Friday, September 4, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 878 - All I Want To Do Is Play Palworld



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No Man’s Sky

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Palworld 1.0


Wednesday




Wednesday I got a bug in my bonnet. They say well first let me explain something. There are multiple levels to leveling in Powell world the first level, of course is getting your character up and your character get strong and every time you hit a level you get points that you can use to enhance your your stat. I’m just have to pick one of course then is leveling up your pals, which is a whole different thing if you get a pile in an area where it’s in your 30s it’s gonna start out in your 30s if you hatch an egg from a pal, it’s going to start out at level one but once you put it in your group, the leveling is crazy but as your level you also get access to technology and I April Pvd was 47 on Wednesday and I was looking through the technology that she has access to in her coming levels and there was something called Item Retrieval Machine - A device that lets you freely access items from all chests in the base.

Pal Metal Ingot 100

Paldium Fragment 30

Bio Battery 4


And it was learnable at level 49. I became obsessed with this item because if it meant that I could get stuff out of chess without having to run to each chess that I have it would be great. Of course the meal solution is that I need to do a better organization of my chest system, but you know you’re getting in the game you wanna do things and then you want to get going and so you just throw down chest here and there I mean, I have chess all over my base and so the idea of having one place I could go to Look was just wonderful so I went crazy doing how to do two things the first thing was I had to get to level 49 so I went out and went exploring. I would capturing pets if you capture five of the same pals you get an added bonus. I went into dungeons and not that, but I had to come back and make sure my pals were making the materials that I needed and by the end of the day I turned 49 and I had the materials and I made the item retrieval thing and it was great and I felt really good about that. It’s a small thing but it’s something you know there’s little things you can look out for and try to do and have fun I also got my base up to level 20 and I felt really good at the end of the day. I got a lot of stuff done and I just I’m having fun and that’s the whole reason for playing the game.



Thursday 



Went salvaging on a Surfent and fishing pole! Explored several areas 




Friday 



Well, there is a reason why I originally named the show Ctrl Alt WoW and why it is still called Ctrl Alt WoW April Pvd because I have a fascination with making alt now on my Steam account. I have four and Powell is one of those games that you can play with family with people in your group so even though I only have two copies ain’t any of my four characters or accounts can play the game well I have a I have four and I hadn’t been playing with them. I’ve only been playing with Apple Pvd and a brilliant so I decided to bring in April when I haven’t played in a long time and she was level 10 she was in the guild so that made it easier and I started leveling her up and I got her to the point where she could take down the first tower and I thought it would be fun to go in with my level 51 character and multi box and it worked out really well. I was Millie impressed with how well I did it. I of course you know when a multi boxing I take my character that’s on that I login on the flatscreen on the laptop and I put her over in a corner after releasing one of her pets and then usually Apple Pvd because she’s always my most powerful one is the one in the lead and I know I’ve gotten the automatic weapon that I got for the third tower boss and it just works so well so I was able to very easily take down this Zoe the first tower and April didn’t even get injured. I just went in and and that worked out really nice and it feels kind of cool to be able to take down a boss at my level even if it’s a lower level boss, it just feels kind of neat to be able to go in and just go through it. Of course you know this was really easy cause she was level 51 and I think this is a level 16 boss I’m not mistaken so that was a lot of fun and like I said April’s was over in the corner, but her pets were fighting and April Pvd had her pets doing most of the damage and then I spent the rest of Friday getting April ready for the next tower and I gave her a night wing and one of the things I’m doing is I’m trying to consolidate my technology points and one of the reasons why I did bring in another character is because she will be able to use her technology point when I need them. I saw a couple of YouTube videos where people say they end up running out of technology points right now April Pvd has some things she can make an a brilliant has some things that she can make and I don’t try to make any crossovers between The 2 and my thoughts for April is to power level her with the towers and it’ll be interesting because right now you know I can do it with April Pvd being so OP so it’s kind of fun and it reminds me again of things I was doing in World of Warcraft

Saturday



Because I can’t help myself I’ve been logged in on Saturday with Sebastian and I ran him around and had him do some stuff now thing about bringing somebody else in is that I’m still running my server on my PC and so once they’re in a guild they can do things like make sure that I’m that my all my pals at each base is fed and he could go out and get resources cause I kept running out of those palladium pieces that I need it for everything. I also had him run some dungeons by himself because by the time he got to be 13 he was good and then finally I swapped out and put Sebastian on the flatscreen in April Pvd in VR and we ran the first tower together, I realize that they can still run the tower, even if they haven’t done the precursor quest line so it’s a good way of power leveling in fact I’m thinking about for April and Sebastian just leveling them through the towers and see what happens you know I do the normal thing I put them over in a corner. I do let one of their pets out because they can at least do some damage and distract the boss from hitting the lower pack. I mean the lower character and of course April Pvd does all the work and it works out really well and it’s a lot of fun so that’s what I’ve been doing with Sebastian and I also ran around a little bit with April Pvd to get some more stuff one of the things I’m trying to do is going to that special dungeon and get some more of those hollow bars and it’s where I can find that Dozzy character that will give me the clouds that I need to level up the electricity so it’s this game has so many layers to it and I keep saying that, but it is a lot of fun and I really like running my lower level characters through these events and now that I figured out a way to do it without them dying it’s so much better. I especially enjoy using the assault rifle. In fact the assault rifle is almost overpowered, but it works out well and I just like power level. It’s just one of the best things ever.


