where is it?
Dec. 7th, 2019 05:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
today i played Hollow Knight for a fair few hours. i'm enjoying it so far! i really like the aesthetic and the exploration aspect. i'm slowly getting better at combat, but i'm still pretty clumsy with platforming. stop judging me, little brother! i grew up on PC games!
(how long have i been playing Civilization? well, today i found an ancient note in which ~5 yr old me spelled it "civelazation")
yesterday i mentioned i wasn't sure where my current bullet journal had wandered off to
at the time i was still half suspecting it was buried somewhere in the detritus of my computer desk in the front room (where i spend most of my time), but i have now cleaned it (most of it; i'll do the rest tomorrow, but it's already mostly clean anyhow) and it is nowhere to be seen. this means it is probably hiding in my room somewhere instead, but 1) i did at least two-thirds-heartedly look around in there and didn't see it, 2) i recently reorganized the books in my room with a friend's help, so that's one less place it could be hiding (the bookstacks, that is.)
also missing, it turns out, is my most recent sketchbook. i don't think i drew in it more than two or three times before misplacing it, which is why i forgot it was gone. & it's much bigger than the missing bullet journal, so it's also a little more confusing. i've only noticed these disappearances this week but they likely have been out of sight for a few months.
ideas:
- both of them could be in my room, just in the depths of my desk/drawers/somewhere else weird and cluttered
- the sketchbook might have accidentally been taken by my sister (or put in her room by a parent)
- either could have been misplaced in one of the family vehicles
- ???
ETA 1.5 HRS LATER: i walked in my room, glanced around, and thought “huh, i wonder if they’re in my old lumberjanes messenger bag that’s sitting next to the door?” and there they were. now i can properly hem and haw over whether to complete this bullet journal or shelve it and start the next one. (apparently it’s been nearly 8 months since i last bujo’d >.<)
anyone else lost anything recently?
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Date: 2019-12-07 12:31 pm (UTC)This is so cute! My brother and I used to play Civilization II when we were kids, and we made our own units: a poorly drawn car with the words 'WE LIKE CAR' hovering around it to make it clear that it was a car, and bright red volcano slugs that exploded violently and turned the entire area radioactive if you told them to attack anything.
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Date: 2019-12-07 12:59 pm (UTC)(Test of Time is like, lowkey the most cryptid Civ II clone/expansion? and that's saying a lot, since it has Civilization: Call to Power for competition. those two civs were the first ones i played, which is weird cause again, cryptids.
idk if you played either, but Test of Time had... fantasy and sci-fi modes? which were i think half reskins of the regular game, and half weird shit. i did like the thing it did where you could travel to (and colonize!) different dimensions or planets from the one you started on. at least, i presume that wasn't in the original civ II...)
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Date: 2019-12-07 01:04 pm (UTC)Civilization II was a perpetual test of how long you could be bothered to play properly before you gave in and turned on the cheats. I never won a game legitimately.
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Date: 2019-12-07 01:18 pm (UTC)as a kid i was rather strait-laced; i don’t think i touched the cheats, though i’m also not sure how many of my Test of Time games i actually finished.
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Date: 2019-12-07 05:12 pm (UTC)tbh, i do think i have improved since i first picked up the game a few weeks ago! most evident in combat tho.
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Date: 2019-12-07 08:16 pm (UTC)I'm glad that you're getting more comfortable with the controls already. :)
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Date: 2019-12-08 04:01 am (UTC)The only thing I have lost is my mind and I'm not even going to bother looking for it :P
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