Ha HA, brain, how about we procrastinate these video games by doing work when we should be playing!

(This may actually work.)

YouTube autoplay playlists are a constant, reliable source of new talking head material to ward off the silence of being alone at home, and, after a bit of curation, is on average less horrible (and more portable) than broadcast television is these days.

When I run out of new YouTube material to play in the background, I will start filming my own videos.

So that will be actually never.

Here's a forum thread where people write passionately about how they feel about the way the Thane romance was handled in Mass Effect 3. Many spoilers, but I am posting the link because I adore their passion.

This week I've been averaging about 1–2 hours of walking each day. It's a half hour each way to class Monday to Thursday, so that's pretty much guaranteed, not including having to go anywhere else during the day, like rehearsal or voice lessons, which each add another hour of walking (half an hour each way).

This is why I'm so picky about shoes.

Even with my brand new Blowfish shoes, the pads of my feet are still killing me. No blisters yet though.

I'm listening to the Disinformation Podcast while getting ready to go out today. I've never listened to it before, and I'm only interested because they're interviewing Warren Ellis. Apparently it's a podcast for conspiracy theorists.

This interviewer seems really preoccupied with what 'social group' Warren Ellis was in while he was in high school, which is certainly a curious fixation, and is not persuading me away from my preconception that conspiracy theorists are generally emotionally stunted people.

I just concluded a diary entry with "Shut up."

I'm not really very well, to be honest.

I had my expectations well lowered for Morinth's potential involvement in Mass Effect 3. I had recruited her in my NG+ of Mass Effect 2, and her Dominate power had already paid for itself in superfuntimes as far as I was concerned; I play an engineer with maxed out AI Hacking, so having Dominate meant that I could turn pretty much every class of enemy into my new unwilling friend, helping me with my strategy of 'never get close enough to let the enemy see me'. I had her quote-unquote 'appearance' in ME3 spoiled for me and I was kind of disappointed by it, since recruiting her was easily the most challenging part of ME2 for me: J-M and I basically did an entire playthrough with that single goal in mind and still failed, and I only got her when I wasn't really trying. Maybe the cost-benefit of re-hiring the voice actor and animating extra cutscenes didn't pay out for Bioware since perhaps very few players had Morinth, for a combination of difficulty level and ethical quibbles — it's pretty morally dubious to make the choices required to recruit her.

While waiting for our new mattress to be delivered this afternoon, I started up my Mass Effect 3 campaign, so that I would be doing something that I could pause on a moment's notice. This is my second playthrough, with that NG+ import. I started the Ardat-Yakshi Monastery mission, thinking, oh well, this is probably a stripped-down version since Samara won't appear. But then I found a little bonus email on one of the computers that only appears if you recruited Morinth.

Oh Bioware. Haters gonna hate, but you do it exactly right, every time.