Sunday


I ended up playing with Grand Nagus and Big G on our paid server because I know I’ve talked about this before I didn’t wanna bring open the port on my computer and it turned out really well. Big G managed to get in even though I think he was on flatscreen I think he wanted to do VR. we were able to get voice chat to work so that we could talk to each other while we were playing in proximity. I don’t know if you could hear Big G but he was there as well and it was a lot of fun. He later on saying that we handbag him, but we gave him a bunch of stuff. We made a bunch of things and we basically helped him get a good start and it was just a really good fun playing with the other people again it was reminiscent of our World of Warcraft days at one point we even went into a dungeon to play and that was a lot of fun because big G got to level up and I can’t wait till we can do it again.

Monday 



Every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday I do my workout. So this Monday I did do my workout, of course. I’m back to wearing my weighted vest and my wrist weights which I had stopped when I was sick, even though I still did my workouts.

I

n Palworld on Monday, I worked on my third base which I had moved to the island so that I could get some of that oil because I found a place that had four of those oil producing spots, but this meant that I had to build a bigger electrical creating mechanism because it took a lot of electricity and I also upgraded. I’ve been working really hard with the power workshop trying to upgrade all of my different skills. I’ve been focusing on kindling and watering and planting. I also really wanted to update my electricity, but I need something from that fluffy dozy or something and those are hard to find, but I did manage to finally get that one my base up and get the oil thing pumping, and that was very satisfying.

Palworld and Terraria feature an official crossover event highlighted by the Palworld v0.6.0 Tides of Terraria Update and content integrated into Terraria's version 1.4.5

Then I found this dungeon that is apparently a crossover between some game called terraria and it has a lot of musical background that you can’t turn off. I have my music turned off in the game, but there’s all these different little things that you can capture but that one fluffy pet that I need to get those clouds for the electricity they can be found in here so I went back in to try to farm those and I actually got a couple and and then found my way back out and with my machine gun my assault rifle it’s just really quick to go through. I also picked up some more schematics because there’s a I guess the cosmetics from terraria are available in the dungeon so I picked up a lot of cosmetics and it was there was a lot of fun. want to go back to try to get some more of them those things I need for the electricity and yeah it’s a very interesting dungeon and I love the fact that they did this crossover and it’s a level 45 dungeon so it was easy for me to go in with April Pvd.

Tuesday


A couple of things happened on Tuesday. The first one was that I found this video and I put a link in the show note to controllot wound.com on YouTube about how to get Second I hope I’m saying her name right but it’s a really good pet that supposed to be just an all-around great pet or pal and it’s usually attainable in the later games but you can breed one and I became fascinated. The other thing that happened was I found out that Powell world was available on the Mac. It’s not on Steam. It’s a separate application so that means that my four none of my Steam accounts would be able to use it on the Mac, but you might ask yourself what this is what does One have to do with the other well when I’m watching YouTube I’m watching it in my living room room. When I’m trying to do the breeding it’s hard to follow and beyond my gaming computers, which is on the other side of the room so I went ahead and bought power for the Mac and I had to start up yet another account so now I have five accounts and I went ahead and invited this account on my Mac to my guild and I now have a way to do stuff on my bases while I am logged into my MacBook Pro and of course, now that she’s in the guild, she has the abilities to teleport to all of my basis, and so I then spent the next couple of days working out ways of getting the right pals to make this particular pal Sekhmet

https://youtu.be/gF_GUbud79o?is=tzLSNz-nsJJFvU7Z

 

Great job of explaining everything, but I don’t wanna give away the content.


OK, so I was doing pretty good with this one. I went out to the crater and found the huge burning egg and was able to get Blazemut but it was the wrong set for the Relaxurus Lux and I’m just realizing I could’ve just made it the first two again. So I went out to get another egg. But when I went to meet, I made it the wrong like Relaxurus, I was supposed to use LUX so I made it the right one but by then it was almost 930 and it was time for me to go to bed.

