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An insignificant rant on HoT&PoF

As everyone knows, yady yady ya, everyone prefers HoT, whatever

I’m one of those people and I’m about to rant about this too.

THIS IS NOT A SPOILER FREE RANT

I will be talking about story elements and stuff that happens in both DLCs.

I like Path of Fire, I really do, it gave me Elona, it gave me agent Kito whom I wholeheartedly pity cuz he has to deal with the Commander, it gave me more of Aurene (and it gave me Joko on whom I can shit on when I feel bad)

But, it didn’t give me maps I like (and I will tell you why) (please note I am no game designer, or designer in general. In fact, maps designed by me would be probably shit, but I still believe my opinion is valid, because I am a person with eyes that can see)

This is going to be a small rant when it comes to maps, now mark, english isn’t my first language so there may be nonsensical sentences, and I am no professional critic so all of this is coming from my heart, not my brain.

Ready? Let’s go

So I’m going to do a little comparison (nothing too much in depth) of the four maps from each DLC (plus Domain of Vabbi but I don’t have much to say on it if I’m honest).

 We have Verdant Brink, Auric Basin, Tangled Depths and Dragon’s stand from Heart of Thorns, and Crystal Oasis, Desert Highlands, The Desolation, Elon Riverlands and Domain of Vabbi. 

Let me start with HoT, because it makes logical sense.

When you first start the Heart of Thorns campaign, you’re told to go from Silverwastes to... Verdant Brink. You get a small taste of it right before you enter it, in that cave where the injured pact members are talking about it. And then you load in (hopefully, if your pc doesn’t reenact an atomic blast), and first thing you see, when you walk in on that VERY SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED LEDGE

is absolute carnage.

Ships are strewn about, hanging in pieces torn apart by Mordremoth’s vines, smoke and fire is everywhere, that part of the jungle is ravaged not only by Mordremoth, but also by you. Your Pact. And in that moment you exactly realize what happened (if it wasn’t obvious from the cutscene that played before it *cough cough*)

But now you see it. The map tells you a very obvious story, and you don’t need to be a genius to figure it out. It tells you and SHOWS you exactly how strong and dangerous the Dragon you’re hunting is. It shows you what you have to overcome.  (And if you’re me, you’re crying cuz Trahearne got kidnapped)

I’m going to skip the storyparts of this map, but will instead focus on the meta of it (since i’ve done it like trillion times). There’s five main crashpoints. Each has to bring their all to successfuly make this map “safe”. The nobles, the Pale Reavers, the quaggan and her soldiers. Everyone. I’m guessing that after you kill all the five champions, the area becomes safe enough for you to move on, after all, you’re the Commander, and you cannot leave everyone to die in the middle of the Jungle. Once again, the map tells you a story through the gameplay)

And then you move onto Auric Basin (I’m guessing it’s a lot of people’s fav map)

Oh, Auric Basin... The map instantly breathes “something”, something different. You KNOW you’re somewhere else, the whole atmosphere tells you that you’re somewhere forgotten, somewhere where the touches of humans, sylvari, charr, whatever main race, have not reached. 

Your first instance of it is most likely the story instance, so you get introduced to the place pretty quickly. I don’t have to say how gorgeous the city actually is, right?

The whole place is an archaeologist’s wet dream. And again, the map tells you, it shows you, it’s story, it’s history (the Priory people are wetting themselves over the whole thing), and sometimes it’s the Exalted themselves who tell you the story. But you can gauge a lot of it just from observing. It’s not the most effective of cities, I’ll be honest, but it’s a damn impressive one. After all, Tarir was build for Glint’s scion.

And the meta? It’s about PROTECTING the city. Protecting it from Mordremoth, from destroying it, from destroying the safe place for a dragon’s egg. You stop Mordremoth from leaching the place with Octovines (or an exalted does it for you. Kudos to you, immortal and endless exalted), and you don’t rly realize the importance of this place until the whole Aurene thing happens.

And oof, Tangled Depths. 

Tangled Depths, one of the most hated maps in the entire expansion, a thing (imho) that can be very much blamed on the map limitation (I’m talking about your map, where you see where you are and where the waypoints are, etc.) Like, honestly, wouldn’t it be a WHOLE lot easier to traverse if your map made actual damn sense? But I digress.

