Trip's Life (Recent episodes)
17 January 2020 - Friday
Not only did Marith get a job today, she got promoted to full-time
before she's even started! She's still underemployed, but it's better
than nothing!
Watched:
- The Good Place 4.11: Aw, that was sweet. Wait, is that the end? But there's another episode!
- Orphan Black 2.1:
Picking up the doom right where season 1 left off. Is this the time that
Art will finally get told what's going on, or will he be left hanging
like the last four times someone said they were going to dish?
Read:
- The Iron Will of Genie Lo (FC Yee): Sequel
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo and pretty much wraps up the
story. More obnoxious gods, more demons, and college visits, plus
epilogue.
- Race to the Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse): Middle-schooler vs
Navajo mythology. From the Rick Riordan Presents line of own-voices non-white
mythology YA fantasy, which so far has been pretty swell.
Words:
FAIL.
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16 January 2020 - Thursday
It was windy and threatening to rain this morning, so I tried out
this "layers" concept. It seemed to work okay.
Read:
- Woman World (Aminder Dhaliwal): One day, men stop being
born. Sometime around then, civilization goes through a rough patch. In
the aftermath, a village of women are trying to live their lives. Simple
art, one or two pages per episode, made me laugh.
- Dreamstorm (MCA Hogarth): Back to life-threatening
drama, and one partner rushing off to save the other, but all's well
that ends well.
- Family (MCA Hogarth): Space elf finally takes skunktaur
back to his planet to meet his family. Space elf world is pretty
horrible, and so are a lot of the space elves, but this series is all
about family.
Words:
FAIL. I suck.
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15 January 2020 - Wednesday
Mike is out due to germs, and Kelsey is out due to capitalism, so that
left the four of us to play Roll for the
Galaxy and eat Thai
food. First game: Brooks won. Second game: Ken won, but the rest of us
tied for second. Third game: Dave won, but I came in second.
Read:
- Best Left Buried: The Crypt Collection (Zachary Cox):
A simple and very grim dungeon-crawling game, where you have to spend
SAN-equivalent to use any of your class abilities (in addition to losing
it when confronted with scenes of unimaginable horror) and can only
regain it by going mad.
- Mindline (MCA Hogarth): Sequel to
Mindtouch. Space elf leaves his partner to do a very prestigious medical
residency and everything goes horribly wrong. Did I mention the special
psychic link they have? (Not that ridiculous, they're both psychic to
begin with.) It's much more important in this volume.
- Dreamhearth (MCA Hogarth): Unlike the life-threatening
drama of the previous book, this time our heroes only have to persuade a
space station that they deserve residency permits. Also money woes,
rival therapists, conniving grandmas, and extremely dangerous scones.
Words:
FAIL. I blame me.
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14 January 2020 - Tuesday
Marith had a job interview today! Even if they are wise enough to
hire her, she will be underemployed, but it's better than retail
standing!
Read:
- Beneath The Missing Sea (Sam Sleney, Zachary Cox, Ben Brown): Yesterday
there was a 40-mile-wide inland sea here, now there's just a huge hole
with no water, and all the things that used to be safely underwater are
scuttling like cockroaches. A hexcrawl adventure setting,
nominally for Best Left Buried,
but easily convertible to any system where making up monster stat blocks
is easy.
- A Witch's Printing Office vol 1 (Mochinchi, Yasuhiro Miyama):
I had hoped this would be about printing and bookbinding in a fantasy
world, and some of it is, but mostly it's about Comiket in a fantasy
world, which is not as interesting to me.
- My Room Is A Dungeon Rest Stop vol 1 (Tougoku Hudou, Takaya Kiyoshi):
Male lead gets an apartment in downtown Tokyo super-cheap because it
connects to a fantasy dungeon full of slimes and goblins. Female lead is
buxom and helpless and often underdressed and easily duped, so bleah.
Also, we need better fantasy worlds.