Wednesday



Power world I played so much power that I didn’t even have time to record a video. I played way too much power world all day I went. I got obsessed with the eggs and then I got obsessed with. I made a new flame flower. I made some of the schematics from terraria, including the helm and then the breast plate and I was obsessed with making the eggs for to get that one final pal and I just spent so much time running around doing all the different things to get the pat and it was great. I had a blast. I even played so much that I really had to leave some stuff out. Oh I did get one of those universal boxes that I can put my pets in and then any guild member can come up and take them out and that really helped with the breeding and I’ve been enjoying the whole breeding process. It’s really really kind of neat and you know I can’t explain it. It’s a satisfaction of putting 2 pets together and then watching the results. I did have to go back out to try to get another one of those eggs and I managed to do it because I had the wrong sex so it worked out though and it’s I like the flying around and looking for the eggs and then finally finding one it’s very satisfying.

Thursday 

Dazzi cloud



I went back into the terraria dungeon, and I was able to run through it and get enough of the Dazzy cloud DAZZI to make it worthwhile to go through the whole thing and to make it so that I could upgrade my electricity I actually chose the option to upgrade my electricity to be out of the capacity because the next thing I’m gonna have to get is a battery for that that’s another thing. That’s really interesting about this whole game is that everything is linked there’s so many steps when I finally get to one level it opens up all this technology but then the technology needs the stuff that you got on the previous level and there’s a lot of thinking to it and it’s really good. The other thing about the terraria dungeon is that there’s a lot of mushrooms in it and I need mushrooms to upgrade. I think it’s something cooking. I think cooking needs mushrooms to upgrade so it’s very nice that there’s so much so much mushrooms in there and I love the new breast plate that I got from one of the schematics and it has a cape and it looks really nice and yeah.

Sekhmet achieved 



While at base, boosts 's work speed by 20%. Increases efficiency by 30% if is also working at a Workbench, Workshop, or other related facilities. (Does not stack)









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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 877 - Third Boss Down!

 Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 877 - Third Boss Down!



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No Man’s Sky

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Palworld 1.0

Tuesday 


The thing I like about playing video games as it does make you think so your brain is getting a workout. I realized that, although I had gotten some Quartz and it did allow me to upgrade my base I would be needing more. Aprillian was the one to find it but it was in an area that was way out of her league. One of the reasons I was interested in finding some more was that I had leveled up my base to 15 which allow me to get another base. I had so much success with resource mining with my ore base that I was excited to try it with the courts. At first Aprillian couldn’t find it where she thought she had found it before. It turned out that the flight place that she had gotten to and found it hadn’t respawned yet. So I have too much trying she managed to climb up to the top of a hill and found a few nodes together but she was unable to place a pal box. It turns out that you have to change the settings to allow other guild members to place them. So I had to log into April Pvd on the flat screen and give Aprillian the privilege. This is when dual boxing really  comes in handy. After placing the pal box, I swapped the two characters because I also wanted a guild box and a few other things at that base. What’s nice is even though April Pvd had none of the flight things in that area. She could still get to the base. I ended up spending some time building the Guild box which she got access to because she was level 41. The Guild box allows access to the materials from all basis where there is one. It’s kind of like the resource building on Medieval Dynasty. It did take some work because it needs 20 polymer which needs the high-quality pal oil. But fortunately, I had someone in the ranch who was dropping them like crazy. And then I needed the civilization things but again I’ve got a bunch of those from the expedition. After putting down the beds and doing some more building and putting in the feed box, I created an Alpha wave generator so that the pets there wouldn’t get stressed out. The hardest thing was remembering how many things to carry with me so that I could build it back there since all of my stuff was on my main base. But I figured it’s something out. If I built it and then destroyed it, all the mats end up back in my inventory and then I can teleport to the base where I want the building and make it there so it’s a lot easier than going through all my chests and trying to figure out where everything is. I also captured some new pounds and I made medicine shells that I’m gonna try stocking with medicine to keep the pals happy.


Wednesday 



Wednesday

Wednesday I logged onto Aprillian and I got a lot of things done with her. She ran some dungeons. She got a little bit more exploration. You know the interesting thing about the way I’m playing is that a brilliant can go some places that April Pvd can go can’t go and vice versa so it’s kind of like they balance each other out now April and was at level 36 at the beginning of the day and she got almost to 37 but not quite, she was capturing animals. She was also running an expedition when she I remembered, and she was making sure that she was visiting the three basis you know my main base is where I cook and then I have to make sure the other two bases have food. She also went out to one area that had a lot of burning pets a fire pets and eggs so she got a bunch of eggs to my one of my biggest concern is that I need the integrated and Gets and in order to make them I need a lot of Cole so she went into a couple of dungeons to get Cole I don’t know why that’s where they have to get them. I really would love to find a place that had Cole that she could that we could make a base on top of. She had a lot of good experiences, capturing pets and really enjoying this game now I did something different with my video recording so if you are watching on the YouTube channel, well even if you look at the screenshot, I now have a recording from a different way the way that I was recording and streaming before was that I was using the casting feature of the Meta quest to cast what I’m seeing in my headset onto a webpage and then I had my system set up so that I record that webpage along with the video of me with my headset on to show that I’m in BR, but the problem was that a lot of times the quality of that video from my headset just wasn’t wasn’t good. I don’t know what the problem was whether it’s the Meta quest whether it was my gaming laptop or a combination of both, but it was very frustrating to be able to see this beautiful video that I’m capturing and then look at it afterwards and see this blurry crummy screen. It’s just been the way that I’ve been doing it especially with No Man’s Sky with No Man’s Sky I could not capture the video straight from the computer because it had these. It was two little ovals because of the it streamed the VR portion. But.PalWorld it’s just a regular flatscreen game that I am using the UEVR injector to make it VR. The video I’m seeing on my gaming PC screen is absolutely gorgeous the video I’m seeing inside my Meta quest headset is absolutely gorgeous. It’s just somewhere in between it. Got mixed up a messed up when I’m recording so it occurred to me that why don’t I just record on my gaming PC and not do the casting part with the Meta quest headset that has been working out great if you’re looking at the videos, are you looking at the screenshot? The video now is crisp and I’m very happy with that for the rest of this rest of Wednesday. I just ran around with a brilliant and I got a turned in the quest for the 90 pets that I got and I turned in a bunch of other quest and then I would’ve got Cole and I’m having the best time. Wednesday was a really good day.