Tangled Depths is probably one of the lesser impressive maps? Overall, I very like it, although it’s story has to be unearthed and explored actively. It’s more of a bland looking pie with delicious filling.

Tangled Depths is quite...a good map. In a way. Don’t throw trash at me, please. I also hated it when I had to walk through it, but I learnt the shortcuts and then traversed with relative ease, so I stopped seeing the whole map as a nuisance and started seeing it for what it was. 

Such an untouched piece of history... The Rata Novus? Rata Novus? Hello? Asura lived here?

The Ogres, making their village there? The Nuhoch, fighting for their survival with the Zintl hyleks and the Chak? The Chak? Such new and interesting creatures who literally eat magic! In the middle of the jungle, you see such life, such vivacity, even in the midst of Mordremoth’s reign of terror.

And the story of the meta is tying in so nicely to the overall thing! You’re literally tunneling into Dragon’s stand, to reach old Papa Mordremoth, and you’re doing it with the help of everyone on the map! The Ogres, the asuras (well they dead, so their robots lol), the Chak (yeah, Chak bois be helping, not rly it’s just the lane lol), and the useless easy line! You’re charging a thingimajig that blasts a hole through the ley-line empowered wall and bam, you’re in DS. (Excuse me it has been a while since I was in TD) And Chak bois are on your ass trying to eat it cuz magic but that’s so the meta is interesting.

And then... My favourite map. Dragon’s stand.

I played this map... probably more than I should’ve, but... the way it is structured is simply so interesting! Three lines, for three leaders, each battling their way through the jungle to get to the Generals, to get to the Mouth of Mordremoth. And along the way, you gain more and more allies, more and more people to help you fight this noodle!  You get the ogres, the itzel, the nuhoch, the skritt(!), the exalted, the... THE NIGHTMARE COURT? *cough cough* cut content *cough cough*. Yeah, some don’t get an explanation, but you see everything that you have done, everyone you have helped in the previous map, go help you out in this one? You see them and protect them at the last island (and the whole map is just one giant meta and I LOVE IT (it can be a point of criticism as well, since it’s quite hard to explore if the meta ain’t done and the last few pois are impossible to get if MoM isn’t dead)) and it’s just so epic

Everything you did was leading up to this moment, this last battle, this last stand, the DRAGON’S STAND. And the battle was just... epic. Epic, is all I can say about this map and it’s story. (Shame the Commanders/Generals were cut out, as we have no clue who they were, and knowing something about them would make it a bit more meaningful in fighting them)

To conclude.

HoT is focused as hell. You got a goal: Pop a cap in Mordremoth. And you’re going to do it. You got twice the motivation if you’re a sylvari. Each map is designed to give you the build up of the fight, first you see what Mordremoth can do, then you see what’s at stake, and then you gotta fight for it. The fact the maps are gorgeous (If a little (bit a lot) laggy) only helps the overall feel.  Anything and Everything can and will murder your ass, and you gotta be ready for it.

Now onto PoF maps. This segment is going to be shorter, because in all honesty? PoF, I like you, but you’re just... well, you’ll see. Hopefully. This is after all just my opinion lol.

Oh and if you got this far? Kudos lol I ramble a lot. <3

Anyway, PoF maps.

So the opening to PoF is... quite good? It’s a bit out of your control but it does it’s job imo.

You come in on an airship, and you see the land spread before you. You see a pyramind, and you think “Oh hell yeah, pyramids.” I would LOVE to just be able to explore the area, you know, have a chill opening, but PoF is about FIRE and FIGHT so, you fight and try to save the people and it’s very chaotic and everything is on FIRE OH GODS.

So you chase this mysterious person, you get introduced to the raptor village, all goes well or bad, and then you are directed to the city of Amnoon (since we’re still in a story instance), so you go. Amnoon is very pretty, and following the tradition of MMO cities very impractical, but hey, rule of cool. The whole time you’re not rly allowed to explore anywhere or look at anything, you’re focused, sure, but you’re also very distracted, you get me?

