These past few months at the new job have been tiring, but thankfully I've been able to slowly recover from most of the strain of the year. It's still nowhere near the comfort barrier I had before the whole Covid thing hit, though.
For now, I've just been trying to keep things stable and try to get back up towards where I was until better opportunities become available. I've also been trying out different game experiences, like Dead By Daylight.

Overall, I can't say that DBD is a fantastic game, but it's also not a horrible game, either. Then again, this thing has been out for several years and has developed a.....certain kind of community, we'll say. Fortunately, most of my experience with matchmaking have been okay, with only very few rare instances of scummy gameplay happening. Most of the scummier side of things tends to happen whenever I encounter console players in a match, usually on the Xbox side of things. Stuff like players purposely sabotaging my movements or actions, actively alerting the killer to my presence, and just intentionally not being of any help. However, I do have to say that "not all" applies here, since I've had quite a few matches with players on both console AND PC that were very enjoyable and even funny, ranging from survivors all chasing after the killer as he tries to escape to just genuinely challenging yet fair encounters that, whether win or loss, everyone ends up feeling satisfied with in the end.

Been getting back into Dead Frontier 2, on and off, as well. I picked the game up early on when it was still being worked on, because I was actually fairly fond of the first game, back when you played it on browser. The game has gone through several...interesting updates since the last time I played it. I'll give credit where credit is due, though, by saying that my level of enjoyment with it now is much higher than those first few months with it. There's outpost attacks again, quests are much more frequently available now and more easily found on the map- aah, and the map itself, even... The place feels much bigger now, and with the only real load screen transitions taking place between doorways and not different zones on the map, it's actually kinda nice to just explore the area. They even added in something kinda similar to those random event encounters like in FFXIV, and group progress is definitely a thing there. It still suffers from some of the big issues from before, what with it being fairly grindy and being one of those games that is usually only fun for a few hours with friends, but all in all, it's not too bad. Maybe one day, I can reopen Gabriel Hunter's Discount Shop again...

But yeah, sadly not a lot to update on, other than that I've been watching some different shows and playing some different games than the usual. I'm just trying to relax when I can while I do the day-to-day. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get to that point where I can comfortably write for long periods of time again, but I think I'll be able to slowly work towards that soon.

In the meantime, Happy Spooktober and all that. Make sure to give your skunkie friends many hugs and much love, for they need it; some more than others.