Thursday


Of course I started Thursday with my workout, which is like an hour and 1:20 hours of working out in VR one of the programs I listen to on my iPad I watch on my iPad is Twit. I’ve been following Leo Laporte for 25 years now or even longer 25 years cause it probably started in the early 2000 and he has been informative for me for Apple information computer information but lately he’s been on an AI kick which I’m not an AI person at all. Sarah Connors warned me so you know how that is One of the things that he and I also disagree on his VR he has made negative comments about Apple Vision Pro which of course I can understand that was $3500 if you could afford and you probably really enjoyed it but it’s nothing like the Meta quest, and he has often ridicule people for not for the fact that you could wear something on your face and I have been wearing something on my face since 2017 and it has changed my life you know it’s ironic funny sad there’s something that I do every day for anywhere from 4 to 8 hours a day that brings me enjoyment and makes my life much better is something that he doesn’t understand One the reason why I do these videos and I share some of these videos on my Facebook and my Instagram and Threads account is because I want people to know what it’s like to be in VR of course now I did spend some time playing power and I wanna give a spoiler shout out because I am gonna be showing some of the map, I don’t know I don’t know how empower what could be done differently or if it really makes that much of a difference but I’ve gotten my base up to level 16 and and I’ve gotten April Pvd up to level 42 actually by the end of the day she got up to 43 which means that she opens up some more things that she can make one of the things that she can now make is this really nice bow that’s really powerful, but the arrows are very expensive so I spent the day running around my base making different things I love the fact that you can assign your pals to do stuff and make stuff. I also am doing a lot of I’m almost making too much or on my resource base that has or and I’m getting a lot of quartz on my resource base that has courts. I was moving some of my pals around to make different foods because my main base is making food for my other two other bases, but I really had a good time running April Pvd around and then one of the things I realize was that I had over 600 coins and it’s it’s a lot of discovery in power world, and one of things that I realized that you could do with the Dog coins is open up your accessory sockets on your inventory so that you can wear multiple necklaces or rings that will enhance your stats so she went over and she got she went over to the church and she used some of the Dog coins to expand her. She had already done one and she expanded it to do two to do another section and she then invited April I’m pulling over and I’m brilliant. I got the other 300 coins and she was able to upgrade hers and I’m really loving the system. I’m learning about how I can increase my base better and I’m making more complicated things and yeah I’m having a blast and I’m loving the new system I have with making a using the computer my gaming computer to record the video. This game is so beautiful.


Friday

I’ve already mentioned that there is so much to this game and that I have found different things that I wanna focus on and sometimes I get sidetracked. One of the biggest things I guess would be to level and fight the big boss, but what I’m trying to do right now is find all of the just explore. I like a lot exploring getting to the flight pants and also finding the resources I need now one of the main resources I really really need is coal and I decided today to start off with looking for coal and hole after flying around on April Pvd and like I said before I put Pvd‘s going in one direction Aprillian is in another direction. I managed to find some coal but here was my dilemma. I needed to start a resource base and I needed to take down my other resource space the resource space that I made my first very first one was for or and that was very successful. In fact I had way more than I needed at the moment and so I decided that I was gonna dismantle that one and then move to this new base it became very complicated because one of the things I wanted to do was take all the stuff I had made at the or base and just move it to the new base but first of all that’s way a lot and second of all, I would have to destroy the war base first before I could build the base where the coal was. It took some maneuvering. It took a lot of back-and-forth and eventually I did managed to do it and it was so exciting to do it. It meant that I had to like I said, destroy the first day of power box and then fly back well. First of all when I found the coal I didn’t have a flightpath near it so I had to find a flight pass near it, and then once I found the flightpath near it, had to make sure I could get back to it. One of the things I have to remind myself to do is to mark the names of the flightpaths that I find that are near stuff and there’s a lot of flight pass and it’s very hard. The only good thing about it is that you can travel fairly quickly. It doesn’t take a long long. There’s not a long loading screen so that part is nice and so I had to first I had to take apart the old base and then I had to make sure that I had all the stuff on the new base to at least make the guild chest know if I could do that that would be 100% of the Battle because then I would have resources in the guilt chest that I could use and I managed to do it and I’m I got back-and-forth and back-and-forth. I love that I have my night wing because one thing about the night wing is that you can ride it even when you’re over weight and so that was really handy and so now I have a different base that produces cold and I learned one more thing is that you can if you make the guilt chest the only chest there it will put the coal order to put the resources into the guild chest


