Robert C

I figured it had been shut down long before now.

I’m guessing being forced to play as a Latina will hurt their sales a little with a certain subset of the population. They’re still gonna make 5 duodecillion dollars on it though, mostly from micro transactions.

Had a colonoscopy/endoscopy today. There was a raven perched above the door when we got there, which didn’t seem like the most promising omen. The highlight of the trip was probably whatever hits to the 80s and 90s station the office had on playing I Wanna Be Sedated about 10 minutes before they wheeled me back.

This is truth. I’ve been thrown from one. Seen one flip. Know someone who sank one in a pond. i knew some folks that ran a vacation place on an old ranch for awhile. They used to let people borrow their carts, but they kept driving em off cliffs.

Don’t know. He’s only been in school since 2022

My son's been feeling sick, and hasn't slept much the last couple nights, so we let him sleep in today as long as he could. Didn't get up till 10, and then wanted to go to school, so we took him in, well after attendance had been taken. He was flagged as an unexcused absence. It took a while, but we finally got the explanation on why, which came down to Texas Education Agency rules. It turns out you can miss two consecutive, entire days and get them excused without a doctor's note. But if you come in after attendance has been taken you're only excused if you have a doctor's note. Obviously the solution is just keep the kid home, which makes no sense. Reminds me of my time in high school, where 3 tardies got you detention, and 6 got you the shitty all day Saturday detention, but unexcused absences had no real consequences. I figured if I was gonna be late to a class, I'd just take the rest of the day off from school. Good to see the system hasn't gotten any smarter in the last 40 years.

That part is from a lawsuit. Maybe find a career getting punched in the face by rich kids?

I can appreciate the grim determination to drink your beer, no matter how bad. I shared an apartment for three years in college with a guy whose father ran the Old Milwaukee/Schlitz/Strohs/etc beer distibutor in Austin. Which meant we could get free beer on a regular basis, for the cost of a four hour round trip. Not necessarily good beer, but free beer. I once forgot a case of Stroh's and left it in the back of my non-working truck, for six weeks, in the summer, in east Texas. It was truly vile when we got round to drinking it, and we were offering it to anyone who happened to walk by the apartment, but we got through it.

Aw, I liked Crimewave. But yeah, it definitely ain’t good.

Here's an idea - make a game that people actually want to play. I sincerely doubt anyone other than EA execs has ever thought Bioware games in specific would be better with the game as a service model. But they're clearly gonna do it again. Badly. I can't speak to why Veilguard failed as a release, but I can say why it failed with me. It just wasn't any fun. Never once did I see or do something and find myself thinking how great it was. Mostly I would just walk to the next area where a fight was obviously about to occur and think to myself "here we go again. I don't really want to fight whoever pops up here." So I stopped. And went back to a game from 2009 that I hadn't played since release. And had a hell of a lot of fun. Three months later, I can barely remember anything about Veilguard - what I was doing, who I had in my party, why we were doing anything, etc. Couldn't tell you the name of any character I encountered other than Varric & Solas to save my life. Anyway, I think I've finally accepted that Bioware probably won't make another game that I fall in love with. Nearly 13 years have passed since they made a Mass Effect game that I actually liked. More than 15 for Dragon Age. Since then they've made - Two games that I sometimes enjoyed but thought were deeply flawed (Andromeda, DA2). - One that I found to be a tremendous slog, much like sitting through a week long corporate training feels (DA3). - One that I stopped playing maybe 1/3 of the way through and not once have had an inkling of a desire to go back to (Veilguard). - One game as a service that 17 people played, and only three of them liked it (Anthem). I'm not sure I care at this point. I mean, I'd be elated if they made a good ME or DA game again. But I don't see any reason to think it might ever happen. I got KOTOR 1 (and the non broken parts of 2), ME 1-3 & DA:O out of them. Maybe that's enough.

The semis were somehow worse, at least for me. I mean, I really can’t stand Ohio State or Notre Dame. However, I dislike their respective semifinal opponents just a little bit more. So, yay, I guess. Can’t believe I’m gonna root for Ohio State twice in a row now.

Also, new update feels like the beginning of the end with

You know, when I made this suggestion 6?1/2 years ago, it never occurred to me that they might actually do it

Veilguard and I have decided to take a break from one another. I guess it’s a trial separation, but we’re both seeing other people. I’m having a casual fling with the Borderlands General Knoxx DLC , and that’s going really well, so maybe this will turn out to be permanent Honestly there are so many things I dislike about the game that I doubt I’ll reinstall it. - I can’t stand the combat mechanics. The over reliance on priming/triggering combos in harder fights drives me nuts. - the thing BioWare started doing with ME2 where you can tell where combat will happen by looking at the environment, in this case when you see green jars. - the boss fights. I got so tired of thinking a boss was done only to find that nope, now you get to fight his new form. And then fight the one after that I know a lot of games do that, but there’s a reason I don’t play those games - the linear nature of every single environment - the way nobody seems to have noticed the impending end of the world, except for five people camping out in a magic treehouse - that I don’t care about any of the folks in the treehouse

The hair distracts me constantly. It doesn’t help that I accidentally made my character look like the dark haired vampire from the Lost Boys. All that hair thrashes around every time I move my head like I’m playing guitar for Poison or something. I’ve died eleventeen times so far. Had one fight where enemies would just not stop spawning. Like 20-30 minutes of constant spawns before I gave up and let em kill me. Was close to punting on the game completely, but exited out and restarted. Then I got through fine. So far this one isn’t doing much for me. I’m not all that far in, I think, so I hope it gets its hooks in me eventually. I’ll give it a bit more time. Probably.

Neither team employs Dennis Franchione, so I’ve seen worse.

Oklahoma is off to a good start. Three offensive series. Three turnovers. Two defensive touchdowns.

Couldn’t save it. Could’ve been a whole lot worse, though. Easily could’ve been 3-4 fingers instead of one. And it’s my non dominant hand, so it won’t hamper me too much hopefully. Fun evening. My wife’s car got broken into about 15 minutes after I got home. Whoever did it absconded with two old tennis balls. WTF?

Was hoping to have a relaxing evening at home. Instead I’m sitting in an ER room with one of my fingertips in a baggie. Hopefully things improve from here.

SEC shorts is gonna be fun this week. My Saturdays are consumed by fall kids baseball, so good material for shorts and roll call are all I really want out of college football at this stage of my life.

Alabama/Vanderbilt playing out exactly like everybody expected so far.

Bored engineering ethics professors have a new go to case study to go with Morton Thiokol.

We meant to. But we had a lot going on and just kinda forgot about it. Promise we’ll get it done real soon though.

At least he looked better than Weigman. 12 of 30 for 100 yards and 2 picks. Gonna be a long season. Fortunately, we’re used to that.

Officially submitted both of our retirements yesterday. Doesn’t take effect till end of September. Could leave now but the extra five weeks work gets us an extra 14 months pay. Feels weird. I’ve been there 22 years. She’s been there nearly 24.