Guess I might as well get this out of the way first.

Is it just me, or does it like I killed and mounted Eeyore?

Anyhow, as you can see (and hear) from the above, I don’t have a lot on my mind right now, or at least, nothing currently outputting to my conscious mind.

I’m pretty sure that my subconscious mind would still be processing stuff even if I was a coma. That’s just the way I am.

In that case, I hope it would all take the form of an exciting metaphorical adventure.

Some sort of quest to wake the giant, or something.

Finished my playthrough of Divinity : Original Sin 2 Definitive (aka final – Ed.) Edition. Ascended to the titular Divinity, which is not nearly as fun as it sounds because it’s not like you get to actually do anything with your new powers.

I guess godhood would be rather hard to program into a game. Even vaguely defined “divinity” would probably end up being either boring or just maddeningly vague.

I guess I was wrong about the title having nothing to do with the content of the game. The subject of Divinity is actually central to the whole plot of the game.

But the Original Sin bit is still a load of crap.

Now, I am at a crossroads. I could :

1. Do another playthrough. As usual, I have already started one. That’s how I deal with the post-completion depression that often comes with finishing a game. As depicted in this song. I could just keep going with that playthrough, maybe after looking through the rather enormous collection of mods for the game for something to make a second playthrough more fun and exciting.
2. Play through Baldur’s Gate 3. That would complete the “trilogy” of games by Larian Studios. Baldur’s Gate 3 is one hell of a game, even though it has nothing to do with the previous two games, and there would be a sort of logic to completely the triptych. But that game, being modern, has a tendency to make my computer crash. And…
3. Buy a new game. There’s the Spring Sale underway on Steam and I could get a number of games for rather good prices. Of course, being recent, they might crash my computer too, sight. I really need to get that new power supply. And then ask Spuug to install it for me. Should be way less complex to install than the GPU.

So that’s where I am right now relative to my one and only hobby, gaming. Right now I am leaning towards getting a new game and taking my chances with crashing.

If I do get something new, it will probably be the blazing hot “new” release Elden Ring, a 3D ARPG from last year that was all the rage during those bright and shining pre-Trump days, or Palworld, which is a Pokémon clone with guns.

I’ve enjoyed that kind of monster collecting game before, but the real appeal to me is that this particular game has a lot of very spicy mods for it that will let you interact with your monsters in a more intimate way.

Gotta fuck’m all, after all.

But I know that adult mods tend to only be amusing/arousing for a little while before they become old hat, so I am not sure they are enough of a reason to buy a game.

So I will probably end up getting Elden Ring.

Or, ya know, being paralyzed be indecision until the sale is over and I can’t afford anything recent again.

That’s always an option.

More after the break.

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Through a glass darkly

Got my new glasses in the mail today.

They don’t work any better than my previous pair, at least not yet.

I am going to try to keep them on as much as possible in case my eyes just need to adjust to them.

But needless to say, this development has depressed me.

I was so looking forward to nice, normal glasses I could wear all the time instead of my current pair which make me farsighted and thus are useless to try to wear when I am reading or using my computer, and that’s most of my day.

So far, I think I’m habituating to the new glasses, but only time will tell. It might turn out to just be hopeful thinking.

If the glasses are, indeed, unsuitable, I will be faces with the thorny issue of why.

Did I accidentally give the glasses company my old prescription? I don’t know. It’s possible. But the new glasses seem to have a different effect on my vision than the previous pair, so I don’t think so.

Are the new pair defective? Possible. But I don’t know how I would figure that out. So for now I will have to assume that they are functioning as intended.

Is it the worst option, namely that my eyes are just plain too fucked up for glasses now? I really, really hope not.

If I go blind, I will kill myself. There’s no way I could handle that.

Luckily I have a needle in the eye appointment next week so I can just ask Doctor McKay about it. See what he thinks.

It could be that it’s hard to correct my vision while this swelling issue that is the reason for the needles remains unresolved.

So I am still holding out hope that if Doctor McKay and I can get the swelling to go down and stay down, my vision will improve dramatically.

Especially in my left eye, which is the more fucked up eye.

It will be tricky, keeping the new glasses on for extended periods. I can feel eyestrain building up in my eyes and my forehead from all the straining to see I am having to do just to see what I am typing.

And I have the WordPress screen font turned up pretty large.

We will see how things go. I will keep the new glasses on for as long as I can stand it, anyhow, and maybe my eye muscles will adjust.

I’ll be sure to keep an eye on the situation.

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.