills, and level

everything up to zero, with 0 starting

items as well.

[[Fil:Unique build.png]]

unique build, evolving

nice to make your own

food and potions yourself

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-10 153433.png]]

uh huh, i bugged up some gangstalker feature

so now i do 1 dmg. ok, ill have to rely

on poisoning more then.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-10 115401.png]]

anyway, what you do is go around poisoning

a lot of creatures and wait for them to die.

which is like watching paint dry. and the

poison even after 5 mins isnt infinite. so

low level harpies only got damaged by 1/3

and training the poison skill? just as slow

as when i tried tinkering.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-10 144353.png]]

did i just make the most useless uo character ever?

you can poison swords as well, and their special

attack is just like poison but way more damaging

anyway, ill still try to use this char, somehow

i figured for pvp but its completely useless

for anything really, even low level monsters

take a long time to take down with how bad

the skillpoints are distributed now

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-09 191222.png]]

far from town, even found a miner

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-09 181913.png]]

got pkd for the third time

it was stupid, i went into a dungeon

after having halfly fought a low level monster

i see 2 reds, and i figured, they wont attack me?

i saw 1 spell then a sec or 2 later i was dead

wandering healer just outside, and they only

took partial loot, so its ok. the other 2 pk times

i didnt bother going back


[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-09 173909.png]]

might halberg 112-130 dmg orc mage

with these skills

[[Fil:Orc forte.png]]

it seems this orc fort is popular with pvmers

was 2 other guys there, 1 even wanted to team up

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-08 170858.png]]

theres so little variation in how to battle monsters

ive fought a whole bunch now, and they all act

in the same way. yes theres overpowered spellcasters

and even more powerful poison monsters, but thats

about it. some have frenzy which only increases

their attack rate by 10% so its not much. its

just so boring. im disapointed. uo isnt how

i remember it. and they all got the same 25

armour? wow. surely lack of imagination there.

even better, they are not randomized in their

stats. 3k hp 20-30 dmg, thats it. at least

the tameables are. but only if you tame them

not fight them? lol.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-07 190116.png]]

target, but currently i have it like this

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-07 191813.png]]

will be a long time until grandmaster

tailoring just levels too

slowly, theres no fun

using 1000s of hides

for a tiny gain

and its not exactly

fast to gather those

ill collect meat too

and try to sell em both

anyway, tactics is increased

by the passive automagic skill

spell siphon

from before

oh feel like shit cuz i played

some ultima online today as well

well, its fun, its my fav game

well, its not that fun

since you have so little hp

its so easy to die

and the server saves

like every 20 mins lol

wonderful lag =(

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-06 130246.png]]

these are my skills

im not quite sure what to do

just the combat skills are 8

so thats 800 points

and you get max 700

and tailoring yeah

horrificly slow

leveling speed

ok, written yesterday

well, that was a shortlived affair

tired of uo outlands already

its the same ol

i forgot how easy it

is to level some skills

and some are just hopeless

theres not much to the game

beyond the surface

the dungeons are basically impossible

all monsters give about the same loot

they all use the same spells if theyre spellcasters

there arent that many builds because

you have to put so many points into a skill

for it to be viable

and then the towns

so difficult to find the right vendors

then you cant sell anything to them?

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-05 182631.png]]

oh, used the stucky feature to tele me to a town

since it would take like half an hour of running

to get to bank again. anyway, that northern part

is a lawless region. i wondered about that, if

people could pk me. seemingly not, they did that

instead of felucca, nice. the newbie starting area

is basically like grand exchange, you gain skills

real quickly but they are capped at 80. the problem

is, skills really only start working at around 80-90.

almost nothing good of them at low levels, for many,

anyway. which is disapointing, so not many builds are

available, unlike diablo 2. just a battle character uses

800 full skillpoints, and im still not very powerful.

and as for ease of skilling in crafting ones? no way.

ive used like 500 hides and advanved 0.1 skillpoint.

you would need millions and millions even billions

to gm tailoring. anyway, lots of PVP seems to be going

on, but not much chatting. dont feel like talking either

since the game is my favourite one ever, almost. all games

are good in different ways though.

real challenging monsters.

cant kill those regening ones. trolls?

never got one past 50% health. and just killing

one easily takes 5 mins.

sure is different from other games.

and 3-5 hits? then youre dead.

[[Fil:Skärmbild 2025-10-05 134316.png]]

just an amazingly wellcrafted mod

[[Fil:Uo outlands Skärmbild 2025-10-05 130709.png]]

tried ultima online outlands

it installed in like 10 mins

compared to the hourlong first one

and i didnt need a vpn!

[[UO part 2 adventures]]

[[UO Part I adventures|UO Part I Adventures in New Haven and Britain]]



= newb friendly, other things =

== interface layout ==

how i have it at 2k res

for most screen space

[[Fil:Interface layout.png]]




== keybinds ==



a newb help thing, since someone asked about this.

