What a day. Absolutely nothing achieved. Nowt. I walked to shop and purchased milk. Had a few coffees. Mostly lay on a beanbag with my steam deck playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Minor spoiler alert. I have no regrets. Brian was sitting next to me on the sofa playing the same game on his xbox. Periodically we would compare notes. I’m trying to rescue a druid, he’s killing gnolls. Occasionally I give him some advice on levelling up, as I spent far too much of my childhood reading Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. Lots of the information is still there somewhere. “Make sure your wizard has magic missile. It’s brilliant for finishing people off and interrupting enemy Spellcasters”.
It’s an incredible piece of work. It really is. Well scripted and with levels of reactivity and choice going deeper than anything I’ve played before. Quite rightly winning awards all over the place, I honestly wonder if anyone will ever beat it, as the medium is commanding such incredible budgets that most of the studios have cautious people in the boardroom taking all the joy out in the name of safety. This and the fact that all the scared offended “anti-woke” types have started crying about things like the fact there are gay people in games.
Lou is home earlier than usual and will be working two shows tomorrow. I’ll have to actually do some tidying tomorrow as well. Brian and I ate Christmas food all day today and that’ll happen tomorrow as well. There’s plenty to get through. I’ll see how long I can avoid shopping. Lou had some heated up nut roast and carrots and parsnips and there’s plenty more where that came from. Oh Christmas. I’m bushed.
We stopped gaming just for a little bit in order to watch Home Alone. I’ve never watched it. It’s joyful in its way. Pesci is just delightful. Great cameo by John Candy. I normally watch Die Hard or Muppets so I’m happy to mix it up, and you have to watch that sort of thing this time of year don’t you?
This nub of the year. A strange time. A cold and dark time. Let’s all laugh at festive torture.
I’ll probably be up a few more hours, almost certainly going back to playing BG3 next to Brian. Gonna persuade some spiders to kill goblins for me so me and my druid bear friend can set back a load of fundamentalist mind controlled cultists. Just a normal Thursday.
AlBarclay 