- Monster of the Week (FT Lukens): Sequel to
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic,
further adventures of hapless bi (pan?) boy trying to survive high
school while working as an assistant cryptid wrangler/diplomat and his
hot boyfriend and token straight friend and threatened by parents, TV
reporters, and dog monsters. Bridger is such a good-hearted disaster.
Words:
Shockingly, CHECK. Because I am now counting anything more than zero.
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13 January 2020 - Monday
Oogh, Monday the 13th. Most accursed day of the calendar. 5-hour
customer meeting, although it did all go smoothly.
Watched:
- Elementary 3.8:
Almost made the NYPD seem sympathetic for a moment! Also I am glad they
have not dropped Sherlock's sobriety stuff even after two seasons.
Read:
- The Promised Neverland vol 13 (Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu):
Hey, look, it's some hope! I wonder how this will go horribly wrong and
require Emma and Ray to brain their way out?
- Mindtouch (MCA Hogarth): Platonic love story between a
genetically-engineered ace skunktaur and a
genetically-engineered-but-in-denial space elf, studying xenopsychology
together. Much more touching than I make it sound. Ends with doom, but
there are four more books in the series so presumably they will
eventually arrive at some kind of work-life balance together.
Words:
FAIL. Blargh. Maybe instead of failing to write fiction I should fail at
implementing my idea for a magical girl dungeon crawling game. Or figure
out what the actual stories are for Lovecraft Country so that I can
implement it in
PbtA.
Or I could die in a pit. That one seems like the greatest contribution
to world culture.
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12 January 2020 - Sunday
Slept in like four hours, which made me feel slightly well-rested,
but also wasted most of the day because I am defective. Then I wasted
the rest of the day doing nothing because I suck.
Watched:
- RWBY 7.9: I'm not as
personally offended as Marith is by some characters not getting enough
to do, but she's right that a lot of people should be doing a lot of
things, not just the few characters we've had since season 1.
- The Good Place 1.10:
Love confession episode! Including the one that was very surprising at
the time!
- Leverage 2.2: This
was mostly an Eliot episode, and that's okay, but it still needed more
Parker.
Read:
- Ran and the Gray World vol 5 (Aki Irie): This volume
focuses a lot more on the epic turmoil in the magical world than on Ran's
messed-up personal life, but there's still some of that. Also, hot
springs episode! (Not Ran, sheesh.)
- Tomo-chan is a Girl vol 6 (Fumita Yanagida): The
secondary couple have finally gotten together, but the primary couple
are still floundering with awkwardness. We get an extended flashback to an earlier
phase of their awkwardness, too, and also find out about that thing with
Gundou-san.
- Stars of Empire Player's Handbook (Terry N Sofian): Unfortunately,
this book was almost entirely the very detailed and retro system with
modifiers and charts for every situation, and hardly any description of
the steampunk setting with humans throughout the solar system and giant
bug monsters eating England and other cool stuff. I looked on DTRPG, and
I'm not sure any of the books associated with this game has that, which
I find confusing and also stupid.
Words:
Still FAIL. I realized what decision the MC needs to make, although it
still needs context around it. But maybe it's enough? I don't even know,
man.
Reminder! by marithlizard (Mon Jan 13 03:05:06 2020)
Choosing to relax on a weekend day on which you have nothing scheduled and no children who require minding is not a failure of any sort, it is proper human self-care. Do we have to run you through the capitalist dystopia deprogrammer again?
Re: Reminder! by Trip (Thu Jan 16 22:15:39 2020)
But there are so many things that need doing for myself!
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11 January 2020 - Saturday
We needed the cleaners, but it's still weird having people in our
apartment first thing in the morning.
Despite the huge amount of extra shopping requested by Ken, I got all
the things, or at least reasonable substitutes, and there was tasty
burrito dinner.
Nigh-weekly anime:
- Sailor Moon Stars 188: Now everyone knows everyone's secret ID, but that doesn't help Aluminum Siren!
