Walls Inside My Head

My family is throwing a Christmas party today, but I figured I’d throw up a quick post for an update before Gabe and his boys drop by, since he’s been nagging me to post for the past four weeks (and I finally agreed that I needed to). Christmas went well, save for a small accident at the mall, where someone hit me at cruise-speed from behind. There was no damage – in fact, nothing that even said there was an accident besides Gabe being absolutely sure that no, it was not inertia from breaking. The people who (may or may not have) did it sped past us though, so any sort of resolution didn’t really occur. except for, of course, my mother flipping her lid and my brother “helping”. Still, the holidays went well – I got a few computer games, plus some books, a slow-cooker, and a few movies – as well as some stuff on cake decorating, which has been a skill i have been dying to learn, since I currently decorate cakes like an epilieptic five-year-old. My mother is convinced that it’s him my genes, though – what with her, my brother, and my grandmother being artistically as well as culinarily inclined. I, howevere, am convinced that I got all the baking genes, while skipping out on all the artistic ability (I once was asked if my cat-playfully-laying-on-its-back drawing was of a dead pikachu. It was not my proudest moment).

Gabe got me a whole bunch of stuff for the game, as well as Fallout 3 for Christmas, and I spent most of Christmas Eve after he left playing Fallout. I got through the beginning (after restarting, since I finally had to admit that not having external speakers was setting me back an obscene amount, and I had to go salvage some from my parent’s computer in the loft) and now I am running around Megaton, trying not to get in over my head. I am enjoying it – espevcially VATS, since I am awful at FPS in general. I plan to play more, since it’s OMG ABOUT SOCIAL EXPERIEMENTS, which, as anyone who knows me is aware, is reason enough for me to play anything. I like to play games, however, with a walkthrough handy – I know, lame, but I play for plot and no amount of help can make you get through a battle if you don’t have skill – but I’m having issues with the ones for Fallout 3. Why? Because I play as a girl – which apparently is UHEARD OF. For ladies do not play games, right? COME ON GUYS. I’m hoping it’s because it’s relatively new, but I have a feeling its due to men who write Fallout walkthroughs being a MANLY sort of man. A MANLY man cannot play as a lady. That is UNMANLY. Ugh, whatever boys. I’m halfway tempted to write my own for ladies, who get completely different dialogue options.

In addition to that, I also got Oblivion and Black and White 2, as well as a Sims expansion (and I went out the next day and bought the next one). I haven’t gotten to the first two games, but I have been playing Sims 2 – I know, I know, not everyone’s cup of tea. But I’ve got latent OCD and meglomania burning a hole in the back of my brain, and man, does playing the Sims ease that. Also, it is hilarious. After replacing all the defaults in the game, its become very interesting to do my best to create Sims after people I know – and somehow, the game completely nails some people. For instance, Sim-Gabe keeps rolling fears about his FEAR OF MEDIOCRITY, OMG. He is terrified to write a bad novel, paint a bad painting, lose a contest, etc. If he does so, his aspiration meter goes headfirst into the red and he has a TOTAL BREAKDOWN OMG. When this is brought up to real-Gabe, he only makes a face and tells me I’m banished.

In other news, the very first game of the CoT RPG is tomorrow, which is totally exciting and also mind-numbingly terrifying. We still have a few more things to do on it, and we’ll be down a player, but I think it should go well, if only because flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants is the normal status for me when I deal with anything CoT related. Still, J is a D&D purist (excpet when its his character that’s broken) and I’m worried about keeping him somewhat happy, because his character does not have the plot armor he seems to think it does. Which I’ve tried to explain, but he’s so sure his character is godly. Which, uh, it’s not. Not really. Better than everyone else’s situation, but really….it’ll be a toss up whether his HP is gonna keep him up long enough to make any difference.

In CoT story news, I’ve finally been going over it, and hopefully I’ll be able to make some headway on it after the holidays. I’ve also been working on Toxicity of Susan’s first chronological episode, but holidays have been keeping me from having much time to write anything. And when I do have time, I’m generally either gaming to relax, or baking with my mother. Monday through Wednesday I’m also supposed to be baking the goodies for Dan’s family and and friends, which is my christmas gift to them.