[[Fil:Keybind 1 fix.png]]

do a macro ingame on "SelectNearestCreature"

then i bind that to page down

its right next to my

cursor keys on this laptop

so its a relaxed way of playing

if you have a numeric keyboard

you have it even easier, you

can do a lot of binds, or just

use WASD and the keys around

then click "add" and also do

"AttackLast". now when you press

that button the nearest creature

will be chosen and youll be in

war against it automagically

and will move into your vicinity

if you have pets or summons

set to "all guard" they will

automagically attack them as well



== advanced stats ==

[[Fil:Swing speed calc.png]]

== newb quest ==

[[Fil:Noob friendly.png]]

= balancing and skill ideas =



logarithmic durability charges of items. increases more by 1.1 for each level. so its 10% more the first, then the second is 10% increase 2 times and so on. seems to be quite alright amount for the different qualities? also, if you didnt know, at least armour and weapons, even without exceptional, still have a bonus compared to npc bought. the only "real way" this would be balanced, is if you could only have / use 1 tool per backpack storage. i pkd a guy who had 20 normal skillets and fishing poles. unluckely i only got 500 fish and not 5000 or 50000.

[[Fil:Tool durability balancing.png]]

arboreal - when you cut down a tree it disappears from top to bottom. depending on population of the server and how many are lumbering, trees will respawn slower, up to 24 hours or more. now, arboreal means "knowledge of trees", so with this youll be able to plant trees. every tree has to be 2 tiles away from other trees or things so you cant trap people into it. gives bonus to all tree related skills in different ways as well. that is, tinkering, archery, lumbering, carpentry, mace fighting when using wooden weapons, and parrying with wooden shields. this will also mean, youll have to travel around the world to look for trees. high level in this also shows a map of the density of trees in an area.

masculine - gives chance to scare creatures and players around. at GM its 75% neutral npcs, 50% red or grey or chaotic npcs, 25% good npcs, 12% blue players. while scared they cannot call for guards for 10 seconds. they will also not be able to attack you for 5 seconds. this will be especially good for jousting melee fighters, aka turn hitters.

mounts - instead of being max run speed at level 0, mounts only get this at lvl 10. this will really spruce up the taming skill. very few care to take their mounts beyond lvl 1 which frankly doesnt take long. and mounts unless strange colours dont sell for much. every creature and tamable that spawns also has the new property "movement speed", in -+50%, while mounts have -+10%. and just like mounts, at lvl 10 they will be +movement speed at higher levels, so theyll be able to chase up to pks.

lvl, movement speed improvement
0 +10%
1 +12%
2 +15%
3 +17%
4 +20%
5 +30%
6 +40%
7 +50%
8 +60%
9 +70%
10 +95%

athletic - similar to the above, at 100 points youll move at the speed of a mount.

mounts and people can run for 30 seconds before getting tired. if you run out of your endurance completely, you will only walk slowly. regenerates in 30 more seconds.

yes, i want this a lot. why just random stats for pets? why not for all creatures and battleable npcs? why should they all have like 3k 4k 5k hp, 25 armour, etc? and for human like npcs that are grey or red, why not let them spawn with magic armour and weapons for even more potential challenge? and also let them spawn with any applicable damaging skills. and for magic casters, why just have them do magic damage, why not actual spells, and combos? i remember liches back in the days could do explo + flamestrike + paralyze + teleport + melee attack + poison. that was ruthless.

swimming - just what it says. you will be able to use harpoons and tridents and fight monsters and fish this way. has a (100/skill)/10 percentage chance to drown once an hour. together with taming youll be able to tame new water npcs. docks will double up as stables.

avian - ive mentioned this before. but why should birds be useless in taming? i mean they do minimal damage and have even less hp. with this youll be able to tame most flying creatures in the game. will be a requirement for wisps as well. only flying creatures can attack the birds mentioned. all follower slots are doubled, but all pets except low level birds use double the slots. birds can fly up to 100 tiles away from you.

eagle - picks up enemies / creatures and lands them closer or nearer to you, toggleable. chance equal to 25%-taming req+avian

crow, bowerbird, magpie - collects items from corpses and puts them in your bank. together with poisoning skill you can get items from a distance this way. up to 1000 tiles to deliver to town. 10 tiles per second at lvl 10.

crow - misc items

magpie - gold

bowerbird - magic items

vulture - skins corpses and sends the items if you got 80 or higher forensic eval

dove - heals 1-10 hp depending on level every 30 seconds.

some other pet ideas.

chameleon - copies your skills. any applicable skill it gets 1/5th of it. resource gathering and creation skills as well. they also get a higher chance to hide with your hiding skill, and and has chance to backstab if you got stealth.

unicorn - increases your karma and fame. together with fencing you can use their horn for "turn hitting" just like with a lance. can only attack demons, dragons and undead.

creature alliances. each new player and old start out with 3x5 random alliances. these will restrict what you can or cannot fight or tame or bard. if youve used a skill negative towards a creature, you can never tame them. if youve tamed them, you can never attack that type again. maxes out at 5 types. there is also neutral which does not attack you at all and is not attackable and cannot be tamed or barded.

this will only be activated when you have 5 grandmasters in skills, and you will never know, unless you safely fight and protect certain types. example of variations.

small animal

medium animal

big animal

blue human

grey human

red human

humanoid

lizard

snake, poisonous

demon

dragon, firebreather

undead

water

earth

fire

wind, avian

lightning

metal

wood

sand

crystal, wisp

mount

intelligent, aka unicorn

stupid, aka ettin, troll








latest updates to gaming writing things, written plenty on runescape, just diary as i play, also for ultima online again.

INTRO

When Bella left me for her Ex when our first baby was born, I turned to computer games, something I hadn't dabbled in for 1½ decade.

I remembered then how it was, I was accepted for who I am, no matter what. So as a tip for you, if you feel lonely and ignored, try to look up some online, or offline (with an online community) game, and start playing! You will have a lot of fun, and maybe all that pent up energy you have will disipate.