Saturday

Alternated between trying to get the parts to make more food day and exploring and getting more pets. I think it’s just the right blend..


Sunday

April Pvd open up glass building material, which is awesome. I worked on with stone I already have and it looks nice. I finally got carrots and onion seeds so I was able to start making both of those which opened up some food for defense.


Monday


My plan for today is to try to beat the third tower. I started with leveling Aprillian and I got her to 41. I also got her a really strong water pet and caught multiples of them and then compress them. I also made a really high-end helm and suit for both her and April Pvd. I had Aprillian do the oil rig and she leveled up nicely.


Tuesday


I did some research and somebody said an automatic weapon is the best so I had April Pvd learn how to make an automatic weapon and then she got a water pet to level up. I also had to go out and open chest because she needed wool to make the suit and some other stuff and she’s running out of money, so April Pvd did the oil rig as well. It was so much fun. I had the best day. 

Then I actually took the third tower down and I was riding a Palasaurus! It was great. It was fun then I did some exploring and I upgraded some stuff and then I played with Grand Nagus for a little bit. Then I went back to the server where I was playing with the women from Facebook just to work on that a little bit and then I went back to my server and had fun on that and I realize that I’m two levels away from something that’s gonna allow me to see everything that’s in my chest on my base so I am pushing to get to 49 on April. Have I mentioned how much I love this game?

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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 876 - Multiplay Your Way

AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

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No Man’s Sky

Wednesday

Still No No Man’s Sky

Palworld 1.0

Wednesday

I got so much done on Wednesday. The third tower quest started at the beach, but ended up way up in the mountains and there was some issues with intense heat. Both Aprillian and April Pvd got flying mounts and I learned how to use them. They aren’t a complete cure because they do suffer from stamina, but they helped a lot Aprillian even found coal up in the mountains which was good because they need it for the ingots they are going to need. April Pvd dismantled the first base and then went scouting for a resource base to get ore. At first the pals she put at the base weren’t mining the ore and then I realized I needed to get pals with higher ore rating. Then I started mult-boxing because I needed food at the resource base so while I was on one, I brought the other in on the flatscreen and had them and one of their party pals worked the cooking.


Thursday


I am really getting the hang of flying. I got to the third tower with April Pvd but of course it’s very tough and I died twice. I went looking for coal for the special ingots. 


Friday


I had a blast playing Aprillian trying to get her up a little higher so I could do a box the third tower together. I was taking her into various dungeons to get COAL when I found the B garden which drops honey when you put it on the farm so I was able to get honey for the cakes to get the pals to mate.





Saturday 



I decided to try a community server. The idea came to me while I was working out of course because when I work out, I think of a great idea. well, I gravitate towards multiplayer games. I do end up playing solo a lot even in No Man’s Sky, but there was the possibility of running into people and of course playing with my alts. So I looked for a server and found one that I thought would be good. Not busy and I logged in with both April Pvd and Aprillian and I added an X to the end of each of their names differentiate. I did make one mistake in that I had Aprillian join April Pvd guild and then April Pvd logged off, but I forgot to promote Aprillian and so for the first half an hour or so I could not put a pal box down because I wasn’t promoted in the guild. At first, I thought it was because there was a lot of bases around, but then I figured it out so I left the guild created another guild and then brought April Pvd in to join my guild. And that worked, although that means I went a little bit further out to make my first base. It was interesting because there was some text chatter. Next time I go in, I’m gonna turn on voice chat I don’t think I had that turned on. I love the mechanics of starting over but the whole time I was thinking of really should get back to my other. Which I did. My goal on that server is to level up, Aprillian she can join April Pvd in battling the third tower and also figuring out which pet to bring into power up. She went into a couple of dungeons and got some really good stuff and some really good pets and she found the pets that she need to complete some of the side missions. So that was good. She got some books in the dungeons to give her technology points, but she put it in a chest for April Pvd. Since she’s higher, she can use them.



