Sunday Funday (But More Accurately Not Fun)

Hey guess what! I’m bored! On a Sunday in a paint store! Time to ramble!

 

…As a note, I should probably go into these with some sort of game plan. Also though, the most authentic rambling is the rambling I do when I don’t plan things. So, here we go.

 

 

Big gap in posts, largely due to general increase in being busy at work, which I have mixed feelings towards, and also general nothingness to talk about. I’m…not good at making up conversation. What I am good at is knowing too much about lots of things and being able to talk about them at length whenever they do come up in conversation. With this and my lack of speaking in general comes the air of being excessively neutral about most things (which is pretty accurate actually, I don’t tend to take sides without proper reasoning and proof…I could probably be a decent mediator) and that I’m not opinionated. These are only half-truths. On things that I don’t care about then yeah, I probably don’t have any sort of opinion on the subject, but things that I have a vested interest in I am quite opinionated about. Not to say I don’t think that the opinions of others are valid and don’t respect them, ’cause obviously they are and I do my best to not be obnoxious about basically anything. There are some exceptions to that though, the biggest being people who try to convince me that the earth is flat.

 

 

Why, in the world, at this point in time and the technology at our disposal, does anyone even remotely rational give it a second that that the earth might be flat? That’s probably the crux of it though, it’s the irrational people who believe that it’s just one huge flippin’ conspiracy to cover up that the earth is actually just a disk… I’m already working myself up about this, so I should probably avoid that topic, but let’s just start with some retaliation questions, like “if it’s just a disk why do time zones work?” And “how do you explain the frigid climates in both the north and the south?” what about “why are seasons different in the north and south hemisphere?” Or even “Gravity: If flat then how?”

 

 

Ugh, I need to not think about the ignorance of the masses… I’m getting all riled up.

 

 

So, several months have passed and things have happened in the world: Gorillaz released a new album (which I enjoy quite a bit), Nintendo is making the second biggest videogame comeback ever thanks to the switch and all the major titles that are being announced for it (the last one was also done by nintendo with the NES) and have recently hit an 8 year high in the stock market thanks to the Monster Hunter XX switch version announcement (which boosted its stocks by over 5%, increasing its market value by $2,200,000,000 in one day [I like using the whole numbers, bigger impact than “million” vs “billion”]) and made me exceptionally more glad that I managed to get my hands on a Switch (as I super love monster hunter), which are still notoriously hard to find in most places. Quick review: Freakin’ love it, it’s what everyone wanted the Wii U to be, compact, can be used on the go or on a TV, lots of couch multiplayer and controller options. Also “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” is rather phenominal and a huge step in the right direction (aka: away from the linear progression) while simultaneously going back to its roots.

 

 

I got side tracked… so things: I may or definitely did order basically a whole new computer tower assembly, most of which should be here in the next week or so, hopefully the rest of it gets shipped out soon, I want my new build ready for Stormblood (the next Final Fantasy 14 expansion, which officially launches June 20th but early access for preorders [which I did, natch] starts June 16th) which I am WAY TOO HYPED FOR. Like, so excited that I’m having difficulty playing the current game becase the new changes look so good. There’s not actually anything wrong…for the most part…with my current computer, but it’s been a while and my hardware is starting to show its age. Still faster than anything I deal with at work, and I think I just need to replace the RAM and some case fans to fix its current issue, but also shiny new processor and graphics card, also faster RAM…also more USB 3 options….and I may get a new mouse. My computer is the source of my hobbies, so keeping it relatively up to date is not uncommon. I’m excited, I really enjoy tinkering with and building compuers, s’a lot of fun. Also I can use my “old” computer as a recording computer, just need a cheapo monitor so I can watch keep track of stuff…I should do more of that, but I find it awkward to even attempt it due to not living alone. I’m not knocking having El Jordo as a roommate, he’s fine and probably the better roommate, but boy howdy I find my inhibitions about doing stuff in full swing when people are around, I’m way more open and willing to try things and get stuff done when I’m home alone, which is like 90% me not wanting to get in other people’s way and 10% me being shy.

 

 

Whelp, brain ran out of thoughts for the ramblings. Time to go do something else.

 

 

Cheers!

 

~Cam