I played some more of Baldur’s Gate 3. I finally decided to install some mods so that I can just finish the game. I’m using Cheaters Spell Scroll to basically pass all of my dice checks and then something to increase my carry capacity. Nothing game-breaking necessarily since I was already save-scumming every roll — instead, hopefully, I’m just saving myself time. It took a while to figure out how to make the mods work,3 mostly because the developer of the (good, but esoteric and inscrutable) mod manager has no publicly accessible documentation or help; it’s all in a fucking Discord server.4
+Anyway, I’m focusing not so much on exploring Baldur’s Gate the city naturally and rather just mainlining toward my quest markers on the map. I believe I’ve wrapped up Gale’s quest as far as I can until much later in the game — why I chose to start with his, I’m not sure. Proximity, I guess. I did however encounter a friend of Karlach’s (with Karlach in the party), who asked if Karlach and I were an item. Karlach responded with something along the lines of “gross.” Salt in the wound etc.
I did a lot of podcast listening this week! Cleaning and organizing my classroom has been a good opportunity for it because it’s mostly mindless labor. I’ve been digging through Into the Aether’s Kingdom Hearts episodes (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep | Bonus and I Norted Myself) plus the Song Exploder episode on “Miasma Sky.”
-I’ve been listening to a lot of Pure Particles by The Bug Club. It has some of my favorite songs of theirs (“If My Mother Thinks I’m Happy,” “Pure Particles,” and “A Love Song,” primarily). I haven’t been quite as enthused with their more recent releases — Very Human Features was good, and I didn’t really care about On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System3 — but Pure Particles through Rare Birds is such an incredible run of quality.
+I’ve been listening to a lot of Pure Particles by The Bug Club. It has some of my favorite songs of theirs (“If My Mother Thinks I’m Happy,” “Pure Particles,” and “A Love Song,” primarily). I haven’t been quite as enthused with their more recent releases — Very Human Features was good, and I didn’t really care about On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System5 — but Pure Particles through Rare Birds is such an incredible run of quality.
As part of my mission to upgrade the low quality MP3s I have on my music server, I ordered and ripped a few CDs this week: Johnny Flynn’s A Larum, Mirah’s C’mon Miracle, and Freelance Whales’s Weathervanes. I was really only looking for A Larum specifically, but the seller on discogs had a shipping minimum. The others were on my list and the seller happened to have them available. It’s a little funny — I was listening to these albums all at a specific point in my life (specifically C’mon Miracle and Weathervanes when I was horrifically depressed in my late teens; Johnny Flynn was a bit earlier).
-That nostalgia (if you can call it that — is there a nostalgia that’s for bad memories?4) brought me back to Pullhair Rubeye by Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, an odd album that was released in reverse. The reversed version (so the normal one) of “Lay Lay Off, Faselam” is an all-timer for me; I was listening to it a lot in 2012. Releasing the album in reverse was, apparently, a controversial move, but I like it both ways — and I finally took the time to actually reverse it myself.5
+That nostalgia (if you can call it that — is there a nostalgia that’s for bad memories?6) brought me back to Pullhair Rubeye by Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, an odd album that was released in reverse. The reversed version (so the normal one) of “Lay Lay Off, Faselam” is an all-timer for me; I was listening to it a lot in 2012. Releasing the album in reverse was, apparently, a controversial move, but I like it both ways — and I finally took the time to actually reverse it myself.7
Then I listened to Don’t Let Them Begin by Trust Fund because I had “We’ll Both Apologize” stuck in my head (🎶 I’m alone in the house and I’m freaking myself out again, I’m clapping my hands and spinning my arms around 🎶). It’s good.
This gag entertains me and I will continue it all semester. ↩︎
The exception is “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” which is an all-timer. I wish they had gone more in that direction for their album releases. ↩︎
+for anyone reading this and encountering issues with the BG3 Mod Manager not showing a campaign, make sure you download BG3MM straight from the creator’s Github repo ↩︎
I believe this is called trauma. ↩︎
+I like Discord well enough and use it a lot, but I don’t want to join your shitty Discord server just to search for other people with the same problem as me. ↩︎
I’d previously been listening to a shitty 192kbps MP3 someone else did. ↩︎
+The exception is “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” which is an all-timer. I wish they had gone more in that direction for their album releases. ↩︎
+I believe this is called trauma. ↩︎
+I’d previously been listening to a shitty 192kbps MP3 someone else did. ↩︎