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[Shook]

Welcome to my life.

Been there for a while i'm afraid, can't say i enjoy it. :v

also dangit i have to be all social and host-like tomorrow because we're hosting the EASTER LUNCHINGS^TM in our house

It's not that i dislike the guests (well, one of them has an annoying habit of reprimanding me for accidentally burping or farting audibly in my own house), i just prefer that the people count around me is at or below 6-8. But that's the least of my problems; what's more pressing is that i'll most likely be assigned to entertain the two kids that come with their parents. At least they've picked up a taste for gaming, but as it stands, 99% of the games i own are ineligible due to either parental demands (their mother AKA my cousin doesn't want them playing violent/war games, while their father... Tried to get them to play World of Tanks), a lack of skill/manual dexterity (... they're still children) or the fact that they don't understand English at all. Those three in unison cover A LOT of games. Of course, i can naively hope that the older brother is starting to learn English in school, since he's much better at explaining to his younger brother what the hell's going on.

And, just to apply some delicious extra salt, daylight savings activates tonight, so i'll have an hour of sleep shaved off of my already precariously balanced day/night rhythm. >:I

Post scriptum addendum: Apparently Rayman Legends has a danish translation. I must now recommend this game to their parents. :v

[Grimlocke]

Wouldn't worry too much about the language for games.

Me and my sister grew up on English commodore 64 games, had plenty of fun and I think we both learned the majority of our English from them (and later PC games).

A lot of these older games didn't even have a tutorial to begin with, and there's something to be said for letting them figure stuff out for themselves.

That said you will probably want to start with something lighter than Dwarf Fortress.

[Neonivek]

Man I just feel terrible all the time

I am either sleepy, got a headache, or feeling nauseous.

[itisnotlogical]

I looked at my schedule this morning and realized that work started a whole hour earlier than I thought. Didn't get to eat, barely got to clean myself. About to start and it's sounding like the shit managers are here for the first bit of my shift.

[Shook]

Wouldn't worry too much about the language for games.

Me and my sister grew up on English commodore 64 games, had plenty of fun and I think we both learned the majority of our English from them (and later PC games).

A lot of these older games didn't even have a tutorial to begin with, and there's something to be said for letting them figure stuff out for themselves.

That said you will probably want to start with something lighter than Dwarf Fortress.

NONSENSE, if they start out with dorfing then no game will ever seem insurmountable again! But anyways, it's not so much that i'm worried about them figuring it out as it's me knowing that they prefer to have it served on a silver platter, and me not really caring to do so. Especially the younger kid prefers to ask other people to complete levels for him when it gets a bit challenging, which makes me think all like DUDE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT. It's not like games get EASIER after the first level, at least not well designed ones. Supposedly the older kid knows some English now though, which opens some doors, but again, they're not yet very capable gamers at all. That, and both their mom and grandma are waaaaaaaaaaaay concerned about them playing violent games (well, their mom seems to have eased up a little bit), so it'll probably be a while before i can tell them to go play XCOM 2 and/or reasonably play multiplayer with them in some other game without having to drag them along. :v

Not gonna lie though, it's actually kind of interesting to be able to watch them grow up from the sidelines (where i'm comfortably lacking the responsibilities of parenthood, and instead just have to be a cool cousin-uncle). I know it's the absolute most clichéd line of them all when it comes to children, but they really do grow up fast.

also dangit all the eating today has angered the evil fart genies in my butt

:C

[TheBiggerFish]

What about Minecraft or something?

If you can.

[Solifuge]

After a week of house-sitting for other folks, I came home to find my own place had a flooded basement. Too much rain, lately. Flooding isn't severe, but it's still raining tonight which means I have to pump the water from the blocked up storm drain into the sanitary line every hour, or groundwater will back up into the house again. Looks like no sleep tonight. ><;

A friend of my Dad's is coming by to try to investigate the pipe situation (hopefully tomorrow), but he said they might need to jackhammer up the basement floor to replace the drain pipes entirely? And I'm supposed to be taking care of my Grandpa this week and fixing some issues with one of their toilets too. Hoping it gets fixed soon so there's no conflict; I can't be both places, and I really don't want to leave the flooding to get worse.

If nothing else, it's been interesting to learn about how plumbing works. Really glad I moved my storage boxes upstairs when I did!

[TheBiggerFish]

As someone whose basement has flooded, it is No Fun to have to move all the boxes...

[Trapezohedron]

My back crunches all over.

[Xantalos]

Ah dangit, I thought my feelings for my friend had faded away and then tonight I realized they hadn't when I got back home from making a multiple kilometre walk to her house to give her food she forgot at work. I didn't even think twice about it until I was back home.

The extent to which I do dumb self-sacrificial shit like that without even considering not doing it frightens me sometimes.

[Emma]

That seems less like you have a crush on your friend and more like your an extremely good friend. I like to think I'd do that for my friends but it's a lie, I'm not that nice a person.

[Orange Wizard]

I would, because I have a car, and that'd take like five minutes.

[Xantalos]

True. Hopefully that interpretation bears out; I get the feeling that the line between close friend and crush is a very thin one, often decided by your interpretation of the situation/whatever underlying desires you may have.

Of course mine are impossible for me to puzzle out, making the whole thing a muddle.

I would, because I have a car, and that'd take like five minutes.

See funny thing is I planned to drive over to her house since that'd make the whole thing take about 5 minutes total. But when I got home from work the car was gone, since evidently my mom went out for a night on the town without telling me she'd be doing so. I don't think I even paused my thought process before I was thinking 'well, gotta walk it then'.

[Yoink]

I have so much excellent music lined up to listen to, but I only have a couple of hours before I really need to sleep...
Looking forward to when I'm back home and I have all day to just laze around, drinking and listening to tunes.

[Tawa]

So that thing I posted about in the sad thread turned out reasonably well today. I still couldn't work up the nerve to talk to her (gah, I'm -really shy,) but I did get a much less shy mutual friend to introduce me to her next time we're all in the same place together.

AAAAAA I'M NOT READY

Mutual friend forgot to strike up a conversation, will remind her and try again tomorrow :c