Friday: I wish people weren't so awful

Especially since the entire point of democracy and friendly relations with other nations is to prevent people from dying, whether from regular international wars, or from violent insurrection.  I thought this was something that everyone understood.  We don't have strong monarchies anymore because last time France had to switch to a decimal calendar.

I have an army of ducks at work to stack.

End of week chicken parm sub is good.

Thursday: So that's great.

We shouldn't let old people be in charge of anything.

• Filing cabinet.
• I miss Gawker.

Wednesday: Wednesdays are always productivity wastelands

There's too many other things going on, so the day gets chopped into little bits.  Ugh.

I found Markos.

It's never good when both dialogue options are lies.

Because Markos' wine is not good.

So, as expected, we ended up with more bodies on Markos' farm.

• Megaprojects.
• A thing to identify fake reviews.
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Tuesday: Today didn't feel that productive

But I guess it was?

Who knows.  Maybe it's just not getting home until nearly 9.

This dead guy is still on Markos' farm in Kephallonia.

I found the eye of the cyclops.  Inside a goat.  Ick.

Did I use this yesterday?

Not Phoibe.

Monday: I really would like like four extra hours a day.

It would really help.  Unfortunately, I think that would take something like 2/3 e12 years, so that's unfeasible for a lot of reasons.

Today I climbed the highest mountain.

And met up with my step-dad for some "bring your daughter to a murder day" fun.

Also, I am 100% playing this game wrong, because I had two major storyline quests just pass automatically, because I stumble-bum murdered the bad guy I was supposed to, but like two months ago.  Whoops.  Also people treat me like I'm dumb, but I've defeated a minotaur, a cyclops (three cyclops, technically), a medusa, and riddled against a sphinx.  Stop using that tone of voice when talking to me, jerks!

• Pokemon.
• I'm glad this is being worked on.  It was pretty obviously wrong when I visited a decade ago.

Sunday: A lazy day

I woke up late, had late breakfast at the pancake place, bought steak for dinner this week, and then played video games and watched tv all day.  It was a good Sunday.

Finished the mythic creature quest and sealed Atlantis.

Which sent me back to the future team, who are exploring the place.

And who fucking shows up?

Kassandra, dressed up in a really nice suit.

 A suit that I discovered is not a playable in-game costume.

But she's been alive long enough, and so she gives the immortality staff away.

And dies, which is sad, but knowing that she lived like 2500 years is pretty good.

Then back to the regular game, detailing some small part of those 2500 years.

I discovered the edge of the world.

 And this jerk from Persia shows up, and tries to guilt me with that "you kill people, always, all the time" thing that Plato failed with.  He strung a bunch of dead bodies in a tree, and then invited all their relatives to visit, and try to kill me.  A cunning plan, but one that fell apart instantly.  I think the goal was to show me how evil I am, by forcing me to kill normal idiots.

Jokes on them, because there's a wolf den nearby, so I just kited the idiots through the wolves, and let them fight it out.

It was successful.

I like Kassandra's little travel jokes.

 In any case, I defeated that DLC content, so it was back to the regular game.

And I found a dead guy on my ship when I parked it.

It wasn't me.  I always try to dispose of my dead guys properly.

See?

Saturday: A busy day

Woke up early, and discovered it was the rainiest day ever.

So I decided to go see Weathering with You.

Never fits in frame.

It is not as good as Your Name was, but that's an unfair bar to compare it to.  Probably the best movie since, though.  Shinkai is very good at making things be very sad before resolving them.

And there's a Pizzaria Uno next door, so I have lots of thick pizza.

I've missed thick pizza.

Maybe a third of hell is done?

Then I defeated the Sphinx.

And watched this wolf butt spin around in the floor.

Friday: Finally solved that problem.

It only took like a month between all the other things that popped up.  It's also nice to confirm that it matches the old code, but is better, due to reasons.

"Stairs are for cowards, mom!"

