no more bullshit, universe, i am tired

after i dusted out my PC i felt Bad. real bad. thought i had accidentally inhaled a lot of dust. like... i wore a mask and opened the windows and turned on the air purifiers (my PC case is so heavy i literally cannot get it outside to dust it bc i will shatter my spine). turns out no, i was in fact coming down with the caught-it-from-mom illness. i thought maybe i'd managed to fend it off but my immune system always disappoints tbh

it's not covid, apparently, but it did do some really exciting things like completely prevent me from sleeping the first night (i got like 2 hours of... Aware-Sleep) because i had indigestion from hell (just felt like i'd chugged a whole bowl of soup in 10 seconds for like 30 hours). and then it made me partially deaf for most of yesterday. all i've really been able to do between periods of lying in bed listening to podcasts through whichever ear is working is play a little bit of video game or watch a little bit of anime (and then get tired after 20 minutes)

but i do have some cool news: Potion Stand Story will be in Indiepocalypse #60 (coming out in January). mario_wahoo.wav

im finally alive enough to sort of do tasks again for the first time since Sunday so i'm working on my pages for that and trying feebly to fill Etsy orders auuauuauahhhgh. there's a lot of just. stopping. to play more vampire survivors or lie down

also i re-learned something i technically already knew but kinda forgot. do you use a wireless mouse (or keyboard)? do you have intermittent issues with baffling mouse (or keyboard) lag on your PC? have you thought "it's not a hardware issue, bc it happens most with specific software?" YEAH I THOUGHT THAT TOO. BUT. guess fuckin what, usb 3.0 ports (the pretty blue ones) with literally anything plugged into them, wireless or not, can quietly emit a signal that sometimes interferes with other wireless signals. literally all i had to do this entire time to get my mouse to work better was swap the port i had the receiver in with the port where i usually plugged in my game controller. to be clear these ports are directly adjacent, it was literally a matter of which one was in front and which one was in back. so the rule of thumb, i guess, is Transmitter On Port Closest To Its Device Always, no matter how within-range you think you are.

before i swapped the ports i was having a terrible time trying out Metal Slug Tactics (pretty cool so far; im too stupefied to play much of it but it's a neat and unique tactics game imo) bc my mouse kept lagging out and skipping around. after the port swap? suddenly everything is FUCKING FINE. i found this out by buying a new mouse (which turned out to be too small), plugging it into a different port bc i was tired and lazy, thinking "guess my old mouse was just dying," realizing the new mouse was too small and was Hurting Me, swapping the old mouse back into the new port, remembering a post i'd seen on cohost a while back and then screaming

if i had done this earlier this year making Potion Stand Story would have been like 500% easier (VRM Posing Desktop is the software i used to pose the sprites, and i could only have it open for about 10-15 minutes at a time before the mouse lag got so bad i had to alt-F4 out). SIGH. at least if/when i do extra content again it'll be easier. even most of my Ws this month are kinda Ls. kinda wanna turn on noclip irl and descend into the earth's firey core, but i have to finish Iron Company, sooooooooooooo