Sunday 



There is an oil rig near my main base and I never investigated it. I don’t know why I just thought it was something dangerous and then I saw something on. I think it must’ve been a YouTube channel about them or maybe it was on Facebook but anyways, it turns out that there is a lot of stuff to explore on the syndicate oil rig and there’s a lot of goodies to get. I thought it would’ve been harder, but I actually did pretty good and I had a lot of fun exploring it and there is one big chest that has a lot of good stuff and then there’s a whole bunch of small chest and I also captured some of the syndicate guys that I’m gonna use to compress into my main person that I have on my base, he’s a merchant guy so I like having him there because I can buy from him and then I’ll be able to use these guys to compress and I had a good time fighting it. It’s a really challenging battle because you do have to pay a lot of attention but at the same time it’s it’s so much goodies and I found out that they respond like every 24 hours or so so I’m gonna have to make a visit there more often and you’re leveling up your pets and you’re loving up a lot of things so it’s something I’m gonna do again in the future.

I joined a girls Facebook group for Pal world and it was really interesting. It’s all women and someone suggested doing a server and they wanted it to be 18+ and one of them really nice women volunteered to set up a paid server because we discussed other ways of doing it, and at one point I had mentioned that you know I had a dedicated server, but I wasn’t comfortable opening up the ports and then I was thinking about sharing the server that I had with Grand Nagus because we haven’t been on in a while, but one of them stepped up and found a server for six dollars a month, which isn’t bad. I’m paying $14 for the one that Grand Nagus and I are using so I joined them and I made a character and this was Sunday night. It was already past my bedtime, but I wanted to try this and it was interesting. There’s instead of voice chat we use discord I’m on discord and my headphones while running the quest line and we made some discussion. Some people wanted to do a guild, but my main concern with doing a guild and that I have found from running a guild with April Pvd and Aprillian is that you end up having to share the base and we don’t know if everybody’s gonna be on at the same time and some peoples ideas are different than other people plus the other problem is that you you will need to put your pals away if you’re not gonna be on if somebody’s not gonna be there to feed them because the Powers will starve I’ve learned that the hard way so there was some talk about different things in different ways to do things particularly one thing that somebody wanted to do was a mod which I don’t have any information on mods I haven’t even trying to do mods on on any power version that I’m playing so that would be interesting to try, but we’ll see what happens we played for over an hour and I went out and made my own base while listening to the different ideas some people had already gotten their couches up pretty high and I realize that I’ve been playing a very very slow version but it’s OK because I’m having fun and it was just interesting to be on a server with other people and talking to them on discord at the same time. I guess this is the equivalent of being on a shard on World of Warcraft but we’ll see how that goes. I got a little far enough to get my own base and level up for a little bit, but then it got late and I ended up logging off.


Monday 

I am a little conflicted about playing with founders I really like having a certain goal, but I also like you know being around other people it would be nice to have a guild so on Monday I had did a lot of dual boxing. I kept one character doing one thing logging in while the other character went around to do some other things one of the things that I was doing was finding some more of the pets that the pal critics want you to show them and I had some pets That Aprillian had and some pets that April Pvd had so I was going through both of them while they were both on one on the flatscreen while I was in VR one of the things that Aprillian had done that I was really happy with was she had found something called quartz that April Pvd needed to make circuit boards the product Line. The quest line in this game is really intriguing because of course as you level up, you’re gonna need more things as you need more things you’re gonna have to go out further and what’s been interesting is each character has been exploring in a different place and so one of them has found things that the other one didn’t find and it’s working out Millie well for me and this quartz was something that April Pvd needed to make her next piece of equipment to level up the base and so that was kind of exciting because each time you level up the base you get more the number of pals that you can have on the base and then you also get the ability to have more Basis so as the as Sunday went along, I played a lot. I was on almost all day and it was so much fun and I got a lot of things done, including leveling up the base and getting more or from my resource base that is working out pretty well and yeah, I’m really loving that

Of course I also did my VR workout on Monday, but I ended up playing a lot of Pal world and it was really really good. I got very far. I got them April Pvd up to 41 which was really important because she got the guilt chest. she actually went out to fight a really hard boss and died a couple of times and killed some of her pals that she had with her and then what I did was, I came back to that same area where the boss was just one of the bosses that are in a circle and this time what she did was, she actually captured some of the pals around the boss and they seem to be of a level and a resource that can fight that particular boss and she went in and she was able to defeat the boss and that was that was really a lot of fun. She also got her base up to level 15, which meant at level 14 she got the maximum number of powers you can have out of base which you can set you can change in the settings if you want to, but I was just doing the regular setting and I’m also upgrading a lot of of my pals resource abilities by using the power upgrade base there’s so many different things to make. She also made a brand new electric kitchen, which is gonna allow her to make pizza which has a lot of bonuses on it and I’m learning how to delegate the different pals to where they need to be used the best and it has really been a good week for playing. It’s been a good week for me learning stuff. I think I may go back to that community server the one that the women from the Facebook group set up, but I’m not sure I kinda like doing my own thing and I’m also looking forward to playing with Grand Nagus again. This game is so good and there’s so much to it and I’m just at the middle and I’m only you know into the third tower I’m hoping this week that I can learn more about upgrading my abilities and being able to take out that boss, but it has been a lot of fun and I look forward to the rest of the week. Thanks for listening. You can email us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com and follow us on Twitch. I sometimes stream on Twitch TV/that April Pvd and of course that Twitch.TV/controller wow and then you can find the show notes but this episode that controllerwow.com thanks for listening and I will talk to you next week.


