{"id":8090,"date":"2020-01-20T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2020-01-20T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:26:16","slug":"ryans-big-weekend-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8090","title":{"rendered":"Ryan&#8217;s Big Weekend Adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know what I didn&#8217;t do over last weekend? Study enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well duh&#8221; you all say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I <em>did<\/em> do, however, was all sorts of other things. I want to write about them briefly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday I got a haircut. There&#8217;s a story there, but it&#8217;s probably fairly embarrassing for a party who is not me, which makes me feel like I ought not to tell it. So I won&#8217;t. Sorry for the tease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After breakfast I did some coursework for a while. Good old responsible me. I took a break after a couple hours to go visit with my grandparents. They gave me several tins of baking and couple jars of soup. Nice! There&#8217;s another mildly embarrassing story here that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m entitled to tell to the internet at large. Aren&#8217;t you upset that I&#8217;ve gotten so considerate in my old age?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went back home to do some more book learning, which lasted about an hour. All in all, I made it through about a quarter of the homework questions assigned in a cumulative three hours. That&#8217;s not great. I hate school and cannot wait for it to be done forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the weekend, I &#8220;snuck in&#8221; just enough video games time to finish playing the Squaresoft PS1 classic, <strong>Threads of Fate<\/strong>. You&#8217;ve probably never heard of this game, because Squaresoft put out like a billion RPGs on the PS1, so a few of them had to fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Threads of Fate is an alright game. It&#8217;s a dual-protagonist game, and the plot isn&#8217;t the most creative, but it&#8217;s fun. One character has you working towards world domination, while the other is searching for a way to revive his friend. The characters are mostly archetypes, but they have big personalities and a really good script, so I ended up liking most of them quite a lot. Also the soundtrack is darn good, and the graphics are top-tier for a 3D game on the original Playstation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However! The gameplay is&#8230; questionable. The controls, physics, and hit detection are all just a little bit off. This makes any precision-platforming sections much harder (and frustrating) than they ought to be. Combat is mostly a non-issue, but several bosses are stupidly hard until you figure out the right rhythm to beating them. Overall, it&#8217;s not a game that needs a remaster so much as a tune-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also frittered away a whole three hours on <strong>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong> on Sunday, as it was January&#8217;s Community Day. Got a whole stable full of shiny Piplups, and that&#8217;s really about all. While I was out, I also got to try all of the fancy new &#8220;dream donuts&#8221; that Tim Horton&#8217;s is currently selling. I&#8217;ll type up a full thing about them (probably), but the TLDR is that they were not so good that I was able to justify having eaten three donuts in a single sitting. Oink oink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all that, I ended Sunday evening the same way I always do: playing an hour of <strong>Rocksmith<\/strong>, then watching TV while I do my laundry. This week was devoted catching up on some AGDQ runs, while at the same time trying to fill out a little bit of my Pok\u00e9dex in Pok\u00e9mon Shield. I&#8217;m at 387 of 400. Almost there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was my weekend. If you think I sound like an incredibly boring individual&#8230; you&#8217;re right! And I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I didn&#8217;t do over last weekend? Study enough. &#8220;Well duh&#8221; you all say. What I did do, however, was all sorts of other things. I want to write about them briefly. Saturday I got a haircut. There&#8217;s a story there, but it&#8217;s probably fairly embarrassing for a party who is not me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryan&#8217;s Big Weekend Adventure!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21,10,29,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs","category-irl","category-mobile-games","category-outside-games","category-pokemon","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}