As a gamer I had trouble fitting into normal society, although I managed that for awhile. I have never had a proper payed job. Worked some for free though, at a large (or else it gets boring!) second hand store, a factotum at a cute art café, at the amazing thing called Fountain House, and its accompanying radio show (in their local Swedish office), Radio Totalnormal. Again, highly recommended to look up those, it can save your life!

TEXT

I've always tried to fit in.

I still do, wherever I go online or IRL. But in gaming I don't have to. It's people that have gone and go through the same pain as me.

Thats why I play MMORPGs 🖤

And that's why I played the Quake series online before. No matter how much I fucked up, no matter if I got banned TWO YEARS on one of the only servers on Gloom, there were people on the forums who accepted me for who I was.

If you're lonely and misunderstood, try gaming 🖤 It doesn't hurt to try!

With social media everyone tries to fit in, to be as perfect and as exciting as possible. Hey, guess what? Life is boring and meaningless and stale and grey. We are all really boring inside, in our core. So try to find people which are on your level. With gaming, its like that for me :) Now theres so so so many online games, that it's impossible to not find one which fits for you 🖤

The first gaming memory I have, and also one of my first memories, is playing ICE CLIMBER on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Since then I haven't really gotten any more skillful. I've played so many games, probably more than ten thousand hours, but I'm still not very at them. I'm all for easy hack and slash. Runescape was fun while it lasted, but now it just freezes constantly when I try to log in. It's ok though, I'm in MOC now. It's a small tight-knit community but its OK 🖤

Now some games I've played that I still remember, and some new tries.

GAMES

BitCraft Alpha 2 Review



read-in:

https://svenskadikter.com/Bc

https://youtu.be/5aG0YIISx20

https://tiktok.com/@tomassofia808/video/7396374209728990497

https://www.flickr.com/photos/teejay808/53885172529

wasnt this supposed to be released last year? there really is nothing to the game at all. pure vapourware. so where did the time and money go? like alex jones modus operandi, coke and ladies.

so what can you do in it? craft some items, of which the most important one is the cryptically named "supply". took me 2 hours to figure out that one.

the text is tiny and barely readable, although i can only play at 640x480 on my $600 machine i bought ½ year ago at reasonable FPS, so it makes it even worse.

in the latest developer update they spammed all the time about "empires" and "exciting" - of which the last word, is only used by highly commercial enterprises.

many have wondered where the name "bit" comes from, and they have constantly assured us on discord that it will never be associated with bitcoin. but lo and behold, yesterday they released a video about "the problems with cryptocurrency today".

you spawn in the same area as everyone else. if you walk north or south you get the error message "this is not the right way". only east works, where you are treated with a load of tutorials, which cannot be skipped, and the dialogue text is even harder to read.

there is nothing "open world" about it whatsoever. just walking literally for 20 seconds takes you out of bounds, where you already need tier 2 to gather resourches and fight a puny horse, the only monster seen. i have level 10 in many skills after playing all day, but i am somehow still not at the second tier.

when spawning, you are treated with a village already viewable on the screen, which is made by the so-called player "V275831", surely a bot.

walking into the shrine some 15 seconds away, treats you to a tiny room with an NPC to talk to, there is 1 choice: trade. clicking that achieves nothing.

and not to mention the automap. almost nothing is on it, except where people have built claim totems - clicking anywhere to walk doesnt work if theres elevation.

there is nowhere to uninstall (nor find) the game on windows, it doesnt show up on the start menu, nor the desktop. strangely enough, there is no trace of it in "programs", it sits directly below c:.

as for the "social" aspect, i tried writing a few things in the chat, but got no replies. devoid of messages for 8 hours.

i have no idea how they are to house "every player on the same server", there is often lag of several seconds, and walking for 2 minutes you get the error message "couldnt sync with server".

figuring the rudeness of the discord admins and the pure inanity of their twitter posts, i can only assume this is made by angsty teenagers.

Don't Starve

Immortal Life another farming emulator, but in 3D.

Sun Haven A stardew valley on steroids, more of absolutely everything, and then some.

Don't die in the west

Survivalists So I watched a play-through of the whole game. I wish he'd shown more crafting, not the fighting sort. Anyway, you make things, gather things, fight things, you puzzle things, and you've got monkeys to help you! A bit like that viking game on SNES, in that you need the monkeys to help you with the puzzles.

Top 15 Open World Pixel-Art Games

Factorio

Terraria

Vampire Survivors Addictive game. Found some vids on it on youtube from a twitter post. It's an action RPG, and difficult. You can play max 30 mins, but lots of powerups and weapons.

Forager Hey, a nameless game and a nameless character. I dunno, it just doesn't fit me. Soul-less. But its got real good engineering, fluid motion, as compared to Stardew Valley (which it's akin to). It even has modding capability. Whatever floats your boat, doesn't hurt to try. 🖤

Aberoth. For the oldskool lover. 🖤 1970s graphics, you interact with the world with arrowkeys, mouseclick and lots of commands. The commands are one of the worst things for me, since I just don't remember them. Might be related to my dad yelling me out and giving me commands, and then he'd say I should do something else, while yelling, the next day. Hey, all's forgiven, my dad has been dead for 8 years now.