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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Ctrl Alt WoW AprilPvd Episode 875 - You Get a Server and You Get a Server

AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

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No Man’s Sky

Lots of speculation since 10 year anniversary is coming up on August 9. It’s weird that there hasn’t been an emoji. But they are announcing something called Cosmos.

Palworld 1.0

Wednesday

Play PW with Grand Nagus and it was so much fun. I was so excited when after we recorded last week episode of Ctrl Alt WoW Final Fantasy 14 Grand Nagus stated that he wanted to play with me and so I tried to get him to join my dedicated server. I thought I had set up everything so that he would be able to join. There’s a whole bunch of stuff about port forwarding and it didn’t work and so we weren’t able to play on Tuesday. I fool around and read some other things about it, but then I came upon something about a paid dedicated server and at first, I was like do I really want to get hooked up on this is gonna be a scam is it gonna really work but I tried it and for $14 a month and this was just a test I was able to get a server that on Wednesday we both joined and we were able to play together. It was really a lot of fun we played like and I think six hours I know we played three hours and then I took a break and then I came back and we played for a couple more hours. Grand Nagus kept on playing we got to I think level 12 at one point we set up a base we work together we leveled up the power box. It was Millie Millie, a lot of fun and it worked seamlessly everything we did together once we set up a guild I think it’s called Cal guild and Grand Nagus is the guild master and it just it was so much fun. We were actually talking on Zoom although I’m gonna try to figure out a way we can talk in the game because although I was streaming it, it was hard to hear Grand Nagus‘s voice in the in the stream, but I’m really glad I tried this like I said I was a little bit wary of it and in the long run $14 a month isn’t that much if it allows me to have a server that people can join us and I’m not exposing my system to my home system to outside forces plus this will allow me to keep my dedicated service from my gameplay and yeah, it’s kind of interesting. The thing is that you do you do have the option of turning it on pausing it and starting it and pausing it, which is nice because I was worried about that on my own dedicated server. I asked I talked about this last week that I accidentally left it running, and then I came back and all my pals were all upset. Someone depressed one of the humans had an ulcer so you know it’ll be nice to be able to pause it when I need to.


Thursday

Attempted to open up the port forwarding so I could use one of my computers for the dedicated server. But I always feel nervous about doing that and then I finally realized that the $14 a month to host a server was worth not having to stress out about changing the settings on my home Internet.


I did a bunch of exploring, opened up a new section of the map and caught some more pets plus went into a dungeon to get coal

Pictures from my base tour

I did some breeding and here’s my map of where I put this particular base.

Every day before I play PalWorld I like to go over what I did the next day in the Podcast. This way, the information that you’re getting is fresher in my mind what I was doing before was just taking notes and then trying to read through my notes all at once when I recorded the day, I would publish the podcast, but I think this works a lot better so I’m back in on Thursday and I’m looking at what the group of pals in my base can do and kind of checking off some of the things off of the pals that I need to do specific things it’s an interesting concept and it’s it’s a lot of things to learn in this game and some people might find it tedious but I find it very interesting. I learned a lot yesterday. One of the things I did was I have two cooking pots. One is an advanced one, and if I set it upright, then my pet will feed themselves so what I have to do is make sure that when I set up some food to be cooked that it says that it’s going to be carried can be carried by the pals back to the food chest, they’ll store it there and one of the things I had to do on the food test was to make sure that I only allowed it to store food because if I allowed it to store ingredients, they would eat the wrong ingredients now the problem with eating the more ingredients is that they will not get as much nutrients and that one little coat thing called SAN that gives them their sanity so you wanna make sure that the food has enough SAN to keep them from going crazy and to keep them working productively so I had one of the fire pit working to make food for me, and I had unchecked carry the food back, not realizing that it would somehow confuse them and they wouldn’t carry the food back from the next one so I came back after going into try fighting another fighting the original tower again to see if I got anything extra and when I got back, my pals were starving so I fixed that part and it’s it’s a learning experience and I had a lot of fun doing other things. I also did some. I went out and caught a lot of pets and I also fool around with the pet compression machine, which allows you to take a bunch of different pets and combine them to make your main pet even better and it’s really a cool system because you it makes you go out and capture more pets and while you’re capturing more pets, you’re also leveling up and that’s two of my focuses right now or to level up my character and level up my base. I’m at the point where my base cannot go another level because I have to level up enough to access the things I need to level my base up.


