Through the hourglass

So I missed in the last post thoughts on last weeks Pokemon thing when I did the last who post, oop. Almost half of it was about the side games, with most of that being features already mentioned (which I guess people could’ve missed but still). There was so new info on Scarlet/Violet which was good. There’s a lot of hot guys in it, but alas there wasn’t much new Pokémon info. However what new Pokémon were shown were adorable! Fidough (a cute new dog Pokémon) is so cute! And yay for a new Wooper! I hope there’s more variants in this region, regional variants are such a cool idea but they always seem to be way underused. I’m not too sold on the legendaries being… transport but I guess we’ll see.

I have ended up preordering it from Game cause there’s a few cute statuette (well free is a matter of perspective, you have to pay more from game causa the postage but it’s a small price considering such a thing would be way more alone)

On Thursday I watched a reef games twitch stream (well half watched really) and I ended up winning a game for it! It’s called Collar x Malice and was a physical game, so I sent my address the same day. It was posted Friday and came Saturday which was so fast it surprised me and them. I’ve not had a chance to play it yet though.

This past weekend I said to myself I’d do three things: watch Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation, watch Lightyear and watch Umbrella Academy… I ended up doing two of the three (guess which one I still didn’t do?)

Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation was funny as always, if a little sad too. (I do hope we get something about what happens to Finn and Poe etc but it seems there’s nothing set post TROS yet.) I did enjoy Lightyear too and I’m glad I got to see it, though there is one thing that… was really an odd choice. (I’m not gonna say cause spoilers if anyone hasn’t seen.) It was nice to see a same sex couple in it though, albeit very briefly. Hopefully it leads to more.

I ended up going to co-op after Lightyear and ended up getting some bargains (yay cheap cheesy bread!) but alas there was the problem I’ve had there for awhile. They said there wasn’t the student discount, even though there should be. I got sick of playing roulette with it, so once I got back I dmed co-op and it seems they’re looking into it and getting it sorted. Which, finally, but I shouldn’t need to do this.

I ended up using some of my Xbox reward points to get Rimworkd console edition because I was curious about it. The first playthrough had two people I just had to use, one called Sappy and one called Gerard (he was even an artist!) unfortunately during that first run the most useful person died pretty early and slowed things down. I did try another run, but that didn’t fare too much better. Everyone was still alive when I called it a night but only one of the three starting people carried stuff which ended up being an annoyance I wasn’t prepared for.

I ended up being pretty unfocussed Sunday, I watched some videos I’d meant to and the Ukrainian freedom orchestra prom which was nice but I zoned out. My stomach ended up being funny later in the night and I was sick once, which I think was part of why I zoned out. It was more settled By Monday afternoon but was still… ugh. I dunno if it was something I ate (unlikely) or if it’s due to the weather warming agin but ugh.

I did have a delivery Monday, which was the Misfits pride tee and poster. For some reason they came in a huge box which was baffling. But it’ll be useful to keep things safe while moving stuff around (which I plan to do then the heat defeats me).

Speaking of deliveries I found out the youtooz Punz bees have finally been sent, about 5 days ago. Alas tracking hasn’t been updated since but at least they’re on the way at last.

Yesterday I watched some of the Who ray stuff, watching all the things on the Revelation Of The Daleks disc. Some are bits and pieces which are odd but there were some nice bits. There was a short bit with the director speaking about the differences between old and new who (since he’s one of the few that’s worked on both) and the making of was surprisingly long (but no Nicola or Colin, which was odd and nor was there Kara’s actress). So now there’s just the few things on the Varos and two doctors second discs to watch and then I’m done with the boxset. Woo!

I wonder when the next Who ray boxset will be announced (and what it’ll be, I hope it’s the Fifth doctor since we’re way overdue). Abominable Snowman has a release date for next month at least which should be fun. There’s also an odd thing about the new new who ep as no one seems to know anything about it. Which yeah, I get secrecy and all but there’s not even the hint of a date. I’ve heard rumblings of October but no one seems to know. Which seems odd.

Anyway, yesterday was also the release of Two Point Campus which I gave a go cause it was on game pass (and I was watching the Xbox uk stream). It’s by the same people that did two point hospital (which is in turn a spiritual successor to theme hospital) so it’s a similar style, albeit different cause of the subject. The only issue is I had to stop playing… but when I came back to it the game kept crashing whenever I start it up. Hopefully it’s easily patched but still…

Since I couldn’t go back on that I decided to finally start Resident evil 2, though I didn’t do too much because I felt a bit unfocussed again. I obviously started as Leon and got as far as the police station. But damn that opening at the gas station goes hard huh? And the opening credits looked so cool. It made me wanna watch Welcome To Racoon city again.

After that I decided to watch an ep of Inside no 9 since I’ve still not watched the newest series. I watched the second ep which ended up being surprisingly creepy. Makes me glad I don’t work with kids I can tell you.

I then ended up, somehow, on the DND site reading about races and classes while watching foolish. I blame seeing pics from the new Spelljammer stuff (which looks so cool and awesome and I wanna play, I mean it has giant space hamsters, space fish and vampirates!). It made me come to the conclusion that I’d be an elf ranger, at least from those base classes.

Then was one final bad thing yesterday. It seems when I amended the shopping I didn’t allow the substitution for my drink, which means I didn’t get any which… ugh. I should be ok with other things but… ugh.

Today has so far been nothing special, but there’s a splatoon direct this afternoon so I’ll be watching that, as well as the Xbox uk cult of the lamb stream after.

Mum called up before going cause she had an email from wowcher, with insomnia tickets with £10 off. I’ve been going back and forth about going. Only seapeekay has been announced to be going of the creators I watch, and while he seems nice and all he’s not really enough to justify me going. However the voice actress of Zelda is gonna be there for a meet and greet, but only on Friday according to the site. That’d be pretty cool, but I worry if I book Wilbur or someone will say ‘oh I’m going… on Saturday’. Plus there’s also the thing about… people, which they’ll be a lot and I’m not sure if I can handle that. I guess we’ll see. I’ll ponder on it.

I’m thinking of starting a Lord Of The Rings run before the new series starts. It’d be the extended editions one a weekend from Saturday. I’ve not seen them in ages so… it’d about time for a watch. Despite the time investment it entails. (I should probably watch The Hobbit as well but there isn’t the time for both trilogy’s and I still don’t have the extended of the last one)

(I wanna watch The Umbrella Academy soon still and I’m determined to watch it before starting Sandman).

Mum’s friend says she’ll lend us a thing to help shift the washer that’s been in the garage. That’ll mean we can wheel it down to the kitchen and see if it works (which it should since its apparently new). If it does then we won’t have to get a new washer which will be a relief because that’s been such an annoyance.

Anyway, that ended up being rambly so I’m gonna try and sort uni now and then just… flop.