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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. Spoilers )
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Emmerdale )

I went to Leeds today with my mum and ON. I love my ON, but...oh my god he is so irritating. I feel awful, but alsdkjsakd. He keeps talking and talking and doing a running commentary on everything he's doing, and interrupting my mum and I while we were speaking to talk. And I know he's doing it because he wants to be a Youtuber, and they - because they are making videos - talk and talk all the time to avoid dead air. But you can turn Youtube videos off. Or just watch one a day. My nephew, not so much. We were in a comic book store, and he only went in to buy Pokemon cards - that's still a thing - and he bought them almost immediately, and I told him I'd be a while because I'd be looking at all the comic books that are out, since I don't get to come very often, and he just spent the rest of the time whispering under his breath, and talking about the other cards on display, and doing loud maths to see how many other packs he could afford to buy with the rest of his money that mum was holding, and doing a whole performance of going down the stairs in the shop to see what was on sale in the basement floor, and skfldjlsdk. While I was reading. While I was trying to concentrate so I could get out of the shop sooner, so he wouldn't be stuck in with me, bored. On the way home on the train he started playing games on his smartphone, and doing a running commentary on those, mostly under his breath, but slightly louder whenever your gaze vaguely turned in his direction. I'm not his audience. It was exhausting.

Anyway. I've mostly been playing Fallout 4 recently, since the Far Harbor DLC came out. I love the Far Harbor DLC, but unfortunately they have a fog effect in most of the new area that makes my game lag like crazy. I thought it was just me though, because my save files getting so big things had started lagging in other areas, where they never did before. But apparently it's a problem lots of people are having, so they're meant to be releasing a patch to fix it, so maybe it'll get a lot better soon enough. Also Fallout 4 became a little frustrating because my favourite companion is Deacon, and I saw some stuff people made online talking about a bunch of obscure things in the game that, together, suggest that Deacon's kind of an asshole. They didn't think it made him an asshole, but I think if he was doing what they thought he was doing, he's kind of an asshole. Which kind of soured my/my character's relationship with him. And it's not like you can have it out with fictional characters, or ask them if it's true. Or have it out with them about things that happened literally in front of your face, if the game doesn't give you an option to do so. So I had to sort of re-evaluate and come up with a theory that made him less of a dick, but still made sense with all the little hints, and believe that instead. It's cool now. He's fictional. But we're tight.
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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.
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Well. After being spoilered multiple times now, I have learned to just not look at anything to do with Fallout 4. Ever. Maybe for the rest of time. Can't believe I was excited to be experiencing a Fallout game as it came out, asldkdsjk.
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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.
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After many years of sort of dancing around the date, Easter is literally on my birthday this year. So. That'll be fun.

I'm running out of space for games in my current dvd racks, so my plan was to get rid of a lot of my CDs (which I barely ever listen to anymore) and put a couple of racks there, and move what was left of my CDs over. Unfortunately, this plan still involves me getting dvd racks and - all I want is one of those one that's a tower, but has slots in it you can put the dvds in, so you can get them out without having to dislodge the whole pile. But that is almost impossible. Argos and co just want to sell you bookshelves, basically, that fit dvds, and they're too big when you have to stand the cases up. The few slotted ones I have found, at a decent price, are flat packs. And while I managed that the last time I needed a new dvd rack, I didn't enjoy it. I went in my local charity shop today, and there was no luck in there either. Sigh.

On the other hand I did buy a (beautiful) secondhand Nintendo 3DS yesterday. So. Prepare to see me even less than you thought possible.

I'm still playing Fallout 4. I still love Deacon, but now I also love Cait.
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I'm playing Fallout 4 right now, and it just became the saddest thing.
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Kitten thinks of nothing but Fallout 4 all day.
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I have Fallout 4 and I'm so happy.
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I'm doing really well for fandoms right now.

Daredevil )

I also went to the cinema and saw Mad Max: Fury Road. My thoughts )

And I was feeling a little bad, because they're both media that have tried and succeeded, separately, at doing het relationships and female characters quite well, and I ended up just slashing two white guys. But! I am also playing Infamous: Second Son. I sort of promised myself I wouldn't buy any more of the Infamous series because the first one was kind of sexist, and the second one was kind of racist. But everyone everywhere kept talking about how much fun and how great the third one was, so I figured I'd give it a chance. And it turns out the main character's Native American! Which I didn't know. And he's lovely. And the second-most important character is his brother, who's also lovely, AND THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP, OH MY GOD. The game starts with our teenage main character finding out he's a superhuman, and they get locked up in this world, so he started freaking out, and his sheriff brother just CAME AROUND BEHIND HIM AND HELD HIM AND SAID "You're not one of them, alright, you're my brother, you're MY brother!". All he does is worry about the main character, he said recently he should have just locked him in a cupboard all his life so he couldn't get into trouble. Their parents are dead so they only have each other, and the brother obviously feels completely responsible for the main character. Today a woman from the tribe called the main character to say he should stop superheroing, and just come home, she asked if it was the brother who was making them stay and said if it was the main character should just say he wants to go home because "he'd do anything for you, you know that right?". I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. And the villain is a woman who is genuinely frightening and a believable threat. So now I am here for POC incest and evil femdom too. I BET EVERY TEAM IS GLAD TO HAVE ME ON IT.

