Like, at all. Not anymore.
Did the Covid vaccine thang today. Was nice to see Kwantlen again. Except…
Entered via the North Entrance, and that meant going up two flights of concrete steps.
And patient readers know I do not get on well with those.
It was a nightmare, quite frankly. I had to haul myself up each step by using both hands on the guardrail. My knees are so stiff now that it was like I was on stilts.
And even then, I teetered dangerously on the top step.
And my knees throbbed dangerously, nay threateningly when I finally made it to the top.
So that’s my new reality. Stairs are a no go for me. Period. Just plain not an option. I am, in fact, a cripple, and that’s something I will just have to get used to I guess.
Won’t be long before I need crutches or a wheelchair, I suppose. Hard to know which one of those is worse.
Wheelchairs are cumbersome, they draw attention, they are tricky to pilot for a klutz like me, and they are a lot of work for your arm muscles.
On the other hand, crutches hurt. My underarms are not meant to bear my weight, god damn it. And they are not exactly klutz friendly either.
I mean, I’m clumsy enough with my actual limbs, and they’re on my body all the time.
Oh well, More reason I should be taking better care of myself I suppose.
Emphasis on should.
He’s hoping my depression lets me some time soon.
At least I got my jab today. Hooray for that. So far, the only side-effect I am feeling is that I think I am running a bit of a fever.
I have that “glowing hot in the infrared” feeling. No big deal.
I have a fan. I have beverages. I’m ready.
Unfortunately, I don’t get my second jab until four months from today. Four freaking months until I am fully vaccinated!
In the US, it’s like 20 days.
But apparently this is going on all across Canada, because according to my mother (who called yesterday – eeee! ), it’s the same on good ol PEI, too.
Her theory was that it was because they are prioritizing making sure everyone gets their first shot ASAP.
Makes sense to me. We are (shame of shames) lagging behind the Americans in that sense, and that is the sort of thing that really motivates Canadians.
(whispering) We can’t let them get ahead of us on health care god dammit!
But it sucks to have to wait so long. I want to be fully vaccinated now, god damn it. The world is very clearly dividing into the vaccination haves and the have-nots, and every middle class bone in my body demands that I be a have.
I want to go to restaurants. I want to throw my mask away. I want to feel smugly superior to anti-vaxxers for more than intellectual reasons.
Feeling smugly superior to the unenlightened is a major motivating factor for us liberal creative intellectual types.
Oh well, maybe when enough people have their first shot they will revise their timetable.
At least I am 74 percent immune now!
Big freaking woop.
More after the break.
More game impressions
First there’s Portal Knights, a rather fun blend of Minecraft-style sandbox play and a classic RPG where you kill stuff.
On paper, that doesn’t sound like my kind of thing, but somehow this game really pulls it off in a way that I enjoy.
For one thing, I am not being just plopped down in the aforementioned sandbox and left to play on my own. There are quests, dungeons, activities, missions, and a plot.
Patient readers know that I never played in actual sandboxes as a kid. I never saw the point of it. Then again, I totally missed the point of a lot of a normal childhood.
But this amount of sandbox I can handle. Sure, you can dig up various resources and make stuff out of them, but I am not required to deal with block stacking in 3D in order to make buildings, and that’s a huge plus for me.
Next we have Wargroove. Meh. Pretty standard military strategy game. Maybe a bit more pizazz than usual. Moving on.
Then there is Brutal Legend, which is FREAKING AWESOME.
It’s a heavy metal saturated action game and it’s got me hooked.
In fact, it made me its bitch when during the first fight in the game, this started playing :
And I was like, “NO FUCKING WAY!”.
But yes, way. So very fucking way. All the fucking way.
The game has a live-action intro with Jack Black, and the art style makes it feel like you are inside a heavy metal album cover. Everything about it is very, very metal.
It’s not without fault, though. It involves a shitload of driving, which I did not sign up for.
I came for the axe wielding mayhem and that’s it, dammit.
Then came Death Squared. Puzzle game involved sliding cubes around. Yawn.
It really should have been called Death Cubed. Guess that’ll be the sequel.
Then came Crusader Kings Complete. A STULTIFYINGLY typical medieval strategy game in the tradition of Nobunaga’s Ambition.
That shit is basically Fruvous repellent.
After that there was Pinstripe, an arty, spooky game where an ex-priest has to travel through Hell to save his daughter.
Didn’t get that far. Got stuck on a puzzle during the intro and realized I was just not invested enough to Google a solution or work on it any longer.
It seems quite beautiful, but I am simply not in the mood for an art game.
Then came Teleglitch : Die More Edition. An interesting take on very low res gaming but that shit just gave me eye strain, and that’s kind of a dealbreaker.
Then, after that, there was Dwarfs!? You control a dwarf colony and try to lead it to glory, in other words gold.
I might come back to that one. Seems potentially fun. But not sure I have the room in my brain right now to learn a system heavy game.
And then there was Dead In Burmuda, a somewhat crude survival game where you control the eight survivors of a plane crash on some island.
Presumably not actually Bermuda. That has like….civilization and shit.
Not my cuppa anyhow. It’s so crudely made that it makes me sad.
And finally there is Bury Me My Love, a visual novel (ick) about some Middle East stuff and a family and it all takes place over text chat and I could not care less.
And that’s the roundup. A few keepers and the rest were fun to try.
There’s a few bits of non-game software left in the bundle. I’ll cover them another time.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.