all made up with nowhere to go

As an addendum to the "things I like about streamers" question, one thing I emphatically DO NOT like is screamers/shouters. I am noise-sensitive at the best of times and someone constantly screaming in my earholes is unfun.

I mention this because I watched Eurogamer streaming the start of the Dead Space remake the other day. I don't normally watch people play horror games*. But I watched this one because it was the first one Aoife was on after returning from maternity leave!** Anyway, Zoe was playing the game itself. Zoe likes horror games, but is easily jumpscared (as I've noticed from the Elden Ring streams) and, when she's scared, she screams. Like. No, no thank you.

She said she can't help it, and that's fair, but j f c. Although then again, I do know some people enjoy seeing other people being that freaked out but personally, nope. Not for me.

(As mentioned, she also screams when she gets scared by stuff in non-horror games, but it's obviously not as frequent, but it is still annoying to me).

So I just thought I'd add this because it's been on my mind ever since.

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In work news, it turns out I occasionally get to work with an antivax conspiracy theorist! ~YAY!~

Luckily, it's only one day a week for a few hours, but mannnn. I was lucky in my old job that no-one was like that for the most part, but I'd forgotten how easily some people in my hometown are easily swayed by stuff like that. Serves me right for not leaving the house more over the summer, I guess??

There's also a guy in my village who keeps trying to be my friend (we shared a taxi once so now he thinks we're friends???), but he is also antivax, so nope, no thank you, please stay far away from me. I will give him, he came up to me in the bus queue on Friday, tried to talking to me but then when I was mostly unresponsive, he said, "I'll leave you be," and went away. AMAZING.

(I feel like I was being unfair to him but also I didn't want to talk to anyone particularly, as I was knackered and just wanted to be at home).

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And in game news, I started Okami HD! I am currently at the Tsuta Ruins, although I don't want to do it because I don't like the boss. I might give it a go later today, or maybe on Tuesday, I don't know. Anyway, it's only taken me five hours to get here, but I swear it took longer when I played it last (in 2010!) But I was younger then, so maybe it felt longer because of that? IDK!

So, because I am avoiding the boss, I downloaded the Theatrythym Final Bar demo. I love it! Of course I do, it's a Final Fantasy rhythm game! But it hurts my hands to play it :( Luckily, apart from the directional commands, you can use any of the buttons for inputs, so I'm going to try to work out a way to play that doesn't hurt so much.

Also totally not me getting stabbed in the heart on hearing Song of the Ancients*** in the "this game will contain or have as DLC" trailer that you have to watch at least once. Oh no. Not me.

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I don't have anything else to say, so I am off to finish up watching Flembons playing a game I am not that invested in (yet?)

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*As I've noted previously: I scare easily, and most horror leans on gore, which turns my stomach. So I won't watch it for the most part.

**I like Aoife a lot (bias because she's Irish aside), but I didn't realise how much I'd miss her till she wasn't there.

***The version from the end of the game. I mean, most of the music in that game makes me want to curl up into a small ball, but most versions of Song of the Ancients don't. Except this one.

I watched Aoife and Johnny play Life is Strange because I was all, "I don't think this game will affect me as much as it has other people!"

Partly because I know some of the people who work(ed) for Eurogamer/Oxboxtra are into the game, and honestly, I didn't really get what the fuss was about. And I didn't even know EG had done a let's play (because they make SO MANY videos, I've never gone back through the archive unless I've had something recced to me by the almighty algorithm or I've been looking through the Late to the Party playlist). But the first video for the first game got recced to me and I was like, okay, I have nothing else to watch, let's try it out.

I will put my thoughts under a cut to avoid spoilers (including some rogue ones for Madoka Magica)! content warning for mention of suicide.

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tl;dr version: wtf do I know about anything, this game made me cry. A LOT.

I have finished Nier, and I am bereft.

That is the most emotionally draining game I have ever played, but I can't say I regret any of it. I don't.

I don't know what else to say about it but:

# The writing! The dialogue is fucking AMAZING. And I love the way Nier talks, because he sounds so human. And Weiss and Kainé's banter is great (and made all the better by knowing what good friends Liam O'Brien and Laura Bailey are in real life).

# The soundtrack is awesome.

Mostly I just want to make wavy hand motions, but also sounds of pain, because apparently this is what this game does to you.

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I finished reading the Drakengard LP and dove straight into one by the same guy for Drakengard 2. I can see why it is not well liked in the fandom, as it appears to be some sort of fanfic. Not that there's anything wrong with fanfic, but you know when you find really badly written stuff? This is that. Then I started on one for 3, but my eyes started glazing over, so I think I'm over-saturated at this point.

I discovered there is a Last Remnant LP on the LPA, so I might read that for a break maybe (although it's very long, so maybe not. I guess we'll see).

I finished reading Gangsta last night, and I am bereft because it's an on-going series and the next parts are not out yet! Also the author has been very ill recently, so who knows if/when she'll finish it. Obviously I would like her to get better before she continues.

I think I'll need to reread it, though, because I'm sure I'm missing some stuff (although honestly at the moment, most of how I feel about it can be summed up as OMG NICOLAS YOU POOR BB). Also I just ended up liking it more than I thought I would, so a reread can't do any harm, right? (Apart from the bits that ripped my heart out and stomped on them).

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I bought a new external HD so that I can back my computer up and, while I'm mostly done now, I had forgotten how flipping boring it is. I suspect it wouldn't be as bad if I didn't have 500+ Gb of stuff to back up. Oh well, I'll feel better once it's done, no doubt.

Talking of computer stuff, archive.org now has an archive of Amiga games that you can play in your browser! Much like the archive they released of DOS games a while back. I will probably spend all my time playing Bubble Bobble and Dizzy Treasure Island. Well, I say playing Dizzy, I'll probably spend more time swearing at it because I can't do it any more.

I've been thinking about the Raven Cycle too much. I had a fever dream about the story last night. Which I recalled during an intense coughing fit where I think I hacked up half a lung.

And then just now I thought of this (it has spoilers):

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Misadventures in ME3 continueth!

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More video game meme (though I swore all my answers to these were going to be massively long, but apparently not):

all the questions

My answers for questions 11 - 15:

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The titles of the books I won:

# The Knit Stitch Pattern Handbook - 300 designer stitches & techniques by Melissa Leafman

# When Bad Things Happen to Good Knitters by Marion Edmonds and Ahza Moore

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I keep wanting to apologise for the amount of Jojos on my reblog blog and twitter but NO. NO I WILL NOT. Because it is amusing me and making me happy and if you want me to stop that, I will freaking fight you. So. I think it's terrible that we seem to have to apologise for clearly enjoying stuff.

Meanwhile, JJBA update:

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# Persona 4 is essentially Part 4 but with personae not stands, amirite?

(I was going to post this on tumblr but a) don't really have a personal blog and b) I thought I'd get crucified so NO).
(also yeah I know it's not, but there are so many similarities).

Stolen from feline_scribe:

"Hey if you’re new around here or even if you've been following [friends with] me for a long time:

This is a reminder that you’re 100% welcome to respond to anything and everything i say. Leave me comments about posts or telling me about your day, or random facts or questions or ANYTHING. I LOVE HUMAN CONTACT AND ANY ATTEMPT YOU MAKE TO CONNECT WITH ME IS A BEAUTIFUL THING"

SERIOUSLY. Although if you don't feel like commenting, that's cool, too :)

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Meanwhile, over in JJBA FEELS R US:

Some tweets I made, which I may or may not expand on:

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So there's those, but there's also SPOILERS!

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UGH. *drags hands down face*

P.S. I STILL WANT TO PUNCH DIO