Apparently, there's a heatwave tormenting much of Southern California. I believe that yesterday and today, temperatures eclipsed 100 degrees. Those would be your typical temperatures during May or well before the summer has really kicked into gear. Once summer is definitively here, temperatures at their highest can range between 103 and 115 degrees. Needless to say, I've been relatively uncomfortable for much of this past week.
To my surprise, the AC in the office has continued to work, at least, during the week. Today, it was nowhere near as effective as it is during the week. Once my desk hit 80 degrees and stayed there for more than a few minutes, I pretty much called it a day and left. I worked a little bit from home, though I was nowhere near as effective as I tend to be while in the office. I'm hopeful that the AC will work a little better tomorrow, though given what happened today, I am not optimistic. Still, I'll head the office early tomorrow morning and work until the office environment proves to be unbearable, that is, unbearable for me.
The world of gaming has again proven to be slow yet again. As I write this, I couldn't even tell you what three games I have from GameFly. The last game I played from GameFly was Wreckreation (PS5), that spiritual successor to Burnout Paradise. In an odd twist, I returned Wreckreation to GameFly without much thought or even the slightest hint of regret. As I wrote in a previous entry, the game is okay. It's not terrible. It's playable, but in the end, I had just deemed it as "okay". I just thought that it was missing that certain something, that sort of "oomph", that makes the game stand out and otherwise a must-buy. It wasn't anything I thought I needed to own. As it stood, it was a serviceable racing game that offered minimal thrills. As I browsed the weekly advertisement from Best Buy this week, guess what game just so happened to be on sale this for $19.99? Yup, that damn Wreckreation game. At $20, how I could pass that up. I'll be buying that game later tonight online. Sure, it's mediocre, but at that price, it's almost as though the game is calling me. How can I say no?
Beyond Wreckreation, I don't have any other games on the horizon. I know that Crimson Desert released this past week, which looks like an open-world game, much like your typical Grand Theft Auto, but in what looks like a desert type of setting, where they are, like, dragons and stuff. From what I'm hearing, the game is not woke either. It doesn't focus on or give a fuck about diversity, equity, or inclusion. That alone makes it a potential purchase, even if the game isn't good or has a ridiculous amount of flaws and problems. For the record, I will deliberately buy a bad game, even if it's just for the story of it. As I've done in the past many times, I will buy a game that doesn't focus on DEI, even if I'm not dying to play the game. I will spend the money and support the developers and studios that put those kinds of game together, because frankly, a lot of gaming studios have lost their collective way when it comes to the kinds of games that are being made and released these days. Those non-woke games can sit on the game shelf still wrapped in plastic and I will not care. At the very least, I will know that my hard-earned money went towards supporting groups of people who gave DEI the middle finger when they put their games together.
Life is otherwise very, very bland right now. I'm still working crazy hours. I don't game as much as I used to, which has been the case for the last couple of years. I'm still writing, but I've reached a point where I just don't have anything exciting to bring to the proverbial table. I guess this might mean that my life is pretty consistent, in that for the most part, nothing really ever happens to me. I ought to be grateful for that, but as far as jotting things down for the purpose of journaling, it's not going to contribute to any exciting entries. I may look back at this entry years from now and also come back to the realization that life at the time was bland and that this was hardly an intriguing entry.
Heatwaves. Ineffective air conditioning units. Average racing video games. That DEI bullshit.
Even acknowledging my own blandness.
Yes, life is just fantastic.
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