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Once upon a time I was having a conversation about deadlines, and Bastille Day came up, and when I was asked about it, I said vive la France to prove that I knew what Bastille Day was.

And now there is a judge on the Indiana Court of Appeals who is under the impression that I can speak French.

So I guess I need to learn French.
If life were a video game, then apparently I'm being played by someone who is trying to get the "unlock all bad endings" achievement.
The adventures of repeatedly having to stop writing to scroll up because I keep forgetting the names of characters I just introduced three paragraphs ago.
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To borrow a line from 1967's The Graduate: "I just want to say one word to you...just one word: Post-Its." *BigSmile*
After digging through my collection of childhood video games, I found a game that prides itself on being a first-person shooter with no violence. This declaration is emblazoned on the back of the box as a key selling point.

The game is rated "E10" for mild violence.
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What's the name of it?
For Halloween this year, I will be dressing up as the ghost of the time I wasted trying to please people who already made up their minds about me.
Q: If "math" is short for "mathematics," then shouldn't we say "math are fun"?
A: No, because lying is wrong.
I decided to commit myself to posting a chapter of a story every week, because I am sick of being someone who talks about writing but who never actually writes.

Then I wasted 15 minutes playing a lovely game of "can I get away with putting this meme phrase in a Medieval-themed story?"
"You resigned?"
"No, I re-signed."
"So you quit."
"I didn't rezine. I reesined."

This is what happens when a language is an amalgamation of six or so Classical and Medieval languages fighting each other for dominance over 1,000 years or whatever.
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reassigned
As my native language I laugh; but, people trying to learn English have a tough time with our archaic spelling and grammar.

Thai has this problem by-the-way. Certain letters had different sounds in Pali, Sanskrit... whatever... but have now collapsed into the same sounds. The 5 ways of spelling "s" is only one good example.
When I am faced with a challenge, I always begin by asking myself one simple question: which solution requires the least amount of human interaction?

Just in case you ever spot me systematically explore every molecule of the store to find an item I could have found in fifteen seconds had I simply asked an employee where the hardware section was.
Today, I got a letter in the mail telling me I had jury duty yesteday, because the post office took four freking weeks to forward that letter to my new house that I bought a few months ago - even though I paid the post office extra to keep forwarding mail from my old apartment until next May.

What did I pay for again?
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A visit from the local constabulary, apparently. How ridiculous, in a Just-how-bad-is-this? kind of way. *Shock2*
Writing is so much easier when I free myself from the burden of insisting that only words that get published count.
The Sims games are an enigma. I took one of the pre-made college sims. He wanted to be a chef after watching cooking shows, and he was a history major, so I decided he wanted to start a Medieval-themed restaurant. After college, he found a job as an oceanographer, which seemed weird, but it allowed him to go on a lot of sailing adventures and learn a lot about seafood. Then he came across a rare whale but decided not to give chase, so he lost his paycheck. He got "promoted" (i.e., transferred) to a deep sea fishing vessel because he lost the respect of his crew.

And then I made the mistake of trying to explain all this to my mother, who asks me to show her the game. It was then that I realized I was playing a video game where I was watching my character play a video game to increase his fun level.

World of World of Warcraft is real.
Two years ago, I made a series of dumb videos where I set up a Windows ME virtual machine to see if (1) a Windows ME computer could be used as a writing rig [technically, yes], and (2) if Windows ME was as bad as I remember [technically, and in every other sense of the word, yes].

Meanwhile, I installed MS DOS on one of my old Kindle Fire tablets. Why? Why not.
The adventures of paying $80 for a soldering iron kit to replace the backup batteries in my old Pokemon games so I don't have to pay someone $5 to do it for me.

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But maybe you'll start looking around now and find a whole load of other things to solder!

... Also, excellent use of that gif *Heartg*
I love video games that offer a choice between playing as a hero or a villain. It offers endless replayability because no two people are alike, so every playthrough will involve different choices and different outcomes. The game then becomes true to real life, where people aren't pure paragons of virtue or homicidal maniacs.

Then I remember that the game incentivies players to play to one extreme (i.e., light-side powers cost less if you max out your light-side points; certain persuasion skills can only be maxed out by pure paragons or renegades, etc.), so every playthrough ends up being either a paragon of virtue or homicidal maniac playthrough.
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Unless you just take the L and spend the little extra to play more in the grey area c:
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