ELSEWHERE

Weird touch I appreciate, that I don't know is original to the remaster or was in the old version, is that doors only open one way instead of always opening away from you

Alright, I've taken my final exam. First try got 54/69, reviewed what I got wrong, re-took it and got 69/69. There's a couple of essay questions I can do for extra points, and I may go back and do that, but I'm getting an A no matter what I do and the rubric doesn't go up to A+ -- I'm at minimum getting 91.91% in this class. Still I feel a little bad checking out as hard as I've done -- I don't know if I mentioned but since the lowest scores on discussion board posts are getting dropped anyway I just didn't bother doing the last one at all, I'm ending the class with four missing assignments -- and it could be interesting to think about and articulate those thoughts on the essay topics.

That said, excepting the potentiality of doing that extra credit, I am done with this class! I was pretty disappointed with it, honestly. I didn't learn very much and I found the quality kind of lacking -- typos and missing words everywhere. But I have squirrelled away all the resources from it, aside from the lectures which I may go through and grab

Anyway, it got late while I was doing that so I'm going to go get ready for bed.

I did not play it and don't plan to! My first Elder Scrolls was Skyrim so the nostalgia factor doesn't grab me, and I currently get my Bethesda RPG itch scratched by ESO.

I did watch Sophie play maybe the first hour of it, though!

My impression of the graphics is that I'm glad they didn't waste a bunch of time completely restructuring the faces/people but also..........good lord they are very unpleasantly doughy???? and the mouth/eye ratio is equally unpleasant???? ick

I also agree chasing photorealistic textures is boring and a waste of time/money/processing power/hard drive space, I will be impressed by the grass flowing in the wind for a few minutes and then likely not notice again

Ah, I must have misunderstood something! Of the more retro-y Elder Scrolls it's definitely the easiest to pick up (much as I love Morrowind) so I do recommend it if you ever change your mind, but if you watched an hour of it and it didn't grab you I don't blame you for not throwing $50 at it

Then again even if you were interested I'd probably recommend just throwing the $15 down for the original version, or I think the remaster is currently on gamepass? But yeah, it's not like any of us are lacking games to be playing these days, I'm sure

Oof ouch owie my everything

also Sophie thought you were gr8

 
this would fix me

I need to be fed through a pasta maker

Can't sleep, brain's too full

I'm very sad, there are no more cherries left on the tree. I wasn't going out there because I didn't want to risk bringing pests back into the house -- I've been suspicious that the detritus under the tree from not raking this season was a, if not the, source of the flea problem -- and now I've missed out completely. I've been waiting two years for those cherries, I even bought a fruit picker to get some of the higher-up ones, and now I'll have to wait another two years, if we even still live here and the tree still exists in that time.

Super, super bummed.