You want to look around, you want to explore, but you’ve just been attacked by this Herald woman and you’re tired of politics. The opening of PoF isn’t bad, but it is very different from HoT, as in HoT you first SAW the carnage Mordy did and THEN you went on down to help the remaining survivals, whereas here, in Oasis, you kinda.. live through it? You see it first hand what Balthy is doing, while in HoT you only chased the aftermaths of the massacres. This works differently for everyone, and I personally prefer the HoT approach. 

PoF is very open when it comes to the story, as in you are not AS limited to instances as it was with HoT, sometimes it works to its advantage, sometimes.. it doesn’t. 

The way PoF maps jerk you around is very confusing to me. You explore Crystal Oasis, then you go to Desert Highlands, then to Elon riverlands, and you gotta go back down through the Oasis to get there, so you are already trudging through the land you already know (and since you have mounts they took full advantage of making the maps bigger, but it makes them feel... emptier? Like I get it, it’s the Desert, but still...) so you get to Elon riverlands, you do your thing there, then you go to Desolation, then to Vabbi. Nice. Okay.

In none of these maps, there is a story meta. None. No impressive whole-map meta where you gotta all cooperate to keep the map stable. Nothing. There is no use in me trying to analyze these maps, for they are just... backdrop to what’s happening.  Balthazar this, Balthazar that. Oh no Kralky is awake, and oh look we met Vlast for like 2 seconds and then he immediately ded. 

I’ll be honest... I don’t remember much of PoF before chapter 9 The Departing (because that chapter was fire. Lol. get it), which saddens me immensely. I remember most of HoT. Where what happened when it happened how it happened, I know, and if I don’t know immediately, in few minutes my brain serves me the entire instance. I could probably play HoT blindfolded. 

This is a very shallow look into why I probably don’t like PoF as much as I like HoT. 

To try and conclude my very messy terrible rant essay:

Heart of Thorns used its maps in a way that showed you with gameplay what’s in store for you. It used maps in a way to help you build that anticipation of the fight, of everything you sacrificed along the way. The maps are smartly connected in a way where with each map you delve deeper into the jungle, deeper into the mouth of the beast. Sure, they lag as fuck, but the PoF maps do so too, don’t lie to yourselves. With each map you meet new allies that help you along the way.

In Path of Fire I just... don’t get that feeling. I run from map to map, mindlessly following the green star, hoping I will stumble upon something interesting on the way. In Heart of Thorns it was the opposite. I was walking around the map, breathing in the atmosphere of the place, and stumbling upon the green story star. I feel like the Elona desert did not get such justice as it deserved. I trudge around the maps, I complete the maps to get the reward, then I move onto the story. My interest in the whole thing only started to pick up once I freaking DIED for gods’ sake. 

My hopes for the End of Dragons, which is happening in Cantha, is that I get more of that focused map design. That story in gameplay, that map-wide meta that will have me grind my teeth at 10pm on a work/school night. I don’t need Drizzlewood metas (an inferior Dragon’s stand, mind you) that are like 2-3 hours long. A 30 min prelude and 30 min metas are fine. An hour long meta if you have the idea for it, but... give me map stories, Anet.

Feel free to share your own feels about the different feels between the DLCs. I will GLADLY take in PoF preferrers. What did you prefer in PoF? What did you like in it? Give me your opinions, give me your take on everything. 

And thank you for reading my overly long rant essay, hah.

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Busiswa – Ngibambe ft. Nokwazi

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Busiswa Gqulu (born 27 November 1988), regarded mononymously as Busiswa or Busi, is a South African singer-songwriter and poet. Born in Mthatha, jap Cape, South Africa, she gained public reputation in a feature on DJ Zinhle’s tune, My name Is, after being observed by using Kalawa Jazmee’s CEO Oskido.

After a a hit collaboration with Dj Zinhle, she released hits together with Ngoku, Lahla, and turned into featured on “Bhizer’s” hit, Gobisiqolo. On 8 December 2017, she released her debut album, enormously Flavoured, preceded by way of single, “Bazoyenza”. at some point of her career, Gqulu has received severa accolades. In 2012, she became named in the Mail and mum or dad’s top two hundred younger South Africans.

