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jazzfishNot a whole lot, but that's been the refrain of the last ten months. I've played a lot of Hades, Supergiant's fourth game. It's really good, in ways that really work for me. Gameplay, obviously, but also storyline and art and music of course and the voice-acting and the pacing of how the various story aspects get revealed, and just, it's really really good. I should go back and play Pyre, I never did get around to that one.
I loved Bastion, Supergiant's first game. Then I quite enjoyed Transistor, their second, despite having a ton of complaints and criticisms that boil down to "the pacing is awful in multiple ways". Transistor's art-deco-Tron aesthetic made me quite happy.
... huh, I played Transistor the winter I was laid off. I'm not laid off this winter but I'm working from home and finding it difficult to keep focused on work, due to *gestures at everything*, so it's similar. Supergiant makes games that I'm happy to get lost in, I guess.
There was an election and the Democrats took the Senate, which was a source of great relief and joy for like twelve hours before it got overshadowed by a literal if disorganized coup attempt. Things are back to "normal," by which I mean we'll see if the Senate Dems can unite among themselves enough to do anything or if they choose to let the minority party dictate what gets passed. I am ... hopeful but not optimistic.
The thing is, if the filibuster doesn't go, I give up. At that point the people who've been saying that Democrats are useless are right. They have a chance to make some real, lasting changes: a two-year window to show demonstrable improvements in people's lives and provide reasons to vote for them. If they choose not to do that, not to exercise the power they have, then it's by choice, and nothing will get any better because they don't want it to. Absent real concrete change I am hard pressed to see the Democrats holding the House in 2022 (it's gonna be an uphill slog regardless), even if the Senate math improves, which it might. And then it's two years of Republican intransigence and 2024 is a bloodbath, and watching that will not be good for me.
I read Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower and meant to write more about it, but it's really good. In a style that I didn't expect to like: the prose is ... not difficult but not transparent. I'm surprised and pleased that it still grabbed me.
After, I reread Brust's Hawk, which is a perfectly cromulent Vlad novel that's a bit too full of itself, and Vallista, which I don't like any better the second time, though I'm happier with the ending than I was with much of the rest of it. And then I tried to read A Memory Called Empire, which lots of people liked, and couldn't get into it, so it sits awaiting another try.
I'm watching Arrow, about halfway through S2. It is not great art or even great television but it's diverting, and I'm enjoying the characters, and the bits of backstory for Legends etc. Erin and I started watching Flash last weekend and I already find myself enjoying it more.
I've been noticeably shorter of breath than "usual" at least since I came back from Vancouver in July and got a covid test (negative). It got worse over December/early Jan, so I made a doctor appointment. In between I stopped using the humidifier with what turned out to be an unclean filter, and my breathing got better but not back to where it was pre-December. Doctor seemed unconcerned; he sent me for an xray "just in case" and will have another test done once the machine for the test is functional again in February. Meanwhile I'm coughing (less so since I stopped using the lung steroid he suggested I try), but not "none") and still short of breath.
Trying the whole exercise thing again. Hoping I can convince it to stick this time.
There's stuff about possibly moving that is still rattling around in my head.
Work is stupid but saying it sucks is an exaggeration. I'm not happy there, though. No bites on anything else yet.
Thoughts on autism and gender rattle around in my head and don't settle out into anything worth posting, much less coherent.
I dunno. I'm still here. I guess that's enough for now?
I loved Bastion, Supergiant's first game. Then I quite enjoyed Transistor, their second, despite having a ton of complaints and criticisms that boil down to "the pacing is awful in multiple ways". Transistor's art-deco-Tron aesthetic made me quite happy.
... huh, I played Transistor the winter I was laid off. I'm not laid off this winter but I'm working from home and finding it difficult to keep focused on work, due to *gestures at everything*, so it's similar. Supergiant makes games that I'm happy to get lost in, I guess.
There was an election and the Democrats took the Senate, which was a source of great relief and joy for like twelve hours before it got overshadowed by a literal if disorganized coup attempt. Things are back to "normal," by which I mean we'll see if the Senate Dems can unite among themselves enough to do anything or if they choose to let the minority party dictate what gets passed. I am ... hopeful but not optimistic.
The thing is, if the filibuster doesn't go, I give up. At that point the people who've been saying that Democrats are useless are right. They have a chance to make some real, lasting changes: a two-year window to show demonstrable improvements in people's lives and provide reasons to vote for them. If they choose not to do that, not to exercise the power they have, then it's by choice, and nothing will get any better because they don't want it to. Absent real concrete change I am hard pressed to see the Democrats holding the House in 2022 (it's gonna be an uphill slog regardless), even if the Senate math improves, which it might. And then it's two years of Republican intransigence and 2024 is a bloodbath, and watching that will not be good for me.
I read Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower and meant to write more about it, but it's really good. In a style that I didn't expect to like: the prose is ... not difficult but not transparent. I'm surprised and pleased that it still grabbed me.
After, I reread Brust's Hawk, which is a perfectly cromulent Vlad novel that's a bit too full of itself, and Vallista, which I don't like any better the second time, though I'm happier with the ending than I was with much of the rest of it. And then I tried to read A Memory Called Empire, which lots of people liked, and couldn't get into it, so it sits awaiting another try.
I'm watching Arrow, about halfway through S2. It is not great art or even great television but it's diverting, and I'm enjoying the characters, and the bits of backstory for Legends etc. Erin and I started watching Flash last weekend and I already find myself enjoying it more.
I've been noticeably shorter of breath than "usual" at least since I came back from Vancouver in July and got a covid test (negative). It got worse over December/early Jan, so I made a doctor appointment. In between I stopped using the humidifier with what turned out to be an unclean filter, and my breathing got better but not back to where it was pre-December. Doctor seemed unconcerned; he sent me for an xray "just in case" and will have another test done once the machine for the test is functional again in February. Meanwhile I'm coughing (less so since I stopped using the lung steroid he suggested I try), but not "none") and still short of breath.
Trying the whole exercise thing again. Hoping I can convince it to stick this time.
There's stuff about possibly moving that is still rattling around in my head.
Work is stupid but saying it sucks is an exaggeration. I'm not happy there, though. No bites on anything else yet.
Thoughts on autism and gender rattle around in my head and don't settle out into anything worth posting, much less coherent.
I dunno. I'm still here. I guess that's enough for now?