Directly when you go to the website you're transported into the game, nice feature. Hey just wanted to mention that I helped a noob get around the game in Mirage, and he introduced me to this one. Be a good person, folks. Don't troll. Dont crash servers. Don't DDOS. Don't use weird memes on people. Dont treat people badly unless they deserve it, but even if they deserve it, don't do it.

Drakensang Akin to World of Warcraft. Real good smooth graphics on my old machine. Doesn't seem to be a huge game, not many maps. But lots of items. Mounts too. Pretty quick download just some 100's megabyte. You need to click a lot. I guess I'm spoiled with Runescape. You only have 3 attacks possible, left click, right click, then you can click tab to change the spell to be used on right click. Yep, lots of spells and different attack methods. It just seems so easy. I'm lvl 10 and havent even been near half health even. Another weird thing is, you need a respawn item to be able to be resurrected, otherwise the game is over? Sounds tough. Quite fun though.

I played the game some more. Still not much of, if any, challenge. I'm in a level 11 dungeon now. Upping skills doesnt seem to do much of a difference, and they don't seem balanced. It's just hack and slash and mash your keyboard. Another weird thing is I got a lvl 11 armour, but it has the same stats as a lvl 5 armour? so does anything change in the game, or you can you go without any items and just hack through it? Still, it's obviously not made for IQ, it's made for douchebags. Doesn't in any way obviously hold up to Diablo II's genius, even if the skills were less balanced than here. You could do a lot of fun builds though. Here it's just higher level skill available, only use that.

Eldevin - I didn't find the interface fun to use. It seems far too easy in the beginning. Couldn't connect without VPN either. Did download quickly so that's at least something. Give it a try if you're tired of everything else. The graphics are like a mix between oldskool Runescape and Runescape 3. It's quite well-made still.

Stardew Valley Not a massive game, but you can play it with a few friends (if you're one of the lucky ones). It's really original though and doesnt feature a lot of combat. I just liked growing and chopping trees. It's got a cute well-made graphical style, I can almost guarantee you'll fall in love with this game

Diablo II

(Written for Lurker Lounge some years ago)

Anoretic / Bulimic necro

You're so skinny, you're not even skin and bones anymore, you're just bones!

As the name might suggest, you put nothing into vitality at all. Being a singleplayer, noncheater, I have no idea how people get several 100's in mana from nowhere - or do they gulp potions like mad? Or both?!

Rules:
* Only magic bone spells:

Teeth
Bone armor
Bone wall
Bone prison
Bone spear
Bone spirit

* Just enough strength to wear the equipment needed, the rest goes into energy.
* No resist or defence equipment either.
* No twinking
* No mercenary

Your bones are your defence, and your "tank". First bone armor, then bone wall, then the most amazing one of them all: bone prison.

It seems like when you stack bone prison, they all act as one entity. So even if you have only a 100hp wall, if you spam it 10 times, then it'll turn into a 1000hp one.

Bone prison works even on Diablo, although, certainly, he invented the thing! You'll catch him off-guard, he'll be thinking "hmm, how many times should I make my slow melee attack on this white, dull, strange... thing?".

I'd recommend putting many points in Teeth in the beginning, and when you've reached higher levels, you can use the act I reward to redistribute to the higher spells.

Bone spear works fine on its own, but if you're lazy - or partially blind, bone spirit is the way to go - although you'll only use it when fighting a single enemy. It'd be better to max out prison and wall first before putting points into spirit - that way your bone armor gets stronger.

Your best defence, except spells, is Reduced damage. These synergize somehow with bone armor, making it last much longer.

I started this build, boring as I am, with corpse explosion, and an army. At act 3, I stopped using corpse explosion, and made use of the /players8 trick - to get more of a challenge. Then I was reading around - remember, I haven't played *any* computer game for 15 years - and found the hero editor. I only use it to exchange equipment and gems/runes between characters, and of course - the most fun - to reset my stats and skills every so often!

Something I don't understand, is all these people saying "what equipment should I twink to my new character?". And then all they do is infinite boss runs anyway. Those aren't challenging, and they're downright dull. They destroy the entire essence of the game.

Which gets me to my next point. I was using /players8 early on. But, damnit, 50 magic find on /players1 gives you better loot! And fighting huge hp monsters with my bone spear, gives *nothing*, absolutely nothing, compared to raiding bosses. It was so depressing, I had probably taken 10000 items back to town, to identify and sell and to assess their quality - and I never got any necro-friendly equipment. No large +mana, no good +skill wands or heads, no faster cast rate, nor improved run speed.

So I don't really understand, how an offline player, that has no internet connection, and just plays the game through, has *ever* managed to advance far in it. For any player, you get basically no - or negative - resistances, a little defence and block rate yes, no faster attack speed, no run speed, no cast rate - no nothing. Until you start raiding bosses, and the uniques flow like mad.

It's really sad, that a game which takes pride in its incredibly adventitious system on all planes, ends up rolling so terrible equipment - that I just don't picking up magic items anymore. And rares - why do I really, honestly, bother? Even with my necro at level 52, I have been unable to find something beyond +10 faster cast rate on rings as the best attribute. Which, by the way, I got from transmuting 3 amulets. It seems faster cast rate is so low in drops, that even act 1 blood moor beasts won't give them to you. But when I get those slaps in the face when wasting huge amounts of cash on gambling rings and amulets for many many Ks or even millions, I at least have my faster cast rate.

