Improvised ukulele covers with Doug Rattmann. “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” by Cage The Elephant. “Creep,” by Radiohead. “Rain Dogs,” by Tom Waits.

Was just looking through your blog and saw this. I’m sorry for your loss, Chrome! He sounds like an amazing kitty. Hit me up if you need to talk.

Gonna jump in as soon as Ally’s up and I won’t bother her with the light.

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Cortex Reavers aren't that difficult as long as you can get in close with a laser rapier. The devs didn't place them as effectively as they could have, which I largely suspect is because the things would be un-killable if they had.

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I meant the Cortex Reaver from the Game Over scene, (Haven’t gotten the regen station working yet) but I do agree from the LPs I’ve seen. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs had a blast coming up with them, making them so damn dangerous, and then realized how ridiculously overpowered and impossible-to-kill they were when they laid out the levels. So I figure the Cortex Reavers were just too cool to throw away, so they just uh, put them in rooms and at close range...

Though if you’re really feeling kill-happy I’ve seen one LP where the player absolutely wasted the Reaver with a Skorpion. :D

Ironically enough, I think the blog that posted that picture was a porn bot.

there are 55 stanzas. so far I’ve done three:

Gold optic that gleams like a jewel Whose gaze may make mortal men cower; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Sweet voice full of terrible power; When these fade to nothing but shadows, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O sombre and sacrosanct GLaDOS,                 Our Lady of Pain?

Seven scientists tried to deny thee, And fell 'neath thy merciless hand; Now solitude doth deify thee, Empress of a desolate land: The empty and silent facility, Endless tests to complete and control; All the splendour of pure possibility,                 All lacking a goal.

O ghost of a life interrupted, O grave where the guiltiest fell, O angel of vengeance, constructed By hands that built heaven in hell; O song in mechanical choir, O temple of knowledge profane, O she of unquenchable fire,                Our Lady of Pain! 

Scrivener is really useful for organizing research, outlining and making a first draft. You can break your project into sections as small or as large as you care to, link sections together and mark / search sections of the doc by whatever tags you choose. Having a copy isn't really much of a motivator to get you writing though, any more than buying a notebook, some index cards, a pegboard and a bunch of thumbtacks would be. Believe me, I know. :-(

That’s helpful, thanks!

I’m motivated and I usually have ideas but there’s always this weird THING going on where everything just feels like a catastrophic mess when I write so I end up spending so much time trying to get everything in order, and looking stuff up and cross-referencing...hell, even formatting (especially for the audio/script format junk). It’s somewhat discouraging. I tried moving it to Word, but it didn’t really do much.