I find it mildly humorous that, despite my having been doing the blister packed medications thing for over six weeks now, and as a result taking my meds with breakfast and supper instead of taking them all with lunch. I still get this surge of energy at lunchtime as my body and mind get ready to take all them meds.
Well, you do something (like taking your meds with lunch) literally thousands of times in a row and I guess it becomes pretty deeply ingrained.
So ingrained, in fact, that its remnants remain active even a month and a half later.
Like old-school nuns, I am a creature of habit.
Reaching the end of my rope in Pathfinder : Kingmaker. There is very little left to do. There will eventually be the final confrontation with Nyrissa, the eeeeevil fae queen and/or sorceress and/or goddess who is the main antagonist of the game but until then, I have kind of run out of steam (but not Steam, ha ha. ) in the game.
The only quests I have left are ones I have no idea how to pursue, and presiding over my “shittier than underneath the outhouse” kingdom where problems keep coming up that I can’t solve because my kingdom is falling apart and therefore all the problems have a 0 percent chance of my people solving them is really gtting me down.
To the point where I am seriously pondering using a save game editor to force my kingdom into being fully of shiny happy people holding hands and then praying to one of the game’s many gods (Pharasma?) that I can keep it that way.
It’s either that or start a new playthrough. And I am not quite ready for that yet, although my current level of passive frustration makes it a tempting idea.
But I might just live long enough to finish the whole goddamned thing, so I am not going to start a new anything until then.
It’s a good game. But it’s a marathon. So far I have played it for almost 220 hours, according to Steam, and it ain’t done yet.
Same with Assassin’s Creed : Odyssey. I’ve played it for 182.3 hours now and the end is nowhere in sight.
I am very impressed with all the time and effort into the Elysium DLC expansion. It’s pretty much an entirely new game to play after you finish the main campaign, and that, I am sure, was fantastic for people who had beaten the game when it first came out and are looking for a reason to start playing again after all these years, but for “late in the game’s life cycle” gamers like me, it’s a pain.
That probably should have been more sentence. Oh well.
Come to think of it, I’m also pretty stuck in Fallout 2. I have done all the quests I know how to do around Klamath, the Umbra Tribe village, and The Den, and yet I am still nowhere near strong enough to make the trip to Vault City to the east.
The encounters in that direction are way too tough. Huge gangs of bandits, even huger mobs of monsters, bleh.
I am going to need nearly godlike strength to deal with that shit.
And more teammates. So far it’s just me and Sulik, my fellow tribal, and he’s awesome and all but not nearly enough to deal with the kind of numbers I am facing.
So all I can do is explore. Which isn’t the worst thing in the world, I suppose, but I much prefer to be driven forward by the plot.
But what do you expect from a game from 1998? That’s over 25 years ago! A quarter century! That’s millennia in gamer years.
I should be grateful that it doesn’t have a command line interface! 😛
More after the break.
Not quite right
Got myself some Subway tonight and things about it are…. off.
First off, the sub. I decided to try something new on my Cold Cut Combo : the Smoky Honey Mustard sauce. I like smoky flavoured things. I like honey mustard. Sounded like a winning combo to me.
And it tastes good…. but then it doesn’t. It has an odd chemical type aftertaste for me, a sort of sickly sweet rubbery tang that I do not like at all.
And the best part is, I have another six inches of sub to eat after this one! Yay!
So now I feel stupid for having gambled my entire sub on an unknown sauce. I wish I had stuck to my usual mayo + garlic aioli instead.
Which is basically mayo + mayo + garlic.
I’ve realized why I almost always get the Cold Cut Combo, though : it’s the sub that tastes the most like subs tasted when I was a kid.
When I was a young’un, there was only one kind of sub, and that was it. Even during the submarine sandwich craze of the 80’s, the basic Captain Submarine[1] sub was still salami, pepperoni, lettuce ,onions, and green pepper.
There were other options, like bell peppers and mushrooms, but the basic formula was exactly the same.
Then Subway came along and all heck broke loose! 😛
Then there’s the drink. Amongst the options offered to me was Pepsi Zero Sugar, so I clicked on that when I was ordering.
I would have preferred regular Diet Pepsi, but whatever.
So imagine my horror when what showed up was CHERRY Diet Pepsi Zero Sugar.
I haaaaate cherry cola. That stuff is godawful in my books. So I was now struck without an acceptable beverage option.
I’ve been trying to take drinks of the stuff now and then to see if I can acclimate to the taste of it and it seems to be working a little. At the very least, the horrible cherry flavour isn’t as much of a shock now.
But still…. ick.
I like cherries but I don’t like cherry flavoured things. And especially not maraschino flavoured things, gah.
Give me my darker sweet drinks every time. Caramel, not white sugar.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.