I'd also like to call my necro the bulimic vacuum cleaner. I grabbed basically *everything* I could find, and poured them out in the shops. Even bolts and potions. And yes, I did manage to find some good wands from the shopkeepers, eventually. Right now I'm waiting for the White runeword to be put into practice - but I'm not finding any good 2 socket wands.

And, yes, gamling is another big slap in the face. I tried gambling on shoes and gloves, thinking naively enough I'd get a unique. But a couple of minutes of a chaos sanctuary run gives a unique - or several - every time! While if I amass several 100 000's of gold, and invest them all in the aforementioned potential items, I'm just left with things like +5 life, and magic damage reduced by 1, if I'm lucky...

Starting from act I nightmare, things got very interesting. I reset my stats and skillpoints again, and made a completely dedicated anoretic necro. I eventually got tired of it, and went back to a summoner / bone build. But it was fun while it lasted! Sneaking around corners, having bone prison on your trigger finger. Assessing the potential damage of the enemies. Yes, it was actually scary, and exciting!

I tried building up my resistances - no, I didn't have any magic find equipment, I had dirt! But still, the results were the same, if I were to encounter an extra fast / cursed / lightning- or cold enchanted beast, I'd still be dead in a blink of an eye anyway, if they got their hands on me... (Or if I trapped myself together with them in a bone prison Big Grin)

For fun, approximate Bone Spear damage:

level 20 + 0 synergies: 200
level 20 + 20 synergies: 450
level 20 + 40 synergies: 750
level 20 + 60 synergies: 1000
level 20 + 80 synergies: 1300
level 20 + 80 synergies & +5 skills: 1800
level 20 + 80 synergies & +10 skills: 2500
level 20 + 80 synergies & +15 skills: 3300
level 20 + 80 synergies & +20 skills: 4100
level 20 + 80 synergies & +25 skills: 4900
level 20 + 80 synergies & +30 skills: 5800
level 20 + 80 synergies & +35 skills: 6666
level 20 + 80 synergies & +40 skills: 7400

Of note is I saw a discussion of a level 99 PvP barb, who had around 7500hp. If you could truly max out your +skills (absolutely highest possible is +41 skills, I think?) you could, if you rolled the max damage on the spear, butcher him in 1 shot!

A screenie from a rare ring I just got this morning, level 54, act II nightmare, /players8, ~30 magic find. Dear god, I think I'll do Normal CS runs again. It's just a damn joke. Although, after reading around, I've realized that the drops are the same as using /players1. Still, it's fun to level up faster and the increased challenge (monsters do 50% more damage!), but I think I'll edit the TXTs to give me 8 player drops.



By the way, I *swear* bone armour has a running speed penatly?

[Update]

I'm still in act II nightmare. At level 56. Have been doing a lot of CS runs. Got myself tons of items. But it just sucked the fun out of the game. Didn't want to play for several days. I wondered why my other lower level characters weren't enjoyable to play - because i couldn't do zero challenge boss runs, that's why!

I've started modding the game a bit, but the task is just humungous. And it'd be better if I just balanced the overpowered skills as they were. Started a Dragon Talon assassin, I've been kicking everyone's ass so far, in act III.

The necro I reverted back to a bone prison / bone spear one. Sad My mercenary kept dying, and I kept getting tired of resurrecting him. Thought I had some good gear on him, but no no... And I've reverted back to using /players1 there. This is where the challenge starts! To think I have more than half the game in front of me, still... I also changed it around to using almost all my points in vitality, but I still die so easily. I hate zombies! They probably take a 100 hits with my bone spear at 1000 damage! And they regen hitpoints like mad, no way could it be 1.2hp per second! Might change to using bone spirit instead, it's got a 25% damage bonus over bone spear, and I'm killing monsters one by one anyway...

I tried changing my prayer merc to holy freeze one instead. But he still got donked in a few secs when he met a lightning enchanted beast.

Some music recommendations:

* The Quake I soundtrack. Gloomy like all hell. And a pure classic.
* Anything in the WitchHouse genre, fits perfectly for a Necromancer. VALHALLs new album Grimoire is the beacon here.
* For a long, long time I've been listening to Space Ambient, also known as Sotz. There's for example "cryo sleep - zero beat guaranteed" both as a shoutcast stream, and a youtube playlist. Calms the nerves. The biggest shining star here is Carbon Based Lifeforms, their Derelics album is an incredible piece of electronica. There's also Burial, awhile ago he released his greatest hits album. And not to forget Steve Roach's 1980's masterpiece Structures from Silence.
* Anything by Velvet Acid Christ. Real demented stuff... But real well-made too.
* Red Alert soundtrack - is available on Spotify, even. Klepacki is king! An incredible piece of engineering. If you still have the game on CD, it's possible to extract more songs from the game, compared to which are available on the soundtrack.
* Monstercat releases. A huge archive is for free on youtube, and on Bandcamp you can get the songs in FLAC. Like VAC they blend every electronic genre under the sun - it's called dreamstep / glitchhop, but it's a lighter type, although they've gotten rougher lately.
* Yugen Blakrok. Metaphysical south-african emceeing. Nothing like her out there.
* Darkhalo. He's got a lot of music under his belt. A legend. On Scene.org is his mod archive (search for "dh-"), which I consider his best work. Just real chilly ambient and/or fast DnB, or its mix - Liquid DnB. Not to be confused with A Dark Halo, the metalhead copycats.

