Yesterday I finally got around to checking out the Violent Horror Stories Anthology -- a collection of four indie games that got attention because one of them became a hit with streamers/youtubers. One of them is a passable puzzle game about a cartoon cat trying to escape a tower, where you can move rooms around to create a path out of an area. It's very newgrounds/phone game, and goes on for too long with little change in my opinion. One of them is an interesting game about a tabloid photographer trying to get dirt on a celebrity, his camera focus moves around the screen and you have to click on relevant objects as the camera passes over them to get pictures of them -- like the celebrity's broken heel lying in the street, or a bloody shirt. It was interesting and I think has potential to be developed into a bigger game. One of them is an infinite runner about a guy who eats the liver of his abusive, grandfather? Uncle? Just Some Guy? I can't remember, and then his sled-dogs start talking to him and he tries to race to catch a flying ballerina because he's the alpha now. That one is also interesting, but gets very frustrating near the end and I gave up on finishing it. And the last one is No, I'm Not a Human, I'm a [Redacted], which is the one that everyone buys the collection for, and is getting developed into a full release. People are coming to your house seeking shelter at the end of the world and you have to decide whether or not to let them in -- some of them are human, but some are only pretending to be human. It's very well done, and definitely deserves the praise it's been getting. I look forward to the actual game, which will hopefully have fixed its few problems, like some of the text being too small and blurry to comfortably read.
ash and I watched some Steven Universe: Future, and a Would I Lie to You, and then I came back into my room to play some more No, I'm Not a Human, and planned to take a bath after a bit, but then Dave was like 'whatcha doin' 
’ and I was like 'perchance do you want to try playing Icarus together' and he was like 'ye', so we did that for the rest of the night. It worked mostly well, except that after maybe a couple hours I started experiencing unplayable lag, which persisted even on different maps and different missions, so we called it a night. But the game has the option of playing on dedicated servers, and so I thought, hmmm, maybe that would help.
And so long story short I rented and set up a server to play Icarus on. Maybe it will help! I hope it does. At the very least it'll mean we don't get dumped out of the game if whoever's hosting it disconnects. And we can keep playing in the same world even if whoever was hosting isn't online. I even got the save we'd been playing together on on there, so we don't have to start over if we don't want to.
After that I went to bed, and now I am awake and it is today. I am going to take a shower in about half an hour, and by the time I'm done with that it'll be around time for ash to get home. It is Severance day! So we'll watch that, and probably save the new Taskmaster for a different day
Okay, gonna go do things. o/
’ and I was like 'perchance do you want to try playing Icarus together' and he was like 'ye', so we did that for the rest of the night. It worked mostly well, except that after maybe a couple hours I started experiencing unplayable lag, which persisted even on different maps and different missions, so we called it a night. But the game has the option of playing on dedicated servers, and so I thought, hmmm, maybe that would help.