When in doubt, stick to autoreportage.

I beat Pillars of Eternity. Killed the fuck out of that evil zealot Thaos the third of fourth time I tried it.The battle was suitably dramatic, with it being down to just a near-dead Thaos and one of my party members (the smoking hot Eder) left.

I mean, just look at the guy.

Now imagine him being rougishly charming, potently paternal in the most positive sense of the world, and laconically witty in that Southern way I love so much, and you get some idea why I have the raging hots for the dude.

At on point, he says something that ends with “Don’t you worry. we’ll soon have you feeling better” to me and I damn near creamed my jeans.

So after going through the ending, I decided, you know what? I need more of that. Little interface quibbles aside, it was a great game with some truly great writing in parts, and I loved the ending.

I got to lock that mass murderer Thaos in a stone pillar for all eternity. I figured that was the cruelest option. Better that tearing his soul apart or returning his soul to the cycle of reincarnation or any of the rest.

Rot forever, you bastard.

Anyhow, after I finished it, I decided I wanted more, so I bought the sequel, Pillars of Eternity 2 : Deadfire, for like thirty bucks.

More than I usually spend on games, but what the hell. The game’s only a year old, and the truth is I can afford it.

That’s another recent event : after looking at my savings and realizing that last month had cost me $200, taking my balance down to approximately $150, I suddenly realized that it didn’t matter.

It didn’t matter because I wasn’t doing anything with the money anyway. It was just sitting there. I wasn’t saving it up for any particular reason. There is no goal that last month pulled further away from me at the last second.

So big deal. It did what it was supposed to do, namely cover my ass when I needed it to, and that’s all that matter.

Speaking of savings, I put $80 back into them when I went to cash my cheque today. Yay actually leaving the apartment by myself!

Saw some fun stuff out there, including, I shittest thou not, a family of five wearing five identical pairs of cheap sunglasses.

Presumably they were on sale.

Also observed a woman having a lively conversation in Mandarin with her friend, in the middle of which she made a phonecall in English and her English voice was total whiney spoiled blonde princess.

And I thought, should I be offended? Would that count as a racist cariacature of a white girl? Then again, for all I know, English is her first language and she has always talked like that (poor thing).

Then again, she stole my cab, so fuck her.

Backing up a bit, I went to Pricemart after I cashed my check. Needed to pick up a few things and maybe some kind of treat for myself.

And that was frustrating, because not only do they not sell the awesome single-serving pot pies I love any more, they didn’t have my favorite no sugar added strawberry sandwich spread either.

And strawberry, that’s my JAM, dawg.

But they did have this multi-berry flavour I have not had before, and the minute I saw it, I knew I had to try it, because….

And I swear I am not making this up….

…I DREAMED that flavour.

Seriously. I was drifting in an out of sleep and the idea of an all-berry flavour of something popped into my head and in my dream I could taste it and it was pretty damned good, actually.

So when I saw it in the store, it was a mystical experience. That’s the only word I can think of to convey the emotional and mental state I was in.

Something I had dreamed showed up in real life. It took a fairly big expenditure of will not to freak out.

I mean, technically, that’s the power of prophecy, with no easy rational explanation.

I love that shit. That’s a true Fortean experience.

Anyhoo, I got my jam (dawg), some diet cola, and some munchies, which definitely did NOT include any of the almonds and peanuts I have been using as carb free snacks.

That’s because I have been getting sick periodically lately and I am fairly certain that it was my new nutrageous diet that was doing it.

It’s like my body just plain got sick of digesting all that nutmeat and gave up in digust, causing my peanutty meals to clog my system.

Lesson learned. I, of all people, should know that extreme diets are always a bad idea because the human body needs variety in order to run smoothly.

I will vary my low carb snacking.

I wish I knew somewhere I could get those wasabi dried peas that I love so much. 7-11 used to have them but now they only have the (ickl) sriracha ones.

God damned srirarcha.

What else…. well, I have played the new game and so far, so good. I was a tiny bit disappointed that in the plot of the game, you are definitely playing the same person you did in the original. I was hoping for a fresh start.

On the other hand, the first thing I saw when coming to as my new-ish self was Eder watching over me like the world’s hottest nurse, so it wasn’t ALL bed.

Kinda made me not want to get out of bed, to be honest. But of course, adventure awaits, the world needs me, and there’s no “sex the heck out of Eder” option.

Maybe there’s a mod for that, though.

If not… well there’s always Skyrim.

The urge to reinstall it grows every day.

But I will stay strong! I will resist!

Boy do I miss all the perverted options though.

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.