Otherwise I'd recommend just about any music, actually. Playing computer-games makes me more alert, but not like before when I got annoyed by everything. I hear every instrument and voice much clearer. Diablo II has made me fall in love with my record collection again!🖤

mad world. This is a HTML 5 game. The visuals looks real good. They're simple but detailed and quite... gory. It holds promise 🖤 Its still in closed testing, it was going to be released last winter (2022) but still isn't finished. I'd love to play this 🖤 The looks are like like a mix between the early Final Fantasy's and Diablo I.

stein.world - This seems fun. Secret of mana:ish visuals. I've just started playing it :) 🖤

So I just starting played this game more. It has a different way of controlling your character. It's real beautifully oldskool art style though, so it holds a lot of promise. It seems to be catered towards P2P (that you have to pay to enjoy it). There's something called "soulbound" which you get already at skill level 2, which I presume means you can't change the weapon or armour later, which seems really limitating. It also uses lots of computer resources for some reason (even more than Runescape!), when it's just low resolution graphics, but seems to run at max framerate of your screen, so that's the problem, or just bad coding or PR management. It's also laggy (choppy movement even) eventhough I use the european server and I'm on a fast 20 MB/s connection.

So, the graphics are cute but that's about it. It's a corrupt game, worse than Runescape even. It reminds of Ultima Underworld in how you use the interface, it's a lot of micromanagement. To use a health potion you need to select it and then click on yourself. That doesn't make combat a lot of fun.

In short: this game just annoys me. after having played it for another 30 minutes I can safely say it isn't for me. My hands are hurting from clicking and holding arrowkeys for too long.

kaetram - Hey a cute game like the SNES classic Secret of Mana. Just started playing 🖤 It's opensource too, so you can base your own game on its code :) When I just got into it, it was some dude who was lvl 226. For real! We hung out for some hours then I got despairful and didnt meet him again. Sucks. Still, try this, it's fun. Reminds more of legend of zelda 3 for the Super Nintendo maybe.

[UPDATE] Well, theyve updated the game since I last played. There's now arrows for the bows. Some small changes. It's nice! Highly recommended 🖤 It's not that complicated of a game. You can make due with just arrow keys almost. If you walk up to a tree, you chop it, if you walk up to a monster, you attack it. Quite innovative! :)

Mirage Online Classic - Quite gimpy art/sound but a nice community. They can be quite rude but theres some really nice people in the game. Can sometimes find someone cool to talk to 🖤 This and the above you can usually talk to the developers / admins / moderators even in the game, you can make a difference, don't let anyone tell you otherwise 🖤

I've played this for about 2x1 months. It's a simple game, so it's easy to learn the mechanics. It's not bad. If you are behind a restrictive firewall it might be the only chance you got at gaming. Loads near-instantly and doesn't use a lot of resources. Good randomly generated passwords so you won't get hacked.

Hey, I've played this some more. You can get to talk to the developer in-game actually, just don't be an ass. He'll ban or mute you if you misbehave. I like the community a lot, I really do. Don't know what more to say. You can trade, you can co-operate in dungeons, it's a lot of things to do even if it's a simple game. Highly recommended.

Played it even more. The main admin is a real good guy. And the lower admins too. I remember when I started out, what, 1½ year ago? The game was real fresh, it's evolved a lot since then. It's basically redneck teens which play it, but I like the community. I've gotten a friend in the game, a real friend, we have as much anxiety so we understand eachother. He's real cool anyway. He even wrote me a poem. It means a lot to me. There's not much to do in the game, most people "run dmc", which is this boss which goes down quickly if you're a couple of players, and you get 250 000 experience from it. But I still like this game, if only because of the community 🖤

Ultima Online Hey I played this in the beginning of The Nullties. It was my first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. It had so many good ideas that have been lost since in later games. I don't know what it is like nowadays. Couldn't get it to work no matter how I tried. Has quite good graphics eventhough it's from the nineties. Low framerate of animations though. There's a special Roleplaying Server even that was quite populated back in the days. There's also player-made servers (haven't tried them though so can't vouch) with whole new maps and other ruleset, and so on. Many unique monsters and tameable creatures, animal taming is even a skill in the game. A lot of fun. Truly unique that stands out from every other MMORPG out there. If you weren't around back in the days, sorry, maybe you missed an important part of gaming history.

??? - Need to remember the name of this game. it was jocular and also SNES:ish too. Real cool.

??? - Based on the latest unreal engine. Needs a fast graphics card. I tried a hacked version, got like ½FPS at lowest settings, so it was unplayable. Has realistic physics and atmosphere with beautiful natural sunsets, and very customizable building things system, that's modular. Low download size since it's all created in real time like diablo I's dungeons. As they say, randomness is the key to happiness! Not an mmorpg, only supports a small party size.

Runescape 3 (Not Oldskool) - An epic. Many people are into statistics, but you can play the game however you want. I've roleplayed some, it's a lot of fun. So many players, just watch out for bots, skillers and the trammies (grand exchange campers). A plethora of clans to join and get friends if you've just been bullied and lied to all your life. You'll find friends here 🖤 Just be choosy what clan you choose. Dont accept twinkers (hand-me-downs) and darknet script-kiddies. Is based on Java(script?) so you can play it behind a restrictive firewall. Has like 300 quests and so much meta content. Recommended a try strongly if you havent heard about it, as they do no advertising, one of the core values of the game, is that it can only be heard of, through Word of Mouth.

