Loggin' Hours

I was really sick last week. As in so sick that I took what may have been my first ever sick day of my professional career. I'm still recovering a bit, which is what I'll blame for being incredibly lazy the week/weekend. Lotsa sleep, Netflix, and gaming.

I've been playing a mix of Mad Max and Rebel Galaxy. Kinda binging and flopping back and forth between the two. They're both fairly repetitive and grind fest-y, and herein lies a recent realization: Why do I keep playing a game if I'm not particularly enjoying it? Well, the answer's easy: I paid for the game, so I better get everything I can out of it, dangit. Kinda hearkens back to my time as a teenager where we had to save multiple months to buy something for the N64, so we'd absolutely play it to death to a) get our money's worth and b) keep ourselves occupied with a limited library.

But here I am, all growed up. While I'm not wealthy, I can certainly afford to buy a couple games here and there without it being too big of a deal. I guess old habits die hard, though, and I have a hard time justifying a game purchase if I haven't been able to finish off a previous title that I've grown bored with. Well, and maybe I haven't even grown bored with it so much as I realized that it wasn't that great to begin with.

Rebel Galaxy is the worst of the two. Good elements here and there, but overall kinda slow and really repetitive. I probably saw all major gameplay mechanics within the first 3-4 hours, and kept grinding away for another 25hrs so that I could get a better ship. So that I can grind away for another X hours so I can get an even better ship. The story is underwhelming, the battles aren't particularly exciting, and the navigation/movement is frustrating.

So... That means I should stop playing, right? What if I don't have another game I want to play instead? Does that (gasp) mean I should play my instrument or sketch or watch a movie instead? I mean, what am I doing with my life if I'm playing a game I don't like because I don't want to do anything else? Hmph.
-Cril

Starting off with a meh

Well, it's 2016 and I'm... Glumb (which is actually a word that I had to look up after using it). Dunno. Just feelin' grey somehow.

It was scary how quickly I slid back into routine at work, staying late each night. Getting home. Eating some quick dinner, slacking off just a long enough to make sure I have to stay up late to get my freelance done. Hm.

What do I have to look forward to this year? More of the same? Gotta do something to shake it up. Maybe this is because I'm getting stir crazy after a year or so of being out of school. Welcome to the rest of my life. Gotta find my own way of keeping things spicy.

I've given up my daily videos, though. I'm worried that I'll come to regret it somehow, but for now I feel like the project has run its course. I find it oddly tiring, but that might be a symptom of said glumbness.

I think that's part of the reason I'm writing again. Didn't want to give up on the only two ways I have of chronicling my life.

Speaking of which, this last week I was invited along with my aunt and uncle to test drive a Tesla S. The P85D. Worth $160,000. The third fastest 0-60 production car on the market. We were informed before the test drive that our individual insurance would be liable in the case of any mishaps, which made me nervous in hell. I ended up parking it horribly in a quiet corner of the parkade, mostly out of fear of doing something stupid.

I only really got to drive it around the block once at the end of the test drive. Just long enough for me to mash the go pedal a few times and giggle a bit. AWD and 691HP do funny things to your rational brain. It was odd how it didn't make any 'vroom' noises, just going '...' instead. Still, quite a thrill.

It was a bit like looking into the future of the industry, though. I think the automotive is looooong overdue for a shakeup, similar to what Apple/Google has done to phones and personal computing. Cars are conventional and the same thing gets released year after year. It was nice to see something in person that broke the mold. The whole car has two buttons in it; all the controls (driving dynamics, stereo, heating, etc) operate through the touch screen. The screen itself was a bit too huge for my liking, but the approach was refreshing nonetheless.

And the autopilot? Probably one of the more freaky/uncanny experiences I've ever had. Surreal, alarming, and supremely cool. Can't wait to see where automotive automation ends up within a few years.

And in other news, I spent the entire weekend binging on Jessica Jones. Good show. Kinda neat how PTSD and various kinds of abuse played a central theme. That kinda social depth was cool to see, and surprising considering it was coming from a comic book show. And it was well acted. David Tennant does a wicked (pun intended) creep bastard. Made me all squirmy inside. The effects felt cheap, but I still give it a 5/5. Good stuff.

Anyways, it's time for another week. Let's do it.