Oof.
November hit hard with the temporal space-time displacement Sunday morning. And I am still reeling from it not because it adds an additional hour to 2020, which really just puts back the hour that we skipped back on Sunday, March 8th, but because sunset around in these here parts is now at 4:56 PM and by the end of the month, sunset will be at 4:29 PM. What I find interesting is that this time change never seemed to have bothered me before but this year, of all years this sodding year, I am annoyed that I will not see the sun on my drive home from work (simply using this as a metric, not that driving home in the dark is a bother for me). Plus Goblino does not know that there was a time change so they will probably still be waking up at their 5:30 AM which is now our 4:30 AM.
I have not delved deeper into Phantasmagoria, sadly, probably because Conklederp and I finished rewatching LOST, then finished the season of Lovecraft Country, started watching the fourth season of Fargo, and then on Friday (October 30th) started in on The Mandalorian's second season. What I am saying is that nights when we have watched anything after getting Goblino to bed, we have had shows we have wanted to watch and I do not want to jump too far into Chapter 2 of Phantasmagoria if it is already late (for us). Maybe this week? We will see.
Looking back at October, I feel like I spent a lot of time playing free-to-play games like Fortnite, Vigor, and Rocket League; along with The Elder Scrolls: Blades. But I also started playing Mario Picross on the SNES Switch Online App because I apparently really enjoy doing picross puzzles, which makes sense because it is a play-at-your-own-pace puzzle game with a timer and in the Wario puzzles, it will not tell you if you have made a mistake, which has been a bit of an ego boost when I have only forced myself to redo a few puzzles less than a handful of times when I got to what I thought was the end of the puzzle only to have the game staring at me like an idiot. But yes, free-to-play games. I went pretty hard on Rocket League when Epic Games first made it free-to-play across all platforms (myself playing it on the Switch) and also playing around in Bohemia Interactive's post-apocalyptic battle royale Vigor and, oddly enough, I decided to stop playing Vigor last week after a stupidly short session when I was sniped within a minute of starting. I feel like there should be an article here, and there might be, but I do not want to rehash the one that I wrote back when I played the closed beta back in. . .(bloody hell only) April. But I could really see it happening, partly because I had a good experience in the closed beta and a somewhat negative one after the game launched on the Switch. So that will probably happen later in the month.
Back towards the beginning of the month, I had put a list together of horror style games (because October) that I had wanted to play and write articles on, with the plan being to play the game during the week and post the article on Friday. That obviously did not happen because I started the month playing Goetia (which I restarted back in September) and am still playing it for all the reasons that I covered in my article earlier last month. My plan, after finishing Goetia was to then play Neverout, followed by replaying (as in restarting) Hollow and finishing up this last weekend with Blair Witch. And then on or about October 15th, I saw that Epic was going to give away copies of Layers of Fear 2 through their client starting October 22nd, and this most recent Thursday, October 29th started giving away Blair Witch. At this moment, I am not sure what to do with Goetia in that I have fun while playing the game, I am intrigued by the story, but when I get stuck in the game I tend to get stuck hard and then get overwhelmed by all of the possibilities that I think I could do to solve the current puzzle I am working on. And I do not want to put the game down for too long, because it is a point-and-click adventure/mystery game so there is information regarding mechanics and clues that need to be in my recent memory banks otherwise I may have to start all over again, which is something that I would rather not have to do.
Lastly, it is NaNoWriMo, which snuck up on me again, and even though I was not able to complete Inktober on time and keep up due to 2020 happening last week, I do not know if I could commit to sitting down every night to chug out 1,666.66 words a night when I finding the time to consistently write here can be relegated to lunch breaks and smokeless smoke breaks (which is where I am right now). Yeah, I do not know if I could find the time to double this length with the time that I have left today. I mean, sunset happened four minutes ago and I still have to drive home by way of Home Depot to pick up a tarp and Fred Meyer to get some Raisin Bran, Bread, and whatever else I wrote down on the list that I left at home next to my PB&J (probably on the kitchen table).
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Breaks the Simulation
P.S. And you should not need me to say this, but if you are able to, VOTE!
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