April 28, 2018

Last night I got about six and a half hours of sleep. I decided to stay awake after I woke up for the first time, so I wouldn't end up sleeping the morning away. I read in bed for awhile and then played a lot of CoD: WW2. That was pretty much the rest of my morning and a decent chunk of the afternoon. I was completing challenges and orders that required a bit of work, and kind of lost track of time. One involved getting 150 hip fire kills. SMGs are pretty much designed for hip firing, especially in close quarters, but aiming down sights is so engrained in me. Right around the time I was nearing the end of that challenge it finally started to get a little easier to resist the urge aim down the sights. It was a struggle. But I managed it, and I didn't do half-bad. I had to play even more run-and-gun than usual because I wanted to get as close as possible to people before shooting. It was very similar to how I play with a shotgun, but it was a lot less frustrating than a shotgun.

Before dinner I went and laid down in bed for awhile. My house is a little warm today and my bedroom (thanks to the ceiling fan) is cool. I didn't sleep but I did lay there for awhile with my eyes close, thinking about random things. And then I played a game on my phone for a little bit before going down to take my last load of laundry out of the dryer.

After dinner, I played more video games. I played Marie's Room, which is a really short experience, rather than a game. You explore a room, clicking on various things to move the story along. It was basically an interactive short story. Not to be confused with a visual novel, which is a 2D game with walls of text. I think it's a great way to tell a story, and makes me wish I could not only write a short story, but had the ability to craft a virtual environment to walk people through the story. Maybe someday.

After a shower I switched to VR. I played Kartong, which is game set in a tiny cardboard world, like a kid built levels and you have to navigate through them, avoiding mouse traps (which look humongous) and scary toys. I jumped once. It was pretty fun. Then I played Space Pirate Trainer, which was a lot of fun. Also a really good workout. The first few rounds I played I didn't have the shield for some reason, so I ended up squatting a lot to avoid enemy bullets, and I can still feel the burn. It was a little easier when I got the shield, but there is still a lot of moving around, and it's great.

And I'll end with a random thought from this morning. If Tom Hanks was an athlete, but not the only Hanks on the team, his jersey would say T.HANKS. I went almost thirty-three years without realizing this.