Curse You, Stupid Virus. CURSE YOU.
Hey.Â
Just rambling here to let know I am alive.
I thought 2020 was going to be a good year for writing, playing games, hanging out with people online, and doing other stuff that you can pretty much do at home. And it was, for a few months.Â
But in September 2020 I caught what turned out to be Covid-19. It was a little different than what Iâd expected. (I never had a fever! The whole time! Since I got sick, I often have great difficulty speakingâhas anyone else with Covid had that issue?? Where your vocal cords and lungs just tighten up while you try to talk and and you have to make a conscious effort to force air into and out of your lungs while you speak? Leading to really weird, labored breathing while speaking? I havenât met anyone else with that problem and my doc hasnât either, so Iâve been told itâs just me. It doesnât always happen, which also baffles me. Iâm really curious if there is anyone else out there with the same problem.) I still canât taste or smell properly, either.Â
But the main reason I havenât posted lately is because the brain fog, fatigue, headaches, and confusion can get really intense. Itâs so bad that Iâm refusing to play new games because I would probably have great difficulty learning new controls or following an unfamiliar storyline. I donât have that issue with familiar games and I have tons of them, so Iâve been replaying a lot of simpler, familiar stuff. (Especially old HM/SoS games, yay. And RF4 Special Edition (English), which I finally got last month. And FE: Three Houses, which I got a few months before catching Covid and am utterly enthralled that the text language changes with the system language, so I did not have to buy separate English and Japanese versions, like I did with RF4. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!âŚ.but I I rarely play in Japanese right now. On PC, Iâm having fun playing with Sim versions of video game characters. As usual. Thatâs a lot of fun, if youâre into The Sims. They can do such wonderfully random out-of-character things.)
So yeah. Anyway. Iâd really like to encourage people to be supportive of any friends or family who caught Covid-19 and are dealing with after effects from it, because they can be really intense. My brother, who got it at the same time I did, told me last month that he too has fatigue, brain fog and frequent headaches, to the point that he has difficulty focusing on tasks at work or following the plot of games, TV shows or movies. But at least heâs skilled enough that his work allows him a fair degree leniency, and he still gets his tasks done. Other people havenât been so lucky.Â
All guidebook interview translations, translation comparisons and other posts are on hold for the foreseeable future. If I can find or remember any really simple stuff I wanted to talk about, or simple observations I made, I may try to post. But nothing long or in-depth. (And to be honest, my brain is so fuzzy that the âlistâ I had stored there has pretty much vanished. Ugh.)