I finally found my mom in the game.

"Mom, Herodotus the historian.  Herodotus, my mom, who's been secretly running an island this whole time."

It's this whole thing.  At least she told me who my dad was:

Pythagoras.  That Pythagoras.  He's a bit of a dick in the game, which I believe tracks with historical records.

He's in this big fancy space cave.

 Then I got kicked back out to "the present," which feels a lot like a carryover from some earlier game where they didn't think they could pull off a historical action game.

So I got to run around as Not-Kassandra, which is tricky, because I keep trying to use fancy Kassandra skills, which she doesn't have.

And then the game just stopped trying to be historical.

Whatever.  I'll be back to stabbing baddies tomorrow.

• Huh.
• Pretty much this, all the time.
• This sounds like it would have been a better movie than what we got. 

Thursday: I spent an hour and a half trying to convince myself that the program is actually right when it says it's right.

And I think it is?  Maybe?  Or at least is reasonably close to right?  I got hungry and had to go home and sort that out, but I'm cautiously optimistic that it'll be done tomorrow.

I guess all the mandarins have character stickers?

Completed most of the border.  I also have a pile (bottom right) of interior borders where the triptych closed.

• Although looking at this, my puzzle is trimmed horizontally, at least on the two edge panels.  This is also a clearer picture than the puzzle box.
• I'm really enjoying Working!!
• Oh.  I see.  Huh.
• A brilliant idea.

Wednesday: Spending the day rewriting things.

Ugh.

Carol has a dead clone of Tony, because reasons.

• I can get the bedroom TV to respond, but not the living room one.  Maybe I should try to program an alarm clock with this.
• Not sure I agree.  That celestial gear looks snazzy.
• Terry Jones.
• Good for Mozilla.

Tuesday: Back to work.

Which means getting up too early, spending a lot of work time figuring out the state of things from last week, and generally being unhappy to not be on my couch.

But there was a new Legends of Tomorrow, so that helps.

I guess one of my eggs had a new baby in it?

I was trying to figure out why someone scribbled on my orange sticker, and then I saw that it was a crow.  That just raised more questions. 

Monday: I keep thinking that I'm going to finish this game some day, but I'm beginning to doubt it.

I did take out the trash, do laundry, and put new windshield wipers on my car.  So I was partially productive.

And then I spent the rest of the day doing side quests.

Met up with friend Anais from my youth.

Stumbled across Prometheus creating humans.

Took a nice picture of my ship.

Discovered my artist friend was murdered.

Accidentally lit myself and my horse on fire.

Tried to help a village, and brought the corpses back to the leader as proof that they're all idiots.

Then viciously murdered the guy who set things in motion.

Sunday: Staying home means video games and naps.

I think I'm going to try to do some of my puzzle tomorrow, and take out the trash.

Visited Zeus.

Confirmed that this lady is Not Athena.

Took this family photo with the wolf I tamed (briefly, before he died) then realized this was some other horse, because mine has wings and purple neon.

Returned to Athens.

Save game timestamps tell me I spent like seven hours playing this game today.

Saturday: Snowy three day weekend!

I wasn't expecting snow, but it forced me to find my scraper to clean off my car.

So I could get lunch.

And mess up and not order tots.

But snow!

Then way too many hours playing video games.  I tried to see if there was a way to romance both Kyra and Theletas:

I thought we were just play fighting.  Like you do.  Except whoopsie, I kind of murdered Theletas.

 So no romance there, I guess.

This also made Kyra super grumpy, so it's good I did that romance first.

She was all "you murdered the guy I brought here to save people," and my response of "but he was an angry dick who wanted to fight because I saved everybody", but everyone has their own opinions, so whatever.

I didn't know that all my friends get together to chat when I'm not on the boat.

 I also totally parked the boat with everyone on it in a safe harbor where I don't think they can get hurt.  Losing Phoibe makes me want to keep everyone safe.

Sisyphus.