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Happy 10th Anniversary BioShock!
Aug. 21st, 2017 11:23 pmNot only did I get some more posts for my BioShock week on my main tumblr queued (including my ramble about my out-of-control AU Sea & Sky, which is now a double poly mess between both Rapture and Columbia); I also found a surprisingly sweet thank-you message to the fans from the official BioShock YouTube Channel! :) After watching it, I couldn't help myself -- I went ahead and loaded up the game for a brief play session. Didn't expect it to go well, since it was a mini-boss fight against a dude who had a turret and a security camera and lots of things that were iced over, but I looked up a few tips on my iPad. Chief of which was throw explosive barrels at him and hack the security camera to be on your side.
Did both of these things, Peach Wilkins turned out to be pretty damn easy. The turret gave me more trouble. And then -- oh, and then. His little patch of Fontaine Fisheries was a damn GOLD MINE. I am MAXED OUT on EVE hypos, and I have seven health kits! I haven't had that many in ages! Granted, it looks like I missed another tonic, so I'll have to go back to the Gatherer's Garden for that, but DAMN was it satisfying to find all those goodies. :D Now that's how you play BioShock!
In other news, solar eclipse was today! I actually managed to kind of see it twice, despite being at work:
-->My supervisor had the NASA site up, and they had a live feed of when the full eclipse happened in Salem, Oregon. So I got to see that via their cameras. Hell of a sight.
-->Then, around 2:30, it was RI's turn for a partial eclipse (we were out of the path of the total one). Pretty much the whole diocese headed outside, and one of the maintenance guys brought his welding goggles, so we could all actually look at the eclipse without blinding ourselves. I was a little nervous at first, but eventually took a look -- pretty cool, I gotta say! :)
So yeah, that was a nice way to break up the day. Glad I got the chance to experience it.
And in other other news, work on "Fixing You" continues, albeit at a jerky pace. I decided to go back and fill in some other information since Chapter 2 seemed to be moving too quickly to "Victor strangling Jack Splatter," so I established that the elder Van Dorts are back in Burtonsville, and hinted again at Victor not quite being himself. Also got to write a nice kissing scene between my OTP, even if it's tainted a little by the fact that I know Victor's feeling guilty whenever he looks at Alice with less-than-pure eyes. Ah well, that'll be better by the end of the fic.
And now, I really do need to hit the sack, I think. Night all, sleep tight!
Did both of these things, Peach Wilkins turned out to be pretty damn easy. The turret gave me more trouble. And then -- oh, and then. His little patch of Fontaine Fisheries was a damn GOLD MINE. I am MAXED OUT on EVE hypos, and I have seven health kits! I haven't had that many in ages! Granted, it looks like I missed another tonic, so I'll have to go back to the Gatherer's Garden for that, but DAMN was it satisfying to find all those goodies. :D Now that's how you play BioShock!
In other news, solar eclipse was today! I actually managed to kind of see it twice, despite being at work:
-->My supervisor had the NASA site up, and they had a live feed of when the full eclipse happened in Salem, Oregon. So I got to see that via their cameras. Hell of a sight.
-->Then, around 2:30, it was RI's turn for a partial eclipse (we were out of the path of the total one). Pretty much the whole diocese headed outside, and one of the maintenance guys brought his welding goggles, so we could all actually look at the eclipse without blinding ourselves. I was a little nervous at first, but eventually took a look -- pretty cool, I gotta say! :)
So yeah, that was a nice way to break up the day. Glad I got the chance to experience it.
And in other other news, work on "Fixing You" continues, albeit at a jerky pace. I decided to go back and fill in some other information since Chapter 2 seemed to be moving too quickly to "Victor strangling Jack Splatter," so I established that the elder Van Dorts are back in Burtonsville, and hinted again at Victor not quite being himself. Also got to write a nice kissing scene between my OTP, even if it's tainted a little by the fact that I know Victor's feeling guilty whenever he looks at Alice with less-than-pure eyes. Ah well, that'll be better by the end of the fic.
And now, I really do need to hit the sack, I think. Night all, sleep tight!
