Re: What the fuck? Is wrong with me.
I just finished Path of Daggers (Eighth book of the Wheel of Time), which felt like watching Namek explode, only slower and with less buildup. The Wheel of Time starts out pretty nice--it's captivating enough for the first four or so books that it's easier to ignore how absurdly long it is, but then the world-building and general plot stuff starts to fall to the wayside, and by seven and eight we just get a series of overly long scenes about so many different, often times unimportant characters that the books don't seem to be going anywhere. I'm told it gets better at the end of Winter's Heart, though a book of reaction shots follows.
Thankfully, I found Path of Daggers on CD at the local library, by some pseudo random number generator magic, so didn't have to pay $30-80 to listen to nothing happening for half a week. I can only hope the fact that Matt didn't appear at all in this one means the next one is sustained solely by the power of hi
s awesome. But that would be hoping for something to happen, I suppose.
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In April and May, I ran a program that would, roughly every hour or so (getting the timer to avoid drift on long term was a little difficult), prompt for generally mood, where 1 is a murderous rampage, 5 is calm, and 10 is happy enough to pass out and not care about waking up.
I mention this because it let me isolate what specifically seemed to affect my mood most. Not being able to work on anything was the worst, followed closely by people being annoying. There was one moment where the numbers were going absurdly high, and on further investigation, I realized that I had turned the volume up on media player when I'd had my headphones out, and forgotten about it. So apparently, awesome music is awesome, especially when it's louder. And in this case, it was plainly not placebo (trying to replicate it deliberately is not so easy).
I eventually stopped openi
ng that program whenever circumstances ate it, because my general strategy was plainly collapsing. I don't know if it's because it's a crappy strategy in general, or if it's because school got out and I stopped having daytime to myself.
But yeah, music helps.
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