Busiswa Gqulu become born on 27 November 1988 in Mthatha, japanese Cape. whilst she turned into young, her own family relocated to Durban due to paintings with the aid of her mother and father on the age of 15, Gqulu grew ardour for writing poems. “I’ve been doing poetry in view that 2004 while i was in Grade eleven”, she recalled. She completed her first poetry paintings at her grandmother’s funeral. Then in 2005, she joined the collective younger Basadzi ladies of Poetry. for the reason that then, she finished her poetry at corporate occasions, poem periods, expertise suggests, and fairs. She additionally hosted her month-to-month poetry activities which might be referred to as “1st word classes” on the Bat Centre in Durban “.

After high college. She carried out her poems whilst searching for a right task . She turned into then hired at an art centre to educate school children arts. Gqulu’s mother and father supported her career desire as they had no money to take her to college.

even as acting at live poetry readings, she met a befriend who delivered her to Sir Bubzin. Sir Bubzin invited her while generating the track “Syaphambana”. He then cautioned to characteristic her in acting her poems on the track.[8] Gqulu and Sir Bubzin have been later signed to Kalawa document by using the CEO, Oskido, after he heard the tune. The track changed into later launched on the primary Kalawa Jazmee Dance compilation in 2011. Later that year, Gqulu turned into referred to as by Oskido to file “My call Is” which changed into produced with the aid of DJ Zintle.

The collaboration ended in a co-writing credit for Gqulu. After recording the music in 2011, she moved to Johannesburg in signing with Kalawa Jazmee statistics.[9] The music was a hit and It received enormous airplays in South African radio stations due to the fact its launch. Gqulu got gigs in numerous nations, which includes Zimbabwe, Angola, and Namibia. The tune earned nominees on the Channel O Africa tune Video Award consisting of maximum proficient Dance Video and Video of the 12 months. The tune scoped any other nomination on the South African music Award for file of the 12 months.

“Ngoku” was launched in eleven March 2013 as a non-album single on iTunes. The song become observed by means of a video released on YouTube. “Ngoku” became a dance hit with its catchy chorus. The song were given several airplays and become commercially a hit. Gqulu promoted the unmarried with the aid of acting it on e.television track show Club808, with Oskido. at the 2014 Channel O Africa track Video Award, the track won most gifted Dance class and she or he accomplished the song later in the awards ceremony.

In November 2013, Gqulu launched a unmarried, “Lahla” featuring Dj greenbacks and Uhuru. The tune’s video gathered 1 million+ perspectives on YouTube. Gqulu at the side of Dj greenbacks, carried out the song stay on SABC1 track display live Amp. She additionally accomplished the song on the 2015 Metro FM Awards.

In September 2016, Gqulu joined the fourth season of clash of the Choirs, as a Choirmaster with Kelly Khumalo, Anele Mdoda, JR, Bucie, Sifiso Ncwane and IFANI. She changed into the choirmaster of the KwaZulu-Natal. Her group become eliminated after a war with group Western Cape led via IFANI.

In August 2017, Gqulu announced that her debut album may be entitled exceedingly Flavoured. at some point of the remainder of 2017, Gqulu changed into featured on several singles which includes Tipcee “Isichathulo” and Dj Maphorisa “Vuvushka” and “nighttime Starring”. “Bazoyenza” become released as the lead single for the album. Gqulu released her exceedingly expected debut album “pretty Flavoured”, which capabilities DJ Maphorisa, Busi N, DJ Athie, Da Fre, DJ toxic, Nokwazi, Moozlie, Lando and Yasirah. The album turned into nominated at the South African tune Awards for high-quality Kwaito Album and for best girl Artist.

Gqulu officially introduced her 2d studio album release, summer season life, on her instagram web page, the album became launched on November 12, 2018 independently below ngqulu new artist’s personal organisation Busiswa leisure. On August 31, Prince Kaybee launched ” Banomoya” featuring Busiswa and TNS.

Gqulu spent her early years under the care and guidance of her late mom and grandmother who were a brilliant affect in shaping her strong personality. On eight November 2017, she discovered that she became pregnant on her Instagram account. On eight January 2018, Gqulu gave delivery to a son, Lakhanya Gqulu.