- RWBY 6.5-6: Oh, that's what happened to the village. Also, one of Maria's secrets!
- Chihayafuru 3.13: The queen challenger is settled! I can't blame Suo for hitting on Chihaya, they're both weirdos.
- Shirobako 4-5: That guy has such Mediocre White Man energy, despite not being technically white (but dominant ethnicity of the area, close enough). I think all the women should just stab him. Or at least him lock in the cell when it's free.
Words:
FAIL. I have no scapegoat this time. I have been thinking, though, and
maybe I can overcome some of my worldbuilding conundrums by making my MC
not average for catgirls. As a bonus, I can make her even more
traumatized by her backstory! Also I can give her backstory more
tragedy. But can I write that much doom?
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10 January 2020 - Friday
I feel like I did some work, but I have little show for it except
finding an obscure bug that will probably never be relevant except to
this one customer issue. Also I had to stay late to cover for Boss A,
but she will be back from India next week.
Watched:
The Good Place 4.10:
I think the technical term for this is "maltheism". But on the other
hand, no universe that includes Disco Janet can be all bad. And
somehow, not the finale?
Words:
FAIL. Capitalism again.
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9 January 2020 - Thursday
I did not accomplish much at work, but at least I stayed late to
communicate my failures to the next shift?
Watched:
Read:
- The Mongolian Wizard (Michael Swanwick): Short piece, alternate
history with magic but with no less of the Great Game. Possibly leading
into a WWI/II analog that's not Germany/Hitler-based? Apparently there
are a bunch more short stories following this one.
- Monsters of Mars (Edmond Hamilton): Ancient (okay,
1931) novella about heroic Earthmen getting duped into teleporting to
Mars. After almost a century of SF, it seems horribly clichéd,
but I'm sure it was innovative at the time.
- Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence (Michael Marshall Smith):
Although the protagonist is an eleven-year-old girl, I wouldn't call
this a kid's book. There is too much death (not all deserved), cussing,
existential angst, thoughts about what it means to become an adult, and
sympathy for the devil. On the other hand, no sex and hardly any
romance. I dunno, man.
Words:
FAIL. I definitely blame capitalism this time.
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8 January 2020 - Wednesday
First Wednesday night
13G
and
Chinese food of
2020! This session, the people who were not enjoying the grossly
transphobic hospitality of the Lunar garrison executed their plan to
rescue those who were. At least nobody got killed?
A bunch of Mike's friends decided that he needed way too many glorantha dice,
so he regifted most of them to us. The strike rank and hit location dice
are not useful, but we enjoyed rolling the rune dice and getting runic
associations to go with our random numbers. For the system, it is handy
that the runes are in alphabetical order, but it would be thematically
better if Air weren't a natural 1. If custom cards were easier, I might
try to make a deck of cards with more and better combinations. All 20
runes &mult; 20 numbers might be a bit much, but we could probably come
up with something.
Read:
- Monster Roster vol 1: Desert Denizens (Samantha Gundaker):
Dungeon World
monsters inspired by mythologies of peoples from desert regions. They
will still eat your face.
- You Can Be A Cyborg When You're Older (Richard Roberts):
Not related to Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A
Supervillain, but pretty similar in a lot of ways despite being
nominally kind of cyberpunk. The over-the-top body modification is not
unlike superpowers, and there are many strange people for our teen
protagonist to make friends with. The thing with the AIs is legitemately
augh. There's a bit from Soon I Will Be Invincible about
how many superpowers are more like chronic medical conditions with
exploitable side effects, which I liked but was vague on until I read
this book.
- Snow Day (Andrea K Höst): Another postscript to
the Touchstone series but I no longer remember enough of the characters
to be heartwarmed.
Words:
FAIL. Normally I would blame Jus, but this time I blame capitalism.
