girlofprey

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. ( Spoilers )

I went to kickboxing tonight. My foot hurts a little bit. It will probably be much worse tomorrow, but it felt good to go. Exercising in warm weather is both the worst thing ever and the best thing ever.

Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to go see Captain America. Apparently we got it a week before America, and I'd like to get in before the Let's Players I watch start spoiling things. They're actually pretty good about spoilers, they always call it out ahead of time so you can skip a bit, or they just bleep the whole thing sometimes if it's too close to the release of a thing. But when I've watched a thing, I usually want to hear what their reactions were, and then it's a pain trying to remember which video it was, and which bit of the video, and so on. So I'm going to try to get ahead of the curve this time. We'll see if I forget my bank card, or my foot just won't let me walk anywhere. Wish me luck!

A new add-on for Fallout 4 is coming out soon, and I am so excited. It's set in Maine, so I'm expecting a huge amount of Stephen King references. WHICH I INTEND TO LOVE. I hope there isn't a clown in the sewers. At the moment I'm in a bit of video game limbo, because I specifically caught up on the Uncharted series so I could play Uncharted 4 as soon as it came out. So now...I don't want to get into anything else before Uncharted 4 comes out. Which is in about a week. I been playing some Stardew Valley. I need to remodel my farm, I think. Also there's the fact that there's a very high chance that my ESA is getting cut off soon, so I won't have as much money as I do now. Or no regular income, anyway. This has led to me feeling I should a) spend all the money I have now and enjoy it while I can (a feeling I am repressing), and b) not spend any money at all on anything, and save as much as I can. It's an interesting mental state to be in.

I heard the sonic booms the other night, in case anyone was wondering. I don't know if it was on the news much outside of Yorkshire. Some jets scrambled to investigate a passenger plane that wasn't responding, but all we knew was that we were going about our business and suddenly a huge bang sounded, like an explosion nearby. Very nearby. It felt like the house shook - I felt it. Dad asked me if it was something upstairs, and I was like 'no dad, I don't think it's anything in the house', and we all went outside, only to hear another one. All the neighbours came out as well, but no-one knew what was happening. For a brief moment, I wondered whether this was it, a super-volcano had gone off somewhere on earth or a nuclear bomb had exploded, and we were just waiting for the rush that would kill us all. But it wasn't. And we're all still here. The fact that there were no sirens wailing or ambulances rushing about suggested it wasn't anything that near us, either. And then it turned out it was jets. And now I have experience with what a sonic boom sounds and feels like.

I finished Fallout 4 today. Sort of.

( Spoilers )

I still don't quite feel ready to go looking for spoilers, or even looking at fic, because there's so many quests I haven't done yet, and companions I haven't even recruited yet. Which is a little annoying, because that's always the nice thing about finishing a story. But mostly it's nice just to know the end of the story. Maybe one day soon I will actually be finished with the game full stop. Hmm.

I'm playing Fallout 4 right now, and it just became the saddest thing.

I have Fallout 4 and I'm so happy.

RIP William. My lovely friend.

I have been playing Fallout 3 this week, partly because I love it and partly to take my mind off things. Unfortunately - though it is very sweet most of the time - the main 'companion' you can have in that game is a loyal dog, that comes panting up behind you whenever it catches up to you. I am planning to go play some again today, to take my mind off things, and because I need something to do, but it might present a difficulty all of it's own.

I had quite a lovely night tonight. Last year my local castle was holding a Proms-type event, but by the time I'd decided I wanted to go the tickets were all sold out. Then last night I found out it was on again, but today, so I assumed it would be sold out again. But my mum took my ON to the castle today, and found out they were still selling tickets, so she got one for me and one for herself, and we went down. It didn't start until 7.30, so the weather had cooled down from what it was like earlier today, and it managed to hold off from raining, and the place was packed. So we just spent a rather lovely evening sat on the grass with a few hundred other people, listening to our local symphony orchestra. I didn't even know we had one. Highlight of the evening: hearing one theme tune and racking our brains trying to think of what it was, humming it to ourselves, only for me to remember while mum was in the toilet that it was the theme to the Magnificent Seven. LITERALLY ALL I COULD REMEMBER WAS THAT THE SIMPSONS MAY HAVE DONE A PARODY OF IT ONCE USING THE THEME TUNE, AND IT MAY HAVE INVOLVED HORSES AND LASSOS. A close runner-up was the orchestra playing the can-can, and a bunch of people in the audience getting up and can-canning to it. And then at the end of the night we had a fireworks display. It was an incredibly decent night out for £5.

In family news, things aren't really any better. ( Talking about our dog, cut for mention of animal death )

And in general family news, I generally ask not to be involved in or hear about news to do with my sister anymore. But despite this, I have heard or overheard this week that she and her partner had a massive row on Wednesday night which ended with her sleeping separately from him, that having been moved from Disability Allowance to ESA recently she's now being asked to attend assessment interviews, and after an unfortunate incident on Thursday while my mum was looking after my YN, I seriously suggested to her that maybe she just shouldn't take so much on, if she genuinely can't cope with it. So it sort of feels like things might be changing in the near future, and possibly not for the better. Maybe they won't though, I might just be worrying too much about these things.

In other news:

• I honestly can't believe there isn't a Starkid kinkmeme in existence. I found a TFLN tumbr, and even they for some reason miss out Holy Musical B@man! in their posts. YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH TEAM STARKID PRODUCTIONS. And write me fic.



• You know how a while back I was talking about the video games I played in my youth, and mentioned the Great Giana Sisters?
  
  - I just spent literally about an hour looking for it, and while I remember posting about it, I can't find it. But anyway. Whereas I had assumed the Great Giana Sisters was a one-off 'homage' to the Super Mario Bros, it turns out it's actually an ongoing property. And there's a new game that just came out. I bought that. I'm going to play the hell out of it.



• I saw (most of) an amazing documentary about a lioness today, that ended up being basically a slash fic between her and a rival lioness. It was amazing. Then it ended on the note that there were 450,000 wild lions 50 years ago, and now there are 20,000. Which was a bit of a downer. I didn't even realised lions were in trouble. Still, it was an amazing documentary though. It was called The Last Lions, and it's apparently available on DVD, even though it's only about an hour long. Also, it was narrated by Jeremy Irons - I c what u did there, documentary makers.

In other news, I'm playing Fallout 3 again, and I've just gotten to the parts in the game that make me really angry. Or kind of angry. I feel like I want to go somewhere and discuss at length the differing moralities of the characters in the Wasteland - and why I think they're genuinely good choices by Bethesda, even if they didn't quite write them as well as they could have done. But either no-one is having/had those conversations, or I'm missing them. Or they're on the type of game websites that I don't like to frequent, in case they're a little more hostile than the sites I usually go on. Oh well.