Reading

Things:

--I've been watching a playthrough of Clair Obscur and one mechanics thing I'm noticing particularly is how each character has their own catchphrase(s) in battle. Before each move, Gustave will say the same damn thing. I've seen this in turn-based fighting games before but it's somehow especially aggravating in this one. The game is otherwise great but I find myself frequently mouthing 'For the ones who come after' and then saying 'shut up, Gustave!' (I also have said "Shut up, Gustave!" on other occasions as well.)

--Just announced: Silksong coming out on Sept 4!! Massive excite for that. I am too shit at dexterity-based games to play myself so will be waiting for Playframe's playthrough and I'm not sure how long he'll hold off before starting it but I'm already chomping at the bit.

--Have had to spend several days at work on a depressing project. My normal focus area is intellectual property and though that is a genuinely important part of the legal system, on a daily basis seeing which giant semiconductor company wins the slap-fight does not particularly move me emotionally. Whereas spending hours reading the details of [horrible thing] really kind of fucked me over, mentally.

--Recent boardgaming weekend was a delight - I particularly enjoyed Unstable Unicorns which is deeply silly, and also Person Do Thing which is a great party game that you don't need to buy to play, just go to the website.

--I'm trying to figure out if I can propose to my mother a place for us to meet up for Christmas that wouldn't be where she lives (Texas) because tbh I just don't want to go there for a million reasons, only some of which have to do with politics. But her walking ability is pretty limited and I don't know that there's any point to going somewhere with tourist stuff if she can't really do most of it. I'll probably just suck it up and go to TX. Which, if I'm going to, I should buy plane tickets now and stop waffling.

--I have agreed to help one of my coworkers with her September 1 move, because I am a sucker. My wrists are already fucked from everyday life and I can't wait to see how extra fucked they're going to be after carrying boxes from a u-haul next weekend. Whee. Why did I say yes to this?? Oh yeah, human decency. I remember now.

--Still here.

Various:

--compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting (substack post) - an interesting commentary about the trend of summarizing and drilling things down to "five actionable points," etc. Not sure I agree in every context but hey, that's what context is for.

--Went out with some friends recently to try my first ever lobster roll. Yes, I have lived up here for many years, shut up. Excitingly, I have learned a cool fact! Which is that I do not like lobster rolls. A good time was had nonetheless.

--Have had to remind myself once again, as I periodically do, that I am allowed to get into a cool idea for a week and then drop it. I am not obligated to remain fixated on any of the things that I fixate on for three days. Things can be fun and then end.

--My office building does these periodic activities (I want to call them enrichment) where they give out beach towels and sunscreen for the summer, or have a 'make your own spice mix' event, or whatever. No idea why. Anyway, they had one the other day which was labeled "Farmer's Market," which I assumed would be an indoor farmer's... market? But I stuck my head in at the tail end of it to discover that it was actually free veggies, and since this was the end of things they really wanted it all to go away and there were no limits anymore. So I came home with, uh. A lot, but mostly carrots. Next week's dinners will be heavy on carrots. Roasted. Soup. Mmmmmmm.

--Today A took me on a whale watching tour and it was absolutely marvelous. Only one juvenile whale, but he was flopping all around and breaching and doing all the fancy whale stuff. Genuinely thrilling!

--Many other interesting/fun things have happened but if I try to post about them all I will keep writing this entry until eternity.

hey, fight this mime

“not funny haha but funny ah I’m in a well!”