Cav's Place

You’re used to Sunday rants, but this week I’ll make it a little early. Maybe I’ll manage to write a non-personal post as the second one, but I wrote three of those in a row so I guess I’m entitled to just rant a little more now. And I will even if I’m not anyway, because I feel like it. Or, more exactly, I don’t quite feel like anything else and if you’re going to more or less be curled up in a ball you may as well write about it, right? So that’s what I’m going to do, though it’ll be written in bits and pieces over the course of the day and you’ll just get the result when I decide it’s done.

What I should perhaps be doing right now is adding Portal 2 reviews to the MobyGames aggregator, since I’m sure there are lots and lots of them already published. In fact, there are a few other games that have recently been submitted that I should be submitting reviews for, but keep putting it off and I guess it’s only going to get worse. Not that the approvers seem particularly concerned with approving such additions, since I currently have 61 in queue, the oldest from April 8, despite slacking off lately. Then again, there were times when I had well over 100 in queue even though the approvers were getting to them rather quickly, so if you think of it like that it does show that I’ve been slacking off.
Otherwise, I should be playing Forsaken World. My characters are level 42 now and only Calad finished the whole main quest chain from the Sea of Oblivion area, though even he still has a few side quests to do there. Kalee is just starting the level 36 part of the main quest chain and has several more side quests left to do on top of that. Then again, it’s been far worse before, so I’m not particularly worried about that, but do want to explore the Lunagrant Woodland area before I completely lose my interest, because I want to submit two screenshots of landmarks from that region as well for the game’s entry on MobyGames. As for today in particular, really need to have Calad gather some plants and brew potions for the Rosemason Collection quest for both of them, since it requested something that I can do so there’s no reason not to. His alchemy needs any help it can get anyway, since I don’t use it for anything else, being as stingy with my potions as I am in any game. Actually even started to sell food and drinks that I got for free, from the daily Cooking Tutorial quest, because my inventory is just full of them and, as expected, I rarely use any.

So why am I not doing those things? Because I feel like crap, as expected. Also as frightened about the usual things as expected. Shouted for help a few times and got nothing in return, so I’ll just be here curled up in a ball and going crazy. Or more crazy than I already am, that is. Can’t get myself to even say anything to anyone, but it’s not like I have to anyway. A couple of details may be different, but the general idea is the same, so it’s known anyway. Basically haven’t even been checking my e-mail at all in a week, just logging on twice during this time to delete the messages I had no reason to fear reading… And I tend to fear pretty much anything these days.
What’s currently making all of that even worse is the drilling that once again started in the building as soon as it warmed up again outside. It was really bad a few days ago, when they went at it nearly the entire day, but now somebody started going at it again just as I wanted to take a nap, since I only slept for perhaps some five and a half hours. It feels like it turns my brain into minced meat! Not to mention the simple fact that it doesn’t let me sleep if it starts in the morning, as it did a few days ago, or in the evening, when I may want to nap, as is the case right now. If I’m at the computer I can put some music on and turn the headphones up to cover that dreadful sound, even though that’s not healthy either and implies that I can’t watch something or that it may be a little hard to play Forsaken World during that time, but at least it’s manageable. But if I’d like to sleep or perhaps to just sit and think, this makes it impossible!

If this is this week’s first post, the second should come before Sunday for once, because it seems very likely that I’ll be alone this Sunday and it’s therefore even less likely that I’ll manage to write something properly then, when I’ll try to make at least a little out of the time alone. At best, I could perhaps manage to write an environmental post tomorrow, for Earth Day, but that doesn’t seem likely right now. It may be a better idea to have my “monthly computer maintenance day” tomorrow, since it really should be this week and I keep putting it off, and then really struggle to cover one of the other issues that are currently swimming through my mind on Saturday.
Next week I should write another post about Forsaken World, trying to answer some more questions implied by the keywords people used to reach this site, but it will need to wait until then because I want to clear Sea of Oblivion with both characters first, which will take at least a couple more days. I mean, except the basic daily quests from Freedom Harbor and God’s Trial, I didn’t do anything at all today so far, so at this rate it’s not looking good at all. Either way, once I’ll do that I’ll start thinking about perhaps writing a review for it, since I don’t see myself hitting the level cap and can’t find myself caring for the “end game content” anyway.