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Butch:
This week has been endless. I think I've tried to type "Friday" in the subject every day. How is it not Friday? At all?
Mrs. McP worked late. I got nothing. Band concert tonight. I'll have nothing. I just want to play games and sell old books. Is that too much to ask?
That's too much to ask. Sigh.
Loothound:
BUTCH PUNCH'EM: "I came to sell books and play video games…and I'm all out of games."
We could probably come up with some definition of being a grownup that goes like, "you know that you're a grownup when your life is more guided by your responsibilities than your desires," or something. Curse of the oldening, I guess. I haven't played in many a day, and some of those trophies are mocking me. There's one for just petting your ballast 25 times that should be a gimme.
Insert "petting your ballast" joke here…
Butch:
I'm too tired to come up with a pet your ballast joke.
Because it also turns out that thing Nugget had that was "just allergies" wasn't, unless allergies are contagious.
Man, two years ago I was sick for this particular band concert, which is a tough band concert because it's outside and hard to hear and kids are antsy and running around. It's hard when you're healthy. I had COVID when Junior was a freshman, and I feel like crap now.
Sigh.
Loothound:
Yeesh, sorry to hear it. Sounds like this concert is a little cursed.
Butch:
There's also elementary honors band practice and hockey. Why is EVERYTHING on one day? Teachers gotta talk to each other. I can see the hockey being an outlier, but why does the elementary band guy schedule something the night of a high school band concert? They're both band guys! C'mon, band guys!
Loothound:
Evil band guy cabal. Antagonists for an Assassin's creed style game set at a band camp.
"This one time, at band camp…MURDERRRRRR."
Feminina:
Definitely a cursed concert.
Probably a wizard did it.
Loothound:
Man, fucking wizards again.
Butch:
OK, the wizard thing must be an O'L in joke. Keeps coming up.
I think there might be something to the cabal. The middle school guy is like 6'3 and covered in tattoos, the elementary school guy looked dweeby until Meatball came home all "The band guy came in in short sleeves and he is RIPPED," and the high school guy...well, he's dweeby, but he got this really weird modern group in to play abstract music that was either mind control, torture or both.
Sounds like Templars to me.
I just pictured this AC game screen with a web of targets, all of whom are music teachers, with a school administrator in the center of it all.
I might play that.
I'm so tired.
Loothound:
My thoughts exactly.
The Floutist, The Drummer, The Saxon, and all under the control of…The Director.
Hidden blades in flutes. Using violin strings to sling darts at people. Magical.
Oh, and "a wizard did it" is a Simpsons reference.
Butch:
Dude, that would be AWESOME.
Ah yes, the Simpsons. I should've known.
Feminina:
I have a work thing now that I'm back from my other work thing, but was idly thinking about the ballast.
I think Butch mentioned at one point that this term seems a bit loaded, and it's true, it is an interesting thing to name a companion/plot point. It has implications of seafaring, of course, but the idea also of being necessary for balance, which could be an ecological thing...we need this little blob to help provide/restore balance to...the world? The apparently lost civilization/societies we're wandering past?
Hm.
A wizard did it.
Butch:
I think I'll have more to say on the metaphor of the ballast when I actually see actual ballasts, which I anticipate will happen near the end of the game. I'm sure Something Will Happen in that regard. I saw a glimpse of what I think is one, and it didn't look like my ballast. Nope.
This wizard thing is going to come up a lot when we play BG3, isn't it?
Loothound:
Yeah, the idea of the ballasts being a kind of counterweight is definitely a thing. As you say, Butch, later is clearer.
Butch:
Figured that would be a Thing. I'll get on that this weekend.
Going through these 23 records I snared at that library sale. I forgot what I got. I seem to have something by the Ink Spots and some ABBA. I must've been thinking of the blog.
Playing the Ink Spots now.
I want to shoot mutants.
I figure, with the popularity of Fallout, now's the time to get to selling this.
Feminina:
That is indeed extremely timely. Very helpful of Fallout to use existing music, too, and not just write their own.
Butch:
I was looking at the inner sleeve (which lists all the other "new" albums the label put out that year) for other things I knew. Didn't see anything, but I think we can all agree if I can find that record by Bongo Cha Cha Cha I just NEED to snare it.
Huh. These are different versions than the ones in the games. How many times did they record these songs? They're all pretty much the same song as it is.
Loothound:
Dunno. Remastered versions, live versions, Taylor's Version, who knows? They're old, so there's a lot of time for stuff to have been rehashed. I feel like I've heard different versions of Big Iron on His Hip, too.
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