#oneaday Day 1143: Rock bottom

I've been feeling really bad today. I don't feel too bad now, but for most of today it's been very unpleasant just being alive. Hopefully I'm over the worst — my wife, who is "one day ahead" of me in terms of COVID funtimes, has been a bit better today, so with any luck I should rally a bit tomorrow — but I certainly won't be sorry to see the back of this stupid disease.

Still being forced to take it easy for the weekend meant that I could just settle down and, when I wasn't coughing, spluttering, sneezing, having horrible headachey dizzy spells or wanting to sleep for three months, just play some games. I even finished two games — Tapeworm Disco Puzzle, which is the new Game of the Month on Evercade VS, and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, which concluded pretty much exactly how I hoped it would.

The latter was especially enjoyable, and yet another nail in the coffin for my appreciation of modern "Internet culture". The whole narrative was very cleverly handled in the context of the original Final Fantasy I, and actually rather sensibly made the effort to clear up at least some of the myriad plotholes in that game's back-of-a-napkin lore. It works excellently as a prequel to Final Fantasy I, and as a Final Fantasy fanservice game in general.

But what does the Internet want to talk about? Repeating the phrase "I'm going to kill Chaos", because saying something over and over again without any sort of context or commentary is funny, apparently. Main character Jack doesn't even actually say it that much in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, so it's just infuriating to see the lowest common denominator "everyone's a comedian" fuckwits latch on to the latest "meme" and parrot it without any thought whatsoever, rather than actually seeing what it's all about.

Oh well. That does leave space for some actually intelligent commentary on the subject at some point then. I guess that's one article for next week prepped and ready to go at least…