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7 January 2020 - Tuesday
I was productive at work again, at least for a few hours. I had four
meetings and only two of them were with customers! Also I learned some
stuff.
Watched:
- Leverage 2.1:
That was even sillier than the first season. Although as Marith pointed
out, nothing is as ridiculous as what happened with the bank bailout,
and that's not even fiction.
Read:
- Wyrde and Wayward (Charlotte E English): Regency(?)
England, some families have a tendency toward manifesting bizarre
magical traits (being vampires, raising the dead, turning into dragons,
etc), MC is from a family known for this but doesn't have powers, comedy
of manners ensues.
- Monsterarium (Ahimsa Kerp, Nahid Taheri): Whimsical (but creepy) OSR monsters.
- Monster Roster vol 2: Arctic Anomalies (Samantha Gundaker):
Dungeon World
monsters inspired by legends from cultures that live in cold places. I
cannot comment on the cultural appropriativeness, but they will totally
eat your face.
Words:
Addditional FAIL.
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6 January 2020 - Monday
I did a fair number of things at work, some of them even not wrong,
but I also ate a bunch of extraneous carbs, and it's only Monday. Actual
Monday, not secretly Thursday or Friday at the same time.
Watched:
- Orphan Black 1.10: Well,
that's a lot of doom. I don't think it's really binding under the rules
of the US Patent Office, though, especially given the timeline.
Read:
- Gleipnir vol 5 (Sun Takeda): Wow, our female lead is
extremely murdery. And I don't think she's a good influence on the male
lead either.
- Sub-ether Zero, zero vol 1.1 (Gwendolyn Harper):
DCC-based
far-future science fantasy, grotty megacities on a ruined planet that
also has the current hot entertainment hub, so kind of a mix between 40s
LA noir and Judge Dredd. More specifics than I would want,
but it's for DCC players. Lots of random tables for things/people/plot
hooks to meet on the street. Apparently a part or preview of a more
complete setting to come, which might have interesting aliens.
Words:
FAIL. I just do not seem to ever have enough brain in the evening to do
more than a tiny bit, and sometimes not even that. Not that I can do
anything with plot or characterization or theme, and only barely with
worldbuilding or description. I'd say I should stick to bad game design
instead of bad fiction, so I can push the plot and characterization onto
someone else, but that's even more pointless.
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5 January 2020 - Sunday
Oh, right, that's why I don't like shopping on Sunday: the store is
full of people and everything is out of stock. Maybe it would be better
if I was able to not sleep in and went shopping right at opening time?
Seems unlikely that I'll ever know.
The customers were much quieter today, which is good, because
apparently I made enough mistakes yesterday.
Watched:
Orphan Black 1.8-9:
Felix is still the best. Alison is growing on me, although she is still
a complete disaster. Oh, and there was some plot stuff.
Words:
FAIL. But I'm pretty sure I need to do more outlining or at least I need
a better idea of the climax, when my MC makes a choice and then has to
fight for it. Also I really need to answer the existing questions about
how unusual my MC is and whether her power is too good for getting out
of trouble and not good enough for getting into trouble. So yah, I suck.
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4 January 2020 - Saturday
Because I am dumb, I ended up with all of today and half of tomorrow
on call (but hardly any Sundays for the rest of the quarter, so I can
game if I don't give up in despair) and the customers are being annoying.
Nigh-weekly anime:
- Sailor Moon Stars 187:
- RWBY 6.3-4:
So much exposition! And then [SPOILER] finds out about the end of last
season.
- Chihayafuru 3.11-12:
It doesn't seem like making someone do karuta in someone else's style
would actually be very good training at all. But never mind that, it's
time to determine who will face the current Queen and Master!
Read:
- Futaribeya vol 1 (Yukiko): Slice of life, mostly
4-koma. A responsible and traditionally feminine girl goes to boarding
school and has to room with a beautiful but not-very-feminine girl. They
get along great, and by the end of the first volume are just beginning to
think that their friendship makes looking for romance unnecessary. Not
very much cheesecake at all.