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My Community Engagement experience ❤

In week two of Change and Critical thinking, I was requested by my lecturer to eight hours of community engagement by week eight. The lecturer then told me that I could use the forum so that I could recruit students and brainstorm ideas on what we could do for the community. Then my friend (Kamogelo, Zintle, Kinnah and Kymn) and I decided that we will not add anymore students, because problems would occur if we are a lot. Then in week three Kamogelo and I started to search for some children or old age homes around Ruimsig. The first place we called was Baby Moss and they rejected us because they had a lot of volunteers. Then we called Florida Baby House and they said we must send an email explaining everything and they wanted police clearance, so we just left it because it was going to take time. Then we called New Jerusalem children's home and they said they would love it if we joined them. But I had a problem with the place because it was far from where I lived and we did not have transport, so I told my friends that I won't be joining them. Then in week five on a Tuesday as I was about to leave school for home, I saw a friend of mine (Nare) who asked me if would like to join their group (which consisted of Neo, Alex, Lerato and Thato) that she would be engaging in the community with. I agreed to this since nothing worked out with my previous group. Nare then told me that she would add me in their WhatsApp group chat for more details. Later that week (Friday) I was informed that we would be going to ‘Charity begins with me’ in Durban deep, Roodepoort and the person who was heading this place was Stephan. The purpose of this place is to be helping hand to the children of that area by giving providing them with meals, toys to play with, and the one’s whose clothes are not in good conditions were given new ones. And due to unforeseen circumstances at home I could not join the group, and as a result of this I had to arrange with Stephan to come the following week and he agreed. The following week, it was communicated with me that I could no longer go to Charity begins with me because group members like Nare and Thato, did not have the decency to tell Stephan that they would not make it. Alex and I decided to fix this thing because it was unfair for us, since Alex went the previous week and I had provided reasons why I could not make it. Stephan then sorted this while thing out by creating WhatsApp Group, he then said that Alex and I could come join them but rest should not even bother. I then made transport arrangements with Alex because he has a car and we both agreed with the amount of money I would be contributing of petrol. Then on Sunday, Alex and I first drove to Stephan’s home and when we go there he had food, toys and clothes that he wanted us to load into the other volunteers’ cars. Once all that was done. We drove to location of Charity begins with me and we got there at around 9 o'clock. The first thing we did, was offload the food and we took it to the kitchen so that we could start preparing meals for the kids. I then started helping with preparing meals for more than 700 children. Then Stephan said I could start handing out the toys to children. After this, I went to go and play with the kids and I joined a group of girls that were playing my favourite sport's netball, and I must say I saw some future professional netball played. I then hula-hooped with some of the smaller girls. And while I was busy I was some of the children playing and old childhood game called hop scotch, I played with them until the meals were almost served. When playtime was over, Stephan told Alex and I to gather all the children in one spot because their meals were ready. Stephan then started picking ten kids at a time just so that there can be order. When there was a few kids left we realised that there was a shortage of food. And luckily one of the volunteers went to go buy for the few that were left. Thereafter all the children started leaving because everyone was given a meal. Throughout this day I took picture with kids. At the end of the four hours, I was sad because it was time for me to leave. Despite this, I had really enjoyed interacting with all the kids, giving them your and preparing meals for them. And I could not wait to join them the following week. The following Sunday Alex did not join me and my mom drove me to the place but we arrived a bit earlier, so we had to wait for everyone else to arrive. When Stephen and the rest of the volunteers arrived, we offloaded the food, toys and clothes. Then I started helping with preparing meals for more than 700 children and this week we finished earlier. Then I went to hand out the toys and they started playing. I continued playing hop scotch and the kids reminded me of how unfit I am. After this I started gathering all the kids in one place because playtime was over and the meals were ready. Like last week Stephan sent the kids in groups of ten to the kitchen. And this time there was enough good for the kids and there was even some leftovers. This experience reminded me of my childhood because like them I did not have everything. It really opened some old wounds that even today still hurt me. And what I learnt from this is that you need to be content with the little that you have or else you will never be happy. It showed me that even the little you give can make a big difference in someone else's life.

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i show up for me when no one else does. 🖤

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Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year ❤️✨

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so important to be full of yourself, make every moment in your life an experience. happy holidays!❤️✨

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a kept woman bae.💕

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Take care of your higher self. Don’t allow anyone to steal your light.

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i should be on my third marriage rn. i am a modern woman.💛

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being a black girl is so lit, imagine not being one?

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i am protective of this skin, its hues, its boundaries and stereotypes it comes with.

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the price of originality is being copied.

the value of originality is priceless.

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