✨migraine free✨
Dec. 20th, 2025 05:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
requiemsThe good news is, I got a substituted phone on Thursday, and have had zero migraines since! Imagine that! I noticed iCloud was backing up once a week on a Tuesday, so turned off auto backups on the decent chance it would still have an ios18 backup from the prior week and it did, and then successfully synched with the cloud for photos/notes. There's a few things it didn't seem to successfully grab, so I'll take stock and see if I can get those transferred or no...
The bad news is I had to relog into everything (except tumblr, which just let me in immediately) and I need to sort out some shared things that require verification to get back in when I have the energy but also soonish, because those things are groceries and monthly Amazon deliveries, the latter which includes all the random medications I need to facilitate eating and successful bathroom breaks 💀 I will try over the weekend. I had to accept the threat of additional PEM by seeing my dad too soon after groceries again to get a phone that didn't send my head reeling sooner, and also got another bookcase from ikea which he ended up assembling as he had to open the package, since the Rems that could barely look at her phone to order it possibly ordered a size she wasn't expecting - a double wide bookcase instead of two singles. It fits, it's fine, it was simply aesthetic choice and wanting adjustable individual shelves.
I had to move some canvas artwork my parents bought for that room to accommodate it though, and whilst it will go up again on a different wall, I need something to put on the pre-existing hook. I immediately considered this poster of Hornet, but today thought about the fact I don't think two months is enough time to commit to her on my walls. In comparison, what is on my walls is an Ariel print (who I have loved since I have had conscious thought), an Overwatch print I owned for six years just to be sure I wanted it up, a Journey game print I owned for a couple of years before putting up, Mass Effect posters I likewise owned for six years before putting up, a Yuna wall scroll I bought specifically to put up as I had loved her for ten years by that point... you get the idea. Wall is a big commitment!
And then I was like, wait, wait - what about this art of nearly all the Final Fantasy women I was looking at lovingly recently? So many women! So many women I love fiercely! Lovely pastel colours! I think I may be going with this.
Meanwhile OW is not doing anything about aim issues until maybe midseason earliest. It really sucks. The camera movement is still off and janky and not smooth at all, I genuinely feel like I can't fight back most of the time, my skill has been artificially lowered by this, and I can't hit any of my shots or really aim. And yet I persist because it's my comfort game and I have to spend a couple hours in it a day 😔 I'm worried if they do revert after six weeks I won't be able to bounce back, or worse they will double down and refuse to do anything, but I think festive season is the reason for the half-assed bandaid fix that doesn't actually fix anything but makes some heroes a little bit less oppressive (except not really). It's just so bizarre and crushing to me that OW taught me to like, aim for games that require aim? And of that long list of games... the camera is now entirely different. It is like no game I have ever played on console where you can freely rotate a camera and that's hundreds of them. I genuinely don't know wtf they were thinking.
And because it's console it simply does not get the PC traction! And because they deleted the legacy camera settings they can't hotfix it back in, it would require a full patch rebuild! So of course it won't get done if you surprise drop this change in the second week of December! Big smart.
I got the last few trophies on Hollow Knight after briefly giving up: I could not get the invincibility glitch to work, but then Team Cherry announced Silksong dlc and that they would be patching HK with an update so if you want that platinum Rems you had best Figure It Out. I would like to try the new bosses of each pantheon separately though, that was my compromise with myself for doing it like this, although Absolute Radiance is off the table because there is no honest way I can do a faster version of Radiance on a even more obscure background, lmao. Nightmare Grimm is also no longer red teleports but neon pink! Wowee I cannot see those either. Interestingly, in the first three pantheons, the base HP of the main game bosses is buffed, but it's not in the fifth, those are original values, which is probably because it takes a whole freakin' hour, and please note I was invincible. I was well and truly done with it after half an hour.
I can also now finally put it down after periodically trying to make it to the last boss in the first pantheon but repeatedly falling short. Brooding Mawlek I despise you. You are so simple but have caused me endless problems. lmao.
