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missizzyTrying to get my San Diego Comic Con badges, and so far it's not looking terribly good at more than an hour's wait time, though at least it's moved a bit. Typing here to distract myself.
Whale Weekly finished this week. I am once again struck by how different Moby Dick reads to the modern reader, who is absolutely going to side with the whale at the end. Everything he did was perfectly justified as self-defense. He even gave the ship two chances to go away and leave him alone, sinking them only when they made clear they wouldn't stop until they killed him. Readers of old might debate whether Moby Dick was a metaphor for something, but such things tend to go over my head anyway, and it's not like he has to be. He reads perfectly plausibly as one rightfully pissed off whale. Still, you can be sorry that everyone on the ship died except the one guy whose husband managed to indirectly save him-but Queequeeg himself went down with the rest, and Ishmael will likely never be the same again.
Also finished the second act of Baldur's Gate last night. I spent much of one scene nervously wondering how I was going to make a certain wisdom save I'd seen one streamer expend all their inspiration to make-except my Tav then didn't have to. I assume she must have made some different choices from their Tav, and I can even guess what they were, but that felt weird. Meanwhile, I have grave doubts about the other big choice she had to make about who to side with, and meanwhile the battles are just getting harder. Also, the lag's getting bad again. At this point I'm just hoping I can get to the end without the game refusing to run entirely.
Still at more than an hour. Dammit.
ETA: Didn't get them.
Whale Weekly finished this week. I am once again struck by how different Moby Dick reads to the modern reader, who is absolutely going to side with the whale at the end. Everything he did was perfectly justified as self-defense. He even gave the ship two chances to go away and leave him alone, sinking them only when they made clear they wouldn't stop until they killed him. Readers of old might debate whether Moby Dick was a metaphor for something, but such things tend to go over my head anyway, and it's not like he has to be. He reads perfectly plausibly as one rightfully pissed off whale. Still, you can be sorry that everyone on the ship died except the one guy whose husband managed to indirectly save him-but Queequeeg himself went down with the rest, and Ishmael will likely never be the same again.
Also finished the second act of Baldur's Gate last night. I spent much of one scene nervously wondering how I was going to make a certain wisdom save I'd seen one streamer expend all their inspiration to make-except my Tav then didn't have to. I assume she must have made some different choices from their Tav, and I can even guess what they were, but that felt weird. Meanwhile, I have grave doubts about the other big choice she had to make about who to side with, and meanwhile the battles are just getting harder. Also, the lag's getting bad again. At this point I'm just hoping I can get to the end without the game refusing to run entirely.
Still at more than an hour. Dammit.
ETA: Didn't get them.
