That Moment...

TMW .. when a cup of Mate tea collides with my WIP while a discussion with a dear friend stews in my backbrain. And the universe will never be the same after.

 

TMW you've been working late all week trying to get your new business ready to open, and you finally get home and have two seconds to look in your 7-year-old's school take-home folder and find a note you missed that says "please address with Asher and sign," and below it is your kid's handwriting:

"I will not yoos the word kill. I will never yoos it."

No context. No explanation from the teacher. Nothing. And your 7-year-old is asleep.

 

TMW you realize you have been significantly unaware of yourself for years and you need to step up your control of weird-looking habits. And then TMW when you realize it's really fucking hard.

 

TMW when you think it's Friday because you've been thinking about tomorrow all day and you say it out loud, and then you remember it's Thursday. Doih. ADHD brain, staaahp.

 

Happens to me all the time. It sucks.

Also, that moment when you wake up, grope drowsily for your phone, let its screen assault your eyeballs, realize it's 8 o'clock and think to yourself: Thank God it's Saturday.

And then you remember it's fucking Thursday.

 

Those moments are separated by months to be clear. Which only makes the sense of creeping doom stronger.

 

TMW you find yourself being strangled by your fantasy-mystery story and need a breath of fresh air by working on something else. Anything else!!

<Aack! Gasp!! Haack!!!>

 

Mind control starts so young these days.

 

That moment when SNOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Yes, the flakes are tiny. No, it isn't sticking. In fact, it isn't proper snow by any definition but for my lil rain soaked country, on my lil ol' peninsula, it's pretty damn impressive!

Woohoo!

 

TMW...

You received After Dawn from Gamefly because it was next in your queue, but you've a sudden craving to play Mass Effect 3 because you're willing to give it a chance despite the flak it's gotten. But you already have a game. Deciding that you'll give After Dawn a chance first, you pop it in and you learn that it's basically your typical "snotty teens vs. serial killer in a cabin in the middle of nowhere" horror plot made into a video game.

Hmm...

"snotty teens vs. serial killer in a cabin in the middle of nowhere" vs. "save Earth from an alien threat"

...Both plots have been used countless times...

TMW you go for the "aliens invade Earth" plot. <returns After Dawn>

 

I think After Dawn has gotten pretty good reviews and isn't your run of the mill teenage horror romp.

 

From the what I know of it it, it's a shitty movie turned into a good game, because now the teen horror is so much more detailed, intimate and committed. And it makes things matter because of that. But I don't know all too much.

 

That moment...
You reach the last possible train station, exit it, see the train's operator resign for the evening, only to THEN realize, "I'm on the wrong side of the tracks!" (In this case, you are on the opposite side of the entire track, compared to your intended destination.) And you are subsequently locked out of the connecting station... until dawn.

 

I just realized "After Dawn" is called "Until Dawn". Unless we were talking about a different game?

 

Hah. It's only a few hours. Happened voluntarily to me a few times when the connecting train did not leave until first thing next morming. Make yourself comfortable on the floor then , I hope you had a folded blanket?

 

Oh yeah, you're right. I was thinking about Until Dawn, which was the highly rated game with a bunch of teenagers. I haven't played it, though, only seen let's-plays.

 

That moment when you realize grown adults act like kid bosses in a play pen. Time to get out.

 

What situation was this in?

 

Some drama in a debate thread. I suppose this was just a passive-aggressive vent. *whoosh* All gone now.

 

That moment when you go to visit your old apartment, where your former roommate still resides. After catching up, you look to leave, not forgetting to lock the door... someone ELSE'S door. (I tried this today. A couple twists of the wrong key later, I opened the door signaling, "I forgot, I can't lock the door anymore. )

 

TMW your blind Colonial detective got into a fight with his best friend and two things appear in your mind:

#1- The Battle of Heroes song from Revenge of the Sith

#2- A reminder that your Colonial detective is not Matt Murdoch.

 

I saw a little snow in summer in Thredbo once. Only time I've seen it in real life so far. It was more icy and less poofy than I expected. But then again; as if snow was ever going to be an actual white powder, it's ice.

 

TMW you have to decide how late you want to stay up tonight. AARRRGGH. God I hate this decision.

 

TMW you turn the 360 on for the first time since last November to play the Fable series again and are absolutely astonished at how you've forgotten everything, including the sound the 360 makes. Where did I leave off in any of these games I have? What was I doing?

 

That moment when your mother tells you that you were conceived in the bathroom of a psychiatric hospital....when she admitted herself there.