Words:
FAIL. I blame customers.
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3 January 2020 - Friday
Yay, it's Friday! I did some work, I guess.
Watched:
- Elementary 3.7: The
one that smells like pumpkin pie. Also a surprisingly positive view of
non-monogamy for a female character on mainstream TV.
Read:
- The Tiger and the Wolf (Adrian Tchaikovsky): It's the
beginning of the Iron Age, everyone is a shapeshifter, almost everyone
is
horrible, the end of the world may be coming soon, a ragtag band of
outcasts and fish out of water are probably going to have to be the ones
to fix everything. Good shapeshifting tricks, nice descriptions of
divine apparitions that are probably not literal.
- Dark
Alleys & Twisted Paths (Martin Killmann): The author thought the
core
13th Age
book didn't have enough spells/powers/talents/spells, so he made a whole
bunch of new ones. Also rewrites of the sorcerer and wizard classes to
be more like previous D&Ds. If I liked 13A more, this would probably be
a great resource.
Words:
CHECK. Maybe I'm to the point where I should start writing? Or maybe I
need to firm up the outline more? Hard to say. Outlining, how does it
even?
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2 January 2020 - Thursday
Ew, back to work. And now people are in the office, but at least it's
Thursday to go with the Monday? No, wait, I have to stay late on
Thursday. Bah!
At least we get lunch service again.
Read:
- Pawn (Timothy Zahn): Petty criminal and alcoholic is
abducted by mysterious aliens to repair a mysterious spaceship full of
mysterious goings-on. Like most of Zahn's work, oddly lacking in
feels.
Words:
CHECK, by an even smaller margin.
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1 January 2020 - Wednesday
Today I did some chores around the house, so that was a responsible
start to the new year, even if not an ambitious one.
Read:
- Still Sick vol 1 (Akashi): Yuri doujinshi artist who
disclaims all interest in 3D girls meets a coworker who is interested in
her work, or maybe her, and has a dark secret.
- My Father Is A Unicorn vol 1 (Monaka Suzuki): Just what
it says on the tin. The unicorn is never explained. He changes shape a
lot and causes great consternation in the apartment building.
Words:
CHECK. By the loosest possible interpretation, but not zero!
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31 December 2019 - Tuesday
I did a little shopping and only got moderately confused by the new
bus route. That's enough for a holiday, right?
Earl and Cat bailed on us, so it was just the four of us grownups and
Jus, and we had Korean delivery instead of fondue. But we played hearts
and
Small World
and Jus did not melt down from tiredness and even came in second in
Small World! I wouldn't call it a party, but it was definitely better
than sitting home alone!
Well, that's it for 2019. Maybe in 2020, Nazis will get what's coming
to them.
Words:
FAIL. But next year for sure?
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30 December 2019 - Monday
I could do with more one- or two-day workweeks in the new year!
Watched:
- Orphan Black 1.7:
Helena is so creepy. Olivier is so gross. Sarah is so doomed. Art is
about to hit the fan.
Read:
- Before The Broken Star (Emily R King): A girl with a
clockwork heart, vengeance, fairy tales, death at sea, all the classics.
- Dark Pacts & Ancient Secrets (Martin Killmann):
Third-party classes for
13th Age: monster,
psionic, swordmage, warlock, fateweaver, savage (because barbarians
aren't barbaric enough?), all pretty much what they say on the tin, and
probably kind of OP. Also
some feats and talents for existing classes, and some more magic items.
I want to like 13th Age, but it just has too many things to keep track
of for not enough benefit from each one, and also it's D&D.
Words:
FAIL.
