It's November, and you know what that means!? That's right, it's the month that incels try to convince you that it's exceptionally alpha/sigma/chad to not have any kind of intercourse because they're so toxic in their lives that they demonize anyone who is in a loving and committed relationship. It's a thing. But self-care is always important, so find your own way to destress, because bloody hell we all could use some downtime, especially if you're listening to any kind of election coverage here in the United States. Read a book that was published before 2016. Drink some Sleepy Time Tea. Watch The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition in a single sitting. I actually called The Kid earlier in the week to give myself an excuse to not listen to NPR for 20 minutes when I would normally do so on my way home from work to distract myself from the people who are convinced that multi-bankrupted convicted sexual assaulter and multiple-convicted felon gives a damn about them and will magically make "it" all better.
But self care. Video games are one of my primary methods of self-care, which is likely a surprise to absolutely no one. And like a good little website that talks about video games and related media, I tried to showcase spoopy video games and music; and while I don't think Ale & Tale Tavern is a conventional creepy game, I found out that it does have zombies who did startle me both times they showed up while I was trying to run a minorly successful tavern. And while I did manage to get in Creepy Tale: Some Other Place just under the line, I wasn't able to finish Innsmouth 22, a visual novel that I'd been reading/playing with Conklederp at night. There are a couple more Keymailer games that I am hoping to finish and have articles up for this month, one of which is something that is part visual novel, part point-and-click, part item sorting, and all very strange and hilarious. Similar to Tux and Fanny, I'm not sure how well I will be able to convey this game's humor.
And I'm still playing Triangle Strategy and finally hit my stride in the storytelling about 20 or so hours ago.
Conklederp and I are also working through the second season of The Rings of Power, and at the moment, I'm kind of feeling the same way about this season that I did about the first season. That I'm enjoying the original stories and less excited about the stories about the Elves, and I also have to frequently comes to terms with the exceedingly truncated timeline. I also started Shogun a few weeks back while donating platelets and really enjoyed the first two episodes, which I'll likely continue the next time I make a donation which will probably be in a week or two.
And I'm still reading Spellfire, the first book by Ed Greenwood in the Shandril's Saga trilogy. I'm loving the story in all of its classic Ed Greenwood storytelling-ness, but I've just not been able to find the time to finish the book even after having checked it out from the library for 42 days. I'll get through it though because I'm loving nearly every aspect of it; plus it's making want to finish The Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy.
I hope y'all had a great Halloween last night because ours was fun and wet. Shut up.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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P.S. I know that I had a P.S. in mind before I went up and did some superficial edits, but now I can't think of what it was. Sorry about that.