So like I said I started playing this in 2020. I mention runescape to lots of people, and many say they played it as a kid. Ultima Online was a lot of fun thought when i was in my 20's, so no regrets there. Anyway I'm back on Runescape it lags and low fps and needs re-installation each time my WIFI breaks but its ok <3 You meet so many amazing people in here, and the great thing is they're on your level. They're not like the fake IRL. And besides, whats the difference between chasing "likes" and "friends" on facebok, or drinking with your mates, than xping and gping in Runescape? I see no difference, so gaming is for me <3 I've probably laid down thousand of hours on this game. Since I had self-harm before and was chaotic, I've both lost accounts and I got worse than banned lol. Anyway, it's all good, I'm in a guild now :) And found a friend, a dude who doesn't do drugs, it's amazing 🖤

There's so many specializations you can do in this game, find what fits for you. It's not just "losers" that play computergames, it's for everyone! It might seem silly, but it's not, its important 🖤 If someone says It's just a game or You're wasting your time. Ask what all those who chase likes on facebook and instagram, or try to drink more than their mates, or look the most perfect with makeup and clothes, do with their lives. It's the same thing. This is a safe haven for geeks and goths and ANY bullying victim and freaks if you wanna call us that.

A fitting quote, to explain that the game can be played in many ways: "They can have their OP items and trinkets, im busy tending my farm and fishing".

i like making egg potatoes

Money making guide: cutting willow and oak logs

Hey, I actually did something useful ^___^ Just some stats from Runescape. It won't make much sense to the ones not playing it. I get all dizzy thinking in numbers.

Bitcraft - It has promise but they give a good outer images, while the Developer Team seem like numbskulls. And real rude discord moderators too.

The game is without PVP and is supposed to be a building, gathering, politics and transporting resources game with some killing NPCs. Supposed to be a HUGE game that takes weeks to travel around the map. Similar to minecraft, if i recall correctly, in that you can "sculpt" the world. It's Based on the unreal / infinity or whatever its called engine I think.

Josh Strife Hayes. Youtube channel about tons of MMORPGs and good games, and a lot of bad, unfortunately. Highly recommended. He has VERY dry british wit. Awesome guy 🖤 Interesting comment section.

Minecraft - The graphics are horrible, I'm sorry, I can't take this seriously. If it was made in the 80's I might've cared, probably not though. It's supposed to be a World Builder game, where you can make whatever you want. Not sure what it's about. It has a good community from what i've heard, tons of players, of all sorts.

GODS UNCHAINED - An $ETH game, you can make money playing it, legally. You need to learn to play all 6 colours / elements to win though. I on the other hand was only good with 2 colours, green/black aka Nature and Death magic. A lot of fun. It has no chat system, only emojis. Is a great challenge. Reminds strongly of Magic: The Gathering, even if it has its own soul. Still quite unique.

It runs as an app so it can be iffy in gameplay speed / FPS / connectivity. Uses an algorithm for giving cards it's not random so can seem futile. I wouldnt want to play it 8-16 hours per day to make 200$.

A lot of fun though real beautiful illustrations and a good sorting system. Real nice game. You play against other players obviously. you can fuse cards if you get a special currency this is what you can trade $ETH for. etherium is a sort of like Bitcoin, decentralized currency :) It's not that huge yet you cant use it on some sites. Some stores IRL I guess accept Bitcoin:ish payment.

RPGs

All early Final Fantasy's up to 7. Try to find an emulator for 1-6. They're amazing games without gorey graphics just beautiful and bright. Good music, good sounds effects, good dialogue / storyline. Just amazing in so many ways.

Secret of Mana / Secret of Evermore / Shadowrun - some good SNES games. Shadowrun is a cyberpunk game real cool.

Some old games might be on STEAM or as emulated on new video games I dunno.

Home of the Underdogs - Hey you might find an old favorite on this site. It's supposed to give hommage to games which didn't turn very popular. So they can have the site up in the name of the "Fair Use" principle. Even has games from the 1980's, like for example text based (MUDs).

Remember to search on an old game on youtube, and adding words such "speedrun", "music" or "cover". A lot is available. It's real fun. Enjoy the internet while it lasts! 🖤 :) We're all part of DARPA lifescience, IRL as well. Sometime in the future everything will be gone. Everything will be gone. We'll just be in the clouds like Miley Cyrus says :( :) 🖤

"This is absolutely the most exciting time you could ever hope to be alive"

IRL

A)

In Sweden, as I haven't been to many other places, there is for example on Kungsträdgården (a garden near central station in stockholm) often happenings. To name a few:

1) Sakura day. On the 25:th of march each year 🖤 They might bloom earlier or later, you never know. What is on the menu is of course cultured food, but also mangas, cosplay, kendo - just lots of things pertaining to everything Japanese, you can even buy kimonos and obviously asian food and drinks too. Highly recommended. The Garden has a lot of cherry trees so it's just a perfect day to be there, to celebrate Spring 🖤

Last time I was there there were some Nazis protesting, hey, if you don't like foreigners "get the fuck off the planet" as Uncle Felipe says 🖤

2) Hindu day. Usually just a lot of different indic food mostly. So tasty. I love indic cooking do some myself.

3) Extreme cooking day. I ate crocodile (was like yellow chicken) and tasted garlic beer (ok that was a lie but i presume its real funky lol). Real cool cooking try something unusual.

