Gaming

And seeing as I mentioned Death Stranding... I have now got to Edge Knot City.
Didn't like those floaty things.

I'm sure there won't be any other nasty things after that.
I'm sure that alarm doesn't mean anything.

*chucks a few grenades*

Probably should have fabricated one of those newer weapons.

That noisy alarm did warn me to prepare for... something, but all my previous attempts with new weaponry resulted in me getting glooped so I thought I'd be able to get through it with my little poo bombs and blood bags but.... poo was never going to be enough.

And it was was way too big to pee on.

So ...erm... have you ...um... got any more of those rocket launchers?

I came out of the distribution centre carrying five on my back and now they're all used up.
Should have fabricated seven maybe.

Oh- Oh- Oh-
A friendly thing has popped up out of the gloop and chucked another one at me.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Whatever you are.
Is it a dead Sam from The Seam? I've already seen myself in there. Maybe it was me helping me out. Somehow.

Never mind. Let's fire these rockets!

Death Stranding is... weird.

Also weird, in a different way, is Disco Elysium, which I've sort of started. Sort of.

 

I really don't know what to make of it so far. I had a five minute look at it on a previous day but today played for a longer time and I still can't even say if I like it or hate it, it's not really like anything else.
It's mostly dialog and plays like one of those dice-rolling adventure stories
I do wish the control system was better, that's one thing I can say with certainty. I've tried with both a controller and the keyboard and the point-and-click way with just the mouse too and it's awkward every time trying to highlight the thing I want to interact with. The whole thing feels like a layered audiobook with some stylish yet static graphics that could do with being much less clunky. But the writing is rather clever and complex and has made me laugh a few times and it feels like there is something very interesting and special if you ever get beyond the unorthodox clumsiness of it all.

Oh, I hate the Ancient Dragons. I hate them. Hate them!

I was off to kill a Giant in a camp that's right next to a dragon's lair and I obviously didn't want to get in a position where I had to fight both at the same time so I resorted to some sneaky ranged attacks and successfully killed him without alerting the dragon.
I then set off back up the road to collect my bounty and an Ancient Dragon (not the one at the lair) spawned right along the only path out of here. And they do soooooo much damage with their fire and their flappy wings that blow you around and that tail attack that takes over half your health in one go. And then there's the inevitable monching down on your head.

I obviously tried to keep to the bow but I'm not doing too much damage, even with added poison and all my archery boosting gear. And I don't really have enough Daedric arrows for a sustained assault. Maybe I should just sneak up close and-  Monch!
After a few more deaths I did something I hardly ever do. I tried some magic.
I was searching through the inventory for... well, anything remotely useful and I found that I was carrying Hevnoraak's Staff. May as well try that... ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
It's quite useful that one.
Got its health down far enough that it couldn't fly anymore!
Recharged the staff and went in for the kill with a final- Monch!
I really thought I was further away than that.

New plan.
Let's try and coax it back to that Giant camp to see if a mammoth can get involved and do some of the work.
 

Kill it! Kill it!
Sadly mammoth died, along with a few more giants but the dragon health is way down now. And I'm not falling for the monching trick again. I put away that sword and got out the bow. And while I was drawing back my third arrow...
The dragon RAN AT ME and monched on my head again!

Edit: Now I'm hungry.