So I did my big outing to the Kinsmen Adult Day Center for their exercise program, and the whole thing was quite lovely.
Here’s the skinny on it :
In the unlikely even that the video above these words is not quite up to my usual standards of editing, there’s a simple reason for that :
I was half-asleep when I was editing it.
It really kicked in when i was around halfway through. I started nodding off while the video was playing, which made detecting the usual ums and ahs and y’knows rather tricky. I kept having to play the same snippet over and over.
Finally I had to just say “fuck it” and render the file and upload it to YouTube.
Oh well. Hopefully I was my usual charming and engaging self.
I still need a whack more sleep, which is not unexpected after having done what for me was way more exercise than I usually ever do in an entire week.
Once I had posted the vid to YouTube, I took a nap for around an hour without even doing the usual posting to TikTok.
Speaking of which, certain recent videos of mine are stuck together in “content pending review” mode on TikTok. Wanna guess which ones?
Why it’s this one and this one, of course!
I guess I got a little too real for TikTok.
What a bunch of beta cuck simps.
Anyhow, back to the subject at hand :
Like I said in the vid, I had a nice time today. I plan to go back next week. That’s going to be a problem though because it goes from 10 am to 2 pm and I usually have Wound Care on Tuesday mornings somewhere so there are bound to be conflicts a-plenty.
For example, I had to cancel today’s Wound Care just to go to Day Care.
Clearly Julian and I are going to have to get Megan at the CHAC[1] to reschedule my Tuesday Wound Care appointments to be either before 10 am or after 2 pm.
Preferably before 10 am because then I can still be home in time to make the usual video at 2 pm.
Speaking of which, I have decided that if I want to keep doing songs – and I do – I am going to write and generate the song well before I sit down to make the video instead of doing it all as one long three hour project like I have been doing.
Or at least I’ll try. I would have to get over my powerful aversion to doing things outside my usual tiny corridor of existence to do so.
In other words, I would have to do something other than play video games with those large chunks of time when I am not blogging or making a video.
And the nature of my addiction is such that the very notion of spending free time outside the comforting and all-encompassing embrace of video games feels like I’d be skydiving naked into the Arctic to me.
More of that Midnight Tundra going on.
And I know that’s ridiculous. One of the most broken parts of my mind is the part that predicts what emotions will come from potential actions. According to that part of my brain, the slightest deviation from my usual routine will lead to absolutely misery.
I need to hold the truth of its brokenness to my heart so I can remember it when I want to do something new and that part of my mind is wailing and gnashing its teeth.
But for now, I’m just gonna go back to sleep.
More after the break.
Here’s a few things I’ve come across to cheer up your day.
I’d smile too if I got my ass stroked like that.
Oh, and here’s the happiest otter ever.
And finally, someone added funny voices to animal clips.
Hope that made things a little better!
In the darkest of dungeons…
Because that is literally what the game is called.
It’s called Darkest Dungeon and it’s my latest acquisition. And I am probably going to end up keeping it because while I can’t exactly fallen in love with it, it’s interesting and unique enough to make me want to keep playing.
Unique enough that it’s rather hard to describe. The setting and tone are very Lovecraftian, with an old and decadent and corrupt family’s scion becoming obsessed with finding an antediluvian portal supposedly buried in the family’s sprawling mansion.
That goes about as well as you’d think.
Strangely, though, the game itself has you leading more traditional RPG type heroes (albeit with an Edwardian twist) to explore the unearthed dungeons which sprawl through the bowels of the lands of the death and insanity.
So far so good. That’s a setting and tone I can enjoy. And it’s refreshingly different from the usual rehashing of Tolkien.
I have nothing against orcs and elves and whatnot but they’ve kind of overdone.
The gameplay itself is a lot like a traditional turn based RPG, with you selecting attacks or skills being the main dynamic as you fight the baddies. In true “Call of Cthulhu” fashion, you have to keep track of your heroes’ stress level lest the horrors they witness drive them MAD, along with the usual hitpoints et al.
Like I said at the beginning, I am not in love with the game but I am sufficiently intrigued that I am not planning on returning it to get my $5 and change back.
Speaking of which, hilarity : in order to buy it with the money I had in my Steam wallet, I had to charge exactly one penny to my credit card.
I was a penny short! And I’m Canadian, we don’t even have pennies any more.
I’m still pissed off about that.
I want my pennies back, Stephen Harper!
Maybe I am a lot more like the old people at the Kinsmen center than I thought.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.