After a series of sleeping in past noon for the past few days, I must've gotten out of my system what has been plaguing me, and actually woke up at a decent hour again (sleep schedule hasn't changed one bit the entire time). I also feel like taking a walk for a while anyway, since the past few days were rather gloomy and depressing looking, today's actually sunny and pleasant, though there are still some storm clouds on the horizon.
I also completed a good cluster of missions in FO3 in a short amount of time, and thrashed a good amount of mirelurks with a rather early (still; lvl 7 when I killed a deathclaw and got some blueprints; it was wounded when I reached it. Poor bastard it tore up.) deathclaw gauntlet. Although paranoid whenever I walk the area I found it, I at least know I have a fighting chance against one hand-to-hand now. Oh, and how much use I got out of that gauntlet so far. Beats the hell out of the power fist (backup). Did I forget to mention my character is optimized for ranged (small guns) combat, and is literally beating the hell out of everything in their path?
Oh yeah, I also came across a strange (darkly amusing) bug, a recent kill of a 1-time character, and a post-mortem de-capping, somehow produced 2 heads of the same guy. Actually, I placed his head on display to scare the local lab techs, and I returned after some exploring to find his head miraculously reattached, only to realize his other head was still on display. I took a moment to put them both on display. I was kinda hoping to spawn about 6 more and bring a duffel bag with me when I return. Sadly, no, it didn't happen.
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Realizing I have an apparently dark sense of humor, I would assume most of the High Octane Nightmare Fuel loaded in FO3 and many other games, I will somehow find something to distract me from the horrors, and have fun screwing around instead, or at least finding something amusing within the terrors. I mean, the deathclaw hand; people are terrified of those things (Deathclaws; sneaky bastards), I was startled seeing it in 3D (beat Fallout 1 before), but then I punched off it's head (power fist) and have it's claw as my new weapon. What's so scary about that? And even with STALKER, sure, the environment is creepy, but one can't help but to smile hearing some poor sap getting mauled by an anomaly in the distance, especially if it's a wild hog, bloodsucker/snork/controller or a monolith member/bandit; okay, so just about anything annoying to fight stupid enough to get caught in an anomaly.