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girlofprey) wrote2016-06-12 12:54 pm
girlofprey) wrote2016-06-12 12:54 pm
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E3 is today. That's the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and pretty much the biggest video game event of the year. I am excite. Well - it claims it runs from 14-16 June, but I'm guessing that's just when they let people wander around playing games on the show floor, because the presentations by video game companies start today. Which is where you get all the news about new and upcoming games, so is arguably the most exciting part. Unfortunately, because it's in America, our timezones are very different. I kind of wanted to watch some presentations live this year, if I could, because you never quite get all the news the next day from reports on it, and it's not the same as actually watching it. But the first one is at 1pm today, in America - which makes it 9pm here. The two presentations I care most about are Bethesda and Sony/Playstation - and they're on at 3am tonight and 2am tomorrow night respectively. Which would be rough. Also I have my ESA assessment this week, and I'm pretty sure I'm about to start my period. And my next kickboxing graduation is on Saturday, whereas I was assuming it would be next week, and I'm really ready to get my yellow belt but - ugh.
I actually had to come off the floor at kickboxing this week. My foot is still giving me trouble, and because of that and a variety of other mishaps I missed about four weeks of classes. And, to try and rest my foot, I haven't been going for a walk every day like I used to. So I think between a combination of being pretty out of shape and how hot it was on Wednesday, I started to feel dizzy and then nauseous on the mat about halfway through the lesson, and had to come off. And my foot's still hurting when I got up onto the ball of it, which is sort of infuriating. I went to my doctor and saw a minor injuries nurse, and she suggested an anti-inflammatory topical cream and more rest, and then if it still didn't clear up maybe a steroid injection - which she said she'd had, and was the most painful experience of her life, but she never had any problems with the joints in her foot since. So you know, pros and cons to that option. So anyway, I got some gel. But I read the leaflet to see how to use it, and it said to consult my doctor if I was on any pain medication or any medication at all. And as it was a minor injuries nurse and she didn't prescribe it or anything, I'm not quite sure if she checked it? Like, we didn't talk about it or anything. And it's probably fine, but I'm on pretty strong anti-inflammatories for period pains, and if I get my period this week I'm going to be taking them. So I'm probably going to wait till tomorrow to use it, and just call my doctor's to double-check.
My life is a mess.
Also I've been playing more Fallout 4. I tried to run through and do a bunch of the endings I didn't already do. I did the Brotherhood of Steel one, because I know that's not going to be my canon ending, and I mostly just wanted to see what it was like and get some background on those characters, for fic idea purposes. Elder Maxson is an asshole, but kind of a hotass. A hotasshole. Anyway - it was pretty brutal. They hate robots, including pretty-much-human synths, and mutants, including the odd nice one who doesn't want to hurt anyone. So I hate to kill off the Railroad, who are pro-synth, including Deacon :( And then, as I had heard, one of your friends in the Brotherhood turns out to be a synth (unbeknownst to them), and you have to kill them too. It's a v. militaristic organisation, so their ending's pretty brutal. Plus all of the stuff with your son on top of that. But it's interesting, given that I'm not going with that one.
Now I'm doing the Railroad ending, which is the one I wanted to do even on my first playthrough, but unfortunately I'd already gone past the option to do that. And it's somehow even more heartbreaking. Because they want you to infiltrate the Institute (the Big Bad, that's making synths and using them like slaves) and pretend to be their buddy so you can take them down from the inside. And then you find out your baby, who was kidnapped by the Institute while you were frozen and who you've been looking for, is actually sixty now, and is running the Institute and is kind of a monster. And you have to pretend to be okay with that, to keep on good terms with Institute, as well as however you think your character would be dealing with it. I already knew about all that, of course. But it's still tough to go through when you're trying to imagine how your character would be thinking. Also you find out the Institute took your son because they needed a source of radiation-free human DNA, because that's what they needed to make the current human-like synths. So the synths - who you're trying to free, and your son is using like tools - are kind of your grandchildren. And I suspect that's not even a conversation you get to have during the game, so your character must simply MEDITATE ON IT ALONE. It's tough. But kind of great.
I actually had to come off the floor at kickboxing this week. My foot is still giving me trouble, and because of that and a variety of other mishaps I missed about four weeks of classes. And, to try and rest my foot, I haven't been going for a walk every day like I used to. So I think between a combination of being pretty out of shape and how hot it was on Wednesday, I started to feel dizzy and then nauseous on the mat about halfway through the lesson, and had to come off. And my foot's still hurting when I got up onto the ball of it, which is sort of infuriating. I went to my doctor and saw a minor injuries nurse, and she suggested an anti-inflammatory topical cream and more rest, and then if it still didn't clear up maybe a steroid injection - which she said she'd had, and was the most painful experience of her life, but she never had any problems with the joints in her foot since. So you know, pros and cons to that option. So anyway, I got some gel. But I read the leaflet to see how to use it, and it said to consult my doctor if I was on any pain medication or any medication at all. And as it was a minor injuries nurse and she didn't prescribe it or anything, I'm not quite sure if she checked it? Like, we didn't talk about it or anything. And it's probably fine, but I'm on pretty strong anti-inflammatories for period pains, and if I get my period this week I'm going to be taking them. So I'm probably going to wait till tomorrow to use it, and just call my doctor's to double-check.
My life is a mess.
Also I've been playing more Fallout 4. I tried to run through and do a bunch of the endings I didn't already do. I did the Brotherhood of Steel one, because I know that's not going to be my canon ending, and I mostly just wanted to see what it was like and get some background on those characters, for fic idea purposes. Elder Maxson is an asshole, but kind of a hotass. A hotasshole. Anyway - it was pretty brutal. They hate robots, including pretty-much-human synths, and mutants, including the odd nice one who doesn't want to hurt anyone. So I hate to kill off the Railroad, who are pro-synth, including Deacon :( And then, as I had heard, one of your friends in the Brotherhood turns out to be a synth (unbeknownst to them), and you have to kill them too. It's a v. militaristic organisation, so their ending's pretty brutal. Plus all of the stuff with your son on top of that. But it's interesting, given that I'm not going with that one.
Now I'm doing the Railroad ending, which is the one I wanted to do even on my first playthrough, but unfortunately I'd already gone past the option to do that. And it's somehow even more heartbreaking. Because they want you to infiltrate the Institute (the Big Bad, that's making synths and using them like slaves) and pretend to be their buddy so you can take them down from the inside. And then you find out your baby, who was kidnapped by the Institute while you were frozen and who you've been looking for, is actually sixty now, and is running the Institute and is kind of a monster. And you have to pretend to be okay with that, to keep on good terms with Institute, as well as however you think your character would be dealing with it. I already knew about all that, of course. But it's still tough to go through when you're trying to imagine how your character would be thinking. Also you find out the Institute took your son because they needed a source of radiation-free human DNA, because that's what they needed to make the current human-like synths. So the synths - who you're trying to free, and your son is using like tools - are kind of your grandchildren. And I suspect that's not even a conversation you get to have during the game, so your character must simply MEDITATE ON IT ALONE. It's tough. But kind of great.