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29 December 2019 - Sunday
The bus routes all changed yesterday, because reasons. The one that
goes roughly north-south past my apartment, down to Ayse and Ken's, is pretty much the same, but
the one that goes perpendicularly, which I ride in one direction to get
to the train in the morning, and in the other direction to get to
grocery and books on weekends, has been abolished. Fortunately, a nearby
bus has been extended to cover the part
of the route that I care about, and it runs both later every evening and
more frequently on weekends, so I win.
Shopping is about the only thing I have managed to do today,
though.
The kitten I was thinking of adopting, who had languished unclaimed
for months, has now been adopted. This is sad, but I am sure she is very beloved in her new home.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.12-13:
Nate's ex-wife is too good for him. Also, Parker's back muscles.
Read:
- The Way of the Househusband vol 1 (Kousuke Oono): The
most feared yakuza of the city now turns his warrior spirit to... shopping,
cooking, and cleaning.
Words:
FAIL.
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28 December 2019 - Saturday
Ugh, on call. Hopefully the customers will remain quiet.
For additional holiday celebration, I went with Ayse and Ken and Jus
and Nonny to
infinite
sushi and adorable kittens. I
got on-called during lunch, but was able to tell the customer to go away
and finish doing what we said the first time.
The kittens are
very adorable. Orange
Boy Kitten Jingle was very snuggly, but also rambunctious
and made me miss Marmalade. Dark Girl Kitten Cammie allowed pettins on
her own terms. But the most splendid cat was
Apple, who Ayse
and Jus are trying very hard to get me to adopt. She likes lounging atop
her cat tree and being tallest and coolest, so she might even get along
with Aspen.
I would have met more kitties, but we could only stay an hour before
Ken's allergies started getting to him.
The customers did not return before I was able to hand things over to
the next shift. Insert dancing llama icon here.
Watched:
- RWBY 7.8: Huh, I
thought Weiss's mom was dead for some reason. But apparently she just
avoids parties and drinks heavily, which seems like a valid response to
her life.
- Elementary 3.6: Sherlock
can still almost be a decent person if Watson nags him enough. Also that
was a satisfyingly convoluted reason for skullduggery.
Read:
- Eromanga-Sensei vol 1 (Tsukasa Fushimi, rin, Kanzakihiro):
Orphaned high-school light novellist discovers that his hikikomori little
stepsister is actually the illustrator for his novels. Incestuous
innuendo ensues, although the male lead doesn't seem to actually be a
sleaze.
- Fruits Basket Another vol 3 (Natsuki Takaya): Yep,
Sawa's mother really sucks. But now she has friends, so perhaps things
will be okay. I still didn't like it nearly as much as the original,
although it is good in its own way.
Words:
FAIL.
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27 December 2019 - Friday
Hardly any customers today, except the one who kept sending me the
log messages about his typos, asking me to debug them. That was good,
because I was very stupid today.
I actually walked
two blocks to get lunch today (the pita chips were almost gone), but
ended up going to
In-N-Out Burger because I find
Chipotle so unappealing.
Watched:
Orphan Black 1.6: Well,
that's a huge mess in every direction. But I can see choosing death over
that neighborhood potluck.
Words:
FAIL.
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26 December 2019 - Thursday
It's like Monday and Thursday at the same time, plus I'm the only one
of my team in the office so I seem to be ending up with all the cases.
Which is not itself bad, I guess, but it's so Monday.
Also there's still no lunch delivery, so I ate most of a bag of pita
chips instead of anything healthy.
Read:
- Silver Spoon vol 12 (Hiromu Arakawa): Hey, that is a
plan! With coconspirators and everything! Also, Cheese Girl goes to
France.
- Thirsty Sword Lesbians Beta 0.4 (April Kit Walsh): This
game is 1000% about feelings and roughly 0% about whether a scimitar or
a longsword does more damage. I mean, there is a move for
fencing with someone to hurt them, but there are way more moves for
seducing them or trying to find out their tragic backstory or supporting
them emotionally. The playbooks are all centered around an inner
emotional conflict (grand destiny vs living your own life, traditional
values vs living your own life, having monster friends vs having human
friends, etc). You can even declare yourself smitten with someone and
it has mechanical effects! This is a very early version, but apparently
it's been
picked up
by Evil Hat so it will get proper editing and playtesting and such.