B) Just try acting differently, using unique clothes / unusual makeup / (lots of) accessories. Dye your hair blonde or black or neon. Be yourself. Express yourself like Madonna says 🖤 Try to talk in a different ways. Like a movie star or series character or gaming NPC or from a book. It's easier than you think, to be "in character".

Be yourself but see yourself in others. The ultimate emotion is empathy 🖤 If youre a guy use dresses and nailpolish its not that hard to paint it and it lasts a few days even if you shower. If youre a girl use buttoned oversized (lumberjack) shirts / baggy clothes (hey its trendy for girls even) and dont shave haha / use short hair / shave it allllllll off like sinead o'connor (DARE). The sky's the limit 🖤 Get tatus theyre beautiful it'll change your life 🖤

3) Ångestparaden. Made by Fountain House Stockholm.

BOOKS

Yes, these magical things made out of trees, our ancestors. There are roleplaying books actually, called "Choose your Adventure". You start at the first page, then when you've read a few pages, it says "choose page 3, 17 or 38" for example. These didn't really do it for me, but my BFF liked them.

He also finished Zelda for the Nintendo Gameboy. He was a prodigy. He's now a Computer Security expert. I really wonder what's up with him these days. I found him on facebook but I don't think he's added me back yet, if he ever will. He just had an avatar and nothing else.

The Last Question. I found this linked on Slashdot back in the days. Isaac Asimov made it available online a long time ago. He wrote it in 1956, maybe CERN or some other research centre had internet back then, who knows? It's for the betterment of society, and us as a species, like all good Science Fiction is.

DRAMAS

I have to mention Dexter, since the first non-fiction books in the western world were a mix of Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Is a really well-made book and drama series. I recommend both reading and watching it. It's about a serial killer but it's with a 🖤 Like asian movies usually are. They can be about awful things, but they still remember the core of things.

Scrubs. A comedy series without canned laughter. Really good. Highly recommended.

OLD GAMES

Diablo I - This was actually not made by Blizzard, which explains how it could have such atmospheric cut-scenes, which are unprecendented in gaming, to this day 🖤 It had real good graphics for its time - both pre-rendered 3d and real nice pixel art, well-made sound effects too, and original gameplay, as each time you logged online, a new randomly generated dungeon was presented to you. Was only for a few players at once though.

The soundtrack in and of itself has inspired a plethora of metal and electronica musicians in the especially dark versions of those genres.

If you didn't know, the electronic genre of music spawned from mainly 2 genres:

* ARTROCK - This existed already in the 1950's actually, with for example the apartment-big synth made especially for the swedish space movie "Aniara". It was mostly made up by upper-class white males, people with a higher education, or ones that understand electronics beyond playing a simple pop melody over and over. Or as

It can be said to be "complicated" / "hard to get" music, but Steve Roach's Dream Sotz masterpiece "Structures from Silence" is something that speaks to everyone. If you look it up in a Wav Editor, you'll see that it's just 3 Sine Waves, how he made it is still a mystery.

Artrock is often made to be played in art galleries, or unusual museum exhibits. It can be said to be more "concept art" than anything else. The practioners often pride themselves in revealing their often simple "method" as if they were scientists, and how expensive the equipment they use for it is.

This also ties in with what is termed "euro-crack", or Eurorack as they are really called. They are modular synth systems, which you can hear geeks audibly drooling over how "many frequencies" they excibit. I, personally, don't understand them at all. I tried a software version, and all I could achieve was a car alarm and a dogbark after a days stress-test. Still, in Ableton I often use layered randomness and/or chaotic synth playing. So without knowing it, I've been an "Art-Rocker" all along.

* HIPHOP - In the 1970s, a lot of black LBGT musicians, were the first to experiment with electronic sounds, in a poppier fashion. If you dare to challenge your gender roles, you also dare, to expand the horizons, of music, as well.

Hey, that's it, and that's that. I hope you got something out of this. It's a new way for me to write, now 2 years since Bella left me I realized I don't have to go out of my way to impress people, because most stay silent or don't say much. As they say, Be yourself, everyone else already exists.

THE GEEK ILLNESS

Hey this might be my little treasure trove of geekiness on the interweb. What I'm about to talk about isn't Aspbergers. It's something much more severe. It's called fibromyalgia. Officially, people only say it's "lots of pain". Unofficially, it's metal- and electricity oversensitivity. The truth though, is that the person who has fibromyalgia, has wrecked their lymphic system, which is why, when you get older, some things hang - it's not fat, it's a collection of lymphs. The lymphs are all over your body, probably in your brain too, like a three-dimensional web. Whenever you move your body, such as taking long walks in the woods, your lymphic system works to make everything else in your body work. If you're like me though, you spent the majority of your teen days and probably adult days too, sitting in front of a computer, or lying in bed with your smartphone by your side.

Now I'll just have to mention that I bought anti-histamines. I took these years ago, and they had good effect, so good effect actually, that I unfortunately stopped taking them. I bought some standard brand at the drugstore which was thirty pills at 10 milligrams each. As I had anxiety at the time, I put my grocery bag on the table, took a pill, and tried to rest. I can safely say it probably had a negative effect on my heart, or maybe it fixed it up some. In either case, lying on my left side was a bad idea. Otherwise, I feel more free in the body, more lean, like I'd gone to the massage parlour, I was literally floating on clouds, didn't want to get out of bed. Histamines are red colourants, maybe related to red blood cells. I don't really know what they do, but if you get cramps and have a stale demeanor, try antihistamines.