i owe my life to a bean

# I got The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin out of the library to read. I also got a book that's a fictionalised account of the life of Richey Edwards (of the Manic Street Preachers). Turns out this year will be the 25th anniversary of his disappearance, o m g.

# I started playing Mass Effect: Andromeda yesterday, after having waited for it auto-install and then update (which took best part of an hour, omfg). I am interested to know what happens, since some of it is eerily similar to my sci-fi story that I never finished*. I'm not very far in (about four? hours? I got to Eos and Peebee). I'm glad I don't have to deal with Reapers in this game (I like them as antagonists, but I also like scanning planets, and ME3 scared me off doing that).

I have beefs about the character models and the animation (yes I know they fixed it, but it doesn't feel that way). Everyone looks way out of proportion and it just puts it into uncanny valley for me. Also Cora's sumg perma-smirk drives me right up the fucking wall (as does her class because WHY BIOWARE WHY. I hope I'll find out but in the meantime: WHY).

I'm going to persevere, though, because who knows how I'll end up feeling at the end of the day?

# ofc now I want to go back and play ME1, gdi.

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*I still think about it a lot, and about rewriting it, but me and writing for the most part has been a non-starter for a good while now.