Heavensward [3.0]: Post may contain potential spoilers.
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I hate to say this, but I want more ways to automate the effort of making these posts. I’ve been debating on making a script that creates the post and then checks to see if its availble for posting. Same thing with the pictures. I just want to upload the picture and not even have to worry about anything else. Its possible to do, but I’ve haven’t really spent the time needed to do such a thing. Filebrowser actually kind’ve achieves a little of what I want to do, but I’m a tad paranoid of making a mistake. I was about to mention on how what I wanted out of Filebrowser only to just realize that a script could actually handle that use case. The only thing that I would like to do is using some form of notification service, so that I know what its doing. Ideally, I would also use it as a way to tell if someone is accessing stuff when they shouldn’t. This might just become a reality far quicker than I realized. Although, there will still be a few kinks I need to tackle before hand.
Sword
Throughout the ages a single sword had persisted and unbroken under a line of family. Each new generation the wielder of this sword cherished it everyday and ensured of its mint condition. Some of those generation even had used it to save their very own lives. However, one generation took a rather reckless approach with the sword. On one fateful battle the sword shatters due to its unkempt care. The wielder while sadden by ruining one of their famiy’s prized possessions. Eventually, the family forgave their act of misconduct and even bestowed them a new blade for the family. As such the broken sword was left to rust away uncared by all. Years had gone by and more pieces of the blade break away and all memory of the sword’s existence crumpled under the weight of time. Fortunately, a person with little value to them saw this blade. Uncertain whether this sword will have any value. They decided to take the sword and renew its health as a test of their will. While the craftsman could no longer return the memories it had lost. The sword breathed new life into the metal and once more brought forth a new age of memories.
I was a bit annoyed with yesterday’s story. I wasn’t content how the last one turned out. However, this time I kind’ve like this story. Its bit more clear of what the main points I wanted to achieve. Although, the lesson from it is a bit vague and to be quite honest I struggled on trying to determine what it would be. There’s two things that I think one person could learn from this story, but the main problem with this story is that its kind’ve half-baked. Now thinking about this. There’s actually something that I could’ve done to make the lesson easier to understand. I vaguely mentioned it with the part where the one wielder that broke the sword had taken a “reckless approach”. I should’ve added a part where the sword started to show its age and the newest member wielding the sword cared very little of the past. Because of it they did very little to maintain the state of the sword and allowed it to break. Then when the new wielder repaired the sword and had let their future generations use it. One of them accidently broke the sword, but instead of replacing it with a new one they repaired it like their forefathers did since they cared more of the memories passed onto them.
It would’ve been a lot more explicit what the lesson was from this story. Unfortunately, due to my time constraints (I had less than 30 seconds to spare). I couldn’t really reconsider how I was telling the story. While one might say if I given myself 10 more minutes I could’ve made a far better story out of it, but thats sort’ve the challenge behind trying to make a story within 10 minutes. The faster and more precise I am in making these stories. The easier it will be for me when I actually start working on a longer story. To boil it all down. This challenge is meant for me to improve my commitment and skills on writing (more like typing) stories. I don’t plan on criticizing every story I make here. Although, unlike yesterday’s story I did enjoy making this one and it was probably the main reason why I even wanted to criticize it in the first place.
Quick mention, I really like the phrase “crumpled under the weight of time”. I thought it was cool at the very least.
A couple more things
Wow these posts have suddenly exploded in length. For a few months now I’ve consistently been making very short posts like under 200 words. Since I have started this new challenge. I have found myself typing a lot more than I normally would do. While I don’t expect incredibly long posts everyday. Its nice to know that there’s some meat to them. (Sorry vegans, I guess you won’t be able to digest these posts now.)
Another thing to mention is the progress of the Hydaelyn Preservation Project. Originally, I was going to start recording all of the footage that was needing tonight. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that I work tomorrow and will have to wait to do that tomorrow. By the way, the next zone for the project will be the Sea of Clouds. Once I’m done with that I have Ishgard, Idyllshire and Azys Lla left for Heavensward. I plan on combining Ishgard and Idyllshire into one video. Mainly because I didn’t really put much thought into the first video I had made. Plus both of them aren’t particularly huge to do.
Anyhow, thats all I have for today. I hope you folks have a good time and try not to spend the rest of your day/night contemplating food choices.