Wow, Much Lag

Very Slow. Such fail. Wow.

My browser and the internet at work is flipping out.

The park has been fairly quiet this week since the tire exploding incident. I still have no clue how they managed to drive the wrong way down a one-way street and burst their tire (and then proceed to drive on the flat tire despite the damage they were doing to their rims). That and the swing lady seems to be mixing up her schedule to be out there at midnight instead of 5am.

Grosse Pointe Blank - This is Kim's fault.

High Fidelity - This is Heather's fault.

Hey Mesk. Look. - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Matador (Official Video)

Video work is going slow, mostly because I'm lazy and also because I've been spending the majority of my time writing or watching people make fun of the American elections. I'll be away all weekend. I'll either be reading and trying not to get a sunburn, or being dragged behind a boat at unreasonable speeds if people can talk me into trying to drown myself again. The former would be good 'cause I'll finally get some reading done, however, the latter would be good practice for the Drumpf presidency scenario.

I'll be back Monday night. Ish.

Oh, also, I caught an Abra and hatched a Snorlax. Yey.

Street Racers and Poke Battles

This past week has been an interesting one. Started out with a Karaoke adventure that ended prematurely because I started feeling really ill and also included the room randomly clearing whenever a new Pokemon was announced to be running around outside. So far a number of friends have been out late every night doing laps around the major Pokemon areas, one of them out until 3am with about 100 other people. Then, since there's a gym literally in front of my house (but unfortunately not close enough to access which would have been GREAT for trolling), we've had the daytime horde of children and teens fighting over it. Then between...let's say 10pm and 2am we get cycle of small strike teams that will either walk or spontaneously jump out of cars to come take the gym and then just disappear into the night. The cycle is usually Yellow > Red > Really strong Blue > Weak Yellow. Last night it stayed blue. Not that I'm monitoring it or anything. But literally anything anyone says in the middle of the park is amplified and echoes because the houses are in a semi-circle around it.

Oh and then a couple nights ago I was woken up at 3am by street racers when one of them (a beige/brown truck...like actually a truck...street racing) didn't realize the road ended and promptly slammed on their brakes to stop. Doesn't really work when you're going 120km/h+ in a 50km/h zone, so I woke up to tires squealing, then a crunch, then more squealing, then some engines revving, then one final squeal. Eight minutes later the police show up and one of the neighbours goes out to talk very loudly to them (not that the entire block wasn't already awake. Went outside to assess the damage the next day and well...

This is the fourth time this has happened in some form. This wasn't the worst though cause the truck drove away with its two buddies. The worst was when a couple of high teenagers were speeding, didn't realize the road ended and crashed through the park to hit a tree on the other side. No one has been seriously injured yet, but it'll likely happen eventually. I mean singing lady is out there at 5am a lot.

Today's theme for Soundtrack Not Thursday is stuff people have been trying to get me to watch and I just haven't had time for yet:

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Chris and Amy both say this is good and encourage me to watch it. I binge-watched the original series when I was a teenager after a high school friend died. No idea why I did that to myself, but it wasn't bad. Apparently this series is better.

Walking Dead (Vol 1) - Nope still haven't watched any, much to a lot of people's surprise and disgust. What? Zombies just don't really interest me. Yes, I know it's more than that etc etc.

Daredevil Season 2 - Watched the first season, but haven't gotten around to the second season. Still waiting for Jessica Jones season 2.

Also if you would like to see one of the most anguishing moments I have ever experienced in a game. Enjoy.

PS - If anyone is wondering, I'm Instinct. I think the dodgeball Pokemon group (this is kinda hilarious when you think about it) are all in denial because they keep telling me to take the gym in front of my house for Valor. And I'm like sure...for "Valor." I'm literally the only one in that crew on team yellow. 90% of them are Valor and the rest (like 3 people) are on Mystic.

PSS - Pro tip: Put your coffee down before you try to catch Pokemon.

PSSS - With the coffee incident, the two times I've fallen up the stairs with drinks and the spill of an entire glass of lemonade all over my desk, I feel there is a sippy cup for me in my future.

PSSSS - You both scary and hilarious America.

Moose Moose Beaver Hockey, Igloo Igloo, Hoser

Pretty angry so I forgot it was Thursday until now. Granted it's only 10am, but still. Currently listening to the Age of Empires 2 soundtrack because I like it and it makes me less angry for some reason.

So I'm supposed to get officially cleared by one of our clients because I MIGHT work on the account. I likely won't be, but I need to do it anyways because apparently we're all criminals waiting to happen. I fill out their forms and give them an arm and a leg. They ask me for my soul next and I'm like, dude, I can't give you my soul right now, I don't have the right information at the moment. So they keep emailing me over and over ignoring my email stating why my soul is currently off the market. Finally they find my email or w/e and are like okay well you could TRY sending this part of your soul and I'm like k, I'll do that when I'm able to. Then they just email me out of the blue today and are like yeah...so we're going to need your first born child as well.

The analogy has gotten a little weird, but I don't appreciate having arbitrary requirements thrust upon me. Apparently this has only happened to one or two of my other coworkers and some got away with sending like...a driver's license as ID AND proof of address like...there is no reason you, as a company, should know everything about me. 

Talked to some other coworkers and apparently only two of them have gotten off with no additional requests. One person got it bad enough that they were asking for financial records from their personal business. 

Anyway....

I remember last week I decided to have a Final Fantasy week (suggested by Delta). So here you go.

Final Fantasy 3 - A lot of people seem to really like this one.

Final Fantasy 4 - I THINK this was the one Shauna said she really liked. 

Final Fantasy 6 - Because tormenting Mesk is fun...I mean, in honour of his LP.

I'm off for the day. Expect Riven to appear soon on my page. It's time. Also working on another video project that I'll share soon.

Toasters and Kettles

I burned the top of my mouth on stew last night. It's not happy today. What is happy is the breaker was reset (finally) for the coffee machine in the kitchen at work, so today should be a little more functional than yesterday. Apparently running the toaster and kettle at the same time is catastrophic.

Dirty Dancing - Kim's suggestion. Was nice an upbeat for working on reports, which all managed to work somehow this month. Well, as much as they ever work.

Princess Bride - Guess I'm stuck in the 80s today.

Top Gun - 80ssssssss

I started constructing custom assets for the RPG. I did a test piece last night (in the form of a photocopier) for the game, because until this point, the placeholder for these things were rows and rows of microwaves. It didn't turn out half bad...though the shadows on it are a little funky. Also having trouble gauging size, but I've always been a little spatially challenged (as anyone who has watched me play puzzle games will know). The good news is I have some base-level skills for making my own crap, so I might be able to make items and objects on an "as-needed" basis. One thing I'm not skilled enough to do (at the time) is characters and portraits. That I may need to find other assets for. Also I got Mesk's Captain Planet Sprite to function as intended so there's that little success as well. The office (tutorial zone), believe it or not, is reaching completion. I have all the hard stuff and customization left. Most of the scripting is done at this point...except Grey Morton, some encounters and battles, and the last bits of Purple and Blue Morton. I still don't know what to do with the one room either...

I'll need to do some edits and clean-up of the dialogue (I've been rushing a bit out of necessity to test if certain scripts work) and then test absolutely everything. There's already a few things I've encountered that just make no logical sense, so I'll need to get clever.

Clawing through the rest of the week. I'll have like...a million questionable quality Vermintide videos on reserve if I run out of things to post. Meanwhile just trying to get through the backlog as usual.