Sadly, I am completely unqualified to play this game, not just for the
obvious reason, but because the only feelings I know anything about are
anxiety, disappointment, and existential despair.
Words:
FAIL.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians by marithlizard (Sun Dec 29 03:01:50 2019)
Nonsense. At the very least you have extensive experience with the feelings of being affectionately worn out by small children, loved/tolerated by your cat, annoyed by your flatmate and oppressed by poking.
Re: Thirsty Sword Lesbians by Trip (Sun Dec 29 18:19:04 2019)
Those are experiences, not Feelings™!
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25 December 2019 - Wednesday
This time I only slept in until 10. Surely this will not cause any
problems tomorrow when I have to go back to work again, right?
Marith also stopped sleeping at an apppropriate hour and roasted up a
bunch of squash and then we took a box of celebratory items over to Ayse
and Ken's for Xmas dinner! Dave was not there, because he was off being
a Dave, but Earl and Cat were there, and we feasted upon the capon and
many other tasty things and were as festive as children allowed.
Watched:
- Sailor Moon Stars 186: No, they still aren't investigating Chibichibi! Also it pains me that
the all the complaints about breaking the antiques are because of their
monetary value and not because of their beauty, but teenagers.
- Guardian 1:
Perhaps this is the new series we will lure Cat and Earl down to watch.
Chinese urban fantasy, with magic cops and snake ladies and Chinese
Harry Potter (you were thinking it too!).
Read:
- Silver Spoon vol 11 (Hiromu Arakawa): Does Hachiken
have a plan? He might!
Words:
FAIL.
Guardian by marithlizard (Sun Dec 29 02:59:15 2019)
I was not thinking it...until you said that...
Re: Guardian by Trip (Sun Dec 29 18:20:49 2019)
Really? Have you never seen any of the movies?
Re: Guardian by marithlizard (Mon Dec 30 14:52:50 2019)
It'd be impossible to have not seen any screenshots, at least. :) I guess I think of Harry in the Ingenue Main Character Kid category (emphasis on "kid"), and Shen Wei immediately put himself in the Cute Unworldly Academic Who Probably Knows Way More Than He's Letting On category (emphasis on "cute") by refusing to join the suspicious-sounding research team.
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24 December 2019 - Tuesday
I didn't sleep in until noon! ...quite. I went to lunch at the
new Thai place because the
burger place with five kinds of Diet Dr Pepper is closed, but the pad
thai was pretty bland. I think I may be too snooty to eat there.
Also I noodled around on the Internet until my brain came out, but in
between I wrapped some presents. I think of wrapping presents as a huge
chore that I'm terrible at, but it's really not that bad.
Watched:
- Treasure
Planet: I remembered this being cooler than it actually is,
but it's still pretty cool. I mean, who doesn't want to sail the skies
and fight pirates? But Dread Pirate Flint was completely
lacking in vision. It makes me want to play
Lady Blackbird
or maybe
Thirsty
Sword Lesbians, because of course it would have been a better movie
if all the parts played by identifiably-gendered creatures were women.
Read:
- O Maidens In Your Savage Season vol 5 (Mari Okada, Nao Emoto):
Confessions are busting out all over!
- Shadows & Dreams (Alexis J Hall): Further adventures of
a lady PI who keeps getting entangled with hot supernatural women in the
magical underground of London.
Words:
FAIL.
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23 December 2019 - Monday
I was not very useful at work, because I am dim. I should have been
60% more useful, because I only have to work three days, but no.
Watched:
- Orphan Black
1.5: Ugh, Vic. But he's probably not involved in the conspiracy yet.
...or is he?