Not going to jump into Silksong quite yet - I'm tempted to wait for DLC dates?? although I would want to play it much sooner than that - and play something else first. I think Shadow of the Tomb Raider will do me nicely; TGA had two (two!) Tomb Raider games announced and I've never played the OG, and I enjoyed Rise, so... I will position myself for future Lara time.
The bad news is I had to relog into everything (except tumblr, which just let me in immediately) and I need to sort out some shared things that require verification to get back in when I have the energy but also soonish, because those things are groceries and monthly Amazon deliveries, the latter which includes all the random medications I need to facilitate eating and successful bathroom breaks 💀 I will try over the weekend. I had to accept the threat of additional PEM by seeing my dad too soon after groceries again to get a phone that didn't send my head reeling sooner, and also got another bookcase from ikea which he ended up assembling as he had to open the package, since the Rems that could barely look at her phone to order it possibly ordered a size she wasn't expecting - a double wide bookcase instead of two singles. It fits, it's fine, it was simply aesthetic choice and wanting adjustable individual shelves.
I had to move some canvas artwork my parents bought for that room to accommodate it though, and whilst it will go up again on a different wall, I need something to put on the pre-existing hook. I immediately considered this poster of Hornet, but today thought about the fact I don't think two months is enough time to commit to her on my walls. In comparison, what is on my walls is an Ariel print (who I have loved since I have had conscious thought), an Overwatch print I owned for six years just to be sure I wanted it up, a Journey game print I owned for a couple of years before putting up, Mass Effect posters I likewise owned for six years before putting up, a Yuna wall scroll I bought specifically to put up as I had loved her for ten years by that point... you get the idea. Wall is a big commitment!
And then I was like, wait, wait - what about this art of nearly all the Final Fantasy women I was looking at lovingly recently? So many women! So many women I love fiercely! Lovely pastel colours! I think I may be going with this.
Meanwhile OW is not doing anything about aim issues until maybe midseason earliest. It really sucks. The camera movement is still off and janky and not smooth at all, I genuinely feel like I can't fight back most of the time, my skill has been artificially lowered by this, and I can't hit any of my shots or really aim. And yet I persist because it's my comfort game and I have to spend a couple hours in it a day 😔 I'm worried if they do revert after six weeks I won't be able to bounce back, or worse they will double down and refuse to do anything, but I think festive season is the reason for the half-assed bandaid fix that doesn't actually fix anything but makes some heroes a little bit less oppressive (except not really). It's just so bizarre and crushing to me that OW taught me to like, aim for games that require aim? And of that long list of games... the camera is now entirely different. It is like no game I have ever played on console where you can freely rotate a camera and that's hundreds of them. I genuinely don't know wtf they were thinking.
And because it's console it simply does not get the PC traction! And because they deleted the legacy camera settings they can't hotfix it back in, it would require a full patch rebuild! So of course it won't get done if you surprise drop this change in the second week of December! Big smart.
I got the last few trophies on Hollow Knight after briefly giving up: I could not get the invincibility glitch to work, but then Team Cherry announced Silksong dlc and that they would be patching HK with an update so if you want that platinum Rems you had best Figure It Out. I would like to try the new bosses of each pantheon separately though, that was my compromise with myself for doing it like this, although Absolute Radiance is off the table because there is no honest way I can do a faster version of Radiance on a even more obscure background, lmao. Nightmare Grimm is also no longer red teleports but neon pink! Wowee I cannot see those either. Interestingly, in the first three pantheons, the base HP of the main game bosses is buffed, but it's not in the fifth, those are original values, which is probably because it takes a whole freakin' hour, and please note I was invincible. I was well and truly done with it after half an hour.
I can also now finally put it down after periodically trying to make it to the last boss in the first pantheon but repeatedly falling short. Brooding Mawlek I despise you. You are so simple but have caused me endless problems. lmao.
Not going to jump into Silksong quite yet - I'm tempted to wait for DLC dates?? although I would want to play it much sooner than that - and play something else first. I think Shadow of the Tomb Raider will do me nicely; TGA had two (two!) Tomb Raider games announced and I've never played the OG, and I enjoyed Rise, so... I will position myself for future Lara time.
