The past week has been a bit tiring and I feel a bit exhausted, but that’s mostly cause of setting the tree up this morning.
This week I finally started Devil In Me, which is the last of the dark pictures anthology season 1 games, I’d hoped to finish it over the week but various things meant I haven’t. It definitely has a different vibe to the others though. Firstly because it’s introduced a bunch of new mechanics, which I suspect will take some getting used to. The characters all now have special individual items which I suspect will come into play more as the game goes on and the party dwindles. Second the threat in this is not paranormal like the others, which gives it a different vibe (though that could change).
I still hope to finish it soon before the Ranboo subathon in a few days (where they’ll be playing it at some point)
On Wednesday we ended up going out to the outlet that opened last year and it’s a strange place. Like it’s nice enough, but it’s mostly fancy and clothes shops so there was nothing too interesting. I did have a bit of sensory overload in the first place we went to (the Lindt shop) which was so busy and loud and just… too much. (Although I think I may have seen Ellie Simmonds there, though didn’t say anything at the time cause I wasn’t sure and how busy it was) I got a few things for mum for Christmas, as well as few little bits of make up.
On the way back we stopped in town and looked in a few places before coming back and, fuck that was a nightmare. We got to the bus station and there was a queue at our stop, so we thought ‘great a bus is due we won’t have to wait long’ but then the bus that was meant to turn up didn’t. So we waited for the next one and it didn’t come either. By now it was cold and dark and I was getting panicky, so we ended up walking back. It was tiring and exhausting but we got to one of the later stops and decided to take a break in case it did show up,cause it was apparently due and it did turn up so we didn’t have to walk the whole way.
But fuck was it tiring and it wiped me out the next days as a result.
Thursday was mostly tiring, I had hoped to start my uni assessment in the morning but I was just too wiped to even contemplate it. There was some good news over the day though, as a new Doctor Who animation is coming. Predictably it’s for the Celestial Toymaker, which makes sense giving he’s coming back today, but the animation is a new style and looks kinda strange. I’m gonna give it a chance though, because the ep is mostly meant to be a hit trippy, so maybe it’s done in that style to emphasise it
Also Who related, but the Who magazine came Wednesday and it has a free audio and The Star Beast comic which is a fun addition, so I’m gonna read that at some point soon. (And speaking of magazines does anyone know where Kerrang and SFX are available? Smiths in town had neither which sucks and I’m not going to Birmingham anytime soon)
Thursday night was the game awards, which I stayed up to check out and, ugh. Like I dunno if anyone has seen it, but it felt extremely disrespectful. The name of the event is the game awards, and yet the awards themselves felt more like an inconvenience than the focus. Like some categories were read out in groups, without the people even being presented them. And when people were onstage they were quickly rushed to finish, which felt especially disrespectful when ones weren’t native English speakers.
And sure some of the trailers for games did look good, but I’d have much rather lose half of them so that the awards (which the show should be about!) are given a chance to shine. Ugh
At least Baldur’s Gate 3 is on Xbox now, and I might get it soon because ahhh. (Though I am gonna try and win it first)
Yesterday was a slow day, I meant to do uni stuff but of cause the laptop needed updates. And I’m so annoyed because I’m losing another morning next week too.
I did see Die Hard was on tv last night so I decided to watch so I could answer the age old question: is Die Hard a Christmas movie? After watching I’d say yes it is, while the film is not about Christmas it is set at Christmas, so it does count. The film could probably be set at another time though and be largely unchanged from what it is (the party could easily be moved to be new year).
Today I sorted the Christmas tree, which is annoying lugging it down and setting it up. It looks nice enough, though mum kept handing decorations when it was clearly full. I’m just gonna spend the day resting now until later where there’s Who and streaming (and I’m putting on Muppet Treasure Island soon just cause)
The rest of the weekend I wanna try and go on Devil In Me some more, and I wanna get the twitchcon pic dump finally done today or tomorrow. But that’s depending on streams/tiredness/anxiety levels.
Next week I wanna sort the Christmas cards out (so lemme know if you want one!), do the uni assessment (ugh) and there’s Ranboo’s subathon.
I feel I’ve missed something obvious I was gonna say, but I can include that in the next post.
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carrythefire, I hope this helps distract you! I dunno why but the words for this have just flowed so there’s another part already. Oop! This feels like Regia where it’s growing, it was gonna be three parts but now it might be four? But who knows anymore!
