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Today was a number of small annoyances:
I put the bags out for the supermarket to put the delivery in, and someone took 2/3 of them, the nice ones,
and now I can't find samelike things to replace them with, so that is going to be annoying every shopping day.
The shopping arrived but in much smaller quantities than ordered, and this was a bonus order due to Sunday just not delivering any drinks.
And then when I went to get lunch I discovered the drinks had been damp not because chilled but because leaking, and now approximately 150ml of capri sun was sloshing around the door of my fridge.

That took several stages to sort out and I had to stop for lunch in the middle.

But on reflection in a glass half full way, my attempt to have cold drinks kept that 150ml off the hall carpet, so that on balance works out okays.

Blergh.

But I had a nice ice lolly and when I wipe the drinks down a bit better I have a choice of apple, pear, mango, or ribena, so that'll be lovely.

I also watched two Doctor Who episodes. I started 11 again from the beginning. I am not enjoying how everyone got younger when I wasn't looking but aside from that it remains fun.

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Today I accidentally spent all afternoon designing a character on Inevitable Excess.
I just sat down to see if something worked the way I thought and look at some feats while I waited for the shopping.
Then I tried making a new Legend and the build just didn't work in that order, or possibly at all.
So I started again.
One entire afternoon later I built something happy making
and pretty much exactly the same as the game I erased last weekend

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ANYway.
Shopping arrived long ago, at least the parts Sainsburys deigned to send, and I was going to take a day off from the game, so I guess I shall find something else to do.

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Today I finished the DLC with almost all achievements popped up
though I undid most of them immediately because a lot of them are mean.

The only achievement I didn't do yet is the one where you don't bring extra friends, just the three with lines. I don't see how that's doable on any reasonable difficulty level.

I was playing on a custom difficulty slightly below core because core kicks my butt too much.
I only sort of figured out the puzzles - however you're supposed to logic the levers without blowing yourself up my brain simply does not do so I blew up a lot until it told me the puzzle was solved. Yaay?
And I did the fiddly achievement but I would have got a lot more benefit out of it if I'd done it in reverse order, I pushed some things down that didn't do anything, just because they were there, but if I'd climed a wall and done things the opposite way around, much damage, very helpful.

So that was fun and the achievements went bing :-)

Of course then I started the next DLC with those characters right away. Basking in a sense of accomplishment feels like it is for people who didn't reload quite as often. But I did the first fight there and only needed to reload once when I realised it was Boss Fight Time.

I still don't think I've really got the hang of playing a magus but the stabby spells have a lot of potential so I continue to try and make it work.

But I should take at least a day off or I disappear into gaming land.

Today's gameplay went better

Today I played the same levels of the same game I have been doing the other days, but this time I built the character so it at least slightly works, and looked up a guide to Achievements so I could do some of the unlikely ones.
... and immediately undo them. I don't think it is very nice when they have achievements for

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I think I am also on track to do a very fiddly achievement that needs getting right on every section of the DLC, so that's nice. Also trying to do things the fiddly way turned out to make the fighting parts a lot easier. Neat.

Also today I got some laundry done so on the whole I am feeling very accomplished.
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This week I have been mostly playing one of the DLC for Wrath of the Righteous
badly
on Core difficulty, where playing badly is not among the survivable options.

I am far enough along I do not want to start again but also far enough along I can see how I have borked my build entirely from the get go. Never played a Magus before, have got the wrong weapon and am making a mess of it. Currently surviving on cantrips and that's not sustainable.

I could start again, I could drop the difficulty, but at the moment I am playing the same fights over and over and over and wondering how I could be doing any better and getting stuck and having another go etc etc etc

And, eventually, noticing I am no longer having fun, and going away again.

Not a great way to play.

Also, doesn't give me much to talk about.

I did get two achievements for checking in all the corners for things, but it don't feel like progress when I know how many times I had to try the same fights to do it.

Then I stop playing and look at the actual real world news
and I really don't have anything to say at all at all.

So.

That's my week.

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BFA Doctor Who: The Lure of the Nomad and Iron Bright

Two adventures from the Monthly range with 6 and no regular companions.

Both of these are quite good, but today I wasn't concentrating well, so I often had to back up a minute when I realised I'd missed things, or pause things when I started inputting a character in Wrath of the Righteous (which didn't work out like I wanted because for some reason Mystic Theurge didn't work like I expected when input in that order). I couldn't keep my attention on just one thing at a time today, so I didn't give story the brain space it deserved.

Lure of the Nomad had the Doctor and a new companion arrive on an apparently deserted ship to answer a distress call, and then there's lots of running around finding things out and meeting the locals. Some of the locals are very unpleasant people, others are trapped, and one was an artist I thought the story might be making fun of but they seemed most sympathetic by the end. I didn't find it compelling but it did what it set out to do and had interesting corners in the ideas. I don't like the Myriad and have decided to believe they are lying or the future looks a but grim. It did a good twist, at least to me, and the Doctor got some good angst fuel. Pretty okay story.

Iron Bright was more interesting but also I was paying less attention. Not the fault of the story, I think. I was trying to figure out what spells to choose through much of the story, since getting a 40th level Legend statted takes ages. I thought I could do both but now I'm regretting not spending more brain on painting the story in my head. Excellent ideas,

( Read more... ) Lots of neat stuff. I should revisit the story some time I'm actually awake, alert, and focused.

I also finished listening to another Lost Story, Point of Entry with 6 and Peri, and I think it was quite good, but I also fell asleep listening to it twice and woke up to turn it off at some screamy bits and, also, empty the tumble dryer when it went beep. Probably not the story's fault this time, see also, didn't focus on the other adventures neither.

Honestly, filling up the time on days my sleep isn't cooperate is just awkward.

This attempt wasn't an unalloyed success and I shall return to the stories another time.

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I think the reaction to the DW season finale elseweb can be best summed up by
I have now seen three entirely independent incompatible theories
explaining that it was Clearly All Because Of
behind the scenes Stuff
with no cited sources
just, you know, the writer thinks it is obvious.

Whatever was going on with the Watsonian level, I have seen so many people bounce straight to the Doylist for readings, I think it is safe to say many are Not Happy.

Being Not Happy at the unalterable things is exhausting though, I hope they find some Happy to hang out in as well.