Read:
- Unnatural Magic (CM Waggoner): Trolls! Genders! Civil
unrest! Prejudice! Magic! Romance! Setting forth to make one's fortune!
Debauchery! Fabulous outfits! Murder! Some people say this book reminds
them of The Goblin Emperor, and I see why, although it's
not actually very similar.
- The Midderlands (Glynn Seal, Edwin Nagy, Mark Nolan):
OSR setting, industry and quaint local murders and ancient stones and
noble intrigues like Renaissance England only with monsters and green murk
and slightly less impenetrable accents.
- Jujutsu Kaisen vol 1 (Gege Akutami): The monster
designs are satisfactorily creepy, but otherwise it's completely
formulaic shounen.
Words:
FAIL.
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22 December 2019 - Sunday
Atlantic
City Rollers fell through because Rachel is full of germs, so
instead I went over to Ken's place and we played
Gloomhaven.
We almost cleaned out the cistern of ever-spawning monsters, but they
drew their multiattack at the wrong time and we wiped instead. Still, we
got enough money that I was able to buy four enhancements and retire my
murder rat. We have unlocked the Summoner, who is apparently terrible,
so maybe I'll play that next. Or the paladin of solar flame and death,
but that risks being actually useful.
Then we played Uno and Thomas won, fair and square!
Watched:
- RWBY 7.7: I think we
knew how this was going to go even before Blake and Yang went rogue.
- The Good Place 1.7:
First appearance of the Bad Place staff. They do pretty much suck.
Words:
FAIL.
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21 December 2019 - Saturday
This time I did not forget all the things!
Nigh-weekly anime:
- Sailor Moon Stars 185:
Ah, Anime-itis! So expensive to cure! So decorous! So tragic!
- RWBY 6.1-2:
I still don't understand why the God of Light made [SPOILER] so blue.
And so naked. (Is that the same blue as [SPOILER]'s eyes?)
- Chihayafuru 3.9-10:
The qualifiers for the Master and Queen matches are done!
Words:
FAIL.
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20 December 2019 - Friday
Apparently the call from yesterday is still going on. I did some data munging to help out, but we will never be free.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.10: The one where Parker is not the worst jury foreman ever.
Read:
- The Ideal Sponger Life vol 1 (Tsunehiko Watanabe, Neko Hinotsuki, Jyuu Ayakura):
A young salaryman is summoned into another world to marry a hot magical
queen, but his first thought (okay, after "hubba hubba") is, "Why is
this actual queen trying to marry some nobody from another dimension? What
is she up to?" And she actually is up to something! Also he has a month
to plan what to bring from C21 Japan, so it is one of those stories.
Words:
FAIL.
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19 December 2019 - Thursday
The office manager apparently didn't trust me to bring the rolls I
signed up for, but I didn't take it personally because he apparently
didn't trust anyone to have brought edible food. But they did! And we
ate it! And it was good!
Then at the end of the day I was stuck on a call for hours with a customer who
will probably never be happy, until I could foist them off on the India
team and escape.
Words:
FAIL.
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18 December 2019 - Wednesday
This week's
13G
was less great, because almost the entire session was less than half of
the party doing excruciatingly detailed scouting and planning and
sneaking around. The
tacos
were good, though.
Read:
- Twelve Scorching Days (Melanie Greene): Musician
romance, pretty steamy, not too long. Not that I am a romance reader,
but it is by a slack frond.
- Fate of Cthulhu (Stephen Blackmoore):
Terminator×Cthulhu: the Great Old One has risen and
humanity is destroyed, but a few survivors have managed to send agents
back in time to disrupt the key events that led to the rising. SAN loss
is replaced with Corruption, which changes your aspects into horrible
mutations that the GM will compel against you, and when you run out of
aspects to corrupt, you become an NPC monster. It's
FATE, so meh, but it
does have guidance on tracking whether your actions have made humanity's
extinction more or less painful, so that's good.
Words:
FAIL.
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