Using my asthma inhaler is surprisingly tricky.
Not complicated at all. You exhale. then start breathing in and then press the thing down so it disperses your puff of Ventolin as you’re inhaling, then hold your breath for ten seconds or so to let the medicine do its job, then exhale.
Then do all that again, in my case.
And yet I am having trouble getting the hang of it. The sequence is simple but getting it to both clear my tongue and go deeply into my lungs is proving to be irritating.
I will get the hang of it if I just keep trying, I am sure.
But there’s a learning curve.
I am feeling fairly good today. No dark ocean of depression sloshing around in my brain and in my bloodstream and plunging me into despair.
And that’s nice.
Having a lot of fun with Divinity : Original Sin 2. It’s a really great game now that I have gotten the hang of it.
I made it to the final fight (I hope) of Chapter 2, and it was pretty hard. Then a giant interdimensional horror worm type monster showed up out of nowhere and then it was REALLY hard. So I decided to go explore a bit to cool off and think about it.
I honestly didn’t expect to find much. As far as I knew, I had done pretty much everything there was to do before the final fight. I was really just expecting to maybe find a few enemies I had missed and maybe a bit of gold.
But then I just… kept…. finding things.
It was really quite magical. Turns out I had missed loads of content, and just by wandering around I ended up leveling up my party and getting mad loot.
But the best part was getting skills and spells I had missed by going around and checking out everyone’s items for sale.
See, the game doesn’t have dedicated vendors. Instead, you can trade with nearly every character by pressing the trade button when you are talking to them.
I knew this from the start but I had been so busy doing all the plot stuff that I had only sporadically checked out what people had for sale.
When I went on my little cooling off mission, I started checking every character I could find for what they had for sale, and found out some of them had a ton of awesome stuff.
So when I finally returned to that final fight, I was way more powerful. Still lost a few times due to dumb fuckups, and when I finally did win it was way closer than it should have been due to more dumb fuckups, but I did it, then saved the game and quit it so I could eat and blog.
And now I have the fun of going back to the game and looting the corpses, leveling up, and moving on with the plot.
Amazing how much that improves my mood.
More after the break.
Wow. Just finished a couple of hours of DOS2 gameplay and shit’s gone all cosmic.
I looted all the kewl loots from the corpses lying around after my big fight and managed to actually get on the frigging ship I was fighting to get on, the Lady Vengeance.
Am I the only one who wonders why there an “a” in vengeance? Probably.
Anyhow, I get on to the frigging ship, but not before doing a whole thing where I am in the land of the dead and talking to a goddess who seems nice in a beatifically maternal way but then starts talking about how I am her chosen one and it must be me who ascends to Divinity and not one of the other gods’ chosen ones and suddenly I am not so sure about this lady.
So then I am on the ship, and it turns out the ship is a whole thing. Mostly just dialogue and looting. Eventually I find the book with the magic book which lets me talk to the ship (don’t ask) and just as I am thinking, “Finally, freedom!”, the baddies catch up to us and there’s this whole big fight where I have to protect this one person and the first time I try, I don’t make it, but the second time I do, and god damn it, here I am in the land of the dead and now all seven gods are hanging from some kind of tree that is sucking the life out of them and I have no idea WTF to do.
Turns out I had to use the Bless power given to me by the crazy goddess on said crazy goddess and we go through the whole “I seem beatific but then I am all crazy and fanatical” thing AGAIN, and then I ended up back on our boat but still in the Land of the Dead, and that’s where I signed off to let my brain cool down a while.
And I am so not thrilled to be caught up in the affairs of gods again. I got sick and tired of that when I was playing Pillars of Eternity 2 : Deadfire. Every other minute, the gods ae barging in to whisk you way to their realm to talk with you in that game, and it really gets to be a pain in the ass.
I didn’t ask to be your avatar, gods dammit. Leave me to adventure in peace!
But at least in this game (DOS2) , there is the possibility of becoming a god. And that sounds interesting. But I am totally not down with the whole “crush all those who oppose us because we are RIGHT and they must be DESTROYED” scene.
I am guessing that whatever evil is killing the gods is also pushing them into fighting amongst another with fanatical zeal.
Whatever. I am not falling for it. I will take the Federation (from Star Trek) route every time. Maximize cooperation. minimize conflict. communicate honestly, and so on.
In other words. I will remain true to my own values no matter what. Even in video games where I could power trip like crazy, all I want to do is help people and advance the greater good however I can.
That’s not just what I believe. It’s who I am.
But then again, those are practically the same thing.
And that’s the only way I know how to be.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.