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I have an assignment due at midnight. It's quarter past 11. Fml.

I already got an extension on it and is bound to be overdue. I need a certain average to keep the option of getting into honours open but I've already fucked up and let the shit I've gone through fuck me up. There's always the option of pursuing research later down the line if that's what I want to do.

Maybe it would be better if I went to sleep and got up early to work on it, taking the 10%.

I have another assignment due on Monday. I have had so much time to do them but I've spent all this time wallowing in self-pity. I am so mad at how I've let this stuff affect me. Another failed uni semester!

Ugh. I really want to like paradox games, at least based on the description, most of the game they publish are right up my alley. But it also feels like they only make games to sell DLCs for them, which sort of kills my enjoyment. Like cities skylines, I should really really really like, hell I have 30 hours on it, I want to like it. But I just don't enjoy it. It feels like no matter how much I spend on it, there's always more that should've been in the base game but wasn't. Millenia and Victoria 3 I want to buy, but they seem like the same story.

Victoria 3 (a $70 game) has a $40 DLC releasing in a month that includes a bunch of stuff I just assumed would've been included in the base game, like you can nationalise your assets... In a country simulator... For an extra $40... I don't think I'm going to buy cities skylines 2, partly because of price, but also because it's probably going to cost like 2 grand to actually own all the different parts of the game, just like the first one.

I know that to continue receiving game updates, game studios need a way of continuos monetisation, and it's unfair to expect them to provide years of updates for a $40 upfront fee. But the way paradox does their DLC just feels tacky and like a cashgrab. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying even $80 for a fully fledged, actually enjoyable, city builder if it included everything I'd need to play and enjoy the game in that price.

/Rant

Edit: Nacon seem dodgy too. They've published a lot of "life" games that seem to get abandoned after a few months when they move on to the next project. I want to buy Chef Life, which does have good reviews, but there's a train Sim they made called train life which was abandoned half finished 6 months in. Taxi life has mixed reviews. garden life has positive reviews overall, but mixed reviews recently. The Devs don't seem to be acknowledging or fixing critical bugs, so that's probably abandoned too, and that was literally released less than 2 months ago. I want to buy Chef Life, but I don't want to put 100 hours into a game just to have my save file wiped because the Devs can't be arsed to fix bugs

ffs, reddit is having tor issues again 🙄

Last bit of TV stuff.

In the first episode of Invincible there is an ink painting of bamboo in Nolan and Debbie's house with the Japanese characters/word for Totoro, not the words for bamboo. Obviously a homage to Miyazaki.

What a terrible shock, I did not win Powerball. At least I am not alone, no one else won either. Sorry pets, unfortunately you shall have to remain treatless ☹️

If anyone wants to see brushies in action here you go:

https://imgur.com/gallery/ig5iB8Z

Another movie review, this time a tele-movie. Rogue Agent with that handsome guy from War and Peace..

The clue to every con. They isolate you and they want money.

Really good movie on how cons happen, how cons work by appealing to our better nature and with fear and what it takes to get out of one.

4.5 hobbits

Bed time, so drowsy. I have to look put together and presentable tomorrow. 😭

TV and Movie review.

Locke and Key, Netflix. Billed as the next Narnia, it was not even close. Not really a kid's show, not really an adult's show either. Might have been a lot better if it was all done from the kid's perspective. 2 hobbits.

The Long Trench, Netflix. Life under Franco's fascism. So many lives wasted.

Please think hard who you vote for at the next election.

4 hobbits

So people are camped out at Melbourne Uni because they don't like their relationship with Lockheed Martin.

From what I've read the relationship amounts to a few million in research funding to Melbourne Uni for non military related purposes. i.e. powerline management and first responder technology.

Even if Melbourne Uni cut ties and rejected funding it would make 0 difference to the conflict.

So either there's something I don't know, or the protesters aren't very smart and/or mentally ill.

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2016/august/university-welcomes-lockheed-martin-to-melbourne

Had to battle the ring road at peak hour this afternoon. Haven’t had to do it in a long time and can report it’s as stuffed as ever. Glad its not a daily commute. Dinner saved the day, lamb cutlets, mash and veg followed by an apple crumble.