Also the game is so good. SO GOOD. It's almost like I forgot games could be fun. I was really enjoying Grand Theft Auto 5, but it's quite emotionally gruelling, and a little confusing about how much it wants you to enjoy or criticise power fantasies. And they have a difficulty system that I find quite - well, difficult. Most games, you can set at the beginning whether you want things to be easy, medium or hard (or worse), and the game will change individual sections according. In Grand Theft Auto 5, there is just one difficulty level, but at the end of each section it gives you a score according to how many optional extra things you did. And if you didn't do them you have to do the whole mission again. So instead of getting to the end of a section and thinking 'yay, I did it!', I get to the end of a section and think 'I did it!...Look at all the things I didn't do'. That's not very pleasant with OCD. Infamous: Second Son, though: fun as hell.

And Bethesda finally announced Fallout 4! skflsfjkl
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And in fandom news from the past few weeks:

  • Allie Brosh's book is apparently available in October. I assumed, what with how ill she's been, that she just wouldn't have been working on it, but no, apparently it's coming soon. Which pleases me. I haven't seen anyone else talking about it, so in case you're interested and hadn't heard, there's the link.


  • I'm getting on with the main plot in Fallout 3 again, and you know, the more I think about the storyline, the more annoyed I am about what a wasted opportunity I think Bethesda had. Spoilers for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas )


  • I have been listening to this fanmix, and I want to rec it, because it makes me really happy. so maybe it would make you guys happy too. I didn't even know Electro Swing was a thing, but apparently it is. Also, it's a fanmix for Benny/F!Courier from Fallout: New Vegas, so if you ship that, you may love it doubly hard. NB: I cannot be held accountable if you don't love it.

And I was going to talk about some of the animals my cat has been bringing in as 'presents' lately, but I remembered in my last post I said I wasn't going to make another post about animal death for a while. Suffice it to say, I'm half horrified and half impressed.

And in the last few weeks, I saw three films. Three whole films.

The first two weeks ago was The Internship, which I saw mainly because it had Vince Vaughn in it and he looked like he might not be a dick to people in it. Which I was correct about! Although there were some slightly odd things in the film, overall he and Owen Wilson were both quite nice, and quite nice to other people. It was a slightly odd film - a lot of the scenes sort of felt like they were ad-libbed, and maybe they should have done more ad-libbing until they got something better/funnier. And the ending was basically a big ass-kiss to Google. But overall I enjoyed. And I somehow got a fluff pairing out of it. Mild spoilers )

Unfortunately, Vince Vaughn has turned out to be the latest actor I liked who disappointed me horribly, mainly by having fairly shady politics. It's nothing that would make me want to stop watching him, but apparently he's agreed to make a conservative TV show about his politics. So the night is young!

Speaking of which, I'd forgotten that the next Mark Wahlberg film I was looking forward to also featured Denzel Washington trying to do a comedy role for once, which I wanted to support. I may go see it. For Denzel.

Anyway. Then last week, I went to see Now You See Me and Pacific Rim.

Now You See Me, some spoilers )

Pacific Rim, some probably pretty big spoilers )

I think that's all my fandom news. Also I have started listening to Welcome To Night Vale, but I think I mentioned that in the last post. Also a few other things. But these are the main ones I think.

I'm going to Leeds tomorrow with my mother, because we are going on holiday with my two oldest nephews in less than two weeks. I need some holiday clothes. But I don't know exactly what I need or want. So tomorrow will probably be interesting, to say the least.
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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.
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Cut for mention of animal death )

Also, I went to see Man Of Steel with dad yesterday. I quite liked it? It was 3D, which I didn't realise before getting there, so I can't tell if the slightly insensible fight choreography was to do with that, or just the way it was actually filmed. Also, I ran out to the bathroom during a bit that didn't seem very dramatic, but might have been a bit of exposition that tied the first and second halves of the film together better than it seemed when I was watching it. I don't know. Brian Holden has taught me to like Superman more than I did. HE CAN'T ALWAYS HELP HOW POWERFUL HE IS. So I quite liked it. It was fucking expensive though. Two adults for a 3D film, including 3D glasses and sweets, since the newsagents downstairs was closed - £33. Jesus Christ.

And now there's Pacific Rim out, and I have been looking forward to Pacific Rim for a few months, but suddenly everyone on Tumblr's seen it, and they're so hyped about it they don't want to spoiler-cut anything FOR A FILM THAT CAME OUT FOUR DAYS AGO. jsjdhj. There are still two other films I want to see out at the moment, one only has two showings a day left this week, and The World's End is out on Friday. Lord save me from people who won't spoiler-cut. Am I just going to have to avoid your Tumblrs entirely?

In other news, apparently sometimes skipping the intros of songs you aren't familiar with on your MP3 player keeps you from songs you will one day genuinely love. This week's offering: Sweet Talkin Woman by ELO. Hold on...

Also, I am at the part in Fallout 3 where you . But this time I told him what a dick I thought he was. It's different this time around, knowing what's going to happen later on in the story. But I do think this version of my Lone Wanderer will end up slightly more well adjusted than the previous one. Or feel horribly guilty for a while. Whichever. He's totally a dick though.
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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.
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