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Dec. 20th, 2008 08:22 pmI am not dead, though it is very cold out. It's been a quiet day, except for the part where my brother is still a dickhead. I'm tired of even recounting the family drama anymore.
INSTEAD, I am playing Legend of Zelda again. I decided to start from scratch since I didn't trust myself to have skills anymore. It's nice in a way, because now I know all the tricks but at the same time I don't have the skill set I did, so I'm actually getting better, or something. I still think the horse has the worst controller interface ever, but I think that's a basic flaw in the joystick design -- for this particular game, at least, the joystick is -- I would say not very accurate, but in truth it's too accurate. It wouldn't take me so damn long to get through the Goron Mines if my controller didn't send Link off in some random direction every time I moved slightly. I keep falling in hot lava. It's uncomfortable!
I am really happy basically just to have survived this week, given everything. Next week should be better. I've got two fanfics in more-or-less beta (the Doctor Who Christmas Special being one of them), a third one in the creative pipeline, and of course Jack and Ellis is starting to get really exciting. Not that I've worked on it in a few days, but it's all rocktumbling up in my head.
I'm staying in Chicago for Christmas this year, but I'm not planning on doing anything really. M and B are leaving on the 22nd and R's leaving on the 23rd; he invited me to come along and stay with his family for Christmas but HELLO AWKWARD. It sounds sort of lonely, but I'm looking forward to a quiet day off...
INSTEAD, I am playing Legend of Zelda again. I decided to start from scratch since I didn't trust myself to have skills anymore. It's nice in a way, because now I know all the tricks but at the same time I don't have the skill set I did, so I'm actually getting better, or something. I still think the horse has the worst controller interface ever, but I think that's a basic flaw in the joystick design -- for this particular game, at least, the joystick is -- I would say not very accurate, but in truth it's too accurate. It wouldn't take me so damn long to get through the Goron Mines if my controller didn't send Link off in some random direction every time I moved slightly. I keep falling in hot lava. It's uncomfortable!
I am really happy basically just to have survived this week, given everything. Next week should be better. I've got two fanfics in more-or-less beta (the Doctor Who Christmas Special being one of them), a third one in the creative pipeline, and of course Jack and Ellis is starting to get really exciting. Not that I've worked on it in a few days, but it's all rocktumbling up in my head.
I'm staying in Chicago for Christmas this year, but I'm not planning on doing anything really. M and B are leaving on the 22nd and R's leaving on the 23rd; he invited me to come along and stay with his family for Christmas but HELLO AWKWARD. It sounds sort of lonely, but I'm looking forward to a quiet day off...