Friday

I got back on Aprillian and it’s so cool because she has access to the things on the base that April Pvd has built up. At one point I swapped back-and-forth so that April Pvd could make her a better shield and April Pvd had upgraded her outfit and so she put it in one of the chest so that Aprillian could retrieve it along with a good shield. April Pvd had put an egg in the hatcher and Aprillian got it out and it was a really cool electric zebra thing and she used some of her books to upgrade it so that I can provide electricity for the base. Now that April Pvd is putting in more equipment that will need electricity. The whole thing is so fascinating. Then a brilliant try to do that second tower three times and I decided to try dual boxing it. So I put a brilliant on my laptop and Apple Pvd in VR. I made the mistake of not moving a brilliant and she was actually killed during the fight, but April Pvd was able to revive her. Then I tried it again and this time I put a brilliant in a corner and after she released her pet April Pvd was doing most of the fighting and she was able to win. I could also see when the Aprillian’s pet died and then I could reach over and cycle through her pets and pull out another one. It was so much fun.


Saturday

Of course, since it was Saturday, I did my workout in VR.

It was my normal routine 2.7 miles with 6698 steps in one hour and 56 minutes. It was a little bit longer than usual because Holofit has these challenges where you have to complete these different activities for each month. It’s something different and it makes me stay on the elliptical a little bit longer and push a little bit longer. It’s another advantage to VR. I actually got a new hat for my avatar.


Zenith


It was the second Saturday of the month, which meant that I did the Zenith cosmetic craze. We had a nice turnout and it was a lot of fun. I try to play characters that don’t already have cosmetics. I ended up pulling out of mage that I hadn’t played in a while. There was another mage there and I was telling her how the mage  in Zenith is my least favorite type mainly because it’s so hard to hold my arms to shoot. She said even harder than the Blade and I said oh I love the Blade because I’m moving around and I’m actually getting exercise. The mechanics in Zenith are so good.


But of course, my main focus was on PalWorld. the whole time I was working out I was thinking of different ideas. When I finally logged off of Zenith, I jumped on Aprillian because I wanted her to do some exploring like I had done with April Pvd. I ended up exploring even more with Aprillian but I still didn’t find the third tower. She did level quite a bit and ended up getting more pets and enough so that she could do the second expedition.


Sunday

On Sunday, Grand Nagus and I work together on my dedicated server that I pay $14 a month. It’s not that bad. It’ll be fun and you know I had I think I mentioned that I decided to use it instead of trying to open up a port into my home network and it worked really well. We had a lot of fun with working. We working on our bases. We started out with One and now we have two and going through all the different quest lines together is really nice. It’s just like being back in World of Warcraft. Grand Nagus I guess it was and so he had a lot of information and I learned things and he learned things and it was just really good to play with another person and I’m looking forward to the next time we get to play together we took down some bosses. We got some new pets. We learned how to set how to put the right piles into our bases and we got to a point where one base that we had made by Nagus picked the perfect area and we had to pull out the biggest pals because we were getting raided right after we put the base down or not long after we created the base so we just put in the best and biggest pals, and they were able to fight off the raid Raiders and yeah, we had a lot of fun, especially once we both got out and we were able to ride around and the best part is when either of us died in a battle we could be by each other so that was kind of neat.


Monday 


Monday, I took Aprillian out because I wanted to get her a little bit more leveled up and she actually opened up some areas that April Pvd had not been to. she also went a little bit further, and I realized that the map was opening up for both her and April Pvd, and she also noticed that she was getting closer to the marker for the next quest line which was to find out more information about the next tower. Now we are done two towers. The towers are dungeons where you go in and fight one boss and then we have run into other dungeons which are more like dungeons in World of Warcraft where you run through when you gather stuff up and you fight things and there’s also a couple of places where there’s just a portal in the middle of the area and you go in and there’s just one boss fight in there. I just wanna apologize for my voice. I seem to be coming down with a cold and a nice sound awful but I just wanna talk about power world and how much I have been enjoying this game so I got a brilliant to that point where is she now has opened up the next quest line to get to the tower, but I logged off and then I brought in April Pvd so she could go out there and do the same thing so it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of you know I love doing class. I love following the breadcrumbs and I love, figuring this out and we also leveled up on both characters and opened up some more things on our bases you know because as you level up the base you get all these different things that you need to build for the base to level up your power box which right now I’m at level 13 and I’ve got to and I’ve got two bases and like a bunch of 12 pounds and I’m doing the expeditions as well which brings in a lot of good mats and I’m also leveling up my power learning which is really important the power learning gets you things like making faster for you to make things there’s also some things about it for the expedition and I have gotten to a point where I can make some different resources so I went back to my original base and I tore it down and now I’m going to try in next weeks episode to build a base specifically or as a resource base. I’m also upgrading all the beds and I’m doing some making cakes so I can mate my pals. I think I’m gonna close out now cause you can see I sound awful, but I’m loving power world and I hope you get to play it and enjoy it as much as I have. Oh my gosh, I’m so awful.


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